A free inquiry into the miraculous powers, which are supposed to have subsisted in the Christian Church, from the earliest ages / [Conyers Middleton].
- Conyers Middleton
- Date:
- 1749
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A free inquiry into the miraculous powers, which are supposed to have subsisted in the Christian Church, from the earliest ages / [Conyers Middleton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Pausanias : his account of JBftulafitu's temple at Epidaurus, 78 Perpetua and Felicitas, two female martyrs: their afts appealed to by Dr. Chapman, as unqueftionable vouchers of true miracles, N. [3] 205. Re¬ marks on thofe a&s, ibid. The forti¬ tude of thefe two martyrs derived from the impetuofity of a wild and extrava¬ gant enthufiafm, ibid. Pharaoh : his conduct compared by St. Cyprian to that of the devil in pofleifed perfons, 17 Philo : his remarks on the ecftafy of the old patriarchs and prophets, 97 Petavius, the Jefuit, owns Epiphanius to have been too credulous, 151 Philopatris; the author of that dia¬ logue ridicules the Chriftians for watch¬ ing and fading in expe&ation of vili- ons, 108 Photius: his chara&er of Iren ecus 44, 45 Pliny, the younger: his account of the Chriftians in this province, 194, and N. [1] 195. Polycarp, his epiftle to the Philippians, 7. His vifion of the martyrdom, 9. Affirmed by later writers to have been indued with a fpirit of prophecy, ibid. Urges apoftolical tradition in the dif- pute about the time of holding Eajier, 60. Affirmed by Irenecus to have con¬ verted great numbers to the faith by the ftrength of tradition, 62. Letter of the Church of Smyrna concerning his martyrdom, written about the mid¬ dle of the fecond century, 1 24. Mi - racles faid to have attended his martyr¬ dom, 124, 125, Remark upon them, 125. The mention of the dove, faid in that letter to have flown out of his body, omitted by Eufebius, Dodvoell, and Wake, 125. The two laft omit that circumftance, for the fake of ren¬ dering the narrative lefs fufpe&ed, 126. Epiftle of the Church of Smyrna con¬ cerning his martyrdom in danger of being loft, till it was difcovered by a revelation from Polycarp himfelf, 198. Flies from perfection, N. [1] 211. The miracles faid to have attended his martyrdom queftionable, 220 Pontius follicitous to excufe St. Cyprian % withdrawing from his Church in the time of perfection, 104 Popery: late growth of it, Intr. xli. Writers for it make great ufe of the prejudice in this Proteftant country in fa¬ vour of primitive antiquity, ibid. The chief corruptions of it introduced, or the feeds of them fown, in the third, fourth, and fifth centuries, Intr. li, lii. Porphyry, 23 Praying for the dead common in the fe¬ cond century, Intr. lx. Preaching of Peter, a fpurious book af- cribed to that Apoftle, often cited as genuine by Clemens Alexandrinus, Origen, and other Fathers, N. [1] 34 Prideaux confutes the notion of Iren&us and other Fathers, of the fcriptures be¬ ing deftroyed in the Babylomjh captivi- ty, 50 Primitive antiquity affirmed by its ad¬ mirers to be the rule of regulating the do&rines and difcipline of all modern churches, Praef. xvi. Primitive Chriftians reproached perpe¬ tually for their grofs credulity by their enemies, Intr. N. [*] xcii. The an¬ cient Father’s defence of themfelves on that head, ibid, xciii. Account of them from the belt heathen writers, 193 Proculus affirmed by Tertullian to have cured the emperor Sever us by oil, 7 5 Prop hecy of the primitive Church by vifion or ecftafy, 98, 112. The perpe¬ tuity of it aflerted by the Orthodox, 112 Prophetic viflons and ecftafy in the pri¬ mitive Church, 96 Protestants: the difputes between them, in England turn wholly on points of difcipline and external forms of wor- Ihip, Intr. cvii. Their religion refts on the Angle but folid foundation of the facred fcriptures, unmixed with the rub- bifh of ancient tradition or ancient Fa¬ thers, Poft. cxh Raising](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3051597x_0404.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
