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A relation of the Christians in the world
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Pagitt, Ephraim, 1574 or 5-1647.
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about the five and thirtieth yeare of our Lord. Aristobulus one of the seventy Disciples was one of the first Bishops of Britanie The memory of these Arch-Bishops following viz. Of Patrick in Ireland Palladius in Scotland and of David in Wales who Preached the most sweete Name of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ in these Countries before named will never be forgotten In St. Peters Church in Cornehill London remaineth a Monument declaring that King Lucius founded that Church for a Bishops See and of a succession of Arch-Bishops there for 400 yeares Elvanus sate Arch-Bishop there by whose preaching with others King Lucius had beene converted as also Restitutus a married Bishop who with other British Bishops subscribed the Synode at Arles Anno 350. Neither is Vodinus one of the Arch-bishops of London to be left in oblivion who was murthered for reproving King Vortiger for putting away his wife and marrying Rowen daughter to Hengist an Infidel Reverend Bede telleth us of many Learned men and Bishops in Britany before and about the comming of Austin the Monk As also of Bishop Aidan and Finan who are at this day reckoned among the Romish Saints although they would have no Communion with the said Austin Likewise Arch-bishop Cranmer Bishop Ridley Bishop Latimer and others who restored Religion to the ancient Purity and sealed their Confession with their Blood will be had in Everlasting memory There are now in the Kingdomes above named eight Arch-bishops and about eighty Bishops The Clergy in these Kingdomes are learned best provided for and the most honorable of the reformed Churches The Bishops are Barons and sit in their Parliaments and two of the English Bishops viz. Durham and Eley have some regalities in their Diocesses In ancient time the Kings of England placed Clergy-men in the greatest Offices of the Kingdome The Protestants also inhabit the Kingdome of Denmark with the Balticke Islands and the great Islands in the Ocean as Islands part of Freisland The Kingdome of Norway being in length about 1300. miles and not halfe so much in breadth There are in Denmarke and Norway two Archbishopricks and foureteene Bishoprickes These Kingdomes received Christianity from the Apostles or Disciples as Merman affirmeth There were two Danish Bishops in the first Councell of Nice viz. Marcus Metropolitanus Protogenes The Kingdome of Sweden bigger then France and Italy in which Kingdome is one Arch-Bishopricke and seven Bishopricks The Kingdome of Transilvania in a manner intire In the Kingdome of Poland being of no lesse space than Spaine and France laid together the Protestants in great numbers are diffused through all the quarters thereof having in every Province their publicke Churches orderly severed and bounded with Dioces There are also in Polonia many Greeks or Russes who have eight Bishops whose Metropolitane is the Arch-Bishop of Kiovia These Bishops are not beggarly but well provided for and of good esteeme Isidore Arch-Bishop of Kiovia before named went to the Councell of Florence attended with 100. Horse There are also many Armenians Christians whose Bishop is resident in Leopolis In France the Protestants had at the conference of Poisie 2150 Congregations In this Christian Kingdome Philip the Apostle with many holy Bishops preached the faith as Dionysius Disciple of S. Paul the first Bishop of Paris and Martyrs Lazarus Photinus Disciple of Polycarp and Irenaeus B. of Lions Hilary B. of Poicteurs who tooke great paines to purge France from the Arrian Heresie Remigius Bishop of Rhemes who baptized Clodoveus the first Christian King of France Neither should wee forget Germanus Bishop of Anxer nor Lupus Bishop of Tros who crossed the Seas to aide the British Bishops against the Pelagians The Protestants have also the greatest part of Germany all the temporall Princes of note being of late Protestants except the Dukes of Bavaria and Cleere and in a manner all the Free Cities and Hanse Townes The Protestants detain also in their possessions the Archbishopricks of Magdenburgh and Breame with the Bishopricks unto them belonging As also the Bishopricks of Verdden Halberstad Osnaburgh and Minden When Magdenburgh was converted to the Faith Albert was there Bishop Cresceus Disciple of Saint Paul was one of the first Bishops in Germany and Winibrode an Englishman commonly called Boniface is Famous amongst the Archbishops of Ments whom the Pagans murthered in hope of prey and found only in his Coffers a few bookes and Relicks The first Bishop of Wertburgh was Burchard a Britaine this Bishop is Duke of Franconia and Lord of part of Vortland The first Archbishop of Breme was Ausgarius who converted Erick the third King of Denmarke Also in these later times the memory of Doctor Luther who caused Reformation in some parts of Germany is very precious in the Countries by him reformed They have also halfe the Netherlands there were lately Bishops in these parts as amongst others Amandus Bishop of Utrecht who converted the Gauntois to the Christian Faith As also Frederick Bishop of the said See who for reproving Lodowick the Emperour for keeping Iudith was put to death but now in these Countries and some others they have no Bishops but appropriating the Church-livings to themselues they give their Ministers Pensions But I fear that in this their taking to themselves the Church-livings set apart by their Fore-fathers for the service of Almighty God and paying their Ministers pensions they doe no otherwise than a King of Spaine did who taking very much from the Church built a Monastery or two of whom the Proverbe went That he had taken a Sheep from Almighty God and given him again out of it the Trotters Now what the miserable Effects are which follow upon the want of Bishops in those Countries let the abundance of Heresies Sects Schismes and Religions amongst them testifie to the world Also they have more than halfe Switzerland and the Grisons Country in which Countries have beene many Bishops The Protestants also live mingled with the Romanists in Hungarie Austria Bohemia Piemont and other places Severinus is accounted the Apostle of Austria In those Countries have beene many holy Bishops and Doctours who have shined like Stars in the Firmament illuminating the Darknesse of the blind World with the light of their Celestiall Doctrine The second sort of Christians in Europe are The Roman Catholicks Who inhabit SPain being in compasse 1893 miles or thereabouts in times past divided into many Kingdomes but now united into one In this great Kingdome are about eleven Archbishops and many Bishops men of great Dignity and Estate Saint Iames is affirmed to be the Apostle of Spaine as also Saint Paul Osius Bishop of Corduba whom Constantine honoured for the marks of Iesus Christ that he bore and Isidore Bishop of Sivill are famous for opposing the Arrian Hereticks with Illefonsus Archbishop of Toledo Isidorus Scholer Fulgentius and others The revenues of
These Churches of Asia the lesse St. Iohn governed and placed Bishops in them 7 The Christians in the Kingdomes of Cazan and Astracan and other Countries in Asia under the dominion of the Emperour of Muscovia who hath under him in Europe and Asia a greater extent of Land than the Roman Catholicks have in Europe All the Asiatick Christians before named are of the Greek communion and observe the Greek rites 8 The Armenians under their two chiefe Patriarchs one of these Patriarchs liveth under the Turke the other under the Persian In Cardinall ' Baronius Annals you may read of 1000 Armenian Bishops Thaddaeus whom they much esteeme preached the Faith to them Now I heare the Patriarch of the greater Armenia to be called Moses As these Christians live in Armenia the greater and lesser so also in many Countries and Cities of Asia Africa and Europe About the yeare 324 Gregory whom they call Illuminator was Bishop of Armenia who suffered Martyrdome under Licinius the Emperour In the yeare 1609 Abbas the Persian Emperour put to death 1000 of these Christians upon a Letter fained to bee written from their Patriarch to the Pope of Rome acknowledging him to be Head of the Church 9 The Iacobites who inhabit a great part of Asia and other places mingled with Mahumetans and Pagans Their Patriarch having many Bishops under him keepeth residence in Caramite the Metropolis of Mesopotamia wee may reade of a Patriarch of the Iacobites in the time of Heraclius the Emperour 10 The Chaldean and Assyrian Christians with others under the Patriarch of Mozul who have many of them their Services in the Syrian Tongue being the language in which our Lord preached These Christians inhabite mingled with Mahumetans and Pagans a great part of the Orient for beside the Countries of Babylon Assyria Mesopotamia Parthia Media c. wherein many of these Christians are found They are scattered farre and neere in the East both Northerly in Cathaia and Southerly in India Trigautius reckoneth 14 Metropolitans viz. of India China Cambaia Mogor Hilam Nzivin Prath Assur Bethgarmi Halack Passes Mauzeor xam Raziqueor besides many Archbishops and Bishops Cardinall Vitriacus in his History of the East reporteth these Christians with the Jacobites to be more in number then the Latines and Greeks These Christians were converted by Saint Thomas the Apostle and in their service-Service-book they have this Hymne as Trigantius reporteth The Indians the Chinoises the Persians and other Islanders and they that are in Syria Armenia Grecia and Romania in commemoration of S. Thomas doe offer prayse to thy holy Name 11 The Maronites in Mount Libanus who have a Patriarch and eight or nine Bishops under him 12 The Indians of Saint Thome so called because they received the Christian Faith from Saint Thomas the Apostle These Christians inhabite many places in the East Indies as Melia-par where Saint Thomas was buried and hath a goodly Temple erected to his name Angamall where an Archbishop resideth Cranganor Negapatan Vaipecotan and others Trigautius writeth that when the Portugals arrived at Cochin that the Lord Iacob ruled the Malabar Church who stiled himselfe Metropolitan of India and China and that Ioseph succeeded him Iosephus Indus borne in Cranganor in East India also writeth of a great Prelat to whom twelve Cardinals were subiect with two Patriarchs and many Archbishops and Bishops 13 The Chinoises possesse a Countrey little lesse then all Europe Saint Thomas preached the Gospel first amongst them afterwards they had a supply of Preachers from Iudea K. Tay with Neu huanti reigning in the yeer 782. They erected a Monument declaring the bringing in of the Gospell into China in what Provinces it was promulgated and how many yeeres it flourished The Monument is graven with Syrian Letters with these words Adam sacerdos Presbyter Papalis Zinostan seu regionis Sinarum in the margent of this Monument there are divers names engraven of them that brought the sweet Name of our Lord Iesus Christ among them as Constantinus Saba cusio seu Aethiops Dominus Sergius c. Paulus Venetus writeth of a Christian Church in the great Citie of Quinsay I read also of Gaspara a China Bishop 14 Cathaia is one of the largest Empires upon the face of the whole Earth in which there be also many Christians They write of a Christian King of Tenduc whose native Subiects are Christians besides he ruleth farre and wide over many Provinces whose inhabitants are also for the most part Christians To conclude there is neither speech nor language but his voice hath beene heard among them The sound of the Gospell is gone out into all Lands and the Word of God into the ends of the World In Africa are these Christians following 1 VNder the Patriarch of Alexandria whose iurisdiction hath been from the River of Nilus to the Gaditan straits In the City of Caire only are thought to be 200000 Christians Saint Marke was their first Bishop and now Metrophanes governeth and precedeth there brought up in Oxford sent hither by Cyrill the then Patriarch to our late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury In Cardinall Baronious Annalls you may read of a Succession of Bishops from Saint Marke to Gabriell the then Patriarch There is a service in the Syrian tongue set forth by Severus Patriarch of Alexandria also a service in the Cophts Language set forth in print by Kirkerus The Cophts are the native EEgyptians and have a Patriarch of their owne Moreover Demetrius of Thessalonica hath set forth a Service used in Cair and among the Christians in Arabia The Holy Bishop Athanasius who opposed the Arrian World was sixe and forty yeares Patriarch of Alexandria with many other Holy Bishops as among others Poterius Bishop of Alexandria who was slaine by the Eutychian Hereticks haled through the streetes his body cut in pieces and his Entrailes chewed by them The Patriarchs of Alexandria have beene great Princes and weare a Crowne His title is Oecumenick Iudge So many Holy men lived in this Church in ancient time that it was called the Paradise of God 2 The Abassine Christians under the Emperour of Aethiopia who inhabit many Kingdomes of Affrica They received the Faith first from Philip and afterwards Saint Matthew the Apostle preached among them they have a Patriarch or Abuna a-man of great esteeme and estate Their Abuna when Alvares was in Aethiopia was called Marke a Reverend old Man aged about 110 a man gracious in his speech never speaking without blessing of God and giving of Thankes when hee goeth out of his Tent he rideth upon a Mule well attended Their Churches are builded round adorned with rich hangings and Plate They have their Service in their owne tongue Zago Zabo Bugana Raze that is The Vice-Roy of Bugana an Aethiopian Bishop was sent Ambassadour from the Aethiopian Emperour to Iohn King