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

CAP. XV.* 1.1

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,* 1.2 vvhich confute the booke of Alcibiades, vvhere he declareth that it is not the property of a Pro∣phet, to prophecye in a traunce. a litle after he rehearseth the Prophets of the newe Testa∣ment, 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 igno∣raunce, & endeth vvith furious rage and frensie of mind, as it is sayd before. of this sort, & in such

traunce of spirite they shalbe 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* 1.3 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 monu∣mentes* 1.4 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.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Cap. 17. after the greeke.
• * 1.2

  Apollinari∣us out of Mil¦tiades works alleadgeth this.
• * 1.3

  Agabus. Iude. The daug∣hters of Philip. Aminias. Quadratus.
• * 1.4

  Miltiades bookes.