The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

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.

And likewise Basil, he writ to Julian the Apostate: ⟨p. 29⟩Cr•tainly if you understood what we writ, you would not oppose that we writ. But (saith he) when I consider the dignity and crown you have, and the use you make of them, I tremble, for they are for your honour but they make you more dishonourable.

And likewise Basil, he writ to Julian the Apostate: ⟨p. 29⟩Cr•tainly if you understood what we writ, you would not oppose that we writ. But (saith he) when I consider the dignity and crown you have, and the use you make of them, I tremble, for they are for your honor but they make you more dishonorable.