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A36258	Two letters of advice I. For the susception of Holy Orders, II. For studies theological, especially such as are rational : at the end of the former is inserted a catalogue of the Christian writers, and genuine works that are extant of the first three centuries.	Dodwell, Henry, 1641-1711.	1672 (1672)	Wing D1822; ESTC R16080	115,374	358

let you understand their stability in keeping their Resolutions which will both keep them careful in their daily practices when as yet they are uncertain of their condition and will come with more comfort either in a time of Spiritual dejection or the hour of Death when they shall find that you are neither precipitant nor favourable in judging concerning them ●esides that their pardon before God in order to the Sacrament will be never the less valid because you do not assure them of it And in doing this it were well that with advice of your Ordinary you would retrive the Canon of this Church of Ireland for tolling your Parish Bell the Evening before the Eucharist and waiting for such in the Church as are desirous to Confess themselves or ask your Ghostly counsel withall warning them of those crimes which you are not obliged to conceal that they may not think themselves betrayed under pretence of Religion Besides you should be ready to take all occasions of Peoples seriousness and melancholy whether for Temporal discontents or for fear of Death and upon such occasions to warn the Spectators to beware of deferring the care of their Souls to such exigencies who will then most probably be affected and so to behave your self to the person principally concerned as that the standers by may understand the ground of his comfort to be rather his past life than any indications he can give of his present penitence And upon occasion of your visitation of sick persons you should remember what the Rubrick of the Office requires you to put them that are rich in mind of laying up a good foundation for the time to come 1 Tim. vi 17. 18. 19. of shewing their gratitude to God who has blessed them by paying him an acknowledgment out of their gains and shewing themselves not to be Proprietors but faithful Stewards especially if the Riches be justly gotten otherwise you must refuse their very Oblations till they have first made satisfaction to the persons injured by them But what is justly gotten and may be lawfully accepted it were better bestowed in a considerable summe for houses of Correction for maintaining idle Vagabonds and raising them to do something profitable for a livelihood for educating and raising necessitious persons to an honest Calling for helping those who are reclaimed from a scandalous course for all those good uses which in the Primitive Church were supplyed out of the common Treasures of the Church than in transient Almes Many other things might have been added but that you may Remember I did not promise you an enumeration of all particulars of this kind Onely these seem more necessary for reducing your People to a ruleable Temper without which your other care will not be so significant I hope you will excuse the freedom I have taken for my own part I thought I could not have discharged the duty of a faithful friend if I had not done so Otherwise I have been so far from imposing on you that I have not advised any thing which either is not evident or has not its reason insinuated with it in the body of my discourse and so may freely be judged of either by your self or any other whom you shall make use of either for its Correction or Improvement Whatever the event may prove assure your self it was undertaken with a good intention by Your assured well-wisher especially in such Christian Services H. D. Ad Num. XII XIII BEcause I have there shewn the necessity of studying the Fathers of the first and purest Centuries as a qualification for the susception of Orders it has been by some friends that perused it conceived convenient for the Instruction of Novices for whose use this Advice was principally calculated and designed that I should adjoyn a Catalogue of the Christian Authors and writings such as are genuine during that Period till the Conversion of Constantine to Christianity together with good Editions where they might find and furnish themselves with them I was soon satisfied of the reasonableness of this request and have accordingly endeavoured its performance wherein if I may seem decretory in resolving positively somethings controverted among learned men without producing my reasons I desire that it may be remembred that my design was not to prejudicate against skilful dissenters but to advise such as were unskilful and that even in regard of them the reason why I do not produce my reasons is not that by concealment of my evidence I might oblige them to depend on my Authority but partly to avoyd prolixity and partly because I do not conceive such unskilful Readers competent Judges of them and partly because such as are may consult many others who have undertaken it professedly and that though the reasons be not produced yet the degree of assent whether certain or doubtful or probable is warned which was the most cautious way I could imagine of dealing with such persons especially these things themselves not being delivered from my own private sense but of such as have most learnedly and impartially managed this subject I do not intend as much as to mention such Authors or writings which I conceive undeservedly to pretend to my prescribed Period what my thoughts are concerning such may be sufficiently concluded from my not mentioning them nor to explode such works as are falsly inscribed to the particular persons whose names they bear if upon other regards they may seem genuine in respect of the time intended that is if it be probable that their Authors who ever they were flourished within the Period intended about the time wherein they are ranked that so they may be presumed competent Testimonials of the state of the Church in those Ages which is the end for which I produce and recommend them Nor shall I trouble my self to recount such genuine truly-inscribed works themselves as either are not at all extant at present or extant onely in Fragments quoted at the second hand from other antient Authors for these will be in order met with in the places from whence they are respectively produced and references to those places will generally be found in their good and accurate Editions Nor lastly do I pretend to give an account of such Histoans as have described the Acts of the Martyrs and are conceived ancient for both many of them are Anonymous concerning whom it would be very hard to resolve on their particular Age and it is a work particularly undertaken by it self by Surius Lippomannus c. In those Authors therefore which shall after these deductions remain proper for my purpose I shall signifie the time they flourished in which is most necessary for my present design of discovering their Testimonial Authority not by years which would be obnoxious to many further disputes but by the beginning middle or end of their respective Centuries since the Incarnation A Catalogue of the writings of such Christian Authors as flourished before the Conversion of the

Romane Empire to Christianity I. CLemens Romanus His i. Epistle to the Corinthians undoubted His 2. Ep. to the same though question'd whether his yet certainly is of an Author very ancient flourishing within the Period intended Edit of a Fragment of the later and the former almost entire by Patricius Junius at Oxford Anno. Dom. MDC XXXVIII II. I Gnatius His vi Ep. of Primate Vsher's Latine and Isa ac Vossius's Florentine Greek Editions viz. Ad Ephesios Ad Magnesianos Ad Trallianos Ad Smyrnaeos Ad Romanos Ad Philadelphienses questioned onely I think out of interest by the Presbyterians because he is decretory against them His Epistle ad Polycarpum is thought by Isaac Vosfius in his notes undeservedly questioned by our Primate Edit by Primate Vsher at Oxford partly An. Do. MDCXLIV partly MDCXLVI III. BArnabas His Epistle if not of the Apostle yet certainly written about this time seing it is quoted under his name by Clemens Alexandrinus Strom. ii p. 273. 274. 285. 290. 300. v. 417. 421. and Origen L. 1. Cont. Cels L. iii. Periarch and others Edit together with Ignatius's Epistles by Isaac Vossius A. D. MDCXLVI or alone by Hugo Menardus Paris MDCXLV IV. ESdras His iv Book Apocryphall counterfeited by some Judaizing Christian about these times V. HErmes Trismegistus His Poemauder thought to be a Christiancounterfeit by Casaubon Exercit i. in Baron num x. Edit the best by Hannibal Rosellis Colon. Agrip MDCXXX fol. VI. POlycarpus His Epistle to the Philippians undoubted Edit with Ignatius by Primate Vsher as aforesaid VII ECclesiae Smyrnensis Epistola concerning the Martyrdome of St. Polycarp c. larger than in Eusebius Edit the same VIII JVstine Martyr His undoubted works Paraeneticus Oratio adversùs Graecos Apologia I. ad Antoninum Pium c. Apologia II. ad Marcum Antoninum c. Dialogus cum Tryphone Epistol ad Zenam Serenum His works though doubted yet most probably genuine De Monarchiô not much questioned Epistol ad Diognetum questioned I think onely by Sylburgius Edit Paris MDCXV Graeco-Latin IX HErmas His Pastor in III. Books undoubtedly ancient and about this time at least as appears by the antiquity of the Authours that quote it Edit Bibliothec. Patr. Colon. Agrippin MDCXVIII Tom. I. p. 27. X. PIus the I. His III. and IV. Epistles in the order of Blondells Edition not much questioned Edit David Blondell Epistol Pontific Genev. MDCXXVIII XI A Thenagoras His works though mentioned by none of the Ancients yet never questioned that I know of Legatio pro Christianis De Resurrectione Mortuorum Edit with St. Justine Martyr as aforesaid XII TAtianus undoubted Oratio ad Graecos Edit with S. Justine Martyr as aforesaid Diatessaron thought to be the same with Harmonia Evangelica extant under the name of Ammonius Alexandrinus Edit Biblioth Patr. Edit Colon Agrip. Tom. III. p. 22. XIII THeophilus Antiochenus undoubted Lib. III. ad Autolycum Edit with St. Justine Martyr as aforesaid Commentaria or Allegoriae in Evangelia somewhat doubted of by St. Hierome in Cant. who quotes them Edit Biblioth Patr. Colon. Agrip Tom. II. XIV I Renaeus undoubted Adversùs Hereses L. V. Edit the most compleat that I have seen is that of Fevardentius having besides as much of the Original Text in Greek as could be had from the quotations of ancient Authors V. whole chapters restored at the end not extant in any former His notes tend rather generally to abuse the Protestants than to explain the sense of his Author It is in fol. Colon Ag. MDXCVI I hope we may ere long expect a better Edition from Oxford XV. ORacul Sibyllin L. VIII A counterfeit Christian Author quoted by St. Justine Martyr and Theoph. Antiochenus but not reduced into the form wherein we have it now till about the time of the Emperor Commodus at least Edit Opsopoei Parisijs MDCVII XVI TEstamenta Patriarcharum counterfeited by some ancient Judaizing Christian about this time at the uttermost for it is quoted by Origen in Genes Edit Biblioth Patr. Colon. Agrip. Tom. I. p. 173. XVII CLemens Alex andrinus undoubted Protreptic Paedagog L. III. Stromat L. VII The VIII Book as also the Greek Eclogae annexed at the end of it thought to belong to his Hypotyposes the main body whereof is long since lost Edit Parisijs MDCXL His 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 published under the name of Grigen's XX. Homily on Jerem is accordingly extant in Mich Ghislerius on Jerem Tom. III. p. 262. Comment in I. Ep. S. Petr. in Epist S. Judae in Ep. Canonicas S. Joh●nnis Are probably the same accounted his by Cassiodore Div. L. by whom they are all recounted excepting that of S. Jude They seem rather to have been collected out of his works especially his Hypotyposes now lost than drawn up in this form by St. Clement himself Edit of the Comment Bib. Patr. Tom. I. p. 1235. Ed. Secund. XVIII REcognitionum L. X. ad Jacob. Fratrem Domini translated by Ruffinus and by him dedicated to one Gaudentius I do not suppose it to be the genuine work of Clemens Romanus whose name it bea●s for it is certainly later than Bardesanes Syrus a discourse of whose quoted from him by Eusebius Pr. Evang. L. VI. c. 10. is here transcribed at large and yet considerably ancienter than Origen Philocal by whom it is attributed to Clemens Romanus himself which is the reason why I place it about this time Edit Colon. Agrippin MDLXIX by Lambert Gruterus XIX CElsus His Altercatio Jasonis Papisci A Preface to it is extant under the name of St. Cyprian ad Vigilium de Judaicâ Incredulitate Edit Tom. III. of S. Cyprian's works according to Pamelius's distinction But the work is ancienter than Origen by whom it is quoted L. IV. advers Celsum Epicuraeum XX. TErtullianus undoubted De Pallio Apologeticus De Testimonio Animae Ad Scapulam De Oratione Ad Martyras De Spectaculis De Idololatriâ De Habitu Muliehri De cultu Faeminarum L. II. Ad Vxorem suam L. II. De Coronâ Militis De velandis Virginibus Ad Nationes L. II first published by Jacobus Gothof●edus in 40. Genev. MDCXXV therefore not to be expected in former Editions Adversùs Judaeos De Praescriptionibus adversùs Haereticos De Baptismo Adversùs Hermogenem Adversùs Valentinianos De Anima De Carne Christi De Resurrectione Carnis De Fugâ in Persecutione De Pudreitiâ De Patientiâ Adversùs Asar●ionem L. V. Carminum adversùs eundem L. V. Scorpiacon adversùs Gnosticos Adversùs r axeam De Exhortatione Cas●itatis De Monogamiâ De J●junto adversùs Psychicos A●● th●se are in Ludovicus a Cerda's Edition Paris MDCXXIV c. in three volumes fol. with Notes Or if you would have an Edition of an easier price get that of Franeker MDXCII rather than many others though later Books probably his