Selected quad for the lemma: faith_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	believe_v	church_n	infallibility_n	5,773	5	11.7611	5	false

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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

will acquaint them that they neither will know the truth by us nor will entertain those means by which they may know it and that on no account ought they to insult over those who are oppressed by afflictions neither ought they to esteem Pride to be Honour and Dignity a sin which of it self is sufficient to render a person odious unto God How is it possible to imagine that these expressions are consistent with St. Basils belief of the Roman Primacy or Infallibility can he think those to be infallible whom he says neither know the truth nor will use means to know it Did he believe Damasus to be the Universal Bishop whom he calls the chiefest of them that is of the Western Bishops not of the Universal Church Baronius to this answers Good men are sometimes transported with passion but they afterwards reduce themselves within the bounds of reason For after this he expresseth his high esteem he had of the Church of Rome and commends the purity and rectitude of her Faith by which it appears that he did not believe that Church Heretical and that Good men might condemn Pride with greater Pride his beloved Nazianzen accuseth him of that vice Grant this yet it will not be conceded that Basil's Addresses could import his belief of the pretended Supremacy or Infallibility he condemns not the Western Bishops for Heresie but for their strengthning of Heresie by the encouraging of Hereticks which they did by receiving Marcellus into communion whom the Eastern Church excommunicated Good men may fall into passion Basil unquestionably had a just reason for his indignation who can accuse his anger he in the name of the whole Eastern Church then groaning under most dreadful Persecutions writes three Epistles to the Western Bishops who refused to return one Letter to signifie their compassion Did Nazianzen suspect Basil of Pride No he knew him to be one of the humblest men in the World Nazianzen was very unwilling to accept of Episcopal Jurisdiction which Basil enforceth him thereunto this kind and pious violence he calls pride It is not unworthy to enquire the reason why the Western Church cast such a neglect upon the Eastern and peculiarly upon Basil their Secretary Baronius assigns this That Basil and his Associates were traduced as Hereticks for though according to the Nicene Council they acknowledged the Faith of one substance yet by reason the Latine Church used the word Persona to express the distinction in the Trinity and the Greek not condemning the Latines used the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latines that judged that to be of the same signification with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 did think they were either Sabellians or Tritheits under which Calumny Basil for a great while lay Let this be yielded what to the purpose Damasus entertained this unjust suspicion Basil by many Letters and Apologies vindicates himself at last clears himself of that Cloud satisfies the Western Bishops they acknowledging that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Greek language and the Eastern Church that Persona in the Latine did properly denote the distinction in the Trinity Where is the infallibility how came it pass that an infallible Judge was ignorant of the meaning of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but is there no other reason then that He in his Epistles to the Transmarine Bishops saith A great desire of waiting upon you possesses me but a continual sickness impedes I have a long time expected to see if you would have any care of us If you condemn us before we are heard and convicted we shall not at all be injured only we shall lose Christian love and charity which you will make us believe you have not be not hearers of Calumnies but tryers of the Truth let not such reasons prevail with you we want not the help of others we need not the Communion of others God that separated Islands from Continents unites the Inhabitants by love Brethren nothing can divide us if our own choice and proper motion makes not the separation If you account your selves head of the Vniversal Church the head cannot say to the feet I have no need of thee but if you rank your selves amongst the Members of the Church ye cannot say to us we have no need of you We earnestly seek an union in the same opinion we passionately intreat your prayers The very Heathens who know not the true God desire prayers they combine together for their mutual assistance are not we ashamed of separation are we disposed to suffer so great an injury Can these lines admit of Roman Primacy durst Basil if he had received such sentiments propose that Dilemma either you are the Head or Members and may not we reasonably judge that Damasus was nettled at the inscription of the Letters 'T is evident that the Eastern Bishops did not Appeal to the Western as to their Superious they desire their prayers the manifesting their consent in the same Doctrine with them and give what assistance they can to them Take it from their own Letters To our Brethren and Bishops in the West How gracious is God who mingles joy with our sorrows we have received comfort by those Letters which Athanasius sent to us from you he witnesseth the integrity and soundness of your Faith which demonstrate your commendable union and concord with us God hath comforted us by Sabellius our Reverend fellow Deacon who acquaints us with those excellent things that he saw in your Church and he knowing by his own experience the miserable estate of ours he passionately intreateth you that with fervent and incessant prayers you would contend with God for us All which intimates nothing of Primacy This is not an Appeal to proper Judges but an address for Brotherly assistance In another Epistle We have earnestly desired and aloud begged for the manifesting your affection to us by giving us assistance and sympathizing with us but ye have not appeared in our behalf we most earnestly desiring O most Reverend to signifie our confusions to the Western Emperour If that be difficult send from you to us to visit and comfort us who are so grievously afflicted that you your selves may be the spectators of the East Words are not able to express our Calamities Here is no acknowledgement of a Jurisdiction no understanding man can ever be brought to believe that the Author of such Letters submitted to the Authority of them to whom they were directed But Baronius says That the Appeals of Eustachius and Marcellus to Rome perspicuously evince the Roman Primacy Eustachius was a light and unconstant person after he had subscribed and professed the Faith of one substance he relapsed into Arrianism for which he was excommunicated St. Basil to the Western Bishops gives this account of Eustachius He was Bishop of Sebastia of the lower Armenia who very much molested the Church at Alexandria he was instructed by Arrius and esteemed one of his chiefest Disciples he returns to his own Country

for his impious opinion by Hermogenes Bishop of Caesarea was excommunicated but afterwards presenting to him a confession of his sound Faith was restored and ordained He relapsed and was again excommunicated at Constantinople returning into his own Country he presented a form of sound Faith whereupon he was received and made Bishop after that in the Synod of Ancira he anathematized the Faith of one substance his Heresie he promoted in Cilicia and Constantinople whereupon in a Synod at Melitina he was deposed for which he makes his address to the Western Bishops before Liberius Bishop of Rome he makes a confession of the true Faith subscribes it by him and the Western Bishops he was absolved from whom he received Letters to a Synod met at Tiana to receive him into the Church and restore him into his Bishoprick which by them was performed All this is granted but the Primacy not granted It 's evident that St. Basil wrote not only to Liberius but to the Western Bishops And what was done by the Eastern Bishops was not only upon the account of Liberius but of the other Western Bishops It was a custom in the Church to certifie one another of their agreement in the form of sound Doctrine and of those persons who were Hereticks and Excommunicated whereby there might be no communion held with such persons it was usual with these to make their Address to other Churches that they might receive them into Communion with them and by that means to receive Letters Testimonial of the integrity of their Faith the revoking of their Error and their desire that they might be restored into the Church from whence they were excommunicated which was oft performed All this did not include any Authority but a Fraternal love and communion that they agreeing in the same Faith the persons whom they received into communion should be of the same Faith with them whereupon if any Heretick excommunicated by his own Bishop addressed himself to another Church with whom his Bishop was in communion and he there revoked his Heresie and made profession of the Catholick Faith he was received into communion and having obtained literas format as with a Copy of his Faith he was many times restored into Communion This is every where obvious in Ecclesiastical history Eustachius being excommunicated flies to the Western Bishops Basil in his Epistle to the Western Bishops concerning Eustachius Apollinaris and Paulinus thinking he should be restored by them by whom he was received and carried Letters from them to us to the Synod of Tyana containing the profession of his Faith and the desire of his restauration which was performed the Synod restored him Liberius perswaded it very much conduced to the peace of the Church for to agree in the same Faith it tended much to the confusion of the Arrians to see the East and West conspiring in the Orthodox Faith the best and greatest part of Christians to be their enemies Eustachius being very inconstant sometimes did publickly profess the Faith sometimes propagate Heresie where he did this he was excommunicated where the other he was absolved And in that very place where he was condemned if he revoked his errours the condemnation was repealed This same Eustachius after he had been convicted of Heresie addresses himself to St. Basil before whom he makes a confession of the true Faith and subscribes a confession which Basil himself drew up upon which he was received into communion The same is to be averred concerning the actions of Liberius and the Western Bishops in the case of Eustachius Basil therefore earnestly intreats them that since they lived at so great a distance they would believe nothing but what they received from those persons who lived in the East and were worthy of credit therefore he gives them a Character of Eustachius after his restauration he now destroys that Faith on the account of which he was restored into communion he joyns himself with them who anathematized the Faith of one substance and is become the Ring-leader of the Pneumatomici he useth the confidence you gave him to the ruine of many since from you he took a liberty to injure the Church 't is necessary that from you proceed a redress and therefore that you would give an account to us for what reason he was received into communion and why he is now changed and wherefore he enervates that favour granted him by the Fathers In all which there is not the least intimation of the Primacy That which was the cause of his restauration was a form of sound Faith which he deceitfully presented to the Western Bishops which with their Letters he tenders to the Synod of Tiana upon which by the Authority of the Synod he was restored Chrysostom as I have before related Chrysostoms address to Innocent Bishop of Rome and the Western Bishops having incurred the Empresses displeasure Arcadius the Emperour sendeth for Theophilus Archbishop of Alexandria to come to Constantinople who upon the Emperours command attended with several other Bishops arrived at Constantinople He calleth a Synod receives the Accusation exhibited against Chrysostom whom he summoneth before him Chrysostom refuseth to appear whereupon he is condemned for contumacy pronounced guilty excommunicated deposed and by the Authority of the Emperour banished Upon which he writeth to Innocent bitterly complaining of the notorious injury done to him and of the miserable estate of the Grecian Church and passionately intreateth that he and the Western Bishops would afford him what assistance they could and use all possible endeavours they could to redress those grievances with which that Church was afflicted That this is an Appeal to Rome as to a supreme Court of Judicature is averred by Bellarmine and others but that it is not appears thus Baronius saith That Theophilus as he was Archbishop of Alexandria had power over the Churches of Greece and therefore might legally summon Chrysostom before him An assertion which I cannot but wonder at for what Authority can the Archbishop of Alexandria have over the Archbishop of Constantinople and Chrysostom to Innocentius accuseth him of unjust usurpation 'T is not congruous saith he that one out of Aegypt meaning Theophilus should judge those that lived in Thrace Which manifestly renounceth the pretended Authority of Theophilus Arcadius the Emperour then keeping his Court at Pera a City in Thessalonia Theophilus with his Associate Bishops attended him the Emperour issueth out his command to Chrysostom that he should appear at Pera before Theophilus to answer those crimes that were objected against him he refuseth in his Letter to Innocent he giveth this reason 't is not fit for any person to appear before a Foreign Court of Judicature and that all things that are acted ought to be tryed within their own Jurisdiction all things ought to be examined within their own Province before their proper Court to whom the cognizance of the Cause doth belong which is an undoubted testimony against Foreign Appeals Chrysostom could