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A36461	The triumph of Christianity, or, The life of Cl. Fl. Julian, the Apostate with remarks, contain'd in the resolution of several queries : to which is added, Reflections upon a pamphlet, call'd Seasonable remarks on the fall of the Emperor Julian, and on part of a late pernicious book, entituled, A short account of the life of Julian, &c.	Dowell, John, ca. 1627-1690.	1683 (1683)	Wing D2057; ESTC R8708	83,984	256

Persia 3 Ambassadors Man Sabel and Ishmael which he against the Law of Nations injuriosly treated The persons of Ambassadors are Sacred and he knowing they were Christians invites them to Sacrifice but they refusing he condemns them to be beheaded as enemies to the Sun and Fire the Persian Dieties He passes on to Nicomedia which he finds for the greatest part by aterrible Earthquake reduc'd to dust the remaining Inhabitants receiving him not in triumph but in sad postures and garbs he comes to Cesaria in Cappadocia the inhabitants of which City were almost Christians The Christianity which they professed was sufficient to make them hate them but their Demolishing the Temples of Jupiter and Appollo and afterwards that of Fortune cast him into so deadly a Rage that he was angry with the Heathen for permitting it and commanded all the moneys that belong'd to Churches to be brought into the Publick Treasury and all the Clergy to be enrold in the Army and laid many heavy Taxes upon Men Women and Children that were Christians and swore that he would never cease from afflicting that City nor suffer the Galileans for so he contumeliously called the Christians to keep their Heads upon their Shoulders if they did not rebuild those Idol Temples which they had burnt and demolished At Ancira Basilius a Presbyter was standing in a Publick place and seeing Sacrifices offered he expresses a great anger and prayeth to God that no Christian may fall into that Delusion after which being grievously tormented he suffered a glorious Martyrdom Phrygia and Thrace glory in those who suffered for Christ in the time of Julian He then goes for Antioch where he Wintered in order to his Persian-War thither he sends for Artemius Prefect of Egypt a great honourour of Christianity who had broke many Images and Idols in pieces for which after his Estate was confiscated he was executed He was a Soldier under Constantine the Great and a spectator of that miraculous Cross which appeared to Constantine Artemius being Excecuted the Alexandrian Pagans waited for an occasion to excecute those Cruelties upon the Christians which they intended which was thus offered George Bishop of Alexandria returning from the Princes Court attended with a numerous train as he passed by the Temple of Genius casting his Eyes upon that curious and fair pile of Building How long cries he out shall this Sepulcher stand the Pagan Populacy hearing those words fell upon George drag'd him by his Legs and with the greatest Scorn tormented him They seized also upon Dracontius because he had demolished an Altar set up in the Mint-house in which he had the greatest Authority And one Diodorus a great Officer who being constituted Surpervisor of the building of a Church cut of the Hair of Boys close to the Head supposing that the wearing of locks smell'd of Idolatry These Three the enraged multitude Ignominiously and barbarously murthered they mangled their dead bodies and burnt them after which they threw their Ashes into the Sea Upon this Tragedy Marcellinus makes two remarques First these persons when they were drag'd to Excecution might have been rescued by the Aid of Christians if they had not conceived a deadly hatred against Georgius who was an Arrian and manag'd his Episcopal Jurisdiction with pride and cruelty He was a great Schollar and had one of the best libraries in the World 2. It being the custom of Christians religiously to preserve the reliques of those who to maintain their faith endured all imaginable torments even to a glorious death and where they buried those Sacred reliques there they built Churches and therefore the Alexandrian Pagans fearing this Honour might be done to these Three cast their Ashes into the Sea Whilst Julian tarried at Antioch which was full of Christians he answered those abuses cast upon him in that famous Invective called the Misopagan He affected a long and Philosophical Beard which gave an Occasion to call him a Goat That which most incensed him against the Antiochians was the neglect of the Temple of Daphne He himself was so extreamly given to Sacrifices that he Offered sometimes an Hundred Oxen at once which made him to becalled not Sacricola but Victimarius and he caused on his Tomb to be engraven an Altar and an Oxe He coming to the Temple of Daphne found no Sacrifices prepared for the City had ordained none and the Priest had only one poor Goose to Sacrifice whereupon he makes this complaint to the Senate Every one of you commands his Wife to give largely to the Ga-lileans but none brings things necessary for the performance of holy Offices to the gods When any one celebrates his birth-day he makes a sumptuous Feast and splendily entertains his Friends at a rich Table but on the solemn Feast of the gods no one brings Oil for the Lamps Oblations Sacrifice or Incense Julian consults the Oracle of Apollo Daphnick which was famous for predictions but now became silent The story of which and the conflagration of the Temple we cannot take from a better Pen than that of Chrisostome who gives an account of them in those famous Sermons against the Heathens and confirms his Narrative with this publick and solemn protestation There are many alive which were Eye-witnesses of those things which I am now to relate whom I passionately entreat and beseech that if any thing by me be added or falsly spoken they will come forth and reprove The Emperor with a grave composure of Countenance ascends Daphne with abundance of Oblation and Sacrifices a River of Blood was made by the flaughtered Victims and there with a great deal of Fervour prayed the Oracle to resolve him some things that were in his mind to which he had this return that the many Carcasses with which Daphne was filled had rendred the Oracle silent Julian extreamly astonished hastens presently to the Tomb of Babylas and commands the Coffin to be taken up and the Christians to remove the Corps which they did and in a religious Solemnity carried them about fourty furlongs from Daphne and so interred them all sorts of persons Men and Women Young-men and Virgins Old-men and Children mutally encouraging one another and singing Psalms after the manner of Christiians Translated the Body of Babylas In their singing they often repeated that of the Psalmist Confounded be all they that worship graven Images that boast themselves in Idols Psalm 97. which so enraged the Emperor that he commanded the Christians to be severely punished Salustus Governor of the City though a Pagan disswaded him from such intentions but Julian persisting in his resolution apprehended several Christians and threw them into Prison and commanded a young man called Theodorus to be rack'd and his flesh to be torn but this abated not his Christian courage for in those torments he carried himself more like a spectator than a sufferer desiring that new and more dreadful tortures might be added Salustus admiring his constancy goes to Julian whom he counsels to desist from

prohibited to teach and liberty permitted that they might be taught or whether they were prohibited both Baronius admires that Lozymen Socrates Ruffinus and St. Augustine himself should aver that by Julian's Edict Christians were prohibited to teach and to be taught St. Augustine expresly De Civitate Dei Lib. 18. Cap. 52. speaking of Julian saith Did not he persecute the Christians when he prohibited them to be taught or teach the Liberal Sciences Julian in his Edict as appears Epistle 42 only prohibits Christians to teach This Law saith he concerns Governours and Teachers as for young men they that will go and learn let them not be prohibited for 't is unjust to hinder those who are Ignorant to use those Methods whereby they might attain knowledge Marcellinus relates that he prohibited Professors in Rhetorick and Grammar to teach Christians for which fact of his his great Admirer justly stiles him inhumane and unmerciful But this difference may without great difficulty be reconciled 'T is acknowledged that there was in the Edict a Liberty for young Children to be taught by Pagan Masters that they might be corrupted for Youth is ductile and easily to be seduc'd by eloquence and learned cheats But those Children that were confirmed in their Religion those Christians that were of maturer years he permitted not the learning of Oratory and those Liberal Sciences Nazianzen Steli who so bravely argues against the Impieties and Cruelties of Julian with a torrent of Eloquence and reason in those noble Invectives in which Oratory and Judgement do contend for Empire in lively Colours depaints the execrableness of this Fact 'T is reason that Eloquence should Torture him who had committed so great a Crime against it O Lightest of Mortals whose cruelty was so insatiable that thou shouldst deprive Christians of the Learning of Rhetorick and the study of humane Learning I ask thee what thou intended'st by this Decree what reason moved thee to deny Christians the liberty of studying Eloquence and Philosophy if thou couldest produce a just reason we should be afflicted but not complain for as we have learned by Arguments and Discourse to overcome so by the same methods to yield and be vanquished Upon this Decree Musonius a Christian Orator and Philosopher left his School Victorianus whose great Learning erected him a Statue in the Roman Forum whose admirable conversion in his old Age St. Augustine piously describes Lib. 8. Cap. 5. forsook his Chair that he might retain Christianity It is evident that he interdicted not only Teaching but the study of Languages and Polite learning If we enquire into the reason of this Hellish Policy of Julian take it from Nazianzen He feared the confutation of his Impiety the strength of which lay only in the Pomps of words and fineness of speaking not in the knowledge of Truth and depth of Reason Julianvery well knew that Christians teaching their Scholars out of Pagan Authors could by solid Arguments demonstrate how vain the Worship of the Heathen gods were and so by rendring that worship impious and ridiculous they might create in their Scholars a dislike of the Heathenish Idolatry Theology and so with more ease bring them to Christianity and if Christians were vers'd in those Authors they might easily detect the vanity and impiety of Paganisme This made Julian so severely to prohibit not only the study but the teaching of humane Learning Those methods which the Divine Wisdom commanded for the flourishing of Christianity he appointed to be exercised for the reviving of Pagnisme of which his own Letter to Arsatius the Arch-Priest of the Heathenish Superstition in Galatia is an ample Testimony Let us cast our eyes upon the things by which the Prophane thus he Blasphemously disgraces Christians religion of Christians did increase Let us regard their Hospitality to Strangers their Religious care in burying of the Dead their great disgrace to us in counterfeiting Holiness Let all these things be sincerely performed by us Nor do I only command this to be observed but that you cause all the Priests in Galatia either by compulsion or perswasion to live soberly and gravely and degrade them that do not with their Wives Children and Servants serve the Gods with a most serious attention Build Hospitals for the receiving of strangers not only those who observe our Religion but those that are in necessity Upon this Edict of Julian Nazianzen makes these pious reflections Julian saith he perceiving that our Religion was famous for the Heavenliness of its Doctrines and greatness of its Miracles what does he but like Rabshakeh who would discourage the Jews speaking in the Jewish Language destroy the Christians by introducing those rites amongst the Pagans he caused Schools to be built in all Cities and holy places wherein holy Offices might be performed Seats higher and lower according to the quality of Professors who should regulate in their Lectures the manners or illuminate the understanding of their Auditors with profound Doctrine so that by alternate praying and singing they might Worship the gods according to the discipline of Christians and that evil and unjust men might be publikly rebuked and punished It infinitely Tormented Julian to perceive that many of their Wives Children and Servants became Christians for he found that Christianity gained an esteem in the World by the admirable conversation of its professors and therefore to hinder its Progress and to make Paganisme equally Glorious he built most stately Temples and adorn'd them after the manner of Christians Upon which design of his Nazianzen makes this excellent remark Julian's endeavours saith he carried only an exterior paint an outward Pomp and Beauty but our endeavours are to embelish the Inward Man We labour most to turn the eyes of men to behold those things which are only perceived by the understanding and Soul of Man by these methods we instruct the People And indeed it was easy for Julian to imitate the Christians in the Splendor Magnificence and Ornaments of Temples in Rites and Ceremonies these are exterior but to imitate our Manners the Holiness of our Conversations to raise the minds of Men to Heavenly designs to enrich their affections by making them Heavenly and Divine this is above the Sphere of Paganish Devotion That the Apostate might leave no means unattempted to extirpate Christianity he encouraged the Jews to rebuild the Temple which sumptuous and sacred Pile according to our Lords Prediction was laid in ashes by the Roman Army under the Command of Vespasian and Titus And though he abused the Jews and drolled upon their Religion yet knowing them to be mortal Enemies to Christians and that their advancement would tend to the debasement of Christianity he flattered and encouraged them In his Epistle to them he desires their prayers for his good success against the Persians and that their prayers might be more fervent and effectual he released the tribute which Constantius laid upon them of which that there mght be no memorial he burnt those