~·_____ o_~ __ w_e_R __ E_s_u_R_R __ E_c_T __ I_O_N_.___________ 5_2~7-- --;:;iliethirdofEphef~~<, therehaveyou(inrhcz . Tom.c.32.) Rudim He- AtEjh</M, r. thlt/J,and Rufjn,three f!.!:_artodecim~,;i her,:rikes, publike!y in the face ofrhe Coun- •JJ!1 recanting their errour, {ubfcnbmg, and prom1ling ever afrer ro conforme and ce 'etbeir E.jler, c.frerthectif/emeofthe churchu ofGo o. . keep And at rhe fourth of chalcedow, the lixt Seiiion (~he Emper<;mr bemg there A¥Ih•k.'~ rhen 4 rcfentinperfon) rhewhole Councell wuh one vo•cemadethlsacclamarion, pp .r:ch'"rbimramm: Thankesbeto Go o, oneEafternow, andbutone, aUthe f'ntllll >IJ• nv • , tvlrld over. . . 1 · 1 !1: But before all the[e.Cthe Ntceneand a 1). by ado~eny.ear~satea , was the Cufiome i~' Councell ofArfes,and m1t,th1s cu!l:ome proclauned. I menncn 1t, not fo much for E•£hm!ol. rhe antiquity, as that by it appeareth, how the .cofrome o_f E4/er went here With us in this Realme; for, at it was prefenr and fubfcnbed,the B1!hop ofLmdm,Rejlrtutm, Aplaine argument, We had fuch a cufrome then. And for the orher Realme,Gel.zjiu !hall fpeake. InaSynod of feventy Bi!hops, cunome ill where he and they decreed, what bookes were to ber~ad, what not: they fay, there smt.:r.J. was then a Poem ofvenerable Sedt~li~~< (who had the addition of Scetus for his na- , cion) whichthey doe injigni laude pr.efe~re,_(rhat is) very high\ycornmend. Sedu/i. sei•li"~ mimirles it, his 9pt.u Pafchale, and begms n, With 1' afcl;a/e! qurr:r~nqr1e dapes---a,s1t wereinviring his Readers (h1s country-men, I dare fay, fpmally, tf rhey w1ll come toir)toaFeafr, upon E.tfter-day. But for both, none fo worthya witnelfe, as the Emperour Confl~mine, who in his CaOome iA Ref~ripr about E4jler, direCted to all Churches,exprdly nameth this Hie, the Ijle of ~~~ftaorint' Britanme,among thofe places, where th1s r:uflome was duly and order!yobferved. · All this while theChurchhadrdl: duringtheperfecution 1 how went it~ Two ·/ Pr~ore; .. we will take in,in the palfage bctweene the times ofpeace, ~nd perfecution. ,t;;:i~ .~~·: I • La{/antius, themofrpartofhts!ife, hvedunderthe perfecution, butdyedin fief! •oo. the Churches peace. • So did Picriru of Alexandria (for his excellent learning, ea!- ~·;!·•• of per[<', ledorigen the younger.) InL•Ciantim fev~nth booke, and ninereenrh Chapr.er, th~re ;,~::,·berw:<tl is aplaine teilimony forrhe folemne keepmg ofE4{1er-eve. And Ptmus (fatth Samt P'"" and ttrft: llierom} bath along Sermon upon the Prophet Hofee, made by him and preached at <;;~;~,;.,. the folemne alfembJy onEafter-eve. And if the Eve were fo hdd,we make no doubt Pieriu<. f h J. H1tr.Jc$(T.7"'.. 0 t e ay. . Vndcrt'ti.C prr...,. 1 Now in the midde£1: of the perfecution, there fell out a fpeciall cafe of {alirion. " 'philip the Emperour, (fuppofed tohave given his owne and his fonnes name ro the ;;;ra~ 0 i Chrifrian profeflion, as Et~jebi~~< reporterh:) in ligne thereof, Hee, on Eaf/er-eve pe:o:fr.' ' Ill~ offered to joyne himfelfe at the Church-fervice, as knowing that to be their cbiefelt L.6..-.H., folemnity : which they failed not to keepe, no not then, when their cafe was at the hardefr. ~ And eve~ then at l/.fl~x4ndria, J?ionyjim the Bi!hop there, hdd this Cll• E•fcb.t.i.e.>•: Pome. Thus wntes bee to Hterax (aB1!hop too) and to others: outofpnfon;, nionJ[.AI"'' .That, though the perfecution then raged much, and the _plague more; yet were the Chrifiians, even then, fo carefull not to breake this cuftome, as they kept theirEafer, fome in woods, fome on fhip.board, fome in barnes aod !tables; yea, they mth<; very goale, keepe it they did even then, perfecution and plague both nocwitl>.- fiandmg• • 3 Cyp~iAn~e!dthismflo~e: NotbyhisHomiJy (Iwaveir,asdoubtfull :)but c 1pri...Epjp. ~nfoure ofhts Eptfrles I findett. I name but one,ius LIII. Some hadconfulto:ct him " · tn aqueftio~ offomediffict,tltY:· He writes backe, It. v:as now Eajler, t>;,sbrethre~ b :!: wrefrom hiJIJ, every one j!t hts owne charge, folemmzmgthe Feall: wl~h their peof.e. Sofooneasthe Fea!l: was over; and they metagaine, they lhould heare from .a•lm,hewouldtake their opinions, and returne them afound anfwer. feth 4 Origenhad this'cuflome. In his VIII. againft C~lfm, (rankely he confef- orig.e~; :C. • h) That other Feafrs, EA}!er by name, the Chrifrians held them; and that (as he ~u: held;~~fr~~inmo.~~ [o_~~ne manner, than eel/m, ot. ~nyl.!.e~thcn-mcn ofthem 5 'I'ertulli~
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