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A52277	The unreasonableness of a separation from the new bishops, or, A treatise out of ecclesiastical history shewing that although a bishop was unjustly deprived, neither he nor the church ever made a separation, if the successor was not a heretick / translated out of an ancient Greek manuscript in the publick library at Oxford, by Humfrey Hody ...; Anglicani novi schismatis redargutio. English.	Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopulus, ca. 1256-ca. 1335.; Hody, Humphrey, 1659-1707.	1691 (1691)	Wing N1076; ESTC R18833	16,596	38

Treasurer usurps the Throne and Tarasius dies and the holy Patriarch Nicephorus succeeds him He constrains the Emperour to receive Joseph again whom Tarasius had deprived Upon which Theodorus a second time withdraws from the Church A while after that Emperour and his Son Stauracius dying Michael Curopalates gets the Sceptre and the Patriarch Nicephorus taking hold of that opportunity deprives Joseph again and so he and Theodorus are reconciled But those opprobrious invectives that Theodorus during his banishment had used against the holy Tarasius and Nicephorus were by no means approv'd of by the Church as proceeding from littleness of mind For the holy Methodius in his Epistle to the Monks of Studium has these words If your Bl. Abbot had not retracted what he spoke against the holy Tarasius and Nicephorus he should not have been Fellow-minister with us we would not have receiv'd him into our Communion These things are found in the second Book of the holy Nicon in one of the Epistles of Methodius The same holy Methodius in his last Testament which he made at his death makes this Ordinance concerning the Monks of Studium that refused to join in Communion with the Catholick Church If they repent and come over to the Catholick Church and renounce their Schism let them be receiv'd as barely Christians but by no means be advanc'd to the Priesthood Thus in the Volume of Councils which is read in the Church as every body knows all those things that were spoken and written against the holy Patriarchs Tarasius and Nicephorus are made an Anathema And moreover concerning the same Affair of Theodorus Studites this also is written That the holy Theodorus did not do well in separating himself from the Communion of the Catholick Church and the holy Patriarchs Tarasius and Nicephorus for they were then the Church For if we cannot withdraw our selves from the Communion of any ordinary Priest without the sin of Heresie how much less may we separate from the Communion of such holy orthodox Patriarchs the Luminaries of the World And although the holy Theodorus now with God was so far hurried away as to make this Schism yet afterwards he relinquisht it and set himself right again as the holy Methodius manifests in the foresaid Epistle And the saying of the Prophet David was fulfilled in this holy Man Though he fall he shall not be utterly cast down for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand After this during the Reigns of Leo Armenius Michael Traulus and his Son Theophilus successively for the space of twenty six Years there was not one orthodox Patriarch but all were of the Sect of the Iconomachi and maintained the Opinion of the Emperours But after the death of Theophilus his Wife the blessed Theodora together with a Synod plac'd the holy Methodius in the See who was suceeded by the great Ignatius Then Michael reigning with his Mother Theodora was together with her corrupted and was therefore sharply reprov'd by the holy Ignatius and excluded the Communion of the Church Caesar therefore being able to doe what he pleas'd by his Imperial power depos'd and banish'd Ignatius and establish'd Photius in his stead After this came Basilius Macedo to the Crown and he presently deposes Photius and reestablishes Ignatius but after the death of Ignatius he again restores Photius Which indeed is a thing to be wonder'd at For if Photius was depos'd as an Adulterer and Usurper of the Throne how comes he again to be promoted as innocent But be it as it will the Church however receives and acknowledges and honours them both because Orthodox and thus she says in her Diptychs May the memory of Ignatius Photius Stephanus and Antonius the most holy Patriarchs be everlasting and whatsoever is spoken against Ignatius and Photius and Stephanus and Antonius the most holy Patriarchs is an Anathema Now let the Hearer observe again that even the holy Ignatius did not because he was unjustly thrust out of the See either recede from the Communion of Photius or perswade the People to do so For this is the scope and design of all the Histories that are here produced To shew that not one of all those Patriarchs that were unjustly and uncanonically thrust out of their proper Sees did ever withdraw himself from the Communion of his Successor or perswade the People to separate from the Church but that both they and the People continued in Communion if so be their Successors were Orthodox After this Leo the Son of Basilius being possess'd of the Imperial Sceptre depriv'd that orthodox Patriarch whom he found in the See and promoted Stephanus his own Brother in his room one that was sound indeed in the Faith but nevertheless was made Patriarch contrary to the Canons But no Schism was made in the Church upon that account For Stephanus likewise was own'd and receiv'd by her So that thus she speaks in her Diptychs May the memory of Ignatius Photius and Stephanus the most holy Patriarchs be everlasting The same Emperor Leo surnamed the Philosopher ejected the most rightfull Patriarch Nicolaus a Man renowned for his Orthodoxy out of the See because he refused to consent to his fourth Marriage and oppos'd him earnestly in his design of making it lawfull to marry the fourth time and yet to continue in government though in his room he advanc'd Euthymius who was Syncellus's or Nicolaus's Assessor Here observe again that the Patriarch Nocolaus did not separate himself from the Catholick Church or from Euthymius nor teach the People to do so and that undoubtedly because Euthymius was orthodox Nay when after the decease of the Emperor Leo his Brother Alexander that succeeded him deposed Euthymius and replaced Nicolaus who was yet living in the See yet the Ordinations of Euthymius were not rejected seeing that they were orthodox and by an orthodox Patriarch These things are written in the History of Zonaras The Emperor Manuel very wrongfully ejected Cosmas Atticus the Patriarch a Man full of Piety and Goodness and advanc'd another to his See But Cosmas though highly resenting this injustice did not however either himself break off from the Communion of the Church or incite the People to such a Schism But he made this denunciation That the Empress should never have any male Issue which accordingly came to pass for the Emp. Alexius was born of the second Wife Mary that that was descended from the Latins Upon this imprecation of Cosmas Contostephanus of Scio one of the By-standers out of zeal for the Empress pressed toward him to strike him but was stopt by some body Let him alone says Cosmas for he himself suddenly shall have a stroke from a stone which accordingly came to pass For not long after Contostephanus was kill'd with the blow of a Stone in the War at Corcyra This is in the History of Choniates The Emperor Isaacius Angelus finding Basilius Camaterus in the Patriarchal Chair deposed him without any just

their Heresie For that Holy Synod concerned not it self about the Ordinations of uncanonical and illegal Patriarchs but onely requir'd of every one the profession of the Orthodox Faith Now that Anatolius was promoted against the Canons Pope Leo attests writing thus concerning him to the Emperour Marcian That therefore he would make no inquiry about Anatolius 's Consecration because he profess'd the Orthodox Belief These things are written in the Acts of the Second Council concerning Flavianus In the Reign of the Emperour Anastasius when the Heresie of the Acephali was rife the Emperour himself became addicted to it and expell'd out of the City three Patriarchs because they refus'd to embrace his false Opinion and anathematize the Fourth General Council and communicate with Severus the first Euthymius the second Macedonius who succeeded him unlawfully indeed but because he was an assertour of the Catholick Belief he was not rejected by the Church neither did Euthymius himself recede from his Communion and the third Timotheus who himself likewise was unlawfully promoted in the room of Macedonius who yet was not rejected by Macedonius because he was a maintainer of the true Faith Nay even the great Elias Bp. of Jerusalem embrac'd the Communion of all these three Patriarchs when all were alive together being troubled indeed at the ejectment of him in possession but receiving the Successour also because of his Orthodox Faith The same Emperour Anastasius deposed and banished the said B. Elias from the See of Jerusalem because he would not come over to his Heretical Opinion and constituted John in his place whom because he publickly preach'd the Orthodox Belief contrary to the Emperour's Expectation Elias in no wise rejected but continued in Communion with him And Theodosius and Sabas those Reverend Fathers the Heads and Chief of all the Monks of the Holy City visiting and relieving Elias in his exile both lov'd him and communicated with him as an injur'd Patriarch and yet they communicated with John too that sate then in the Throne of Jerusalem as their Patriarch And therefore the Names both of John and Elias were written in the sacred Diptychs of Jerusalem in these words May the memory of Elias and John be everlasting These things are written in the Life of the holy and great Sabas In the days of Athanasius the Great Maximus the Confessour was Patriarch of Jerusalem Now when a Synod was called at Tyre by the Emperour Constantine to consider of the matters relating to Athanasius and laying false things to his charge had condemned and deposed him Athanasius flies to Maximus at Jerusalem Maximus thereupon calls a private Synod and repeals what was done by the Synod of Tyre against Athanasius and restores him to his See and establishes likewise the Doctrine of the Homoousion Upon that the Bishop of Cesarea in Palestine unjustly ejects Maximus and sets up Cyril in his room one that was then the chief of the Arian Party but afterwards becoming a Convert to the Homoousion or Orthodox Faith he was willingly receiv'd and allowed as Patriarch by the Church and was stiled The great and The holy Cyrill And observe that even Maximus himself did not withdraw from Cyrill's Communion therefore both were acknowledged as Saints that is had their Names in the Diptychs of the Church as both Assertours of the same Faith These things are deliver'd in the Life of the great Athanasius In the Emperour Justinian's Reign Eutychius of Amasia being constituted Patriarch of Constantinople a Man holy and belov'd of God was unjustly depos'd and expell'd the City and John was preferr'd to the See But Eutychius did not upon that account separate himself from the Communion of John and both therefore were receiv'd by the Church In the same Emperour's time Athimus Bp. of Trebisond was translated to the See of Constantinople He being discover'd to be an Heretick was depos'd by Pope Agapetus who set up in his place the most holy Menas But his Ordinations were allowed of as valid Afterwards when the Heresie of the Monothelites spread it self and four Patriarchs successively Sergius Pyrhus Paul and another were of that Sect and as it must needs be suppos'd ordain'd and consecrated many Not one so ordain'd or consecrated provided he relinquished and anathematiz'd his Heresie was rejected by the Church but all were receiv'd by the sixth General Council and by George Patriarch of Constantinople The Emperour Justinian surnam'd Rhinotmetus coming the second time to the Throne depos'd and banish'd unjustly the most holy Patriarch Callinicus and plac't Cyrus a Recluse of Amastris in the See Now observe that Callinicus did not separate himself from the Church and from Cyrus upon the account of his unjust deprivation and that Cyrus together with those he had ordain'd were received by the Church Artemius otherwise nam'd Anastasius being advanc'd to the Imperial Throne upon the death of the Patriarch of Constantinople constituted in his place the most holy Germanus Bp. of Cyzicus Then Leo Isaurus obtaining the Empire and furiously raging against the Sacred Images banishes the holy Germanus and places Anastasius in his Throne Fifty six years after the sixth General Council was call'd which Tarasius was President of who had been consecrated Patriarch before the Council was appointed but whether by Bishops that were for or against Images is uncertain And all that opposed the Adoration of Images upon renouncing their Heresie were received by that Council Now in the time of this holy Tarasius there happen'd that which follows Constantine then Emperour after he had put away his lawfull Wife and shut her up in a Nunnery against her will espoused another that had her self been a Nun and so became according to the express Declaration of the Gospel a manifest Adulterer Upon this the Patriarch Tarasius refusing to officiate in so unlawfull a Marriage Joseph the Steward of the Church was so hardy as to perform the Office and render'd himself thereby obnoxious to deprivation The Patriarch attempting to deprive him was deterred by the Emperour who declared that if Joseph was ejected he would set up the Heresie of the Iconomachi again which forc'd the Patriarch to receive him though much against his will But the Bl. Theodorus Abbot of the Monastery of Studium withdrew himself from the Communion both of Church and Emperour too from the Emperour as being Adulterer from the Church because it received Joseph the Confirmer of that adulterous Match And upon that account he suffer'd a thousand Injuries from the Emperour After this Constantine had his eyes put out and his Mother Irene took the Government upon her She recalls the Bl. Theodorus commends both him and Tarasius the former for his prudence in his care for the Church and the latter for his exact observance of Discipline Then the Patriarch ejects Joseph the cause of all this Schism and he and Theodorus are at unity again After this Irene is depos'd and Nicephorus the