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A37402	The lives and deaths of the holy apostles of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ together with the two evangelists St. Mark and St. Luke : as also, some other of our Saviours disciples containing an account of their travels, sayings, miracles, sufferings and martyrdoms / all collected from the best authors for public use and benefit.	P. D.	1685 (1685)	Wing D78; ESTC R27282	50,869	156

THE Lives Deaths Of the Holy APOSTLES Of Our Lord Saviour Iesus Christ Together With the Two Evangelists SAINT Mark and Luke THE Lives Deaths Of the Holy APOSTLES Of Our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Together with the Two Evangelists St. MARK and St. LUKE As Also Some other of our Saviours Disciples Containing An Account of Their Travels Sayings Miracles Sufferings and Martyrdoms All Collected from the Best Authors for Publick Use and Benefit LONDON Printed for Dorman Newman at the Kings Armes in the Poultry 1685. TO THE READER Courteous Reader THou art here Presented with the Lives of the Holy Apostles Men ●ho as they were Honour'd ●ith the highest Offices in ●he Church so they are ●f highest Renown in the ●hristian World both for their Lives and Deaths Great Subject and a No●● Study in the managi●● whereof I have glean● what I could meet wi●● that I thought was most m●terial for the Reader to kno● That which first put me up●● Writing it was the Acce●tance the Book Intituled T●● Testament of the Twelve P●triarks found amongst mo●● men But this as the Autho●● are more Venerable amo●● Christians so I have pu●posely omitted all things th●● might occasion any Dispu●● concerning them This Book being calculated as well for delight as profit indeed it can be no small pleasure to have so many great pieces of Antiquity as you will find in this small Book brought to speak English whereby a common eye may look into Divine Inestimable Treasure of the Wisest and best Ages of the World In these Lines the Reader will see the first and purest Ages of the Christian Religion when Men were really what they pretended to be when a solid Piety and Devotion a strict Temperance and Sobriety a Catholick and unbounded Charity an exemplary Honesty Integrity a great Reverence for every thing that was Divine and Sacred rendred Christianity beautiful lovely to the World Here thou wilt see the Reasons and Occasions of the Feasts and Fasts of the Church and what made those Primitive Times thrive To provoke thy imitation my business was to deliver this Work in that Form and Order that I think it may not be unfitly styled the Story of Stories wherein you will find contrived in one continual Order of Historical Reading those Famous and Glorious Acts which are contained in the Lives of these Holy Apostles He that reads these great Saints Lives will see the Grounds of the Christian Religion to be so noble and excellent all its Laws so iust and rational all its designes so Divine and Heavenly that he cannot but conclude the Principles to be perfect and conducive to the happiness of Humane Nature a Religion so worthy of God so Advantagious to Human Nature built upon the strongest evidence cloathed with such strong and powerful Arguments that he will presently be convinced of the Decency that resides in it And certainly nothing can be of more efficacy to perswade Christians to and engage them in a Pious Godly and Religious Life Then the Considerations they may be able to make upon reading the Lives and Actions of these Holy Saints and Martyrs when we reflect upon their extraordinary Self-denial Piety Charity Justice Moderation and all other Vertues so Conspicuous in the whole course of Their Apostleships If to be Short will please thee here is Brevity If Change will please here is Variety If Profit will please I dare say it shall be thy fault if thou be not the Better for it May these Lines be as so many Sparks from Heaven collected thus together which may not only afford Light to our Understandings but Divine love to all sincere Souls That as it had a Heavenly heat in them it may influence all the lovers of Devotion and Piety is the hearty desire of the Publisher P. D. BOOKS Printed for and Sold by Dorman Newman at the Kings-Armes in the Poultry THe History of the Seaven Wise Masters The History of St. Patrick of Ireland The Lives and Deaths of the Holy Apostles c. The History of Fortunatus The Crown Garland Poor Robins Preambulations Small Histories A Merry Book of All Fives Crossing of Proverbs Sir Laurance Lazie The Unfortunate Welsh-Man Venus Turtle Doves Unfortunate Jack Vinegar and Mustard The History of Valantine and Orson The History of Fryer Bacon The History of the Seven Champions of England With most other both Large and Small Histories The Life of St. PETER St PETER IN the Land of Palestine stood a Village called Bethsaida formerly an obscure and inconsiderable place belonging to the Tribe of Nepthali but lately re-edified and greatly enlarged by Phillip the Tetrarch and by him advanced to the Place and Dignity of a City replenished with many Inhabitants and strongly Fortified with Power and Strength which Augustus Caesar in honour of his Daughter called Julias It was scituated upon the Sea of Galilee and had a Wilderness upon the other side thence called The Desert of Bethsaida But for as great as its Splendor was at this time late Travellers assures that now it is become a most desolate and contemptible Village consisting of a few Cottages of Moors and Wild Arabs And later Travellers have since assured us that even these are dandled away into one poor Cottage at this day So fatally does Sin undermine the greatest and goodliest pleces so heavily did our Saviours old Predict one for their contempt of the Gospel light on them Next to the Honour that this place had by our Saviours presence who living most in these parts did often resort hither It had nothing greater to recommend it to the Notice of Posterity then that besides some other of the Apostles it was the Birth-place of St. Peter a Person how inconsiderable soever in his private Fortunes yet of great Note and Eminency as one of the prime Ambassadors of the Son of God to whom both Sacred and Ecclesiastical Stories gives high and Eminent Elogies among the Apostles We are much in the dark as to the particular time of his Birth no probable Foot-steps nor intimations of it being found in Antiquity yet in the general we may conclude him at least to have been about Ten Years Elder then his Master his Marryed Condition and settled course of Life when he first came to Christ and the great Authority and respect which the Gravity of his Person did procure him amongst the rest of the Apostles with other such Circumstances can speak him no less But for any thing more positive and particular in this matter we cannot affirm for a certain truth though one positively tells us that he was Born three Years before the Mother of our Lord and just Seventeen Years before the Incarnation Being Circumcised according to the rites of the Mosaick Law the Name given him at his Circumcision was Simon or Simeon a Name common among the Jews especially in their latter times This Name was afterward not abolished by our Saviour but additioned with the Title

his choice nor apprehended himself a looser by this bargain he entertained our Lord and his Disciples at a great dinner in his house whether he invited his friends especially those of his own profession After his Election to the Apostolate he continued with the rest tell our Lord's Ascension and then for the first eight years at least preached up and down Judea After which being to betake himself to the Conversion of the Gentile World he was intreated by the Convert Iews to commit to Writing the History of our Lords Life and Actions and to leave it among them as a standing Record of that he had Preached to them which he did accordingly and so composed his Gospel little certainty can be had what Travels he underwent for the advancement of the Christian Faith Some tell us that he went into Parthea having successfully planted Christianity in those Parts thence travelled into Aethiopia where by Preaching and Miracles he mightily Triumphed over Error and Idolatry As to the manner of his death it is related by some that he went into the Country of the Canibals where Christ appeared to him in the form of a beautiful Youth and gave him a Wand which he pitching in the ground immediately it grew up into a Tree that he also miraculously Converted the Prince of the Country and after all dyed in peace and was most sumptuously buryed But others of the Antients with as much probility affirm that he suffered Martyrdom at a City in Aethiopia but that kind of death is altogether uncertain He was a great instance of the power of Religion how much a man may be b●o●ght off to a better temper if we reflect upon his circumstances while yet a stranger to Christ we shall find the world had very great advantages upon him and yet notwithstanding no sooner did Christ call but without the least scruple or dissatisfaction not only renounced his gainful incomes but ran an immediate hazard of the displeasure of his Masters the Romans that had imployed him for quitting their service and leaving his accounss intangled and confured behind him The last thing remarkable in the Life of this Apostle is his Gospel Written at the intreaty of the Jewish converts and as some say at the command of the Apostles while he was yet in Palestine eight years after the death of Christ which St. Bartholomew took along with him into India and left there He wrot it in Hebrew as primarily designed it for the use of his Country-men it was without doubt soon after translated into Greek as some think by St. John others attribute the translation of it to St. James the less After the Greek translation was entertained the Hebrew Copy was chiefly owned and used by the Nazarens a middle Sect of men between Iewes and Christians what the Christians they believed in Christ and imbraced his Religion what the Iews they adhered to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Mosaick Law and hence this Gospel came to be styled the Gospel of the Hebrews and the Gospel of the Nazarenes by them it was by degrees interpolated several passages of the Evangelical History which they heard from the Apostles or those who had familiarly conversed with them being inserted which the Antients Fathers frequently refer to in their writings This Hebrew Copy was found in the Treasury of the Jewes at Tiberias by Joseph a Iew and after his Conversion a man of great Honour Esteem in the days of Constantine one of the Antients assures us that there was another kept in the Library of Caesarea in his time and another by the Nazarenes at Berea from whom he had the liberty to Transcribe it and which he afterward Translated both into Greek and Latine A Copy also of this Gospel was dug up and found in the Grave of Barnabas in Cyprus Transcribed with his own hand but these Copies are long since perished The Life of St. THOMAS S THOMAS THe Jews used commonly when Travelling into forreign Countries or familiarly conversing with the Greeks and Romans to assume to themselves a Greek or a Latine name of affinity and sometimes of the very same signification with that of their own Country Thus our St. Thomas according to the Syriacks importance of his name was called Didimus which is the same with his other name expressed in different Languages The History of the Gospel takes no particular notice either of his Country or Kindred that he was a Iew is certain and in all probability a Galileean he was born as some saith of very mean Parents brought up to the Trade of Fishing He was afterwards together with the rest called to the Apostleship where not long after he gave an eminent instance of his hearty willingness to undergo the saddest Fate that might attend them for when the rest of the Apostles disswaded our Saviour from going to Judea lest the Iewes should stone Him as but a little before they had attempted it St. Thomas desires them not to hinder Christs Iourney thither though it might cost them their Lives probably concluding that instead of raising Lazarus from the dead they themselves should be sent with him to their own Graves so that he made up in pious a●fections what he seemed to want in the quickness of his understanding not readily apprchending some of our Lords discourses nor overforward to believe more than himself had seen when Christ a little before his fatal sufferings told his Disciples that he was going to prepare for them that they might follow and that they knew the place whether he was a going and the way thither Our Apostle Roundly replyed that they knew it not To which our Lord gives this satisfactory answer That he was the true Living Way Our Lord being dead the Apostles were exceedingly distracted between hope and dispair concerning his resurrection which engaged him the sooner to hasten his appearance wherefore the very day in which he arose he came into the house in which they were while for fear of the Jews the Dores were fast shut about them At this Meeting St. Thomas was absent having probably never recovered their company since their last dispersion in the Garden where every owns Fears prompted him to Consult his own safety At his return they told him That the Lord had appeared to them but he obstinately refused to believe that it was he except he might see the very prints of the Nails and feel the Wounds in his Hands and Sides But his compassionate master would not take advantage of the man's refractory unbelief but upon that Day seven night came to them as they were solemnly met at their Devotions and calling Thomas hade him look upon his Hands put his Fingers into the prints of the Nails and thrust his Hand into the hole of his Side and thereby satisfy his Faith The Man was quickly convinced of his Error confessing That he now acknowledged him to be his very Lord and Master Our Lord being Ascended and having