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
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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
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Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340.
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1577.
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Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00440.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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CAP. XX.
Howe that the bishops of all sects & opinions posted vnto Iouianus the Emperour as soone as he was created, hoping euery one to finde him according vnto their owne vaynes.
AS soone as the Emperour Iouianns returned out of Persia, the churches immediately* 1.1 were troubled with sedition. The bishops likewise whilest they hope to finde y• Emperour of their owne seuerall opiniōs, endeuour with all might to preuent one an other. The Em∣perour for as much as alwaies he cleaued vnto the creede cōtayning the clause of One substance. made flatt answere that he would alwaies further the same, & encouraged Athanasius bishop of A∣lexandria by his letters, who immediatly after the desease of Iulian enioyed againe y• bishopricke of Alexandria. For he being thē cōfirmed therein by the Emperours letters, layd aside all feare & fayntnes of courage. Moreouer the Emperour called home againe the bishops whome Constātius had exiled, whome Iulian also had not restored to their seaes. Thē also the Idoll groues & temples of the Ethnicks were shut vp: the Pagans them selues wandered & hid them here & there: such as wore y• philosophicall habite, layd it aside & wore y• cōmon & vsuall attire. Those bloody & detesta∣ble sacrifices wherwith they openly defiled thē selues, & tooke their fill during y• raigne of Iulian, were nowe wholly taken away.
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* 1.1
The Empe∣rour Iouian{us} was a fauorer of the Ni∣cene creede.