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Something concerning Agbarus, Prince of the Edesseans with his epistle to Christ, and Christ's epistle in answer thereto : also Paul's epistle to the Laodiceans, with the manner of his death and his exhortation to his persecutors : a catalogue of those Scriptures mentioned, but not inserted in the Bible : as also how several Scriptures are corrupted by the translators, with the difference betwixt the old and new translations.
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of Jesus so in truth by his Disciple and Apostle Thaddaus without Apothecary-stuff and virtue of Herbs he was cured and not only he but also Abdus the Son of Abdus grieved with the Gout and falling at the feet of Thaddaus recovered his former health By the laying on of his hands he cured also many other of his Fellow-Citizens working miraculously and miraculous things and preaching the Word of God to whom Agbarus said again Thou Thaddaus through the Power of God dost these things and we have thee in admiration I pray thee moreover that thou expound unto me the Coming of Jesus how he was made Man his Might and by what Power he brought such things as We have heard to pass to whom Thadaus said At this season I will be silent though I am sent to preach this Word but to morrow call together all thy People and Fellow-Citizens then will I shew unto them the Word of God and sow the Word of Life and teach the manner of his Coming how he was made Man of his Message and to what end he came being sent from the Father moreover of his Miracles and Mysteries uttered in this VVorld and Power in bringing things to pass and besides this his new Preaching and how base slender and humble he seemed in outward appearance how he humbled himself and died what great things he suffered of the Jews how he was crucified and descended into Hell and rent the Hedge and middle VVall never severed before and raised the dead that of long time had slept how that he descended alone but ascended unto the Father accompanied with many how he sitteth in glory at the Right hand of God the Father in Heaven and last of all how he shall come again with Glory and Power to judge both the quick and dead VVhen Morning was come Agbarus commanded his Citizens to be gathered together to hear Thaddaus which being ended he charged Gold Coyned and Uncoyned should be given to him but he received it not saying Insomuch that we have forsaken our own how can we receive other mens These things were done the three and fortieth year which being translated word for word out of the Syrian Tongue we thought not amiss to declare in this manner Jerom with other grave Writers affirmeth such Circumstances to have been Eusebius whose Credit herein is not small reporteth the same to have been taken out of their Records in the City of Edessa registred there in the Syrian Tongue and by him Translated out of the Syrian into the Greek Tongue London Printed and Sold by T. Sowle next Door to the Meeting-House in VVhite-Hart-Court in Gracious-street and at the Bible in Leaden-hall-street near the Market 1697. THE EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE LAODICEANS 1. PAVL an Apostle not of man nor by man but by Jesus Christ 2. To the Brethren which are at LAODICEA Grace and Peace be with you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ 3. I thank my God in all my Prayers that you remain steadfast in him and in all his works waiting upon his promises to the day of Judgment 4. And be not seduced by some unprofitable talkers who go about to cause you to fall from the Gospel which was preached unto you by me 5. Oh that they that were instructed by me might serve to the profit of the Gospel of Truth and become diligent in good works of Eternal Life 6. And henceforth are my bonds manifest which I suffer for Christs sake 7. Whereof I rejoyce in Heart and Account it Eternal Salvation 8. That such is done through your Prayers by the working of the Holy Spirit whether by Life or Death 9. For I have a will and a joy to die in Christ who will through the same mercy give you to have the same love and to be of one mind 10. Therefore beloved Brethren as you have heard in my Presence that keep and finish in the fear of God so shall you have Eternal Life for God will work it and prefect it in you without delay 11. My beloved rejoyce in the Lord and take heed of them that are disirous after filthy lucre 12. Let your prayers be manifest unto God and remain firm in the knowledge of Christ 13. And do that which is meet convenient just and reasonable and what you have heard and received that keep in your hearts So shall you have Praise 14. The Grace of God and our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirits Amen Cause this Epistle to be read unto the Colossians and read you that which is written unto the Colossians Read Col. 4.16 This Epistle of Paul to the Laodiceans was found in the Oldest Bible that was Printed at Worms IN a Translation of the New-Testament into both Latine and English each correspondent one to another after the vulgar Text commonly called St. Jerom's faithfully translated by John Hollybush 1538. and Printed in Southwark by James Nicholson and set forth by the Kings Licence I find in the sixth Chapter of Luke it is thus in the Margent after the fifth and sixth verses after these words The Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath In one of the Greek Copies this followeth viz. Jesus seeing a certain Man working on the Sabbath day said unto him O Man if thou didst know indeed what thou dost thou art happy But if thou knowest not thou art accursed and a Transgressor of the Law Concerning the Death of PAVL PAVL being delivered by Nero bound unto Longinus and Magistus the Chief Officers and Acestus the Centurion that they should lead him without the City and cause him to be beheaded And Paul being full of the Holy Ghost spake the words of Eternal Life that both Nero and all should believe in Jesus Christ who was King of Heaven and Earth who would destroy the Glory of the World with Fire When they had led him away Longinus Magistus and Acestus began to say unto him tell us O Paul where is that King and where will he appear unto you and how will you know him And what will he give unto you or what good will he bestow upon you that you Christians so mightily love him that by no means you will consent unto our Religion that you may live and enjoy the good of this life But rather than all the pleasures of delight to be led to die for him with divers Torments for this seems to us to be a great error to hate this joyful life and to embrace with all your desire punishment and death Paul therefore saith O ye wise men and flourishing in knowledge depart out of the darkness and error wherein the Nobility of your understanding is clouded with darkness lest you should see the Truth which lieth hid in you return the eyes of your minds to the eternal and true Light that ye may be able first to know your selves and so come to the knowledge of that King with galdness and to be saved from that Fire which is to
Something concerning Agbarus Prince of the Edesseans With his Epistle to Christ and Christ's Epistle in Answer thereto Also Paul's Epistle to the Laodiceans with the Manner of his Death and his Exhortation to his Persecutors A Catalogue of those Scriptures mentioned but not inserted in the Bible As Also How several Scriptures are corrupted by the Translators With the Difference betwixt the Old and New Translations AFter that Jesus Christ was made manifest unto all men through the working of Miracles he drew unto him an innumerable sort of Strangers far distant from Judea afflicted with sundry Diseases and every sort of Maladies hoping to recover their Health of which number King Agbarus Governour of the famous Nations Inhabiting beyond the River Euphrates grievously diseased in Body incurable by mans Cunning hearing the renowned Fame of Jesus the wonderful Works which he wrought agreeable unto the same published of all men wrote unto him by Letters requiring deliverance from his Disease Jesus though not presently yielded unto his desire vouchsafed to Answer him by an Epistle that shortly he would send one of his Disciples which should cure his Disease promising withall that he should not only cure his Disease but as many as belonged unto him which Promise he not long after performed for after his Resurrection Thomas one of the Twelve Apostles sent his Brother Thaddaus accounted among the Seventy Disciples of Christ by Divine Inspiration into the City of Edessa to be Preacher of the Doctrine of Christ whom all things which concerned the Promise of Christ were performed The Reader hath an approved Testimony of these things in writing taken out of the recorded Monuments of the Princely City Edessa for there are found inrolled in their publick Registry things of Antiquity and which were done about Agbarus's time yea and preserved unto this day there is no reason to the contrary but that we may have the Epistles themselves copied out of their Registry and translated by us out of the Syrian Tongue in this manner The Epistle of Agbarus unto our Saviour AGbarus Governour of Edessa unto Jesus the good Saviour shewing himself in Jerusalem sendeth Greeting I have heard of thee and of thy Cures which thou hast done without Medicines and Herbs for as the Report goeth thou makest the Blind to see the Lame to go the Lepers thou cleansest soul Spirits and Devils thou castest out and long Diseased thou restorest to Health and raisest the Dead to Life When that I heard these things of thee I imagined with my self one of these two things either that thou art God come from heaven and dost these things or the Son of God that bringeth these things to pass Wherefore by these my Letters I beseech thee to take the pains to come unto me and that thou wilt cure this my grievous Malady where with I am sore vexed I have heard moreover that the Jews murmer against thee and go about to mischief thee I have here a little City and an honest which will suffice us both These things he wrote after this manner being a little lightned from above I think it also not amiss to hear the Letter of Jesus Christ sent back to Agbarus by the same bearer The Epistle of Christ unto Agbarus AGbarus Blessed art thou because thou hast believed in me when thou sawest me not for it is written of me That they which see me shall not believe in me that they which see me not may believe and be saved Concerning that thou wrotest unto me that I should come unto thee I let thee understand that all things touching my Message are here to be fulfilled and after the fulness thereof I am to return again to him that sent me But after my Ascension I wil send one of my Disciples unto thee which shall cure thy Malady and restore Life to thee and them that be with thee Vnto these Epistles there were also these things added in the Syrian Tongue When Jesus was taken up Judas which also is called Thomas sent unto him Thaddaus the Apostle one of the Seventy who when he came remained with one Tobias the Son of Tobias When that the Fame was spread of him and that he was made manifest by the Miracles which he wrongth it was signified unto Agbarus and said the Apostle of Jesus is come of whom he wrote unto thee Thaddaus by that time began through the power of God to cure every sore and Sickness that all men greatly marvelled Agbarus hearing of the weighty and wonderful Works which he wrought that he cured in the Name and Power of Jesus forthwith suspected the same to be he of whom Jesus had written saying After mine ascension I will send one of my Disciples unto thee which shall cure thy Malady And when he had called to him Tobias where Thaddaus lodged he said unto him I hear say that a certain mighty man come from Jerusalem is lodged with thee and cureth many in the Name of Jesus who made Answer and said Yea there came a certain Stranger and lodged at my House which hath done wonderful things to whom the King said Bring him unto me Tobias returning unto Thaddaus said unto him Agbarus the Governour sent for me and commanded that I should bring thee unto him that thou may'st cure his Disease Thaddaus answered I go for it is for his sake that I am sent thus mightily to work Tobias bestirring betimes the next Day took with him Thaddaus and came to Agbarus as he came even at his entrance there appeared unto Agbarus in the presence of his chief Men a great and strange shew in the countenance of Thaddaus the Apostle at which sight Agbarus did reverence unto Thaddaus so that all they that were in presence marvelled none of them saw the sight save Agbarus alone which questioned with Thaddaus and said Art thou of a truth a Disciple of Jesus the Son of God who made me this promise I will send unto thee one of my Disciples which shall cure thy Disease and shew Life unto thee and all thine To whom Thaddaus made answer Because thou hast greatly believed in the Lord Jesus which sent me therefore am I sent unto thee but in case thou believe in him as yet thy hearty desires according to thy Faith thou shalt obtain to whom Agbarus said I have continued so believeing in him that I could have found in my heart mightily to destroy the Jews which crucified him were not the Roman Empire a Let unto my purpose Thaddaus said again our Lord and God Jesus Christ fulfilled the will of his Father which being finished he is ascended unto him Abgarus answered and I have belleved in him and his Father to whom Thaddaus replied therefore in the Name of the self-same Lord Jesus I lay my hand upon thee which when he had done he was forthwith cured of his Malady and delivered of the Pain that pressed him sore Agbarus marvelled at this that even as it was reported to him