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.

CHAP. VI. That Gregorius of Nazianzum was by a gene∣ral suffrage of the Orthodox constituted Bishop of the Constantinopolitan Church; at which time the Emperour Theodosius (after his Victory over the Barbarians,) fell sick at Thes∣salonica, and was Baptized by Ascholius the Bishop.

AT which time, Gregorius was translated from the Bishoprick of Nazianzum to that of Constantinople, by the common suffrage of many

Prelates. And this was done in such a man∣ner [as I have declared.] About the same time the Emperours, Gratianus and Theodosius, got each of them a Victory over the Barba∣rians. Gratianus * 1.1 returned immediately into the Gallia's, because the Alamanni overran those Provinces. But Theodosius, after [he had e∣rected] his Trophies, hastned to Constantinople, and arrives at Thessalonica. There he fell sick, and earnestly desired that he might be vouchsafed Christian Baptism: for by his progenitours he had been bred up in the Christian Religion, and was a professour of the Homoöusian Faith. Being desirous with all possible speed to be baptized, because his distemper increased, and having [for that reason] sent for the Bishop of Thessalonica, he first enquired of him, what Faith he profest. And when the Bishop had made answer, that the opinion of the Arians had not invaded the Provinces of Illyricum, and that the novelty which Arius had given birth too, was not so prevalent as to prey upon the Churches in those Countries; but that they con∣tinued to preserve that Faith immoveable and un∣shaken, which from the beginning was delivered by the Apostles, and had been confirmed in the Nicene Synod; [upon this answer] the Em∣perour was most willingly baptized by Ascholius the Bishop. Not many days after [Theodosius] recovered of his distemper, and came to Constan∣tinople about the twenty fourth of November, in Gratianus's fifth and his own first Consulate.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Or, Marched.