[V]Chrysostom died in his banishment, according to the Christian wish of Epiphanius,[172] “I hope you will not die bishop of Constantinople;” which Chrysostom returned with a wish of the same good temper, “I hope you will not live to return to your own city;” so deadly was the hatred of these saints and fathers against each other. After Chrysostom’s death, his favourers and friends were treated with great severity, not indeed on the account of religion, but for other crimes of sedition they were charged with; and particularly, for burning down one of the churches in the city,[173] the flames of which spread themselves to the senate house, and entirely consumed it. ----- Footnote 170: Soz. l. 8. c. 1, 2, 4. Footnote 171: Soz. l. 8. c. 6. Footnote V: See note [V] at the end of the volume. Footnote 172: Soz. l. 8. c. 16. Footnote 173: Soc. l. 6. c. 18. ----- Under the same emperors the Donatists[174] gave sad specimens of their cruelty in Africa towards the orthodox, as St. Austin informs us. They seized on Maximianus, one of the African bishops, as he was standing at the altar, beat him unmercifully, and ran a sword into his body, leaving him for dead. And a little after he adds, that it would be tedious to recount the many horrible things they made the bishops and clergy suffer; some had their eyes put out; one bishop had his hands and tongue cut off, and others were cruelly destroyed. I forbear, says Austin, to mention their barbarous murders, and demolishing of houses, not private ones only, but the very churches themselves. Honorius[175] published very severe edicts against them, ordaining, that if they did not, both clergy and laity, return to the catholics by such a day, they should be heavily fined, their estates should be confiscated, the clergy banished, and their churches all given to the catholics. These laws Austin commends as rightly and piously ordained, maintaining the lawfulness of persecuting heretics by all manner of ways, death only excepted. ----- Footnote 174: Epist. 50. ad Bon. & Epist. 68. ad Januar. Footnote 175: Cod. Theod. l. 52. -----