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A92878	Theanthropos: or, God made man. A tract proving the nativity of our Saviour to be on the 25. of December. / By John Selden, that eminently-learned antiquary, late of the Inner-Temple.	Selden, John, 1584-1654.; Chantry, John, d. 1662?, engraver.	1661 (1661)	Wing S2439; Thomason E1809_2; ESTC R203528	58,933	119

manifested to Israel therefore I came baptizing with water So Saint Jerom tells * In commen● ad Ezechiel l. 1. us what the name of Epiphany denotes Significat saith he baptisma in quo aperti sunt Christo Coeli Epiphaniorum dies hucusque venerabilis est non ut quidem putant natalis in carne tunc enim absconditus est non apparuit Others of the Fathers have as much Hereto may be added the consent of posterity after such time as the true day of the birth was discovered to them in the Eastern Church and in a Poem as they call it used in the Service of the Epiphany in the Greek Church made by * Euchologium p. 93 b. Sophronius Patriarch of Jerusalem an express passage is fully to this purpose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. We glorifie thee that art without Father of a Mother and without Mother of a Father and in a preceding Feast of the Nativity we knew thee an Infant but in this present Feast of the Epiphany we see thee at full growth appearing to be our most perfect God According whereto also St. Augustine † Serm. in E●iphan 〈◊〉 diversis 64. hath express words and that often For however they had anciently in the Greek Church confounded the Feasts of the Baptism or Epiphany and the Nativity yet being admonished from the Western Church they confessed their error in this that they sever'd the commemoration of the Baptism from this of the Birth and placed the Birth on his proper day in December and yet they retained still for the Baptism the name of Epiphania which also is sometimes * Vide sis Theonhil Alexand. in edicto tom bibl Patrum edit Paris p. 161. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as in the Menology and in the Apostoloevangela of the Greek Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. On the sixth of the same moneth the holy Theophania of our Lord Jesus Christ for then was the first publick apparition of his Godhead In the Church of Egypt also this day is severally kept by the † Comput Elcophi apud Scalig de emendat l. 7. p. 661. name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Alchamim i. the Feast of Washing or Bathing Quod Ecclesia vetus Aegyptiaca baptismum eo dic iteraret sayes Ioseph Scaliger though perhaps that name may have reference to that old custom used in the Church of providing water in the night of that day for the holy uses of the whole year following which St. Chrysostom * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 edit Savil. p. 524. tom 5. remembers and is yet retained in the Greek Church as it appears by their Euchologium or common-prayer-Common-Prayer-Book as also in the Syriack Church which hath this Feast severed as ours here from the Birth and keeps it † iridimonstad in subaexis Tast Syriaco under the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ilhada dinohora i. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Nazianzen calls it or the Feast of Lights and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Didinacha i. e. Of Light appearing in the East according whereto also they as others use in this Feast great store of Lights which hath reference to the very word Epiphania doubtless which denotes Enlightning also or Illumination in the Vulgar Translation of the New Testament and both in that sense as also in the other of Apparition or Manifestation it may verbally besides signifie the apparition of the Star to the Wise men Stella quae Solis rotam Vincit decore ac lumine As Prudentius of it and Sedulius of the Wise men Stellam sequentes praeviam Lumen requirunt lumine Both in their Hymnes made proper to this of the Epiphany So that the name of the Epiphany is from the ancient and primitive times fully satisfied either in that of the Baptism or in the apparition of the Star Whence also the Dutch French Italian and Spaniard note it by The day of the three Kings for so those wise men are commonly reputed to have been and also the Feast it self hath been long since after the truth learned from the Western Church observed apart by it self as having in the first observation of it no community with this of the Birth-day and that among those which before had confounded them It follows then that even by their own confession that had been the Authors of this confusion they had been deceived in application of the name of Epiphany to the birth of our Saviour and for that collection of time out of the testimony of St. Luke it is clear that no certainty of the day can be thence extracted the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. as it were about expresly excludes such certainty So St. Iohn 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. it was about the tenth hour which clearly denotes not the beginning or end of the hour neither needs there farther proof of the weakness of that collection At length to conclude therefore the Authorities of the Ancients and the consent of Christian Churches for this Birth-day as it is now anniversarily kept being as before declared the mistaken reasons being rejected lest their falshoods might prejudice the clearness of the Truth the Objections of later time being answered and the different Opinions of the Ancients touching it being either groundless or not in truth opposing it it rests that we resolve on it as upon as certain and clear a Truth of Tradition as by rational inference by express testimony of the Ancients by common and continual practice of severall Churches and by accurate inquiry may be discovered FINIS These Books following are printed for Nathanael Brook and we to besold all his Shop at the Angel in Cornhill Excellent Tracts in Divinity Controversies Sermons Devotions 1. 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Peters testimony Petrus are the words qui hic fuit cum Joh. qui hìc fuit cum Jac. nos in occidente docuit which hath plain reference to that before noted out of his long Oration for the same matter where he tells * Edit Savil tom 5. p. 512. us also that in the controversies of those times touching this Feast such as defended it as what ought to be kept on this day justified that it was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. Very ancient and from old time known and famous from Thract to Cadis that is in the whole Western Church To these may be added that of Euodius whom Nicephoras calls the Successor of the Apostles and it is delivered † Suid in verb. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that it was ordained by St. Peter himself in Antioch that we may so distinguish him from that other Euodius Bishop of Vzalis * Cujus nomini ascribuntur opera aliquot ad sin tom 10. D. Aug. subjunc●● edit Lova●●ensi in St. Augustines time he in an Epistle touching the times of the Passion of our Saviour of St. Stephens Martyrdome of the death of the blessed Virgin and the like sayes expresly of her as the Latine is in * Eccles bist l. 2. c. 3. Nicephorus translated by Langius for neither have I the Greek of him Peperit autem mundi ipsius lucem annum agens quindecimum 25. die mensis Decembris And likewise in an old Greek Author the Book being written about the time of Pope Honorius the First in the Library of St. Mark 's in Florence express testimony is Apostolos memoriae prodidisse Christum ex Virgine natum Bethlemae 25. Decembris as Albertus Widemonstadius of his own sight witnesseth in his Notes on that impious Book called Mahomets Divinity and brings also Hesychius his authority to the same purpose And to these may be added Cedren Orosius and some ancient Manuscripts Fasti cited by Cuspinian upon Cassiodore and there is authority also † Catholicus Armeniorum in legatione ad Arvienios malè legitur 20 Dec. tam. in Biblioth Patrum edit Paris tom 3. p. 864. quam in edit Colon. tom 12. part 1. p. 891. Nam Graece erat ●e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quod videre est apud Jos Scalig. in Isagog chron l. 3. p. 30. that however Epiphamus in his Works have another designation of the day of this birth as anon is shewed yet out of the Monuments of the Jews he learned and then taught that this was the very day which they say was justified also by some Writers brought to Rome from Jerusalem by Titus which also is strengthened by that of St. Chrysostome when he sayes * Tom. 5. eait Savil. sol 12. expresly that in publick Records kept at Rome in his age the exact time of the description under Quirinus spoken of by St. Luke which could not but be a special character of the time of our Saviours birth was expressed and then he goes on But what is this to us saith he that neither are at Rome nor have been there that so we might be sure of it yet hearken saith * Ibid. p. 513. he and doubt not for we have received the day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. from those which accurately know these things and dwell at Rome And that they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. having from ancient time and old tradition celebrated it have now also sent us the knowledge of it This is likewise confirmed by an old barbarous Translation of what was taken out of Africanus and Eusebius and published in the noble Scaliger's Thesaurus Temporum where the words are Aug. Sylvano Coss Dominus noster Jesus Christus natus est sub Augusto 8. calendas Ianuarias and then In ipsa die in qua natus est pastores viderunt stellam Chuac 28. which should rather be 29. for so agrees the 25. of December to that of the Aegyptian Choiac which the Author means And Prudentius upon the day supposing the † In hymn ad calend 8 Jan. old tradition of the concurrence of the Solstice with it Quid est quod arctum circulum Sol jam recurrens deserit Christusne terris nascitur Qui lucis auget tramitem Hic ille natalis dies Quo te Creator ard●us Spiravit limo indidit Sermone carnem glutinant And of later times the Authorities are infinite These testimonies being compared with the consent of the Fathers that about 400. years after Christ have written that it was ancient as is already shewed and being confirmed by the arguments made against the supposed later institution of it out of the place of the received Winter-solstice enough manifest the antiquity and certainty of this ancient Feast-day according as we now observe it and that even from the age wherein it first brought forth the redemption of Mankind And to these we may adde the consent of Christian Churches ever since about those 400. years for after that the Eastern or Greek Church of Asia had learned the truth of it from the Western as is delivered this celebration of it yearly increased and grew still more famous through Christendom so expresly St. Chrysostom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith * Pan●g in di 〈…〉 dit Sav. l. to n. 5. p. 512. he i.e. Every year it increased and grew more famous But indeed because in some places it was not as yet so received but that old erroreous opinion touching it as it happens in like cases and shall anon be more particularly shewed still held there place among some that were too wayward to be brought to prefer truth newly discovered to them before their own errors therefore about 100. years after St. Chrysostome it was expresly ordained by the Emperour Iustin if my Author deceive not that in every place of the Christian world it should be thus observed My Author here is Nicephorus * Hist eccles l. 17. c. 28. Calistus who as the Translation of him is tells us first of Iustinian that he Primùm Servatoris exceptionem that is the Hypatants which in our Western Church is the Purification of the blessed Virgin tot● orbe terrarum festo die honorare instituit and then he addes sicut Iustinus de sancta Christi nativitate fecit And according hereto are the Kalendars and Book of Divine service not onely of the Western which are every where common but of the Eastern Churches also In the Menology of the Greek Church in December 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. On the 25. of the same moneth the Feast of the Incarnation of our Lord and God and Saviour Iesus Christ and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is The Virgin Mary brought forth our Saviour on the 25. day Other Volumes of their Divine service as their Apostolo-Evangela and the like enough shew this also And for other Churches which are not under the name of the Greek as those of Antioch or

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