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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1683.
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Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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 1, 2024.
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CHAP. V. Concerning Lucifer, and Eusebius.
AT the same time Lucifer and Eusebius were by an Imperial Order recalled from ba∣nishment. Lucifer was Bishop of Caralis, a City of Sardinia: Eusebius of Vercellae, which is a City of the Lygurians in Italy▪ as we have said before. Both these persons therefore returning from Exile out of the Upper Thebais,a 1.1 held a con∣sult how they might hinder the impaired Laws of the Church from being violated and de∣spised.
Notes
a 1.1
Eusebius and Lucifer were not the only persons who entred into a consult about repairing the decayed state of the Church, and establishing the Canon of Faith; but other Bishops besides them, who by Julianus's Edict were at that time recalled from Exile: to wit, Hilarius, Asterius, and the rest, as Theodores truly remarks, book 3. chap. 4. Eccles. Histor. These Prelates, moved thereto by a zeal to the Catholick Faith, took in hand to reduce Hereticks and Schisma∣ticks to the path of Truth, and recall them to their former Concord. Therefore, what Baronius says, to wit, that Eusebius and Lucifer were created Legates of the Apostolick See by Liberius, in order to their repairing the state of the Church, can in no wise be true. For the same must have been said concerning Hilarius and the other Prelates. Besides, Rufinus does expresly disprove this. For he relates, that Eu∣sebius and Lucifer were Commissionated with this Legantine power by the Alexandrian Synod. Vales.