Bibliotheca parochialis: or, A scheme of such theological heads both general and particular, as are more peculiarly requisite to be well studied by every pastor of a parish. Part. I. Together with a catalogue of books which may be read upon each of those points. / By Thomas Bray ...

I. Ancient Apologists.

• Justini Martyris Paraenesis ad Graecos; Oratio ad Graecos; Apologia pro Christlanis, prima & secunda. Liber de Monar∣chia Dei. Dialogus cum Tryphone Judaeo. Epistola ad Di∣ognetum.

N. This last is que∣stioned by some whether Genuine, but own'd by Dr. Cave. But whoever was the Author, it is an Excellent Apology, most pathetically representing the Innocency and Admirable Vertues of the Primitive Christians, and the Malignity of their Enemies.

• Athenagorae Atheniensis Philosophi Christiani Apologia, seu Legatio pro Christianis. De mortuorum resurrectione.
• Theophilus Contra Christianae Religionis Calumniatores.
• Tatiani Assyrii Oratio ad Graecos quod nihil Eorum quibus Graeci Gloriantur studiorum, apud ipsos natum, sed omnia Barbaris Inventa sint.
• Hermae Philosophi Gentilium Philosophorum Irrisio.

N. All these fore∣going Apologies are placed in the same Order they lye in the Paris Ed. of Justin Martyr, 1636. Cologn. 1685. Fol.

• Clementis Alexandrini Protrepticon ad Gentes in quo Gentiles redarguit, eos{que} ad Christianam Philosophiam amplectendam hortatur. Stromata.
• Tertulliani Apologeticus adversus Gentes. Ad Nationes Libri Duo. De Testimonio Animae. Ad Scapulam. Adversus Judaeos.

• ...Minutii Faelicis Octavius.
• Originis Contra Celsum, Libri 8.
• Sanctus Cyprianus de Idolorum Vanitate Liber ad Demetria∣num: Testimoniorum ad Quirinum adversus Judaeos Libri Tres.
• Arnobii adversus Gentes, Libri 7.
• Lactantii Institutionum Libri 7. De mortibus Persecutorum.
• ...Eusebii
  • Praeparatio Evangelica
  • Demonsstratio Evangelica
• —Lib. contra Hieroclem, qui ex Philostrati Historia Comparavit Apollonium Tyanaeum Salvatori Nostro Jesu Christo. Extat ad ••alcem Eusebii de Demonstr. Evang. Ed. Parisien. 1688. & Colon. 1688.
• Constantini M. Oratio ad Sanctorum Coetum; extat ad Cal∣cem Librorum de Vita Constantini, in Ecclesiastica Historia Eusebii.
• Athanasii Oratio contra Gentes. Oratio de Incarnatione Verbi.
• Ambrosii Responsio Relationi Symmachi, ad imperatores con∣tendentis, veteres Ritus circa Deorum Cultum servandos esse. Epistolar. Lib. 2.
• Chrysostomi adversus Judaeos, Libri sex.
• — Contra Gentiles seu de Vita Babilae, Liber.
• Prudentius contra Symmachum ac Veterem Deorum Gentili∣um Cultum, Libri 2. Poeta Christianus.
• Augustini de vera Religione Liber.
• —De moribus Ecclesiae Catholicae, Libri 2.
• —De Civitate Dei, Libri 22.
• —Oratio adversus Judaeos.
• —Oratio ad Catechumenos adversus Judaeos, Paganos & A∣rianos.
• Theodoretus de curandis Affectionibus Graecorum, Lib. 12.

N. This Sett of Writers had the Kingdom of Satan visibly before their Eyes, that Arch-Rebel having in their Times, and in those Parts where they liv'd, erected his Idolatrous Temples and Altars; and brought it about that his Impious Ceremonies and Rites of Worship were become the Established Religion over all the World, except Judaea: And

therefore the Primitive Fathers did exert themselves upon no other Argument, with that Strength of Learning and Force of Reason, as upon this, namely, in laying out the Absurdities and Vileness of the Pagan Superstition, and the ad∣mirable Nature and Tendency of the Christian Religion. Besides it is to be considered that in these Writings of theirs, possibly we meet with the fullest and ezactest Accounts of the Purity of the Doctrine, Manners, and Discipline of the Primitive Church; and as of the Purity of its Doctrines, so of the Holiness of its Professors; upon all which Reasons, immediately after the Holy Writ, our next Acquaintance ought to be with these Writings.