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A38744	The abridgment of Eusebius Pamphilius's ecclesiastical history in two parts ... whereunto is added a catalogue of the synods and councels which were after the days of the apostles : together with a hint of what was decreed in the same / by William Caton.; Ecclesiastical history. English	Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340.; Caton, William, 1636-1665.	1698 (1698)	Wing E3420; ESTC R1923	127,007	269

against which Pope Leo IX held two Synods in the year 1050 one at Rome and another at Vercle in which the opinion of these two were Condemned In the year 1126 did Peter de Brusius teach against Infants Babtizm Transubstantiation praying for the dead and such like things which he Preached near upon twenty years and finally because of this Doctrine was he Burned for then was the Pope begun to follow the Foot steps of the Arrians in Persecuting men to death for their Religion though it was not the practise of the Apostles In the year 1139 did Arnaldus teach against Infants Babtism Transubstantiation and other things but the Pope Innocentus the Second commanded him to be Silent fearing least he should spread this Doctrine much There was one Peter Abailardus of the same opinion And to this opinion many of the Clergy were brought insomuch that three Popes had enough to do one after another to reduce them to their Superstition Afterwards this Abailardus was apprehended and Burned to ashes in Rome Moreover there arose some who suffered themselves to be called Apostolical because they said they walked in the footsteps of the Apostles They rejected Infants Babtism the Purgatory praying for the dead and calling upon the Saines with other of the Romish Ceremonies they also rejected the priests that led a Sinful Life These were called Unlearned Blockish Clowns In the year 1176 There was a People raised up in the province of Albi in France whose opinion was as Baronius writes That Infants Babtism was not necessary to Salvation That an unworthy Sinful Priest could not administer the Sacrament that none should be Bishops except they were unreprovable that men should build no Churches to the Honour of God nor to the Honour of the Saints and that it was unlawful to Swear neither would they receive the Doctors Interpritations These people saith Baron were taken into the protection of some Princes and Rulers against whom the Pope made War because they would not Persecute them and expel them out of their Country In the year 1178. The King of France and the King of England observing how these People did daily increase They concluded together per force of Arms to expel them out of their Coasts But changing their mind they first laboured to convert them by the Clergy And to that end was there many Bishops and learned men sent to convert these whom they juged to be Heriticks by their Sermons but withal they sent several men with their Clergy that in case they with their Sermons reasons and Arguments could not overcome them that then the other should fall upon them and drive them out And when the Bishops with their Traine were come to the City Toulous where the aforesaid People were They ingaged the Citizens by an Oath to discover them they knew to be of this People And among the rest there was one Peter Moranus discovered and being examined he made a confession of his Faith freely and therefore was he presently condemned for a Heritick and all his goods were Confiseated with his sumpteous House in which he had holden Meetings and part of it was demolished But this Faithless Peter when he saw this Storm begun to fear and begun to be sorrowful seemingly and begged forgiveness And it was granted him with this condition that one Bishop with another man should whip him he going naked and barefoot towards the Church and that three years long he must go Pilgrimage to Ierusalem which then was become a fashion among the Apostazed Christians and when the three years were expired he was to have his Confiseated Goods again Now others of the aforesaid people observing this begun somewhat to fear and some seemed to recant but when there was an Oath required of them they refused to take it whereupon they were rejected as Heriticks and afterwards were Banished And it was commanded that all the Catholicks should shun them and that all Princes should expel them out of their Countrys In the year 1199 the the aforesaid people begun to be dispersed in many Citys and Countrys and their Doctrine begun to spread exceedingly yea through the most part of Europe That the Popes with the assistance of the Princes and secular powers had enough to do to root out the same First they endeavoured by disputing and afterwards by Banishment and lastly by all manner of Torturing Burning Hanging and cruell Bloodsheding so that the whole World seemed to be as in an uproar And this was all about Religion When that the Christians had gotten the power into their own Hands I mean the secular or earthly Power then did they by that power Persecute as they had been persecuted Compel as they had been complled and put men to Death about their Relegion as their Bretheren had been put to Death for their Religion And with this thing the Church of Rome hath not only corrupted her self but the most of the Sects that have come out of her when they got the carnal Sword in their Hands then did they endeavour to defend their Sect their Religion their Worship and their Discipline with that Sword which may kill the Body but connot slay nor destroy the Spiritual Wickedness in the Body which at this day abounds among Anti-Christians who are yet Persecuting about Worship Faith Religion and things of this Nature as their forefathers the Arrians did in whose steps most of the professors have been found who wrestle with flesh and blood And when that their Clargy could not prevail with their Original with their Philosophy with their quirks of Logick nor with their strong reasons and Arguments then were they to have the help of the Civil Magistrate unto whom they have cryed for help as the Jews did unto the men of Israel and often have they combined together for to kill and destroy that which God had made alive yea and to extinguish that which he had kindled as appears from what I have rehearsed And the same Spirit of enmity which hath been in the World since the beginning hath appeared often against the work of God and his Instruments as it now hath appeared against the true Christian-Quakers who are found in the footsteps of the suffering but not of the Persecuting Christians I might here add very much concerning the terrible and redious Persecution in Iermany and in the Low-Countrys which begun in the year 1524. And continued untill the year 1641. About the beginning of which the Emperour put forth a Proclamation wherein it was contained That all such as were found stained or polluted with the cursed Sect of Anabaptism for so he called it of what state or condition soever they were their adhaerents and compliences were to forfeit both their Lives and Estates and were to be brought to the utmost punishment without any delay especially those that continued constant and that had Baptized any likewise they that had the name of Prophets Apostles or Bishops

who could not bow to the Gods of the Heathen no more then the true Christians now can bow to the corrupt wills of Ambitious and unreasonable men and though the Innocent suffer therefore for the present yet for their sakes will the Lord shorten the days of the Wicked as he did the days of that Persecuting Emperour The Seventh Persecution IN the year 253. did the Seventh Persecution arise under the Emperour Decius who with Excessive Cruelty did Persecute the Christians In this Persecution several of the Bishops were put to death and such as were the chief among the Christians did they torture with many Torments and the Houses of the Christians they Plundred and that which the Plunderers did not esteem that they burned In this Persecution many suffered Martyrdom some being Burned some Beheaded Women so well as Men some being whipt to death and some Souldiers for Incouraging these Martyrs in their Suffering were put to death In this Terrible Persecution several departed from the Faith for fear of the Torments yet afterwards came to be restored again the Suffering of the Christians was great under this Emperour but his days were also shortened for he had not Raigned two years but was caught in a Whag of Mire where he met with a check or Reproof for his cruelty Note Thus it appears that the Christians that lived Godly in Christ-Iesus suffered Persecution according to what the Apostle hath said 2 Tim. 3 12. And many now that live Godly and Righteously do suffer not only the Imprisonment of their Bodies but also the Spoyling of their Goods which have been Spoyled both by Priests and People who have sometime as it were Plundred their Houses for their dishonest gain and they have shewed themselves in their carriage and behaviour to be liker unto the Heathen then the suffering Christians who suffered their Houses to be Plundred but we do not Read that they then Plundred the Houses of any but with patience suffered the Plundring of their Goods and in this patience and long Suffering are the Christians that are so not in Name only but in Nature found in these Perillous times Again have not some Souldiers been turned out of their places yea and brought into suffering for countenancing and favouring the Sober Innocent true Christians among whom some for fear of Suffering may in some respect desert the Truth as some faithless ones among the ancient Christians did yet we know certainly there are a Remnant that cannot bow their knee to Baall but would chuse rather to die the death which many ancient Christians suffered then they will forsake the Lords Truth or Transgress his Righteous Law by breaking his commands The Eighth Persecution IN the year 259. did the eighth Persecution arise under the Emperour Valerianus who put forth a Proclamation against the Christians wherein he forbad their Meetings and when this Proclamation or Order was not observed then did there follow a great Persecution of the Christians in which there was very many put to death and some were Banished and they converted of the Heathen in the place to which they were Banished but the Emperour under whom the Christians thus suffered did not go unreproved for his cruelty for he was taken Prisoner by the King of Persia who made use of him for a Foot-stool when he got up upon his Horse c. Note Hath it not happned so in England that by the Kings Proclamation the Meetings of the true Christians have been forbidden And when that they observed the Kings Proclamation no more then the antient Christians observed the Emperours hath not a great Persecution followed have not many of the Prisons he silled with them partly because they could not Swear and partly because they continved their Meetings when they were forbidden by the Kings Proclamation as the Religion of the Christians was forbidden by the Laws of the Heathen and therefore did the Heathen with much rigour pronounce these words unto the Christians Your Religion is forbidden by the Laws c. And did not Anti-christians the like when they abused them in their Meetings and broke them up with much Violence did they not also pronounce these words with much Rigour Your Meetings are forbidden by the Kings Proclamation c. And forasmuch as the true Christians now have chused rather to suffer Bonds and Imprisonment yea the spoyling of their Goods and what not then they would renounce the Faith deny their Religion or forsak the Assembling of themselves together it doth therefore appear that the same mind is found in them now which was heretofore in the antient Christians who chused rather to suffer the loss of their Lives then to forsake him for whose cause they suffered yet we see their Persecutors did not always go unreproved Oh! that other Kings Princes and Magistrates would take warning from that which happened to these Persecuting Emperours The Ninth Persecution IN the year 273. did the ninth Persecution arise under the Emperour Aurelianus but this Persecution was not so great as the other because he was cut off by death soon after he had determined the same yet in this Persecution was Felix the Bishop of Rome put to Death with several others here and there in divers places Note Often doth the Lord frustate the purposes and Determinations of such as conspire Mischief against his People yea have we not seen sundry Powers overturned in England and Parliments broken up and Councels if not Committees also shattered to pieces when they have been determined to do Wickedly so that sometime they have not had power to bring that forth which they had Conceived and brought to the Birth so mightily hath the Lord confounded their Conspiracies and brought their devices to nought and this the true Christians have concluded to be the Lords doing which they have beheld and which thing hath been indeed marvelous in their Eyes The Tenth Persecution IN the year 302. begun the Tenth Persecution which was so great that it exceeded all that had been before it not only in cruelty but in continuance for it continued 12 Years Eusebius who lived at that time Writes of it at large in his Eclesiastical History saying it was occasioned through the freedom of the Christians who were come into great Reputation and were put in places of Office to Rule in Countrys and Cities but through their prosperity and voluptuousness Brotherly Love came to decrease Haughtyness and Pride got up and in stead of the worship of God an insolent authority begun to get up in the Church of the Christians And at that time the Emperour Diocletianus gave forth a Proclamation wherein he commanded that all the Christian Churches should be pulled down and the Holy Scriptures Burned and that the Christians should be turned out of their places with other such like things After that there came another Order that they should cause the chief of of the Church to offer unto Idols or else they were to be put to