OR, THE RELIGION OF THE ANCIENT CHRISTIANS IN THE FIRST AGES OF THE GOSPEL. TO WHICH ARE ADded, AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF PAGANISM UNDER THE FIRST CHRISTIAN EMPERORS; AND THE LIVES OF JUSTIN MARTYR AND ST. CYPRIAN. BY WILLIAM CAVE, D.D. IN TWO VOLS. Ουκ ἐν λόγοις, ἀλλ ̓ ἐν ἔργοις τὰ τῆς ἡμετέρας Just. Mart. Parænes. ad Græc. p. 33. Nos non habitu Sapientiam, sed mente præferimus: Minuc. Fel. Dial. pag. 31. WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY, AND NOTES, BY THE REV. WM. TROLLOPE, M.A. VICAR OF GREAT WIGSTON, LEICESTERSHIRE; AND LATE ONE OF THE CLASSICAL MASTERS OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL. VOL. II. LONDON: John Hatchard and Son, Piccadilly; WHITTAKER & CO. AVE-MARIA LANE; SIMPKIN & MARSHALL, MDCCCXXXV. PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY. PART II. CONTINUED. CHAPTER VI. Of their Readiness and Constancy in professing their Religion. WHEN our blessed Saviour sent out his disciples to preach the Gospel, he acquainted them with the difficulties that were like to attend their message, but withal bad them arm themselves with constancy and resolution, and not to regard the scoffs and reproaches, the miseries and sufferings that might fall upon them not to fear them that could only kill the body,' but to make a free and bold confession of his name before the world, and cheerfully to take up their cross and follow him." St. Paul, though himself then in chains at Rome, exhorts the Christians to stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the Gospel, being in nothing terrified by their adversaries, it being given them on the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake," 6 1 Matt. x. 28, 38; xvi. 24; Luke, ix. 23; xii. 4. VOL. II. B 2 |