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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

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

of this a litteral knowledge may in part be obtained of the Fruits Doctrines Principles and Practises of the Apostatized Christians after their degeneration of their Synods and Counsels and what they Decreed of the temptations and provocations which they had who retained their integrity both from the Heathen and from the false Christians and how sad and lamentable their conditions were that did not continue faithful which may serve for examples to such among you beloved as are inconstant and of a doubtful mind let them look upon Origen and hear what he saith in his lamentation after his fall and let them consider the Faith and patience of such as chuseth rather to die than they would swear or sacrifice renounce the faith or deny their Lord and Master and therefore were some torn in pieces of wild beasts some Crucified some beheaded some stoned to death some stifled some fryed or Rosted some burned to ashes some hanged some brained some had their eyes pulled out and the empty place seared with a hot Iron some were drowned in the Sea some fettered and famished to death in noysome Prisons and dungeons Oh the torments that they endured are hard to be uttered and that about the exercise of their Conscience and the worship of their God And truly I must tell you O beloved that I was constrained to lay those things before you that if peradventure they might in any wise tend to the Confirming and strengthening of the faith of some to the forewarning of others of shrinking in the time of tryal and to the strengthening of the hands of the weak and feeble against their Persecutors who also hereby may see what judgment and misery came upon sundry of their Persecuting fore-fathers so that in my judgment it may be of use not only to you who are persecuted but also to your oppressors and persecutors who now persist in their wickedness and impiety as if they should never come to judgment for the same well my dearly beloved be not you discomforted and cast down in your spirits because the wicked is set up and the ungodly prospers in his ways and the workers of iniquity they are counted happy yet it was not thus in the beginning neither shall it allways so continue for the Lord our God in his due time will strik the hook into the jaw of the Leviathan so that he shall be Restrained and the pure and upright in heart shall be delivered out of his paw and snare into the glorious liberty of the Children of God wherefore let none be afraid who are called to follow the lamb in this Notable day for I am perswaded that Tribulation nor Persecution Exilment nor Banishment Fire nor Sword things present nor things to come though all these do come shall not be able to seperate us from that love which we are made partakers of in Christ Jesus our Lord in whom I bid you farewel my dearly beloved A GENERAL EPISTLE FOR Young Schoollars and LITTLE CHILDREN Dear Children REmember Your Creator and the end wherefore you were Created now in the day of your Youth before you grow Old in Sin and take rooting in corrupt ground of Unighteousness incline your hearts to Holiness and to the Fear of the Lord that you may abound in wisdom and knowledge learn you to know a tender principle in your hearts to teach and instruct you to withhold and restrain you from Folly and Wantonness from frivolous or vain Gaming and Sporting your selves with idle Toyes and unprofitable Playes which do not only strengthen that which is thereunto addicted in your selves but doth toyle and weary your tender bodies And when you sit down at night some times hungry and often weary consider then what you have reaped by your Playes Sports and Pastimes have you not thereby some time provoked your Tutors to Wrath and Anger against you for neglecting of your Books and Learning have you not also offended and grieved your Parents by your neglect of your business and imployment And then you being sencible of your Fault and Transgression the shew of your Countenance that witnesseth against you and inwardly you are perplexed and terrified partly through fear of your Tutors and partly through fear of your Parents when through your Folly you have procured their Displeasure and then are you afraid of Chastisement now if for the time to come you would be freed from this fear do that which is good by being diligent and keeping in the fear of the Lord and then shall you obtain Praise and Commendation both of your Parents and Tutors Again O Children when you are together whether in Families Schools or else where be not Wild Rude Brutish nor provoke not one another to Folly and Wantonness but be Sober Gentle Meek and Civil and let the Fear of the Lord be before your eyes least you sall into Condemnation And you that are of a Mild Gentle and Tender Nature who seel something in your Hearts restraining you from the Evil which abounds among your fellows if you cannot get dominion over it while you are with them then separate your selves from them at convenient seasons and pertake not with them in their Wantonness in their Folly Plays Sports and Pastimes but rather betake your selves to your Books or in some retired place to wait upon the Lord And if they that be Wild and Wanton through their play and wantonness do get Recreation to their Bodies you through your stillness and waiting upon the Lord shall get Refreshment to their Souls in which you shall have joy and pleasure when they shall be ashamed of their folly and have trouble and sorrow for the same When I was A School boy I was for many years as much inclined to wantonness and play as my Fellows though sometime I was enticed and drawn by them into things which I knew then certainly to be evil and contrary to the tender principle of God in my Conscience yet rather than I would be behind them in their wonton childish follies and thereby have come to have been jeered and derided by them I chused rather at that time to run with them to the same excess of vanity though I knew for certain I ought not to have done it and when for the same I came to be corrected by my Tutor and judged of the Lord I was made to confess that it was just and that I had justly deserved the same Afterwards through the mercy and goodness of the Lord I came to be farther Illuminated or enlightned before I left the School And come to have a perfect sense of true judgment being set up in my heart And then I came to be filled with Sorrow and Heaviness for the loss of my mispent pretious time and the Sins of my Youth even while I was yet a youth were brought exceeding fresh into my remembrance and became in those daies my great burthen and withal in those daies my study and learning became also burthensome and not

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