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THE
PRINCIPAL FACTS
OF THE
NEW TESTAMENT
CONFIRMED, &c.
PART II. CHAP. XLIV.
CYPRIAN, BISHOP OF CARTHAGE.
I. His history, and character, and testimonies to him. II.
His icorhs. III. His testimony to the books of the New
Testament ; and Jirst, of the J'oiir angels. lY. Oj' the
Acts oj' the Apostles. V. Of St. PauVs thirteen epistles.
VI. Of the epistle to the Hebrews. VII. Of the catholic
epistles. VIII. Of the Revelation. IX. RespectJ'or the
scriptures. X. General titles and divisions oJ' the scriptures.
XI. OJ' Christian apocryphal writings. XII.
OJ" Jewish apocryphal icritings. XIII. The su)7i of his
testimony.
The account which St. Jerom has given of St. Cypriaji,
in his book of Illusti'ious Men, is but short. It is to this
purpose :
' Cyprian^ of Africa first taught rhetoric with
' great applause. Afterwards, being- converted to chris-
' tianity by a presbyter named Cfecilius, whose name he also
' took, he gave all his estate to the poor ; and after no long
* Cyprianus Afer, primum gloriose rhetoricam docuit: exiade, suadente
presbytero Caecilio, a quo et cognomentum sortitus est, Christianus factus,
omnem substantiam siiain paupenbus erogavit ; ac post non multum temporis
electus in presbj-terum, etiam episcopus Carthaginiensis constitutiis est. Hujus
ingenii superfiuum est indicem texere, ciun sole clariora sint ejus opera. Passu-s
est sub Valeriano et Gallieno principibus, persecutioue octava, eodem die quo^
Romae Cornelius, sed non eodem anno. De V. I. cap. 67.
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