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

§. 4. All this while the followers of Chrysostom remained Nonconformists and Separatists at Constantinople, and were called Joannites, and kept in Conventicles of their own. Atticus knew that love was the way to win them, and he purposing to take that way, writeth to Cyril Alex. that the restoring of Chrysostom's name in the Church-Office would tend to heal their sad division,¹ and give the Churches peace: He told Cyril, that Populus majori ex parte per factionem scissus extra muros conventus egerit, & plerique sacerdotes & colleg•• nostri Episcopi & à mutuâ communion discedentes, bonam plantationem Domini parùm abest quin avulserint, &c. Most of the people were gone and had separate meetings without the Walls; Priests and Bishops separating from one another were like to destroy the Church, and that if he consented not to restore the name of dead Chrysostom, the people would do it without him, and he was loath that Church administration should so fall into the hands of the Multitude, and therefore he would take in Chrysostom's name.

§. 4. All this while the followers of Chrysostome remained Nonconformists and Separatists at Constantinople, and were called Ioannites, and kept in Conventicles of their own. Atticus knew that love was the way to win them, and he purposing to take that way, writeth to Cyril Alex. that the restoring of Chrysostome's name in the Church-Office would tend to heal their sad division,¹ and give the Churches peace: He told Cyril, that Populus majori ex parte per factionem scissus extra muros conventus egerit, & plerique sacerdotes & colleg•• nostri Episcopi & à mutuâ communione discedentes, bonam plantationem Domini parùm abest quin avulserint, &c. Most of the people were gone and had separate meetings without the Walls; Priests and Bishops separating from one another were like to destroy the Church, and that if he consented not to restore the name of dead Chrysostome, the people would do it without him, and he was loath that Church administration should so fall into the hands of the Multitude, and therefore he would take in Chrysostom's name.

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