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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Title: 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
Author: Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340.
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Subject terms: Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Early works to 1800.
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Abacuk.

* 1.1THe spirit of God came vpon Abacuk that he prophecied of the resurrection of Christe, his wordes are these. Beholde ye despisers, and wonder, and perishe ye▪ for I doe a worke in your dayes, a worke whiche ye shall not belieue though a man declare it you. S. Paule applyed this prophecy very well at Antioch in Pisidia, to haue bene spoken of the resurrection of our Lord Iesus Christ. This Abacuk was of the tribe of Simeon, and the land Bithicuchar. he foresaw the ta∣king of Ierusalem before the captiuity, and therefore lamented greatly. And when Nabuchodono∣sor came vp against Ierusalem, he fled into Ostracina, and dwelled in y^e land of the Ismaelites. whē as such captiues as were in Chaldaea returned againe, & such as were left in Ierusalē went downe to Aegypt, he dwelled in his owne land. And when on a certen time he ministred foode vnto y^• rea∣pers of his land, & took po••tage▪ he prophecied vnto his seruants saying▪ I will go into a far coun∣try but I will returne quickly againe. ••f ye see y^t I tary to long, geue you vnto y^e reapers their mea••. when he had bene in Babylon & geuen y^• prophet Daniel his dinner, immediatly he was by the rea∣pers as they sate at meat, neither made he them priuie to any thing y^t was done. he knew y^• the peo∣ple would shortly returne out of Babylon▪ & two yeares before their returne he dyed & was buryed in his owne land he prophecied also of the destruction of the temple, that a nation should come out of the west & destroy it. then (saith he) the Cipres silke robe of the inner temple shalbe set abrode & the pinacles of the two pillours shalbe taken away, & no man shall know where they shalbe laide. they shalbe caried by an Angell into the desert, where the Arke of couenant went at the first. And about the end the Lord shalbe knowen in them, and he will lighten them that sit in darkenes, and suffred persecution of the serpent as he did from the beginning.

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Abacuk. 1. Act. 13. An Angel tooke Aba∣cuk by the he••••e of the head as he had meate & ••ottag•• in his hand, and caried him into Babylon where Dani∣el the pro∣phet was in the dungeon among Ly∣ons: after he had sed and relieued Da∣niel, the An∣gell ca••••ed him home the same day. Dan. 14.

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