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A38579	A prospect of the primitive Christianity, as it was left by Christ to his Apostles, by the Apostles to their disciples Saint Polycarp and Holy Ignatius, both contemporaries with and disciples to the Holy Evangelist and Apostle Saint John whose lives follow in this short treatise, together with their famous epistles written to several churches / translated according to the best copies out of the original Greek into English, by Thomas Elborowe ...	Elborow, Thomas.; Polycarp, Saint, Bishop of Smyrna. Epistola ad Philippenses. English.; Ignatius, Saint, Bishop of Antioch, d. ca. 110. Epistolae. English.	1668 (1668)	Wing E323; ESTC R15095	56,995	138

of the reward Keep the things which thou hast received neither adding to nor taking from them Hate a wicked person to the end Judge justly Make no Schism Make peace betwixt those who are at variance Confess thy sins Come not to Prayer with an evil Conscience This is the way of light But the dark way is crooked full of that which is execrable For it is the way of eternal death with torment wherein are things destructive to the Soul Idolatrie Boldness Sublimitie of power Hypocrisie Doubleness of heart Adulterie Murder Rapine Pride Transgression Deceit Malice Arrogance Witchcraft Magick Covetousness Want of the fear of God Persecutors of the good Haters of the truth Men who love but know not the wages of Righteousness Persons not adhering to that which is good nor to just judgement Men who regard not the widow nor fatherless being not watchful to the fear of God but to do evil from whom Meekness and Patience are far removed Lovers of vain things seekers of revenge such as have no pity for the poor nor endeavours to relieve the oppressed ready to detract nor knowing their Maker murderers of children corrupters of the figment of God such as turn away themselves from the needie oppress the oppressed advocates for the rich unjust judges of the poor and sinners every way It is therefore an excellent thing for him who learns the righteous commands of the Lord which are before written to walk in them for he who does them shall be glorified in the Kingdom of God but he who chooseth the other things shall perish with his works Therefore there is a Resurrection and a Retribution I intreat those who are eminent to take the counsel of my good will If ye have any amongst you upon whom ye may work forsake them not For the day is at hand in which all things shall perish together with him who is evil The Lord is at hand and his reward I intreat you again and again that ye be good Law-givers to your selves and that ye remain faithful counsellours to your selves Take away from amongst you all hypocrisie And may God who governs the whole world give to you wisdom science understanding and knowledge of his righteous judgements in patience Be ye taught of God seeking out what the Lord requireth from you and do that ye may be saved in the day of judgement And if there be any remembrance of good remember me meditating on these things that my desire and watchfulness for you may come to some good Begging grace I beseech you that as the good vessel is yet with you ye may fail in none of these things but search them out diligently that ye may fulfil every command For they are worthy things I therefore endeavoured the rather to write unto you of such things as I was able that I might cheer you up Be safe the sons of love and peace The Lord of glory and of all grace be with your spirit Amen The end of the Epistle of Barnabas the Apostle Companion of Saint Paul the Apostle A Postscript to the Reader THe Scope and designed end of this most excellent Epistle of Barnabas was to keep Christians from Judaizing and to fix them upon the substantial duties of Christ's Oeconomie whereof Moses Politie was but a shadow He sets down the types and the things typified the figures and the things prefigured shews in the former part what of Moses is done away and in the latter part what of Christ is come in place of it The Style is obscure because the subject is so If it please not Reader now it is translated thou maist it is to be hoped for that very reason pity the pains and pardon the mishaps and miscarriages in it of the Translatour Farewel FINIS Iren. epist ad Florin Iren. lib. 3. advers haeres c. 3. Tertul. in lib. de praescript advers haeres Euseb Eccles hist lib 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jerom. in Script eccles catalog Gildas in castig cler Britan. Euseb l. 4. c. 12. Euseb eccles hist lib. 4. Vid. Halloix vit Polycarp c. 16. Suidas in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iren. epist ad Florin Photius in Bibliothec num 126. Jerom. in Scrip. Eccles catal Iren. advers haeres lib. 3. c. 3. Euseb Eccles hist. lib. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Suid. in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homil. 6. in Luc. In lib. de Synod Arimin Seleue. Iren lib. 5. advers haer s c. 28. Chrysost●in Ignat encom ●om 5. edit ●avil p. 499. Theod r. Dialog 1. Jerom. Scriptor eccles catalog Socrat. eccles hist l. 6. c. 8. Evagr. eccles hist lib. 1. c. 16. Gild as in cactig●● Cler. Britan Jerom. in Script eccles catal Calvin Instit lib. 1. c. 13. Sect. 29. Vid. D. Rivet Critic Sacr. c. 1. Euseb Eccles hist. lib. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rivet Crit. Sacr. c. 1. Vid. D. Blund praef in animad contr D. Ham. p. 40. Euseb li. 1. c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Isai 1. Isai 58. Dan. 7. Isai 5. Matt. 22. Isai 53. Gen. 1. Isai 53. Zech. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

Philippi Mercy unto you and Peace from God Almighty and from the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour be multiplied I congratulate you highly in our Lord Jesus Christ in that ye have embraced those Patterns of true love and accompanied as became you those who were involved in holy Bands which are the Diadems of those who are truly the elected of God and of our Lord and because the root of your faith which was preached to you continues firm even from the beginning until now and brings forth fruit unto our Lord Jesus Christ who suffred for our sins even to the death whom God raised up having loosed the bands of death in whom having not seen him ye believe and believing rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory Into which joy many desire to enter knowing that through grace ye are saved not by works but by the will of God through Jesus Christ Wherefore having your Loyns girt about serve God with fear and truth forsaking empty vain babble and the errour of many believing in him who raised up our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead and hath given to him glory and a throne at his right hand To whom all earthly and heavenly things are subject and every thing that hath breath pays service who shall come to judge the quick and dead and whose bloud God will strictly require at the hands of those who do not believe in him But he who raised him from the dead will raise up us also if we do his will and walk in his Commandements and love the things which he loved Abstaining from all unrighteousness incontinence covetousness detraction fals-witness-bearing not rendering evil for evil reproach for reproach railing for railing cursing for cursing but remembring what the Lord said teaching in this wise Judge not that ye be not judged forgive and it shall be forgiven you be merciful that ye may obtain mercy in what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again it is also said Blessed are the poor in spirit and they who are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the Kingdom of God These things Brethren I write unto you concerning Righteousness not imposing any commands upon you as from my self but because ye have moved me so to do For neither I nor any other like unto me can attain to the wisdom of blessed and glorious PAUL who being amongst you and conversing face to face with men then living taught you exactly and firmly the word of Truth who also being absent wrote Epistles unto you by which if ye give heed unto them ye may be built up in the faith which was delivered unto you which Faith is the mother of you all being followed by Hope and led on by Love which directs you to God and Christ and our Neighbour For if any man is possessed of these he hath fulfilled the command of Righteousness He who is possessed of Love is free from all sin but Covetousness is the root of all evil Knowing therefore that we brought nothing into the world and that we shall carry nothing out Let us arm our selves with the armour of Righteousness and teach our selves in the first place to walk in the Commandements of the Lord. And let us in the next place teach the Women that they walk according to that rule of faith which was delivered unto them and in love and holiness and that they love entirely their own husbands with all sincerity and all others equally with all continency and that they instruct their children in the discipline and fear of God And let us teach the Widows to be sober and wise according to the faith of the Lord and to make intercession for all without intermission keeping themselves from all detraction accusation fals-witness-bearing covetousness and all evil knowing that they are as the Altars of God who observes the faults of every one of us for nothing is hid from him neither of our reasonings understandings nor secrets of our hearts and because we know that God cannot be mocked we ought to walk worthy of his command and of glory Likewise let the Deacons be unblameable in the presence of his righteousness for they are the ministers of God in Christ and not of men Let them not be accusers nor double-tongued nor covetous but continent in all things compassionate careful walking according to the truth of the Lord who was made the minister of all from whom if we please him in this world we shall receive a future reward for he hath ingaged for us to raise us from the dead and if we have our conversation worthy of him we shall also reign with him as we believe In like manner let the Young men be unblameable in all things chiefly let them study chastity and restrain themselves as with a bridle from all that is evil For it is a good thing to be elevated in our desires above all the desireable things of this world because all concupiscence of the world warreth against the Spirit and neither fornicators nor effeminate persons nor abusers of themselves with mankind shall inherit the Kingdom of God nor they who do absurd things Therefore it is necessary that ye abstain from all such things being subject to the Presbyters and Deacons as to God and Christ And let the Virgins walk with a blameless and chaste Conscience Let the Presbyters be of tender bowels compassionate towards all converters of those who are in errour visiters of all that are sick careful of the Widow the Orphans and the indigent always providing that which is good in the sight of God and men not given to wrath no respecters of persons not unjust in judgement keeping themselves far from all covetousness not hastily believing any thing against any man not rash in passing judgement against any knowing that all of us are the debters of sin and as we pray the Lord would forgive us we ought also to forgive for we are continually in the sight of the Lord God and must all stand before the Tribunal of Christ and every one of us give an account for himself Therefore let us serve him with fear and all reverence as he hath given in Commandement and as the Apostles have evangelized to us and the Prophets who preached before-hand the coming of our Lord. Be zealous of that which is good and keep your selves from scandals avoiding the company of false brethren who carry the Name of the Lord in hypocrisie onely to seduce vain men into errour For every one who doth not confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is Antichrist and he who doth not confess the Martyrdom of the Cross is of the devil and he who shall pervert the Oracles of the Lord to serve his own private lusts and shall say that there is no Resurrection nor judgement is the first-born of Satan Therefore let us decline the folly of many and their false doctrines and give heed to that word which was delivered to us from the

Love failing in no good gift most becoming God and fruitful in holiness which is at Smyrna in Asia be very much joy in the immaculate Spirit by the Word of God I Glorifie the God Jesus Christ who hath filled you with Wisdom For I understand that ye are perfected in an immoveable faith and are as persons fastened with nails to the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ both in flesh and in spirit and well-grounded in love by the bloud of Christ having a full assurance in our Lord who was truly of the stock of David according to the flesh the Son of God according to the will and power of God truly born of a Virgin baptized by John that he might fulfil all righteousness and who truly suffered for us in the flesh under Pontius Pilate and Herod the Tetrarch From the fruit of whom we are even from his divinely blessed Passion that he might by his Resurrection lift up an ensign to all ages to the Saints and to all who do believe in him whether they be Jews or Gentiles in one body of his Church For he suffered all these things for us that we might be saved And he truly suffered as also he truly raised up himself neither did he suffer onely in appearance as some infidels affirm who themselves are onely in appearance and according to their wisdom shall it happen unto them being incorporeal and daemoniacks For I my self saw him in the flesh after his Resurrection and do believe that he is risen And when he came to those who were with Peter he said unto them Take hold of me handle me and see me for I am not an incorporeal spirit And straightway they touched him and believed in him being convinced by his flesh and by his spirit And hereupon they contemned death for they found themselves to be above it And after his Resurrection he eat and drank with them as one in the flesh though he was in spirit united to the Father Touching these things Beloved I admonish you however I know ye are already of this perswasion I do it to preserve you from beasts in the shape of men whom it is necessarie for you not to entertain but to avoid as much as possible Onely pray for them if happily they may repent which is a thing very difficult But Jesus Christ who is our true life hath the power of this But if these things were done by our Lord onely seemingly then am I also seemingly in bonds And why have I yielded up my self to be put to death why to the fire to the sword to the beasts but because to be nigh to the sword is to be nigh to God and to be inclosed with beasts is to be compassed about with God Only in the Name of Jesus Christ do I endure all things that I may suffer with him who is himself made a perfect man and now strengtheneth me Whom some ignorant men denie but they are rather denied by him being more the Preachers of death than of truth whom neither the Prophets have perswaded nor the Law of Moses nor yet the Gospel hitherto nor those suffrings of ours which are according to man For they are of the same mind concerning us But what would it advantage me should any man speak in my praise and yet blaspheme my Lord denying him to have taken flesh upon him For he who confesseth not this hath perfectly denied him and puts him to death But I am unwilling to write down their infidel names neither may I make any particular remembrance of them until they shall happily repent into a belief of the Passion which is our Resurrection Let no man be deceived For if things in heaven and the glory of Angels and Rulers visible and invisible believe not in the bloud of Christ it will be even unto them condemnation He who receiveth it may receive it Let place puff up no man for Faith and Charity is All and nothing is to be preferred before them But observe those who are otherwise opinioned of the grace of Jesus Christ which came unto us how contrary they are to the judgement of God They have no regard at all of Charity they neither care for the Widow nor Orphan nor any afflicted person be he bond or free hungry or thirstie They absent themselves from the Eucharist and Prayer because they will not confess the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ which suffered for our sins and which the Father by his goodness raised from death to life Therefore contradicting this gift of God and disputing about it they die but it would be better for them to Love it that they may rise again It is very convenient that ye abstain from such persons and that ye have no converse with them neither privately nor publikely But that ye give heed unto the Prophets and chiefly to the Gospel wherein the Passion is made manifest unto us and the Resurrection is completed But avoid Divisions as the beginning of evils And be all of you observant of the Bishop as Jesus Christ was observant of the Father and observe the Presbyterie as the Apostles and Reverence the Deacons as the command of God Let no man presume to do any thing belonging to the Church without the Bishop And let that Eucharist onely be accounted firm which is either performed by the Bishop himself or by his Licence Where the Bishop shall appear there let the multitude be for where Jesus Christ is there is the Catholique Church It is neither lawful to baptize nor to keep the Love-feast without the Bishop but whatever he shall approve of that is well-pleasing to God that so every thing which is done may be firm and established Furthermore it is a blessed thing to grow sober and whilst we have opportunity to return to God by repentance It is a becoming thing to know God and the Bishop He who honoureth the Bishop is honoured of God but he who doth any thing without the Bishops approbation performs a service to the Devil Therefore let all things abound among you in grace for ye are worthy Ye have every way refreshed me and Jesus Christ will refresh you Ye have loved me both when I was absent and present God will requite you and if ye patiently endure all things for his sake ye shall enjoy him Ye did well in that ye gave an honourable reception to Philon Rheus and Agathopus as the Ministers of God-Christ who have accompanied me for the Word of God They also give thanks unto the Lord for you because ye have every way refreshed them Nothing which ye have done to them shall be lost as to you I could offer up this my spirit upon the service of your Souls and upon the same account carry about these my bonds which ye have neither despised nor been ashamed of neither will Jesus Christ the perfect faith be ashamed of you Your Prayer reached as far as to the Church which is in Antioch

Therefore in this brethren God is provident and merciful in regard the people whom he hath acquired to his beloved should believe in simplicity and he hath shewn to all us that we should not run as Proselytes over to their Law And it concerns us to write much of the things in hand which cannot heal Let us flie every work of iniquitie and hate the errour of this time and love things future Let us not give libertie to our soul nor suffer it to wander with most lewd men and sinners For the trail is consummate as it is written as Daniel saith it is at hand For this cause doth the Lord divide times and days that his beloved may hasten to his inheritance So saith the Prophet Ten kingdoms shall reign upon the earth and a little king shall arise who shall depose three into one Concerning the kingdoms and this very thing Daniel saith again I saw a fourth beast dreadful and terrible and exceeding strong having ten horns and another little horn grew up in the midst of them before whom there were three of the first horns plucks up by the roots Therefore we ought to understand and I intreat you again as one of you loving you above mine own life that ye would take heed unto your selves and that ye would not be like unto those who heap up their sins and say That their Testament is also ours But ours it is for they have for ever destroyed that which Moses received For the Scripture saith And Moses was in the mount fasting fourty days and fourty nights and he received the testament from the Lord the tables of stone written with the hand of God But they being turned unto idols destroyed that for the Lord saith to Moses Go down quickly for thy people which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt hath transgressed And Moses cast the tables of stone out of his hands and their Testament was broken that the love of Jesus might be signed upon your hearts unto the hope of the faith of him Therefore let us give heed unto the last days for all the time of our life and faith shall profit us nothing if we do not endure unjust things and future temptations as the Son of God saith Let us resist all iniquitie and hate it Consider therefore the works of an evil life Ye ought not to separate your selves as being justified but meeting together in one to enquire what may be in common profitable and convenient for the beloved For the Scripture saith Wo to those who are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight Let us being spiritual be made a perfect Temple to God as much as in us lies Let us meditate upon the fear of God and endeavour to keep his Commandements that we may rejoyce in his judgements The Lord accepting no mans person judgeth the world every man shall receive according to his deeds If he be good his goodness goes before him if wicked the ways of his wickedness follows after him Take heed lest at any time being called and at ease we do not fall asleep in our sins and the wicked one getting power over us do not awake us out of our sleep and exclude us from the Kingdom of the Lord. Understand a little more Having seen the great signs and wonders among the people of the Jews and that the Lord doth so leave them therefore let us take heed lest happily we be found as it is written Many called few chosen For this cause the Lord endured to deliver up his body to death that we might be sanctified by remission of sins that is through the sprinkling of his bloud For it is written of him to the Jews and to us in this manner He was wounded for our transgressions bruised for our iniquities by his stripes we were healed He was led as a sheep to the slaughter and as a lamb before the shearer dumb so opened he not his mouth Therefore we ought exceedingly to rejoyce in the Lord because he hath shown unto us things past and hath made us wise neither are we without understanding of things to come But he saith The net surely is spread in vain in the sight of any bird This he saith in regard that that man shall justly perish who hath knowledge of the way of truth and yet will not refrain himself from the dark way Moreover the Lord endured to suffer for us and yet he is the Lord of the world to whom he said upon the day before the world was consummate Let us make man according to our image and similitude Learn therefore how much he endured who would suffer this from men The Prophets having the gift from him prophesied of him and he that he might abolish death and make manifest the Resurrection from the dead endured because it was necessary for him to appear in the flesh that he might make good the Promise to the Parents And preparing a new people by his being upon the earth he declared by making a Resurrection the judgement and in the end by teaching and doing great signs and wonders he preached to Israel and dearly loved him Then he chose proper Apostles who should preach his Gospel who were sinners above all sin that he might shew that he came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Then he manifested himself to be the Son of God For had he not come in the flesh how could men looking on him have been saved For the Sun which is the work of his hands men cannot look directly upon with their eyes intent upon the beams of it Therefore the Son of God came in the flesh that he might consummate the sins of those who persecuted his Prophets unto death And for this he endured For God saith By the stripe of his flesh all are healed And again When I shall smite the shepherd then shall the sheep of the flock be scattered He would thus suffer and it was necessarie that he should suffer upon the tree For he saith who prophesied of him Thou shalt deliver my soul from the sword And Fasten my flesh with nails for the congregations of wicked men are risen up against me And again he saith Behold I have given my back to scourges and my cheeks to strokes and set my face as a firm rock But when he had done the Command what saith he Who shall condemn me let him be set against me or who shall judge me let him come neer to the servant of the Lord Wo unto you for ye shall all wax old as a garment and the moth shall devour you Again the Prophet saith He was set a stone for contusion Behold I will lay in Sion for foundations a pretious stone elect a chief corner-stone honourable What saith he after And he who hopeth in it shall live for ever Is our faith therefore placed in a stone Far be it But because the Lord hath given strength unto his