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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

of boyling Oyl in which he had no harm Banished by Trajan the Emperor into the Isle of Patmos and there he wrote his Gospel being Releast in the Reign of Vertinax and in the 100 year of Christ as written by some return'd to Asia chiefly Residing at Ephesus his constant practise to his dying day being led to the Metting saying no more than Little Children Love one another he lived as some write to the Age of 120 years PHILIP Born at Bethsaida near the Sea of Tiberias Brought up in learning t is said he Preach'd Christ in Phrygia and the City Hierapolis many having reciev'd the Faith he was seized and carried to Prison was cruely Scourged and hanged by the Neck against a Pillar at which time as some write was a Terrible Earth-quake he was Buried at Hierapolis and his Daughters some say was Crucified at Paimimes BARTHOLOMEW Who some think to be Nathaniel of Cana in Galile Preach'd Christ unto the Indians Buried in Albania a City of Armenia the Great where he was Crucified with his head downward and slain alive and some wright that he was beheaded at the Commandment of Polemis King of India MATTHEW Otherwisé Levi Born at Nazareth a City of Zebulon the Son of Alpheus a Tax gartherer Preach'd Christ to the Ethiopians which is called Presbiter Iohn's Kingdom by Hurtychus's Command thrust through with a Sword he dyed at Hieropolis in Porthia and was Buried suppos'd to be 70 years of Age. THOMAS a Iew and Fisher-man as some write Preach'd Christ unto the Parthimans Medes and Persians and to the Caramans Hixcans Bartrians and Magicians he rested at Calamica a City in Iudea where the Heathen Priests as he was Praying a lone in a solitary place they coming upon him with a Dart called a Spear or Javelin Run him thorow SIMON ZELOTES Born at Cana in Galile Preach'd Christ throughout Mauritania and Africk the Less and Persia Egypt and Bretania where he was as some write Crucified and Buried JUDE And sometime called Thaddaus and Sebbaeus as some writ Brother of Iames Preach'd Christ in Iudaea Samarie throughout all Mesapotamia he was slain in the Time of Agbarus King of Edesse and buried MATTHIAS One of the 70 Disciples and Numbred among the 11 Apostles in Room of Iudas he Preach'd in Macedonia in Ethiopia about the Haven Hyssus and the River Phasis a Barbarous Nation and Ravonous of flesh he dyed at Sebastobilus nigh the Temple Stoned by the Iews at last beheaded with an Ax Anno 59 some say 64. MARK Of Iews Parents of the Tribe of Levi Preach'd Christ at Alexandria and all the Bordering Regions from Egypt unto Pentapolis in the Time of Tarmin he had a Cable Rope tyed about his Neck some write his Feet at Alexandria by which drawn from a place called Bucolus to the place called Angeles where he was Burned to ashes by the furious Idolaters in the month Pharmuthi with us call'd April on the 25th day LUKE The Evangelist Born at Antioch the chief City of Syria brought up in Learning Toyled with the Apostles Epiphanias writes that he Preach'd in Dalanatia Galatia and France and Italy and Macedonia Authours do not agree where he suffered Martyrdom but it is suppos'd at Ephesus he died and was Buried TIMOTHY Preach'd at Ephesus and Illyricum and throughout Hellas in Achaia where he died and was Buried Thus did these faithful Wittnesses finish their testimony and through their constancy and fidelity obtained not only a good Report but also a Crown immortal through faith in Christ Iesus to whom be glory and dominion for ever SOME PASSAGES OUT OF A LETTER WRIT TO A PERSON OF Quality Giving a True Relation in General Concerning the Heavenly Lives of the Primitive Christians SUCH was the Beginning and first Institution of the Christian Church that in it we find Men who voluntarily became little Children Children who in Wisdom exceeded Patriarchs Virgins who had the Prudence and Gravity of Matrons and Matrons endowed with Virgininal Modesty and Chastity Men of gray Hairs and old in Years but Children in Malice Pride and Ambition and it was hard to say which were the Old and which the Young Disciples for the younger sort strove to qual if not exceed the elder in Devotion Holiness was their Ornament and Men were counted Great as they arriv'd to high Degrees of Piety and the more Religious any Man was the greater Majesty and Respect he was thought worthy of The Light they came attended withall fill'd the World as the Sun doth the Universe which comes forth from its Eastern Conclave and presently diffuses and spreads its Light over all the surface of our Hemisphere So soon did the World feel the influence and operations of these new Stars and were focred to acknowledge their Divine Power and Virtue for they pressed through the C●…aos Mankind lay in as souls do pierce through Bodies and the Life Sense and Understanding they taught them was wholly new so different from what was in the World before that Men gaz'd at the Spectacle and lost themselves in Admiration What advantages the Soul can be supposed to give the Body the same did the first Christians afford to the benighted World and whatever inconveniences the Body puts the Soul to the same did the besotted World bring upon the first Christians for as the Soul tenders the Bodies welfare so did they the Worlds as the Soul directs the body to do things rational so did they the World as the Soul restrains the Body from doing mischief to it self so did they the World and as the Soul makes the Members of the Body Instruments of Righteousness so did they attempt to reform the deluded World into Holiness On the other side as the Body afflicteth the Soul so did the World persecute those first Christians as the Body makes the Soul live uneasie so did they incommode these excellent Men as the Body puts ill Constructions on the actions and admonitions of the Soul so the World did put the same on theirs and as the Body seems to long for nothing so much as the ruine of the Soul so the destruction of those Saints was the great thing the World then did aim at They were a Commonwealth made up of Great and Low of Rulers and Underlings of Governours and Subjects and yet nothing was more hard than to distinguish one from the other for what-ever the difference might be they esteemed one another epual and by their carriage one would have concluded that they had been all of the same degree and condition Their P●…stors and chief Men were more known by their Munificence and Good Deeds than by their Coats of Arms or Splendour of their Offices They seemed to be all of the same Kindred for the Aged they honoured as Fathers and the Youths they tendred as their Children Those of the same Age call'd one another Brethren and these were the names they gave one another and in these Titles they gloried more than men