made ufe of. Thefe Conftitutions, without the Liturgy, properly fpeaking, or the Ten Liturgick Chapters from the Sixth to the Fifteenth Inclufive, are diftinct in several Manufcripts, and fometimes alfo afcrib'd to Hippolytus therein, as their Collector or Tranfcriber; but the intire Copies of the Conftitutions ever include that Liturgy. The Third Branch contains Conftitutions and Canons afcrib'd, fome to Paul, and fome to Peter and Paul, in Seven Chapters, 32. 33, 34, 42, 43, 44, and 45. Whereinto alfo, in Seven Chapters, 35-41. inclufive are, in their proper Places, inferted the daily Evening and Morning Prayers; with the ufual Thanksgiving for the oblation of the first Fruits; and the Prayer for the departed. Thefe are plainly the remaining parts of the foregoing Liturgy; and directly refer to it. The Fourth Branch Chapter 46. contains Canons or Conftitutions afcrib'd to all the Apostles, about curatia or good order in the Church, and the Confinement of facred Miniftrations to every Rank, according to their diftinct Offices there. The Fifth Branch contains the laft Appendix to the whole, or the Apoftolical Canons, Chapter 47. and concludes all with the Apoftles folemn farewel to their Bishops. Now before we come to ftate the time, and Examin the distinct Notes of Chronology belonging to the feveval Branches of this Eighth Book, we muft

first try whether we can find the Intereft which Hippolytus has herein; and whether ftill this Book and all its Parts, may not belong to the Original Eight Books of Cle mentine Conftitutions. I confefs I have formerly been ready to imagin that the former Seven Books only belonged to Clements Collection; and that his Eight Books were to be made up by fuppofing the Seventh divided into Two; and that therefore a great part of this Eighth Book was collected later than the other, and that" by Hippolytus himself alfo. But when afterwards I found and confider'd, that all our complete Copies of thefeel? Conftitutions have the Eighth Book intire, as a part of the whole Work; that it appears to have been fo alfo in all the paft Ages we can trace them to, that in none of thefe intire Copies is there one Syllable of Hippolytus's Title to any part of them; that, on the contrary, in them all Elements Atteftation to his Eight Books, is not till the laft Canon of the laft Chapter of the prefent Eight Books; that Hippolytus's undoubted pretence upon his Marble is only to the Two firft Chapters, and yet that that very Branch is of Old cited exprefly as a part of Clements Conftitutions by Nicon; that the Pandect. marks for Genuine Antiquity, as well for MS. Serm. the Chronology, as the Stile, in this Book 3. apud feem equally valid with thofe of the fore-p 388. going, that Hippolytus, whofe Fame and

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Monument were at Rome, the Seat of Clement, could hardly Collect fo many Apoftolick Traditions and Conftitutions unknown to Clement, that the Ethiopick Extracts,not much above a Century later than Hippolytus, do afSee Chap 4. cribe all the Eight Books to Clement, and do Cext. 4. n. alfo fhew us that their Eighth Book was then as complete,and in the fame order as it is now; altho' indeed the fame Ethiopians have among them another Extract made very much out of the Eighth Book, and afcrib'd to Hippolytus alfo; and that Stephen Gobar, in Photius, quotes this Hippolytus for afcribing the Epiftle to the Hebrews to fome other Author than Paul; contrary to the laft Canon of this very Eighth Book, which thing the fame Gobar obferves alfo : When, I fay, I feriously confider all these things, I cannot easily believe that Hippolytus was the Original Collector, but Clement, and I am forc'd to fuppofe that all the Title which Hippolytus has hereto, is either the transcribing fome Parts of this Book from the Roman Archives, for the ufe of his own Country; where perhaps they were wanting before; or poffibly the bare Copying them out with his own Hand, and preferving them when they were by fome Accident in danger of being fpoil'd or loft. However, leaving this obfcure matter concerning Hippolytus's Title, as a Collector or Tranfcriber, to the farther Enquiries of the Learned, let us proceed to the Book it felf,

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and to the Notes of Chronology contain'd in the feveral Branches of it. The first Part,or the αποςολική οδοις πει χαρισμάτων fews by its very Subject and Defign, as we have P. 189 pri» already noted, that it belongs to the very first Times of the Gospel, when alone there was occafion for caution against Spiritual Pride, in those who were vouchfat'd fuch extraordinary and miraculous Gifts. And accordingly the Apoftles fpeak here of Silas and Agabus, mention'd in the Acts, as of Prophets in their times; aidas pèrvy ajab c. 2. p.390. ἐφ' ἡμῶν προφητεύσαντες. The Second Branch, or the Conftitutions eier, with its invaluable Liturgy, feems alfo plainly to belong to the time before the Destruction of Jerufalem: For herein we may note (1) that we have a brief Enumeration of the facred Books Read then in the Chriftian Affemblies fomewhat larger and later than that in the Second Book ; μετα τὴν ἀνάγνωσιν τ8 νόμε, HS Degan Twv, HIS CAnd we nuwer, if this way, C.S.P.392. Eewv, sỳ DS EvaySenior as if not only Paul's Epiftles were known, but one or more of fome other Apoftle was now alfo Extant, and Read in the publick Affemblies; which exactly agrees to the Year 67. or the Third Council of the Apoftles; to which in the main this Book is I think to be ascrib❜d. (2). That we here find this Liturgy was made before the Death of Fames, and Euodius, and Annianus, Bishops of Jerufalem, Antioch, and

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the Cap. III. Alexandria; and yet after the Ordination of Clement, Bishop of Rome. Which in point of time exactly and fingly agrees to the foremention'd Council, A. D. 67. Hear the remarkable Words in the Prayer for the Faithful ; ὑπὲρ τῇ Ἐπισκόπε ἡμης ιακώβε, και πα C. 10. p. τοικιών αυτό δεηθώμεν ὑπὲρ το Επισκόπε ήμ κλήματος, καὶ ἢ παροικιῶν αὐτὸ δεηθώμην· ὑπὲρ τ Ἐπισκόπε ἡμῶν ἐυοδία, καὶ τῇ παροικιών αυτό δεηθώ μι· ὑπὲρ ε όπισκόπε ἡμῶν ἀννιαν, καὶ ἢ παροικιών αυτό δεηθώμεν. Nor muft we omit that other Paflage, ὑπὲρ τῆς ἐνθάδε ἁγίας παροικίας δεηθώμης, without any Bishops Name, as if that Church where this form was made or us'd had then no Bishop, and was diftinct from Jerufalem, Antioch, Alexandria, and Rome. All which Circumstances not only determin the Time to A. D. 67. but feem to point at the Place alfo, Cafarea, which is the only remaining moft Antient Church among the first Five in the Apostles Catalogue; and which was very probably now without a Bishop; fince but the Year before no fewer than 20000 Jews Fofeph. De Bell. L. II. were therein Slain, and among them, pro33.p.813 bably, their firft Jewish Bishop Zaccheus.

If this Obfervation holds True, there was a Council of the Apostles at Cafarea the fame Year that there was one at Jerufalem; and as the other Parts of this Book may belong to the Jerufalem Council, fo may the drawing up this Apoftolical Liturgy be well afcrib'd to that of Cafarea; as may the first

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