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A64646	A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Ussher.	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.	1643 (1643)	Wing U177; ESTC R27036	28,076	40

A Geographicall and Historicall DISQVISITION TOUCHING The ASIA properly so called The Lydian Asia which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament the Proconsular Asia and the Asian Diocese BY JAMES USSHER Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all IRELAND ACT. 19.10 All they which dwelt in ASIA heard the Word of the LORD JESUS both Jevves and Greekes 1 CORINTH. 16.19 The Churches of ASIA salute you REVEL. 1.4 JOHN to the seven Churches in ASIA Grace be unto you and peace OXFORD Printed by HENRY HALL 1643. To the READER FInding much perplexitie in the severall acceptions of the name of Asia even taken in the stricter sense for that which was but a Member of Asia the lesse for mine owne better satisfaction in reading as well of the new Testament as of other Ecclesiasticall and Civill Histories I endeavoured to try whether by a fit distinction of places and times some helpe might be found for the resolving of those difficulties VVhere I learned withall both how wide he should erre in matters of this kinde that would trust only to Ptolemies Tables without further consulting with the ancienter Historians and Geographers and what use might be made of the Imperiall Laws not only for the furtherance of Civill prudence but also for the bettering of our knowledge in other parts of good learning VVhich briefe Observations of mine now the second time revised enlarged and much amended the former Edition being but suddenly thought upon I here again present to the favourable view and submit to the riper judgement of the more intelligent Reader Et veniam pro laude peto laudatus abundè Non fastiditus si tibi Lector ero A DISQVISITION TOUCHING The ASIA properly so called the Lydian Asia the Proconsular Asia and the Asian Diocese CHAP. I. Of the Asia which by the Romanes was first properly so called and the severall members thereof AS the lesser Asia now called Natolia or Anatolia was a part of the great and Asia properly so called a part of that lesser so the Lydian Asia was a parcell of that Asia which was properly so called For the fuller understanding whereof we are to call to mind that the Romanes having possessed themselves of the Countreyes which had formerly belonged unto the Pergamen Kings reduced them into the forme of a Province which they called a by the name of the great Continent Asia This is by Cicero b distinguished into foure members Phrygia Mysia Caria and Lydia The first whereof is by Dionysius Afer c Strabo d Ptolemy and others divided into the greater and the lesser Phrygia Within the greater those two Phrygia's were comprehended which in after ages were knowne by the names of Pacatiana and Salutaris the former of which mentioned in the subscription added by the Greeke Church unto the former Epistle of S. Paul unto Timothy being the more Southerne part of the greater Phrygia is thought to have received that appellation from Pacatianus who in the dayes of Constantine the great bore the office of the e Prefect of the Praetorium of the East having not long before beene at the same time f both Consul and Prefect of the City of Constantinople and as it may seeme diverse yeares before that began his preferments here in the West with the * Lieutenantship of our Brittaine Of the latter there is mention made in a certaine g Constitution of Constantius the sonne of Constantine and in the Subscriptions both of the fourth generall Councell held at Chalcedon and of the fifth held at Constantinople in which last h Severus subscribeth as Bishop of Synnada the Metropolis of Phrygia Salutaris however i Socrates by some lapse of memory and k Nicephorus blindly following him have made this to be a City of Phrygia Pacatiana as in that of Chalcedon l Abercius as Bishop of Hierapolis a Citie of the same Phrygia Salutaris Where it may be noted first that besides that more knowne Hierapolis in Phrygia Pacatiana of which we shall have occasion to speake hereafter there was another of lesse note in Phrygia Salutaris the one whereof in m Pli●yes dayes before this new distinction of the parts of the greater Phrygia was brought in belonged to the Laodicean the other to the Pergamen jurisdiction Secondly that before this Abercius who was present at the Councell of Chalcedon there were two other Bishops of the same name who succeeded one another in the same See about the time of the Emperour Marcus Aurelius Antoninus whose Episcopall seat is by n Symeon Metaphrastes placed in that little Phrygia whereof Synnada was the Metropolis whereas the other Greekes more consonantly to the truth do relate that o Abercius was Bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia Salutaris For the greater Phrygia whereof this Salutaris was a part both by the forenamed Geographers and by p Diodorus Siculus and q Livy is opposed to that which lay upon the Hellespont and had in it the Cities of Ilium called by r Herodotus the Pergamus of Priamus upon the river Seamander and of Troas which is often mentioned in the s New Testament and by others named t Antigonia Alexandria and the u Alexandrian Troas from whence the whole Countrey retained the name of Troas aswell as the other appellations of x Epictetus the Hellespontian and the lesser Phrygia beginning northward y according to Homer from the river Aesepus or z according to Damastes from the city Parium not far from thence and according to both extending it self from thence along the water si●e Southward unto the Promontory Lectum Betwixt this lesser and the greater Phrygia was Mysia interposed the borders of each other being so confusedly intermingled together a that it was a very difficult matter to distinguish them And as the lesser Phrygia was called the Hellespontian and a difference thereby put betwixt it and the greater so this Mysia likewise being in the countrey although further removed from the Fretum or Strait of Hellespont had the like name of the Hellespontian Mysia given unto it thereby to discriminate it from the ●strian * Mysia or Moesia the Hellespontian Mysia and Phrygia joyntly making up that intire Province which in the division of the Empire made by Constantine because it was setled under the government of a b Consular President had the name of the c Consular Hellespont bestowed upon it Thus Galen having occasion to prescribe the use of Mysian Wine declareth that he meant thereby d not that which was from the Mysia about the river Ister but from that which is named the Hellespontian which saith he is about our Asia and conterminous unto Pergamus For that the greater Mysia reached Southward unto the Pergamen Territory and the plaine of Caïcus is by c Herodotus and f Strabo in like sort testifyed as it reached from thence Northward unto the

them giving unto his seat the title o of the Metropolis of the Pacatian Phrygians And although by a Canon of the said Councell of Chalcedon it was provided that any Bishop which afterward p would attempt to make such divisions to the derogation of the rights of his owne Metropolitan should be deprived of his dignitie and that q the new Metropoles formerly constituted by the Imperiall Charters should so content themselves with this honour that the proper rights should still be preserved unto that which was the Metropolis indeed yet we see for all this that r in the lists of the Bishopricks of the East made in the succeeding times there are still distinct suffragans reckoned under these two Metropolitans of Laodicea and Hierapolis and that diverse other private Bishops were not hereby restrained from aspiring unto a Metropoliticall dignitie among whom to speak onely of those who were within the compasse of the Lydian Asia was the Bishop of Smyrna who found the meanes to be made first {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or independent and then t a Metropolitan with u seven suffragans depending upon him x the Bishop of Pergamus who was exempted likewise from his subordination to Ephesus and made a Metropolitan by himself and the Bishop of Philadelphia s y who by Andronicus Palaeologus the elder was substituted into the place of the Bishop of Sardis and made Metropolitan of all Lydia So as of the Bishops of the seven Churches mentioned in the book of the Reuelation he of Thyatira only excepted all at the last became Metropolitans as they were at the first But among all these the See of Ephesus had evermore the preeminence And as it was the mother city of the Proconsular Asia so was that Asia likewise the prime Province of all the Asian Diocese and had in such esteem that the Proconsul thereof was exempted from the jurisdiction of the Praefectus Praetorio Orientis as before we have heard out of Eunapius unto which the Vicarius or Lieutenant of the Asian Diocese was subject Conformably whereunto in the Ecclesiasticall government the Bishop of Ephesus was not only held to be the Metropolitan of the Proconsular Asia but also the Primate of all the provinces that were contained within the compasse of the whole Asian Diocese Vpon which ground it was that among those Bishops which Palladius in the life of Chrysostom mentioneth to have beene ordained by Antoninus Bishop of Ephesus z some were of Lycia and Phrygia as well as others of Asia the ordination of these latter being challenged by vertue of his Metropoliticall of the others by his Patriarchicall jurisdiction In the Arabick Acts of the Councell of Nice which that worthy Knight Sr. Thomas Roe among other rare monuments brought with him from the East and bestowed upon the famous library of the University of Oxford it is affirmed that a the Patriarchship of Ephesus was translated unto the Bishop of Constantinople and that he was then made the second in order and the Patriarch of Alexandria the third and a Constitution is therein recited that the Patriarchall see should be translated from Ephesus to the Imperiall city that so honour might be done both to the Empire and Priesthood together and to the end the other Bishop might be honoured and not lightly set by because of the transferring of the Patriarchall chaire from him that he should enjoy the eminent title of Catholicus for proofe whereof the testimony of one Dionysius is there alledged But neither the authority of this obscure Dionysius nor of the latter Arabians following him is of sufficient weight to gaine credit to this relation especially seeing it is well known that the title of Catholicus taken in this sense b is of a very late originall and for ought we can find at no time attributed unto the Bishop of Ephesus and that the Bishop of Constantinople had the second place among the Patriarchs first assigned unto him not in the Councell of Nice but c in the second generall Councell held at Constantinople in the yeare CCCLXXXI After which advancement the first Bishop of that see we read of that extended his jurisdiction beyond the sea unto d the Pontican and Asian dioceses was John Chrysostome e who passing over unto Ephesus and holding there the foresaid Synod of the LXX Asian Bishops placed Heraclides in the Bishoprick of Ephesus then vacant by the death of Antoninus and deposing XIII Bishops who were charged to have been simoniacally ordained by him placed others in their roome And although within foure yeares after aswell Heraclides as the other thirteen Bishops of Chrysostoms ordination were removed againe and the former Bishops restored to their places yet it appeareth by the acknowledgement of the Pontican and Asian Bishops in the XVIth Action of the Councell of Chalcedon that his successors continued their claime and challenged still a right at leastwise in the ordination of the Metropolitans of both those Dioceses Which power of ordaining Metropolitans not only in the Thracian but also in the Pontican and Asian diocese being thereupon confirmed unto the Bishops of Constantinople by a f speciall act of that Councell beside g a liberty given to all clerkes that had any suit with their Metropolitan to prosecute the same either before the Primate of the Diocese or the Patriarch of Constantinople at their owne election gave occasion unto Euagrius to write that h the Councell of Chalcedon took away the Patriarchicall right from the Church of the Ephesians and that by Timothy of Alexandria the deadly enemy of that Councell it was restored thereunto againe After which time we see that the Bishop of Ephesus as Metropolitan of the Asian province subscribeth thus unto the Constantinopolitan Synod held under Menas i I Hypatius by the mercy of God Bishop of the Metropolis of the Ephesians of the Asian province have defined and subscribed and as Patriarch of the Asian diocese to the letters sent by the sixth Councell of Constantinople unto Pope Agatho thus k I Theodorus by the mercie of God Bishop of the Metropolis of the Ephesians and Primate of the Asian Diocese both for my self and the Synod that is under me have subscribed For although in the times of the latter Emperours also he still retained the title of Primate or l Exarch of all Asia yet all Asia did not import therein the whole Asian Diocese but the Asian Province only the exarchate of the Diocese having been wholly engrossed into the hands of the Patriarch of Constantinople Which is the cause why Balsamon noteth that m the priviledge heretofore granted unto Exarches by the Councell of Chalcedon was in his dayes of no force at all For although some of the Metropolitans saith he are named Exarches yet have they none of the other Metropolitans within the Dioceses any wayes subject unto them and n Iohn in a