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A38744	The abridgment of Eusebius Pamphilius's ecclesiastical history in two parts ... whereunto is added a catalogue of the synods and councels which were after the days of the apostles : together with a hint of what was decreed in the same / by William Caton.; Ecclesiastical history. English	Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340.; Caton, William, 1636-1665.	1698 (1698)	Wing E3420; ESTC R1923	127,007	269

well buy them they being of such high prices And again they being locked up in Chaines in Steeple-houses and so in the Custody often times of Persecutors where you can have little bénefit by them therefore was there the more necessity of such an Abridgment as this which will neither cost much mony to buy it nor yet very much paines to reàd it As for the Martyers that have Suffered in our own Nation formerly I have scarce medled with them their Sufferings being yet fresh in the remembrance of many and may yet be brought up fresher into the remembrance of many through the present lingering Martyrdom which may become more sharp and bloody if a high hand prevent it not Wherefore Record Record as with a pen of iron and as with a point of a Diamond the noble observations and transactions of this Age which your eyes O ye Little Children shall see and behold let them be told to your Childrens Children In the mean time O you little ones mind you the fear of the Lord and be not you intangled in or with the snare of Satan though he would give you all the glory of the world yea and all that which your eyes in the world can behold which may as truly now be Accounted Vanity of Vanitis yea and all to be concluded to be Vanity as in the daies of Solomon who said that all things under the Sun were vanity and vexation of Spirit One thing more must I add as a very testimony indeed of truth unto you towards whom my bowels yearnes and that is this the sooner that you take up the Cross the lighter will it be for you the sooner that you stoop under the yoak the easier it will be for you the sooner you imbrace the Truth the more natural it will become unto you And the sooner that you forsake the Divel and all his works together with the world and the pomp and vanity thereof the easier it will be for you and the more blessed and happy will you become These things as my own experience do I commit unto you in as much as in the daies of my youth I obtained great mercy from the hand of my God through whose unspeakable Love I am at times constrained to intreat and perswade them that yet are young to learn the fear of the Lord and the perfect knowledge of his way into which God Almighty of his infinit love bring all you whose eyes may see and hands handle this same book that every one of you in your Generation may become faithful and true witnesses in your Generation unto him who is your Creator and who created you to serve him in righteousness and true holiness in the Creation therefore I say again remember him in the days of your youth and love him with all your hearts who gives you life and breath and thorugh whose blessing you obtain food and raiment that when your Parents have finished their testimony and sealed it with their blood that then you their off spring may stand up in the name strength and power of our God to the bearing of your faithful testimony to and for the same blessed Cause for which many of your dear Parents at this day do suffer And if it be the good will and pleasure of our God to honour any of them with Banishment or to Crown any of them with Martyrdom as he hath done many of his pretious Saints before them be you therewith Content without murmuring against the Lord or entertaining a revengful spirit in your hearts And peradventer that you shall in your days see him repay to whom vengeance belongs who hath said unto his seed and off-spring I will never leave thee nor forsake thee This faithful Creator is he unto whom you must look and unto whom you must come then will he not leave you comfortless though you be deprived of many external comforts yet behold O ye dear little ones he hath enough reserved in store for to comfort and refresh you withal if you love him and keep his commandments yea and all the Comfortless that come unto him who is said to be A father to the fatherless A comforter of the comfortless with whom there is mercy that he may be feared to whose disposing and protection I commend you wishing your good success and prosperity in all vertue and in every goodwork farewel dear Children Your Real and entire Friend W. C. Rotterdam in Holland the 6 of the 3 Mo. 1661. A FATHER'S ADVISE TO HIS CHILD OR THE MAIDENS BEST ADORNING Being a Directory for Youth Setting forth the greatest Beauty by a Holy Conversation DEar Child these words which briefly I declare Let them not hang like Jewels in thine ear But in the secret Closet of thy heart Safe lock 'em up that they may n'er depart Give first to God the flower of thy Youth Take for thy guide the blessed Word of Truth Adorn thy self with Grace prize Wisdom more Than all the Pearls upon the Indian shore Think not to live still free from grief and sorrow The man that laughs to day may weep to morrow Nor dream on Joys unmixed here below The fragrant Roses on the thorn do grow Scorn the deluding world that most bewitches And place thy hope in everlasting riches Make room for Christ let not so base a guess As Earth have any lodging in thy breast Bad company as deadly poyson shun Thousands by that are ruin'd and undone The giddy multitude still go a stray Turn from the broad and chuse the narrow way Keep Death and Judgment always in thine Eye Non's sit to live but who are fit to dye Make use of present time because thou must Shortly take up thy lodging in the dust 'T is dreadful to behold a settin Sun And night appearing e're our work be done Let not thy winged days be spent in vain When gone no gold will call 'em back again Strive to subdue thy sin when first beginning Custom when once confin'd is strangly winning Be much at Prayer it is the begging trade By which true Christians are the richest made Of meditation get the blessed art And often search thy own deceitful heart Fret not nor envy at thy neighbours wealth Preferment beauty Learning strength or health Abhor the lying tongue vile fraud detest Plain hearted men by Providence are blest Take heed of Idleness that cursed nurse And mother of all vice ther 's nothing worse And fly from pride high hills are barren found But lowly vallies with Christ fruits are crownd Short sinful pleasures and delights eschue Eternal Torments are their wages due I' th race of temperance run and always keep A mean in eating drinking and in sleep Nor costly Garments weare let men admire Thy person most and not thy rich attire Lay treasures that are good up in thy heart Which by discourse thou wisely mayst impart To profit others holy thoughts within Will guide thy tongue and guard thy lips from sin Learn to

ready to shrink so strugled that they were ready to burst within themselves they nodded with their Countenance and beckned with their Hands exhorting them to Constancy with many signs and gestures of the Body the which when the Multitude in compass had perceived before that any laid hands on them preventing their doings they stept forth before the Bar and proclaimed themselves to be Christians so that the President and his Assistants were amazed and the Christians upon whom the Sentence had past were thereby emboldened to suffer and the Judges marvellously afraid These therefore departed from the Tribunal i. e. Judgment seat cheerfully and rejoyced in the testimony of their Faith God gloriously triumphing in them Ischyrion martyred by his Master Many others saith Dionysius throughout the Cities and Villages were quartered and dismembred by the Ethnicks i. e. Heathens whereof for example sake I will rehearse one Isohrion being a Noble-man's hired Servant and by Office his Stoward was commanded by his Master to do Sacrifice and when he obeyed not he was contumeliously i. e. reproachfully reviled The Heathen Master seeing his Christian Servant so constant p●…rsisting in his former Opinions taketh a great Cudgel in his hand and beat his Body and Bowels till Breath departed What shall I say of the multitude of them which wander in the desart and waste mountains consumed with Famine and Hunger and Cold and Diseases spoiled by Thieves and devoured by Beasts whose Blessedness and Victories they that remain alive are able to testifie These things Brother I write not in vain but that thou mayest understand what and how great Evils and Mischiefs have happened among us whereof they know more which among all others have felt most Of Novatus his Heresie and Impiety There was a certain Priest of Rome that was puffed up with Pride became himself the Author and Ringleader of his own Heretical Sect to wit of such as through their swelling Pride did call themselves Kathrous i. e. Puritans whereof there was a Synod i. e. a General or Universal Assembly gathered together at Rome of threescore Bishops besides many Ministers and Deacons And it was decreed that Novatus together with such as swelled and consented unto his unnatural Opinion repugnant i. e. disagreeing or contrary to brotherly Love should be excommunicated and banished the Church c. It is said that this Novatus longed of old after a Bishoprick and to the end he might conceal his own peevish Desire he used the Cloak of Arrogancy i. e. Pride or Loftiness who chose two men of a desperate Condition to be partakers of his Heresie These being simple men not knowing their crafty and malicious Fetches they were unclosed by such lewd Persons as were suborned i. e. were brought in for false Witnesses for the purpose and a●…ut ten a Clock when they were somewhat tipsie i. e. wanton or somewhat drunk with Wine and well crammed with Victuals were constrained to create him Bishop with imaginative or devised and frivolous i. e. vain laying on of Hands the which craftily and subtilly not compatible for his Person he challenged unto himself It is said of him that he being loth to die and desirous of Life in the time of Persecution denied himself to be a Priest And when he was intreated by the Deacons and admonished to come forth of the house wherein he had enclosed himself and to minister unto the necessity of the Brethren which wanted he was so far from yielding to the Deacons that he went away and departed in a Chafe saying That he would playno longer the Priest but addict himself unto another Trade of Phylosophy It is said of him that when he distributed the Oblation to People that he caused them to swear unto him By the Body and Blood of our Lord Iesus Christ that they would never forsake him An Epistle of Dionysius Bishop of Alexandria unto Novatus Dionysius unto the Brother Novatus sendeth greeting If thou wast constrained against thy will as thou saist thou wilt declare the same if thou return willingly Thou shouldst have suffered rather any thing than to have rent asunder the Church of God neither is this Martyrdom which is suffered for not severing and dividing the Church of less Glory than that which is tolerated i. e. suffered for denial of Sacrifice unto Devils yea in Iudgment it is of far greater Glory For in the one Martyrdom is suffered for one Soul in the other for the Universal Church i. e. the Church in general or the whole Church For if thou either perswade the Brethren or constrain them to return to Unity this notable Act will be far greater than the Fault that went before and the one will be imputed i. e. laid to his charge the other will be commended If thou canst not perswade the rebellious and disobedient save at leastwise thy own Soul I desire thy Health in the Lord and thy embracing Peace and Unity The Seventh BOOK OF EUSEBIUS Concerning Origen ORigen is said to have suffered much affliction for Christ's sake being famous eloquent trained in the Church even from his Youth up but through Envy he was brought before the Rulers and Magistrates and through the despiteful subtilty and crafty Invention of Satan he was brought into great slander and blemish of Infamy They say that the Authors of Iniquity devised that a Man should work the feat that is they prepared an Ethiopian or foul Black-moor beastly to abuse his Body but he not being willing to away with neither willing to hear of so horrible an Act brake out into loud Speeches and exclaimed at both the things which were given him in choice Rather than the one he would do the other The Choice was That either a Black-moor should play the Sodomite with him or he himself should sacrifice unto Idols And in the end he consented to Sacrifice whereof when they had put Frankincense crifice in his hand they threw it into the Fire upon the Altar By this means he was by the Judge put from Martyrdom and also banished the Church After that he was intreated by the Priests of Jerusalem to bestow a Sermon upon the People in the Church after great intreaty and in a manner constrained by the Priests he rose up took the Bible opened it and happened upon this Parcel of Scripture Unto the ungodly said God Why dost thou preach my Laws and takest my Covenant in thy mouth When he had thus read he clasped the Book sate down and burst out into Tears together with all the Audience i. e. the Assembly of People which wept with him He lived till he was Threescore and nine Years old And after his Fall he wrote his Lamentation out of which I have drawn this following Extract O ye Saints and Blessed of God with waterish Eyes and wet Cheeks soaked in D●…lour i. e. Sorrow and Pain I beseech you to fall down before the Mercy-seat of God for me miserable Sinner Wo is