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A59121 Remarques relating to the state of the church of the first centuries wherein are intersperst animadversions on J.H.'s View of antiquity. Seller, Abednego, 1646?-1705. 1680 (1680) Wing S2460; ESTC R27007 303,311 521

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Baptism This also was the Opinion of Origen S. Basil Orig. hom 5. in Josh to 1. fol. 154. L. ed. Merlin Basil exhort ad Baptis init Naz. tom 1. Orat. 40. p. 658. Athan. tom 2. quaest 38. ad Antioch p. 345. Gregory Nazianzen and others as well as of Athanasius So that I cannot but wonder at this extravagant Censure but all this stir about this dangerous Opinion arises at last such is Mr. H's unhappiness from a mistake of Scultetus out of whom this whole discourse of this Father's failings is transcribed for e Synthes doct Athanas c. 17. p. 157. he makes this to be our Patriarch's Errour not that the Sacraments of the old Testament were Types of the Sacraments of the new but that Circumcision and the Sabbath c. did only typifie but not confer grace contrary to that of the Apostle Rom. 4.11 who calls Circumcision a Seal of the Righteousness of Abraham's Faith XLII That Virginity is an Example of Angelical Purity is plain from that of S. Matthew 22.30 that the Saints shall be like the Angels and that explain'd by they shall neither marry nor be given in Marriage nor was it amiss to say that they are marryed to Christ who disengage themselves from the World the more readily to follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes and such admirable chastity cannot fail of getting it self veneration and respect every where and this may serve to apologize for the excessive praises of Virginity to which the Ancients every where give an extraordinary Eulogy XLIII The death of this great man happened not an Chr. 371. as Mr. H. wrongly quotes Baronius but an 372. Maii. 2. p. 297. annal to 4. an 372. pag. 33½ as the Cardinal both in his Martyrology and Annals doth fix it and his Festival was celebrated in both Churches on the second of May but in the Oriental Churches he had two Holy-days the last on the 18th of January a Festival dedicated to him and his Successor S. Cyril it being the day as Baronius conjectures of his Consecration to the Patriarchate of Alexandria and in the same celebrated Historian you may find that his Body was afterward brought into Europe and deposited at Venice he is styled in the Coptick Kalendar publish'd by a De Sp●●drio l. 3. c. 25. p. 398. Mr. Selden Athanasius the Apostle by b Chru●●p 314. cais Scalig. Nicephorus the Patriarch of Constantinople Athanasius the Martyr and to this day by all the Greeks Athanasius the great XLIV Of this name were many famous men Prelates of the Church c Bas●● 53. 67. So●on l. 6. c. 12. Philostorg l. 5. tem 1. one a Bishop of Ancyra a Contemporary with our Patriarch the d Ph●●esiorg l. 3. tom 15. p. 50. second an Arian of the same Age Bishop of Anazarbum in Cilicia a e Menolog Cr. A●g 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 third Bishop of Tarsus a Martyr under the Emperour Valerian a f Ev●gr hist lib. 3. c. 23. fourth this eminent Confessor's Successor in his own See circ an 490. whose immediate Predecessor was Peter Mongus but he was a Heretick and a great Patron of the Acephali There were also many others of the name whom I purposely omit And having thus tyred my Reader I leave him to refresh himself with the Panegyrick of the most Eloquent S. Gregory of Nazianzum On the great Athanasius Arch-Bishop of Alexandria Greg. Naz. Tom. 1. Orat. 21. p. 373. c. 'TO praise Athanasius is to make a Panegyrick on Virtue for when I name that admirable man it is the same as if I celebrated Virtue while a Constellation of those best qualities did shine in him or to speak more truly do still exert their Lustre for all they that have lived according to the Laws of God do still live to God although they have left this evil World For which reason God is called the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob not the God of the dead but of the living and when I write an Encomium of Virtue I shall magnifie God whose Donative to the Sons of men Virtue is that by that congenial light men may be led to the knowledge and embracing of himself For whereas the largesses of Heaven are many and eminent and beyond description the greatest and most merciful of his Favours are the Inclinations which he works in us towards himself and the Familiarity he blesseth us with For what the Sun is to sensible Beings that is God to rational Creatures the one sheds his Rays on the visible the other illustrates the invisible world the one illuminates the eyes of the body that it may see Heaven the other the Opticks of the mind that it may contemplate God And as the Sun whereas it confers on the eyes and all things visible powers that the one may see the other be seen while it self is the most beautiful and accomplish'd of visible Objects so God as he gives power to understand and a possibility of being comprehended is himself still the chiefest and most perfect of Intellectual Beings in whom all our desires terminate and above whom they cannot soare for neither can the most Philosophick aspiring and curious Intellect aim at any thing more sublime than God for he is the choicest of admirable Beings whom when men enjoy their Speculations are at their height for that man that breaks through his earthly Prison by the assistance of reason and contemplation and dispelling all carnal Clouds and Mists can converse with God and be united to the most illustrious light as much as humane frailty is capable of that man is happy both in that he can ascend to that glorious place and also there enjoy that Union with the Divine Nature which true Philosophy procures and a mind exalted above this inferiour world to the contemplation of the Unity of the Trinity But he whose Soul is debas'd by its Society with the Body and is yet immers'd in Clay so that it cannot look upon the Beauties of Truth nor exalt it self above earthly things though its Original were from Heaven and its Native tendencies thither that man is in my esteem blind and miserable though blest with the affluence of Worldly Felicities and so much the more wretched in that he is mock'd by his prosperity and deluded into the Opinion that there can be any thing good besides the chiefest and truest good gathering evil Fruit of an evil Sentiment to be confined to darkness to feel him as a consuming Fire whom he would not entertain as a comfortable light This was the study only of a few of the former Ages and the present saeculum for there are few Servants of God though all are his Creatures this wisdom being courted by a small company of Law-givers and Captains Priests Doctors and the rest of the Society of Spiritual persons and among them by this venerable Patriarch whom we now applaud And who were those brave Souls that