_Innocent_, acting with his usual Prudence and Circumspection, in his Answer to the above-mentioned Letters, declared, that he admitted the Bishops of both Parties to his Communion, from which he could exclude no Man till he was lawfully judged and condemned; and that therefore, to compose all Differences, and leave no room for Complaints on either Side, it was fit a Council should be assembled, consisting of the Western as well as the Eastern Bishops. The other Bishops of _Italy_, to whom _Chrysostom_ had written, returned much the same Answer[1414], following therein the Advice, which _Chrysostom_ himself had given to the Bishops of his Party; _viz._ that they should communicate with his Enemies, to prevent Divisions in the Church, but not sign his Condemnation, because he did not think himself guilty[1415]. _Innocent_’s Answer to _Theophilus_ was in Words to the same Effect. His Letter to _Chrysostom_ was carried into the East by _Demetrius_ Bishop of _Pessinus_, who took care to shew it every-where, to the end it might be every-where known, that the _Roman_ Church still communicated with that holy Bishop[1416]. [Sidenote: Theophilus _writes to_ Innocent.] A few Days after _Innocent_ had answered _Chrysostom_’s Letter, _Petrus_, one of _Theophilus_’s Presbyters, and _Martyrius_ Deacon of the Church of _Constantinople_, arrived at _Rome_, with Letters from _Theophilus_, and the Acts of _Chrysostom_’s Deposition by the Council _ad Quercum_. From these it appeared, that the Council had consisted of Thirty-six Bishops, whereof Twenty-nine were _Egyptians_, and over these _Theophilus_ had, as their Metropolitan, too great an Influence; that _Chrysostom_ had been condemned without being heard, and that nothing had been laid to his Charge, deserving so severe and exemplary a Punishment. [Sidenote: Innocent_'s Answer to_ Theophilus.] _Innocent_ therefore, having read them, with the utmost Indignation, answered _Theophilus_ in a few Words; that he was determined, as he had notified to him by his former Letter, to communicate both with him and his Brother _John_; that he could by no means depart from the Communion of the latter, till he was lawfully judged and condemned; that a Council was to be soon held, before which it was incumbent upon _Theophilus_ to make good his Charge, and the Steps he had hitherto taken, by the Canons and Decrees of the Council of _Nice_, since the _Roman_ Church admitted no others[1417]. [Sidenote: _Letters from the Bishops of_ Chrysostom_’s Party to_ Innocent.] With this Letter _Petrus_ and _Martyrius_ returned to _Constantinople_, whence arrived at _Rome_, soon after their Departure from that City, _Theoctecnus_, a Presbyter of the Church of _Constantinople_, and one of _Chrysostom_’s Friends, with Letters from Twenty-five Bishops, informing _Innocent_, that _Chrysostom_ had been driven a Second time from his See; that he had been conducted by a Band of Soldiers to _Cucusus_, and confined to that