Asceticks, or, The heroick piety & virtue of the ancient Christian anchorets and coenobites. Part I exemplary asceticks.
- Title
- Asceticks, or, The heroick piety & virtue of the ancient Christian anchorets and coenobites. Part I exemplary asceticks.
- Author
- Socrates Christianus, d. 1706.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for the authour,
- 1696.
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- Subject terms
- Asceticism -- Early works to 1800.
- Christian life.
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"Asceticks, or, The heroick piety & virtue of the ancient Christian anchorets and coenobites. Part I exemplary asceticks." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61420.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER.
- THE Beginning and Progress OF Contemplative Living, AND Religious Societies.
- OF THE ESSEANS, OUT OF JOSEPHUS.
- OF THE ESSEANS, OUT OF PHILO.
- OF THE THERAPEUTS, OUT OF PHILO.
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The Judgment and Observations of Eusebius,Bishop of Caesarea, (in his Eccl. Hist.l. 2.c. 16.)and other Ancient Writers,concerning Philo's Book of the Therapeuts,and that they were Christians.-
Epiphanius,
Bishop of Cyprus,concerning the same, Har. 29. § 5. -
St. Hieromconcerning the same, in his Book de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis. -
Johannes Cassianus
concerning the same, lib. 2. de Institut.cap. 5. -
Sozomen
concerning the same, 1 Hist. Eccl.c. 12. -
This of St. HIEROMbeing omitted in its proper place, (pag. 46.)it was thought fit to insert it here.
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Epiphanius,
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Of the Ancient MONKS of Egypt, And their Original; A
Relation of Piammon,an An∣cient EgyptianAbbot, and a Presbyteror Priestof great Grace and Virtue, even to the doing of Miracles, Cassian.Coll. 18.cap. 4. -
The Directionof Piammon,to some Foreiners, who came to his Monastery. -
An Excellent Exhortation of Pi∣nuphiusto a Novice, upon his Admittance into his Monastery. -
The Advice of Moses,an Ancient Egyptian Abbot,for the ob∣taining true Discretion. -
The Instructionof the Ancient Egyptian Abbot, Nestero,concerning Spiritual Know∣ledge,Cass. Coll. 14. -
Abbot Moses,
concerning the Endand Scopeof a Mo∣nastick Life,Cassian. Coll. 1. -
Abbot Daniel,
concerning the triple Stateof Souls,Cass. Coll. 4.cap. 19. -
Abbot Isaac,
concerning PRAYER,Cass. Col. 9. -
Abbot Theodore,
concerning the right Knowledgeof the Scriptures,Cassian. lib. 5. -
Abbot Serapion
of Discre∣tion,Cass. Coll. 2.cap. 11. -
Abbot Cheremon,
concerning the Wonderful things which the Lord doth, in a special man∣ner, operate in his Saints, Cass. Coll. 12. cap. 12. -
St. Gregory Nazianzen,con∣cerning the Livesand Exer∣cisesof MONKSin his time. -
St. Gregory Nazianzen,con∣cerning Divine Contem∣plation.Orat. 42. -
St. Austinconcerning the same.
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