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A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…
A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Usher.A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Ussher.
Oxford: printed by Henry Hall, 1643
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Chapter 4: Of the Asian Diocese, and the Metropolitan cities thereof; with the Civill and Ecclesia…
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.
There remained then of the seven, only Laodicea: which got the honour of being the Metropolis of Phrygia Pacatiana; as we read in the Greek subscription of ⟨p. 27⟩the first epistle unto Timothy: the §.lateness whereof is thence rightly collected by the learned kCujaicus. For as the distinction of Phrygia Pacatiana and Salutaris is no where to be found before the distribution of the provinces made by Constantine: so at that time also, when but one Metropolis was allotted unto every Province, it is a question, whether of those two *prime cities that were so nea•e together, Hierapolis, which without all controversy was acknowledged to belong unto Phrygia, was not rather chosen to be the mother city therein, then Laodicea, which by reason of the doubtful situation thereof (as we have heard) was indifferently challenged to appertain unto Phrygia, Caria and Lydia.
There remained then of the seven, only Laodicea: which got the honour of being the Metropolis of Phrygia Pacatiana; as we read in the Greek subscription of ⟨p. 27⟩the first epistle unto Timothy: the §.latenesse whereof is thence rightly collected by the learned kCujaicus. For as the distinction of Ph•ygia Pacatiana and Salutaris is no where to be found before the distribution of the provinces made by Constantine: so at that time also, when but one Metropolis was allotted unto every Province, it is a question, whether of those two *prime cities that were so nea•e together, Hierapolis, which without all controversie was acknowledged to belong unto Phrygia, was not rather chosen to be the mother city therein, then Laodicea, which by reason of the doubtfull situation thereof (as we have heard) was indifferently challenged to appertaine unto Phrygia, Caria and Lydia.