The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…

Especially in Seneca, Cicero, Plutarch, Plato, Plotinus, ¹Jamblicus, Proclus, Porphyry, Julian the Apostate, Antoninus, Epictetus, Arian, &c. And for their Learning, and Wisdom, and Moral Virtues, the Christian Bishops carried themselves respectfully to many of them, (as Basil to Libanius, &c.) And in their days many of their Philosophers were honoured by the Christian Emperors, or at least by the inferior Magistrates and Christian people, who judged that so great worth deserved honour, and that the confession of so much Truth, deserved answerable love; especially Aedesius, Julianus, Cappadox, Proaeresius, Maximus, Libanius, Acacius, Chrysanthus, &c. And the Christians ever since have made great use of their Writings in their Schools; especially of Aristotle's and Plato's with their followers.

Especially in Seneca, Cicero, Plutarch, Plato, Plotinus, ¹Jamblicus, Proclus, Porphyry, Julian the Apostate, Antoninus, Epectetus, Arrian, &c. And for their Learning, and Wisdom, and Moral Virtues, the Christian Bishops carried themselves respectfully to many of them, (as Basil to Libanius, &c.) And in their days many of their Philosophers were honoured by the Christian Emperours, or at least by the inferiour Magistrates and Christian people, who judged that so great worth deserved honour, and that the confession of so much Truth, deserved answerable love; especially Aedesius, Julianus, Cappadox, Proaeresius, Maximus, Libanius, Acacius, Chrysanthus, &c. And the Christians ever since have made great use of their Writings in their Schools; especially of Aristotle's and Plato's with their followers.

1. 1Euvaglus saith, That Constantine so honoured Sopater the Philosopher, that he made him usually sit by him on the same bench. Sure the Philosophers were falsely reported to Theoph. Antioch. ad Autol. l. 2. p. 137. when he saith that Zeno, Diogenes and Cleanthes's Books do teach to eat man's flesh, and fathers to be roasted and eaten by the children, and sacrificed by them, &c. Belyirg one another hath been the Devil's means to destroy charity on earth.Euvaglus saith, That Constantine so honoured Sopater the Philosopher, that he made him usually sit by him on the same bench. Sure the Philosophers were falsly reported to Theoph. Antioch. ad Autol. l. 2. p. 137. when he saith that Zeno, Diogenes and Cleanthes's Books do teach to eat man's flesh, and fathers to be rosted and eaten by the children, and sacrificed by them, &c. Belyirg one another hath been the Devil's means to destroy charity on earth.