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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

life God speaks again unto them as concerning these things saying Wherefore do ye fast Isai 58. to me that your voice may be heard on high as this day I have not chosen such a fast nor a day for a man to afflict his soul neither shalt thou bow down thy neck like a bulrush nor spread sackcloth and ashes under thee nor shall ye call this an acceptable fast But to us he saith thus When ye shall fast Loose every bond of iniquitie dissolve the obligations of violent contracts set the oppressed at libertie make void every injurious obligation break thy bread to the hungry bring the poor that are without shelter into thine house when thou seest the naked clothe him and hide not thy self from thine own flesh then thy light shall break forth as the Morning and thine health shall spring forth speedily and thy righteousness shall go before thee the glorie of the Lord shall be thy rereward Then shall thou call and the Lord shall answer thou shall cry and he shall say Here I am if thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke the putting forth of the finger and speaking Vanity and shall give thy bread to the hungry with all thy soul Therefore in this brethren God is provident and merciful in regard the people whom he hath acquired to his beloved should believe in simplicity and he hath shewn to all us that we should not run as Proselytes over to their Law And it concerns us to write much of the things in hand which cannot heal Let us flie every work of iniquitie and hate the errour of this time and love things future Let us not give libertie to our soul nor suffer it to wander with most lewd men and sinners For the trial is consummate as it is written as Daniel saith it is at hand For this cause doth the Lord divide times and days that his beloved may hasten to his inheritance So saith the Prophet Ten kingdoms shall reign upon the earth Dan. 7. and a little king shall arise who shall depose three into one Concerning the kingdoms and this very thing Daniel saith again I saw a fourth beast dreadful and terrible and exceeding strong having ten horns and another little horn grew up in the midst of them before whom there were three of the first horns pluckt up by the roots Therefore we ought to understand and I intreat you again as one of you loving you above mine own life that ye would take heed unto your selves and that ye would not be like unto those who heap up their sins and say That their Testament is also ours But ours it is for they have for ever destroyed that which Moses received For the Scripture saith And Moses was in the mount fasting fourty days and fourty nights and he received the testament from the Lord the tables of stone written with the hand of God But they being turned unto idols destroyed that for the Lord saith to Moses Go down quickly for thy people which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt hath transgressed And Moses cast the tables of stone out of his hands and their Testament was broken that the love of Jesus might be signed upon your hearts unto the hope of the faith of him Therefore let us give heed unto the last days for all the time of our life and faith shall profit us nothing if we do not endure unjust things and future temptations as the Son of God saith Let us resist all iniquitie and hate it Consider therefore the works of an evil life Ye ought not to separate your selves as being justified but meeting together in one to enquire what may be in common profitable and convenient for the beloved For the Scripture saith Wo to those who are wise in Isai 5. their own eyes and prudent in their own sight Let us being spiritual be made a perfect Temple to God as much as in us lies Let us meditate upon the fear of God and endeavour to keep his Commandements that we may rejoyce in his judgements The Lord accepting no mans person judgeth the world every man shall receive according to his deeds If he be good his goodness goes before him if wicked the ways of his wickedness follows after him Take heed lest at any time being called and at ease we do not fall asleep in our sins and the wicked one getting power over us do not awake us out of our sleep and exclude us from the Kingdom of the Lord. Understand a little more Having seen the great signs and wonders among the people of the Jews and that the Lord doth so leave them therefore let us take heed lest happily we be found as it is written Many called few Matt. 22. chosen For this cause the Lord endured to deliver up his body to death that we might be sanctified by remission of sins that is through the sprinkling of his bloud For it is written of him to the Jews and to us in this manner He was wounded for our transgressions Isai 53. bruised for our iniquities by his stripes we were healed He was led as a sheep to the slaughter and as a lamb before the shearer dumb so opened he not his mouth Therefore we ought exceedingly to rejoyce in the Lord because he hath shown unto us things past and hath made us wise neither are we without understanding of things to come But he saith The net surely is spread in vain in the sight of any bird This he saith in regard that that man shall justly perish who hath knowledge of the way of truth and yet will not refrain himself from the dark way Moreover the Lord endured to suffer for us and yet he is the Lord of the world to whom he said upon the day before the world was consummate Let us make man Gen. 1. according to our image and similitude Learn therefore how much he endured who would suffer this from men The Prophets having the gift from him prophesied of him and he that he might abolish death and make manifest the Resurrection from the dead endured because it was necessary for him to appear in the flesh that he might make good the Promise to the Parents And preparing a new people by his being upon the earth he declared by making a Resurrection the judgement and in the end by teaching and doing great signs and wonders he preached to Israel and dearly loved him Then he chose proper Apostles who should preach his Gospel who were sinners above all sin that he might shew that he came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Then he manifested himself to be the Son of God For had he not come in the flesh how could men looking on him have been saved For the Sun which is the work of his hands men cannot look directly upon with their eyes intent upon the beams of it Therefore the Son of God came in the flesh that he might

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

him in the sepulchre For when Israel fell he made every serpent to bite them and they died because the transgression in Eve was by the serpent that he might reprove them and convince them that for their transgression they were delivered up to the anguish of death In the end though Moses had commanded that there should be no molten nor graven image amongst them for a God he made one to shew the type of Jesus For Moses made a serpent of brass and placed it gloriously and by Proclamation called the people They coming together intreated Moses that he would pray and make an offering for them that they might be healed Then Moses said unto them When any of you shall be bitten let him come to this serpent set upon a pole and let him hope believing that though it is dead it is able to give life and he shall be immediately healed and they did so In this thou hast the glorie of Jesus ●or all things are in him and to him What saith Moses again to Jesus the Son of Naue giving him being a Prophet this Name That all the people should hear him only because the Father would reveal all things touching his Son Jesus to the Son of Naue And when he gave him this Name and sent him to search the Land He said Take a little book in thine hands and write what the Lord saith Because the Son of God in the last days will cut up all the house of Amalek by the roots Behold again Jesus not the son of man but the Son of God but manifested by a type in the flesh And because they would say that Christ is the son of David he fearing and understanding the errour of sinners saith The Lord said to my Lord Sit on my right hand until I make thy enemies thy footstool And again Esaias saith in this manner The Lord said to Christ my Lord I have holden his right hand that the nations may hear him and I will break in pieces the power of kings See how David calls him Lord and the Son of God But let us see whether this people be the heir or first people and whether the Testament be ours or theirs Hear now what the Scripture saith concerning this people Isaac prayed for Rebekah his wife because she was barren and she conceived afterwards Rebekah came to enquire of the Lord and the Lord said unto her Two nations are in thy womb and two people in thy bowels and one people shall prevail over the other people and the Elder shall serve the Younger Ye ought to be sensible who is Isaac and who is Rebekah and which of the two he hath demonstrated to be the Elder people this people or that And in another Prophesy he saith Jacob spake more plainly to Joseph his son saying Behold the Lord hath not deprived me of thy presence bring thy sons unto me that I may bless them And he brought forth Ephraim and Manasses desiring that the blessing might be given to Manasses because he was the elder and he set him on the right hand of his father Jacob. But Jacob saw in the spirit a type of that people which should be And what follows And Jacob changed his hands and put his right hand upon the head of Ephraim the second and the younger and blessed him And Joseph said to Jacob Put thy right hand upon the head of Manasses because he is my first-born son And Jacob said to Joseph I know it my son I know it but the Elder shall serve the younger yet he also shall be blessed See which of these he hath appointed to be this first people and heir of the Covenant Yet further let it be remembred that through Abraham we have a greater perfection of our knowledge Therefore what saith he to Abraham That because he believed it was counted to him for righteousness Behold I have made thee a father of nations which should believe in the Lord through uncircumcision But let us now enquire whether he hath performed the Covenant which he sware to the fathers to this people He gave it but they were not worthy to receive it by reason of their sins For the Prophet saith And Moses was fasting in the mount Sinai fourty days and fourty nights that he might receive the Covenant from the Lord for the people and he received of the Lord the two tables written with the finger of the Lord's hand through the spirit and when Moses had received them he brought them down to deliver them to the people And the Lord said to Moses Moses Moses go down quickly for thy people have transgressed which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt And Moses understood that they had made them molten idols and he cast the tables out of his hands and the tables of the Covenant of the Lord were broken Moses indeed received them but they were not worthy Learn now how we received them Moses received them as a servant but the Lord himself gave them to us who suffering patiently for us was made manifest that they might be consummate in their sins and we might be the people of the inheritance and receive the Covenant by the heir Jesus Christ The Prophet saith again Behold I have set thee for a light of the Gentiles that thou maist be for salvation to the ends of the earth saith the Lord God who redeemed thee who was prepared for this very thing that he making discoverie of our evils destructive to death and how wholly we were given up to the transgression of errour might deliver us from darkness and put his Covenant in us by the Word For it is written how that the Father commanded him to redeem us from darkness and to prepare for himself an holy people Therefore the Prophet saith I the Lord thy God have called thee in righteousness and I will hold thy hand and will strengthen thee and I have given thee for a Covenant to the nations and for a light to the Gentiles to open the eyes of the blind and to deliver those that are in bonds those that sit in darkness from the prison-house Know therefore how we were delivered and redeemed Again the Prophet saith The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me and sent me to preach the glad tidings of grace to the humble to heal the broken-hearted to preach liberty to the captives to open the eyes of the blind and to call an acceptable year of the Lord and a day of retribution and to comfort all that mourn It is also written concerning the Sabbath in the Ten words wherein he spake in the Mount Sinai face to face to Moses And ye shall sanctifie the Sabbath of the Lord with pure hands and with a pure heart And in another place he saith If their sons shall keep my Sabbaths then will I put my mercy upon them He calleth it a Sabbath in the beginning of the Creation And God made in six days the works

not as well be mistaken as their Relatives especially in things not appertaining to Faith Do we not meet with many things as strange in the Epistle of Clement which Epistle was published by Patricius Junius the Kings Library Keeper and an eminent man to whom I am so much a debtor that he cannot possibly oblige me more For who can well digest that fable of Clement about the Phoenix and his many worlds beyond the Ocean neither do I believe that some will easily admit of that Exposition about the Scarlet thred of the Harlot Rahab that it should be a Type of the bloud of Christ and other things of this nature which I could reckon up but they are not so proper for this place yet was this Clement called an Apostle by as good right as Barnabas was Therefore no persons ought to find fault with that in the one which they excuse in the other It is known to every one how very mystically superstitiously and almost impertinently those first Christians did interpret the Scriptures Therefore if some things should be met with in this Author which may displease the Learned let them rather impute it to the manner of expression used by thos● ancient Christians than entertain the leas● thoughts that this writing is supposititious Nor let any persons therefore like the worse of this Epistle of Barnabas because Eusebius and other Greek Writers of a later date have placed it amongst the Apocryphal writings For they did not question the Author only they approved not of those mystical Interpretations of his made upon many places of Scripture And for the same reason many works of Clement of Alexandria and of Origen were accounted Apocryphal whereas it was never yet doubted of whether those very works so accounted of were their genuine works And certainly if we should reject all Writings which have at any time been accounted Apocryphal we should reject the Epistle of Paul to the Hebrews and the Epistle of Jude the Apostle and that of Clement to the Corinthians which thing should we do how absurd would it seem to any man Others have given out that they have discerned this Epistle to be spurious both from the Style and manner of Writing and they have affirmed the very same things of the Epistles of Ignatius but they who boast of such things would seem more accute than becomes them For it is not so easie to distinguish spurious writings from genuine as it is to know true Pearls from counterfeit When true Stones are compared with counterfeit the fucus of the counterfeit soon appears as a true people will discover a false one which is a thing ordinary in other traffiqueable commodities But from what is it possible for these men to take the ground of their conjecture who deny these to be the very Epistles of Ignatius and Barnabas Have they seen other Writings of theirs Certainly not Therefore how come they to know what Style Barnabas and Ignatius used Yet they go on and say that what they think to be true they know to be true and if it be so with them I will not adde one word more about them The Catholique Epistle OF Saint BARNABAS the Apostle MY sons and daughters in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ who loved us I wish you much joy and peace Knowing that there is in you an abundance of the great and comely Graces of God I am rejoyced above measure by your blessed and excellent spirits for by this means ye have received a natural grace So that I am hereby very much comforted hoping to be set at liberty because I verily perceive that the spirit is infused into you from the honourable Fountain of God And seeing I am of this perswasion and know it the more fully so to be in regard that whilst I am conversing with you many things have succeeded well with me according to the equal way of the Lord therefore is it happily Brethren in my thoughts to love you more than my own soul because the greatness of faith and love dwelleth therein and the hope of that other life Thinking of this and because it was my care to impart something unto you of what I have received that it would be a sufficient reward to do service to persons of such a spirit I made it my proper business as allotted to me speedily to send unto you some few things that together with your faith ye may have also perfect knowledge There are also three Constitutions of the Lord The hope of life the beginning and the consummation For God hath made before-hand things plain to us by his Prophets who are passed and hath given unto us the beginnings of future things But as he hath said It is a more honourable and high thing to approach to his Altar Yet I shall not as a Teacher or Doctour but as one of you shew you a few things by which ye may be the more joyful in many Seeing therefore that the days are most wicked and that the adversary hath the power of this world we ought diligently to make enquiry into the equal ways of the Lord. Fear and Patience are the Coadjutors of your faith and the things which fight for us are Longanimitie and Continence Where these remain pure according to the Lord wisdom understanding science knowledge rejoyce together with them For he hath laid it open to us by all the Prophets that he will not use our sacrifices victims nor oblations saying in this wise To what purpose is the multitude of Isai 1. your sacrifices unto me saith the Lord I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams and the fat of lambs I delight not in the bloud of goats and bulls Neither do I regard you when ye come to appear before me For who hath required these things at your hands neither shall ye tread my courts When ye bring your course bread it is vain your incense is an abomination to me Your new moons and sabbaths and great day I cannot endure Your fast idle time new moons and feasts my soul hateth God hath therefore made these void as the new Law of our Lord Jesus Christ which is without the yoke of necessity hath made void the humane oblation The Lord saith again unto them Have I commanded your fathers when they went out of the land of Egypt that they should offer unto me sacrifices and victims but this I commanded them saying Let every one among you bear no malice towards his neighbour and let no man swear falsly Seeing therefore that we are not without understanding we ought to understand the counsel of the goodness of our Father For he being willing to seek us also going astray hath told us how we should come unto him saying The sacrifice of God is a contrite heart and one that is humbled God doth not despise Therefore Brethren we ought to enquire more certainly concerning our Salvation that nothing may have entrance into us which may turn us away from our