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 15, 2024.
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CAP. XV.
Of Flauianus Bishop of Antioch.
AT the same time we haue learned such thinges as followe to haue bene done at Antioch in Syria. After the desease of Paulinus the people of that Churche abhorred Flauianus and therefore chose Euagrius a man of theyr owne disposition to their Bishop. He liued not ma¦ny dayes & after him there was none chosen to y• rowme: for Flauianus through his deuise brought that to passe. As many then as detested Flauianus for the breakinge of his othe, had theyr priuate conuenticles. But Flauianus rolled (as commonly we say) euery stone, put euery deuise in vre
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to the end he might bring them within his iurisdictiō, the which not long after he brought to passe. For the spite and grudge betwene him and Theophilus bishop of Alexādria was layd aside and by his meanes Damasus Bishop of Rome was reconciled vnto him. They had bothe bene offended with him not onely because he forswore himselfe: but also for that he had broken the league con∣cluded betwene them, and the linke of peace and vnity. Wherefore Theophilus being nowe pleased with him sent Isidorus a priest for to appease the displeasure which Damasus had cōceaued against Flauianus: & to enstruct him that it was according vnto the vse & maner of y• church, if (respecting the vnitie and concorde to be retayned among the common people) he woulde not thinke amisse of Flauianus for so doing. Whē Flauianus was thus restored vnto the communion of the faithfull the people of Antioch in processe of time were brought to loue and amitie one with another, & the af∣faires of Antioch had such an ende as you heare before. The Arians then being thrust out of the* 1.1 churches raised conuenticles in the suburbes. In the meane space when Cyrill bishop of Ierusalem▪ had departed this mortall life, Iohn came in his rowme.