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. X.* 1.1

Of Alexander byshop of Ierusalem and Asclepiades byshop of Antioche.

FOr this cause therefore (as warned by a vision from aboue) Alexander who afore was by∣shop of Cappadocia tooke his iorney to Ierusalem for prayer sake, and visitinge of the pla∣ces there: whome they of Ierusalem receaue bountifully, and suffer not to returne whome againe, and that did they accordinge vnto the vision which appeared vnto them in the night, and plainely pronounced vnto the chief of them: charging them to hasten out of the gates of their ci∣ty and receaue the byshop ordained of God for them. this they did through thaduise of the borde∣ring byshops, constraining him of necessitie to remayne among them. Alexander himselfe in his

epistles (at this day extant) against the Antinoites, maketh mention of this byshopricke, in com∣men betwene him and Narcissus, wryting thus about the later end of an epistle: Narcissus greeteth* 1.2 you, vvho gouerned this byshopricke before me, and novve being of the age of a hundreth and sixtene yeares prayeth vvith me and that very carefully for the state of the church, & beseacheth you to be of one mind vvith me. These thinges went then after this sorte. when Serapion had de∣parted this life, Asclepiades was stalled bishop of Antioch and constantly endured the time of per∣secution. Alexander remembreth his election writing to the church of Antioch after this maner:* 1.3 Alexander the seruant of the Lord, and the prisoner of Iesus Christ vnto the holy church of An∣tioch sendeth greeting in the Lorde. The Lord eased & lightened my fetters and imprisonment vvhen that I hearde Asclepiades, a man vvell practised in holy Scripture, by the prouidence of God, for the vvorthines of his faith to haue bene placed bishop of your church. This epistle he signifieth in the end to haue bene sent by Clemens. This epistle I haue sent vnto you my Maysters and brethren by Clemens a godly minister, a man both vertuous & vvell knovven, vvhome you haue seene, and shall knovve, vvho also being here present vvith me by the prouidence of God hath confirmed & furthered the church of Christ.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Cap. 11. after the greeke.
• * 1.2

  Alexander. b of Ierusalem Epist contra Atinoitas. Ascleprades.
• * 1.3

  Alexander. b of Ierusalem vnto the church of Antioch.