. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order. the five books of which this work consisted,there now remain only some fragments preservedin Eusebiuss Ecclesiastical History, and onemore in Photluss Codex. Their principal valilcarises from the testimony which may be de-duced, from scriptural passages quoted in them,in favour of the genuineness of the books of theNew Testament. To Hegesippus, likewise,has been ascribed A History of the Wars ofthe Jews, and the Dest
. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order. the five books of which this work consisted,there now remain only some fragments preservedin Eusebiuss Ecclesiastical History, and onemore in Photluss Codex. Their principal valilcarises from the testimony which may be de-duced, from scriptural passages quoted in them,in favour of the genuineness of the books of theNew Testament. To Hegesippus, likewise,has been ascribed A History of the Wars ofthe Jews, and the Destruction of Jerusalem,which has been often published, and particularlyat Cologne in 1559, with the notes of Gual-terus. It is also inserted in the Biblioth,Patr. In Du Pin and Moreri, however, thereader may meet with sufficient evidence tosatisfy him, that the author of this work musthave lived at a much later period than the timeof Hegesippus, and that his imperfect com»pilation must have been written at least afterthe reign of Constantine the Great. EusebiiHist. Eccl. lib. iv. cap. viii atid xxii. Du Lardnerj Cred. Part II. vol. I, book i.(/.<. .\iv.— Vimt adfiiu., ccrtz ^tuititv/teccc. t^c . H E I ( 01 ) H E I HEIBANUS, Adraham, professor of di-vinity at Leydcn, was born at Frankcnthal, inthe palatinate, in the year 1597. His fatherbeing called to the exercise or the ministry atAmsterdam in 1608, the subject of this articlewas placed under the tuition of an Englishman,called Matthew Slade,\vho was then rector of thecollege in that city. When properly qualifiedfor the university, he was placed in the Wallooncollege, at hoyden, where he distinguishedhimself by his proficiency in tha ditVerentbranches of academic learning, and particularlyin theology. When he had finished his courseof studies in the university, he preached withgreat applause in several French and Dutchchurches ; and then spent two years in travellingfor farther improvement, through Germany,
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