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A39700	The life of the emperour Theodosius the Great written originally in French by the famous Abbot Flechier ... ; Englished by Mr. Francis Manning.; Histoire de Théodose le Grand. English	Fléchier, Esprit, 1632-1710.; Manning, Mr. (Francis), fl. 1688-1716.	1693 (1693)	Wing F1207; ESTC R4581	211,369	374

de●ire of conquest or the shame of being overcome carried the wisest to dangerous extremities and that by this method Charity was almost always injured and Truth never brought to light XX. After which he proposed a compendious way to terminate those differences without entring into long disputes of Learning It was to take for the Judges of the presen● controversies the antient Doctors of the Church who had explained the Mi●teries of the Christian Religion adding that if the Hereticks insisted upon the testimonies of the antient Fathers it was easie to convict them and if they refused to submit thereto they would render themselves odious to the People N●●tari●s made good use of this advice and came forthwith to confer with the Emperor about it This Prince found that it was the most concise and easy expedient to succeed in his design and rejoycing that he was disentangled from all those fruitless subtilties which he did not understand and that he could reduce to one single point so easy to prove all the questions which divided the Church he managed the affair with abundance of Prudence One day when the Bishops were assembled he entred into the Synod spoke to them with much Sweetness and Gravity and after having exhorted them to Peace and a research after Truth he questioned them concerning th●ir opinions of the holy Doctors who had treated of the Faith and Doctrine of Jesus Christ before the last Here●●es they answered without Haesitation that they acknowledged them for their Masters and had a profound Veneration for them Then Theodosius Either condemn those said he to them whom you just now praised or confess what they have written concerning the Divinity of Jesus Christ XXI He spoke these words in so firm and absolute a tone that the most obstinate remained without reply confounded that they had betrayed themselves by acknowledging the Authority of the Ancients The Emperor who saw them in disorder urged them to make choice of one or t'other party but as error is never at union with it self there was a division amongst them The Demi-Arians who thought to be able to explain the Fathers in their favor consented to a perseverance in the Doctrine of Antiquity the rest who could not save themselves but by dispute demanded to come to a discussion of the points contested They grew warm insensibly one against another as far as to upbraid each other with their opinions either as contrary to the Testimony of the ancient Church or as unwarrantable in Reason XXII The Emperor taking the advantage of the disturbance they were in declared to them that he would himself take care to unite them and commanding every Sect to give him its Profession of Faith in writing he went out of the Assembly The most qualified amongst them were charged with the preparation of these Forms which they concerted all together with an extream exactness weighing all the words and syllables and seeking all the softest methods to reconcile the Emperor to them without doing prejudice at the ●ame time to their opinions Theodosius having sent for them a few days after they came to the Palace Demophilus who had been chased from the See of Constantinople declared by writing that the Son of God was but a creature that he was not begotten of his Father but had been created out of nothing Eunomius Native of Cappadocia a man of a busie and seditious Spirit who had been Bishop of Cyzicum and whom even those of his own party could not endure brought his Profession of Faith as impious as the other but conceived in terms more magnificent and respectful in reference to Jesus Christ Eleusius Chief of the Macedonians presented his at the same time wherein he enlarged himself upon the G●eatness and Dignity of the Son of God but rejecting the term of consubstantial and still adding some Blasphemies against the Holy Ghost He was a wavering man and of little solidity who had ●epented twice of his error and relapsed into it as often and at last died in Schism The Patriarch Nectarius and Agelas a Novatian Bishop gave also their Confession of Faith in which they defended ●he Doctrine of the Nicean Council and main●ained the consubstantiality of the word XXIII The Emperor took these Forms with ●uch civility and retired into his Closet He Socrat. ● 〈◊〉 c. 10. ●erused them and after having made his Prayer ● draw the blessings of Heaven upon the Action e was going to do he re-entred into the Hall ●here were the Arian Bishops There tearing in ●eir presence their Confessions of Faith and pre●rving none but that of the Catholicks he decla●d to them That he was resolved to suffer no other eligion in the whole extent of his Dominions than that ●ich acknowledged the Son of God to be Consubstantial to his Father That it was time for them to reunite and to receive the wholsom Doctrine of the ancient Church That he would use all his Authority for the glory of God from whom he held it and that regarding them as his Adversaries who should be those of Jesus Christ he should know well how to make hims●lf obeyed in a Point wherein was concerned the safety and repose of his Subjects After which he dismissed them without staying for their Answer XXIV The Majesty of the Prince their division their surprize the approaching ruine of their Sects the shame of having so ill defended their Causes caused trouble and confusion in their minds They withdrew from Court and soon observing themselves to be abandoned of the greatest part of their Followers they at length assembled together the remainders of their Parties and were reduced to tell them for all their comfort That the number of the Elect was small that the truth was usually persecuted upon earth and that their Faith would be so much the more agreeable to God as Men had more Authority to oppress it which they had not been careful to declare when they oppressed the Church themselves by force and violence Cod. Theod. l. 11. 12. de Haeret. XXV To accomplish the destruction of these Heresies the Emperor immediately sent out an Ordinance whereby he prohibited Hereticks to assemble together to instruct the People either in City or Countrey to be possessed of any building that should have any manner of likeness to a Church in a word to say or do any thing in private or publick that was contrary to the Catholic Religion permitting all the good Men of his Empire to unite themselves in order to the chasing from civil society all those who should dare to contradict this Ordinance He likewise enjoined all Officers and Magistrates to oblige the Arians to confine themselves within their Cities and Provinces lest by a too free communication with the People they should disperse abroad their venomous Principles And to be assured of the execution of his Edicts he ordered the Magistrates of those Cities wherein the Arians should hold any Congregation to be most severely punished

formerly bestowed upon the Arians The number of the Catholics encreasing every day the Patriarch Theophilus prayed the Emperor to grant him this forsaken Church He obtained it visited it and had a mind to make some reparations therein As they were digging they found dark Caves more fit to conceal crimes than to celebrate the Ceremonies of Religion The Gentiles who were unwilling to have the Shame of their Mysteries discovered or those hidden places raked up where they found parts of humane bodies dissevered which had served for their wicked Sacrifices hindred the Workmen from proceeding The Christians insisted upon it the thing came to an open Sedition Notwithstanding the Christians were in greatest number yet as they were more moderate than the others they were beaten in some encounters There were even some of them that were taken and barbarously massacred because they would not oblige themselves to sacrifice to Idols The Magistrates went several times to the Temple of Serapis where the seditious had intrenched themselves and endeavored to make them return to their Duty but being unable to force them or to reduce them by reason and threatnings they gave the Emperor information of it who answered them That the Martyrs which they had made were rather to be praised than pitied but to avoid such disorders for the future it was necessary to cut off the cause that is to say to destroy the Temples This Letter being read publickly the Christians testified their joy by extraordinary crys the affrighted Gentiles hid themselves or betook themselves to flight They began to execute the Sentence by demolishing the Temple of Serapis and by the overthrowing that famous Idol which King Sesostris had got made They divided it in several pieces and dragg'd it along the streets CXIII They gave the same entertainment to all the other Pagan Divinities Their Weakness appeared the Delusions and Tricks of the Priests were discovered and several were converted to Jesus Christ Theodosius learning this happy News lifted up his Hands to Heaven and cried out I give thee thanks O God in that thou hast destroyed the Errors of that superstitious City without obliging me to spill the blood of my Subjects He wrote immediately to the Patriarch to rejoyce with him for the favor which God had shewn to his Church and sent him an order to collect all the Idols of Gold or Silver which had been pulled down and to distribute the value of them to the poor of his Diocess adding that he should make appear to the Gentiles that the Zeal of Christians was not mixed with any sort of Avarice and that he should give them an example of a pure and disinteressed Religion They sold every piece of those precious Statues They made Vessels of Charity of other Mettals which had been of service to Superstition Theophilus reserved only an Idol which he set up in the public place to the end that Posterity might one day laugh at the Gentiles by seeing the remains of their ridiculous Worship which seemed to them more injurious than all the rest This Patri●rch built a Church in honour of St. John Baptist in ●he place of the Temple of Serapis all the Bihops of Egypt followed this example and a little ●fter this Province so tied to its Superstitions had 〈◊〉 deliverance CXIV Theodosius more satisfied with the hap●y success of Religion than his Triumphs depart●d Sozom. l. 〈◊〉 c. 14. from Rome the first day of September in order to ●eturn to Milan and from thence to Constantinople He restored the Empire to Valentinian and im●rinted Ambr. Ep. Orat. de obit Theod. so well in his mind the Catholick Religi●n by his repeated instructions that this young ●rince who was naturally disposed to do well be●ame the defender of the Faith and put himself Ambr. in fun Valent. ●ntirely under the discipline of St. Ambrose whom ●e honored as his Father to his death The Empress Justine who had taken so much ●are to inspire into him that Heresy with which ●he was infected had not the satisfaction to behold his triumph and re-establishment God permitted her to dye before the accomplishment of ●he war She was the daughter of Justus Gover●or of La Marche under the Emperor Constantius She had espoused in her first Nuptials the Tyrant Socrat l. 〈◊〉 c. 26. Magnentius who after he had lost the battle of Mursa in Pannonia became the murderer of him●elf to avoid the punishment which his Rebellion had deserved The Great Valent●ian became ●morous of her and married her after the death of the Empress Severa his first Wife She was a Princess fierce imperious fixed ●o her own sense ●nd possessed with all the im●i●●ies of the Arians The influence she had over the spirit of her Husband and the Authority she ●ad taken over her Son had occasioned great troubles in the Church and if God had not opposed to her a Bishop a● Sulp. Sever. Dialog 2. c. 6. unshaken as St. Ambrose was the Arians had becom● masters in Milan and it had been experience● what an abused Princess can do that joyns to th● infirmity of her Sex the violence of her passion The CONTENTS of the Fourth BOOK An. 390 I. SEdition at Thessalonica II. Anger of Theodosius appeased by St. Ambrose and rekindled by Ruffin III. Temper of Theodosius IV. Chastisement of the Seditious of Thessalonica V. Remonstrance of St. Ambrose to Theodosius VI. Repentance of Theodosius VII St. Ambrose excommunicates Theodosius VIII Ruffin endeavors to comfort Theodosius IX Ruffin negotiates an Absolution for Theodosius X. Theodosius presents himself at the door of the Church XI Theodosius doth Penance publickly and is absolved XII Theodosius places himself amongst the Laity XIII Heresy of Jovinian Theodosius takes upon him to destroy it XIV Theodosius reforms divers Abuses XV. Order of the Church for Penance XVI Disorder in the Church of Constantinople XVII State and Functions of Deaconesses Regulation of their Age and Testaments XVIII Death of the Empress Galla. XIX Theodosius returns into the East XX. Theodosius chases a Troop of Barbarians out of Macedonia XXI Theodosius arrives at Constantinople His Piety XXII Original Manners and Fortune of Ruffin XXIII Jealousy against Ruffin XXIV Quarrel of Promotus and Ruffin Anger of Theodosius XXV Ruffin abuses Favor destroys his Enemies XXVI New Revolutions in the West XXVII Edict of Theodosius against Relapsers XXVIII Valentinian orders a Comedian Woman at Rome to be carried off XXIX Intrigues of Flavian XXX Revolt of Arbogastes His Employments his Manners XXXI Valentinian desires to be baptized by St. Ambrose XXXII Jealousy of Valentinian Insolence of Arbogastes XXXIII Valentinian begs the succor of Theodosius he writes to St. Ambrose XXXIV Death of Valentinian his great qualities XXXV Eugenius is made Emperor XXXVI Theodosius learns the death of Valentinian St. Ambrose makes his Encomium at Milan XXXVII Eugenius makes an Alliance with the People of the Rhine XXXVIII Eugenius sends Ambassadors to Theodosius XXXIX Eugenius