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A55337	The Famous epistles of Saint Polycarp and Saint Ignatius, disciples to the holy Evangelist and Apostle Saint John with the epistle of St. Barnabas and some remarks upon their lives and deaths / translated according to the best copies out of the original Greek into English by Thomas Elborowe.	Elborow, Thomas.; Ignatius, Saint, Bishop of Antioch, d. ca. 110.; Barnabas, Apostle, Saint.; Polycarp, Saint, Bishop of Smyrna.	1668 (1668)	Wing P2790A	57,030	136

double tongue for a double tongue is the snare of death Thou shalt be subject to the Lord to Masters as to the type of God in reverence and fear Thou shalt not command thy maid or man-servant with bitterness especially those who hope in him lest thou be found destitute of the fear of God who is over both For he came not to call men by their persons but those whom his spirit prepared Thou shalt communicate to thy neighbour in all things and shalt not call any thing thine own for if ye are communicative in incorruptible things how much more in corruptible Thou shalt not be hastie in tongue for the mouth is the snare of death Keep thy Soul as chaste as thou canst Do not stretch forth thy hands to receive and shut them when thou shouldst give Thou shalt love every man speaking to thee the Word of the Lord as the apple of thine eye Mind the day of judgement night and day Seek out every day the persons of holy men and searching by the Word go forth to exhort and meditate to save a soul by the Word And thou shalt labour by thy hands for the redemption of thy sins Thou shalt not doubt to give nor murmur when thou givest Give to every one that asketh of thee but know withal who is the good recompenser 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

mistake 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being put for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This Epistle so excellent for the building of us up in Faith and Love and in whatever may adorn Christian Profession I now offer to the charitable and courteous Reader translated into English out of that Greek copie which was published by the Right Reverend Prelate and learned Antiquarie Doctor Vsher Primate of Ireland and printed at Oxford Anno Dom. 1644. The Epistle of Saint Polycarp Bisho● of Smyrna and holy Martyr to th● Philippians POLYCARP and the Presbyter● with him to the Church of Go● within the Diocess of Philippi Mercy unto you and Peace from God Almighty and from the Lord Jesus Christ ou● Saviour be multiplied I congratulate yo● highly in our Lord Jesus Christ in that y● 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 rendring 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 our 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

judgements who have discovered truth to be in those very interpolate Epistles Andrew Rivet an eminent man makes this out sufficiently However I now publish those Epistles which are genuine and in all respects agreeing with the testimony of the Antients so that they who will deny these must deny also that this Martyr ever wrote any Epistles But let them enjoy their own opinion for my part I am assured that they will meet with very few of the same and none that can be of it with reason But Courteous Reader thou art indebted to the Medicaean Library that thou hast these writings of Ignatius pure and not counterfeit and thou art indebted to the most Serene Prince Ferdinand the second the great Duke of Etruria through whose incomparable Love to Learning and Study I gained an opportunity of having the use of that famous Librarie and so of finding out this incomparable treasure of Ignatius which we now exhibit and publish to the world The Epistles of Saint Ignatius To the Smyrneans Ignatius who is also Theophorus to the Church of God the Father and of the beloved Jesus Christ which hath obtained mercy in all Grace replete with Faith and 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

consummate the sins of those who persecuted his Prophets unto death And for this he endured For God saith By the stripe of his Isai 53. flesh all are healed And again When I shall smite the shephered then shall the sheep of the Zech. 13. 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 confusion 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 flesh For he saith And he hath set me as a strong rock Again the Prophet saith The stone which the builders refused is made the head of the corner And again he saith This is the great and wonderful day which the Lond hath made I write the more simply to you that ye may understand I am the off-scouring of your love What saith the Prophet again The congregation of wicked men came about me they enclosed me as bees do the wax And They cast a lot upon my vesture Seeing he should be manifest in the flesh and should suffer his Passion was manifested long before For the Prophet saith to Israel Wo to the soul of profane men for they take evil cou●sel against themselves saying Let us sei● upon the righteous for he is unpleasing to u● Moses also saith unto them Behold thes● things saith the Lord God Enter into t●● good land which the Lord hath sworn to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and inherit th● land flowing with milk and honey Lear● what knowledge saith Hope in Jesus who will come in the flesh to be manifested unto you Man is a suffering land For from the face of the earth was the figment of Adam driven Why therefore saith he A good land flowing with milk and honey Blessed be our Lord who hath put wisdom and understanding in us of his secrets For the Prophet saith Who shall understand the parable of the Lord but onely the wise and the intelligent and he who is a lover of the Lord. Seeing therefore he renewing us by remission of sins hath made us to be another figure he hath made us to have souls like children and hath formed us anew For what he saith to the Son the Scripture saith concerning us We will make man according to our image and likeness and let them rule over the beasts of the earth and the fowls of heaven and the fishes of the sea And the Lord seeing man an excellent figure he said Increase and ultiply and replenish the earth These things the Son Again I will shew you how in ●e last days he made a second figure as ●oncerning us The Lord saith Behold I ●ill make the last things as the former and herefore did the Prophet preach thus say●ng Enter into the land flowing with milk and ●oney and have dominion over it Behold herefore we are formed a new as he also ●aith in another Prophet Behold saith the Lord I will take from them that is from those whom the spirit of the Lord hath foreseen their ●earts of stone and will give them hearts of flesh For he was to be manifested in the flesh and to dwell in us For my brethren the inhabitation of our hearts in an holy temple to the Lord. Again the Lord saith How shall I appear before the Lord my God and how shall I glorifie him He saith I will confess unto thee in the Church in the midst of my brethren and will praise thee in the midst of the Church of Saints Therefore we are they whom he hath brought into the good land But why milk and honey because a little child is first quickned with milk and honey and nourished So we also being nourished and enlivened by the faith of the Promise and the Word shall live and have dominion over the earth For he said before Let them increase and rule over the fishe● What can this be now that a man shoul● have power to rule the beasts or fishes o● fowls of the heaven For we ought to b● sensible To govern is of power and a●thoritie and he shall bear rule who thereto appointed And if this be not now he hath said that it shall be when whe● we our selves may be perfected to b● made heirs of the Covenant of the Lord Vnderstand therefore sons of joy that th● good Lord hath before hand manifested al● things to us that we might know whom we ought to praise with thanks-giving according to all Therefore if the Son of God being Lord who also shall judge the quick and dead hath suffered that his stripes may enliven us we ought to believe that this Son of God could not suffer unless it was for us And when he was crucified he had Vineger and gall given him to drink Hear how the priests of the people have manifested this there being a command written concerning it The Lord commanded that if a man would not fast the fast he should be destroyed Because he would offer up in sacrifice for our sins the vessel of the spirit that the type also which was made in Isaac offered upon the Altar might be completed What saith he further by the Prophet And ●et them eat of the goat offered on the fast for ●he sins of all Mark diligently and let all ●he Priests alone eat the entrails unwashed with vineger Why this because ye shall give me gall and vineger to drink when I shall offer up my flesh for the sins of the New people Eat ye alone the people fasting and bewailing in sackcloth and ashes that he might demonstrate that it behooved him to suffer by them Therefore what hath he given in command observe Take two goats fair and alike and offer them and let the Priest take one for an Holocaust but what shall he do with the other He saith Let one be made an execration Mark how the figure of Jesus is manifested And ye shall all spit upon it and pierce it and put crimson wooll about the head of it and so let it be sent into the wilderness and when this is done he who bears the goat into the wilderness shall take of the wooll and put it upon a dry brushie thorn called