The exposition of Dionysius Syrus written above 900 years since on the evangelist St. Mark / translated by Dudley Loftus ... anno 1672 ; wherewith are bound up several other tracts of the same authour, and an ancient Syriack scholia on the four evangelists, as also some Persian, Armenian, and Greek antiquities, translated as aforesaid : the titles whereof are set down immediately after the Epistle to the reader, with refereuce [sic] to the several pages where they are.

The Form of PRAYER which our Sa∣viour made after his Baptism when the Heavens were opened, as it is deli∣vered by Dionysius Syrus, according to the Testimony of St. Philoxenus, and Translated by D. L.

O Father, according to the good pleasure of thy Will I am made Man; and from the time in which I was born of a Virgin, unto this day, I have finished those things which are agreeing to the nature of Man, and with due observance have perform'd all thy Com∣mandments, the Mysteries and Types of the Law: And now I am baptized, and so I have ordain'd Baptism, that from thence, as from the place of spiritual Eirth, the Regeneration of Men may be accomplish'd: and as John was the last of the Legal Priests, so am I the first of the Evangelical. Thou therefore, O Father, by the mediation of my Prayer open the Heavens, and from thence send thy Holy Spirit upon this womb of Ba∣ptism; that as he did untye the womb of the Virgin, and thence form me, so also he would loose this Ba∣ptismal womb, and so sanctifie it unto men, that from

thence now men may be begotten, who may become thy Sons, and my Brethren, and Heirs of thy Kingdom. And what the Priests under the Law until John could not do, grant unto the Priests of the New Testament (whose chief I am in the oblation of this Prayer) that when∣soever they shall celebrate Baptism, or pour forth Prayers unto thee, as the Holy Spirit is seen with me in open Vision, so also it may be made manifest, that the same Spirit will adjoyn himself in their society a more secret way, and will by them perform the ministeries of the New Testament, for which I am made Man; and as the High Priest, I do offer these Prayers in thy sight.