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The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being…
The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of martyrs, revised and corrected, with additions and great improvements. : Containing an authentic account of the lives, persecutions and sufferings of the holy martyrs; and the many dreadful persecutions against the Church of Christ in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, papists, and others, from earliest ages of the church to the present period. ... The whole forming at once a general Christian martyrology, and a complete history of persecutions. / By the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M.A. late of Magdalen College, Oxford. ; Now revised, corrected and improved, with many additional articles, relating to the acts and monuments of the church. By Paul Wright, D.D. ; Embellished with forty elegant copper plate engravings. ; In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].The new and complete book of martyrs; or, An universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of marytrs, revised and corrected, with additions and great improvements. : Containing an authentic account of the lives, persecutions and sufferings of the holy martyrs; and the many dreadful persecutions against the Church of Christ in all parts of the world, by pagans, Jews, Turks, papists, and others, from earliest ages of the church to the present period. ... The whole forming at once a general Christian martyrology, and a complete history of persecutions. / By the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M.A. late of Magdalen College, Oxford. ; Now revised, corrected and improved, with many additional articles, relating to the acts and monuments of the church. By Paul Wright, D.D. ; Embellished with forty elegant copper plate engravings. ; In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].
New-York: printed by William Durell, 1794
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Volume 1 › Chapter 3 › An Account of the Persecution under JULIAN the Apostate.
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An Account of the Persecution under JULIAN the Apostate.
JULIAN, commonly called the Apostate, was the son of Julius Constantius, and the nephew of Constantine the Great. He studied the rudiments of grammar under the inspection of Ma•donius an eunuch, and an heathen of Constantinople. His father sent him some time after to Nic•media, to be instructed in the christian religion, by the bishop Eusebius, his kinsman; but hi• principles were corrupted by the pernicious doctrines of Ecebolius the rhetorician, and Maximus the magician.
JULIAN, commonly called the Apostate, was the son of Julius Constantius, and the nephew of Constantine the Great. He studied the rudiments of grammar under the inspection of Ma•donius an eunuch, and an heathen of Constantinople. His father sent him some time after to Nic•media, to be instructed in the christian religion, by the bi•shop Eusebius, his kinsman; but hi• principles were corrupted by the pernicious doctrines of Ecebolius the rhetorician, and Maximus the magician.
CONSTANTIUS dying in the year 361, Julian succeeded him, and had no sooner attained the imperial dignity, than he renounced christianity, and embraced paganism, which had for some years fallen into great disrepute. But he again restored idolatrous worship, by opening the several temples that had been shut up, rebuilding such as were destroyed, and ordering the magistrates and people to follow his example. He, however, made no public edicts against christianity, but tried to do that privately which other emperors had done openly. He recalled all banished pagans, allowed the free exercise of religion to every sect, but deprived all christians of offices at court, in the magistracy, or in the army. He was chaste, temperate, vigilant, laborious, and seemingly pious, so that by his hypocrisy and pretended virtues, he, for a time, did more mischief to christianity, than the most profligate libertine of his predecessors. Thus he attempted to undermine christianity by artifice instead of expelling it by force; and to make his measures the more effectual, he prohibited any christian from keeping a school or public seminary of learning, and deprived all the […] clergy of the privileges granted them by Constantine the Great.