going into all yethe uration & made many especially them they knew

The Clergy also by this means soon became For besides that divers of them became Monks af Clergy–men became Monks it grew quickly into custome to elect Presbyters & Bishops out of this order of men most holy, & yethe a Pope AC 665 & b Emperors commanded that they should be elected thence: so hence forward the fathers of the Church (Athanasius Paphnutius, Spiridion, Iames of Nisibis, Eusebius of Emissa, Cæsaria, Cyril of Ierusalem, S Basilius Gregory Nazianzenus Ephram Syrus, Didymus et Basil, Naz Gregory of Nyssen, Epiphanus, Meletius & Flavian of Antioch, Theodorus of Tyre. Amphilochius of Iconium, Chrysostom, Hilary Eusebius Vercellensis, Hilary, Ambrose, Hilary, Paulinus Nolanus, Ephrem Syrus Didymus Alexandrinus, Macarius, Ierom, Ruffin, Cassian & many others) were monks & many of them (as Basil, Nazianzen Eusebius Vercellensis, Ambrose, Martin, D. Augustin, the founders of monkery in Asia, Thrace, Italy, Lombardy, France, Africa yethe monasteries out of wchwhich they filled their churches. And this was the original of the celibacy of the Clergy. For yethe Clergy about this time matrimony began to be prohibited to all the Clergy. For a Epiphanius in yethe year 374 wrote that where yethe Ecclesiastical canons were accurately observed those only who had no wives or absteined from them were admitted into yethe orders of Bishops Priests Deacons & Subdeacons: & that where Clergymen did get children it was through licentiousness & not by yethe authority of yethe Canon. And in the end of his another bb Epiph place that yethe Priesthood then consisted chiefly of order of virginsBachelors or if not of virginsBachelors certainly of Monks: if fit persons are not to be found amongst the Monks, then Priests are created use to be created out of those who abstein from their wives or after one marriage continue in widdowhood. Whence Ierome against Vigilantius said: What shall yethe Ch in his book against Vigilantius said of yethe Churches in general: What shall yethe Churches of the East do? What those of Egypt & of yethe Apostolic Sea wchwhich either takes Virgins for Clergimen or Monks those that leave their wives if they have any. And Chrysostom: The husband of one wife, not so that it should be now observed in the Churches: for it behoves yethe Priest to be altogether adorned wthwith chastity.Iob. So in a letter to H 385 forbids the ministers to converse wthwith their wives appointed the husbands having Council of Arelatam in that a married man should not be made a Presbyter that is abstinence from the wife yethe Monks was of a dark russet or black colour Clergy as many as were Monks ware black wchwhich ever since. For the bb Vide Baron an. 393 sect Clergy before were other colours like the people. This body was at first twofold; cc. In the life of Hilarion & the Preface to yethe life of Antony Antony planting one body headed by yethe Partriarch & clergy of the Diocess of Alexandria planting another in Syria headed by yethe Patriarch & clergy of the dioces of Antioch. Both these bodies began to be numerous in yethe reign of Constantius & from these two fountains monkery overflowed the world but yet became not of a so numerous in other regions as in these. For Palladius who visited yethe wilderness of Egypt in yethe reign of tells us that there were then as many monks in the wildnerness as people in yethe cities ten thousand in the single city Oxyrinchus. And its propbable that at this time there were almost as many in Syria & Mesopo within the Diocess of Antioch as in Egypt tho not in proportion to yethe people because long before when the life of Antony was not yet written Hilarion had so well filled yethe deserts of Syria that when he visited the Monasteries there dd Hieron. in vit. Hilarion d Hilarion in vita he had sometimes a train of 2000 Monks following him and left the wilderness to avoyd so great a multitude. In recconning these In recconing these two great bodies I re of Monks to bee headed by the Clergy of yethe two Diocesses of Egypt & yethe East I follow Ierome who who saith: As if yethe Clergy were any another thing other then the Monks & whatever is spoke against yethe Monks doth not redound upon yethe Clergy who are yethe fathers of yethe Monks. The dam̄mmage of yethe flock is the reproach of yethe Shepherd.e Hieron Epist 10.

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