A27004:1659
The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…
The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural evidence the being of God ... : the second part, of Christianity, proving by evidence supernatural and natural, the certain truth of the Christian belief ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; also an appendix defending the soul's immortality against the Somatists or Epicureans and other pseudo-philosophers.
London: printed by R. White for Fran. Titon, 1667
Part 2 › Chapter 8: Of some other subservient and Collateral Arguments for the Christian Verity.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
When Adrian had found how the Christians differed from the Jews, and had suffered by Barchochebas, because they would not join in the Rebellion, when he had ended the war, he gave Jerusalem to the Christians and others to inhabit, saith Euseb.
When Adrian had found how the Christians differed from the Jews, and had suffered by Barchochebas, because they would not joyn in the Rebellion, when he had ended the war, he gave Jerusalem to the Christians and others to inhabit, saith Euseb.
Antoninus Pius published this Edict for the Christians, [Si quisquam cuiquam Christiano, quia Christianus sit, pergat molestiae quicquam aut criminis inferre, ille cui crimen illatum erit, etiamsi Christianus reipsa deprehensus sit, absolvatur: qui autem illum accusaverat, justum debitumque supplicium subeat. Adding a Decree of Adrian's, thus: [Pro quibus hominibus & alii provinciarum Praesides, jam ante Divo Patri meo scripserunt; Quibus ille rescripsit, nequid interturbarent hoc genus hominum nisi qui convicti essent tentasse quippiam contra Rempublicam. Euseb. Hist. l. 4.
And though under that excellent Prince, Antoninus Philosophus, some persecution was raised, it was mostly by Officers, at a great distance, in France, &c. yet all was staid, and favour showed them, upon the miraculous relief of the Army by rain, upon the Christian Soldiers prayers, (called Legio Fulminatrix) when they were in war with the Quadi: of which see Jul. Capitolin. Dion Cass. Tertul. Apolog. Euseb. lib. 5. Orosium, &c. His Letters to the Senate are these: [Credibile est Christianos, licet eos impios existimemus, Deum pro munimento habere in pectore: simul enim atque humi sese abjecerunt, & preces fuderunt▪ ad ignotum mihi Deum, statim è coelo pluvia delapsa est, in nos quidem frigidissima, in nostros ⟨p. 362⟩