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A91005	An easy and compendious introduction for reading all sorts of histories: contrived, in a more facile way then heretofore hath been published, out of the papers of Mathias Prideaux Mr of Arts and sometime fellow of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.	Prideaux, Mathias, 1622-1646?; Prideaux, John, 1578-1650.	1648 (1648)	Wing P3439; Thomason E466_1; ESTC R203318	211,216	358

de Natalilibus tels us of two old Catalogues of their names which he found in Rome under the Name of D●r●theus Bishop of Tyre the one in Greeke the other in Latine But just exceptions lye against both 1. They disagree one from the other 2. Instead of 70 the Greeke hath 72. 3. In both Caesar perchance Nero is made a Disciple and Bishop of Dyrachium as Philip and Alexander the Great are made by some our Saviours Ancestours 4. James and Cephas the same with Peter are degraded from Apostles to be Disciples 5. Tarrick Schikardi c. Lazarus is the last of the ranke Bishop of Marsilia but whether the Begger or the Gontleman of Bethania it appeares not Ecclesiast Hist l. 1. c. 13. 6. Eus●●ius plainly saies that the Catalogue of the 70 Disciples is no where to be found Petrus de Natalibus Volateran and Democharis who would take upon them to persect the Catalogue of Dorotheus dissent from him and agree not amongst themselves See Eusebius in English as it appeares in Meredith Hanmer's Collation in his Preface to Dorotheus 8. More certainty is of the seven Dea●ons Act. 6. who were Ordained by prayer and laying on of Hands to make especiall provision for the poore These are named to be 1. STEPHEN whose disputations with the Libertines we have 2. Cyrenians 3. Alexandrians and 4. Cilicians 2. His Apologetique Sermon before the High Priest and people 3. His patient and comfortable undergoing the first Mar●yredome Act. 6.7 with him 't is said that 2. NICANOR suffered besides other 2000 Christians saith the Greek Dorotheus but two only are found in the Lattaine PARMENAS perchance might be one of them who is said to have dyed in the presence of the Apostles 4. TIMON hath not so much mentioned of him but is left out of the Catalogues 5. PROCHORVS hath more put upon him then belongs unto him that Foolish-Booke of the life of S. John Biblioth Pat. Hirat Tom. 1. 6. Revel 2.6 NICHOLAS is censured for prostituting his handsome Wife to quitt himselfe from suspition of ●ealousie and thence to have given ground to the Sect of the Nicholaitans 7. PHILIP called also the Evangelist frighted with the rest by Stephens cruell usage falls upon Samaria and there converts them to the Faith which Peter afterwards seconded 2. Converts and Baptiseth the Eunuch of Aethiopia 3. Was rapt thence by the Spirit as Elias was wont to be and found afterward at Azotus 4. Thence went Preaching to Caesarea where ●e spent as it should seeme the remainder of his Life Act. 21. having foure Virgin Prophetesses to his Daughters where he entertained S. Paul in his passage towards Ierusalem COncurrent with these are 1. Prodigies forerunning the destruction of Jerusalem 1. Charets and Armies seen in the Ayre 2. A Comet like a flaming sword perpendicular over the Citty 3. At the Passeover sacrifice an Oxe brought forth a Lambe 4. The Brasse gates of the Temple flew open of their own accord 5. And a voyce was heard to say Migremus hìnc 6. The Horrible Factions famine and Sacking of the City by Titus and the infinite slaughter of more then a Million of men Of the often taking of Ierusalem vid. Isaacson pag. 31. 2. Ill times in Rome by reason of the wickednesse folly and Pride of their Emperours Caligula Claudius Nero c. INQVIRIES Whether 1. The twelve Apostles in an Assembly at Ierusalem before their dispersing contrived that Symboll which we call the Apostles Creed 2. It be likely that if our Saviour had designed Saint Peter and his ●uccessors to be Heads of the Catholique Church as his Vicars that himselfe when he breathed upon all the Apostles alike or S. Peter in his Epistles or Saint Paul to the Romanes would have given no notice of it 3. Act. 11. Antioch having the first Title of Christians should not be accounted the Mother Church rather then Rome 4. It may be Historically convinced that S. Peter was either at Rome or Corinth 5. Saint Mathews Gospell were first written in Hebrew and Saint Markes in Lattine 6. The Epistle to the Hebrews be S. Paul● and Originally written in Greeke 7. Nicholas the Deacon were the beginner of the Nicholaitans which our Saviour professeth to hate Revel 2.6 SECT III. Good Bishops 1. THE Apostolicall Hierarchy being thus briefly represented The Ecclesiasticall takes its turne 2. This we deduce by the descent of Popes as being in the Westerne Church not more certaine or syncere then others but notorious 3. Of these Popes are noted in Peter Crab Severinus Binius and others 1. Their Lives 2. Decretall Epistles 3. Severall Decrees 4. Councells any way held in their times To which may be added 5ly Bulls occasionally sent forth by them 4. Here it shall be sufficient to touch their Lives and peculiar writings that are known to be theirs or are usually put upon them in their distinct Classes or rankes 5. These rankes may be 7. of 1. Good Bishops 32. 2. Tollerable Arch-Bishops or Patriarks 33. 3. Vsurping Nimrods 38. 4. Luxurious Sodomites 40. 5. Aegyptian Magitians 40. 6. Devouring Abaddons 41. 7. Incurable Babylonians 19. 6. The good Bishops succeed in this order An. D. 68 for about the space of the first 300 years after the Hierarchy of the Apostles 1. LINUS a Tuscan mentioned by S. Paul in the end of his second Epistle to Timothy Clement they say was deputed by Peter to his Chayre but he in modesty puts it off to Linus saith Ciaconius and that not without Gods especiall disposing that an ill example might not thence be taken for any Pope afterward to shuse his own successor 2. He needed not have decreed that Women should not come into the Temple without a covering 1. Cor. 11. S. Paul had taken order for that long before and few Temples for the Christians could be shewed in Nero's time under whose first persecution it was likely this good man suffered Biblioth Pat. Tom. 1. H●erat Collon The two bookes put upon him of S. Peters and Pauls sufferings are disallowed by Bellarmine and the most of that side who agree not also upon his successour 2. A.D. 70 ANACLETUS an Athenian into whose place some foist Cletus a Romane and turne off this Anacletus to follow Clemens Ciacon Plat. some make them to be all one and thus take up the matter that the same whom the Romane Christians call Cletus the Greeks call Anacletus no certainty is here to be had 2. In his time fell out the second persecution under Domitian who caused S. John to be cast into a vessell of boyling oyle out of which delivered untouched he is banished into the Isle of Pathmos This Anacletus with his Primacy could not helpe neither 3. A.D. 92 CLEMENT the Romane who should have been first after S. Peter if his vote would have carried it but now followes in the third place Of him they forge that he divided Rome into Parish Churches but