The history of the Old and New Testament extracted out of sacred Scripture and writings of the fathers : to which are added the lives, travels and sufferings of the apostles : with a large and exact historical chronology of all the affairs and actions related in the Bible : the whole illustrated with two hundred thirty four sculptures, and three maps, delineated and engraved by good artists / translated from the Sieur De Royaumont, by several hands ; supervised and recommended by Dr. Horneck, and other orthodox divines.

The LIFE of S. ANDREW.

OF all the 12 Apostles, S. Andrew was the first mentioned by Name, to have been a Follower, and Disciple of our Saviour; (the other Disciple who accompanied him be∣ing S. John the Evangelist,) whose Disciple he first was, being the Brother of S. Peter; He also was the first that brought his Brother Tidings of a Messiah come into the World, and was the occasion of bringing him to be his Follower and Disciple. What befell him in our Saviours Life-time, so far as is deli∣vered in the Evangelist, has been already mentioned. After our LORD's Ascension, and the descent of the Holy Ghost on the Apostles, when they chose among themselves by Lot, each of them their part of the World to Preach in, S. Andrew is said to have had Scythia, and the adjacent Regions assigned him for his Province, to which he Travelled th••ô Galatia and Bythinia▪ Preaching all the way he went. The first place he made any stay at, was Amynsus, from whence he went to Trapezus, and so from one place to ano∣ther, till he came to Nice, where he stayed 2 years: From Nice he went to Nicomedia, thence to Chalcedon, and so thrô Propontis, and by the Euxin Sea to Heraclea. At A∣mynsus, Nice, and other places where he staid any time, by his Preaching and Miracles he Converted very many, Baptized them into the Faith and Ordain'd Priests and Deacons among them. From Heraclea he went to Ames••ris, where the barbarity of the people made him soon weary and leave it; but far worse was his Treatment at Sinope, the Birth and Burial place of the Famous Mithridates King of Pontus, a place much Inhabited by Jews; out of this City (after divers inhuman Outrages committed upon him,) he was thrust out for Dead; but returned again, and the se∣veral Miracles which he wrought, brought many of them to a sense of their Errors, and afterwards treated him more civilly. At his first coming to this place, he met with his Brother Peter, who bore him company some time. From Sinope he return'd to Amynsus, so to Trapezus, and Samosata, (the Birth place of Lucian) in his Journey to Jerusalem; from whence after some short stay he is said to return to his Scythian Provinces, first to the Country of Abasgi, where at Sebastople a City on the Euxine-Shoar, he Preach'd to the Inhabitants with success; hence he remov'd into the Country of the Zecchi and Bosph••rani; but his chief stay was at Chersonesus, a popu∣lous City within the Bosphorus of Thrace; whence he went back to Sinope to confirm the Churches he had thereabouts Planted, and some say Ordain'd one of Paul's Disciples, Named Philologus▪ Bishop thereof. From Si∣nope he went to Byzantium, afterwards built by Constantine, and from his Name called Constantinople, where he Founded a Church, and Ordained S. Pauls beloved Stachys, first Bishop thereof. Being Banish't this place by the then Governour, he fled to Argi••opolis, where he stayed 2 years; then Journeying thr•• Thrace, Macedon, Thessaly, Achaia, and E∣pirus▪ he setled at last at Patrae a City of Achaia, where he seal'd with a resolute Mar∣tyrdom the verity of that Faith, which he had Preach'd both here and in so many pla∣ces; the occasion whereof was (as is recorded in the Book called the Acts of S. Andrew's Passion) said to have been written by the A∣chaian Presbyters and Deacons, who were pre∣sent at his Execution; however mentioned by Philastrius, (an Author who lived Anno Dom. 380,) his bold and free Application to Ae∣geas, Proconsul of Achaia, who came to Pa∣trae at the same time of his being there, with serious admonishment to forsake his Heathen∣ish Superstitions and Idolatry, and to embrace the worship of the true GOD; by which ad∣vice, instead of being perswaded to reason, he became 7 times more hardned in his Pa∣gan Lewdness, and did all he could with per∣swasions as well as Threats, to draw over this Apostle to Sacrifice to his Gods and to re∣nounce the Christian Religion he so zealously Preach'd, for the saving of his Life; which when he saw him bent against, even to the Death, he then resolved his Death, and com∣mitted him to Prison, from which (for that time) the people somewhat mollified by his Doctrin, and innocent Life, by a high hand delivered him. But being brought again before the Proconsul, and resolutely withstand∣ing, as before, all the powerful Arguments he could use to bring him over; he incenst him to that heighth, that without more de∣lay, he proceeded to pronounce Sentence of

Death on him, and with so much the greater Fury, as being so much exasperated for hav∣ing converted his Wife Maximilla, and his Brother Stratulus. After Sentence of Death pronounced, he was committed to the Lictors, and had his naked Body Scourged by 7 of them one after another; which done, com∣mand was given, that he should not be Nail∣ed to the Cross, but ty'd with Cords, to make his Death the more lingring; nor was it a common sort of Cross, but made Salter-wise. In this posture he is said to have hung 2 days, and in that Languishing condition, ex∣horting the people to stand fast to the Faith, which he had Preached unto them. Being Dead, his Body was taken down, and by Maximilla the Proconsuls-Wife, ordered to be Embalm'd, and decently Interr'd; but from this place of Burial, in after Ages, his Body was by Constantine the Great, remov'd to Constantinople, and Buried in that Church, which he had there Built in Honour of the Apostles, remaining so incorruptible, that in Justinians time, in repairing that part of the Church, his Body was found in a Wooden-Ves∣sel among the Rubish, and with great care reposited in his former place. We shall con∣clude with the Character given this Apostle by Hesychius, an ancient and creditable Au∣thor; S. Andrew, saith he, was the first born of the Apostolick Quire, the main and prime Pillar of the Church, a Rock before the Rock, the first Fruits of the beginning, a Caller of others, before he was called himself, a Preach∣er of that Gospel that was not yet believed, or entertained, and a Revealer of that Life to his Brother, which he had not yet perfectly learnt himself.