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The world that now is; and the world that is to comeThe vvorld that now is; and the vvorld that is to come
The world that now is; and the world that is to come: or The first and second coming of Jesus Christ Wherein several prophecies not yet fulfilled are expounded. By Han. Knollys, a servant of Jesus Christ. Rev. I. 19.The vvorld that now is; and the vvorld that is to come: or The first and second coming of Jesus Christ Wherein several prophecies not yet fulfilled are expounded. By Han. Knollys, a servant of Jesus Christ. Rev. I. 19.
London: printed by Tho. Snowden, 1681
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.
§ 10.
Polycarpus was Bishop of Smyrna, when St. John wrote that Epistle, Revel. 2.8. Unto the Angel of the Church of the Smyrnians, saith Irenaeus. And who can better inform us than they that lived in the days of the Apostles. Polycarpus (saith Irenaeus)(c) was not only taught by the Apostles, and conversed with many that had seen Christ; but also was ⟨p. 66⟩by the Apostles Constituted in Asia Bishop of the Church, which is in Smyrna; Whom we our selves also did see in our younger Age; for he continued long: And being very aged, he most gloriously and nobly suffering Martyrdom, departed this Life. To this let me add the Testimony, which those Brethren of the Church of Smyrna, who were present at the Martyrdom of their Bishop Polycarpus gave him,(d) as Eusebius, l. 4. Hist. [Greek or Hebrew] 15. He was (said his Brethren) the most admirable Man in our Times, an Apostolical and Prophetical Doctor, and Bishop of the whole Church in Smyrna. Famous and certain is the Testimony of Hegesippus, in his History of the Church, as Eusebius noteth to the same purpose. The next and last I shall cite, is the Testimony of Clement, whom St. Paul mentioneth among other his fellow Labourers, Phil. 4.3.
Polycarpus was Bishop of Smyrna, when St. John wrote that Epistle, Revel. 2.8. Unto the Angel of the Church of the Smyrnians, saith Irenaeus. And who can better inform us than they that lived in the daies of the Apostles. Polycarpus (saith Irenaeus)