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A31408	Antiquitates apoitolicæ, or, The history of the lives, acts and martyrdoms of the holy apostles of our Saviour and the two evangelists SS. Mark and Lvke to which is added an introductory discourse concerning the three great dispensations of the church, patriarchal, Mosiacal and evangelical : being a continuation of Antiquitates christianæ or the life and death of the holy Jesus / by William Cave ...	Cave, William, 1637-1713.; Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667. Dissuasive from popery.	1676 (1676)	Wing C1587; ESTC R12963	411,541	341

they were the seed of Abraham the People whom God had peculiarly chosen for himself above all other Nations of the World and therefore with a lofty scorn proudly rejected the Gentiles as Dogs and Reprobates utterly refusing to shew them any office of common kindness and converse We find the Heathens frequently charging them with this rudeness and inhumanity Juvenal accuses them that they would not shew a Traveller the right way nor give him a draught of Water if he were not of their Religion Tacitus tells us that they had adversus omnes alios hostile odium a bitter hatred of all other People Haman represented them to Ahasuerus as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. A people that would never kindly mix and correspond with any other as different in their Manners as in their Laws and Religion from other Nations The friends of Antiochus as the Historian reports charged them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That they alone of all others were the most unsociable people under Heaven that they held no converse or correspondence with any other but accounted them as their mortal enemies that they would not eat or drink with men of another Nation no nor so much as wish well to them their Ancestors having leavened them with an hatred of all mankind This was their humour and that the Gentiles herein did not wrong them is sufficiently evident from their ordinary practice and is openly avowed by their own Writings Nay at their first coming over to Christianity though one great design of it was to soften the manners of men and to oblige them to a more extensive and universal charity yet could they hardly quit this common prejudice quarrelling with Peter for no other reason but that he had eaten and drunken with the Gentiles insomuch that he was forced to Apologize for himself and to justifie his actions as immediately done by Divine warrant and authority And then no sooner had he given them a naked and impartial account of the whole transaction from first to last but they presently turned their displeasure against him into thanks to God that he had granted to the Gentiles also Repentance unto life 5. IT was now about the end of Caligula's Reign when Peter having finished his visitation of the new planted Churches was returned unto Jerusalem Not long after Herod Agrippa Grand-child to Herod the great having attained the Kingdom the better to ingratiate himself with the People had lately put S. James to death And finding that this gratified the Vulgar resolved to send Peter the same way after him In order whereunto he apprehended him cast him into Prison and set strong guards to watch him the Church in the mean time being very instant and importunate with Heaven for his life and safety The Night before his intended execution God purposely sent an Angel from Heaven who coming to the Prison found him fast asleep between two of his Keepers So soft and secure a Pillow is a good Conscience even in the confines of Death and the greatest danger The Angel raised him up knock'd off his Chains bad him gird on his Garments and follow him He did so and having passed the first and second Watch and entred through the Iron-Gate into the City which opened to them of its own accord after having passed through one Street more the Angel departed from him By this time Peter came to himself and perceived that it was no Vision but a reality that had hapned to him Whereupon he came to Mary's house where the Church were met together at Prayer for him Knocking at the Door the Maid who came to let him in perceiving 't was his voice ran back to tell them that Peter was at the Door Which they at first looked upon as nothing but the effect of fright or fancy but she still affirming it they concluded that it was his Angel or some peculiar messenger sent from him The Door being open they were strangely amazed at the sight of him but he briefly told them the manner of his deliverance and charging them to acquaint the Brethren with it presently withdrew into another place 'T is easie to imagine what a bustle and a stir there was the next Morning among the Keepers of the Prison with whom Herod was so much displeased that he commanded them to be put to Death 6. SOME time after this it hapned that a controversie arising between the Jewish and the Gentile Converts about the observation of the Mosaick Law the minds of men were exceedingly disquieted and disturbed with it the Jews zealously contending for Circumcision and the observance of the Ceremonial Law to be joyn'd with the belief profession of the Gospel as equally necessary to Salvation To compose this difference the best expedient that could be thought on was to call a General Council of the Apostles and Brethren to meet together at Jerusalem which was done accordingly and the case throughly scanned and canvassed At last Peter stood up and acquainted the Synod that God having made choice of him among all the Apostles to be the first that preached the Gospel to the Gentiles God who was best able to judge of the hearts of men had born witness to them that they were accepted of him by giving them his Holy Spirit as well as he had done to the Jews having put no difference between the one and the other That therefore it was a tempting and a provoking God to put a Yoke upon the necks of the Disciples which neither they themselves nor their Fathers were able to bear there being ground enough to believe that the Gentiles as well as the Jews should be saved by the grace of the Gospel After some other of the Apostles had declared their judgments in the case it was unanimously decreed that except the temporary observance of some few particular things equally convenient both for Jew and Gentile no other burden should be imposed upon them And so the decrees of the Council being drawn up into a Synodical Epistle were sent abroad to the several Churches for allaying the heats and controversies that had been raised about this matter 7. PETER a while after the celebration of this Council left Jerusalem and came down to Antioch where using the liberty which the Gospel had given him he familiarly ate and conversed with the Gentile Converts accounting them now that the partition-wall was broken down no longer strangers and foreigners but fellow-Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God This he had been taught by the Vision of the sheet let down from Heaven this had been lately decreed and he himself had promoted and subscribed it in the Synod at Jerusalem this he had before practised towards Cornelius and his Family and justified the action to the satisfaction of his accusers and this he had here freely and innocently done at Antioch till some of the Jewish Brethren coming thither for fear of

III. Cletus or Anacletus or Anencletus supposed by many to be the same person though others who reckon Anacletus a Greek born at Athens make them distinct whom yet we have left out not being mentioned by Eusebius a Roman the son of Aemilianus sat 9 though others say but 2. years IV. Clemens a Roman born in Mount Caelius the son of Faustinus near akin say some to the Emperor He was condemned to dig in the Marble-Quarries near the Euxin Sea and by the command of Trajan with an Anchor about his Neck thrown into the Sea He was Bishop of Rome 9. years and 4. months V. Euarestus by birth a Greek but his Father a Jew of Bethlehem He is said to have been crowned with Martyrdom the last year of Trajan in the ninth of his Bishoprick or as others the thirteenth VI. Alexander a Roman though young in years was grave in his manners and conversation He sat 10. years and 7. months and died a Martyr VII Xystus or Sixtus a Roman he was Martyred in the tenth year of his Bishoprick and buried in the Vatican VIII Telesphorus a Greek succeeded Justin the Martyr flourished in his time He died a Martyr having sat 11. Years and 3. months 10. years 8. months say others and lies buried near S. Peter in the Vatican IX Hyginus the son of an Athenian Philosopher was advanced to the Chair under Antoninus Pius He sat 4. years Eusebius says 8. X. Pius an Italian born at Aquileia he died having been Bishop 11. years and 4. months according to Eusebius 15. years XI Anicetus born in Syria He is said after 9 or as others 11. years to have suffered Martyrdom and was buried in the Via Appia in the Cemetery of Callistus In his time Polycarp came to Rome XII Soter or as Nicephorus calls him Soterichus was a Campanian the son of Concordius There was an intercourse of Letters between him and Dionysius Bishop of Corinth He died after he had sat 9. years or as Eusebius reckons 7. XIII Eleutherius born at Nicopolis in Greece To him Lucius King of Britain sent a Letter and an Embassy He sat 15. years died Ann. Chr. 186. and lies buried in the Vatican XIV Victor an African the son of Felix a man of a furious and intemperate spirit as appeared in his passionate proceedings in the controversie about the observation of Easter He was Bishop 10. years Onuphrius assigns him 12. years and one month XV. Zephyrinus a Roman succeeded and possessed the chair 8 but as others 18. years 20. says Onuphrius A pious and learned man but a little warping towards the Errors of Montanus XVI Callistus or Calixtus the son of Domitius a Roman a prudent and modest man He suffered much in the Persecution under Alexander Severus under whom he became a Martyr being thrown into a Well by the procurement of Ulpian the great Lawyer but severe enemy of Christians He sat 6. years or 5. as others and one moneth and though he made a Cemetery called after his own name yet was he buried in that of Calepodius in the Appian way XVII Urbanus the son of Pontianus a Roman after 4 or as some 6. years he suffered Martyrdom for the Faith Eusebius has 5 S. Hierom in his translation 9. He was buried in Pretextatus his Cemetery in the Appian way XVIII Pontianus the son of Calphurnius a Roman for his bold reproving the Roman Idolatry he was banished into the Island Sardinia where he died he was Bishop about 3 or 4 or as Eusebius 5. years XIX Anteros a Greek the son of Romulus He died by that he had kept his place one month though others without reason make him to have lived in it many years and was buried in the Cemetery of Callistus XX. Fabianus a Roman he was unexpectedly chosen Bishop while several others being in competition a Pigeon suddenly descended and sat upon his head the great emblem of the Holy Spirit He died a Martyr after 14. years buried in the same place with his predecessor XXI Cornelius a Roman he opposed and condemned Novatian frequent Letters passed between him and Cyprian After somewhat more than two years he was first cruelly whipp'd and then beheaded buried in a Vault within the Grange of Lucina near the Appian way XXII Lueius a Roman sat 2 or as others 3. years He suffered martyrdom by the command of Valerian and was buried in Callistus his Cemetery XXIII Stephanus a Roman the son of Julius Great contests were between him and Cyprian about rebaptizing those who had been baptized by Hereticks He was beheaded after he had sat about 2. or 3. years though others say 7 and buried with his predecessor XXIV Xystus a Greek formerly a Philosopher of Athens After 1 or as others compute 2. years and 10. moneths he suffered Martyrdom Eusebius reckons it 8. years XXV Dionysius of a Monk made Bishop 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the judgment of Dionysius Bishop of Alexandria a truly learned and admirable person The time of his Presidency is uncertainly assign'd 6 9 10 11. Eusebius extends it to 12. years XXVI Felix a Roman In his time arose the Manichaean Heresie He suffered about the fourth or fifth year of his Episcopacy and lies buried in the Aurelian way in a Cemetery of his own two miles from Rome XXVII Eutychianus a Tuscan a man exceedingly careful of the burial of martyrs after one years space was himself crowned with martyrdom Eusebius allows him but 8. months Onuphrius 8. years and 6. months XXVIII Caius or as Eusebius calls him Gaianus a Dalmatian kinsman to the Emperor Dioclesian and in the Persecution under him became a martyr He sat 11. years some say longer Eusebius 15. years He was beheaded and buried in Callistus his Cemetery XXIX Marcellinus a Roman Through fear of torment he did sacrifice to the gods but recovering himself died a martyr after he had sat 8 or 9. years He was beheaded and buried in the Cemetery of Priscilla in the Salarian way To him succeeded XXX Marcellus a Roman he was condemned by Maxentius the Tyrant to keep Beasts in a Stable which yet he performed with his prayers and exercises of devotion He died after five Years and six months and was buried in the Cemetery of Priscilla XXXI Eusebius a Greek the son of a Physician He suffered much under the Tyranny of Maxentius He sat 6. years say some 4. say others though Eusebius allows him but 7. months Onuphrius 1. year and 7. months he was buried in the Appian way near Callistus his Cemetery XXXII Miltiades an African He might be a Confessor under Maxentius but could not be a martyr under Maximinus as some report him He sat 3. or 4 though others assign him but 2. years and was buried in the Cemetery of Callistus XXXIII Silvester a Roman He was elected into the place Ann. Chr. CCCXIV fetch'd from the mountain Soracte whither he had fled for fear of Persecution He was highly in favour with Constantine

threefold denial had given so much cause to question should now by a threefold confession give more than ordinary assurance of his sincere affection to his Master Peter was a little troubled at this frequent questioning of his love and therefore more expresly appeals to our Lord's omnisciency that He who knew all things must needs know that he loved him To each of these confessions our Lord added this signal trial of his affection then Feed my sheep that is faithfully instruct and teach them carefully rule and guide them perswade not compel them feed not fleece nor kill them And so 't is plain S. Peter himself understood it by the charge which he gives to the Guides and Rulers of the Church that they should feed the Flock of God taking the over-sight thereof not by constraint but willingly not for filthy lucre but of a ready mind Neither as being Lords over God's heritage but as examples to the flock But that by feeding Christ's Sheep and Lambs here commended to S. Peter should be meant an universal and uncontrollable Monarchy and Dominion over the whole Christian Church and that over the Apostles themselves and their Successors in ordinary and this power and supremacy solely invested in S. Peter and those who were to succeed him in the See of Rome is so wild an inference and such a melting down words to run into any shape as could never with any face have been offered or been possible to have been imposed upon the belief of mankind if men had not first subdued their reason to their interest and captivated both to an implicite faith and a blind obedience For granting that our Lord here addressed his speech only unto Peter yet the very same power in equivalent terms is elsewhere indifferently granted to all the Apostles and in some measure to the ordinary Pastors and Governours of the Church As when our Lord told them That all power was given him in Heaven and in Earth by vertue whereof they should go teach and baptize all Nations and preach the Gospel to every Creature That they should feed God's flock Rule well inspect and watch over those over whom they had the Authority and the Rule Words of as large and more express signification than those which were here spoken to S. Peter 5. OUR Lord having thus engaged Peter to a chearful compliance with the dangers that might attend the discharge and execution of his Office now particularly intimates to him what that fate was that should attend him telling him that though when he was young he girt himself lived at his own pleasure and went whither he pleased yet when he was old he should stretch forth his hands and another should gird and bind him and lead him whither he had no mind to go intimating as the Evangelist tells us by what death he should glorifie God that is by Crucifixion the Martyrdom which he afterward underwent And then rising up commanded him to follow him by this bodily attendance mystically implying his conformity to the death of Christ that he should follow him in dying for the truth and testimony of the Gospel It was not long after that our Lord appeared to them to take his last farewell of them when leading them out unto Bethany a little Village upon the Mount of Olives he briefly told them That they were the persons whom he had chosen to be the witnesses both of his Death and Resurrection a testimony which they should bear to him in all parts of the World In order to which he would after his Ascension pour out his Spirit upon them in larger measures than they had hitherto received that they might be the better fortified to grapple with that violent rage and fury wherewith both Men and Devils would endeavour to oppose them and that in the mean time they should return to Jerusalem and stay till these miraculous powers were from on high conferred upon them His discourse being ended laying his hands upon them he gave them his solemn blessing which done he was immediately taken from them and being attended with a glorious guard and train of Angels was received up into Heaven Antiquity tells us that in the place where he last trod upon the rock the impression of his feet did remain which could never afterwards be fill'd up or impaired over which Helena Mother of the Great Constantine afterwards built a little Chappel called the Chappel of the Ascension in the floor whereof upon a whitish kind of stone modern Travellers tell us that the impression of his Foot is shewed at this day but 't is that of his right foot only the other being taken away by the Turks and as 't is said kept in the Temple at Jerusalem Our Lord being thus taken from them the Apostles were filled with a greater sense of his glory and majesty than while he was wont familiarly to converse with them and having performed their solemn adorations to him returned back to Jerusalem waiting for the promise of the Holy Ghost which was shortly after conferred upon them They worshipped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy They who lately were overwhelmed with sorrow at the very mention of their Lord's departure from them entertained it now with joy and triumph being fully satisfied of his glorious advancement at God's right hand and of that particular care and providence which they were sure he would exercise towards them in pursuance of those great trusts he had committed to them SECT VII S. Peter's Acts from our Lord's Ascension till the Dispersion of the Church The Apostles return to Jerusalem The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or upper-room where they assembled what Peter declares the necessity of a new Apostles being chosen in the room of Judas The promise of the Holy Ghost made good upon the day of Pentecost The Spirit descended in the likeness of fiery cloven tongues and why The greatness of the Miracle Peter's vindication of the Apostles from the slanders of the Jews and proving Christ to be the promised Messiah Great numbers converted by his Sermon His going up to the Temple What their stated hours of Prayer His curing the impotent Gripple there and discourse to the Jews upon it What numbers converted by him Peter and John seised and cast into Prison Brought before the Sanhedrim and their resolute carriage there Their refusing to obey when commanded not to preach Christ. The great security the Christian Religion provides for subjection to Magistrates in all lawful instances of Obedience The severity used by Peter towards Ananias and Saphirak The great Miracles wrought by him Again cast into Prison and delivered by an Angel Their appearing before the Sanhedrim and deliverance by the prudent counsels of Gamaliel 1. THE Holy Jesus being gone to Heaven the Apostles began to act according to the Power and Commission he had left with them In order whereunto the first thing they did after his Ascension was to fill up the