A DISCOURSE Concerning the SALVATION OF RICH MEN. Written Originally in GREEK, By Clemens Alexandrinus. Done into ENGLISH, by F. Jones. LONDON: Printed and Sold by Philip Gwillim in 110. K. 193 4 A PREFACE TO THE READER. [This Preface was before the Book in Latin.] F OR as much as that excellent little Book of Clemens Alexandrinus, a very learned and antient Father, concerning the Salvation of Rich Men, hath been loft for many Ages; but at last, by the means of Michael Geiflerus, was publish'd under the Name of Origen's, in a place quite beside the purpose, (namely, in his Commentary upon the Prophecy of Jeremiah,) and, as if it had not been publish'd to this Day, it came to the Knowledge but of few: A 2 : と أ few: And what is more, being put in by Cambefafianus, in his Auction of the Greek Fathers, it still lay hid amongst a parcel of Modern Writers, amongst whom it was put up: I hoped that it would not be an unacceptable thing to the Learned, if I should make it come abroad at last under a better, that is, its own Authority. The Weight and Beauty of the Writing doth not only teftifie that the Work is genuine, but the Testimony also of Eufebius Casarienfis, who in his Ecclesiastical History often commends the Book, and in his Third Book, Chap. 23. hath transcribed whole Pages of it; which were indeed in the Vatican Manuscript (to which Copy alone, for any thing we know hitherto, we owe the Preservation of this Work) loosely to be met withal, but were happily set in order out of Eufebius. Hierom makes mention of this Tract in his Catalogue: Yea, and what is more, Photius also not only commends it, but hath set the beginning of it in his Library Code the Hundred and Eleventh. Eleventh. So that there is no place left to doubt of the State and Author of the Book. In the mean time, I have not rejected the last Paragraph, ὦ διὰ τὸ παι Dès, &c. (that concerning the young Man) added by a Bookseller, who fold this Tract for an Homily of Origen's, and therefore thought well to end it with a folemn Conclufion. I have observed elsewhere such things done, by this fort of Men, in some fmall Works that were Cyprian's. It will not be needless perhaps to add, that there was some Gaps, or empty Places in the Copy, which would puzzle the Reader, that we have fill'd up with the Addition of fome few Words; but, left those things we have added should be mix'd with the Genuine, we have diftinguish'd them with a Crotchet, [thus.] Whereas this Tract alone would not have been big enough for Binding, I thought fit to gather the Fragments of this excellent Writer, that A 3 were |