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A00440	The auncient ecclesiasticall histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ, wrytten in the Greeke tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Cæsarea in Palæstina vvrote 10 bookes. Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople vvrote 7 bookes. Euagrius Scholasticus of Antioch vvrote 6 bookes. VVhereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the liues of the prophetes, apostles and 70 disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer, Maister of Arte and student in diuinitie. Last of all herein is contayned a profitable chronographie collected by the sayd translator, the title whereof is to be seene in the ende of this volume, with a copious index of the principall matters throughout all the histories; Ecclesiastical history. English	Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340.; Hanmer, Meredith, 1543-1604.; Socrates, Scholasticus, ca. 379-ca. 440. Ecclesiastical history. English. aut; Evagrius, Scholasticus, b. 536? Ecclesiastical history. English. aut; Dorotheus, Saint, 255-362, attributed name. aut	1577 (1577)	STC 10572; ESTC S121374	989,961	618

vvolfe from the sheepe I am no vvolfe I am the vvorde the spirite and povver but let him manifestly expresse that povver by the spirite and preuayle let him compell such men as then vvere present to trye and conferre vvith that talkatyue spirite namely these vvorthy men and Bishops Zoticus of Comanum and Iulian of Apamia to confesse the same vvhose mouthes vvhen the companions of Themison had stopped they suffered not the lying spirite and seducer of the people to be rebuked In the same booke after he had layde downe other thinges to the confutation of Maximilla his false prophecyes he declareth with all the tyme when he wrote and their prophecyes foreshewing warres and sedicions whose fonde fantasies he confuteth in this sorte And hovv can it othervvise fall out but that this be founde a manifest vntrueth and open falsehoode For novve it is more then thirtene yeares agoe since this vvoman dyed and yet in all this space hath there happened in this vvorlde neither ciuill neither generall vvarres but especially the Christians through the mercy of God haue had continuall peace Thus much out of the seconde booke out of the thirde booke we will alleadge a fewe lynes agaynst them which gloried that many of them were crowned with martyrdome for thus he writeth VVhen as they are in the premisses blanked confuted and voyde of arguments they flye for shift and refuge vnto martyrs reporting them selues to haue many affirming that to be a sure and a certayne proofe of the propheticall spirite raygning among them neither is this a most euident proofe as it appeareth for diuers other hereticall sectes haue many Martyrs vnto vvhome for all that vve neither condescende neither confesse that they haue the trueth among them And first for all the Mareionites affirme they haue many Martyrs vvhen as for all that their doctrine is not of Christ him self according vnto the trueth a litle after he sayth these that are called to their tryall and to testifie the true fayth by suffring of Martyrdome are of the Churche they communicate not vvith any of the Phrygian hereticall Martyrs but are seuered from them consenting no not in one iote vvith the fonde spirite of Montanus and his vvoman and that this vvhich I saye is moste true it shall euidently appeare by the examples of Caius and Alexander Martyrs of Eumenia vvho suffered in our tyme at Apamia situated vppon the ryuer Maeander CAP. XV. Of Miltiades and his workes IN the afore sayd booke this Apollinarius remembred the Commentaries of Miltiades who likewise wrote a booke against the foresayd heresie the wordes by him cyted were in this sort these things haue I briefly alleadged and found vvritten in some one of their commentaries vvhich confute the booke of Alcibiades vvhere he declareth that it is not the property of a Prophet to prophecye in a traunce a litle after he rehearseth the Prophets of the newe Testament among whome he numbreth one Ammias and Quadratus saying as followeth A false Prophet in a traunce vvhere licence and impunitie doe concurre beginneth vvith rashe ignoraunce endeth vvith furious rage and frensie of mind as it is sayd before of this sort in such traunce of spirite they shal be able to shevve vs non of the prophetes ether of the olde or of the nevve testament neyther shall they be able to glory of Agabus of Iudas of the daughters of Philip of Ammias the Philadelphian of Quadratus neither of any other vvhich may any thing auaile them Againe he wryteth If that as they say after Quadratus and Ammias the Philadelphian these vvomen of Montanus succeeded in the gift of prophecy lett them shevve vvho aftervvardes succeeded Montanus and his vvomen for the Apostle thinketh good that the gift of prophecie should raigne in euery Church euen vnto the ende but novve for the space of these fouretene yeares since Maximilla dyed they are able to shevve vs not one so farre he this Militiades whome he remembreth leaft vnto vs in wryting other monumentes of his laboure and industrie in the holy Scriptures aswell in the bookes he wrote agaynst the Gentiles as also in the books agaynst the Ievves satisfieng confuting in two books their seuerall argumentes and opinions afterwardes he wrote an Apologie of the Christian philosophie which he embraced vnto the potentates and princes of this world CAP. XVI Apollonius his iudgement of the same heresie TO be briefe this Phrygian heresie was confuted by Apollonius an ecclesiasticall writer who then I saye at that time florished in Phrygia he published a seuerall booke against it he refuted their prophecyes accompting them for vayne lyes he plainely opened and reuealed the conuersation of such as were principall and chief patrons of this heresie of Montanus he wrote in this manner But vvhat kinde of nevve Doctor this is his vvorkes and doctrine doe declare This is he vvhich taught the breakinge of vvedlocke this is he vvhich prescribed lavves of fastinge this is he vvhich called Pepuza and Timium peltinge parishes of Phrygia Ierusalem to the ende he might entice all men from euery vvhere to frequent thither this is he vvhich ordayned tolegatherers taxers of money â–ª this is he vvhich vnder pretense and colour of oblations hath conningely inuented the arte of bribinge this is he vvhich giueth greate hyre vnto the preachers of his doctrine that by feedinge of the panche his prophecies may preuaile Thus much of Montanus and immediatly of his Prophetisses he wryteth VVe haue shevved before these first prophetisses from the time they vvere filled vvith theyr false spirite to haue forsaken theyr husbandes hovve shamefully then do they lye calling Priscilla a virgin He addeth sayinge Doth not the-vvhole Scripture forbydde that a prophete shoulde receaue revvardes and money VVhen I see a prophetisse receaue golde and siluer and precious garmentes hovve can I chuse but detest her Agayne of an other he sayth And besides these Themison also inflammed vvith the burninge thurst of couetousnesse tasted not of the tarte conyzance of confession before the tyrant but shifted himself out of fetteres vvith much money And vvhen as therefore he shoulde haue humbled himselfe yet he all in braggery as if he vvere a martyr after the example of the Apostle vvrote a catholicke epistle very presumptuously to enstructe them vvhich beleued better then he did and to exhort them to striue for the nevve doctrine together vvith him and to reuile the Lorde and his Apostles and his holy Churche Againe speakinge of one of theyr highlye esteemed Martyrs he wryteth in this sorte And that vve trouble not our selues vvith many lett the prophetisse tell vs toutchinge Alexander vvho called himselfe a Martyre vvith vvhome she hathe banqueted vvhome also many doe adore vvhose theftes and other haynous crimes vvhich he suffred for I vvill not presently rehearse for they are publickely knovven and registered vvhose sinnes hathe he pardoned vvhether doth a prophete yeld thefte vnto a

worlde there raigned after kinge Dauid Solomon ouer Israel ouer Iuda Roboam Abia Asa Iosaphat Ioram Ochozias Athalia Ioas Amasias Azarias Ioathan Achaz Ezechias Manasses Amon Iosias Ioachaz Ioacim Iechonias Sedechias vnder whome the captiuitie befell both citie and temple were destroyed the people led into Babylō Yet during the seuenty yeres of their captiuity there wanted not such as taught them such as prophecied vnto them of their deliuerance comforted them in their misery In the fift age of the worlde after the captiuitye the Israelites were gouerned by Zorobabel Resa Ioanna Iudas Iosephus Abner Semei Mattathias Aser Maath Nagid Arphaxad Agar Heli Masbot Naum Amos Sirach Mattathias Siloa Ioseph Arses Ianneus Hircanus Iudas Machabaeus Ionathas Simon Ionathas Iohannes Hircanus Aristobulus Alexander Hircanus Antigonus Aristobulus and Herode the Aliene in whose time Christe Iesus was borne in the fleshe These are the successions of Magistrates and Gouernours of all sortes as well of the vvicked to chastise as of the godly to cherishe whom God appointed to gouerne his people to vpholde the trueth to extoll vertue to roote out vice and to praise his holye name From Aaron vnto the byrth of Christ there were priests ordained to offer sacrifice vnto God to pray for the sinnes of the people and to preach the word of trueth Whose names as I reade in the Ecclesiasticall history of Nicephorus are these Aaron Eleazer phinees Eliezer Bochchi Ozi Heli Achitob Abimelech Abiathar Sadoc Achimaas Azarias Ioram Iodas Axioran Sadeus Phadaeus Iculus Ioathā Vrias Neri Ioas Selam Helchias Sareas Iosedech Iesus Ioachim Eliasib Ioachaz Ioannes Iaddaeus Onias Simō Eleazar Manasses Onias Simon Onias Iesus Onias Alcimus Onias the sonne of Onias Iudas Machabaeus Ionathas his brother Simon his brother Iohannes Hircanus Aristobulus Iannaeas Alexander Hircanus Antigonus Anaelus Aristobulus Anaelus Iesus and Simon in whose time Christe Iesus was borne From the byrth of Christe as it is to be seene in the Chronographie following vntill the destruction of Ierusalem vnder Titus there were these high priests Matthias Iosephus Ioazarus Eleazar Iesus sea Ananus otherwise Annas Ismael Eleazar Simon Caiphas Ionathas Theophilus Simon Ionathas Matthias Elioneus Ioseph Ananias Ionathas Ismael Iosephus Ananus Iesus Dannaeus Iesus the sonne of Gamaliel Matthias and Phanes in whose time the citie of Ierusalem was taken the temple set on fire and the high priests ceassed There were also from the beginning of the worlde vnto the birth of Christ prophets foreshewing as Dorotheus writeth the promises of God made vnto the fathers wherin he promised to blesse all nations in the seede of Abraham through the saluation that was to come by our Sauiour Iesus Christ Iosephus in his Iudaicall Antiquities writeth that Adam prophecied and foretolde his sonnes the worlde shoulde be twise destroyed first by water afterwardes with fire Iude in his Epistle speaketh of Enoch the seuenth from Adam that he prophecied sayinge beholde the Lorde shall come with thousands of Saincts to geue iudgement against all men and to rebuke all that are vngodly among them of all their vngodly deedes which they haue lewdly committed and of all their cruell speakinges whiche vngodly sinners haue spoken againste him Iacob prophecied that his posteritie shoulde be deliuered out of Aegypt of the comminge of Christ that the scepter should not depart from Iuda and a lawgeuer from betweene his feete vntill Siloh that is the Messias came Ioseph foretolde likewise the children of Israell of their deliuerance out of Aegypt sayinge I die and God will surely visit you and bring you out of this land vnto the lande which he sware vnto Abraham Isaac and Iacob God will not faile but visite you and ye shall carie my bones hence Moses the great worshipper of the high God prophecied of the creation of the worlde and of suche thinges as were done vnto his time the space of two thousande yeares before he was borne againe of Christe he sayde as Peter hath alleadged him in the Actes of the Apostles A Prophete shall the Lorde your God rayse vp vnto you of your brethren lyke vnto me him shall ye heare in all thinges whatsoeuer he shall saye vnto you Samuel was both a iudge ouer Israel a priest and a prophet Dauid Solomon also is sayde to haue bene endued with the spirite of prophecie though Dorotheus be of the contrary opinion Both olde and late writers doe thinke no lesse then that he was a prophet Antoninus hath a tracte intitled De prophetijs Dauid Solomonis of the prophecies of Dauid and Solomon There prophecied moreouer as we finde in holy scripture Nathan Gad Ahias Asaph Idithum Addo Semeia Ioath Oded Azarias Hanani Iehu Iehaziel Eliezer Elias Zacharias Elissaeus Osee Abdias Michaeas Amos Esaias Ioel Ionas Sophonias Ieremie Hulda Naum Abacuk Ezechiel Daniel Baruch Vrias Aggaeus Zacharias Malachias and Iohn the Baptist Whose liues this autor hath briefely runne ouer These prophets in some places of holy scripture are termed Seers in some other places the men of God againe in other places the seruāts of the most high God In the time of King Acab Obadias the gouernour of his house one that feared God hid an hundred prophets in caues yet their names are not knowen of al the prophets generally Peter the Apostle writeth in this sort It is of the saluatiō of your soules that the prophets haue enquired and searched which prophecied of the grace that should come vnto you searching when or at what time the spirit of Christe which was in them shoulde signifie whiche spirit testified before the passions that shoulde happen vnto Christe and the glorie that shoulde followe after vnto which prophets it was also declared that not vnto them selues but vnto vs they shoulde minister the thinges which are now shewed vnto you of them Such was the goodnesse of God towardes mankinde that in times past as S. Paule saith he spake at sundry times and in diuers sorts vnto the fathers by prophets also by the ministery of Angells sent forth for their sakes which shal be heires of saluation In these later dayes being the sixt age of the worlde beginning at Christ and continewinge vnto the day of iudgement that is vnto the seuenth age and the Sabaoth of rest we haue had the twelue Apostles Peter Andrevve Iames Iohn Philip Bartholomevve Mathevve Thomas Iames the sonne of Alphaeus Iude Simon Matthias which was chosen in the rowme of Iudas the traitor Paule is also termed an Apostle and called to the function by our sauiour him selfe cryinge vnto him from heauen after his ascention VVe haue also the foure Euangelists Mathevve Marke Luke and Iohn VVe haue moreouer here layde downe by Dorotheus the catalogue of the seuentie disciples which our Sauiour ordained in the Gospell and appointed to goe by two and two into euerye citie and place where he him selfe shoulde come The first after Dorotheus is Iames the brother of the Lorde called

constrained to come to the councell helde at Tyrus where he was deposed Socrat. lib. 1. ca 20 Arius borne in Libya yet a prieste of Alexandria hearing Alexander the bishop entreatinge curiously of the trinitie thought verily that he maintayned the opiniō of Sabellius set him self agaynst the bishop and sayde that the sonne of God had a beginninge of essēce that there was a time when he was not he sayde that God was not alwayes a Father that the sonne was not frō euerlasting but had his beginninge of nothinge Being called before the Emperour he woulde subscribe vnto the Nicene councell sweare toe His deceate was to carie in his bosome his hereticall opinion wryttē in a peece of paper and when he came to the booke he woulde sweare that he thought as he had written meaning in his bosome His ende was lamentable for comming from the Emperoure after the oth he had taken with greate pompe throughe the streete of Constantinople he was taken with suddayne feare and withall he felt a laske immediatlye he asked of them where there was any house of office thither he wēt voyded his gutts as manye as went by were wonte to poynte at the place with the finger and say In yonder iakes dyed Arius the heretick Socrat. lib. 1. cap. 3. 25. Epiphan haeres 68. 69.   Alexander b. of Alexandria to Arius the heretick exhorting thē to vnitie ▪ whē he was 60. 5. yeares old he dyed after that he had raigned 31 yeares Euseb li. 8. ca. 14. 15. 16. lib. 9. cap. 9 10. lib. 10. cap. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Socrat. lib. 1. cap. 2 4. 26. He differred his baptisme vnto his last end purposing fullye to haue it in Iordaine where Christ was baptized It was Eusebius b. of Nicomedia as Eusebius Ierom and Socrates doe write that baptised him for all the trauell that Cardinal pool tooke and the flattering glosses to proue the contrarye The donation that is fathered vpon him is but a meere fable in the iudgement of the best wryters Eusebius Pamphilus bishop of Caesarea in Palaestina wrote the ecclesiasticall historie frō the byrth of Christ vnto the raygne of Constātine the great he was at the councel of Nice wrote the Nicene creede sēt it to Caesarea condēned Arius with his own hāde yet was he thoughte to be an Arian and to cleare him of the suspicion Socrates wrote an Apology in his behalfe whiche is to be seene in his history Constātine had hī in greate reuerence Because of his familiaritye with Pamphilus the martyr he was called Eusebius Pamphilus he wrote many notable bookes died in the time of Constātine the yonger Socrat. lib. 1. cap. 1. 5. 18 lib. 2. cap. 3. 17. Ierom catalog Frumentius was made bishop by Athanasius and sent to conuert the Indians Socrat lib. 1. ca. 15. Eusebius Emisenus a godly bishop was a great clerke a profounde philosopher in the days of Constantine Socrat. lib. 1. cap. 18. lib. 2. cap. 6. There was at Rome in the time of Siluester a Councell of 277. bishops whiche ratified the Nicene coūcell cōdemned Arius Photinus Sabellius tom 1. cōcil In the time of Cōstantine sayth Marianus Scotus Helen his mother writeth vnto him that he should renoūce Christ becom a Iewe. To trye the trueth Helē brought with her 120. Iewes Constantine brought Siluester b. of Rome with 24. other bishops they disputed of Christ in the ende the Iewes were ouerthrowen to 1. concil   Eustathius was b. of Antioch after Philogonus he was at the councel of Nice But he fel into the heresie of Sabellius and was deposed in a councell held at Antioch Eusebius Pāphilus confuted him after his deposition the seae was voyde the space of 8. yeres Socrat. li. 1. cap. 9. 18. Marcus was b. of Rome after Siluester and cōtinewed 8. moneths Ierom.     Alexander b. of Constantinople a godlye father sett him selfe against Arius he trusted not to the quirckes of logick but to the power of Christ helockt him self in the churche and prayd thus vnto God I besech thee o lord if the opiniō of Arius be true that I my selfe maye neuer see the ende of this disputatiō but if the faith which I holde be true that Arius may receau due punishmēt for his blas phemous opinion whiche in deede sell out as it is to be seen in Arius ende Alelexander was 118. yeare olde when he dyed Socrat lib. 1. cap 25. li. 2 cap. 4. Siluester called at Rome 284. bishops in the presence of Cōstantine and Helena his mother where they layd downe canons for the gouernmēt of the clergie tom 1. cōcil A councell held at Antioche deposed Eustathius b. of Antioche for maintaining the heresie of Sabellius Socrat. lib. 1. cap. 18. A councel held at Eliberis in Spayne in the time of Cōstātine decreed that the vsurer should be excōmunicated that tapers shold not burne in the daye tyme in church yardes that women shoulde not frequent vigills that images should be banished the church that nothinge should be painted on the wall to be worshipped that euery one should cōmunicate thrise in the yere tom 1. concil       They accused him at Constātinople be fore the Emperour that he should say he woulde stay the cariadge of corne frō Alexādria to Constātinople for the which Constantinus magnus ●an ished him into Treuere a citie of Fraūce lib. 1. ca. 23. Cōstantine the yonger called him home frō exile lib. 2. cap. 2. The councel of Antioche charged hī that he tooke the bishoprike after his exile without the warrant of a councel they deposed him and chose Eusebius Emisenꝰ when he refused it they chose Gregorius an Arian who was brought thither with armed souldiers so that A thana●ius fled away to saue his life afterwardes they misliked with him placed Georgius in his rowme whiche had a miserable end lib. 2. ca. 5. 6. 7. 8. 10. lib. 3. ca. 2. he wēt to Iulius b. of Rome and came to enioy his bishopricke by vertue of his letters lib. 2. ca. 11. Againe the Ariās accused him to the emperor that he had taken the corne which the emperor gaue to the poore and sold it to his owne lucre so that he was faine the seconde time to slye vnto Iulius b. of Rome where he cōtinewed one yeare six moneths vntil the coū cel of Sardice where he was restored to his bishoprick lib. 2. ca. 13. 16. but Cōstātius beyng an Arian banished him againe so that Constans his brother threatned him with warres and cōstrayned him to doe it lib. 2. ca. 18. after the death of Constans Constantius exiled him againe lib. 2. cap. 21. After the death of Constantius he came to Alexādria but he was fayne to flie in the time of lulian the Apostata li. 3 ca. 4. 12. He came hom in the time of Iouianus and fled away in the time of Valens the A rian he was b. six forty yeres

fathers or that there vvas a time when he had no being these the Catholicke church doth holde for accursed When they had exhibited these fewe lynes vnto the Emperour and shewed them to diuers others they tooke their leaue without further reasoninge of any other matter Furthermore whilest that as yet both the churches of the East and also of the West without any adoe communicated together a newe opinion sprang vp at Sirmium a citie of Illyrium Photinus who gouerned the churches there borne in the lesser Galatia the disciple of Marcellus that was deposed of his byshopricke following his maisters steps affirmed that the sonne of God was but onely man The discourse of these things we will referre to an other place CAP. XV. A forme of faith layde downe by the byshops of the East contayning many longe and large circumstances THree yeares after the bishops of the Easterne churches summone agayne an other councell they frame an other forme of faith and sende it to the bishops of Italie by Eudoxius bishop of Germanicia Martyrius and Macedonius bishop of Mopsiestia a citie in Cilicia This faith sett forth at large contayneth many additions and glosses besides such as heretofore were published in other creedes it beginneth thus VVe beleue in one God the father almightie creator and maker of all things of vvhome all fatherhoode in heauen and in ●arth is called and in his onely begotten sonne Iesus Christ our Lorde begotten of the Father before all worlds God of God lyght of lyght by vvhome all thinges vvere made both in heauen and in earth be they visible or inuisible who is the word the wisdome the power the life true light who in the later dayes was incarnate for our sakes was borne of the holy virgine was crucified dead and buryed who rose againe the third day from the dead ascended into heauen sitteth at the ryght hand of the father who shall come in the end of the world to iudge the quicke and the dead to reward euery man according vnto his works whose kingdome shall haue no ende but shall continevve for euer For he shall sitte at the ryght hande of the Father not onely vvhyle this vvorlde lasteth but also in the lyfe to come VVe beleeue also in the holye Ghost that is in the Comforter vvhome Christ promised to sende his Apostles after his ascention into heauen vvhome also he sent for to teache and leade them in all thynges by vvhose meanes the soules of them vvhich faithfully beleeue in him are sanctified vvhosoeuer therefore dare presume to affirme that the sonne had his beginninge of nothinge or of any other substance then the Fathers or that there vvas a tyme or a vvorlde vvhen he vvas not these the holie and Catholicke churche doth holde for accursed In like maner such as saye that there are three gods or that Christ vvas not God from the beginninge or that he is neyther Christ neyther the sonne of God or that there is neyther Father neyther Sonne neyther holie Ghost or that the sonne is vnbegotten or that the Father begatt not the sonne of his ovvne vvyll and purpose these the holie and Catholicke church doth holde for accursed Neyther can it be vttered vvithout blasphemie that the sonne had his beynge of nothinge in so much there can no such thinge be founde of him in holie scripture Neyther doe vve learne that he had his beynge of any other preexistent substance besydes the fathers but that he vvas truely begotten of God the father alone The holie scripture teacheth vs that the father of Christ is and vvas one vnbegotten and vvithout beginning Neyther may vve safely affirme vvithout testimonie of the sacred scripture that there vvas a tyme vvhen he vvas not as though vve shoulde imagine or forethinke in him any temporall space but vve haue to conceaue and comprehende in our mindes God alone vvhith begatt him vvithout tyme. For tymes and vvorldes vvere made by him Neither can ere other the father or the sonne properly be sayde ioyntly to be vvithout beginninge and ioyntly vvithout begettinge but as vve knovve the father alone to be vvithout beginninge incomprehensble and to haue begotten the sonne after an incomprehensible and an intelligible maner so vve vnderstande the forme to haue bene begotten before all vvorldes and not to be vnbegotten after the same maner vvith the father but to haue had a beginninge the father vvhich begatt him for the hea●●● of Christ is God VVhen vve confesse three thinges and three persons accordinge vnto the scriptures to vvete of the father ▪ of the sonne and of the holie Ghost vve doe not therein allovve of three gods For vve acknovvledge one onely God perfect and absolute of him selfe vnbegotten vvithout beginninge inuisible the father of the onely begotten sonne vvho alone of him selfe hath his beynge vvho also alone ministreth aboundantly vnto all other things their beyng And vvhen as vve affirme one God the father of our Lorde Iesus Christ to be onely vnbegotten vve doe not therefore deny Christ to haue bene God from euerlastinge as the follovvers of Paulus Samosatenus dyd vvhich affirmed that by nature he vvas but onely and bare man after his in●●mation by profiting● and forvvardnes to haue bene made God VVe knovve though ●e be subiect to the father and to God that he is God of God begotten accordinge vnto nature that he is both a perfect and true God and not made God aftervvardes of 〈…〉 but that accordinge vnto the vvyll of God the father he vvas incarnate for our sakes neuer aftervvardes lo●inge his di●●niti● Moreouer vve detest and abhorre and holde them for accursed vvhich affirme that the sonne of God is the onely and naked vvorde of God vvithout substance but after a fayned and imaginatiue sort in an other and one vvhyle doe terme him the vvorde as vttered by the mouth an other vvhyle as inclosed in the minde of some one or other For they confesse not that euen Christ vvho is Lorde the sonne of God the mediator the image of God vvas before all vvorldes but that he vvas Christ and the sonne of God from that tyme since vvhich novve full foure hundred yeares agoe he tooke our fleshe of the Virgine They vvyll haue the kingdome of Christ from that tyme to haue his beginninge and after the consummation of the vvorlde and the dreadfull daye of iudgement to haue his endinge The authors of this abhominable heresie are the Marcellians Photinians Ancyrogalatians vvho therefore disproue the essence and diuinitie of Christ vvhich hath bene before all vvorldes and likevvise his kingdome vvhich hath no ende because they pretende the establishinge of a monarchie But vve knovve him not for a simple vttered vvorde or as it vvere inclosed in the minde of God the father but for the liuing word God subsistinge of him selfe the sonne of God and Christ and not to haue bene with his father before the vvorlds by onely prescience to haue bene

clergie we the layty of the communion referring vnto God alone y ● power of remitting their sinne The same Atticus had the foreknowledge of his death for taking his leaue of Nice he sayd vnto Calliopius the minister of that Church make haste to Constantinople before Autumne that thou mayst againe see me aliue for if thou linger make delayes thou shalt see me no more in this world In vttering these wordes he hitt the trueth on the head for he departed this life the one and twentieth yeare of his consecration the tenth of October in the eleuenth Consulship of Theodosius and the first of Valentinianus Caesar Theodosius the Emperour returning from Thessalonica came short to his funerall for Atticus was buried the day before the comming of the Emperour into Constantinople Shortly after the creation of Valentinianus the yonger was proclaymed to wit the three and twentieth day of the same moneth CAP. XXVI Of Sisinius the successor of Atticus in the bishoprick of Constantinople AFter the desease of Atticus there was great contention in the Churche of Constantinople about the election of a Bishop ▪ for some woulde haue Philip a minister some other Proclus who also was a minister preferred to the rowme but all the people with vniforme consent desired Sisinius He was like wise a priest not of any of the Churches within the walls of Constantinople but of Elae a Church in the suburbes ouer against the citie where all the people of Constantinople are wont to celebrate the feast of our Sauiours ascention All the laytye laboured by all meanes to haue him to their Bishop partly because he was counted a very godly man partly also for that he endeuored to relieue the poore beyond the reach of his substance To be short the layty got the vpper hande and Sisinius was consecrated the eyght and twentieth of February in the twelse Consulship of Theodosius and the seconde of Valentinianus Augustus the yonger Philip the minister seeing that Sisinius was preferred before him stomacked the matter wonderfully and inueyed bitterly agaynst his consecration in the worke which he wrote and intitled the Christian history While he inueyeth against Sisinius that was consecrated agaynst the Bishops who were consecrators and especially agaynst the laytye who were electors he wrote such thinges as I am loth to report for I can not chuse but blame him greatly that euer he durst be so bold to lay downe so rash and vnaduised reasons yet in my opinion it will not be amisse presently to say somewhat of him CAP. XXVII Of Philip a Priest bred and brought vp in Sida PHilip of whome we spake before was borne at Sida a citie in Pamphilia where also Trophilus the Sophist had his original of whome Philip boasted not a litle that he was his kinsman This Philip being a Deacon and of great familiaritie with Iohn the Bishop was as it were driuen to bestowe great labour and diligence in the study of good learning so that he wrote many bookes of diuerse sortes his stile was asiaticall proude and lofty and to the ende he might confute the workes of luhan the Emperour he compiled a volume and intitled it The Christian historie the which he deuided into six and thirty bookes euery booke hath sundry tomes the number of all mounteth very nigh to a thousande the argument prefixed to euery one is in maner as bigge as the tome it selfe this worke he entitled not the Ecclesiasticall but the Christian historie where he patched together many matters for to let the worlde vnderstand that he was seene in Philosophy Wherefore he alleadgeth very oft precepts and rules of Geometrie Astronomie Arithmetick Musick Moreouer he describeth Isles mountaines trees with other thinges of smal importance so that it grewe to a huge volume full of bumbast and vayne ostentation In my simple iudgement it is a worke that is prositable neyther for the learned neyther the vnlearned For the learned will condemne the often repetition of the same wordes which is ri●e throughout the booke the vnlearned haue not the capacitie to comprehende the insolent stile and affected sentences of his arrogant minde but let euery one iudge of his owne doings as he shall thinke good I dare affirme that the order he followed in laying downe of the times is both confuse farre from good order for when he had runne ouer the raygne of Theodosius back againe he getts him to discourse of Athanasius the Bishops tymes ▪ the which I note to be his vsuall maner but of Philip so farre Now to the history of Sisinius tyme. CAP. XXVIII Howe that Sisinius made Proclus Bishop of Cyzicum whome the Cyziceni woulde not receaue AFter the desease of the Bishop of Cyzicum Sisinius appoynted Proclus to be their Bishop The citizens vnderstanding of his comming preuented him and chose Dalmatius a religious man to gouerne the bishoprick This they did neglecting the lawe canon which commaundeth that no Bishop be appoynted and ordayned without the consent and autoritie of the Bishop of Constantinople They made no accompt of that canon because it commaunded namely as they thought that the sayd autoritie shoulde be geuen vnto Atticus alone Wherefore Proclus being not admitted to execute the function of a bishop in the Church where he was ordayned continewed at Constantinople where he occupied him selfe in preaching and purchased vnto him selfe thereby great fame and commendation but of him I shal haue occasion of speake more hereafter Sisinius had scarse bene Bishop two yeares when he died it was in the Consulship of Hierius and Ardaburius the foure and twentieth of Decembre He was a man highly commended for temperancie for godly and vertuous life and to be shorte for his liberalitie bestowed vpon the poore He was a man both gentle and familier playne without fraude or guyle and therefore he neuer molested any in his life he was a great enemie to busie bodyes and to quarellers and therefore taken of many for a cowarde CAP. XXIX After the desease of Sisinius Bishop of Constantinople Nestorius was sent for to Antioch for to enioy the bishoprick who immediatly reuealed him selfe what kinde of man he was IT seemed good vnto the Emperour after the desease of Sisinius because ofdiuers vaine glorious persons to chuse none of that Church to be bishop though many made sute for Philip and many againe for Proclus but determined with him selfe to send for a straunger out of Antioch there was in those dayes there a man whose name was Nestorius by birth he was a Germaine a loude voice he had and an eloquent tongue and therefore as it was thought a fitt man to preach vnto the people They put their heades together they sent for Nestorius and brought him from Antioch to Constantinople three moneths after who though his temperance was highly commended of many yet the wisest sort and sagest people perceaued well inough his other conditions when he first beganne to preach for immediatly after his

last of all leade the sheepe of Christ captiues out of the Churche But Anastasius was of so diuine a courage for he stoode vpon the sure rocke of the fayth that he wrote letters freely against Iustinianus the Emperour prouinge bothe plainely and wiselye that the blessed Apostles and holye Fathers confessed and deliuered vnto them the body of the Lorde to be subiecte vnto death and partaker of the vnblameable affections naturally impressed in the minde In like sorte he answered the Monkes of the greater and lesse Syria which reasoned with him as touchinge this matter he confirmed the mindes of all men to fight in defence of the trueth to be shorte he read dayly in the Church that sentence of Paul the electe vessell of God If any preach vnto you any other Gospell besides that which ye haue receaued yea if he be an Angell from heauen let him be helde for accursed Whereunto all fewe onely excepted gaue theyr consentes and signified theyr endeuer and studye in defense of the faythe Moreouer the sayde Anastasius vnderstandinge that the Emperour woulde banishe him wrote an exhortation vnto the people of Antioch for to confirme theyr mindes in the faith the whiche partly for his fine stile and flowing sentences and partly also for the infinite testimonies alleadged out of holy Scripture and the history therein fittly applied is highly to be esteemed CAP. XL. The death of Iustinian BUt the edict of Iustinian by the prouidence of God which prouided farre better for vs was not published For Iustinian who threatned exile vnto Anastasius and his clergy was suddainely taken him selfe when he had raygned thirty eighte yeares full and eight monethes and departed this life The ende of the fourth booke of Euagrius Scholasticus THE FIFT BOOKE OF THE ECCLESIASTICALL HISTORIE OF EVAGRIVS SCHOLASTICVS CAP. I. The creation of Iustinus the seconde Emperour of that name and of his life IVstinianus therefore when he had set the wholl worlde on tumultes and sedition and in his later dayes receaued that whiche was due for suche leude practises departed into endlesse tormente appointed for him by the iust iudgement of God Instinus thē his sisters sonne Presidēt of the pallace was inuested clad in the Emperiall robe when as none his owne friends only excepted knewe either of Iustinianus death or of Iustinus that he was proclaimed Emperour vntil that both he him selfe others also celebrated in Circus the wonted solemnity of the Empire After the finishinge of the spectacles when as none rose to take armour or to rebell against him he returned into y ● pallace And first of all he gaue out a commaundement that all the Bishops and Priests which were gathered together at Constantinople out of all contreys shoulde depart euery man to his owne home there to serue God in holynes and not to alter or practise any nouelty as toutching the faith That act of his is worthy of cōmendation but as for his life and trade of liuinge he swomme in sensualitye he wallowed in filthy pleasure and was so greedy of other mens goods that he sold euery thing for leud gaine and set benesices them selues without any feare of God to open sale Moreouer being entangled with two contrary vices foolehardines and faint courage first he commaunded Iustinus his kinsman to come vnto him a man of great honor and estimation both for his prowesse in martiall affayres and for other rare ornaments of his person who then made his abode about the riuer Danubius for to wtstand the people Abari least they cut ouer that water and inuaded the Romayne dominiōs These Abari be people of Scythia called Hamaxobij inhabiting y ● regions beyond Caucasus who being driuen out of their cuntrey by the Turckes their neighbours diuersly grieued by thē came first to Bosphorus thence forsaking the banks of Pontus Euxinus where there dwelled many Barbarian nations yet the cities holds were kept of y ● Romaynes where againe there came both souldiers y ● were discharged of the warres rid of attendance also such inhabitāts as the Emperours had sent thither they went straight on their voyage vanquished all y ● Barbarians afore thē vntill they came vnto the shore of Danubius whence they sent Embassadors vnto Iustinian y ● Emperour Frō thence it was that Iustinus was called home as it was tolde him for to participate the benefite of the couenauntes drauen betwene him and the Emperour Iustinus For when as both of them seemed to be of equall fame and the Empire like to fall vnto eyther of them after great reasoning long disputation had about the Emperiall scepter they couenanted betwene them selues that whether soeuer of them were crowned Emperour shoulde make the other the second person in honor yet in suche sorte thoughe he were second in respect of the Emperour that he shoulde be firste in respect of all others CAP. II. Howe Iustinus the Emperour procured the death of his cosin Iustinus WHerefore Iustinus y ● Emperour fauored y ● other Iustinus but from teeth outward forged haynous crimes against him by a litle a litle tooke frō him his gard y ● pretorian souldiers also his traine cōmaunded hī to keepe his house so y ● he was not seene abroad in y ● end gaue charge he should be cōueied to Alexādria In which city about midnight as he lay in his bed he was murthered after a lamentable sort and this was his recompence for the good will he bare vnto the common wealth and the notable seruice he did in the warres Neither was the Emperours or he Empresse furie and rage mitigated before they saw with their owne eyes his head taken of from his shoulders and scornefully tumbled it with their feet CAP. III. Of wicked Addaeus and Aetherius SHortly after Iustinus araigned Aetherius and Addaeus who were both senators and of a long time in chiefest autority with Iustinian for an haynons offence which they had committed one of them Aetherius by name confessed after examination that he sought to poyson the Emperour and that Addaeus was of his counsell and of his minde in all he went about But Addaeus protested with solemne dreadfull othes that he knew not of it yet both of thē were beheaded Addaeus as his head went to the block spake boldly though he were innocent as toutching that crime yet that he had deserued y ● punishment by the iust iudgement of God who is the beholder reuenger of haynous offences he confessed that he had dispatched Theodotus president of the pallace by inchauntments but whether these thinges be true or no I am not able to saye Neuerthelesse sure I am that both these were wicked persons for Addaeus burned with Sodomiticall lust and Aetherius left no mischiefe vnpractised he speyled both the liuing and the dead in the raigne of Iustinian vnder colour of the Emperours house whereof he was president callinge for the Emperour for the