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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36461	The triumph of Christianity, or, The life of Cl. Fl. Julian, the Apostate with remarks, contain'd in the resolution of several queries : to which is added, Reflections upon a pamphlet, call'd Seasonable remarks on the fall of the Emperor Julian, and on part of a late pernicious book, entituled, A short account of the life of Julian, &c.	Dowell, John, ca. 1627-1690.	1683 (1683)	Wing D2057; ESTC R8708	83,984	256

Beard to please the Philosophers which made the Antiochians reflect on him Their Satyrs he wittily answers in his Miospogon the Antiochians would have him make Ropes of his Beard He mattered not that Vermin should run up and down his Beard as Wild Beasts in a Wood. He valued not the taking or giving of a Kiss Being sent as Coesar into Gaul to defend it against the barbarous Nations that dwelt beyond the Rhine living amongst the Gauls who were lovers of and inur'd themselves to Austerities Labours and Fighting with hardy and rude Nations and that in the horrid Woods of the Hercinian Forest He gave himself up to a neglect of all curiosity seldom cut his Hair or Nails his Body was overgrown with Hair so that he resembled a Goat He in his Misopogon commending himself for his austere Life abuses the Antiochians for their loose and soft Conversation and retorts upon them That his Beard might make Ropes if their tender Fingers durst touch the rough Hairs of it He so much affected Austerities that he spent waking-nights on an hard Bed so watchful that when Aristotle held a Ball in his Hand that at the noise of its fall he might awake and others had their Servants to rouze them he could wake when he pleased That great Christian Soldier Scanderbeg that miracle of Policy and Valour never slept above two hours in a Night Julian never eat to fulness and his meat was not delicious when he was Coesar wintering at Paris the Season being sharper than ordinary he would not permit a fire to be made in his Chamber nor in any Chamber of Note he was not at at all disposed to Covetousness he affirms of himself that he horded up no Riches if his Treasures were considered he might be esteemed a King of Mimicks Jesters or Stage-Players He would often pronounce that brave saying of Alexander Where are your Treasures and answer like a great Prince in the Coffers of my Subjects a saying worthy of an eternal Fame Queen Elizabeth had this rare happiness never to be denyed by her Parliaments any Aid or Mony In her last Speech worthy to be writ in Gold and Cedar she out of a Princely mind remitted two of the Subsidies given her in that Parliament It was an excellent saying of Julian that It was a shame for a Wise man that hath a Soul to seek for Commendation from the Body he was a severe punisher of Crimes by which admirable managing the Empire he was both loved and feared The Crown of a Prince is secured when defended by the Hearts of his Subjects this Love arising from the great goodness and excellent qualities of him raises a veneration and reverence that they dare not violate his Authority abuse his Person or offend his Laws In the Ark was the Rod of Aaron and the Pot of Manna to note an excellent Prince by Religion by Justice and Liberality is his Subjects joy and maintenance by his Rod and Scepter he rewarding and honouring men of worth and discountenancing Vice and Impiety his Person and Authority is loved and rever'd He was a great pretender to Justice and would say that Astroea who had left the Earth came from Heaven in his Reign Amianus Lib 22. Cap. 10. relates that when he himself sat to hear and determine causes he would unseasonably enquire of those whose causes were depending before him what God they worshipped and what Religion they professed yet no definitive Sentence was pronounced by him but what was consonant to Justice This was done by him when he kept his Court and lay in his Winter-quarters at Antioch a City full of Christians and therefore he deadly hated it Notwithstanding all these flourishes in the History is reported what Injustice he was guilty of It will be evidently manifest that Justice did not guide him the intent of him was evil Generally he pronounced a just Sentence betwixt man and man in civil causes but what disorders he permitted in his Court are before recited what injustice he exercised against Christians how unjust and ungrateful he was to Constantius endeavouring to divest him of his Empire and Life is declared In his Misopogon he takes notice of Constantius his former favour to him and his succeeding enmity and commends himself for giving an honour to his Manes yet does not attempt the palliating his ungrateful Treason The Antiochians truly accused him of the highest injustice hence it was usually spoken amongst them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By those initial Letters they meant Constantius and Christ neither of which injured their City which Letters are the Lemma subscribed to King Charles the Martyr's Picture drawn before his incomparable Works Julian replies Constantius never injured the City but by creating me Coesar but that by the Divine Providence turned to the Honour of Christ and the joy of the Antiochians That Julian's Justice was not perfect Marcel acquaints us that he admitted persons to enjoy Freedoms Offices and Honour in Municipal Cities whose Birth and Quality made them uncapable of such priveledges and dignities The Donatists who took on them the name of Christians famed him for Justice the Answer to them take from the Pen of St. Austin De Civ Dei Lib. 5. Cap. 20. Qui Constantino Christiano ipse Apostate Juliano c. That God that gave the Empire to Constantine a Christian gave it to Julian the Apostate whose ardent desire of Command put upon him a fatal Imposture Ep. 166. Ad Donatistas Julianus desertor Christi et inimicus c. Julian the desertor and enemy of Christ at your petitions presented by Rogatianus and Pontius gave an indulgence to the destructive Faction of Donatus but at that time when he opened the Churches to Hereticks he opened the Temples to Devils by this means he imagined the name of Christ must utterly be extirpated he envying the Unity of that Church from which he Apostatised permitted Sacrilegious Divisions This is the so famed Justice of Julian from whence it is observable that he gave not these Immintives to the Donatists upon the account of Justice but to destroy the Christian Religion Note an Universal tolleration is a means to ruine the Gospel Epist 48. Ad Vincent charges the Donatists with this absudity that they could not call him just whom they confest to be an Idolater to this may be joyned he was devoted to Divinations his lucky Omens encouraged him to rebel against Constantius and his unlucky Omens could not disswade him from his ruine The Philosophical reasons which Marcel gives for Divinatons are not tollerable who can vindicate Julian from this notorious Injustice that to give as he judged a true prospect of future Contingences he would cause the Bellies of Virgins to be ript up that he might inspect their Bowels whilst they were miserably giving up their last Breath He was indefatigably industrious his Pen and Sword was always imployed As Julius Coesar would awake at Midnight to Study and Write so Julian in the heat of

perverted Eudoxia his Empress a person of great Learning and Spirit to persecute the Orthodox and Catholick Christians Constantinus Junior and Constans Brother of Constantius governed in the West and South these did not at all disturb any sort of Christians Julian succeeding Constantius his Persecutions we have recited Jovian by the Acclamations of the Army was immediately created Emperor who being a Religious and Orthodox prince moved no persecutions but gave even to Hereticks Liberty On his death Valentinian was invested with the Eastern and Western Purple the Soldiers after his Election in a tumult declared that another should be his associate he in a resolute yet complying Speech acquainted the Army that it was in their Power not to have elected him but having elected him it was in his power to appoint a time when a Colleague should be chosen taking his opportunity he by the consent of the Army caused his Brother Valens to be chosen his associate To him the Eastern Purple was assigned To see the Power of God! Jovianus enjoyed the Empire but Eight Months the Army proceeding to another election constituted a great Soldier a wise person and most religious Christian Emperor who made then with the consent of the Army Valens his Partner at that time an Orthodox and Catholick Emperor who under Julian professed the true Doctrine but marrying a Princess who was an Arrian instilling those pernicious Doctrines into the head of him a Soldier and being Baptized by Eudoxius Bishop of Constantinople an Arrian and by him at his Baptism sworn to maintain the Arrian impieties he proved a most dreadful Persecutor God was so angry with him as to substract his Grace that falling from the true Faith he scarce appeared to be a Christian and being vanquished by the Goths he was forced to take Shelter in a Cottage where he was reduced to Ashes At Antioch the famous Miletius being Banished when he kept his Court in that City he gave to persons of all persuasions full Liberty publickly to perform their religious Offices he opened the Jewish Synagogues and the Pagan Temples and gave a general indulgence to all that owned the name of Christians to Hereticks and those who divulged opinions contrary to the Apostolical Faith By his connivance and approbation the Mysteries and Festivals of the Heathens were celebrated Those cheats were suppressed by Jovian Then began to flourish Ceremonies Sacrifices and Religious Rites of Jupiter Ceres and Bacchus were celebrated and this was done not in Corners as in the Reign of Religious Emperors but now in the midst of the City In the Forum they wildly ran up and down madly performing their Orgias He is only an enemy to those who profess and preach the Apostolical Faith These he first drove out of their holy Churches they then convened upon the tops of Mountains there they heard the Words of God there they glorifyed God with Hymns and Praises To perform Divine Exercises they endured the violence of all sort of Weather Storms Snow Frost and Scorching heats These recesses he permitted not to them but by his Troops dispersed them Theod. Lib. 4. The cruelties of these persecutions Basil does lively describe in his Letters to the Western Bishops the Persecutions of the Arrians were dreadful the Donatists had liberty till they grew violent then their Churches were taken from them and some of the Bishops punished but they becoming Bloody and a Sect amongst them especially called the Circumcelliones a feral and rabid company acting Barbarities upon the Catholicks they were restrained by more severe Laws That the Arrians prosecuted the Catholicks with the greater Rage and Cruelty the Vandalick Persecutions not to be read without Tears are too sad a Testimony The Catholiok Emperors were not Bloody nor did they prosecute the Arrians with Fire and Sword The first sanguinary Law was against the Manichees 5. Arcadius it was a most frantick and abominable Sect. 3dly An erroneous and wicked Principle imbib'd may be the Reason of Persecution Religion is not the cause of it but mens ignorance passion prejudice and evil apprehensions of things Because the Samaritans did not receive Christ James and John said unto him Wilt thou command fire down from Heaven to consume them Luk. 9. When Zeal like raging Fire does not warm but destroy lays Towns and Cities in Ashes no wonder they condemn to the Flames those whom they account Hereticks What blood will not those persons shed What Murders will not they commit what cruelties not exercise when instigated by an erroneous Conscience and believe that when they kill their Brethren they do God good service But this is absolutely contrary to the Gospel of the Lord Jesus 'T is true by the Law of Moses the Blasphemer was to be put to death In the new Law He that will not hear the Church let him be as an Heathen or Publican Matt. 18. I wish they were cut off that trouble you saith St. Paul Gal. 5. But from these words to prove that it is meritorious to put an Heathen on a Rack broyl a Publican on a Gridiron and to cut off the thread of a Schismaticks Life by Instruments of cruelty is as ridiculous as that of a Sciolus Hoereticum devita an Heretick reject To turn it de vita tolle take away the life of an Heretick it is unquestionably true The Gospel commands no corporal punishment The Church pronounceth the person an Heretick but the sentencing of that Heretick to the Fire and the executing of that sentence was performed by the Civil Judge and his Officers I must not be misinterpreted as tho' I judged that a corporal punishment may not be inflicted upon those who are real Hereticks granting that Conscience can't be forced yet it must be concluded that an erroneous person may be forc'd to those actions which may alter his judgement No Boy can be forc'd to believe that amo signifies I Love yet a Boy may be justly forced to go to School and to attend to his Masters Lectures and by that means he may be convinc'd that amo doth signifie to Love And this was the case of the Donatists For St. Augustin a Man of a meek and Divine temper who very well knew the sweetness of the Gospel and the greatness of mans infirmity was against any Penal Laws in causes Ecclesiastical But when the Donatists were compell'd to restore the Churches which under Julian were taken from the Catholicks and to come to Divine Prayers and to the hearing of Orthodox Sermons many of them were converted Upon this St. Augustine approves of that severity But that persons being subject to their Prince demeaning themselves soberly merely for an opinions sake should be kill'd as Dogs and that by all feral means to extirpate that which they call Heresy is meritorious is not the product of Religion but of Prejudice and Passion What a scandal did this give to the Name and Faith of the Lord Jesus The Indian King would not be in Heaven because