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| and Treafures. Gregory, called thetwelfth, createdinSchifm, and not fully acknow- | 
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faith, amd more barren ef obfervation.» King Arganthenins, who reigned at € 
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of Afartyrdom. John the twenty third, Pope of Rome, fulfilled theninetieth year of bis 
Traveller, St. Pasl’s infeparable Companion, anda Phyfician) “Simeon the fon | 
of (leophas, called-the Brother of our’ Lord, and Bihop of jérxfalem, lived an hin. - 
dred and twenty years though he was cut {hort by’ Martyrdony Haftout m Hi, “arid 
conftant , and full of good works. Polycarpus » Difciple unto the “Apoftles sand 
Bithop of Smyrna, feemeth to have extended his‘ age to an hundred years and more’ | 
though he were alfo cut off by Martyrdom: a man of an hivl'miind, “of at heror. | 
eal patience, and unwearied with labours. Dyonifius etreopagita'y Contemporat 7 
to the Apoftle St..Pavi, lived ninety years : he was called the Bird: of Heaven - 
for his high flying Divinity, and was famous as well for his holy life as for ‘His 
Meditations. e4quélla and Préfcilla, ‘firlt St.Paul the Apoftle’s Hofts, Afterward | 
his Fellow-helpers , lived together in a happy and famous Wedlock at leaft to an } 
hundred years of age'a piece ; for they were both alive under Pope’ xi/Pas the firft: | 
a noble Pair,’ and prone to all kind of charity, whe amongft ‘other their’comn 
ferts (which nodoubt were great unto the firlt Founders of the Obarch ) had this, : 
added, to enjoy each other fo long in an happy marriage. St, Paz! the Hermste | 
lived an hundred and thirteen years ; now he lived ina Cave; his diet was'fo flender | 
and ftriét, that it was thought almoft impoffible to” fupport humane nature rhere- 
withal: he pafled his years onely in Meditations and Soliloquies; yet he was notilli- | 
terate or an Idiot, but learned. St. eAnthony, the firft Founder of sonks , or (as | 
fome will fave it) theReftorer onely, attained to an hundred and five years of age: | 
a man devout and contemplative, though not unfit for Civil affairs ; hist ife | 
was anftere and mortifying, notwithftanding he lived in a kind of clorious’ foli- i 
tude; and exercifed a command, for he had his «Monks under him. And befides, | 
many Chriftians and Philofophers came to vifit him asa living Image , from which | 
they parted not without fome adoration. St. eA thanafius exceeded the term of eight i 
years: a man of an invincible conftancy, commanding fame, ‘and not yielding | 
to Fortune: he was free towards the Great ones, with the People gracious and | 
acceptable, beaten and practifed to oppofitions, and in delivering himfelf from them 
{tout and wile. . St. Hierom, by the confent of moft Writers, exceeded nincty years of 
age 7 a ‘man powerful in his Pen,. and of a manlyEloquence, varioufly learned both 
in the Tongues and Sciences, alfo a Traveller, and that lived ftri€tly towards his old | 
age, in an eftate private, andnot dignified ; he bore highSpirits, and fhined far out of 
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The Popes of Rome are innumber tothis day two hundredfortyandane. Of fogreat | 
a number five onely have attained to the age of fourfcore years, or upwards. But in | 
many of the firft Popes their fullage was intercepted by the Prerogative and Crown | 
age : a man of an unquiet difpofition, and one that ftudied novelty: he altered ma- } 
ny things, fome tothe better, others onely to the new, a great accumulator of Riches | 
Icdged Pepe, died atninety years: of him, inrefpeét of his {hort Papacy, we firdno-. | 
thing to make'a judgment upon, Paul the third lived eighty years and one: a tempe- | 
rate man, and of a profound wifdom: he was Learned, an Aftrologer, and one that | 
tended his health carefully ; but, after the example of old Eid the Pricft, over-indul- 
gent to his Family. Pasl the fourth attained to theage of cighty three years: amanof, | 
an harth nature and fevere, of an haughty mind and imperious, prone to anger ; his f 
fpeech was cloquent and ready. Gregory the thirteenth fulfilled the like age of eighty : 
three years: anabfolutegoodman, found in mind and body, politick, temperate Ae 
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