CHAP. IX. The Rescript of Adrian, that we Christians should not be unjustly prosecuted.
TO Minutius Fundanus. I received a letter, written to me, from that eminent person Serennius Granianus, your predeces∣sour.
The history of the church from our Lords incarnation, to the twelth year of the Emperour Maricius Tiberius, or the Year of Christ 594 / as it was written in Greek, by Eusebius Pamphilius ..., Socrates Scholasticus, and Evagrius Scholasticus ... ; made English from that edition of these historians, which Valesius published at Paris in the years 1659, 1668, and 1673 ; also, The life of Constantine in four books, written by Eusibius Pamphilus, with Constantine's Oration to the convention of the saints, and Eusebius's Speech in praise of Constantine, spoken at his tricennalia ; Valesius's annotations on these authors, are done into English, and set at their proper places in the margin, as likewise a translation of his account of their lives and writings ; with two index's, the one, of the principal matters that occur in the text, the other, of those contained in the notes.
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- The history of the church from our Lords incarnation, to the twelth year of the Emperour Maricius Tiberius, or the Year of Christ 594 / as it was written in Greek, by Eusebius Pamphilius ..., Socrates Scholasticus, and Evagrius Scholasticus ... ; made English from that edition of these historians, which Valesius published at Paris in the years 1659, 1668, and 1673 ; also, The life of Constantine in four books, written by Eusibius Pamphilus, with Constantine's Oration to the convention of the saints, and Eusebius's Speech in praise of Constantine, spoken at his tricennalia ; Valesius's annotations on these authors, are done into English, and set at their proper places in the margin, as likewise a translation of his account of their lives and writings ; with two index's, the one, of the principal matters that occur in the text, the other, of those contained in the notes.
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- Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340.
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- Persecution -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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"The history of the church from our Lords incarnation, to the twelth year of the Emperour Maricius Tiberius, or the Year of Christ 594 / as it was written in Greek, by Eusebius Pamphilius ..., Socrates Scholasticus, and Evagrius Scholasticus ... ; made English from that edition of these historians, which Valesius published at Paris in the years 1659, 1668, and 1673 ; also, The life of Constantine in four books, written by Eusibius Pamphilus, with Constantine's Oration to the convention of the saints, and Eusebius's Speech in praise of Constantine, spoken at his tricennalia ; Valesius's annotations on these authors, are done into English, and set at their proper places in the margin, as likewise a translation of his account of their lives and writings ; with two index's, the one, of the principal matters that occur in the text, the other, of those contained in the notes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A38749.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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Indeed, this business, a I judge, is not to be passed by undiscussed; least both the Chri∣stians be molested, and also an occasion of do∣ing mischief given to Sycophants. Wherefore if the men of your Province can by a due way of complaint openly charge the Christians with any accusation, and so doe it, as that they ap∣pear and answer it before the seat of judicature; let them make it their business onely to take such a course as this against them; but let them not use a 1.1 tumultuous outcries and clamours. For its most requisite, if any person preferr's a com∣plaint, that you should have the cognisance of the matter. If therefore any one does accuse them, and make out that they doe any thing con∣trary to the Laws, doe you give sentence ac∣cording to the nature of the offence. But if it be certain, that any does frame an accusation meerly out of a malicious detraction, doe you determine according to the heinousness of the crime, and take care that due punishment be inflicted on him.And thus much concerning the Rescript of Adrian.
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He means the out∣cries, which the people were wont to make in the Thea∣tres, - The Christians to the Ly∣ons! as Ter∣tullian at∣tests. Some∣times it so happened that the Proconsuls and Governours were forced to yield to these tumultuous clamours, though unwilling to it of themselves. Wherefore the Emperour Adrian admonisheth Fundanus the Proconsul not to suffer himself to be induced by such requests to the persecution and slaughter of the Christians. It was an old custom in the Roman Empire, for the populace both in the City and in the Provinces, as oft as they met at the publick shews, to ask of the Emperour, or Governour what they had a mind to, with loud outcries all at once. Instances hereof are frequent in the Writers of the Roman History. Vales.