CONTENTS.
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BOOK VII.—Pages 271—316. | ||
Chapter I.—The great wickedness of Decius and Gallus, | 271 | |
Chap. II.—The bishops of Rome at this time, | ib. | |
Chap. III.—Cyprian, and the bishops connected with him, maintained, that those who had turned from heretical error, should be baptized again, | 272 | |
Chap. IV.—The epistles that Dionysius wrote on this subject, | ib. | |
Chap. V.—The peace after the persecution, | 273 | |
Chap. VI.—The heresy of Sabellius, | 274 | |
Chap. VII.—The execrable error of the heretics, the divine vision of Dionysius, and the ecclesiastical canon given to him, | ib. | |
Chap. VIII.—The heterodoxy of Novatus, | 276 | |
Chap. IX.—The ungodly baptism of heretics, | ib. | |
Chap. X.—Valerian, and the persecution raised by him, | 278 | |
Chap. XI.—The sufferings of Dionysius, and those in Egypt, | 280 | |
Chap. XII.—The martyrs of Cesarea of Palestine, | 285 | |
Chap. XIII.—The peace after Gallienus, | ib. | |
Chap. XIV.—The bishops that flourished at this time, | 286 | |
Chap. XV.—The martyrdom of Marinus at Cesarea, | ib. | |
Chap. XVI.—Some account of Astyrius, | 287 | |
Chap. XVII.—The miracles of our Saviour at Paneas, | 288 | |
Chap. XVIII.—The statue erected by a woman having an hemorrhage, | ib. | |
Chap. XIX.—The episcopal seat of James, | 289 | |
Chap. XX.—The epistles of Dionysius on festivals, in which he gives the canon of the passover, | 290 | |
Chap. XXI.—The events that occurred at Alexandria, | ib. | |
Chap. XXII.—The pestilence which then prevailed, | 292 | |
Chap. XXIII.—The reign of Gallienus, | 294 | |
Chap. XXIV.—Of Nepos, and his schism, | 295 | |
Chap. XXV.—The apocalypse of John, | 297 | |
Chap. XXVI.—The epistles of Dionysius, | 301 | |
Chap. XX VII.—Paul of Samosata, and the heresy introduced by him at Antioch, | 302 | |
Chap. XXVIII.—The different bishops then distinguished, | ib. | |
Chap. XXIX.—Paul refuted by a certain Malchion, one of the presbyters who had been a sophist, was deposed, | 303 | |
Chap. XXX.—The epistle of the council against Paul, | 304 | |
Chap. XXXI.—The error of the Manichees, which commenced at this time, | 309 | |
Chap. XXXII.—Of those distinguished ecclesiastical writers of our own day, and which of them survived until the destruction of the churches, | 310 | |
BOOK VIII.—Pages 317—348. | ||
Chapter I.—The events that preceded the persecution in our times, | 317 | |
Chap. II.—The demolition of the churches, | 319 | |
Chap. III.—The nature of the conflicts endured by the martyrs, in the persecution, | 320 | |
Chap. IV.—The illustrious martyrs of God, who filled every place with the celebrity of their name, and obtained various crowns of martyrdom for their piety, | 321 | |
Chap. V.—The affairs of Nicomedia, | 322 | |
Chap. VI.—Those that were in the palace, | 323 | |
Chap. VII.—The Egyptians that suffered in Phœnice, | 325 | |
Chap. VIII.—Those who suffered in Egypt, | 327 | |
Chap. IX.—Of those in Thebais, | ib. | |
Chap. X.—The writings of Phileas, which give an account of the martyrs of Alexandria, | 329 | |
Chap. XI.—The events in Phrygia, | 332 | |
Chap. XII.—Of many others, both men and women, who suffered in different ways, | 333 | |
Chap. XIII.—Those prelates that evinced the reality of the religion they proclaimed with their blood, | 335 |