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A35247 The strange and prodigious religions, customs and manners of sundry nations containing I. their ridiculous rites and ceremonies in the worship of their several deities, II. the various changes of the Jewish religion ... , III. the rise and growth of Mahometanism ... , IV. the schisms and heresies in the Christian church being an account of ... Adamites, Muggletonians &c. all intermingled with pleasant relations of the fantastical rites both of the ancients and moderns in the celebration of their marriages and solemnizations of their funerals &c / by R.D. R. B., 1632?-1725? 1683 (1683) Wing C7348; ESTC R29494 158,336 237

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Constantinople under Theodosius the Great Macedonius himself being deprived by the Arrian Bishops died private at Pylas XL. 14. The Aerians so called from Aerius the Presbyter who lived under Valentinian the first three hundred and forty Years after Christ he held that there was no difference between a Bishop and a Presbyter that Bishops could not ordain that there should be no set or anniversary Feasts and they admitted none to their Communion but such as were continent and had renounced the World they were also called Sillabici as standing captiously upon Words and Syllables The occasion of his maintaining his Heresie was his Resentment that Eustathius was preferred before him to a Bishoprick XLI 15. Florinus or Florianus a Roman Presbyter lived under Commodus the Roman Emperour one hundred fifty three Years after Christ hence came the Floriani They held that God made Evil and was the Author of Sin whereas Moses tells us that all things which he made were very good They retained also the Jewish manner of keeping Easter and their other Ceremonies XLII 16. Lucifer Bishop of Caralitanum in Sardinia gave Name to the Luciferians He lived under Julian the Apostate three hundred thirty three Years after Christ. He taught that this World was made by the Devil that Mens Souls are corporal and have their Being by Propagation or Tradition they denied to the Clergy that fell any place for Repentance neither did they restore Bishops or inferiour Clerks to their Dignities if they fell into Heresie tho they afterwards repented XLIII 17. Tertullian that famous Lawyer and Divine was the Leader of the Tertullianists He lived under Severus the Emperour about one hundred and seventy Years after Christ Being excommunicated by the Roman Clergy as a Montanist he fell into these Heretical Tenets That God was corporal but without declination of Members that Mens Souls were not only corporal but also distinguished into Members and have corporal Dimensions and increase and decrease with the Body that the original of Souls is by Traduction that Souls of wicked Men after Death are converted into Devils That the Virgin Mary after Christ's Birth did marry once They bragged much of the Paraclete or Spirit which they said was poured on them in greater measure than on the Apostles they condemned War amongst Christians and rejected second Marriages as no better than Adultery XLIV 18. Nestorius born in Germany and by fraud made Patriarch of Constantinople was the Head of the Nestorians He broached his Heresie under Theodosius the Younger four hundred Years after Christ He taught that in Christ were two distinct Persons the Son of God and the Son of Mary that is the Son of God in Christ's Baptism descended into the Son of Mary and dwelt there as a Lodger in a House he made the Humanity of Christ equal with his Divinity and so confounded their Properties and Operations A great part of the Eastern Bishops were of his Perswasion His Heresie was condemned in the Council of Ephesus under Theodosius the Younger in which Cyril Bishop of Alexandria was President and the Author Nestorius deposed and banished into the Thebean Desarts where his blasphemous Tongue was eaten out with Worms Zeno the Emperour razed to the Ground the School in Edessa called Persica where the Nestorian Heresie was taught XLV 19. Eutyches Abbot of Constantinople from whence came the Eutychians in the Year after Christ 413. set forth his Heresie holding Opinions quite contrary to Nestorius to wit That Christ before the Union had two distinct Natures but after the Union only one to wit the Divinity which swallowed up the Humanity so confounding the Properties of the two Natures affirming that the Divine Nature suffered and died and that God the Word did not take from the Virgin Humane Nature This Heresie condemned first in a Provincial Synod at Constantinople was set up again by Dioscarus Bishop of Alexandria at last condemned in the General Council of Chalcedon under Marcian the Emperour XLVI 20. Eunonius Bishop of Cyzicum embraced the Heresie of Arrius he said blasphemously God of his Essence understandeth no more than we do whatsoever we know of it the same knoweth he and look what his Capacity reacheth to the same thou shalt find in us his Followers re-baptized Orthodox Professors and baptized in the Name of the Father uncreated the Son created and the Holy Ghost created by the Son They affirmed the Trinity to be three different Substances as Gold Silver and Brass He was a Cappadocian by Birth and lived under Valens the Emperour XLVII 21. Novatus Father of the Novatians was an African born he lived under Decius the Emperour after Christ two hundred and twenty Years his Heresie lasted one hundred forty eight Years They denied Repentance to those who fell after Baptism they bragged much of their Sanctity and good Works they condemned second Marriages as adulterous and used Rebaptization as the Donatists He was a Priest of Carthage and Father of the Cathari or Puritans XLVIII 22. Donatus whence arose the Donatists was a Numidian who because Cicilianus was preferred before him to the Bishoprick of Carthage accused him and all the Bishops that ordained him to be Traditores that is such as had delivered their Bibles to be burnt by Idolaters under the Persecution of Maximinus Though this Accusation was found faulty yet Donatus continued obstinate and separated himself and Congregation from all others accounting that no Church where any spot of Infirmity was to be found that such a pure Church was only amongst them yet they would have no man forced to a godly Life they slighted the Magistracy and would not suffer them to punish Hereticks they held the Efficacy of the Sacraments too upon the dignity of the Minister they rebaptized all that were admitted to their Communion they held it no Sin to kill themselves rather than to fall into the hands of the Magistrate and scrupled not to kill such as were not of their Faith they used certain magical Purifications and bragged of Enthusiasms and Revelations With the Arrians they made the Son less than the Father and the Holy Ghost than the Son The Circumc●lliones were part of these who lived in Cells and Caves and murdered all they met that were not of their Religion XLIX 23. Pelagius a Britain by Birth and a Monk at Rome was the Ring-leader of the Pelagians he was afterwards a Presbyter under Theodosius the Younger three hundred eighty two Years after Christ thence he went into England and poysoned the whole Island with his Opinions which were such as these That Death was not the Wages of Sin but that Adam should have dyed though he had not sinned that Adam's Sin was hurtful only to himself and not to his Posterity that Concupiscence was no sin that Infants did not draw original Sins from their Parents that Infants might be saved without Baptism that they should have eternal Life but out of the Kingdom of God that Man after the Fall had free