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Show The defcription of Britaine. fed at homie neiv religion and ri(es,Mhereby it camre fo pfficers cod gorrrnonrs and laivginers tothe people, pate that in the fread of the onelic and imimoztall Coa andpct not thought torthic to be of the fecond 9 firtt (nf home Samothes and his pofteritic did paead campanic,abich was a tollie diuifion, Hie Dis opSam times paft) noiv thep honozed the [aid Samorhe hus we fee in generall maner, holw (dolatrie,hofelfe bnder the name of Dis and Saturne :alfd lupicer, oct made noviig of the fares, ad bandof inferior gods lucre Mars, Minerva, Mercurie, Apollo, Diana; andfinallic ~ * hatched at the firlk, tbtch follies im procetle of tine Hercules, puto fihomne thep dedicated the gates and patiaBe into Wbritaine, as did the names of Sacurne € porches of thei temples , entrances info their regis Tupiter,¢¢: ag all apeate hereafter. And here fith F ons, cities, tolones and boufes, with their, limits ans haue alreadic fometbat digrelled front my matter, F Will go peta little farder, and Met forth the oviginall o bounds (as the paptits pid the gates of their cities anid posts bite Botulph¢ Giles) bicaufe fortitune and tuifes bfe of the fy020 Saturne, lupiter, Hercules, e¢: thereby Dome are the cheefe bpholders and bearers bp of conv pout Donor thal era little moze into the errours of nion-{vealths and kingdoms, both abich theyafcrtbed fhe Gentils ,and not onclie that but onepoint alfo of to Hercules (forgetting God) and divers other idals therot of all the confufion that is tobe foundamong whofe names J notwremember not. Jn Liew mores Mela atthich fhe ancient bittozies . Cortes it tvas died fora felu our of {heepe and oren,thep offred mankind alfo vnto Sa were pro Peeves after the partition of the earth ( hich as fome of thent,killing their offerdo2s,prtfoners, and oft pin, : ndecal: made by Noah,in the 13 3,pere atter the loud) thatthe fuch frangers as came from farre bute them,by fhut- Cafirs, Joues,Iuno- beginners of {uch kingdoms as twere then crected fing bp great numbers of themfogither i huge ina apas Mould be called Saturni , thereby it came to pafle fhat Nimbrore twas the Saturne of Babylon: Chamof 20 ges made ef twicker, red, baie, o2 other light matters and thenfefting all onfire fogither,tiep not onelie cons Zgypt : and fo forth other of {undsie other countries, Sheir clock fonnes allo that fucceeded ther, were calfumed the miferable creatures to athes (fomctimes led Toues; and their neybetwes 02 fonnes forines, tibich adding other bealts puto them) but alfo reputed it feigned inthe third place Hercules, bp ohichincanes it to be the moff acceptable facrifice that could be made follotued that eneric kingdomhad a Saturne,Iupicer bnfo their idols. From thence thep bad this horrible and Hercules of hirotune,and not from ante other. cuftome, trulic J cannot tell,but that it as common Fn like fort thep had fuch another oder amongtyete fomof nations, notonlic to confume their ftrangers, c , daughters ahomthey married as vet commontli buta captines, ec; but allo thety otune chilozen twithfire, in their brethyzent (God himfelfe permitting the fame bnito fuch manner of factifice: befine the tert of the Wible,the them for atime)as before the floud,to the end the earth 30 prozhane bifforics do gencraliie leauett evident, asa Might be thoroughlie replenithed, and the Concer furni: thing either of cuffome o2 of particular neceilitic , of then with inbabitants in cucric part thereof.Zhe titer fihich later Virgil faith; therefore and twife of eucrie Sarurne twas called Rhea; Sanguineplacaffis ventos-C" virgine afar Ce ao,mts but of Iupiter, Tuno, fis, o21o. Bepond thefealts there As Silius dooth ofthe fir, here hetellethof the bfuall enSwas nolatter Parola that would tndenoue to deriue Mmanerof the Carthaginenfes,faieng after this mancts the petigue of anppeince.o2 potentate,but fapoten bis Proareducebat miferandas annua caf8 07> Ce Butic tp be fufficientlie performed, ahenhe han bought But fo proceed iwith our nivne gods andidals , moze itogderlic tute fone Saturne o2 other aberat bemight pertinent to my purpofe than the reberfall of forreine ceafe,amdthut op all bis trauell, They hadliketwite this Demeanours : Z find that huge temples in like fort opinion grounded amongh them,that Heaven + ratty 40 Were builaed tuto them, fo that ttt the time of Lucius, Were onlic parents onto Saturne and Rhea, not knoty: iibent the light of faluation began ffronglic to hhine in - ot ing out of Doubt,iuat thev themfclues nip Writaine,thorough thepreaching of the gofpell, the chatSuess thele netontinations, Heauen, Ogyges ame ane,fith , the sunne; Pafians difcouered 25. Elamines 92 fdol-churdjes, befide prolly sal ter Deorum, and fad like, were onelic afcribe d brio e@ Archflamines, thote preits tere ther as our. cen Paser deo. aos .as* eee mar Velta,Aretia, the Azoone, Archbithops are notw, in that thep had fuperio2 charge um, ater deorum, and other the like were bn ware t of all the teil, the other being reputed.ag inferfours, Iwife, pothat berebptye fee,bof Saurne ic noe and fubied: to thetr taritbiction in cafes of religtort, and Terra, CUettenation textheix oldeft god, 02 firs p2ince,Tupiter luperftitions ceremonies, kant, fox the nert,and Hercules faz the third. Aud therfore fit} _, Dithe quantities of their ols ¥ tpeake nat, fith tt soll Da ou thefenames were ditperten in the begining oucrall 50 tS tdugh to fate, that thep inere monftrous, and Phi nak itts no maruell that thereis {uch confuti on in anictent that each nation confenden thic) Hould honour the bittories,and the doings of one of thenr fo mired ith Steaterblocks, and pefall peetending to haue the intl thofeot another,that itis notwimponibie te diftinguifh beigth of the gon 02 govdetie whan they pid repzefent. thentin fander,Zhishaue x {poken, to the end that all Apollo Capitolinus that fimd, at 4ome, twasthittic hienmapfee that godsthe Pagans houoco, ¢therebp cubits high at the leaft; Tarentinus Iupiter of 40.3 hbat religion the porteritie of Chamdid bring suer.ine towBettaine, Fo2 utili their commingit is not ltkelie that anic qrotic oolatvic 02 fuperftition did enter in eouee bs, as delfieng of moztall men, honozing of f - slg erection of huge, images, befine force: Q oeAaand (uch like, therea t the. Chemminites nrthilie called the antes, Mette r there thete "8thence To3s anietbing amended, by the comnt ig in of ie ieamehe Whota.Donbt added fuch denites religion, MAIHés companic hav learned bnto the fame be befae it Gracia, to ean oe be brought Helenus the fare of Ps ers Crceedunig age ) €madehin his pret and bi p tho:eorme the hei i conquelk.that behapatcSebi hies After Beuteyoolatric a z iti in; fed De moze more aman nd fupertkition {ill inerea nze and aa S pa ‘ = Retake cer Os,infomueh that by emonies, and thofe ue on Po : Al bionana Brurebiuf elfes ony countrie: eitherbroughe hither tom &bgoad.02 dailie inn ers The defcription ofBritaine. nitic, trhich fell as 4 dem read in the 57. of Mhpiff. tout fith J cannot vertfie the fame by the twords of Theodoret, fo be {poker mozeof Paule than Peter,o2 the reff, 9 {ill paffe ouer this contecure (fo far as it is grounded bpon Theodoret)and deale with other authozities. y thereofive haue nto2e certeintic, Firff of all therfore let bs fee that Fortunatus hath toritten of Pauls conv ming into WBzifaine,and afterward thatis to be found of other bp-Lazifers in other points of moze alflurance, Certes for the prefence of Paule J read thus much; outdfacer illefimul Paulus tubagentibus ampla, Per mareper terras Cibrit,preconiaifundens, Europam (~ Afiam, Lyliam,fale dogmata complens Arétosmeridies, hicplenus vefper ortus, Tranfit co oc0anun,vel quafacit infala portum, Quafg, Britannus habet terras atqne ultima Thule,ere. That one lofephus preached here tn England,in the time of the Apoffles, bis {epulchze pet it Aualon, now Tofephus, ther became tvith other chaiffians, after they bad fot: Philip. Idollof thefonne inthe axgones,, of 70. /tuhofe toe feu libzarie of the fempleof Auouttus, of 50, fot; another made onder Neto of 119; fot; butane in France weilen alie Zenoduris made Bito Mercurie at At- HAMM fer pears (pace.of 400.fot,Ciherby it aed teth, thatasthep fweregnioee eetdean in et of gods,(0 without meafare were they alloin their p20- Portions and bajpte twas hehich might tetau lap moft-coffthereon, baue the grea J taitherto pec haue heard of the tinte, aherein iooly ae Seep and blinded the harts of fuch ag ivelted it Be Pe ene Spot let bs{er the fuccefe ofthe gofpell,al ,., aan cath and patlich.of clus Chitt our fanigut. pt Herbere monly a begin with an aiegation pf j Cotes berebpou; fome. tepofe great adurance concetutig pefmore bope thereis bythe os of SoPhronius) that Paule the Apottle toula preach the Wu02 of faluation bere,atter bis oclinerie cutof capt tio Tbtiey ed the fy020 of God ift Scythia,bp the {pace of 9.peares) feuered themfelnes in funder, fo make the better thitt for their ofune fafegard , and pet not ofhertvife than by their flight, the gofpell might bane due furtherance, Werebp then it came to palle,thatthe faio Philip pow Freculphus good deliberation did fend lofephus ouer, and iwith bine To.2.lib.z, Simon Zelotesto preach bnto the Writons, and mint, Di bene,quod,fanthypeperst. fecunda maritay Quot fperat,gener osquotquepreell NUT, Sicplaceatfuperis,vt comugegaudeat unos Etfemper natisgaudeat slia trsbus, @ f aye names of bir thee chilozent were Pudentiana, Praxedes, both birgins , amp Nouatus, tho after the peath of Pudens their father ( tihich befell him in Caps 10 padocta)ninelled tofth their mother tt Vmbria, there thep ceafen not from time totimeto minifter tito the faints, Wnt toleaue this tmpertinent difcourfe, and proceed with mp purpofe, A find in the Chzonteles of Burton ( bnder the peare of @tace141.and time of Hadrian the emperour)that nine fcholers 02 clerkes of Granthao3 Granta(noip Cambridge) tucre baptifed in Writaine, andbecame preachers of the gofpell there,buttbether Taurinus bis Mop o2 clver oucr the congregation at orke (tho as 20 Vincentius fatth,toas erecuted about this time for bis faithfoere one of thentn2 not,as pet 3do not certeinlie 1>1° cap. find;but rather the contrarie, ohidis that he teas m9 Tourinus, Wataine at allbut Zpy/copus Ebroscenfis, for Bhich fuchas perceiue not the ealfie comuption of the fuo2d, map fone write Eboracen/is, ag certeinlic nine autho? out of thom Fallenge this anthoritie hath done before me, FFo2 Vincentius faith flat othertvife, and therefore the Ghronologie if it fpeake of ante Taurinus bifyop of Porke is to be refouned in that bebalfe. Djucrs other 3° alfo imbzaced the religion of Chait berte sealoufic before thefe men . Polubeit, all this nottuithftants ing , the glad tidings of the gofpell bad neuer free and open patlage bere, ontill the time of Lucius, in tibich the berie enimiesof the fv02d became the apa rent meanes (contrarie to their clone minds ) fohaue ff fet forth amongtt bs.Jfo2 Hhert Antoninus the empes rou had guertouta necree,that the Druiythseligtor Nonvius, Het the facraments there according to the rites of the Nicephotuslib2. churches of Afia and Greece,from fihence thep came notlong before bntothe countric of the Galles. Wi eap.4o. {yas fatth Malmefburie 10 3. befoxe Faganus and Dis Should cuerie tere be abolithed,Lucius the hing(Ghote s poke of Niceph.Cal. bere be funtteth thereof in this W. Malmef, MANE + Operepretinm etiamfuerst SimonemCana Galilee om this dio Lucius, bicanfe he knew it* tmpollible formar ttheofous fo liuclong ivithont anp religion at all;finallic finding sabeOeee de antig, : fum,guspropter-flagrantem in magisltrum(uum ardorem, [aii his Mobilitic ¢ fubtects btter enfmics fo the Romane vsline here bey mama, eaangeice reiper omnia cramZelotes cognominatus eS Douotid(far that they madefo many godsas theplitten, trp bic referresaccepit enimis calitiss aduententefpirityfantto, AeLyptinmCyrenem & A.ifricam,deinde Manritaniam @ Ly= bam omnem enangelium deprediCans‘percurriteandémane do= and therbnta being prichen forwardsbp fnch chaitttans phnarthe aed 4 Vita cp pani. a "( i counceil ConeERE * Thisis nawdid let foarth the gofpell amongit them. Dt thera: furname ts not perifhen ) toke abdutfe of his ming of Zelotes pou map read moze in the fecond 40 that twas belt tobe done, ¢ wrote in this bebalfe.And the common efometohaue the regiment enen of thett ditt ¢ dung) aurhozttte as iwere conuerfant about bint, to chofe the feruice of the true Gon tyat lineth for enev,rather than the Nanith Erinametiamadoccidentalem Oceanus infuldfque Brrtanniferuitudeof anp pagan idoll : be fullie refolucd tuith cas perfert. And this is the effect in a litle rote , af that thich J haue read at large in fundgzie tyriters, befine 50 himfelfein the end, to receiue and tmbeace the gofpell of Ghitt, Hefont allo tivo of his beft learned and.gtea: thefe tive here alledged,although it map twell be gathes redhat diners Writains tyereconuerted to the faith, before this firtic fonre of Chiff. iotwbeif, thereas fome write that thep liucd , and divellen in Wzitatne,it cannot as pet take amp abfolute bold in mpfudge: the Met could fadaut ; ) Tufcanus Apollo that ffoop int the called Gleffenburg 02 Glafenburie, an epitarh attire ed theretntois pofe fufficient. otwbeit, fith thefe things avenot of competent force to perfuaveall men, FZ Wwillad infetv, shat J haue read elfetbere of his arrtnall here. Fftrfé of all therefore pou hall nofe that he caine oucr info Beitaine, about the 64.affer Cyift, suber the perfecation began bnder Nero, at Gbich time Philip and dfuers of thegodlic being im JFrance ( the 23 Lualedecws forma?Romanam credevemc8 es ‘Ttalides poffunt, Atthides effefaam. ment, but rather that they tvere baptifen and remats feft philofoyhers to IXonre,onto Eleutherus thers bithop take peancy, annbis telts tele to te withan juterp, thete inthe 177. of Chait, not to promife any fubicdtt: Lucius opes on tobis fen ,thich then twas not required, but to fay (9 Pe With {uch as twere pricked in mind, Ads. 2. berle.3 7? counfetizas ‘uidfucienms viriPatres?S meanethat thep were fent to pnenticons bepevfectlic inftructed and With farther commiffion,fo ¢ not pretey niake ecarneft requeft tito himand the congregation the tonto, there,that a competentnumberof preachers might be 2atrie Who was a Wyitifthladie indeed , and not onelie ercel lentlie (ene in the Grekeand Latine tongs, but alfo © fent over from thence,by hole diligent anyife and tras uell, the foundation of the gofpell might fureite be lain With hir hulband highlie commended byS. Paule, as ouerall the postisnofthe Fle,ahich conteined his bing ene hauing had conuerfation and conference tvith Dome,accerding fo his mind. them at iome , fromthence he did twrife bis fecond When Eleutherus nderttodthefe things,hercfotcen The Pits eptifle puto Timothie,as % read. Df this ladie moze not alittle fox the great gamete,ahidy the 1.020 had te oven uer Martial fpeaketh,in reiotfing that bis poefies tere MHeived bpon this our Fle andcountrie . Afterwards vnto the cons tead alfo int Wzitaine , and onelie by hfe meanes, iho calling the bethzen togither , they agraed to ordeine, Romeby1 bled to cull out the finett ¢ honeffell of his epigrams even thofe tio for bithops, fom Lucius as pou hatte leuherus, end ferthem to bir frends for tokens, fateng after hed, cither in Worre,oz elfe-there . And of this fort ¥ : {uypofe Claudia Rufina the twife of Pudens to be one, this maner,as bimfelfc deth (et it dofprte: Dicitur On (Pros cantare Britannia Verte Furthermoze making mention of bir and hir (tue, he andeth thefe fwo2s : 2i.t1.Epig, i+ cls ca Rufina Britannis L habet ? heard,bad directed oner onto them. Finallie aiter they had thoroughlic catechtsed them , making general prater bute God and earnett fupplication for the gan fuccetfe ofthefe men,thep fent them home againe with no fimall charge, that they thould be diligent in their furiction,and carefull oucr the hocke cosmmnitted to nC cuties ee aeats aeeee a2 |
