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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

Preach nay in many other passages of this Father's Writings he supposed whose Supposition certainly was not founded upon meer fancy and conjecture that St. Mark for some considerable time survived the Martyrdom of those two great Apostles As to the Person of this great Evangelist it may not be impertinent to trouble the Reader with a few words concerning it taken from the same Authorities from which we have borrowed the res● of his Life and Actions As to his Person he was of a middle size and Stature of a comely and well proportioned body and a wholesome constitution his Nose long his eye-brows turning back his Eyes full of gracefulness amiableness his Head by reason of this great Age very bald his Beard long and Gray his gate quick in a word he was indued with all the desirable qualities of a lovely Person His Gospel was as we obserded above written at the request of the Converts at Rome who not content to have heard Peter Preach pressed St. Mark his Fellow-Labourer to commit to Writing an account of these things which he Preached to them that by way of History which he performed with exceeding great faithfulness and brevity all which St. Peter perused and ratified with his Apostolical Authority commanding it to be owned preserved with the rest of the Canonical Books of the Scripture And though some of the Fathers seemed inclinable to think it was Written after St. Peters Death yet all that can be inferred from thence taking it for truth will be that in it self is a matter of no great moment and importance that the Ancients were not fully agreed upon the exact time when every particular Book of the Gospel were Published to the World Some have been at great pains to prove the Gospel not to have been St. Marks but St. Peters somtimes running to the Fathers and finding no shelter there they recur to Polemical debates of latter times wherein they have shewed more wit and sharpness than ingenuity and honesty It is true it was frequently stiled St. Peters Gospel not so much because dictated by him to St. Mark as because he principally composed it of that account which St. Peter usually delivered in his discourses to the People which probably is the reason why a Learned Man doth observe that he in his stile and manner of expression delights to imitate St. Peter representing very much in a few words This observation though bold in some things yet not in all for though St. Matthew is larger in giving the account of our Saviours Life than he yet in many places he reduces the story into a narrower compass than St. Mark The Last Chapter of his Gospel as St. Jerome informs us at least a part of it was wanting in all the antient Greek Copies being rejected upon the account of a pretended disagreement with the other Gospels though as this Father himself there shews they are very fairly consistent one with another nor is there any disagreement in any passage of them His great impartiality in his Relation doth most clearly appear from hence that he is so far from concealing or alleviating the shameful lapse and denial of Peter his dear Tutor and Master to whom he was so deeply ingaged in the bonds of Love that he sets it down with some particular weighty Circumstances and Aggravations which the other Evangelists thought sit for reasons known to themselves though they could not but know it to take no notice of it Some dispute has been made and kept on foot in the Church in what Language this Gospel was Written some affirm it to have been Written in the Latin Tongue Originally that which seems to give most Countenance to this is a Note which we find at the end of the Syriack Version of this Gospel where it is said That St. Mark Preached and Published his Holy Gospel at Rome in the Roman or Latine Tongue An Evidence that would undoubtly carry the force of a Demonstration with all reasonable men were they assured that this Note is of equal Value and Authority with that ancient Version generally supposed to come very few Centuries short of the Apostolick Age. Besides these Jews which heard St. Mark preach being but strangers at Rome could understand but very little Latine but upon the other hand the Roman Converts could not but understand Greek it being at that time the most fashionable and communicative Language in the World nor can any good Reason be assigned why it should be more inconvenient for St. Mark to write his Gospel in Greek for the use of the Romans than that St. Paul should in that very Language write his Epistle to the Church The Original Greek Copy written with St. Mark 's own hand is said to be extant at Venice at this Day Written as some Inform us by him at Aquileja and thence after many Hundreds of Years Translated to Venice where it is still preserved to this very day an ancient Monument and worth keeping The Letters of it are so worn out with length of time that such as to satisfy their Curiosity obtain a sight of it are not capable to read a Sentence of it to purpose though some words appear here and there in some parts of it in others nothing but a few Letters and Characters so that this Generation is not a compleat judge of its Authentickness not being capable either to approve or disapprove it but it being of no great weight whether it be the Original or not it is not worth contending for The Life of St. LUKE the Evangelist S LUKE SAint Luke was born at Antioch the Metropolis of Syria a City celebrated for its extraordinary blessings and eminencies the pleasantness of its Scituation the fertility of its Soil the Riches of its Traffick the wisdom of its Senare the learning of its Professors the civility and politeness of its Inhabitants by the pens of some of the most eloquent of their time and yet above all these renowned for this one peculiar honour That here it was that the Disciples were first called Christians It was an Vniversity replenished with Schooles of learning wherein were professors of all Arts and Sciences so that this Evangelist being born in the very lap of the Muses he could not miss of a liberal ingenious Education his natural parts meeting with the advantages of great improvement Nay we are told by some that he studied not only at Antioch but at most Schooles both of Greece and Aegypt whereby he became learned in all parts of Learning humane Sciences Being thus furnished out with Skill in all the preparatory institutions of Phylosophy he more particularly applyed himself to the study of Physick for which the Grecian Academies were most famous Hence some conclude him to have been of high birth noble blood but their mistake is founded upon their not considering that this noble act was in these times professed generally by such as were of no higher value then that of Servants