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if no miracles should intervene, many ages may elapse before the majority of the pagan nations, of the Jewish tribes, and of the followers of the Arabian pseudo-prophet, shall be numbered among the votaries of that system which we conscientiously follow and earnestly recommend. In the mean time, let Christians preserve their faith unimpaired, and exhibit, to unbelievers, impressive examples of piety and virtue.

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THE following tables have been compiled with much attention and pains from the best authors; and it is therefore hoped that they will be considered as an useful addition to Dr. Mosheim's work; and the more so, as they are not confined to the persons and things contained in it.

The dates, that are placed in the columns which contain the sovereign princes and popes, are designed to mark the year of their decease.

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As several of the ecclesiastical and theological Writers,e'r mentioned in these Tables, deserve a place also amongino profane authors, on account of their philosophical, literary, or historical productions; so their names will be repeated in the two distinct columns that contain the learned men of each century.

It is farther to be observed, that the Romish church, even long before the time of the Reformation, looked upon many persons as heretics, whom we, on our principles, cannot consider in the same light, and whose doctrines really tended to promote that reformation in which we glory. I have therefore, in many places, added the words real or reputed after heretics, rather than seem to submit, in this point, to the decisions of a superstitious church.

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES.

CENTURY I.

Ecclesiastical

Writers.

Sovereign Prin-Popes, or Bi-and Theological Heretics. ces. shops of Rome.

Roman empe- The succession The Evange-Dositheus.

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Germanicus.

of the first lists and Apo-Simon Magus. tus Cæsar. A.D. bishops of

stles. The three

matter full of Apostolic

rors.

Augustus

14 Rome is a

Tiberius

Caligula

41 intricacy and

Fathers,

Claudius 54 obscurity.--

Clement,

Nero

68 We shall here

Barnabas,

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Hermas.

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Philo, the

Vitellius 70 shop Pearson.

Jew.

Flavius

phus.

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Jose- as apostates John the Baptist Strabo.

than as here- beheaded.

These are al- tics.

Vespasian 79

Titus

81 Linus.

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Evaristus.

genuine ec- tans.

Alexander.

writers of the The Naza

clesiastical Ebion.

The dates of first century, renes.

Dionysius Christ's miracles, Alexandria. sufferings, death, Seneca, the resurrection, and rhetor.

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Isidore of Cha

the deaths of whose works N. B. The St. Stephen, the Velleius Pater-
the Roman are now ex- Ebionites and first Martyr.
pontiffs are tant; for the Nazarenes, The Conversion of Cremutius.
not the same supposed let- though gene- St. Paul.
in the
ac- ter of Christ rally placed Institution of A- rax.
to Abgarus, by the learned gape, or Feasts of Celsus, the
the Gospels, in the first Charity.
Acts, Epi- century, yet Baptism is admi-Massurius Sa-
stles, and Li- belong more nistered by im- binus.
turgies, that properly to mersion.
have (beside the second.

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