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A59121	Remarques relating to the state of the church of the first centuries wherein are intersperst animadversions on J.H.'s View of antiquity.	Seller, Abednego, 1646?-1705.	1680 (1680)	Wing S2460; ESTC R27007	303,311	521

sent into the World and so he came both from the Father and the Son according to that of a Tom. 2. hom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Johan p. 876. S. Chrysostome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And this twofold procession perchance might give an occasion to that mistake of b Poetic lib. 6. cap. 4. p. 780. Julius Scaliger that the Greeks did believe there were two holy Ghosts Now the Controversie between the Eastern and Western Churches is concerning the Eternal procession which the Greeks make to be from the Father by the Son And notwithstanding the learned c Tom. 1. contr 2. l. 2. c. 24 25. Cardinal 's large muster of the Fathers both Greek and Latine in two whole Chapters to the contrary I shall undertake to evince that this was the belief of all the Fathers of the four first Centuries till the days of S. Ambrose for the Tractate de adventu spiritus S. father'd on S. Cyprian is by Pamelius acknowledged to be of a much younger Author XXV The Opinion anciently was so generally believed and so publickly known that a Tom. 2. p. 1121. Lucian or whoever was the Author of the Philopatris introduces Triephon advising Critias To leave off his Heathen Oaths and to swear by the high and eternal God by his Son and the Spirit who proceeds from the Father the Trinity in Vnity and Vnity in Trinity which contains an excellent Summary of the Christian Faith though scoffingly there quoted but we will omit such Foreign and summon Domestick Testimonies b Legat. pro Christ p 30. Ed. Steph. Athenagoras informs us That the Son is the mind the wisdom and word of the Father 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Holy Ghost an Emanation from him as light is from the Fire i. from the same Father says his Translator Gesner and so also I understand him So c Adv. Pra xeam c 1. Tertullian affirms the Original of the Spirit to be from the Father by the Son and d Oper. p 1. Ed. V●ss●i Gregory Thaumaturgus in that Creed which was given him by Revelation by the hands of the blessed Virgin and S. John Baptist thus declares his Belief 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. the holy Spirit as to his eternal proceeding came from the Father but as to his Mission in time unto men Christ sent him and this I believe to be the Fathers meaning notwithstanding what the infallibility e Voss● Not. in loc p. 104. of Pope Gregory the ninth would draw from these words to the Confutation of the Greek Heresie and after him the Cardinal This Creed is quoted by S. Gregory Nyssen in the life of this miraculous Father and the Doctrine uncensur'd and therefore we may conclude it his belief also especially if it be true what f Lib. 12. c. 13. Nicephorus and others say that in the Constantinopolitan Council the Creed which we vulgarly call the Nicene was penn'd by S. Greg. Nyssen we need no other specimen of his Opinion in this case Nor was his Brother S. Basil's Opinion different nor his dear friend's S. Gregory the Divine with whom not only Epiphanius Basil●●o 1. in Ps 32. p. 203. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vid. l. 5. contr Eu●m c. 12. Greg. Naz. tom 1. or 29. p. 493. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Id. Or. 35. p. 5●3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epiph. in Anchor cap. 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hier. tom 5. com in Is c. 57. Spiritus S. qui de patre egreditur propter societatem naturae à filio mittitur and having quoted Jo. 15.26 he adds nè scandalizet quempiam si spiritus egrediatur ex patre See the Creeds ad Damasum Cyrillum tom 4. p. 127 224. Hilar. tom 1. de trinit l. 12. p. 261. ut patrem sc te nostrum filium tuum unà tecum adorem sanctum spiritum tuum qui ex te per unigenitum tuum est promerear And again lib. 8. p. 139. à patre enim procedit spiritus veritatis sed à filio mittitur à patre S. Chrysost tom 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 730. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but his Scholar S. Hierom agree though generally computed among the Latine Fathers of the other Opinion for the passages quoted by Bellarmine and others relate to the tem●oral Mission of the Spirit from the Son which we deny not with whom also S. Hilary of Poictou and S. Chrysostom joyn consort XXVI And for this Opinion Theodoret is so stout a Champion that the men of the other perswasion make him the Author of it and censure him for it as speaking too rashly and agreeing with the Greek Heresie as they word it in a Rome 1547. their Preface to the Edition which I use and with him also agrees b Lib. 12. in Joh. c. 56. S. Cyril of Alexandria and in after ages Maximus and John Damascene as I find them quoted by c Sguropuli hist Conc. Florent sect 8. c. 15. p. 239. Marcus Ephesius in the Council of Florence and after them d In Johan 3. p. 604. Theophylact most expresly the Latines says he make the Spirit to proceed from the Son but we say that it is one thing to be of another and another thing to proceed from another that we may not therefore make two causes of the holy spirits production believe thou that the Spirit proceeds from the Father but is confer'd on the Creatures by the Son and let this be the rule of Orthodoxy to thee and e Vit. Greg. M. l. 4. c. 75. Paulus Diaconus assures us that when the Greeks translated the Dialogues of Gregory the great into their own language they scrap'd out the word filioque out of his discourse of the procession of the Holy Ghost XXVII And it was one of the Articles against Cyrillus Lucaris the late Patriarch of Constantinople which promoted his deposition in the Synod held there under Parthenius an 1642. That in his Confession he had held the eternal and essential procession of the holy Ghost from the Father and the Son against the determination of the Catholick Church But herein they belyed the good man for in f Interpraestant ac erud viror Epp. Eccles Theolog. p. 403. his Epistle to Vytenbogard when he was only Patriarch of Alexandria he professes his Belief in this Article consonant to the Doctrine of the Greek Church which denyes the holy Ghost to have proceeded from the Son essentialiter internè quoad esse lest they should make two principles of his existence which is Heretical And in the first Chapter of his Confession of the Christian Faith the Book which occasioned his deposition and Martyrdom he acknowledges that the holy Spirit doth proceed from the Father by the Son which is the true sentiment of the Oriental Churches in which the g Confess Claudii regis apud Hotting topogr Eccl or c. 3. p. 76. Aethiopian

Tertullians Opinion as several others of the Fathers as they are quoted by g To. 1. contr 3. l. 3. c. 6. Cardinal Bellarmine XVIII For his Doctrine that the Souls of the best men are not received into Heaven properly so called till the day of Judgment but that they are kept in some certain Receptacles where God only knows which place of happiness is sometimes called Paradise at other times Abraham's Bosom where those that reside are sustinentes resurrectionem in our barbarous translation in expectation of the Resurrection or aeternitatis candidati as Tertullian stiles them Candida●es of Immortality was the general belief of the Primitive Ages of the Church for besides Irenaeus I find it the Opinion of Tertullian Clemens Romanus Justin Martyr Origen H●●●ry Austin Chrysostome Ambrose Theodoret Victorinus Prudentius Aretas Anast●sius Sinaita Theophylact Oecumenius Euthymius and S. Bernard and h Vide Spalatens l. 5. c. 8. n. 97 98. and Ushers Answ to the Jes Sect. of prayer to Saints p. 43⅔ Gennad de dogmat Eccles c. 78. in truth among the Fathers of whom not and who is there among the sober Protestants that asserts that the happiness of the Saints is the same at their death that it shall be after their Resurrection Were it so our Church hath done very ill in her Office at Burials to pray That we together with all the departed in the Faith and sear of God may have our perfect consummation and bliss in that Eternal Kingdom Irenaeus calls this Station an invisible place because it is unknown to us the departed being in Gods hand in some estate of happiness but neither in misery nor perfect glory and that this is the Opinion of Calvin and Peter Martyr i Annotat. in Act. 3.31 Sir Norton K●atchbul hath made good telling us that the contrary assertion hath no foundation either in the Scriptures the Fathers or Reason XIX And having thus vindicated this Reverend Antient from the Objections made against these five Books Adversus Haereses which k Cod. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 162. Photius as I understand him clears from any Heterodox Assertions since it is not of them but of his other Volumes and Epistles that that acute Critick says the exact truth of the Opinions of the Church is debas●d by spurious reasonings let us commit this Honourable Servant of God to his rest who now wears that white Robe which was washt in his own blood Omnium doctrinarum curiosissim●s explanator Tert. adv Valentin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theodoret 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 l. 1. Sect. de Menandro 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Id. praefat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Id. l. 1. in Carpocrate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Id. in Florino 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Id. l. 2. in Nazar non longè à temporibus Apostolorum Aug. contr Julian l. 1. c. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Photii cod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 161. Vide testim Eccles Lugdun apud Euseb l. 5. c. 4. Hier. in Catal. c. and it is my sorrow that none of the Antients have given him his due Character that I might have entertain'd my Reader with some of their raptures concerning him who is only here and there in the writings of the Fathers mention'd with respect and a short Character but what falls abundantly below his Merit He was beheaded for the Cause of Christ An. 20● says Baronius or as Doctor Cave thinks seven years after at the expedition of Severus into Britain a larger account of which Martyrdom I was incourag'd to expect when l Not. in Martyrol Rom. Jun. 28. Baronius told me it was extant in the Vatican Library till m Annal. To. 2. An. 205. p. 330. himself whether being mistaken in his first Assertion or forgetting it affirms that the Acts of his Passion are quite lost his Festival in the Latin Church being celebrated on the 28th of June in the Greek on the 23. of Aug. THE LIFE OF S. Clemens OF ALEXANDRIA I. THe name of St. Clemens from all the lovers of Learning sacred or prophane commands reverence and a submissive veneration who hath deserv'd to be stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the learned Montague somewhere stiles him The most accomplisht Historian and the acutest Scholar which the early ages of the Church could boast of in whom the genius of Pantaenus discover'd it self under whom he was bred at Alexandria where after a while he became a Catechist in that famous School and a Successor to his Master who was not the first who after the Apostles exercis'd that office there as Mr. H. Sect. 1. p. 80. affirms out of B. Rhenanus for therein that acute Scholar was mistaken but rather had many predecessors a Hist lib. 5. c. 10. Eusebius declaring that Pantaenus in the First year of the Emperor Commodus undertook this employ at Alexandria in which place by a very ancient custom there was a School open'd to teach the sacred Learning in i. e. the Creed the Decalogue and Lords Prayer were there explain'd says b Chronol lib. 3. an 196. Genebrard and which was continued to his time and managed by many an excellent person skill'd in all polite literature and eloquence and in the knowledge of the Scriptures which usage c Catal. v. Pantaen St. Hierome makes to commence from the first foundation of a Church there under St. Mark and that Mr. H. p. 81. confesses which how it can be reconciled with his former assertion I know not and it is probable that it was one of the Schools of the Philosophers that resided in that famous City or perchance a Jewish Synagogue whose owners being made Christians the School also was converted to this holy use for that ●t was a distinct place from the Church is evident from d vide Vales not in Euseb l. 6. c. 19 20. Lat. Eusebius as in truth it was sometimes undertook by those who not being of the Clergy Origens youth incapacitating him for Holy Orders were prohibited to do any Holy Offices in the Church So that Pantaenus doubtless had predecessors in this Office unless we take on us to contradict all antiquity or can think those words of e Cod. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 160. Photius capable to solve it who asserts that Pantaenus not only converst with those who heard the Apostles but was himself an Auditor of some of them for if so not certainly of St. Mark who died an 63. 'T is true f De Orig. templ l. 3. c. 5. p. 92. Hospinian says that some affirm the first erection of this School to have been an 150. But that Epocha also is thirty years before the time in which Eusebius makes Pantaenus the Catechist there II. However we may affirm that when so accomplisht a person read his Lectures there his Auditory was fuller his School better frequented and its fame farther spread than before so that its general reputation may be said to