A33359:49
Diocesan churches not yet discovered in the primitive times
Diocesan churches not yet discovered in the primitive times, or, A defence of the answer to Dr. Stillingfleets allegations out of antiquity for such churches against the exceptions offered in the preface to a late treatise called A vindication of the primitive church, where what is further produced out of Scripture and ancient authors for diocesan churches is also discussed.Diocesan churches not yet discovered in the primitive times, or, A defence of the answer to Dr. Stillingfleets allegations out of antiquity for such churches against the exceptions offered in the preface to a late treatise called A vindication of the primitive church, where what is further produced out of Scripture and antient authors for diocesan churches is also discussed.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1682
Diocesan Churches not yet discovered in the Primitive times.
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.
If then we will have this passage of Sozomen to have any appearance of truth, it must be extended far beyond Constantine's time, when, as Zosimus tells us, many of the succeeding Emperors were still drawing multitudes of People to that City, so that it was afterwards encompassed with walls far larger, [Greek or Hebrew], than those of Constantinet. And in an Oration of Themistius, it is made a question whether Theodosius junior did not add more to C. P. than Constantine did to Byzantium.
If then we will have this passage of Sozomen to have any appearance of truth, it must be extended far beyond Constantine's time, when, as Zosimus tells us, many of the succeeding Emperours were still drawing multitudes of People to that City, so that it was afterwards encompassed with walls far larger, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, than those of Constantinet. And in an Oration of Themistius, it is made a question whether Theodosius junior did not add more to C. P. than Constantine did to Byzantium.
- tlib. 2. p. 65.
Many of the Jews and almost all the Heathen were converted and became Christians.
The expression of Sozomen does not hinder but as the main body of the Jews remained, so the numbers of the Heathen might be considerable. Tertullian speaks of Citizens in his time as if they were almost all Christians, ⟨p. 12⟩