he wasbrought up in flucke fo fail in him, that he could not be brought off wholly to embrace Chriftian Religia on. And a great thing that hindered hirn,was theoffence he tookat theout- wardmeaneffe and povertyofChrifti- ans; and efpecially he looked at theRo- manes, whowerea glorious and viìo- ous people, and the Emperour there, who lived in fo great glory; and pro- f erity ; and he confidered, with him- felfe, that theydid nor embrace ;Chri- ftian and wherefore then fh Auld he But after hee .learned from from the Embafladours of C4far, that foreofthe noble and chiefe of Rome, as by name Trebelli,Jand Pertinax, and others embraced the Religion of Chri- ftians ; that the Emperourhimfelf was moved with that miraculousRaihe, that was caufed by the prayers of the Chriftians thenLucius attendedmore . fully to underftandwhat ChriftianRe. ligionwas, and was taken offfrom that which formerlyhindered him. Where- upon he fent toEleutherjras? then Bifhop of Rome, Elvanaa and Medinaiá;his Em- baffadours, to fend him finite to in-. ( ftrut
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