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A40122	The arraignment of popery being a short collection, taken out of the chronicles, and other books, of the state of the church in the primitive times : also, the state of the Papists, and how long it was before the universal pope and mass was set up, and the time of bringing in all their rudiments and traditions, beads and images, purgatory, tythes and inquisitions : also, a relation of their cruelties they acted after the Pope got up, being worse then the heathen and Turk, New Rome having proved like Old : also, what the people of England worshipped before they were Christians : with several other things, which may be profitable for people to read over, where all that fear God may see, read, try, and give judgment by the spirit of truth : to which is added, The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church / by G.F. and E.H.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Hookes, Ellis, d. 1681.	1667 (1667)	Wing F1750A; ESTC R15884	93,976	138

Prince of the Priests or Highest Priest but only the Bishop of the chief See that is Seat A Council held at Hippo Decreed That Bishops and Priests should look well to their Children That the Head-Bishop of the Head See should not be called the chief Priest and that no Scripture should be read in the Church but Canonical that is such as they approved by exact Rule The Council held at Taurinum was for the Reformation of the Clergy which then was corrupted but now much more The Council of Malta condemned the Pelagians and D●●●● and concluded that Infants were to be baptized The Council of Agatha decreed that none should be made Prie●● before they were thirty years old and that the Clergy should 〈…〉 such attire as became their Profession with many other Con●●●tions The first and second Council held at Vasio decreed that in such Churches where Preachers were not the Deacons should read ●●milies A Council held at Carpentoracte decreed that the Bishop sh●●●● not poll the Parishes A Council held at Venice decreed that no Clergy-man should 〈◊〉 at Wedding-Dinners Dancing and hearing of wanton Sonnets 〈◊〉 vain Songs All the Bishops of Africk came together by the commandment of Hororicus the Arrian where his Heresie was confirmed and Four hundred forty four Bishops exiled or banished Anno 490 A Synod of Seventy Bishops were called together at Rome where the Canonical Scriptures were severed from such as rhey counted Apocrypha A Synod met at Epaunis decreed that no Clergy-man should either Hunt or Hawk and that throughout the Province such Divine Service at the Metropolitan or chief City liked of should be retained Euseb Note the Apostles decreed no such things as this that we read of 〈◊〉 Scripture A Council held at Aurelia decreed that Lent should be solemnly kept before Easter the Rogation with the Ember-Dayes about the Ascention A Council held in Gerundia in Spain decreed that every Province should observe one Order of Divine Service that Baptism should be Ministred only at Easter and Whitsuntide and at other times is necessity so required and that the Lords Prayer should be said at Evening and Morning-Prayer Euseb A Council held at Caesar Augusta accursed such as received the Sacrament and eat it not in the Church A General Council was held at Constantinople which decreed that Mary should be called the Mother of God The First and Second Synods were called at Lyons for the removing of Schism raised in the Church Six Synods were held at Rome touching the Election of a Bishop and the Preservation of Church-Goods CHAP. V. Concerning the state and condition of the Church as it was before there was a Vniversal Pope Also what Decrees and Institutions were made by Bishops for the first six hundred years after Christ and how the Apostacy begun to overspread the Church NOvatius a Priest of Rome two hundred fifty four years after Christ abhorred second Marriage he was condemned as an Heretick at a Synod held at Rome the same year Eus●b lib. 6. cap. 48. Apostalici were Hereticks in Pisidia who two hundred and fifty five years after Christ condemned Marriage and said the Apostles were unmarried men Which is a lye for several of the Apostles were married men Aug. lib. de Haeres Ephip Haer. 61. Originiani were Hereticks Anno 273 they prohibited Marriage but committed Fornications and all uncleanness and filthiness and rejected some Books of the Old and New-testament which made against them Ephip Haeres 63. About three hundred and ten years after Christ one Lucina a holy Maid of Rome dying made Ma●cellus Bishop of Rome her heir and gave him all her great Substance From that time forth saith Pollidore Lib. 6. the Bishops of Rome were greatly enr●ched and then came to be pust up in pride Which riches the Apostles denyed Pol. lib. de Invent. cap. ult In the year three hundred and ten Macarius was Bishop of Jerusalem he was the means with Helena that the Cross of Christ was found So there was no Cross before among the Apostles Socrat. lib. 1. cap. 6.9 In the year 308 Dioclesian the Empetor of Rome was so puffed up with pride that he would needs be worshipped as God saying 〈◊〉 brother to the Sun and Moon and adorned his shoes with 〈◊〉 and precious stones he commanded the people to kiss his 〈◊〉 which practice the Popes afterwards followed And this E●●●●●● caused the Christians to be persecuted in the Tenth Persecution Euseb lib. 7. c. 29. lib. 8. c. 2 3 14 19. Soc. lib. 1. c. 2. In Three hundred and eighty years after Christ the Name Catholick beginneth being instituted by Damacius a Bishop of Rome In the year 391 Set-hours to Prayers instituted by St. Jerome In the year 394 in Bishop Ciricius time the word Mass●● was brought first into the Church In the year 398 Anastatius Bishop of Rome decreed That men should stand up at hearing the Gospel read In the year 412 Cirilius succeeded Theophilus in the See of Alexd●ia and withall he challenged to himself more Authority than ever any other Bishop before him From that time forth he took to himself also the Government of Temporal Matters and banished all the Jews And this Bishop went contrary to Christs command which saith You are Brethren Foelix Bishop of Rome appointed the Feast of Michael the Arch-Angel called Michaelmas In the year 528 Justinian instituted swearing by the Gospel Hore swearing came in In the year 533 Agapetus Bishop of Rome first commanded the people to go a Procellioning and to follow the Cross Plat. Polid. Deborus c. This is contrary to Christ and the Apostles Philosophy was not taught in Christian Schools before nor in the time of Justinian the Emperor who began to reign in the year of Christ 527. Part. 2. Chap. 26. Pag. 89 90. In the year 560 Gregory Bishop of Rome commanded That neither flesh nor any thing that hath affinity with flesh as Cheese Butter Milk Eggs c. should be eaten on such dayes as are appointed to be fasted on In the year 569 King Conwall had alwayes a silver Cross carried before him and caused Crosses to be first set upon every Steeple in England In the year 578 Pelag●us Bishop of Rome decreed That Sub. Deacons should either leave their Wives or else their Offices All this is contrary to the Apostles In the year 590 Gregory Bishop of Rome approved and allowed the Feast of Trin●ty Gulielm Durand In the same year he set up Prayers for Saints Sacrifices for the Dead and Purgatory in the Church In the year 595 a certain wicked woman an Emperess requested of Theodore Bishop of Rome that Images might be set up in their Churches and it was agreed that it should be by the said Theodore and his ●ouncil This is contrary to the Primitive Church In the year 600 Benedictus was the first Founder of the Order commonly called St. Benedicts He presumed to invent new wayes which all the godly Fathers

who received the Office of the Priesthood had a command to take tythes according to the Law of the Brethren but not of the Gentiles But we must tell you Christ is come in the flesh who is offered up once for all their Offerings and ends all the Jews Offerings the Heave-Offerings and Shake-Offerings and tythes as well as other Offerings and Christ came not after the Order of Aaron which Levi came of that had the tythes but after the Order of Melchisedeck without Father or Mother beginning of dayes or end of life who has ended the Levitical Priesthood and changed the Law by which it was made and disannulled the commandment that gave him his tythes Heb. 7. And now if you say you take tythes as you are the Successors of the Apostles I say that Christ gave no command to his Apostles to take tythes but on the contrary said Freely you have received freely give And also if you say you receive tythe from the Martyrs being their Successors I answer they denyed the Papists and their Idolatrous wayes and their Maintenance by tythes and therefore they hu●ned them to ashes Now who are you like Papists or the Jews not like the Disciples or the Martyrs No use of tythes occurres nor can be proved to be in use till about the end of three hundred years after Christ● but the Church-maintenance in that time was the free benevolence and contribution of the people as Tertullian Origen and Cyprian do testifie and in the next three hundred years Heathenism and Paganism did totally overspread this Land until about the year six hundred when Gregory the Great 〈…〉 Augustin the Monk into England assisted with forty Preachers to convert the Saxons from Paganism to Popery which was in the time of Ethelbert King of Kent who was the first called a Christian King who being turned to the Profession of the Christian Religion was afterwards an Instrument for the conversion of his Nation the Saxons This Ethelbers is reported to have been very bountiful to the said Augustin the Monk and gave him the Lordship of his chief City Cante●bury but that he gave him any tythes or ever commanded tythes to be paid to him or to any other or made any Law for payment of tythes it doth not appear by any History Christians at the first gave tythes upon no other account then they did Alms as Austin said which was divided by the Bishop part to the Priest and part to the poor and these things which at first were voluntarily given through custom and usage hath at last become inforceable and Laws and Decrees made to compel them to another use then they were at first given Gratian. Cans p. 16. r. c. Decinuce Selden in his History of tythes saith that before the year Eight hundred or thereabouts there is not any General Law that yet remains in publick and is of credit which ordained any payment of tythes or tenths in the Western churches for in the Eastern said he I never ready any Law that mention'd them p. 67. And in the Council of Lateran in the year one thousand two hundred and fifteen a Relation is of some Nations who although Christians did not by their own Rights and Customs pay Tythes These are abserved by Innocent the fourth to have been Greeks Armenians and the like And Antonius expresly remembers the general non-payment of them in the Eastern Churches Summa Part 3. Ti● 4. It is further observable that of old Tythes nor Offerings were not paid to the Priests But to the Bishop or his Deputy who was Steward to distribute them to the Presbyters and poor the Curates or Presbyters in City and Country were such as the Bishop appointed to have cure of souls and where they kept their cure the offerings of devout Christians were received and disposed of in maintenance of the Clergy and relief of the poor by the Steward 's thereunto appointed called Oeconoms or Deacons And all that was received in the Dioces● o● Parish was put in a common Treasury to be dispensed one p●r● was for the maintenance of those that took care of peoples souls and mother part for the releif of the poor and sick and strangers S●ld●n 〈◊〉 6. pag. 80.81 The B●hemians being descended from the Waldenses did profess that all Priests ought to be poor and to be content with alms only so saith Enias Silvius as it is cited by Bishop Usher De Chr. Ecc. Succes Chap. 6. Page 155. And Wickliff in his Complaint to the Parliament in Richard the seconds time he saith Ah Lord God! where this be reason to constrain the people to find a worldly Priest sometimes unable both of life and cunning in pomp and pride covetous and envy gluttonness and drunkenness with fat Horse and jolly and gay Sad●les and Bridles ringing by the way and their Neighbours perish for hunger cold and other mischiefs of the world Ah Lord Jesus Christ sith which in few years men paid their Tythes and Offering at their own free-will to good men and able to great Worship of God to profit and fairness of holy Church fighting on Earth why it were lawful and needful that a worldly Priest should destroy this holy and approved custom constraining men to leave this freedom turning Tythes and Offerings into wicked uses And one of the Articles of John Wick liff for which he was censured was That Tythes are pure Alms and that the Parishioners may for the use of their Curates detain and keep them back and bestow them upon others at their own will and pleasures Acts and Mon. p. 435. And the Proposition aforesaid is largely defended by John Hus in the said Book of Martyrs p. 461. and in the conclusion of the Dicourse it is affirmed That the Clergy are not Lords and Possessors of Tythes or other Ecclesiastical Goods but only Stewards and after the necessity of the Clergy is once satisfied they ought to be given to the poor The Examination of William Thorpe Martyr in the days of King Henry the Fourth Anno Dom. 1407 concerning Tythes and the Maintenance of a Gospel-Ministry See Acts and Mon. pag. 536 537. And the Arch-Bishop then spake to me angerly What saist thou to this fourth point that is certified against thee preaching whenly and bodily in Shrewsberry that Priests have no Title to Tythes● Thorpe said I named there no word of Tythes in my preaching but more then a month after that I was arrested and in prison a man came to me asking me what I said of Tythes I said in this Town are many Clerks and Priests of which some are called Religions men though many of them be Secular therefore ask ye of them this Question And this man said to me Sir our Prelates say That we also are obliged to pay our Tythes of all things that accrue to us and that they are accursed that withdraw any part wittingly from them of their Tythes Tho●pe ●aid I wonder that any Priest dare say men to

and against Invocation of Saints Epist ad Adelph against their Seven Sacraments against Images and against the Supremacy of the Bishop of Rome and many other things Orat. 2. Contr. Arian Epist ad●e it F●om the Year Three hundred and fifty to Four hundred In the Year Three hudred fifty one Liberius Bishop of Rome was banished by Constantius the A●rian Emperor In the Year Three hundred fifty four the same Liberius made a Law That no Priest should forsake his Cure for any Persecution or Trouble though Death should ensue This was before there was a Pope but since they will change any way for to save their Benefices as their practises have manifested turning from Popery to Protestantism and after to Popery again Flavius against whom Damatius Syricius and Anastatius Bishops of Rome were mighty Opposites who mis-informed the Emperor Theodosius against him before whom when Flavius appeared he said O Emperor if the Disputation be only concerning Principality and Eminent Places I will not contend with any man but deny my self of all Superiority and commit the Charge of Antioch to whom ye like best Theod. Lib. 5. Chap. 23. Cyrillius was an Enemy to the Pomp of the Clergy and had more regard to feed the poor and to preach the word then to the outward garnishing the Churches Zozomen Lib. 5. Chap. 25. Nictarius Bishop of Constantinople in his time Auricular Confession was abrogated in Constantinople upon occasion of Adultery committed between a Penitentiary and a Woman confessing her sins to him Socrat. Lib. 5. Chap. 19. Letotius Bishop of Meletina in Armenia was a great Opposer of Monkish Profession whose Society he called a Den of Thieves Theod. lib. 14. cap. 11. Gregory the first restored Marriages again to the Priests which before had been denied and when they would have made him Universal Bishop he denyed the Title alledging it was a proud Name From the Year Four hundred to the Year Four hundred and fifty● Accatius was Bishop of Constantinople Seventeen Years in 〈◊〉 time the Roman Church contended for Superiority This Accat●●● resisted the same and little regarding the pride of the Roman B●●shop excommunicated Foelix and razed his Name out of th● Roll of Bishops Histor Magd. Cent. 5. chap. 10. Note at this time there was no universal Pope at Rome for the Bishop of Rome was excommunicated Hillarius Bishop of Arles opposed Leo Bishop of Rome and denied Superiority over other Churches and went to Rome and withstood the Bishop of Rome to his face Leo. ad Gal. Episc Epist 77 89. From the Year Four hundred to the Year Four hundred and fifty John called Tabenesiota Bishop of Alexandria he kept the true Faith and was bamshed by Anastatius because he would not damn the Council of Chalsedon Magd. Cent. 6. From the Year six hundred about which time the Pope got up to the Year Six hundred and fifty Mellitus Brockmaile and about Eleven hundred men more were miserably slain because they withstood the proceedings of Austine the Monk who from the Pope was sent over into England ●iticus 20. Martyrology page 107. Serenus Bishop of Marce●les in France opposed the bringing in of Images and brake down all the Images where he had power Alphons 2. Imag. The whole Gre●k Church complained of Phocas when first he gave the Supremacy to Boniface Plat. Bonifac. 3. Gregory a Bishop concested against the Supremacy of the Pope taxing the desire thereof as a Character of Antichrist Greg. Epist 32 34 38 39. About the Year Eight hundred Albertus Ballus a Bishop in France was excommunicated by Pope Zachery because he held divers things contrary to the Romish Superstitions Hist Magd. Cent. 8. cap. 10. Lotha ius Emperor of Germany about this time reduced the Pope to the obedience of the Empire and sent some of his Clergy to dispute with the Pope who confuted him And here the Papists are proved lyars who say the Pope is Infallible Anaestus vit Pont. in Se●g 2. The Waldenses so called from one Waldens a man of great substance in the City of Lyons in France who about the Year One thousand one hundred and sixty taking occasion by the sudden death of one with whom he was walking began with a careful study to reform his life and to this end studied the Scriptures diligently and taught amongst people the Word and some thousands in a short space joyned with him who were dispersed abroad into divers parts of the world These Waldenses were miserably persecuted by the Pope and his Faction See the History of the Waldenses Raymond Earl of Tholouse for taking part with them was wrongfully vexed and dis-inherited by the Pope Mat. Paris The Religion of the WALDENSES They held That the Pope is not greater then another Bishop and that there was no Purgatory That it was in vain to pray for the dead That the Masses for the dead are the Inventions of the coverous Priests That Images hallowing of Water and other Creatures are superstitions They contemned the Masse and all that appertained to it They misliked the distinction of Days and Meats they defended the reading of the Scripture by the Laity Naur vel 2. pag. 900. Evarardus Invanensis a Bishop in Germany spake thus of the Pope about the Year One thousand two hundred in an Assembly of Bishops at Regensburg He under the colour of Religion layeth the foundation of the Kingdom of Antichrist These Priests of Babylon will reign alone they can endure no equal They will never rest until they have trampled all things under their feet He sitteth in the Temple of God and is exalted above all that is worshipped in whose fore-head is written the Name of Blasphemy I am a God and cannot erre CHAP. II. A Brief Relation how the ancient Christians were no Persecutors in the beginning but sussered by the Heathen for the first Three hundred years after Christ The First Persecution NEro was said to be the first Tyrannical Emperor that persecuted the Christians it was called the First Persecution because it was under the Emperors Power and it begun in the Year Sixty six after Christ and at that time was chiesly within the City of Rome In the latter end of his Reign Paul was put to death for the Testimony of the Faith of Christ in the year Sixty nine Act. Mon. The Second Persecution In the year Ninety three did the Second Persecution begin under the Emperor Domitianus under whom several Christians were put to death and about the same time was the Apostle John banished into the Isle of Pathmos where he wrote his Revelation In those dayes the Christians were so little esteemed that the people called them Coblers Weavers Combers of Wool illiterate and exceeding Rustick and Clownish yea such as knew no good fashions Origen lib. 30. ad Cels The Third Persecution In the Year One hundred and two did the Third Persecution begin under the Emperor Trajanus who though he was called 〈◊〉 good Emperor did nevertheless

of the coming and suffering of Christ he was of Jerusalem where he also lost his life being most cruelly sawed asunder in the Reign of King Manasses and when his breath near failed him he called for a little water to drink which was given to him out of the Brook therefore is the place called Siloam as much as to say Sent. Joel prophesied of Christ and that God would pour out of his Spirit upon all flesh and his Sons and Daughters should prophesie He dwelt near unto the City Bethomeron in Rubim where he dyed and was buried in peace Jonas the Prophet shewed the Mystery of Christ and his resurrection being three days and three nights in the belly of the whale who cast up Jonas uncorrupted Even so the Son of man was three dayes and nights in the bowels of the Earth uncorrupted and rose again Jonas was of Cariathmaus nigh Azotus on the Sea-coast towards the Gentiles But he went out of the Land because 〈…〉 Infamy that was come upon him by prophesying against he dyed and God raised him to life again by Elias then he went into the Land of Judah and there dyed and was buried in the Cave Cenzenm Baruch lived in the time of Jeremy and was his Scribe He wrote from Jeremy his mouth and he read the Book to Joacim the Son of Josia King of Judah and after he had read it to him he was fain to flye and hide himself And when Jeremy went down into Egypt he wrote that Book that beareth his Name which was sent from thence to Jerusalem to be read in the Temple V●ias was of Cariathjarim the Son of Semei he prophesied against Jerusalem and the whole La●d of Judah as Jeremiah did and Joachim King of Judah sought to kill him but he fled into Egypt from whence the King sent for him and killed him with the Sword and laid his body where the common sort of people were buried Aggaus prophesied of Christ in the time of Zorababel he being a young man came from Babylon to Jerusalem and prophesied of the return of the people and of the building the Temple and he saw it built again He dyed and was buried nigh the Sepulchres of the Priests Zacharias prophesied of Christs coming and riding upon the Foal of an Asse and of Christs wounds in the house of his own Friends He being very aged came out of Chalde to Jerusalem where he executed the Priestly Function He blessed Salathiel his Son and called his Name Zorababel The Land where he lieth is called Betharia from Jerusalem One hundred and fifty Furlongs Malachi prophesied of Christ he saith From the rising of the Sun unto the going down of the same my Name shall be great among the Gentiles and in every place they shall offer a pure offering to my Name and the Son of righteousness shall a●ise with healing in his wings He was born after the return of the people out of Babylon He dyed very young in the prime of his years and was laid with his Fathers in his own field Before the Birth of Christ Four hundred and twelve years John Baptist the Son of Zachary and Elizabeth was of the Tribe of Levi he was the greatest Prophet born of a woman he 〈…〉 the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world He was beheaded of Herod the Tyrant And these Prophets shewed how that all Nations are blessed in the Seed of Abraham and so the Seed of Abraham to be the Saviour of the world Now when the Lord would take up Elija into Heaven by a Whirlwind Elija went to Gilgal and from thence the Lord sent him to Bethel and from thence to Jericho and the Lord sent him to Jordan and he went over Jordan for is a River dan is Judgment and so he went over and through the River of Judgment and then he was taken up into Heaven by the Lord in a Chariot of Fire And the Lord commanded Abraham to go out of his Native Country and his Father's House which was in Caldea and he departed from Haran and passed through Sechem and Moreia and went to Canaan and at Bethel he built an Altar Bethel which signifies the House of God and then he went into Egypt which is anguish and tribulation How to resist the Devil WHen Christ had fasted forty days and forty nights the Devil came to him and tempted him when he was hungry to make the stones bread but Christ said to him Man doth not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God that is it on which whomsoever liveth that is able to resist the Devil the Word of God dwelling in the heart by which Christ spake is that which gives power to resist the Devil which word refresheth those that dwell in the Counsel of God and not bread only Then the Devil tempted Christ to destroy himself under a pretence that the Angels had charge over him and this the Devil in presumption would have had Christ to try whether he had been the Stu● of God But Christ answered him It was written 〈…〉 not tempt the Lord his God And when the Devil could not prevall with him in these things then he tempted him with the glory of the world and took Christ into an exceeding high Mountain and shewed him all the Kingdoms of the world and the glory of them and said to him All these things will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me But Christ said Get thee behind me Satan for it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve Then the Devil left him when he saw there was no room for him there was nothing of him in Christ therefore his temptations could not prevail for where the Word of God rules in the heart the Devil hath no power Therefore every one live in the Power of God that you may be able to resist the Devil The Form of Christs Words when he did MIRCLES CHrist said Daughter thy Faith hath made thee whole go in peace and be whole of thy Plague and he said to the dead Maiden Arise And he said Come out of the man thou untlean spiris And he said Son thy sins are forgiven thee arise take up thy bed and walk And he rebuked the unclean spirit saying Come out of him hold thy peace and he took her by the hand and lift her up He said to the blind man Co thy way thy faith hath saved thee Jesus put forth his hand saying I will be thou clean And said to the woman Great is thy faith be it unto thee as thou desireth He said co d●●● blind man Receive thy sight thy faith hath saved thee And to another Go thy way thy Son liveth Jesus said As long as I am in the world I am the light of the world And as soon as be had spo●●pus be spit on the ground and made Clay of the spittle and ann●●● the

withered Fig-tree and that night he supped in Bethania in the House of Simon the Leaper and two dayes after was the Feast of Passeover The twenty third day Judas covenanted to betray Christ The twenty fourth day in the Evening Christ celebrated the Jews Passeover and afterwards his own called the Lord's Supper He washed his Disciples feer He went to Mount Oliver he prayeth and sweateth drops of blood He is taken and brought to Caiphat Peter denied him Pilate delivered him to the Jews to crucifie him He was Thirty three years of age and somewhat more when he suffered for the Salvation of Mankind Who rose from the dead the third day and then shewed himself first to Mary Magaalen and then to two other women and afterwards to his Apostles and Disciples when the doon were shut and after that to more then Five hundred Brethren And he appeared to Thomas and shewed himself at the Sea of Tiberius and afterwards he ascended into Heaven and he sent the holy Ghost upon his Apostles ABEL was murthered by Cain in the false Religion Noah was hated and mocked by the old ungodly world Abraham was persecuted because he would not joyn to h●s Fathers Countrys Religion and was commanded of God to forsake it Isaac was persecuted and hated by Ishmael Jacob was hated and persecuted by Esau a prophane man And Nimrod was a Tyrant to the Righteous And the Children of Israel were persecuted and oppressed by Pharoah the false Worshipper And Elias was persecuted by Iezzabel which followed false gods And the Prophet was threatned by Jeroboam Zachary was stoned to death Micha was thrown down and his neck broken The three Children were thrown into the Fiery Furnace but the Fire did them no harm and this was because they would not yeeld to the Kings Worship Baruch was fain to flye away to save his life from King Joachas hands The Prophet Vrias was flain wsth the Sword by King Joachim John Baptist was beheaded by Herod the Tetrach The Preaching and Sufferings of the Apostles SImon Peter preached Christ in Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Bithinia and in the end at Rome where he was crucified under Nero with his head downward and there was buried Andrew Simon Peter's Brother preached Christ to the Scythians Sogdians Sacians and in the middle Sebastopolis inhabited of wild Ethiopians He was crucified by Egeas King of the Edesseans and buried at Patris a City in Achaia James the Son of Zebedee a Fisherman he preached Christ unto the twelve Tribes he was slain with the Sword by Herod the Tetrack of the Jews in Judea where he was also buried John the Brother of James preached Christ in Asia the Emperor Trajan banished him into the Isle of Patmos and there be wrote his Gospel he was thrown at Rome into a Tun of hot boyling Oyl and took no harm but came forth Philip of the City Bethsaida preached Christ in Ph●ygia he was buried at Hierapolis and his daughters they say he was crucified at Painnims Bartholomew preached Christ unto the Indians he was buried in Albania a City of Armenia the Great and they say he was beaten to death with a Club And some say that he was crucified with his head downwards and that he was flean alive and some that he was beheaded at the Commandment of Polemis King of India Thomas preached Christ unto the Parthinians Medes and Persians and to the Ca●amans Hivcans Bactrians and Magicians he rested at Calamina a City in India being slain with a Dart which they call a Spear of Javelin and they say that an Idol-Priest run him thorow Matthew preached Christ in Ethiopia which is called the Kingdom of Presbiter John but Hurtychus commanded him to be thrust thorow with a Sword he dyed at Hie●opolis in Porthia and was buried Simon Zelotes preached Christ throughout Mauritania and Africk the less at length was crucified at B●etania slain and buried and he preached in Persia and Egypt Judas the Brother of James preached unto the Edesseans and throughout all Mesapotamia he was slain in the time of Agbarus King of Edesse and was buried Matthias one of the Seventy Disciples was numbred among the eleven Apostles in the room of Judas he preached in Ethiopia about the Haven Hyssus and the River Ph●sis unto the batha●●● Nations and ravenous of flesh and he dyed at S●b 〈◊〉 nigh the Temple the Jews stoned him and at last of all he was beheaded with an Ax after the Romans manner He preached first in Macedonia Paul preached Christ in Jerusalem and Illyricum Italy Spain he was beheaded at Rome under Nero and so dyed and there lieth buried with Peter Mark preached Christ at Alexandria and all the bordering Regions from Egypt unto Pentapolis in the time of Tramin he had a Cable-rope tyed about his neck at Alexandria by which he was drawn from the place called Bucolus to the place called Angeles where he was burned to Ashes by the furious Idolaters in the Month called ●pril Luke the Evangelist of the City of Antioch he accompanied the Apostles in their travels he dyed at Ephesus where he was buried James the Brother of the Lord after the flesh called Justus he preached at Jerusalem the Jews stoned him to death and buried h●m there in the Temple near the Altar T●mothy preached at Ephesus and Illyricum and throughout Hellas in Achaia where he dyed and was buried Titus preached Christ in Creet and in all the Country about he dyed and was buried P●●chus one of the seven Deacons was Minister of Nicomedia a City in Bithinia Barnabas preached Christ with Paul at Rome Annanias which baptized Paul preached at Damascus Stephen one of the seven Deacons was stoned at Jerusalem by the Jews for preaching Christ and denying the Temple and the Shadows and they stoned him to death Philip was one of the seven Deacons he baptized Simon Magus who turned to be a Sorcerer Nicanor one of the seven Deacons was martyred with Stephen and with two thousand faithful Christians Simon one of the seven Deacons preached in Arabia and there the Heathen burned him to ashes Nicholas one of the seven Deacons a Teacher at Suptaria and he fell from the Faith Parmenas one of the seven Deacons a Minister he dyed in the presence of the Apostles Cleophas called Simon he was with Luke he saw the Lord after he was risen he was the second Minster at Jerusalem Silas was a Minister with Paul he was made Minister at Corinth Silvanus was a Minister with Paul he was Minister of Thessalonica Crescens whom Paul remembred to Timothy was Minister at Chalcedon in France and there was martyred in the time of Thracian and was buried Epenetus whom Paul mentions to the Romans he was a Minister at Carthage Andronicus whom Paul remembers to the Romans he was a Minister of Panonia Amphis whom Paul saluted to the Romans he was a Minister of Odissa Vrbanus mentioned by Paul to the Romans he was Minister of Macedonia Etachys remembred by Paul to the Romans he was the first Minister of Byzantium and was Minister of Argyropolis in Thracia Apelles mentioned of Paul to the Romans he was Minister of Smyrna Aristobilus whom Paul spake of to the Romans was Minister of Bretannia Narcissus of whom Paul spake to the Romans he was Minister of Patra in Achaia Herodian named by Paul to the Romans he was Minister of Patra Rufus one that is reckoned by Paul to the Romans was Minister at Theba Assincritus rehersed by Paul to the Romans he was Minister of Hi●cania Plagon whom Paul remembred to the Romans he was Minister of Marathen Hermes whom Paul mentions to the Romans he was Minister of Dalmatia Hermes whom Paul saluted to the Romans he was Minister of Philippi Patrohas of whom Paul made mention he was Minister of Nepoliolis Agabus of whom is made mention in the Acts he was indued with the spirit of Prophesie Linus remembred of Paul he was the first Minister at Rome after Peter Paul made mention of Gaius he was Minister of Ephesus af●er Timothy Paul remembers Olympus he was beheaded at Rome with Peter Paul made mention of Rodyon he was beheaded at Rome with Peter Jason is remembred in the Works of the Apostles he was Minister of Tarsus Sosipater is remembred of the Apostles he was Minister of Iconium Lucius is remembred of Paul he was Minister of Laodicea in Syria Tertius wrote the Epistle of Paul to the Romans he was second Minister of Iconium Paul made mention of Erastus to the Romans he was Steward of the Church of Jerusalem and afterwards he was Minister of Paneas Paul remembred Phygellus he was Minister at Ephesus The Apostles made mention of Hermogenes as one that brought false Doctrine to the Church he was Bishop of Ephesus Paul wrote of Demas that fell from the Faith this Demas became an Idol Priest of Thessalonica John saith They went out from us for they were not of us There is mention made of Quartus to the Rom us he was Minister of Berytus Paul made mention of Apollos in his first Epistle to the Corinthians he was Minister of Cesaria and of Iconia Paul remembred Sosthenes he was Minister of Colophoni Paul makes mention of Epaphroditus he was Minister of Adriana Paul remembers Cesar he was Minister of Dyrhachium Paul made mention of Marcus he was Cousin-German of Barnahas a Minister of Apollonias THE END