A prospect of the primitive Christianity, as it was left by Christ to his Apostles, by the Apostles to their disciples Saint Polycarp and Holy Ignatius, both contemporaries with and disciples to the Holy Evangelist and Apostle Saint John whose lives follow in this short treatise, together with their famous epistles written to several churches / translated according to the best copies out of the original Greek into English, by Thomas Elborowe ...

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A prospect of the primitive Christianity, as it was left by Christ to his Apostles, by the Apostles to their disciples Saint Polycarp and Holy Ignatius, both contemporaries with and disciples to the Holy Evangelist and Apostle Saint John whose lives follow in this short treatise, together with their famous epistles written to several churches / translated according to the best copies out of the original Greek into English, by Thomas Elborowe ...

Author

Elborow, Thomas.

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In the Savoy :: Printed by Tho. Newcomb for William Grantham ...,

1668.

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Subject terms

Polycarp, -- Saint, Bishop of Smyrna.

Ignatius, -- Saint, Bishop of Antioch, d. ca. 110.

Barnabas, -- Apostle, Saint.

Epistle of Barnabas. -- English.

Fathers of the church.

Christian literature, Early.

Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

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"A prospect of the primitive Christianity, as it was left by Christ to his Apostles, by the Apostles to their disciples Saint Polycarp and Holy Ignatius, both contemporaries with and disciples to the Holy Evangelist and Apostle Saint John whose lives follow in this short treatise, together with their famous epistles written to several churches / translated according to the best copies out of the original Greek into English, by Thomas Elborowe ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/a38579.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 11, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO THE REVEREND FATHER in GOD, ROBERT Lord Bishop of Worcester.
• The Life and Death of Saint POLYCARP Martyr, Bishop of the Church of Smyrna, and Disciple to Saint John the Evangelist.
  • The Epistle of Saint Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, and holy Martyr, to the Philippians.
• The Life and Death of Holy IGNATIUS, Bishop of the Church of Antioch in Syria, Holy Martyr and Disciple of Saint John the Evangelist:
  • The Epistles of Saint Ignatius.
    • To the Smyrneans.
    • To POLYCARP.
    • To the Ephesians.
    • To the Magnesians.
    • To the Philadelphians.
    • To the Trallians.
    • To the Romans.
• The Life of Saint BARNABAS the Apostle.
  • The Catholique Epistle OF Saint BARNABAS the Apostle.
• A Postscript to the Reader,