The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

I do not name every speech of those servants of God as imitable, because we do not know what spirits they were carried on with, but to show the strength of their spirits.

I do not name every speech of those servants of God as imitable, because we do not know what spirits they were carried on with, but to shew the strength of their spirits.

And so that of Ambrose, speaking to the Emperor do not lift up thy self O Emperor, if so be you would rule, be subject to God. And so Odosius, that was a good man, when he had been crossed with the people of Thessalonica, he caused many of them to be murdered; upon that Ambrose refused to give him the Sacrament, though he came to the Temple door, and desired it of him, and fell down upon the ground, yet Ambrose stood and resisted him till there was through repentance manifested to the Church.

And so Chrysostom. The Empress Eudoxia had taken by wrong the vineyard of another; Chrysostom forbade her the Communion.

And so Chrisostome. The Emperess Eudoxia had taken by wrong the vineyard of another; Chrisostome forbad her the Communion.