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An Inquiry Into the Heresies of the Apostolic Age
An Inquiry Into the Heresies of the Apostolic Age Author:Edward Burton Subtitle: In Eight Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford, in the Year Mdccxxix., at the Lecture Founded by the Rev. John Bampton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1829 Original Publisher: Printed by S. Collingwood, for the author, sold by J. Parker Subjects: Heresies, Christian Heretics, Christian ... more » Heresies and heretics Religion / Christianity / History Religion / History Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christianity / General Religion / Christian Church / History Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LECTURE II. Col. ii. 8. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. I OBSERVED in the former Lecture, that all the Fathers speak of heresies infesting the Church in the lifetime of the apostles6. We shall have occasion to consider hereafter, what is asserted with one consent by all of them, that Simon Magus was the parent and founder of all heresies. The testimony is equally strong, that Simon's opinions were taken up by Menander, who was succeeded in time by two disciples, Basilides and Saturninus. These men lived in the former part of the second century: at which time, or not long after, two other persons, Marcion and Valentinus, still more notorious for the extravagance of their opinions, were at the head of extensive sects. The doctrines of all these persons are stated to have had many points of resemblance: and those of Marcion and Valentinus are as clearly ascertained, as any other which the history of philosophy has preserved. Consequently if the pedigree be rightly traced, which deduces their opinions from the School of Simon Magus, we are ...« less