Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

§. 42. The Empress Eudoxia was said to set Epiphanius on work. Chrysostom being hot, made a Sermon of the faults of Women; which was interpreted to be against the Empress. She irritated the Emperor against him; and got Theophilus to call a Council against him, at Quercus near Chalcedon, and Constant. Thither came S•verianus, and many Bishops that Chrysostom had deposed, and many that were his Enemies for his strictness; but especially time-servers that knew the will of the Empress, if not the Emperors: When they summoned him to appear before them, He answered, that by the Canon there must be more Patriarchs, and he appealed to a General Council, yet not denying to answer any where, if they would put out his Enemies from being his Judges, and that in his own Patriarchate. But they sentenced him deposed, for not appearing: The People were presently in an uproar, and would not let him be taken out of the Church: The Emperor commanded his banishment: To avoid Tumult, the third day he yielded himself to the Soldiers to be transported: The people hereupon were all in an uproar, and it pleased God that there was an Earthquake that night: Whereupon the Emperor sent after him to entreat him to return. When he came back he would not have officiated, till his Cause was heard by equal Judges, but the People constrained him to Pray and Preach; which was after made the matter of his Accusation. Theophilus was hated as the cause of all, and Severianus as the second. After this Theophilus turned his Accusation upon Heraclides, Bishop of Ephesus, put in by Chrysostom: They condemned him unheard, in his absence: Chrysostom said that should not be: The Alexandrians said, It was just; They went hereupon together by the Ears, and some were wounded and some were killed, and Theophilus glad to fly home to Alexandria; but was hated by the People.

§. 42. The Empress Eudoxia was said to set Epiphanius on work. Chrysostome being hot, made a Sermon of the faults of Women; which was interpreted to be against the Empress. She irritated the Emperour against him; and got Theophilus to call a Council against him, at Quercus near Chalcedon, and Constant. Thither came S•verianus, and many Bishops that Chrysostome had deposed, and many that were his Enemies for his strictness; but especially time-servers that knew the will of the Empress, if not the Emperours: When they summoned him to appear before them, He answered, that by the Canon there must be more Patriarchs, and he appealed to a General Council, yet not denying to answer any where, if they would put out his Enemies from being his Judges, and that in his own Patriarchate. But they sentenced him deposed, for not appearing: The People were presently in an uproar, and would not let him be taken out of the Church: The Emperour commanded his banishment: To avoid Tumult, the third day he yielded himself to the Souldiers to be transported: The people hereupon were all in an uproar, and it pleased God that there was an Earthquake that night: Whereupon the Emperour sent after him to intreat him to return. When he came back he would not have officiated, till his Cause was heard by equal Judges, but the People constrained him to Pray and Preach; which was after made the matter of his Accusation. Theophilus was hated as the cause of all, and Severianus as the second. After this Theophilus turned his Accusation upon Heraclides, Bishop of Ephesus, put in by Chrysostome: They condemned him unheard, in his absence: Chrysostome said that should not be: The Alexandrians said, It was just; They went hereupon together by the Ears, and some were wounded and some were killed, and Theophilus glad to fly home to Alexandria; but was hated by the People.