Antiquitates christianæ: or, The history of the life and death of the holy Jesus : as also the lives, acts and martyrdoms of his Apostles. In two parts. The first part, containing The life of Christ, written by Jer. Taylor, late Lord Bishop of Down and Connor. The second, containing The lives of the Apostles, with an enumeration, and some brief remarks upon their first successours in the five great apostolical churches, by William Cave, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty. By whom also is added an apparatus, or discourse introductory to the whole work, concerning the three great dispensations of the church, patriarchal, Mosaical, and evangelical.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.

Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667. Great exemplar of sanctity and holy life according to the Christian institution, author.

Cave, William, 1637-1713. Antiquitates apostolicae, or, The lives, acts and martyrdoms of the holy apostles of our Saviour, author.

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Jesus Christ.

Fathers of the church.

Apostles--Biography.

Bible. N.T--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Apostles--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Apostles.

Fathers of the church--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Local Subjects:

Bible. N.T--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (10 unnumbered pages, LI pages, 11 unnumbered pages, XXVI, vii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 432 pages, 12 unnumbered pages; 8 unnumbered pages, xiv, 162, 169-188 pages, 21 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations (portraits)

Edition:

The seventh edition.

Other Title:

Antiquitates christianæ

History of the life and death of the Holy Jesus.

Life of our blessed lord and saviour Jesus Christ.

Lives, acts and martyrdoms of the holy apostles of our Saviour.

Apparatus or discourse introductory to the whole work, concerning the three great dispensations of the church, patriarchal, Mosaical, and evangelical.

Place of Publication:

London : printed by J. Macock, and M. Flesher, for R. Royston, bookseller to His most Sacred Majesty, anno Dom. MDCLXXXIV. [1684]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

With an additional engraved title page following the frontispiece, counted in the preliminary pagination.

"The history of the life and death of the holy Jesus" is in three parts, each with a separate dated title page, parts 2 and 3 dated 1683; the whole preceded by a general title page reading in part, "The great exemplar of sanctity and holy life according to the Christian institution; .. The seventh edition." Part 1 has added caption title on pages 1: The life of our blessed lord and saviour Jesus Christ.

"Antiquitates Apostolicæ or, The lives, acts and martyrdoms of the holy Apostles of our Saviour", by William Cave, has separate pagination and register and a separate title page dated 1684, lacking an edition statement.

"An apparatus or discourse introductory to the whole work", by William Cave, is headed by a caption title on pages I.

Each book includes an imprimatur dated Feb. 25. 1674.

"The great exemplar of sanctity and holy life" includes a frontispiece portrait of Jeremy Taylor, a preface entitled, "An exhortation to the imitation of the life of Christ", and an index.

The text of "Antiquitates Apostolicæ" is complete despite the pagination.

Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1939:17) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing (2nd edition) T288.

Related Work:

Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667. Great exemplar of sanctity and holy life according to the Christian institution, author.

Cave, William, 1637-1713. Antiquitates apostolicae, or, The lives, acts and martyrdoms of the holy apostles of our Saviour, author.

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