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A42622	The genuine epistles of the apostolical fathers, S. Barnabas, S. Ignatius, S. Clement, S. Polycarp, the Shepherd of Hermas, and the matyrdoms of St. Ignatius and St. Polycarp, written by those who were present at their sufferings : being, together with the Holy Scriptures of the New Testament, a compleat collection of the most primitive antiquity for about CL years after Christ / translated and publish'd, with a large preliminary discourse relating to the several treaties here put together by W. Wake ...; Apostolic Fathers (Early Christian Collection) English.	Wake, William, 1657-1737.	1693 (1693)	Wing G523A; ESTC R10042	282,773	752

Men unto Thee to Spy out the Land bring them forth for so hath the King Commanded She answered The two Men whom ye seek came unto Me but presently they departed and are gone Shewing them withall a Contrary way Then she said to the Spies I know that the LORD your God has given this City into your hands for the fear of you is fallen upon All that dwell therein When therefore ye shall have taken it ye shall save Me and my Fathers House And they answered her saying It shall be as Thou hast spoken unto Vs. Therefore when Thou shalt know that we are near thou shalt Gather all thy Family together upon the House top and they shall be saved But all that shall be found without thy House shall be destroyed And they gave her moreover a Sign that she should Hang out of her House a Scarlet Rope Shewing thereby that by the Blood of our Lord there should be Redemption to all that Believe and Hope in God Ye see Beloved How there was not only Faith but Prophesie too in this Woman XIII LET us therefore Humble our selves Brethren laying aside all Pride and Boasting and Foolishness and Anger And let us do as it is written for thus saith the Holy Spirit Let not the Wise Man Glory in his Wisdom nor the Strong Man in his Strength nor the Rich Man in his Riches But let him that Glorieth Glory in the LORD to seek Him and to do Judgment and Justice Above All remembring the words of the Lord Jesus which he spake concerning Equity and Long-suffering saying Be ye Merciful and ye shall obtain Mercy Forgive and ye shall be Forgiven As ye do so shall it be done unto you As ye give so shall it be given unto you As ye judge so shall ye be judged As ye are kind to Others so shall God be kind to you With what Measure ye Meet with the same shall it be measured to you Again By this Command and by these Rules let us establish our selves that so we may always walk obediently to his Holy Words being humble minded For so says the Holy Scripture Vpon Whom shall I look even upon him that is poor and of a Contrite Spirit and that trembles at my Word XIV IT is therefore Just and Righteous Men and Brethren that we should become Obedient unto God rather than follow such as through Pride and Disorder have made themselves the Ring-leaders of a detestable Emulation For it is not an Ordinary Harm that we shall do our selves but rather a very great Danger that we shall run if we shall rashly give up our selves to the Wills of Men who promote Strife and Seditions to turn us aside from what is fitting But let us be kind to One Another according to the Compassion and Sweetness of him that made us For it is written The Merciful shall inherit the Earth and they that are without Evil shall be left upon it But the Transgressors shall perish from off the face of it And again He saith I have seen the Wicked in great Power and spreading himself like the Cedars of Libanus I passed by and Lo he was not I sought his place but it could not be found Keep Innocency and do the thing that is right for there shall be a Remnant to the Peaceable Man XV. LET us therefore hold fast to Those who religiously follow Peace and not to such as only pretend to desire it For He saith in a certain place This People honoureth me with their lips but their heart is far from me And again They Bless with their Mouth but Curse in their Heart And again He saith They loved him with their Mouth and with their Tongue they lied to Him For their heart was not right with Him neither were they faithful in his Covenant The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips And the tongue that speaketh proud things Who have said with our tongue will we prevail Our lips are our own who is LORD over us For the Oppression of the Poor for the Sighing of the Needy now will I arise saith the LORD I will set him in safety I will deal confidently with him XVI FOR Christ is theirs who are Humble and not who exalt themselves over his Flock The Scepter of the Majesty of God our Lord Jesus Christ came not in the shew of Pride and Arrogance tho' he could have done so But with Humility as the Holy Ghost had before spoken concerning him For thus he saith LORD who hath believed our Report and to whom is the Arm of the LORD revealed For He shall grow up before him as a tender Plant and as a root out of a dry Ground He hath no Form nor Comeliness and when we shall see Him there is no Beauty that we should desire Him He is despised and rejected of Men A man of Sorrows and acquainted with Grief And we hid as it were our faces from Him He was despised and we esteemed Him not Surely He hath borne our Griefs and carried our Sorrows yet we did Esteem him stricken smitten of God and afflicted But he was wounded for our Transgressions He was bruised for our Iniquities The Chastisement of our Peace was upon Him and with his Stripes we are healed All we like sheep have gone astray we have turned every One to his own way and the LORD hath laid on Him the Iniquity of Vs all He was Oppressed and he was Afflicted yet he Opened not his mouth He is brought as a Lamb to the Slaughter and as a Sheep before her Shearers is Dumb so He openeth not his Mouth He was taken from Prison and from Judgment And who shall declare his Generation For he was cut off out of the Land of the Living For the Transgression of my People was he stricken And he made his Grave with the Wicked and with the Rich in his Death because he had done no Violence neither was any deceit in his Mouth Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him he hath put him to grief When thou shalt make his Soul an Offering for sin He shall see his Seed he shall prolong his days And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand He shall see of the travail of his Soul and shall be satisfied by his Knowledge shall my righteous Servant justifie many For He shall bear their Iniquities Therefore will I divide him a portion with the Great and he shall divide the Spoil with the Strong because He hath poured out his Soul unto death And he was numbred with the Transgressors and he bare the sin of many and made Intercession for the Transgressors And again he Himself saith I am a Worm and no Man a reproach of men and despised of the People All they that see me laugh me to scorn they shout out their lips they shake their head

what Persons they are to be perform'd That so all things being piously done unto all Well-pleasing they may be acceptable unto him They therefore who make their Offerings at the appointed Seasons are Happy and Accepted Because that obeying the Commandments of the Lord they are free from Sin And the same care must be had of the Persons that Minister unto him For the Chief Priest has his proper Services and to the Priests their proper Place is appointed And to the Levites appertain their proper Ministries And the Lay-man is confined within the Bounds of what is commanded to Lay-men XLI LET every one of you therefore Brethren bless God in his proper Station with a Good Conscience and with all Gravity not exceeding the Rule of his Service that is appointed to him The daily Sacrifices were not offer'd every where nor the Peace-offerings nor the Sacrifices appointed for Sins and Transgressions but only at Jerusalem Nor might they be offer'd in any Place there neither but only at the Altar before the Temple being first diligently examin'd by the High-Priest and the other Ministers we before mentioned They therefore who did any thing besides what was agreeable to his Will were punished with Death Consider Brethren by how much the better Knowledge God has vouchsafed unto us by so much the greater Danger are we exposed to XLII THE Apostles have Preached to us from our Lord JESUS CHRIST Jesus Christ from God Christ therefore was sent by God the Apostles by Christ So both their Offices were orderly fulfill'd according to the Will of God For having received their Command and being fully assured by the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ and convinced by the Word of God and the Evidence of the Holy Spirit they went abroad publishing That the Kingdom of God was at Hand And thus Preaching through Countries and Cities and proving by the Spirit the first Fruits of their Conversions they appointed out of them Bishops and Ministers over such as should afterwards believe Nor was this any new Thing Seeing that long before it was written concerning Bishops and Deacons For thus saith the Scripture in a certain place I will appoint their Overseers in Righteousness and their Ministers in Faith XLIII AND what wonder if they to whom such a work was committed by God in Christ establish'd such Officers as we before mentioned When even that Blessed and Faithful Servant in all his House Moses set down in the Holy Scriptures all things that were commanded Him Whom also all the rest of the Prophets follow'd bearing witness with one consent to those things that were appointed by him For He perceiving an Emulation to arise among the Tribes concerning the Priesthood and that there was a Strife about it which of them should be Adorned with that Glorious Title commanded their twelve Captains to bring to him twelve Rods every Tribe being noted upon its Rod according to its Name And he took them and bound them together and sealed them with the Seals of the Twelve Princes of the Tribes and laid them up in the Tabernacle of Witness upon the Table of God And when he had shut the door of the Tabernacle he sealed up the Keys of it in like manner as he had done the Rods And said unto them Men and Brethren Which soever Tribe shall have its Rod Blossom that Tribe has God chosen to Himself to Minister unto Him in Holy Things And when Morning was come He called together All Israel six Hundred Thousand Men and shew'd to their Princes the Seals and opened the Tabernacle of Witness and brought forth the Rods. And the Rod of Aaron was found not only to have Blossom'd but also to have Fruit upon it What think you Beloved Did not Moses before know what should happen Yes verily But to the End there might be no Division nor Tumult in Israel He did in this manner that the Name of the True and Only God might be Glorified To Him be Honour for Ever and Ever Amen XLIV SO likewise our Apostles knew by our Lord Jesus Christ that there should Contentions arise upon the Account of the Ministry And therefore having a perfect fore-knowledge of this they appointed Persons as we have before said and then gave Direction How when they should die other chosen and approved Men should succeed in their Ministry Wherefore we cannot think that those may justly be thrown out of their Ministry who were either Appointed by Them or afterwards Chosen by Eminent Men with the Consent of the whole Church and have with all Lowliness and Innocency ministred to the Flock of Christ in Peace and without Self-interest and for a long time commended by all For it would be no small Sin in us should we cast off those from their Ministry who Holily and without Blame fulfil the Duties of it Blessed are those Priests who having finish'd their Course before these times have obtain'd a fruitful and perfect Dissolution For they have no fear lest any one should turn them out of the place in which they are now establish'd But we see how you have put out some who lived excellently among you from the Ministry with which they were rightly and innocently adorn'd XLV YE are Contentious Brethren and Zealous for things that pertain not unto Salvation Look into the Holy Scriptures which are the true words of the Holy Ghost Ye know that there is nothing unjust or Spurious in them There you shall not find that Just Men were ever cast off by such as were good themselves They were persecuted 't is true but it was by the Wicked and Ungodly They were cast into Prison but they were cast in by those that were Unholy They were stoned but it was by Sinners and Transgressors They were killed but by Accursed Men and such as had taken up an Unjust Envy against them And all these things they underwent Gloriously For what shall we say Brethren Was Daniel cast into the Den of Lyons by Men fearing God Ananias Azarias and Misael were they cast into the Fiery Furnace by Men professing the Excellent and Glorious Worship of the most High God forbid What kind of Persons then were they that did these things They were Men Abominable full of all Wickedness who were incensed to so great a Degree as to bring those into Sufferings who with a Holy and Unblamable Purpose of mind worshipped God Not knowing that the Most High is the Protector and Defender of all such as in a Pure Conscience serve his Holy Name To whom be Glory for ever and ever Amen But they who with a full Perswasion have endured to the end are now made Partakers of Glory and Honour And are Exalted and lifted up by God in their Memorial throughout all Ages Amen XLVI WHEREFORE it will behove us also

it And this I say not to magnifie any thing that I have done which I have too much reason to fear will be far from deserving any great Commendation but to suggest an Apology for whatever Defects those of greater Leisure more Health and better Abilities shall chance to find in it notwithstanding all the Care I have taken to guess aright at the Intention of my Authors and to deliver what upon the best Examination I could make I then took to be their Meaning 7. I NEED not say any thing to convince those who are at all acquainted with these Matters and who are alone the competent Judges of the present Performance How hard oftentimes it is with the help of the best Copies to hit upon the true Meaning of an Author that lived so many Ages since as those I have here collected And what great Defects in many places there are in the Copies I have here been forced to make use of is not unknown to them Had I whilst I was about this Work been in another place where I could have had recourse to the Assistance of a very Learned Friend than whom none could have afforded me a better help in this particular or would more readily have done it I should have had much less reason to apprehend any Defects in it But however as it is I am not aware of any great Errors that I have committed and am in some hope that I have no where very much nor at all very dangerously mistaken the Meaning of those Holy Men whose Sense I have undertaken to represent 8. THIS I am sure of that my Design in this whole Undertaking was to minister the best I could to the Interests of Truth and Piety And I thought my self at this time the rather obliged to do it from the Press in that it has pleased God in some measure to take me off from the Ability of doing it from the Pulpit 9. IF it shall be ask'd how I came to chuse the Drudgery of a Translator rather than the more ingenuous part of publishing somewhat of my own Composing it was in short this Because I hop'd that such Writings as these would find a more general and unprejudiced acceptance with all sorts of Men than any thing that could be written by any One now living Who if esteem'd by some is yet in danger of being despis'd by more whose Prejudice to his Person will not suffer them to reap any Benefit by any thing tho' never so useful that can come from him Whilst such Tracts as these may possibly receive a general Respect from all sorts of Persons and meet not only with an Entertainment but an Esteem too from All. 10. THESE were the Motives that first induced me to set about this Work and in the Reasonableness of which should I chance to be mistaken yet I cannot but persuade my self that the Honesty of my Intentions shall excuse me to all indifferent Persons Let Others then to whom God has given better Opportunities and greater Abilities serve the Church in better and higher Performances It shall suffice me in any way to minister to the Souls of Men. And if by this present Undertaking I shall but in any measure have contributed to the reviving a true Sense of Piety and Devotion among us but especially to the disposing of any number of Men to consider more seriously the fatal Consequences of our present Divisions and to labour what in them lies to the Composing of them I shall heartily bless God both that he first prompted me to undertake this troublesome Task and has since enabled me tho' amidst many Infirmities to go through with it The First EPISTLE OF St. CLEMENT TO THE Corinthians THE CONTENTS Ch. I II. HE commends them for their excellent Order and Piety in Christ before their Schism brake out III. How their Divisions began IV V VI. Envy and Emulation the Original of all Strife and Disorder Examples of the Mischiefs they have occasion'd VII VIII He exhorts them to look up to the Rules of their Religion and repent of their Divisions and they shall be forgiven IX X. To encourage them whereunto he sets before them the Examples of Holy Men whose Piety is recorded in the Scriptures XI XII And particularly such as have been eminent for their Kindness and Charity to their Neighbours XIII What Rules our Religion has le●t us to this purpose XIV XV. Which he applies to the Case of the Corinthians exhorting them to put an End to their Contentions so contrary to their Duty XVI XVII XVIII In order to this he advises them to be humble and that from the Examples of our Saviour and of Holy Men in all Ages XIX XX. He returns to the business of their Divisions which he by more Arguments persuades them to compose XXI He exhorts them to Obedience from the Consideration of the Goodness of God and of his Presence in every place XXIII XXIV Of Faith And particularly what we are to believe as to the Future Resurrection XXIV c. to XXVII This Article at large proved XXVIII He again exhorts them to Obedience That it is impossible to escape the Vengeance of God if we continue in Sin XXIX This farther enforced from the Consideration of their Relation to God as his Elect. XXX How we must live that we may please God XXXII We are justified by Faith XXXIII ●et this must not lessen our Care to live well nor our Pleasure in it XXXIV This enforc'd from the Examples of the Holy Angels and from the exceeding greatness of that Reward which God has prepared for us XXXV XXXVI We must attain unto this Reward by Faith and Obedience XXXVII Which we must carry on in an orderly pursuing of the Duties of our several Stations without Envying or Contention XXXVIII The necessity of different Orders among Men. We have none of us any thing but what we received of God Whom therefore we ought in every Condition thankfully to obey XXXIX c. From whence he exhorts them to do every thing orderly in the Church as the only way to please God XLII The Orders of Ministers in Christ's Church establish'd by the Apostles according to Christ's Command XLIII And after the Example of Moses XLIV Therefore they who have been duly placed in the Ministry according to their Order cannot without great Sin be put out of it XLV c. He exhorts them to Peace from Examples out of the Holy Scriptures XLVII Particularly from St. Paul's Exhortation to them XLIX The Value which God puts upon Love and Unity The Effects of a true Charity L. Which is the Gift of God and must be obtain'd by Prayer LI. He exhorts such as have been concern'd in these Divisions to repent and return to their Unity confessing their Sin to God LIII Which he infers from the Example of Moses LV. Nay of many among the Heathen and of Judith and Esther among the Jews LVI The benefit of mutual Advice and Correction LVII He