Theanthropos: or, God made man.: A tract proving the nativity of our Saviour to be on the 25. of December. / By John Selden, that eminently-learned antiquary, late of the Inner-Temple.
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Theanthropos: or, God made man.: A tract proving the nativity of our Saviour to be on the 25. of December. / By John Selden, that eminently-learned antiquary, late of the Inner-Temple.
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Selden, John, 1584-1654.
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London :: Printed by J.G. for Nathaniel Brooks at the Angel in Corn-hill,
1661.
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Jesus Christ -- Date of birth
Jesus Christ -- Nativity
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"Theanthropos: or, God made man.: A tract proving the nativity of our Saviour to be on the 25. of December. / By John Selden, that eminently-learned antiquary, late of the Inner-Temple." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A92878.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
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The Contents of this Tract.
Of the Birth-day of our SAVIOUR.
BRiefly, of the Anniversary Celebration of Birth-days: The state of the Question, and this Discourse digested into parts. pag. 1
SECT. I. The Authority of keeping it on this day both in the Eastern and Western Churches about 400. years after our Saviours; and that then it was ancient in the Western Church, and known also under the name of the Winter-Solstice-day; which is especially here observable. pag. 7
SECT. II. For preparation of more particular proof of the Tradition of this Feast-day, the supposition which the most Primitive Ages had touching the time of the Solstices and Aequi∣noxes. pag. 13
SECT. III. That the keeping it on this day was so receiv'd from tradition, even of the eldest times since our Saviour; and this justified from the Fathers, supposing it to have been on the very day of the ancient Winter-Solstice. pag. 21
SECT. IV. Expresse testimonies to the same purpose out of ancient Histo∣ry, and a Confirmation from the generall use in the severall Churches of Christendome. pag. 32
SECT. V. The common Reasons used out of the holy Text to justifie this day, and how they are mistaken, and therefore not used
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here; together with what some would prove from the Scheme of his Nativity. pag. 45
SECT. VI. The chief Objections that are made against this day being the true time of the birth, with plain answers to them. pag. 56
SECT. VII. Some other opinions among the ancients touching it, and how some of them may agree with what we have received, and the rest are of no weight against it; and there more espe∣cially of the ancient confusion of this Feast with that of the Epiphany. pag. 77
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