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A45496	Archaioskopia, or, A view of antiquity presented in a short but sufficient account of some of the fathers, men famous in their generations who lived within, or near the first three hundred years after Christ : serving as a light to the studious, that they may peruse with better judgment and improve to greater advantage the venerable monuments of those eminent worthies / by J.H.	Hanmer, Jonathan, 1606-1687.; Howe, John, 1630-1705.; Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1677 (1677)	Wing H652; ESTC R25408	262,013	452

his heart to attribute it unto him 76. A fragment taken out of Athanasius concerning the Observation of Sabbaths Unto these there are added seven homilies more never before extant by Lucas Holsteinius out of the French Kings the Vatican and Oxford Libraries and they are these following 1. Of the taxing of the Virgin Mary upon Luke 2. 1. 2. Upon Matth. 21. 2. Upon whi●h text we had an Homily before viz. the 41. in this Catalogue 3. Upon Luke 19. 36. which with the former Holstein verily believes to be of Athanasius 4. Upon the Treason of Iudas which as also the following hath the Character of Athanasius by Photius 5. Upon the holy Pascha which of all is the best and most Elegant 6. Upon the man that was born blind Iohn 9. 1. which together with the following hath nothing of Athanasius in it nec vola nec vestigium but the title only 7. Upon the Fathers and Patriarchs a most foolish rustick and barbarous piece They may all well be conceived to be of very small credit having lain so long dormant Also certain Commentaries upon the Epistles of Paul are by some ascribed unto Athanasius which yet are not his but Theophylacts Some of his works are lost of which the Names or Titles are these that follow 1. Commentaries upon the whole book of Psalms which I think saith Holstein to be Palmarium Athanasii opus the chief of Athanasius his works 2. Upon Ecclesiastes 3. Upon the Canticles 4. A Volum upon Iohn § 4. Athanasius hath a peculiar stile or manner of speech making use of words which were known only unto the age wherein he lived and neither before nor after The subject whereof he for the most part treateth being very high viz. of the Trinity of the Son begotten of the Father before all time equal unto him but distinct in person from him c. Yet making use of terms very apt to express those hidden and mysterious things by which cannot well be rendred in the Latine or other Tongue without loss or lessning the grace of them such are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. He shunneth all flourishes and expresseth the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God in Evangelical words In his speech he useth much simplicity gravity and energy and saith Erasmus he is wonderful in teaching He is most plain in his Commentaries yet in all his writings perspicuous sober and candid in his five books against Arius vehement and profound managing his arguments very strongly moreover so fruitful is he and abundant as is indeed very admirable But his Epistles especially those wherein by way of Apology he excuseth his flight are both elegant and splendid and composed with much clearness flourishing with such neatness and force of perswasion that it is pleasant to hear how he pleads for himself § 5. Many are the memorable and worthy passages that are to be found in his works for a tast I shall present you with these that follow 1. His Symbol or Creed every where received and recited in the Churches both of the East and West it was so famous and generally approved of that it was embraced with an unanimous consent as the distinguishing Character between the Orthodox and Hereticks Nazianzen calls it a magnificent and princely gift Imperatori inquit donum verè regium magnificum offert Scriptam nimirum fidei confessionem adversus novum dogma nusquam in Scripturâ expressum ut sic Imperatorem Imperator doctrinam doctrina libellum libellus frangeret atque opprimeret It is as it were an interpretation of those words of Christ Iohn 17. 3. This is life eternal to know thee the only true God and Iesus Christ whom thou hast sent And may be divided into these two parts 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Athanasius saith Doctor Andrews in his speech against Mr. Trask was great for his Learning for his Vertue for his Labors for his sufferings but above all Great for his Creed The words whereof are these Whosoever will be saved before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholick Faith which Faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled without doubt he shall perish everlastingly And the Catholick faith is this That we worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity Neither confounding the Persons nor dividing the Substance For there is one Person of the Father another of the Son and another of the holy Ghost But the Godhead of the Father of the Son and of the holy Ghost is all one the glory equal the Majesty Coeternal Such as the Father is such is the Son and such is the holy Ghost The Father uncreate the Son uncreate and the holy Ghost uncreate The Father incomprehensible the Son incomprehensible and the holy Ghost incomprehensible The Father eternal the Son eternal and the holy Ghost eternal And yet they are not three eternals but one eternal As also there are not three incomprehensibles nor three uncreated but one uncreated and one incomprehensible So likewise the Father is Almighty the Son Almighty and the holy Ghost Almighty and yet they are not three Almighties but one Almighty So the Father is God the Son is God and the holy Ghost is God and yet they are not three Gods but one God So likewise the Father is Lord the Son Lord and the holy Ghost Lord and yet not three Lords but one Lord. For like as we be compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by himself to be God and Lord so are we forbidden by the Catholick Religion to say there be three Gods or three Lords The Father is made of none neither created nor begotten The Son is of the Father alone not made nor created but begotten The holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son neither made nor created nor begotten but proceeding So there is one Father not three Fathers one Son not three Sons one holy Ghost not three holy Ghosts And in this Trinity none is afore or after other none is greater or less then another But the whole three Persons be coeternal together and coequal So that in all things as is aforesaid the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped He therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity Furthermore it is necessary to everlasting salvation that he also believe rightly in the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the right faith is that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God is God and Man God of the substance of the Father begotten before the worlds and Man of the substance of his Mother born in the world Perfect God and perfect Man of a reasonable soul and humane flesh subsisting Equal to the Father as touching his Godhead and inferior to the Father touching his manhood Who though he be God and Man

given to the Bishops of Rome of the real presence of collegiate and cloystered Virgins of the vertue of the Sign of the Cross to terrifie the Devil of their Feasts and lenten Fast of the authority of Traditions and of the Church of Rome And well may they be driven to such shifts who shun the Scripture● as insufficient yea justly are they given up to these delusions who not contenting themselves with the Sacred Oracles alone and the Doctrines contained in them which are able to make perfect and wise unto salvation do fansie and devise new ones in their own brains and then Coyn and impose authorities pretendedly Ancient for the maintaining of them Frivolous therefore and vain is the flourish of Baronius that it came to pass by the admirable Counsel and providence of God that these Epistles should all of them be written by Ignatius and notwithstanding the shipwrack which so many writings have suffer'd yet that these should be preserved intire and uncorrupt whereas 't is very evident that the greater part of them now extant are counterfeit and not his and the genuine miserably corrupted and alter'd So that it may upon better ground be said that herein the good providence of God hath been eminently seen that he hath been pleased to stir up and assist some of his servants in vindicating the writings of this and other of the Ancients from the injury that hath been offered them by base and disingenuous spirits who have preferr'd their own interest before the honour and truth of God and in plucking off the vizar and discovering the fraud and Leger-demain of those that would abuse and cheat the world by the obtrusion of Novelty instead of Antiquity thereupon § 4. His stile savours of a certain holy simplicity as did the State of the Church at that time full of gravity suitable unto a primitive Bishop lively fiery and solid becoming so glorious a Martyr § 5. That which is chiefly remarkable in these Epistles are those passages which are mentiond by Eusebius and Ierom as being most unquestionably such as fell from the penof this blessed Martyr wherein are in a lively manner drawn and deciphered the purtraiture of his most excellent spirit his singular and vigorous love to the Lord Jesus whose name is said to have been ingraven upon his heart in letters of gold as also his undaunted courage and Magnanimity in his cause accompanied with unconquerable constancy and sweet humility 1. His earnest desire of Martyrdom he thus expresseth From Syria even unto Rome I fight with beasts by land and sea night and day bound with ten Leopards i.e. with a guard of Souldiers who are the worse for favors But I am the more instructed by their injustice yet neither hereby am I justified Would to God I might injoy the beasts which are prepared for me who I wish may make quick dispatch with me and whom I will allure to devour me speedily lest as they have been terrified at others and did not touch them so they would not dare to touch my body and if they will not I will even force them thereunto Pardon me I know what is best for me Now I begin to be a Disciple of Christ desiring nothing of these things which are seen so I may win Jesus Christ. Let fire cross and troops of violent beasts breaking of bones dissipation of members contrition of the whole body and all the torments of the Divel let them all come upon me that I may injoy Jesus Christ. 2. When he was now condemned to the wild beasts and with an ardent desire of suffering heard the Lions roaring saith he I am the wheat of God whom the teeth of wild beasts shall grind that I may be found the pure or fine bread of God Immediately before which go these words I write to all the Churches and injoyn them all because I willingly die for God if ye hinder not I beseech you therefore that your love toward me be not unseasonable Suffer me to become the meat of wild beasts by whom I may obtain God 3. His care of the Churches was very great whom he earnestly presseth to holiness and a conversation becoming the Gospel And commendeth unto Polycarp whom he well knew to be an Apostolical Man the Flock or Congregation of Antioch praying him to be careful of the business there about the election of a Bishop or Pastor in his room manifesting herein his zeal for God and his glory as also his cordial affection and fidelity to the brethren Besides these there are in the Epistles other things worthy of notice though not so undoubtedly his as the above-mention'd They are such as these 4. His Creed or brief sum of Christian Doctrine wherein he accords with the Apostles Creed His words are Beloved I would have you to be fully instructed in the Doctrine of Christ who before all ages was begotten of the Father afterward made of the Virgin Mary without the company of man and conversing holily and without blame he healed all manner of infirmities and sicknesses among the people and did signs and wonders for the benefit of men and revealed his Father one and the only true God and did undergo his passion and by his murtherers the Jews suffered on the Cross under Pontius Pilate President and Herod the King and was dead and rose again and ascended into heaven unto him that sent him and fitteth at his right hand and shall come in the end of the world in his Fathers Glory to judge the quick and the dead and to render unto every one according to his works He that shall fully know and believe these things is blessed 5. Though he were one of the most eminent men of his time both for Piety and Learning yet out of the depth of his humility he thus speaks of himself when bound for Christ and his truth and lead toward his Martyrdom stiling his chains 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spiritual pearls although I be bound saith he yet am I not to be compared unto any one of you that be at liberty Again speaking of the Pastours of the Church saith he I blush to be named and accounted in the number of them for I am not worthy being the last lowest or meanest of them and an abortive thing he also divers times stiles himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the least 6. Speaking of the Lords day let every Christian saith he Celebrate as a Festival the day of the Lords resurrection which is the most eminent of all days 7. A Pious and Religious Man is money Coyned and stamped of God but a wicked and irreligious Man is false and counterfeit Coyn of the Devils making Matth. 22. 20. 8. As touching Antiquity thus I have heard saith he some to say I will not believe if I find not the Gospel among the Ancient Records But to such I say that JESUS CHRIST is to me

it is that most Mens stiles do differ as well as their faces suus cuique stilus est inquit Erasmus quisque suum quendam habet gustum peculiarem every one hath somewhat peculiar to him in this partic●lar Accordingly our Author being a Man ●cris vehementis Ingenii of a rough sharp and vehement spirit makes use of a stile answerable viz. quick and crabbed and consequently harsh and obscure which he did of purpose affecting it as most agreeable to his Genius so that his expressions are such even in things that are plain and easie This Rhenanus renders as the reason why his writings had so many faults or Errataes in them viz. ●eglectus aut●ris quo multis annis non est lectotum manibus tritus ips●m dicendi g●nus affectatum Africanum affectati stili durities molestiam addit quod etiam magis effecit ut minùs leg●retur quàm quidvis aliud Which betided the Poet Persius qui consul●ò est obscurus suisque scriptis caliginem tenebras exindustriâ objecit for being by one taken in hand and perceived to be so dark and cloudy he was fairly laid aside with such like words as these Si nol●t intelligi non legetur 4. His converse in the Greek Authors whom he diligently read being very skilful in that Tongue idenim temporis nihil extaba● inquit Rhenanus apud Latinos in sacris praeter testamentum utrumque tantum Victor Apollonius scripserant opuscula hence it is that transcribing much from them he retains their phrases though he quote not his Authors which was the manner of the first ages viz. to cite none by name but the sacred Scriptures only especially if they had drawn the Water out of the Wells of the Greeks and imitates their manner of speaking By his assiduous perusal of their Books saith Pamelius adeò Graecas loquendi formulas imbiberit ut etiam Latinè seribens illarum oblivisci nequiret he so drank in their forms of speech that when he comes to write in Latin he cannot forget them and both himself and Rhenanus have taken notice of many phrases in him which he borrows from the Greeks and wherein he conforms unto them Most of these I find observed by that Learned French-man Mr. Iohn Daille in his choice Treatise concerning the right use of the Fathers What shall I say saith he of Tertullian who besides his natural harshness and roughness which you meet with in him throughout and that Carthagmian spirit and genius which is common to him with the rest of the African writers hath yet shadowed and over-cast his conceptions with so much learning and with so many new terms and passages out of the Law and with such variety of all visions subtilties and nice points as that the greatest stock both of learning and attention that you can bring with you will be all little enough to fit you for a perfect understanding of him § 5. This father is full fraught with and abounds in grave and excellent sentences some few whereof I shall here insert which may serve a little to acquaint us with the state of those times in reference unto both the Doctrine and Discipline then professed and practised in the Chuches of Christ. 1. Take a view of his Symbol or Creed containing a summary of the faith which was generally received and maintained in his time Altogether one the only immoveable and irreformable rule as he stiles it which is this To believe that there is but one God nor he any other beside the Creator of the world who made all things of nought by his word first of all sent forth Colos. 1. 16 17. That word to be call'd his Son in the name of God variously seen by the Patriarchs always heard by the Prophets last of all brought down by the Spirit of God the Father and Power into the Virgin Mary made flesh in her womb and of her born a man and that he is Jesus Christ moreover that he preached a new law and a new promise of the Kingdom of Heaven that he wrought or did wonders was fastned to the Cross arose the third day that being taken up into heaven he sate down on the right of the Father sent the power of the Ghost in his stead that he might guide or act believers that he shall come in glory to take the Saints into the fruition of eternal life and heavenly promises and to adjudge the wicked unto perpetual fire a resurrection of each part being made with the restitution of the flesh This rule instituted by Christ as shall be proved hath no question made of it among us but which Heresies bring in and which makes Hereticks A compend or brief hereof is to be seen in the beginning of his book of the veiling of Virgins as also in that against Praxeas the Heretick unto which he subjoyns these words This Law of Faith remaining other things that concern discipline and conversation do admit of a newness of Correction the grace of God working and making a proficiency unto the end So that where there is a consent in the fundamental and substantial truths of the Gospel differences in things of less moment may be born with nor should they cause divisions among Christians That rule holding here that Opinionum varietas opinantium unitas non sunt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He adds that this rule hath ran down from the beginning of the Gospel even before any heresie sprung up insomuch as from hence this appears to be a firm Truth id esse verum quodcunque primum id esse adulterum quodcunque posterius Again The Church acknowledgeth one God Creatour of the universe and Jesus Christ of the Virgine Mary the Son of God the Creator and the resurrection of the flesh it mingleth the Law and the Prophets with the Evangelical and Apostolical writings and from thence drinks in that faith It signs with water clotheth with the holy Ghost which Pamelius understands of confirmation feeds with the Eucharist exhorteth with Martyrdom and so receives none against this institution 2. He prescribes and lays down this for a sure rule by which the truth may be known viz. If the Lord Jesus Christ did send out the Apostles to Preach other Preachers are not to be received then those whom Christ did institute because neither doth any other know the Father but the Son and he to whom the Son hath revealed him neither doth the Son seem to have revealed him unto any others save to the Apostles whom he sent to Preach Now what they have preached i.e. what Christ revealed to them ought no other way to be proved then by the same Churches which the Apostles themselves founded preaching unto them as well by a lively voice as they say as afterward by Epistles If these things be so it is then evident that