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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81687	The clergies honour: or, the lives of St. Basil the Great, Archbishop of Neo-cæsarea, and St. Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople. Drawn by way of parallel	Dowell, John, ca. 1627-1690.	1681 (1681)	Wing D2055C; ESTC R223910	54,058	112

life Wilt thou O Christian learn that wisdom with which the Teacher of the World was endued consider how he clearly discovers that whatsoever seems illustrious in the World is really nothing Mark the Language that he useth 1 Cor. 4. 17. The things that are seen say abundance of Riches if you alledge Lustre Glory and Majesty if Dominion Power if Empires if Thrones and Crowns all these things are seen and are Temporal their continuance is but short and the enjoyment of them but for a moment If these things that are seen are but Temporal what things O blessed Paul wouldst thou have us to pursue He returns things not seen things which corporal eyes cannot behold If any one shall object who is it that counsels us to neglect visible and pursue invisible things Heavenly Paul replies the nature of the things counsel and command you see these things you see them uncertain and the continuance of them short but those things which we cannot see are Eternal they know no end nor admit of a Period This he says was the subject of his continued Labours and daily Sermons So that that by the Apostle pronounced concerning the Patriarchs may be applyed to these great persons Heb. 11. 14. They that say such things declare plainly that they seek another Country Basil having consumed his body by vast labours as a glorious Lamp that Their deaths and Burials wasts it self with its own fire and goes out with the greatest flame So Basil with continual fasting in perpetual prayers study and preaching cast himself into a perpetual sickness which caused him to study Physick His incessant disease made him a Physician he scarce ever being in good health Recovering out of a former disease he was very much troubled that being near the Haven a contrary wind should drive him into the Sea again But after he had gloriously ruled the Church for 8 years and 2 months Anno 378. he fell into his last sickness which was a violent Feaver it disturbed not his Reason nor Religion his Soul burnt with Divine ardours and he cast the flames of love to God in all his discourses When he could hardly speak and ready to give up the last Gasp he called for several of the Clergy and other Religious persons and gave them most prudent most sacred most religious admonitions concerning both the guiding of their own lives and ordering of the Church of God and interrupting that discourse his strength being wasted he breaks out into this Ejaculation O Lord into thy hands I commit my Spirit and with that aspiration his Soul flew to Heaven and left the Body of Basilius for the society of Angels expecting to receive it in the resurrection of the Just The news of his death being spread throughout the City filled all with sorrow and horrour In him the very Children thought they had lost their Parents Wives their Husbands Parents their Children the Glory the Protection of the City they thought was gone and his Funeral was celebrated by the confluence of all sorts of people The Desarts were emptied of all their Religious persons the Country became unpeopled Jews and Gentiles flocked to attend his Herse in so great a croud many thronging to be within the shadow of the Herse or to touch the Bier perished in so great a multitude many were pressed to death as unwilling to survive that great Person being his funeral Victims they would offer themselves willingly a Sacrifice to this great Saint The memory of him was so famous that his very Gestures his Speech his Garb his Gate every thing the most excellent Persons endeavoured to imitate and they thought them admirable who could express in themselves any thing of Basilius Alass these were but faint representations of his Virtues as Ecchoes rebound but the last sillable so scarce any could express the meanest of his Excellencies His fame was so glorious that he hath acquired the name of Great Pompey and Alexander gained the same Title by their Arms and Victories but he by Grace and the Triumphs of Religion The universal testimony of the Church hath canonized him for a Saint his Laurels grow out of his grave and the glory of his Memorial shall never lose its lustre The Emperours anger continuing still against Chrysostom prohibited the conversation of Letters with him caused him to be removed from Place to Place that it might be unknown where he was Arriving at Caesarea Pharetrius Bishop of that place and successor of Basil a man infinitely inferiour to his Predecessor and of a different humour denied him Lodgings in the City prohibited a Religious Lady that lived 5 miles distant from Caesarea to entertain him The famous Bishop gave the foreign Communion to Strangers Pagans to Hereticks but how differently contrary is Pharetrius who permits not an entertainment to Chrysostom the most glorious Prelate of the World After one years rest and civil usage at Cucusum he was hurried to Petiuntum the Souldiers having received a special command from the Emperour that they should not permit him any quiet nor suffer his decayed body to receive any refreshment by ease in violent storms he should have no shelter in great heats he should not have the benefit of the shades but be carried from place to place Yet in all these troubles his mind was elevated always comforting disconsolate Christians Thus he whilst he was gloriously fighting in the Front of the Battle encouraged the Souldiers in the Rear Carried to Comanum he as the customs of holy men were to enter the Church goes to the Temple of Basiliscus to pray after which his Feaver increasing worn with labours wasted by travels in holy prayers and Ejaculations he gives up the Ghost Anno 407. having sat in the See 9 years 7 months and 8 days He enter'd a Temple to pray immediately before he was to enter into that Temple where the Lamb is the light thereof A period is put to the Travels of this Pilgrim his banishment finds an end now he enters into the City of God that new Jerusalem and is in that place where there remains a rest for the Servants of God The news of his death flying into Armenia and the adjacent Countries they were all struck with an excessive grief the Inhabitants forsook their Country to celebrate the Funeral of this great Person He was carried to the grave upon the shoulders of the most Religious persons people of divers Nations being attendants of that solemnity Divers Languages conspired in one praise all tongues sent up the same Halelujahs With Prayers Psalmodies with Hymns the people of all estates and conditions of various Countries celebrated that sad solemnity and being carried to the Church of St. Basiliscus he was there interred He lived with great Fame his enemies could never obscure but encrease his glory his Memorial can never be buried in oblivion His enemies raced his name out of the sacred Dipticks but it will always remain in the Book of life The consent of the universal Church hath reckoned him amongst the Catalogue of Saints A very considerable part of Constantinople separated from the Church and had their conventions under some Bishops the favourites of Chrysostom These were called Joannites against whom the Emperour made severe Edicts for they would not be forced to communicate at the Altar whose Dipticks admitted not the name of Chrysostom and by reason of that great injury done to this famous Bishop and Saint the whole Western Church refused a communion with the Constantinopolitan Proclus formerly a Deacon under Chrysostom was advanced to the Archbishoprick of Constantinople He prevailed upon that most excellent and Religious Emperour Theodosius the younger the Son of Arcadius that the body of Chrysostom should be translated from Comanum to Constantinople which was performed 38 years after his decease The Corps were received with the highest joy mixed with infinite shame and sorrow with the extreamest shame and sorrow that so great a Prelate so admirable a Preacher so holy a man Christians should banish into the remotest parts of the World What infinite sorrow to conceive that a Christian City should be deprived of so glorious a Person and his death to be hastened by the hands of Christians whose life deserved to be prolonged by all possible care and industry Yet what joy to see the Empire changed the City all attending the Ship that brought the Corps of their banished Archbishop Theodosius himself an Emperour composed with valour and goodness a person of the greatest courage and sweetest temper in the World being the chief Mourner And thus Chrysostom is carried with all imaginable pomp and with all the sacred solemnities to the Church of St. Sophia his holy name is re-inserted into the Sacred Dipticks and in the grave of Chrysostom all contentions were buried the Eastern and Western Churches reconciled no private conventions maintained but all met in the unity of the Spirit and bond of peace The works of this person are many and incomparable his Auditors after they came from Church would usually cry O Golden Mouth While he lived and two ages at least after his death he was known by common discourse and writing by the name of John but afterwards the glory of his writings gave him the cognomen of Chrysostom and indeed nothing can shine in greater lustre then he in the excellency of Eloquence piety and industry Thus these two great persons as the Phoenix having made a Nest which is her Funeral Pile of the odoriferous branches which the Aromatick Trees of Arabia afford by an agitation of the Air through the nimble motion of her wings causeth the Solar Beams to set it on fire which being kindled she lays her self quietly in those flames and there with great content expires knowing that of those ashes another more Juvenile and sprightly Phoenix shall arise so these great persons having prepared for themselves by their actions more fragrant and sweet then the odours of the East an Eternal Monument are laid in the grave in the sweetest repose knowing that out of their ashes there shall arise those Bodies which are in this World embalmed with the perfumes of a great Fame and the odours of glorious actions that shall be invested with light and immortality FINIS

Church of Impiety till you drive them out with the Rod a rigorous and an ill-timed passage But still Chrysostom is the Peoples darling and the Clergy that hated his Rigours admired his Parts and Eloquence But Chrysostom confined not his severity to the Church but it flew about the City nay it staid not there but it enter'd into the Court. There was no vitious Citizen let him be of never so great Authority and Riches no vitious Courtier let him be of never so unlimited Power and Greatness but felt the sharpness of his Eloquence and was threatned with Ecclesiastical Censures This enrages the Court against him scorning that the Grandeur of the Eastern Empire should be subject to the tongue of an Antiochian Priest whom they had but lately raised to the Constantinopolitan See Whilst his severities were confined within the Church walls Chrysostom shined with extraordinary lustre in the eyes of the Court but when it reach'd the Courtiers Luxury Pride Cruelty and Avarice all their esteem of him was turned into hatred and indignation So all persons love not their own concerns be touch'd the Clergy did not love that their own Vices but the Courtiers Enormities should be severely reprehended the Courtiers likewise are vastly pleased with the Reformation of the Church whilst they remain enamoured with their own deformities And this corruption in the manners proceeds from the mistake of Religion who suppose it a remedy for others but not for their own sins or from a strange partiality whereby they are prone to magnifie the Vices of others and lessen their own Basil was freed from all those inconveniences The Court had no residence in his City he succeeded a devout and severe Bishop by whose Authority he had formerly modelled his Church He was a person of a sweet and brave temper and exceedingly prudent and so could free himself from those Rocks on which others perhaps might have split But that which most conduced to the intestine tranquility of his See was the continual persecutions to which it was obnoxious Persecution made the Church of Cappadocia severe and holy Persecution performed that which Chrysostom desired to obtain by Ecclesiastical Censures Chrysostom came to govern that Church which was debauch'd by the remisness of a former Archbishop and degenerated into Pride and Luxury which a great Peace a vast Trade and Commerce affluence of Wealth the glory and pomp of the Court had occasioned The playing of the golden beams of the Sun makes us throw off our Garments when the blustering North wind cause us straiter to bind them to us It is easie to perswade to Reason an afflicted mind but difficult to reduce to sobriety a prosperous Criminal The Eastern Church at that time was The contests and conflicts of Basil and Chrysostom with the Hereticks vexed with the Eunomians Sabellians but more chiefly by the Arrians Valens himself a person of very great Courage but of greater Impiety violently persecuted the faithful Christians He had banished most of the Bishops from their Sees and instead of pious and holy Prelates the Church was pester'd and almost ruin'd by wicked and misbelieving Bishops Valens when he had carried Trophies of his own wickedness through most of the parts of the Eastern Empire was dreadfully enraged that Cappadocia should stand so firm against all the furies and assaults of Hell he in his own person leads his Army down into Cappadocia attended with a numerous Train of the most learned of his Arrian Chaplains not questioning but that he should either terrifie Basil into obedience or else rid Cappadocia of that great Prelate But what course should he use what should he order an Army of his Heretical Priests and Bishops against one Basil No he had gained so many notorious and famous Victories over the learnedst Opponents in the World that none of them durst undertake him And it may move a pretty laughter to observe that when the greatest Scholars of the Arrian Faction trembled at the very thoughts of a contest with Basil the Emperours Cook Demosthenes challenged Basil to dispute whom when Basil had most egregiously baffled not without angry smile thus says to the people Illiterate Demosthenes would dispute the properest place for a Cook is the Kitchin Can his tongue which is only fit for the tasting of Sauces and his head filled with the fume of Meat comprehend or discourse of Spiritual things Valens assaulted Basil by a Praefect of his Army who first allured him by the promises of the greatest Preferments and told him the glory of being honoured by the Emperor and the great Officers of his Army was not to be refused by him To which Basil gallantly replied Christianity is not made illustrious by the dignity of Persons but by the integrity of Faith At which the Praefect grew enraged and thunder'd out the heaviest menaces and thus accosted him Fear'st thou not the confiscation of thy Estate to which Basil presently reply'd No all the Riches I enjoy are these poor Rags I have on my back and a few Books Not Banishment No I am a Stranger in the World the Earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof Not Torments No this worn body of mine will not endure above one stroke Not death No I am almost already dead and you will sooner send me to the Grave After he had thus answered the Praefect he ends that discourse with a passage full of sweetness and courage Sir I speak nothing in contempt of your Dignity it is not for us faithful Christians to speak roughly to the meanest person much less one of so great a quality as your self but we are obliged to profess in the Cause of our God all torments are a delight to us This carriage of Basil filled the Praefect with the Reverence of him The Praefect hastens to the Emperour giving this only account of that undertaking Basil hath conquered us This not succeeding Valens sends for Basil whom he attacks by all the arts imaginable Thousands of profits he proposed as many tortures and utmost extremities threatned But nothing moved Basil whose hopes were Heaven and fears Hell Yet Valens persisted in his determination of banishing him which he altered on several accounts Valens admiring the piety of Basil managed with so great a Prudence went to the Church to observe the demeanor and carriage of Catholick Christians in the performance of Divine Offices where coming and seeing Basil sitting in his Chair and the Multitude of Christians standing round about him all in a posture noting the highest reverence of the Divine Majesty and hearing them sing their Hymns and Hallelujahs with the greatest fervour joy and devotion and taking cognizance of the management of all the Divine Service and Worship he was struck with such a horrour that he fell into an universal trembling that as he approached to offer his gift at the Altar had he not been supported by one of the Priests that assisted Basil in a great amaze and astonishment he