A general ecclesiastical history from the nativity of our blessed saviour to the first establishment of Christianity by human laws, : under the Emperor Constantine the Great, containing the space of about 313 years ..To which is added, a large chronological table of all the Roman and ecclesiastical affairs, included in the same period of time . on Cain, that they might not be whollyexterminated. And thus they were diftinguiuYd, and like-wife difpersd through all Nations, that the whole Worldmight be Witnefles of their Punifiiment and Obftinacy;and that they might be as Efau, Servants to the tr
A general ecclesiastical history from the nativity of our blessed saviour to the first establishment of Christianity by human laws, : under the Emperor Constantine the Great, containing the space of about 313 years ..To which is added, a large chronological table of all the Roman and ecclesiastical affairs, included in the same period of time . on Cain, that they might not be whollyexterminated. And thus they were diftinguiuYd, and like-wife difpersd through all Nations, that the whole Worldmight be Witnefles of their Punifiiment and Obftinacy;and that they might be as Efau, Servants to the true Ifraelthe Chrijlians, in bearing and tranfmitting the Holy Scrip-tures; not for their own Advantage, but for a Teftimo-fiy of the Truth, again ft the Pagans and themfelves. And Matth, 24,now the Chriftians began to lift up their Heads with Con- , after their ftvere Persecutions, being afTurd of an Summer, and a certain Redemption ; and know- that the Kingdom of God was even at their Doors. Luk£ zlmFor God had now fent his Minifters wnh the Trumpet of28*32his Gofpe), to gather together his chofen People in theutmoft Parts of the World; all which, as our Saviour toldhis Difciples, fhould be accomplifhd before one Generati-on pafsd away. So that Ckrtftiai?ity now flourifhd, andVol. II. A 2 in-. Cent. I. Ecclefiaftical Hiftory. Book It increafed more than ever; and Churches were established,and Bifhops were placed in all great Cities in the RomanEmpire. In Antioch, Evodius the Bifhop of that City dying,he was this Year fucceeded by the famous Ignatius calledTheophorus, a Difciple of St. Johns; yet firft ordained intothis Church by St. Paul, as Evodius was by St. Peter, ac-cording to the Author of the ApoStolick Constitutions?Which is no ways contrary to Probability, Since many haveobferved, that where St. Peter and St. Paul preached, andfounded a Church in the fame City; one being an Apoitleof the Circumcifion, and the other of the Unc
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