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death_n	serpent_n	sin_n	sting_n	4,692	5	12.2188	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88705	Speculum patrum: A looking-glasse of the Fathers wherein, you may see each of them drawn, characterized, and displayed in their colours. To which are added, the characters of some of the chief philosophers, historians, grammarians, orators, and poets. By Edward Larkin, late Fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge, and now minister of the Word at Limesfield in Surrey.	Larkin, Edward, 1623-1688.	1659 (1659)	Wing L444A; ESTC R230373	42,396	106

Concord thy childe without doubt shall live When the Emperour refused to yield to this Let God saith Basil deal with your son as it pleaseth him and so the childe presently died This Father lived till the beginning of the reign of the good Emperour Theodosius and was thought to have been the Author of Monastical life The commendations are high which his friend Nazianzene gives him as who styles him Luminare in Mundo Doctrinae Palatium unus Sol inter Syderea A Light in the World a Pallace of Learning and as the Sun among the Stars Suidas calls him Verum celeberrimum ad summum omnis doctrinae fastigium progressum A man most famous that had climbed up to the highest step of all Learning Caussinus saith That Libanius though his Master did prefer him before all other Authors Erat illi unus pro centum millibus in eloquentia Basilius And this sayes Erasmus also of him Basilius dilucidus pius sanus suaviter gravis graviter suavis nihil habens affectate loquacitatis Basil is clear pious sound sweetly grave and gravely sweet having nothing in him of affected loquacity Gregorius Nyssenus GRegorius Nyssenus Brother to Basil the Great called Nyssen from the Church of Nyssa whereof he was Bishop but when he was consecrated it is not with any certainty resolved He joyned with his Brother Basil and Gregory Nazianzen against the Arians whom both with their word and pen they notably confuted Neither was this Father more backward and slack in opposing the Heresie of Eunomius and if we will take the word of Reverend Theodoret this Doctor ever shewed himself zealous in withstanding that whatever it was which was contrary to the rule and power of godliness Nicephorus tells us in his 12 Book and 13 Chapter That in the General Council of Constantinople this man did supply that which was lacking in the Nicene Creed this clause being by him added And in the Holy Ghost the Lord and giver of life who proceedeth from the Father and the Son who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified Suidas doth bestow upon him these two Characters Gregorius Nyssenus omni doctrina refertus in multum profecit illustris evasit ut quisquam veterum Gregory Nyssen being stuft full with all Learning profited so much therein that he was judged as famous as any of the Ancients And again the same Author calls him Eloquentissimum multiplici eruditione praestantem Most eloquent and excelling in variety of Learning And Caussinus gives him this following Elogie Quid Gregorius Nyssenus Caesarius Num ipsi Gregoriorum fato aureum flumen orationis fundunt This mans Brother Basil being prevented by untimely death from finishing his Commentaries on the six dayes works Socrates tells us That this Gregory compleated them and made them perfect These were the eminent and remarkable sayings of this Father He said concerning Sin That although the Serpents which stung us were not here slain outright yet their venemous stings could not mortally wound us And concerning Pilgrimage he said That a Pilgrimage from the Lusts of the Flesh to the Righteousness of God and the Sanctification of the heart was onely acceptable to God and not a journeying from Cappadocia to Palestina and that God would give a reward in the world to come onely to things done in this world by the warrant of his own Commandment Leo the Emperour called this Father Dulcem illustrem Ecclesiae fontem The sweet and illustrious fountain of the Church He was elder Brother to Basil but died after him Gregorius Nazianzenus GRegorius Nazianzenus was born at Nazianzum a town neer to Cesarea in Cappadocia where Basil the Great was Bishop who out of a desire he had to learning went to Athens to imploy his time there in the study of the Arts whence returning home he was Baptized about the twentieth yeer of his age and after that giving himself up to the study of the Christian Religion he was at length urged by his father to take upon him the Ministery and to assist him being then aged in the execution of his pastorall charge Yet his parents after a while deceasing he left his Countrey for some yeers and lived private but comming afterwards to Constantinople he preached in the Church of Anastasia all the other Oratories of the City being taken up and filled by the Arians And here is one thing to be noted that though so eminently learned and pious a man as was this Nazianzene was then present yet the Generall Councill held there at that time preferred one Nectarius a Noble man of Cilicia to the Bishoprick of Constantinople before him a man which was at that time but a Catechumenus and never before advanced to any Ecclesiastical preferment overpassing this great Doctour and overlooking this great light And here it was that he fell into controversie with Apollinarius the Heretick who was so impudent as to accuse Nazianzene of sedition before the Magistrate but the Bishop did very fairly acquit himself of the crime It is said of this grave and holy man quod solus post Johannem Evangelistam Theologi nomen meruit That he onely after Iohn the Evangelist merited the eminent title of Divine There happening dissentions amongst his fellow Bishops he withdrew himself for retirement to his Fathers Countrey Farme house as being weary of all publike congressions whereof he seldom saw any profitable issue by reason of the ambition of the disputants He lived all his life time unmarried and dyed not under the 90th yeer of his age in the yeer of Christ 384. he wrote much against those Hereticks which either did impugne the Divinity or Humanity of our Lord and he was likewise most vigorously active against the Heathenisme of the Gentiles in those two invectives of his wherein he chastiseth that Apostate Iulian who would needs be a restorer of Paganisme Ierom owns this holy Father for his Master 〈◊〉 quo Scripturas explanante didicit From ●…om as his interpreter he learn't the Scriptures And ●s this learned man did admire Basil so did Basil him as appears by this Elogie he gives him Vas electionis puteus profundus os Christi Gregorius Now for this mans speech it seemed as Suidas saith to come neer to Polemons or to Isocrates so saies Erasmus as also it was not unlike to Ambrose Erasmus speaking of his piety he tells us that it did ex aequo propemodum certare cum facundia It was even as eminent and illustrious as his eloquence and the commendation which Bellarmine gives him is quod sapientiam mirificie eum eloquentia copulavit That he marvellously coupled his wisdom with his eloquence Epiphanius EPiphanius Bishop of Salamine in Cyprus was instructed in learning by certain Monkes in Egypt from whence he went into Palestine living there a Monasticall life and improving his time in the study of Philosophy so that in few yeers his proficiency therein was mightily increased