Habes, vir clarissime, meam qualemcunque hac de re sententiam; extemporaneam quidem illam, nec pro materiæ dignitate satis ponderatam ; sed tamen justam, et, nisi ego plurimum fallor, talem a qua absque extremo periculo nunquam a nostris discedi possit. Faxit Deus, ut in hisce considerandis non tam nostra quæramus quam ea quæ sint Jesu Christi ! Nec adeo hujus seculi pacem amemus, ut futuri præmia amittamus. Tibi, vir præstantissime, sapientiam, prudentiam, eruditionem non vulgarem, concessit Deus; etiam constantiam in veritate tuenda, pro qua tanta et huc usque passus fueris, et deinceps pati te paratum ostendis. Tuo itaque exemplo alios instruas, neque concordiam atque unionem cum ullis Christi discipulis, ubi justis conditionibus iniri possit, pertinaciter refugere; neque iniquis conditionibus stolide timideve admittere; aut vana spe pacis deliniti, ad servitutis papalis jugum colla submittere, quod neque nos neque patres nostri ferre potuere. Hoc tam grave scandalum, tam perniciosam prævaricationem ab ecclesiis reformatis ut semper avertat Deus, summo ardore precatur, spectatissime vir frater tuus in Christo colendissimus, &c. Maii 22, 1719.

TABLES

OF

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY

FROM THE

ORIGIN OF CHRISTIANITY

ΤΟ

THE PRESENT TIME.

ABSTRACTED FROM VATER'S SYNCHRONITISCHEN TAFELN,

BY FRANCIS CUNNINGHAM.

[Reprinted from the Edition of 1831, Boston, New England.]

95. Under DOMITIAN, the Christians oppressed the Jewish law.

Under MAXIMINUS. the Christians oppress- Various new officers in

the church.

Severity shown to the Lapsi, or fallen' from their Christian profes sion.

N. B. The names of those who were known as theological writers are printed in italics, to disso-called, are enclosed in parentheses. The names of the Roman emperors, and of the popes, the Roman emperors by *.

Γνῶσις ψευδώνυμος at | Ephesus.

(Cerinthus.)

The simple Christian

ity of the first centuries.

Separation of those Tendency to Demon- 100 who cling to the Mosaicology.

Polycarp, bishop of law.

Smyrna.

(Nazarenes, Ebion

Papias, bishop of ites.)
Hierapolis.

Justin Martyr.
Anicetus, bishop of

Rome.

Irenæus, bishop of

Lyons.

Miltiades, Athenagoras, and other defenders of the Christian religion.

* Pantaenus.

(Gnostics: Saturninus,
| Basilides, Valentine.)
(Ophites.) (Marcion.)
(Montanists.)

(Tatian, Encratites.) Controversies con-
(Praxeas, Artemon, cerning the time of
keeping Easter, or the

Antitrinitarians.)

paschal feast.

bishop of Translations of the New dispute concern-
Bible. Agreement in ing the Easter festival.

Clement of Alexan- the Creed of the chief

Victor,

Rome.

Philosophical Chris

Faith in the power of 200

tianity at Alexandria.

the sign of the cross.

Tertullian, Montanist.

Gregory, Thaumatur- Wrote in Latin.

Over estimation of celibacy.

tinguish them from those who merely held offices in the church. The names of the heretics, are printed in small capitals. The emperors of Constantinople are distinguished from

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