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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36461	The triumph of Christianity, or, The life of Cl. Fl. Julian, the Apostate with remarks, contain'd in the resolution of several queries : to which is added, Reflections upon a pamphlet, call'd Seasonable remarks on the fall of the Emperor Julian, and on part of a late pernicious book, entituled, A short account of the life of Julian, &c.	Dowell, John, ca. 1627-1690.	1683 (1683)	Wing D2057; ESTC R8708	83,984	256

Eusebius thus Being under the same fears of Christ as Herod was persecuted the Family of David There were remaining of that Line which were the Grandchildren of Judas near Kinsmen according to the Flesh of our Lord and Saviour These one Jovianus brought before Domitian who asked them whether they were allyed to David they confessed Then he enquired of them what Estate they had and of what Calling They answered by calling they were Husbandmen and their Estate was not in Money but in their Farms He then demanded of them who Christ was of what nature was his Kingdom and in what part of the World and at what time it should be erected To which they reply'd that the Kingdom of Christ was not Terrestrial or Mundane but Heavenly and Angelical the visible appearance of which will be at the end of the World when the Lord with great Glory and Majesty shall descend from Heaven and shall pass a sentence upon both the quick and the dead and reward every Man according to his works upon which he dismissed them as contemptible persons and staid the Persecutions Tertullian saith the same Eusebius relates that Domitian quench'd the Fire of those Persecutions Lib. 2. Cap. 2. No finer way to render Christian Religion odious to Princes than to prove that the Professors of it were Rebels to their Princes Let the Principles of Christian Riligion be considered and the Practises of the Primitive Christians and the contrary will manifestly appear Thus 't is fully clear'd that no just reason can possibly be given to vindicate the Emperors that persecuted the Christians The Courtiers of Darius King of Persia being emulous of that honour which Daniel recieved from their Master Two things to take away his Life they propos'd the one was the affairs of the Crown they endeavour'd to charge him with Treason but no error nor fault was found in him The same is verified of the Christians in the Primitive times Then they said We shall find no fault in him but concerning the Law of his God Dan. 6. 4 5. He that was faithful to his King was so likewise to his God for which slighting the Decree of Praying to his God he was thrown into the Lions Den but miraculously preserv'd which occasion'd Darius to decree that Honour and Fear should be given to the God of Daniel Then Christians could not be justly charged with Rebellion they were reproved for Sacriledge and Atheisme 1. for Worshipping God in the performance of which they continuing were expos'd to Lyons and all manner of calamities but Religion was maintain'd and flourished and the great Constantine put a period to those Persecutions and commanded the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ to be worship'd and ador'd Reflections upon a Pamphlet entituled some Seasonable Remarks on the Fall of the Emperor Julian THere is a late Author who has put out a Pamphlet stil'd Some seasonable Remarks upon the deplorable Fall of the Emperor Julian In which he chargeth Christian Religion it self the best of the Christian Emperors and peculiarly the chiefest of the Christian Clergy as the Causes of it To give a full return to this Question How comes it to pass that Virtuous Heathens persecute Christians 'T is necessary that Christianity and the Christian Clergy be vindicated from those aspersions cast upon both by this Author If what he says be true Julian's dreadful Persecution might receive some tollerable excuse 1. We will examine the calumnies cast upon the Christian Emperors 2. The Slanders with which he reproaches the Christian Clergy And 3. The Abuses which he puts upon Religion it self 1. Pag. 2. To relinquish a Religion of so much genuine piety and simple innocence as ours is for the fond superstitions of Heathens and gross Idolaters would be not only unaccountable but above measure stupendious Did we not find the lamentable causes in the debaucht Christianity of those times I mean the times of the two Emperors Constantine and Constantius I will acknowledge that there was a defection in the Lives of many Christians that Constantius fell into Arrianism is very much to be deplored of his Persecutions he repented before he dyed He was so far from being debauch'd that he was one of the most temperate men in the world and so far from being an hypocrite that tho' he can't be commended for being an Arrian and promoting that Haeresy yet he is mightily to be commended for his hatred of Idolatry and his zeal in promoting Christianity In that bloody Battel in which he fought with Magnensius at Mursum he threw out of his Army all Soldiers that would not be Baptized to shew that his Victory should depend only upon Christ his Saviour As for Constantine he was the Pattern of all virtues to say They meaning Christians having got ambitious and dissolute Princes of their Party 't is a most notorious and false calumny and not becoming the Pen of any that would be esteemed a Gentleman Constantine was a Prince of as great accomplishments as ever swayed the Roman Scepter 'T is acknowledged that Julian doth traduce this great Constantine Which of the Emperors did he spare Which of them in the person of Silenus does he not abuse He drolls upon every one but himself In the Lives of the Coesars he feigns that Alexander went to Hercules and that Constantine being unlike to all the gods should fly into the Arms of the Goddess of Pleasure This is a severe reflection he lessens the Victories of Constantine tho' his plea for himself was just his Martial Valour and Conducts confirms it 'T is true he took not the Actions of false and impure gods to be his Pattern but the Copy by which that great Prince drew his Life was the Life and Precepts of the Holy Jesus the God blessed for evermore No wonder he could not associate himself with those gods whose Temples he demolished and Worship he abhor'd That Julian should accuse him of Voluptuousness 't is strange From his Cradle he was a Soldier His invincible Courage and Military Conduct was a certain Argument that he was not Voluptuous Let Julian endeavour to cloud his fame yet it may easily be demonstrated that his Victories challenged as many Triumphant Arches as ever Alexander and Coesar could demand For many incomparable Virtues peculiarly for that Holy Religion he professed he was superiour to any preceding Emperor Why does this Author stile these two Emperors Ambitious What Did they aspire to their own Purples Constantine coming to his Father Constantius Clorus before he dyed was declared by him Coesar and upon his Death received the acclamations of the Army By his just and victorious Arms having subdued Two Tyrants the God of Heaven gave him the Eagles and the entire Command of the Roman Empire Where was Constantius's Ambition His Father left him the Empire of the East and by a lawful succession upon the death of his Brothers became Head of the whole Empire Was Julian free from Ambition