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A36910	The Young-students-library containing extracts and abridgments of the most valuable books printed in England, and in the forreign journals, from the year sixty five, to this time : to which is added a new essay upon all sorts of learning ... / by the Athenian Society ; also, a large alphabetical table, comprehending the contents of this volume, and of all the Athenian Mercuries and supplements, etc., printed in the year 1691.	Dunton, John, 1659-1733.; Hove, Frederick Hendrick van, 1628?-1698.; Athenian Society (London, England)	1692 (1692)	Wing D2635; ESTC R35551	984,688	524

be modest sweet and moderate whereupon he much diaspproves the heat of most of the Controvertists and the false delicateness of some Divines who make capital errours of every thing and who as soon as they see any stumble or to swerve from their Opinion endeavour to make him be considered as an Enemy to Truth to the good of the State and the Salvation of Souls 4. He sheweth that order is the life of Books and that those who have no method have but confused Ideas of what they advance In the fourth Chapter he examines wherein consists the solidity of Writing In the 5th How clear it ought to be In the 6th He shews how briefness is acceptable and the difference there is betwixt Plagiaries Centons and those who make a judicious use of their learning In the 7th he treats of Reading in general and proves that it is so far from doing any injury to Divines that they cannot throughly understand the Sacred nor Ecclesiastical Authors if they are not well acquainted with profane Writers The 8th speaks of the choice of books and how to read them with advantage and the 9th of several famous Library-keepers and of divers Princes who favoured Learning II. The second Part treats in five Chapters 1. Of the hatred People have for books and of its principal causes sloath avarice 2. The love of novelty which makes us despise the labours of the Antients 3. The pride and foolish vanity of the Learned who contemn one another 4. The mutual envy they bear one another 5. In fine he endeavours to find the means to shelter Authors from the envy or hatred which may be conceived against their Works and speaks of the different destiny of books We have two other Treatises of our Author Otia Theologica Concionator Sacer. A Voyage to Dalmatia Greece and the Levant by Mr. Wheeler enrich'd with curious Medals and Figures of the chief Antiquities which are to be found in those Places The Description of the Customs Cities Rivers Sea-Ports and of all that is most remarkable therein Translated from the English Amsterdam for John Wolters Bookseller in 12. 607 p. T IS not above Ten or Twelve Years since the Celebrated Mr. Spon gave a very handsom Relation of this Voyage to the Levant with Mr. Wheeler Which hath receiv'd such applause from the Publick that there 's no reason to fear this will be less welcome For as Mr. Wheeler's Curiosity hath carry'd him to many more Subjects than the other has treated on so he likewise having made a longer abode in those Countries that he describes has much more enriched and diversifyed his History Whereas Mr. Spon engaged himself chiefly to the Observation of the Monuments of Antiquity and made it his particular Study It may be said of our Author that he forgot nothing that was considerable in any place he pass'd through of what nature soever With the exact Descriptions he hath given of the Principal Monuments he saw he has very agreeably added an Account of all the Plants of each place the Cities most of the Villages Mountains Plains Sea-Ports Rivers and all that he met with remarkable in his Voyage He carefully observed the Genius Manners and Religion of the Inhabitants the nature and price of the Commodities of the Country what Foreign Goods sell there to the best Advantage with the distance of the Ways and many other things of this nature As he opened that both the Old and New Geographers were deceiv'd in the Situation of divers places so he Marks what he thought the most agreeable to Truth He gave himself the trouble to draw out a new Map of Achaia incomparably more Correct than was ever seen before The whole Work is divided into two Books each of which is subdivided into three others The first contains 1. The History of our Authors Voyage from Venice to Constantinople 2. A Description of Constantinople the Neighbouring places and their Antiquities 3. The particulars of his Voyage through the Lesser Asia In the second Book is comprehended 1. The Voyage from Zant to Athens and through divers parts of Greece 2. The Description of Athens and it's Antiquities 3. Several Voyages from Athens to Corinth c. With an Account of whatsoever he saw remarkable therein Being at Venice that these two Illustrious Friends entred upon their Voyage together Mr. Wheeler thought he was oblig'd to begin his History with a short Description of the Original of this great Republick of it's Progress Losses and in fine the Estate it was in at 1675. when they were there The first considerable Place they visited in their course was Pola where they found divers Monuments of Antiquity which evidently shew'd it to be one of the Antientest Towns of Istria and that it was formerly a free State At one of the best places of Dalmatia which is the Chief City thereof call'd Zara they found nothing less considerable which place is more secured by the number and courage of the Morlaques the natural Inhabitants of the Country of whom the greatest part of the Garison are compos'd than by the goodness of it's Fortifications they having an irreconcilable hatred to the Turks But one of the most curious Pieces of Antiquity that this Country affords is the residue of a Palace that Dioclesian caus'd to be built near Salone which was the place of his Birth that he might pass the rest of his Life in this happy Retirement when he had renounced the Empire Those who have form'd an advantagious Idea of Ithica because it was the Country of Vlysses and the particular place of his Residence will be surpriz'd to hear our Author affirm it to be a pittiful little Isle that wou'd be a perfect Desert if a People they call Thiaki went not from time to time to cultivate it In this last is seen the Ruines of an Old Castle which the Thiaki pretend was formerly the Palace of Vlysses Samos that 's now known only under the Name of Cephalonia was the greatest Isle under the Command of this Prince For according to Mr. Wheeler 't is 60 Leagues in Circumference altho' Strabo allowed it to be but 300 Furlongs which makes not above 19 Leagues and Pliny but 22 Leagues Zant formerly call'd Zacynthos is nothing nigh so large since the utmost extent is but 15 Leagues 'T is very fruitful and nothing cou'd be added to make it more agreeable were it not for the Earthquakes which in the greatest part of the Spring are very often twice a week From this Island now comes the greatest part of those Raisins without Stones that they call Corants the Plant of which Fruit is not like our Gooseberrys as without reason has been an Opinion generally receiv'd but a Vine differing very little from the other sort of Raisins At the foot of one o' the Hills of this Island is a Fountain which to admiration casts forth with it's streams that are very bright and clear lumps of Pitch in Quantities so great

some that will have the Moderns far Excel the Antients in both They compare the Statue of Daphne and Apollo of Michael Angelo with the Grecian Venus now at Florence the Grand Duke having given above thirty thousand Pounds for it tho' by stealth got from Rome they tell you that the Venus of the Grecians has Admirable Proportion but 't is still Stone there is a stiffness which shews it still to be an Image without Life but the Daphne of Michael Angelo appears to be Flesh and Blood her Breast sinking under the Fingers of Apollo when he lays his Hand there These same Gentlemen will have it that our Moderns far Excel the Antients in Picture nay some have been so grosly ignorant as to pretend the Grecians were meer Blockheads to any of our Contemporary Artists much more to Raphael Urbin Titian Rubens c. That a House or Sign Painter with us Excell'd Apelles that drew the Mistress of Alexander and Alexander himself Tho' we can never be of their Opinion since we are sensible that 't is built on a wrong Bottom because the Paintings of Greece are lost they therefore conclude from a Daubing found in a Cave that they were such Bunglers which without doubt was rather the performance of some of the grosser and more ignorant Ages in the World when all Sciences were forgot and Europe drown'd in a general Darkness and Barbarity For tho' some alledge against the Testimony of Pliny because he took too much of his Natural History upon trust yet we can never admit that enough to invalidate his Account of things which requir'd no more than the Eye to judge of being things that he daily convers'd with in Rome which he abundantly declares when he tells us the Pictures he mentions were extant in his time in the Temples of that City The disadvantage the Antients have is that we have our Pieces still extant but theirs all lost Painting is an Art that is not to be learn'd by those Methods that other Arts are for Books will afford very little help The Directions of a Master and a timely beginning are absolutely necessary for if you once get an ill habit and a vicious way of Drawing 't will scarce ever be possible to recover it The most gainful Painting in this Nation is drawing to the Life which to be a Master in requires many years Practice As 't is said of Poetry Poet a nascitur non sit so I may in some measure say of Painting that he that will expect to be a Master must have a Genius naturally enclin'd to it else so near a kin 't is to Poetry he will be but an indifferent Man at it tho' with this difference that a Painter that is not extraordinary may live by his Trade and have his Pieces hung in the Company of the best yet Mediocribus esse poetis non dii non homines non concessêre Columnae But if a Gentleman has a mind for his Diversion to apply himself to Painting Landskips and Perspective are the most proper for him the first being to be learn'd in a years time to such a degree of Perfection if the Disciple have a Genius for Painting that he wou'd be able to live by it and by Consequence enough for any Gentlemans Diversion There are Books which Treat of Painting and Drawing one of the best of which is Sandersons we have formerly seen a Book under the Name of Michael Angelo on the same Subject There 's an Account of Painting lately publish'd in fol. Dedicated to their Majesties Mr. Writes Account of my Lord Castlemains Embassy to Rome Ars pictoria in fol. But instead of relying altogether on Books we refer you to the Choicest Catalogues of Picture you can meet with at Auctions which you may imitate Geometry THe Use of this admirable Science is so general and so well known that it scarce requires a Discussion of it here for who is ignorant that all our most Necessary as well as most Noble Arts and Sciences depend on it as to the First there is none of the Mechanicks can ever be brought to Perfection without it and so the second as Painting and Architecture c. take their Original from it What cou'd the Performers in the First do without it in drawing a Face the several postures of the Body and all manner of Buildings If they were ignorant of Proportion Angles Circles Squares c. all their Works wou'd want Beauty and themselves Satisfaction when they come to view the product of Fancy and Guess where Certainty is requir'd So in Architecture none can even merit the name of Master without more than an ordinary Skill in this Science Besides no Gentleman can be a Judge of the Performances of either without an Insight into Geometry What is said of these two will also reach Statuarists and other Carvers But to return to our Subject The Knowledge of a Point or a Line which is compos'd of a continu'd Chain of Points in its several Forms as Right and Curve to know a Superficies which is bounded by Lines as a Line is by Points the difference of Superficies viz. a plain Superficies that lies strait between its Lines and a curved one that lies not within two Lines besides the other Consideration of Superficies as a Convex and Concave To know the Quality of Angels as right obtuse and acute Angles of points that are the Bounds of Lines as Lines are of a Superficies and a Superficies of a Body of Circles Diameters Segments greater and lesser of four square Figures many square Figures Of Triangles their several Lines of Parallel Lines either Circular or Right or any other Form where the Lines are Equidistant Of Erecting and letting fall Perpendiculars of drawing parallel Lines of dividing Lines into two or more equal or unequal Parts Of cuting any Number of Parts from any Right Line given Of finding out all the Chords Lines of a Circle c. Of having the Segment of a Circle to find out the Center and consequently the whole adding several Circles into one Of Substracting lesser Circles out of greater in short all the Doctrine of Triangles too long to be here enumerated the Knowledge of all this I say is absolutely necessary in most if not all our Mechanicks A Joyner can't so much as cut out a Round Table unless he understand a Circle or a Carpenter square a piece of Timber unless he know by the Rule of square Figures when his Work is finish'd The Watch and Clock-makers wou'd be at a loss if it were not for this Science But if we ascend higher no Builder can raise a Fabrick without Geometry or rather not regularly design one the manual Operators in our common Buildings very seldom being Proficients in any Rule but that of Wood or Brass or Iron which serves them instead of Geometrical Problems but if you come to the Nobler Structures what can any man do to the making of Pillars Arches to omit the rest of the

Portal were raised 15 foot higher and reached to both sides a little more than four feet Above this was to be seen a Picture which represented Susan the Capital City of Media which the Jews had caused to be put there in remembrance of Esther and of the feast of Purim That was the reason why it was called the Gate of Susan tho it was likewise named the Royal Gate because King Solomon had built the Wall on that side One being ascended to this Gate if he turned himself from the side whence he was come part of the Mount of Olives was to be seen on the right hand separated from Ierusalem by a deep Valley called the Valley of Hinnom or of Tophet or of Ashes There it was that the Idolatrous Israelites used to Sacrifice by an abominable superstition their own Children to Moloch Right against the Gate was the Mount of Olives where the custom was to Sacrifice a Red Cow Thither Men went by a way sustain'd by a double Vault fearing lest the Priest who was to officiate in this Ceremony should pollute himself as he went not knowing it upon some hidden Grave On the Left appeared the same Mountain of Olives separated from the City on that side by the Brook and Valley of Cedron As for the Gate of Susan it was not just in the middle of the outward Circumference of the Holy Mountain because the Temple was not placed in the midst of the Top but towards the North else it could not have been opposite to the Temple which was built on that si●e because the place of the Altar which the Fire from Heaven had marked and which was on the North had obliged Solomon to frame thereupon the building of the House of God There were two Gates on the South part of this Wall which were called the Gates of Hulda People went by these two Gates to the City of Ierusalem At the West on the side of Millo and Mount Sion there were four whereof that which was most North was called the Gate of the Rising or of Coponius By reason of the inequality of the Ground and of the depth of the Valley which was at the foot of Moriah Solomon had caused the Ground to be raised from his Palace to this Gate and this rising was garnished with Trees on both sides 'T was that way the Kings went to the Temple The next Gate was called Parbar and the two others were named Assuppim Within these two Gates was a building of the same name where part of the Treasures of the Temple were kept On the North side there was but one only Gate named Tedi or Tadde On this side the Wall which environed the Holy Mountain was not quite on the verge of the Top as on the other sides there remained some space which had been neglected to the end that Holy Place should make a perfect Square At the corner of this space which looked to the North-east a Tower was built called Baris which at first was the Mansion of some High Priests and the place where were kept their Holy Garments but since Herod rebuilt it otherwise and nam'd it the Antonian Tower in remembrance of Marcus Antonius it served to the Roman Soldiers for a Citadel and he that was Governour of it was called the Captain of the Temple Act. 4.1 After this entrance by one of the Gates we mentioned above as by the Eastern Gate there were to be seen along the Wall on the right and on the left three ranks of Marble Pillars holding up a Cieling which could keep out the Rain and the Sun and furnish a covered Walk of 365 paces There were like Porches on the four sides only that which went along the Southern part of the circumference had four ranks of Pillars which formed three Alleys The Cieling of that of the middle was much higher than that of the sides which was equal in heighth to the Cielings of the three other Porches and this same Alley was proportionably larger than the others The Pagans and polluted persons were suffered to enter into these Porches and there to walk round about the Temple as well as in the inward space which these Pillars environed on all sides Within this space was a long Walk surrounded with a Wall full of holes so that light came through by which one might discover all that passed about the Temple This walk encompass'd the Court of the Women and the ascent to it was by some steps No Pagan was permitted to enter therein The Doctors of the Thalmud call it Chel 'T was this which the Jews in the time of Iosephus call'd the second Temple whenas they named the space enclosed within this little Wall which surrounded all the Holy Mountain The first Temple which the Christian Authors call The Court of the Gentiles From the Court of the Gentiles men went up into the second Temple by fourteen steps 'T is in this space and in the Northern part of the Court of the Gentiles where was Situate that which is called properly the Temple with its two Courts When they entred into the second Temple on the East side they might see before them the gate and wall of the Court of the Women from whence one might be distant seven or eight paces and walk covered on all the sides of the Temple Those that were minded to enter into the Court of the Women might go in by three sides to wit on the East on the North and on the South and were to ascend by three steps which were before each door That on the East was more magnificent than the others and 't was for this they called it the Fair Act. 3.2 This Court was also a perfect square of 200 steps or thereabout in length breadth and which on the West had the Court of Israel It was embellished with Porches within as was that which they called the Second Temple excepting the corners where were buildings destined for divers uses In coming in by the gate whereof we now spake on the right hand was seen The House for Wood whereinto was put the provision of Wood requisit for the Altar and where the Priests that were polluted by some accident separated that which was worm-eaten from the other for it was thought unlawfull to put worm-eaten Wood upon the Altar On the left hand was the House of the Nazarites a building where those that had accomplished their Vow of Nazaritism and would return to their Ancient manner of Life boiled the flesh that remained of their offering At the Corner which looked to the South-West was seen the House of Oil wherein the Oil was kept which they stood in need of for the use of the Temple Over against that at the opposite Corner which points to the North-West was the House of the Leprous where were kept enclosed those that presented themselves to be purified from the Leprosie Between these different buildings were four Gates opposite to one another there was an Entrance from

small Difficulty to found any thing thereon It seems the People sometimes stoned those that were accused without staying for any Sentence or Order of the Judges according to the Custom of the Romans Obruere ista solet manifestos poena nocentes Publica cum long as non habe● ira moras Whether it was so or no they observed no Formalities towards St. Stephen except the Witnesses according to the Law Deut. 17.7 The hands of the Witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death and afterwards the hands of all the People The Law most wisely established this That provided he that was put to Death was Innocent the Witnesses who were the cause of his Condemnation were only guilty of his Death since he was kill'd by them before the rest of the People cast any Stones against him Some say the Martyrdom of St. Stephen was three Years after the Death of Iesus Christ Eusebius supposed it to be a little afer his Ordination and the Excerpta Chronologica published by Scaliger places his Death at the end of the eighth Month after the Ascension of our Lord. Lucian the Presbyter saith St. Stephen was Stoned in the North of Ierusalem at the side of the Brook Cedron a little without the Gate that hath since been called the Gate of St. Stephen and formerly according to some the Gate of Ephraim after others the Gate of the Valley or the Gate of the Fish Some Travellers to the Holy-land tell us that they have seen the place where St. Paul kept the Garments of those that Stoned this Martyr The Empress Eudocia had formerly caused to be built near this place a Temple which bore the name of St. Stephen And as those who are curious after the Search of Relicks never fail to find what they please so they have discovered not only the place where St. Stephen was stoned but also the very Stone that he kneel'd upon which was afterwards carried to Mount Sion and placed in the Church that was built in Honor of the Apostles Baronius also relates That some devout Persons kept one of the Stones with which St. Stephen had been stoned and that it is still to be seen in the Treasury of Ancona I shall rehearse these things as Dr. Cave has done without refuting of them tho' he says enough to testifie he does not give Credit thereto He yet reports other Circumstanc●s drawn from Lucian's Epistle and from the Menology of the Greeks which I shall not repeat lest it should savour too much of the Legend and only relate what Lucian Presbyter of Caphargamala in the Diocess of Ierusalem saith that in the 415 th Year of our Saviour that Gamaliel formerly Lord of that City after being converted from the Jewish to the Christian Religion had revealed to him in a Vision that St. Stephen was buried there The Bishop of Ierusalem thus advertised by Lucian made these Relicks be taken up and carried to Mount Sion from whence they were sent to Constantinople as Nicephorus informs us who hath been very diligent to relate all Histories of this Nature With a great deal of Reason Dr. Cave observes that excessive Veneration to Relicks was one of the Defects of that time by consequence one cannot much confide in these sort of Histories He brings another out of Baronius not less Marvelous than the precedent 'T is thus that a Viol full of the Blood of St. Stephen brought to Naples by one Gaudois an African Bishop used to boyl of it self every third of August according to the account of Ancient time as if it had been just shed But since that Pope Gregory XIII having corrected the Calender this Blood doth the same at the end of the thirteenth of August in which day after the new Reformation the Feast of St. Stephen is kept a manifest Proof say they that the Gregorian Calender is received in Heaven altho' in some Countries Hereticks have refused to follow it The Author adds not so much Faith to Modern Miracles as to those who did them and to what is spoken of in the time of Honorius It seems not Irrational to believe that there was a great number of Sick Persons who were cured by the admirable Odour that proceeded from St. Stephen's Tomb the first time it was opened if we may give credit to Lucian and Photius But he relies more on what St. Augustine says in his City of God Liv. 22. c. 8. of Miracles done in a Chappel where some of St. Stephen's Relicks were kept carried from Ierusalem into Africa by Orosus Dr. Cave believes God might do Miracles then to convert the Heathens which were in great Numbers amongst the Christians in those days where altho' there was no necessity of them yet he could not tell what might be done The Author of the Logick of the Port-Royal speaking of the same Miracles maintains that all men of Sense whether they had Piety or not must acknowledge them as true But one of a good Understanding and Pious too could not well think that St. Augustine should suffer himself to be deceived in things of that nature and upon slight ground would take that for a Miracle which was not so or that he made use of them as proper means to convert the Heathens without examining whether they were Matter of Fact or not it is very certain that he relates them with great Assurance and at this day apparent Falshoods are advanced with no less Confidence Tho' this is not a place to examine the Miracles of St. Augustine 'T will be more to our purpose to pass to the Life of Iustin Martyr Who was born in a City of Samaria formerly called Sichem afterwards by the Inhabitants Mabarta and in fine by the Romans Neapolis and Flavia Cesarea because of a Colony sent thither by Vespasian His Father whose Name was Priscus brought him up in his own Religion and took a great deal of care to have him well instructed in Philosophy He engaged himself particularly to that of Plato which was a means as he himself has declared of his embracing Christianity Having conceived a dislike against the other Sects of Philosophers he becomes a perfect Platonist and from that a Christian after he had some Conference with an Old Man of that Persuasion in Palestine He gives an account of his Conversion in his Dialogue with Tryphon but the Learned receive this as a feigned History or at least look upon it to be extremely imbelish'd Dr. Cave believes it to have been about the 132 d Year after our Lord. Nevertheless he quitted not his Habit of Philosopher for amongst the Greeks they were not attired like other Men. St. Ierom says the same of Aristides an Athenian Philosopher and Origen of Heraclus who was since Bishop of Alexandria The common People generally wore a single Tunick without a Cloak those that were of a better Quality or Richer had always a Cloak besides which the Philosophers had also but no Tunick

Inspired him with resolutions to Re-establish the Faith of Nice had already ordered being at Thessalonica by an Edict of the 27 th of February that all his Subjects should Embrace concerning the Holy Trinity the Opinion that was espoused at Rome and Alexandria that those who should profess it should be named Catholicks and the rest Hereticks that the names of Churches should not be given to the latter and that they should be obnoxious to Civil Punishments as well as to Divine Vengeance Being at Constantinople and having observed the great Multitude of Heterodox whereof this City was full he Published an Edict more Severe the Tenth of Ianuary in the Year CCCLXXXI by which he Recalls all those that might have given any Liberty to Hereticks and takes from them all the Churches they had in the Cities commanding them to deliver them to those who followed the Faith of Nice He sent word after that to Demophilus an Arian Bishop to Subscribe to this Council or resolve to quit the Churches of Constantinople Demophilus without Ballanceing took the latter Party and advertised the People that the next day they should Assemble without the City And the Arians were thus Dispossessed of the Publick Churches which they had during Forty Years After this Theodosius was Accus'd of wanting Zeal and some would have had him employ'd Violence to have reduced the Arians as Gregory reports tho he disapproves of the Heat of those who found fault with the Conduct of Theodosius because of that and declares against those that pretend to force Consciences The Emperor having sent for Gregory received him with much Affection and told him he was going to put him in Possession of Constantinople For fear the People the greatest part whereof followed the Sentiments of Arius should rise Theodosius sent Soldiers to Seize the Church of St. Sophia and made Gregory to be Conducted by others through the midst of the People which Cryed on every side and was in as much Concern and Despair as if Constantinople had been Taken which cou'd not be an acceptable Spectacle to a Wise and Moderate Bishop Tho the Sun was Risen it was so full of Clouds that it might have been said it was Night But the Sun immediately appeared when Gregory went into the Churh This Circumstance deserved not to be taken notice of if our Bishop had not related it as some extraordinary thing after having said That although he is one of those who regards not such sort of Thoughts he believes notwithstanding it is better to add Faith to all than equally to refuse to believe what is said So soon as they were in the Church Gregory was demanded for Bishop by the Cry of all the People which was there which he made to cease in telling them by a Priest that they should give God Thanks and not to Cry He was threatned with no Danger except thaat one Man drew his Sword and immediately put it into the Scabbard But although the Arians had given up their Churches they never the less Murmured amongst themselves and were enraged for their being driven away Gregory believed with a great deal of reason that the Heterodox might be drawn by Mildness and used it more willingly than the Authority of the Emperor He complains of a parcel of unhappy young People who called Mildness Cowardice gave Fury the name of Courage and would have the Arians to be irritated and inflamed with Anger The Moderation of Gregory did not displease Theodosius who some times would send for him and make him eat at his Table Notwithstanding our Bishop would very seldom be at Court though others were continually there to gain the Favour of the Emperor or of his Officers and made use of the pretence of Piety to advance themselves and ruin their Enemies As he was Old and of a weak Constitution he was often Indisposed which his Enemies attributed to too great Tenderness Being one day in Bed a Man was sent to Assassinate him who touched with Repentance confessed to him at his Beds Feet that he was set on work to have committed this Crime and obtained Forgiveness As to the Revenues of the Church Gregory saith that finding no Account out neither in the Papers of those who had been before him Bishops of Constantinople nor amongst those who had the care of gathering them he would not meddle with them and took nothing on 't that he should not render an Account for the same Theodosius at that time called a Council at Constantinople either to Condemn divers Heresies or to Establish Gregory according to the Canons in the Episcopal See of that City But before we relate what passed therein as to what concerneth Gregory it 's necessary to say somewhat of the Speeches he made whilst he was at Constantinople and which remain yet amongst us Basil Bishop of Caesarea Dyed the First day of the Year CCCLXXX Gregory made a Speech in Honour of him some time after not being able to render his Friend this last Duty as soon as he would He praiseth the Ancestors of Basil who were Persons of Quality and moreover Christians from a long time He saith that during the Persecution of Maximinus some of the Ancestors of Basil being retired into a Forest of Pontus without any Provision and Arms to go to Hunt they prayed God to send them some Game or Venison which they saw in this Wood and that in the very Moment God sent them a great number of Deers and such as were of the Fattest who shewed they were troubled not to be called for sooner Gregory is Merry enough on this Subject according to the Custom of Pagan Orators who do the like in respect to the Pagan Fables That which there is of worst consequence in it is That this renders Suspicious the other Narrations of Gregory 2. Afterwards he makes an Abridgment of the Life of Basil and insists on each Place according to his Custom with much Exaggeration Figures and Moralities Speaking of the manner he himself had passed his Life he saith that he wishes His Affairs may prosper better for the future by the Intercessions of Basil. 3. The ways whereby in his time Men advanced in Ecclesiastical Charges were no more Canonical than the ways which are imployed this day upon that account if Gregory may be Believed After having said that in other Professions Men were advanced by degrees and according to the Capacity they had he assures us that the chief Places were attain'd as much through Crimes as Vertue and that the Episcopal Sees were not for those who were the most Worthy thereof but for the most Potent c. No body takes the name of Physician nor of Painter who hath not studied the nature of Maladies that hath not well mixed Colours and Painted many things but a Bishop is easily found not after his being formed with care but out of hand as the Fable hath feigned that the Giants