μετόχος στο Καὶ πᾶσαι αἱ θεόπνοςοι γραφαὶ Θεὸν τὸν εν τε Θεῖ μδύεσιν· ἃς καθ ̓ ἑκάστην ατί θεῶς τὸ ναῶ ὑπρο τι θέμεθα. τότον πιςεύομα ζω τῷ πατρὶ ἀεὶ ὄντω, όκ- Palfin πεπληρωκέναι τὸ πατρικὸν βέ λημα προς των κτίσιν ὅλων αυτός γδ εἶπε, καὶ ἐγενή η. αυτὸς ἐνετείλατο, καὶ ἐκε τίπης· ὁ δὲ ἐντελλόμμΘ επέ ρῳ ἐντέλλετό τινι, ὃν σὺν ἄλε τον πεπείσμεθα ή μονογενῆ ρω μὸν τὸ Θεῖ ᾧ καὶ εἶπε, ποιή- τ. υ, coy, p. 308, Lo σωμου ἄνθρωπον κατ' εικόνα και vii. 11, ρ. 400 καὶ c. p. καθ ̓ ὁμοίωσιν ἡμετέραν τω ως δὲ ὡς ἀληθῶς ἄνω καὶ ἐνερ 22 δὲ μόνον, σδε παρόν μόνον * 48, αλλα καὶ ἐνεργεια προς τω των όλων δημιεργία ως Z. viii, c. 12, p. 399 . 58 γέγραπται, ήμίω παρ' αυτω Ε., σ. 20, f 325 αρμόζεται το τον λέγομον και ταβάντα, καὶ ὀφθέντα τῳ ἀ- Ibid βραάμ πρὸς τῇ δρυῒ τῇ μαμ βρή βρε, ένα ώς τριών ως ὡς κυρίῳ, καὶ κριτῇ, ὁ πατριάρ χης διελέγετο ἅτε τα κρίσιν ἅπαξ εἰληφότα που πα τρός πεὶ δ γέγραπται, κύριος Ibid. ἔβρεξεν όλι (όδομα καὶ νόμοῤῥα πῦρ καὶ θεῖον τα τρία εκ τὸ ἐρανα το τον εν ὃς ἐκπληρῶν τω πατρικί βsλί τοῖς πατριάρχους φαίνεται, καὶ Ibid. Καλέγεται ἐν * αυτής τ κοπος, καὶ τοῖς αὐτοῖς κεφαλαί οις, ποτέ με ὡς ἄγγελο, ποτὲ δὲ ὡς κύριοι, ποτέ δέ Paffirm. Θεός μαρτυρέμα με Θεὸν ν ὅλων ἀσεβὲς ἄγδελον νομίση καλεῖπς· ὁ δὲ ἀγδελ τῇ πατρὸς, ὁ υἱὸς ἔξιν, αὐτὸς κύριΘ. καὶ Θεὸς ὤν. [Then the Bishops go on with the Appearances of Chrift to Abraham, to Jacob, to Mofes, and at Sinai, as the μεσίτης in the delivery of that Law]— ἃ δὲ τὸν το α τῷ πατρὶ ὄντα Θεόν μολύ κύριον γενητής ἁπάντων, ὑπὸ ἢ τὸ πατρὸς ἀποςαλέντα ἐξ ἐρανῶν, καὶ αρκωθέντα, L., 6. 20, p. 325 5. P. 82 ενανθρωπηνέναι διόπερ καὶ τὸ ἐκ L. vi, c. 16, p. 154 τῆς παρθένε ζώμα χωρῆσιν ignat. ad Philadelph S. πᾶν τὸ πλήρωμα τῆς θεότητος 6, 1. 83 2 σωμα σωματικῶς τῇ θεότητι ἀτρέπ πως ἥνωται, και τεθεοποίητοι. ἐν μλύ ιερεμία πνεύμα προσώ- τ. Β, 20, P. 324 T8 Tfs X150. Here we have an intire Account of the Faith of the Catholick Church in the East, after the middle of the Third Century, near Sixty Years before the Council of Nice; and fuch an one as not only agrees most remarkably with that in the Conftitutions, but fuch an one as the Church had receiv'd, as deliver'd down ina traditionary way, by the Succeffion of Bifhops, from Eye-witneffes and the Apostles themselves, and till that Age preferv'd in the Holy and Catholick Church of Chrift; that is, in plain terms, such as was contain'd in their ἐκκλησιαςικός κανών οι Ecclefiaftical Conftitutions of the Apostles: As is evident by all the Characters thereof, and by the feveral Quotations or Allufions thereto all the way. Indeed, the rest of the fame Epiftle is well worth the Readers Perufal, and is a most valuable Fragment of genuine Christian Antiquity; as concerning the original Faith of the Church in the most facred Matters, and that at a time when fome Hereticks, even Popes themselves, began remarkably to corrupt it; and in a Place the longest free from those Corruptions of any other whatsoever. We may here alfo observe that these Bifhops who met at Antioch, the the See of Ignatius, feem alfo to have been well verft in his larger and genuine Epistles, and to refer to the same several times in this very Letter. N. B. Hither perhaps might be referr'd the fpurious but Antient Epiftle of Ignatius to the Philippians; which has many and undenyable Quotations from and Atteftations to these Constitutions, as facred Books of our Religion. But because this Author is a Counterfeit, and unknown; and his time only fuppos'd by Conjecture; I fhall choose rather to refer the Learned Reader to the Epiftle it felf for fatisfaction, than to Tranfcribe his Teftimonies; especially fince the larger or genuine Epiftles of Ignatius, which are most plainly imitated by this Author, have already afforded us fo many more certain and unqueftionable Citations and Atteftations of the fame Nature. Century IV. About XXV. The next Teftimony that I fhall alledge for these Conftitutions fhall be Peter A. D. 306 Bishop of Alexandria, in the beginning of the fourth Century, and a Martyr, who, had the Cuftody of thefe facred Records, and directly cites them in his Penitential Canons ftill extant; as Dr. Grabe alfo ob- spicileg. ferves. For therein he not only takes no- Tom. 1, Pë tice of the Lord's Day, as that whereon Ff Chri 2 Christians did not kneel at their Prayers, as they did on other Days, according to the direction in the Conftitutions; but also reinforces the obfervation of the Wednesday and Fridays Fafts, and refers to the Conftitutions for the fame. Hear the Words of Peter, and then the parallel ones of the Conftitutions. Οὐκ ἐγκαλέσω τις ἡμῖν, τρα Cam. 15 ηρεμείοις τετράδα και goudly, ἐν οἷς καὶ νησεύεν ἡμῖν καὶ παράδοσιν ευλόγως προσετέτακτο. * μιλά η τετράδα, εεὶ τὸ γενόμθμον Συμβάλιον ὑπὸ την Ιεδαίων ἐπὶ τῇ προδοσίᾳ τῇ κυρίς τίω δὲ παρασκόν, ὅτι αὐτὸς ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἔπαθε κυριο ακὴν δὲ χαρμοσύνης ἡμέραν ἄνομορ, δια το ανα τάνα ἐν αὐτῇ ἐν ᾗ στο γόνατα κλίνειν παρειλή φαμ. The Parallel words of the Apoftles are there: ὑμεῖς δὲ ἢ τοὺς πέντε νηςεύσατε ἡμέρας, * τετράδα και παρασκευήν. ὅτι τῇ μ πετράδι Confit. L. κρίας ἐξῆλθεν, ἡ καὶ τὸ κυρίε, Ιέδα χρήμασιν vii, σ. 23 ἐπαγειλαμβών Η προδοσία δὲ παρασκόντω, ὅτι ἔπαθεν ὁ κύρια ἂν αὐτῇ πάθα το δια 9.20, p.327 p8. τὸ βββατον μλύτοι και * κυριακὴν ἑορτίζει, છે ὅτι τὸ μλύ δημιεργίας όξιν ὑπόμνημα, ἡ δὲ ἀνα σάσεως ; and elfewhere, ἐν τῇ κυριακή και τις ευχεὶς ἑστῶτες ὅππιτελέμη. I dare appeal to the impartial Reader whether thefe also be not, ftrictly fpeaking, dire& Citations out of the Apoftolical Conftitutions before us; and thofe as many as could be expected in the fmall Remains we have of this Author. p. 369, Vid. L. v, 2 2 XXVI. The next Teftimony which I fhall produce for thefe Conftitutions fhall be that of |