ON

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY,

IN THREE VOLUMES.

BY JOHN JORTIN, D.D.

ARCHDEACON OF LONDON, RECTOR OF ST DUNSTAN IN

THE EAST, AND VICAR OF KENSINGTON,

SOLD BY LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO. FINSBURY SQUARE ;
CUTHELL AND MARTIN, MIDDLE-ROW, HOLBORN ;
AND J. WALKER, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1805.

T, TURNBULL, PRINTER, EDINBURGH.

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I RANSACTIONS during the reign of Constantine 1, &c.

Remarks on the cross, &c. which was seen by Con-

stantine, and which seenis to have been a Solar Ha-

1-5

Licinius pretended to have been instructed and assisted

by an angel

Whether he was a Christian

His character

The causes, origin, and progress of the worship of

saints, martyrs, and reliques, of monkery, lying

wonders, austerities, vows of virginity; pilgrima-

ges; &c.

6-24

The Fathers were the encouragers of the superstitions 7

Eusebius not entirely excusable in this point 8-10

The Consubstantialists ran much into these excesses 12

Christian saints supplied the place and the offices of

Pagan deities

8-12

Monkish ignorance, austerities and fanaticism

12-24

The monks were not all of them saints

17

Athanasius. His account of them of

Eusebius, Constantine, Jerom; Ambrose. Their high

notions of virginity and celibacy

19

Monks may have been sometimes misrepresented and

wronged

19

Miracles, for what purposes they were wrought in

those times

Whence the devil came to be painted black

13:
Monks imitators of Pagan Philosophers
• VOL. II,

Chelsea

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Chelsea College. What it was designed for by

James I.

Monkish miracles preserved by tradition

Character of the Egyptians and of their monks

Valens an enemy to them

Made them serve public offices

How they came to be so numerous

Protected by the clergy, and disliked by others

Paula and Eustochium pious pilgrims

The schism of the Donatists

25, &c.

An account of the Arian controversy

25

Alexander excommunicates Arius and others

26

Sozomen and Theodoret give a good character to some

Arian prelates

27

Alexander uses weak arguments against the Arians 28

His notions very like those of the Semiarians : 29

A supposed miracle in his favour

29

Jurieu. His notion that the articles of Christian

faith were not understood in the three first cen-

turies

29

Philostorgius not favourable to Alexander

Constantine treats the Arian controversy as frivolous 30

Valesius mistranslates the emperor's epistle

Nicene council. Quarrels of these fathers

31

General councils not infallible

32, &€.

Character of the councils of Constantinople and Ephe-

sus

Eusebius against the govoros

: 36

Disputes about the meaning of that word

Eusebius his sense of it

Council of Antioch, their strange interpretation of it 37

Le Clerc's account of general councils

39

Symeon Stylites his notion of them

41

Summary account of the Arian controversy for forty

years

42-46

An Arian creed

Divisions amongst the Arians

Apollinaris his notion of the Aéros

47.

Pagans

30

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