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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37402	The lives and deaths of the holy apostles of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ together with the two evangelists St. Mark and St. Luke : as also, some other of our Saviours disciples containing an account of their travels, sayings, miracles, sufferings and martyrdoms / all collected from the best authors for public use and benefit.	P. D.	1685 (1685)	Wing D78; ESTC R27282	50,869	156

Murtherer prostituting Religion and the Honour of his place to Covetousness and evil Acts This Covetous temper betrayed him as in the Issue to the most fatal end so to the most prodigious impiety that ever the Sun shone on The betraying his innocent Lord into the Hands of his cruel Enemies but afterward awakned with the horrour of the Fact his Conscience began to rouse and follow so close that he was not able to bear up under the furious revenges of his own mind never rested till he had dispatched himself by a violent death A vacancy being thus made in the Colledge of Aposties the first thing they did after their return from Mount Olivet where our Lord took his leave of them to go to St. Johns House in Mount Zion was to fill up the number with a fit proper Person two were propounded in order to the choice Joseph called Barsabas and Matthias the way of Election was by Lots a way frequently used amongst Jewes and Gentiles in doubtful and difficult cases The Lots being put in the now Matthias his Name was drawn out and thereby installed in the Apostolick Office and Dignity Not long after the promised powers of the Holy Ghost were conferred upon the Apostles to fit them for that great and difficult Imployment upon which they were sent and among the rest St. Matthias betook ●imself to his Charge and Province The first Fruits of his Ministery he spent in Judea where having reaped a considerable harvest he betook himself to other Provinces One tells us that he Preached the Gospel in Macedonia where the Gentiles to make an experiment of his Faith and Integrity gave him a poysonous and intoxicating Potion which he chearfully drank off in the Name of Christ without the least prejudice to himself and that then the same Potion had deprived an hundred and fifty of these sight he laying his hands upon them restored them to their sight again The Greeks with more probability report him to have travelled Eastward He came saies one to the first saies another to the second Ethiopia The place whether he came was very Wild and Barbatous and his usage was accordingly For here meeting with a People of a fierce and untractible temper he was treated by them with great rudeness and inhumanity from whom after all his Labours and Sufferings and a numerous Conversion of Men to Christianity he obtained at last the Crown of Martyrdom in the sixty first year of our Lord or as others the sixty fourth Little certainty can be retrieved concerning the manner of his death 〈◊〉 Writer of great note tells us That he died at a place call'd Sebastople and that he was buried near the Temple of the Sun Another reports him to have been seized by the Jewes and as a Blasphemer to have been first stoned and then beheaded But the Greeks seconded herein by many antiquaries tells us That he was Crucified and that as Judas was hanged upon a Tree so Matthias suffered upon a Cross his body is said to have been kept a long time at Jerusalem thence thought by Helene the Mother of the great Constantine to have been Translated to Rome where some parts of it are shewed with great Veneration this day though others with as great eagerness contend that his Relicks were brought to and are still preserved at Triers in Germany His memory is celebrated in the Greek Churches August the Ninth which appears not only from their Calendars but from a Novel Constitution of Comnenus appointing what holy dayes should be kept in the Church But the Western Churches kept the twenty-fourth of February sacred to his memory among many other Apocriphal Writings attributed to the Apostles where was a Gospel Published under St. Matthias his Name mentioned by Eusebius and condemned with the rest by Golasius Bishop of Rome as it had been rejected by others before him under his name also there were extant traditions cited by Clemens of Alexandria from whence no question it was that the Nicolaitans borrowed that saying of his which they abused to so vile and beastly purposes as under the pretended Patronage of his Name and Doctrine the Marcionites and Valentinians defended some of their most absurd and impious Opinions The Life of St MARK the Evangelist S MARKE THough this great Evangelist carries something of Roman in his Name without all question born of Jewish Parents Originally descended of the Tribe of Levi and the Priestly Line and if some of the Antients mistake not Sisters Son to Peter though others without any shadow of reason have confounded him with John Sirnamed Mark the Son of Mary and Mark 's Sisters Son to Barnabas The particular reason of his changing his Name from Jewish to Roman is not clear from History yet it is most probable that he assumed the Roman Name Mark upon some great change or accident of his Life or which was not unusual among the Jewes then going to the European Provinces of the Roman Empire taken up at his going for Italy and Rome By the Antients he is generally thought to have been one of the Seventy Disciples and some of them positively affirm that he was one of them who taking exceptions at our Saviours discourse of Eating his Flesh and Drinking his Blood went back and walked no more with him but was seasonably reduced and reclaimed by Peter but others as confidently and with as great Reason affirm That he was no Hearer nor Follower of Christ and therefore could be none of them who upon that occasion forsook him He was Converted by some of the Apostles and probably by St. Peter who calls him his Son from which some conclude That Peter was his undertaker at his Baptism He was indeed his constant Attendant and Follower all along in his Travels supplying the place of an Amanuensis and Interpreter For though the Apostles were divinely Inspired and among other miraculous Powers had the gift of Languages conferred upon them yet were the Interpretation of Tongues a Gift more peculiar to some than others this might probably be St. Mark 's Talent in expounding St. Peter's Discourses in word or writing to those who understood not the Language wherein they were delivered He accompanied him in his Apostolical progress Preached the Gospel in Italy and at Rome where at the request of the Christians in those parts he Composed his Gospel By St. Peter he was sent to Aegypt to plant Christianity in that Country He fixed his main Residence at Alexandria and the places thereabouts for a considerable time where so great as one of the Ancients writes was the Success of his Ministry that he Converted vast Multitudes both of Men and Women of all ranks and degrees not only to the imbracing the Christian Faith but to a more than ordinary strict Profession of it Insomuch that Philo the Jew wrote a Book which treats only of their particular Rites and way of Life for which reasons one of the Fathers reckons him among the Writers of