public, for the observance of annual thanksgivings. The ensuing States were noted, as complying with such a custom in the years which succeed them:-Kentucky, 1842; Georgia, 1843; Missouri and Maryland, 1844; Illinois, 1845; Louisiana, 1846; Delaware, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Tennessee, Iowa, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Florida, 1847. So did the Territory of Oregon in the year last named. The cities of Charleston, S. C., Savannah, Mobile, and Washington kept a similar festival, 1845. In 1851, there were not more than three out of our thirty States, who failed to imitate the fathers of New England in so pleasant and desirable a practice. Having thus travelled over the diversified course of our inquiry, we are reminded of the long-continued customs, which originated in religious opinions of various shades and tendencies. Whatever be the forms or times of worship associated with these customs, so sacred a service-if dutifully performed-is alike beneficial in promoting humility for our sinful deficiencies, and gratitute for our numerous mercies; in exalting the mind to God while an inhabitant of earth, and the soul to heaven, when disenthralled from its clayey tenement. Blessed indeed are they who so commune with Him in public, as to be partakers of his sanctifying presence in private, and, hereafter, to be filled with His fulness for ever. 600 CHAPTER V. OF THE PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANS IN THEIR RELATIONS TO 11. Of their intercourse with society, p. 81. 12. Of their loyalty to government, p. 82. 1. Justin Mar. Apol. c. 23. 2. Apol. c. 42. 3. Apol. c. 33. 4. Apol. c. 39. 5. Apol. c. 30. 13. Of their military service, p. 83. 1. Apol. c. 5; Ad Scap. c. 2. 2. Euseb. Eccl. Hist. v. c. 5. 3. Cave's Prim. Christ. parti. p. 26. 14. Of their honesty and integrity as good citizens, 1. Cited by Cave, Prim. Christ. part iii. c. 1. 2. Apol. c. 8. 3. Ad Scap. c. 2. 4. 4. Athanag. A. D. 170; Apol. c. 2. 5. Tertull. Apol. c. 44. 6. Minucius Felix, Apol. c. 35, A. D. 208. 15. Of unlawful occupations, p. 85. 1. De Idol. c. 6. 2. Tertull. Apol. c. 30. 33. 35. 3. Ad Scap. c. 2. 4. Ep. 61. ad Ephichratium. 17. Of undesigned encomiums from enemies, p. 89. 2. Cited by Neander and Bingham from Ep. 49. CHAPTER VI. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE CHURCH AND THE PECU- sertationes xii. juris ecclesiastici antiqui. Lips. 2. Tacitus, Annal. lib. xv. c. 44. 5. Chrysost. Hom. 46. tom. i. p. 532. ed. Franc. 7. Epiphanius Hæres. 42. p. 366. ed. Pet. 8. Clemens Alex. Strom. 7. p. 748. Compare Pear- 9. Tertull. De Bap. c. 1; De Resurr. c. 52: Optat. 12. Of Names of reproach and derision conferred 1. Suetonius, Vita Nero. c. 16. 2. Epiphan. Hæres. 29. n. 1. 9; Hieron. Comment. 3. Greg. Naz. Orat. 3. p. 81. Socrat. h. e. 3. c. 12. 5. Hieron. ep. 10. ad. Fur. 6. Orig. contra Cels. lib. i. p. 30; Arnob. Disputat. 7. Orig. contra Celsum, lib. v. p. 272 et seq.; Ter- 8. Tertull. Apologet. c. 50. 9. Lactantius, Instit. 9. 10. Euseb. h. e. lib. iv. c. 15; Justin Mar. Apol. i. 1. Of the Priesthood of the Primitive Christians, 12. Tertull. Apol. c. 16; Ad Nat. 1. 7. 12; August. p. 91. 1. Hist. Torrey's trans. vol. i. 2. Dial. Tryph. 355. 3. De Orat. c. 28. 4. De Monog. c. 7. 5. Exhortate ad Cast. c. 7. p. 180. 6. Comp. Denkwürdigkeiten. i. 292 et seq.; Planck, 14. Of the independence of the Church, p. 95. 15. Of Presbyters, Elders, Bishops, p. 95. 1. Bellermann's Versuch über die Gemmen der 2 Der Lehre. von den Pensiri Christi. 3. Kestner's Agape. Jena. 1819. 8. u. Zugabe, S. 556 et seq. 14. Of the baptized, p. 109. 1. Cyril, Hierosol. Procatech. et Catech. mystagog. 2. S. Concil. Ancyr. c. 4.5; Dionys. Areop. de Hier. 3. Böhmer, Jus. Eccl. Protest. tom. i. p. 269 et seq. 5. Apost. and Prim. Ch. c. 4. elections by the Ch. 6. Clem. ad Con. c. 54. Comp. c. 44. 5. Of Ascetics, Coenobites, Monks, Fraternities, 1. Jerome, Vit. S. Paul, Ep. ad Paul. de instit. 2. Cyp. Ep. 62. al. 4. ad Pompon. 8. Assemani, Bibl. Or. tom. iii. part ii. p. 857. tom. 4. Cod. Theodos. lib. xi. tit. 30, 1. 57. 5. Socrat. h. e. lib. iv. c. 23. 6. Assemani, Bibl. Or. tom. iii. part ii. p. 857. 7. Regul. S. Bened. c. i. 10. Clemens Alex. tr. quis. div. salv. n. 36. 8. Bingham's Ant. bk. viii. sec. 5. 9. Euseb. h. e. vi. c. 11. 12. Sozomen, h. e. vi. c. 33; Evagr. i. c. 21. 15. Bingham, bk. viii. sec. 13; Mosheim, vol. iv.; 17. Of Catechumens, p. 117. 1. Tertull. De Bap. c. 18; Augustin, Confess. lib. 2. Augustin, Confess. lib. xii. c. 6. Ep. 147. c. 52; 3. Constitut. Apostol. lib. viii. c. 32. 5. Agath. c. 34. a. D. 506. 6. Cyril of Jerusalem, Cateches. 1. n. 5; Jerome, 7. Socrates, h. e. lib. vii. c. 30; Basil M. Ep. 186; 8. Balsamon, not. in Concil. Neocæsar. c. 5; Cave, 9. Suicer, Thesaurus. 10. Maldonatus, De Bap. c. i. p. 78 et seq. c. 5. 13. Marci. Vita Porphyrii, in Baronii. Annal. ad a. 14. Edm. Martene, De Antiq. Eccl. vit. tom. i. 26 15. Conc. Nice. c. 14; liberit. c. 11. 16. Cyp. ep. 73. 57; Euseb. h. e. vi. 4; August. De 17. August. De peccator. merit. lib. ii. c. 26; lib. i. 18. Bingham, bk. x. sec. 16; Bona, Rer. Liturg. lib. 18. Of Energumens, or Demoniacs, p. 124. 3. Justin Mar. ii. c. 6. ejusd. dial. cum Tryphone 1. Justin Mar. Apolog. ii.; Euseb. h. e. vi. c. 3. 8. 2. Euseb. Vit. Const. lib. ii. c. 2; Hist. Eccl. lib. 3. Comment. in Phil. i. 1; 1 Tim. iii. 1. 4. Cyp. ep. 55. 69. 42; August. in Ps. xlv. 16. 5. Tobit, vi. 14; Lib. Enoch. in Grabe, Spicil. i. p. 6. De Pudicit. c. 13. 7. Ep. 3. Comp. Euseb. e. h. c. 7. 8. Schröckh's K. Gesch. Th. viii. s. 124; Th. xvii. 11. Constitut. Apost. lib. viii. c. 12. 13 et seq. 5. Concil. Antioch. c. 7; Sardic. c. 6. 8. Hieron. Rubei. Hist. Ravennat. lib. 4. p. 209. 16. Of Presbyters or Elders, p. 148. 1. Apost. and Prim. Ch. c. vi. p. 125–245. 3. Clem. of Alex. Stromat. lib. vii. 4. Institut. Juris. Canon. lib. i. Tit. 21. § 3. 6. Concil. Carthag. 4. c. 3. 4; Constit. Eccl. Alex. 7. Chrysost. de Sacerd. lib. iii. c. 1-6. c. 4; Homil. 8. Constitut. Ap. 8. c. 9. 10. 11; Chrysost. tom. ii. 9. Cyp. ep. 33. (al 38.) 6. (al 14.) 46. (al 49.) 24. (al 10. Euseb. e. h. lib. vi. c. 43. vii. c. 28. 30; Concil. 11. Leo. M. Epist. 92. c. 1. 13. Concil. Neocæsar. c. 13. 14. Socrat. Hist. Eccl. lib. vi. c. 9. 15. Sozomen. h. e. lib. viii. c. 12. 16. Ep. 4. ad Rustic. 17. Orat. 20; Concil. Chalcedon. c. 14; Leon. M. 18. Codin. de Offic. M. Eccl 19. Cyp. Epist. 6. 14. 23; Epiph. Hæres. 57. no. 1. 20. Socrates. h. e. vi. 9. comp. Sozomenus, Hist. 21. Böhmer's Alterthums. i. p. 252. 17. Of Ruling Elders, p. 161. 1. Tertull. Apol. c. 39. 3. Cyp. Ep. 24. ad Clerum. 4. Euseb. Eccl. Hist. 7. c. 24. 5. August. Epist. 78. al. 137; Com. 2. in Ps. 36. 18. Of Deacons, p. 163. 1. De Rebus Christianis ante Const. M. p. 118. 2. Comment. in Act. Apost. c. vi. 3. Neander, Gesch. Pflautz. Kirch. i. s. 41. 46. 4. Vgl. Hienrick's Ep. ad Timoth. p. 15. p. 55-57. 6. Ziegler de Diaconis; Thomassin, Binterim, etc. 9. Concil. Carthag. iv. c. 37. 10. Agath. c. 16. 17; Tolet. iv. c. 89; Arelat. iii. c. 1; 11. Siegel's Handbuch. i. p. 142 et seq. comp. Au- 12. Sozom. lib. vii. c. 19; Alexand. ep. Enegeb. ap. 13. Euseb. Hist. lib. vi. 43. 14. Sozomen. Eccl. Hist. lib. vii. c. 43. 16. Constitut. Apost. viii. c. 28; Concil. Nic. c. 18; 17. Constitut. Apost. viii. c. 18; Sozom. Eccl. Hist. 18. Apol. i. (al ii.) 2 65. p. 220. ed Oberth. 19. Constitut. Apost. viii. c. 18. 20. Cyp. ep. 9. (al 16.) p. 37; Hieron. Comment. in 21. August. quæst. 5. et N. T. quæst. 6. 22. Constitut. Apost. ii. c. 57; Hieron. ep. 57; Con- cil. Vasense. ii. c. 2. 23. Sozom. h. e. lib. vii. c. 19. 24. Constitut. Apost. viii. c. 5. 6. 10; Chrysost. 25. Comment. in Ephes. c. iv. 26. Tertull. de Bap. c. 17; Cyril. Hieros. Catech. 27. Constitut. Apost. ii. c. 44. 29. Apost. Const. lib. iii. c. 19. 19. Of Deaconesses, p. 171. 1. Tertull. de Veland. Virgin. c. 9; Constit. Apost. 2. Sozom. Hist. Eccl. lib. viii. c. 9; Concil. Chalce- 3. Tertull. de Veland. Virgin. c. 9. 4. Constit. Apost. lib. vi. c. 18; Epiphanius, ex- 5. Clemens Alex. Strom. 7. 395. 6. Constit. Apost. lib. viii. c. 19; Concil. Chalce- 7. Concil. Nic. c. 19; Laodic. c. 11. 8. Constitut. Apost. lib. viii. c. 28. lib. ii. c. 26. 57. 9. Tertull. De Bap. 17. 10. De Virg. vel. c. 9. 11. Chrysost. De Sacerd. lib. ii. 12. Constitut. Apost. lib. iii. c. 9. 10. Of Archdeacons, p. 174. 1. Theodoret. Hist. Eccl. lib. i. c. 26. 2. Hier. Comment. Ezech. 48. Opp. tom. v. 479. 3. Photii. Bibl. cod. 182. tom. i. p. 127; cod. 225. 4. Concil. Aurel. iv. c. 26; Chalced. act. 10. 5. Hincmar. Rhem. Capit. ad Gunethar et Odelph 7. Vgl. Lampert. Hist. Metens. lib. iv. c. 95; Con- 11. Of Subdeacons, p. 177. 1. Ep. 20. 29. 34. 35. 40. 78. 79. 2. Baumgarten Erlaut. d. ch. Alterth. s. 123; Con- 3. Basil M. Ep. Can. 51; Concil. Carth. iv. c. 5. 5. Constit. Apost. viii. c. 11; Concil. Laodic. 21. 29. CHAPTER IX. OF THE INFERIOR ORDERS OF THE CLERGY, SUBORDI- 1. Of Readers, p. 179. 1. Cyp. ep. 24. al 29. ep. 33. al 38: 2. Socrat. h. e. lib. iii. c. 1; Sozomen. h. e. lib. v. 3. Apost. Constit. viii. c. 22. 4. Chrysost. Hom. in John xxviii. 2. Of Precentors, Singers, p. 182. 1. Concil. Laodic. c. 16. 59. 17; Rat. Div. Offic. lib. 2. Bingham's Antiq. bk. iii. c. 7; Siegel, Hand- 3. Justin, Novell. 3. c. 1. 4. Comp. c. xvi. and Prim. Ch. c. xii. 13. Of Acolyths, Acolythists, or Acolytes, p. 184. 1. Vit. Constit. M. lib. iii. c. 8; Concil. Carthag. 4. 2. Concil. Carthag. 4. c. 6. 3. Cyp. Epis. 78. 79. 14. Of Ostiarii, or Doorkeepers, p. 185. 1. Alcuinus, de Div. Opp. p. 269; Stat. Can. Cler. 2. Binterim. s. 311. 15. Of the subordinate Servants of the Church and 1. Epiphan. Exposit. Fid. c. 21. 4. Justin Novell. 2. 3. 49. 5. Cod. Justin. lib. i. lit. 2. 1. 4. xi. lit. 17; Cod. Theo- 6. Socrat. h. c. lib. vii. c. 22. 7. Cod. Theodos. lib. xvi. tit. 2. 1. 42. 43; Cod. Jus 1. Euseb. h. e. lib. vi. c. 26; Socrat. h. e. lib. vi. c. 2. Tertull. ad Scapul. c. 4; Cyp. ep. 12. 3. Euseb. h. e. lib. vii. c. 29; Socrat. h. e. lib. ii. e. 10. 34. 5. Goar. ad Codin. p. 5. 12. 6. Hincman Rhemensis. ad Proceres Regni. c. 12; 7. S. Cedreni. Hist. 536. 593. 602. 624; Goari Præf. |