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A85674	An historical anatomy of Christian melancholy, sympathetically set forth, in a threefold state of the soul. 1 Endued with grace, 2 ensnared in sin, 3 troubled in conscience. With a concluding meditation on the fourth verse of the ninth chapter of Saint John. / By Edmund Gregory, sometimes Bachelour of Arts in Trin. Coll. Oxon.	Gregory, Edmund, b. 1615 or 16.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1646 (1646)	Wing G1885; Thomason E1145_1; ESTC R40271	96,908	160

An HISTORICAL ANATOMY Of CHRISTIAN MELANCHOLY Sympathetically set forth In a threefold state of the soul 1 Endued with Grace 2 Ensnared in Sin 3 Troubled in Conscience With a Concluding MEDITATION On the Fourth Verse of the Ninth Chapter of Saint JOHN By EDMUND GREGORY sometimes Bachelour of Arts in Trin. Coll. Oxon. London Printed for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Prince's Arms in Pauls Church-yard 1646. EDMUNDI GREGORII VERA EFFIGIES AETATIS SUAE AN o TRICESIMO PRIMO AN o 1646. Even now I was not and ere long I must From what thou seest againe returne to Dust. Gaze not on this poor● earthly shade of mine But read the substance which is more Divine W. Marshall sculpsit The AUTHOR'● Brief Directions To the READER LEt me obtain loving Reader this favour that you take notice of these few Directions in the perusal of this little Book First that the main Rule of my thoughts in the compiling hereof hath been Experience I say The Experience out of divers particulars diligently according to my poor skill comprised together into one And truely if according to the Philosopher Experientia est optima Magistra Eperience be our best Teacher as also a chief guide in all our Divinity doubtlesse it is worth the labour seriously to mark it Yet since that what I have written is not the Experience of all men but of some for who is able to finde out all the secresie of but one heart much more of all hearts let it not I pray by any means offend you if you chance to meet with that thing which concurs not with the Experience and Motion of your own soul for I intend nothing herein as a positive Doctrine or an absolute Rule if any thing be generally true in all or most men be it so if not in those things which are strange to your soul let your Discretion be your better Direction for you must consider that like an Anatomist I have cut up as well the Brest as the Head and as well the Belly as the Brest I have equally let out the foul and deformed parts that are in Man or Mankinde as well as the fairer and better parts Here is perchance somewhat of all sorts of men and again something perchance which disagrees with most men Secondly for my expressions I have endeavoured to declare every particular herein in the fittest and most naturally-agreeing terms as neer as I could according to the lively sense of the Truth conceiving a congruity of speech to be the best eloquence shattering in also now and then an expression in Verse to the end the serious intention of your minde may the more pleasantly run on in reading for though my poor and humble Verses adde perhaps but little ornament to the matter yet since they do not at all interrupt the sense nor your thoughts with any long Parenthesis my hope is they may be delightful in their variety though they be not in their elegancy And whereas again I have cast my words into a sympathetical and fellow-feeling Mould the cause is Partly for that mine own experience gives me good reason for it and partly again for that I conceive Nihil humanani à me alienum No humane thing that belongs to Mankinde to be so strange unto me but that I may fitly sympathize and sensibly concur with it Saint Paul was all things unto all men to the Jews a Jew to the Gentiles a Gentile to the sinners a sinner that he might work the more effect and comfort in all Thirdly I shal earnestly desire if your time and ability may conveniently serve that you will adde your own Experimental Observations hereunto to the encreasing of this poor Book if God shall so give his blessing into a larger Volume for I could heartily wish that learned men would studie Themselves as well as their Books would more set forward in communicating their Experience I say the real Experience of their Hearts rather then the Imaginary notions of their Brains to the publike use for comfort and encrease of Knowledge unto others Lastly whereas I have laboured very much for Brevity knitting up all things short and close together to the end I might not be tedious unto you so that it may be dum brevis esse labore obscurus fio whilest that I strive to be brief I become obscure and the more dark to the apprehension of him that readeth My humble Request therefore is that you would bestowe if not a repetition at leastwise the more heed and deliberation in reading and as Elisha did in reviving the Widows Childe so let me beseech you to take this little Book up into your Chamber or Private Room to spread it before you and to stretch your self upon it to apply the inner shape and proportion of your hearts unto it and so by your Prayers unto God to desire that you may finde a soul and life in the reading of it that it may so animate in you that it be not as a dead and altogether-unprofitable thing which I also shall ever pray for to the utmost of my power And thus for the present I take my leave remaining Yours E. G. The Author's POEM to Himself on James 3. 17. IF thou my soul wouldst true Religion see Lo here in brief thou may'st resolved be The Wisdom that descendeth from above Is pure as saith S. Iames and full of Love Mercy and Peace it doth extend to all Without deceit and nothing partial The Head If sin be Folly Madnesse want of Wit The Righteous then are wis● and most discreet Wisedom If Christ our Wisedom came down from on hie All earthly knowledge is but vanitie The Eyes This Wisedom's pure and filleth us with light To trust in him who passeth humane sight Faith This Wisedom's pure and pu●ifi'th the minde From those dark works which make the Conscience blinde The Hands It seek●e● Peace it hateth to contend It 's gentle milde and loving to its friend Charity With it Forgivenesse easily is found In it Compassion doth to all abound The Feet And all this Good it freely doth impart Without a pa●tial p●oud o● grudging heart Good meaning Nor do●h Hypo●●isie these Vertues kill With by resp●cts or a Sinister will Here is Religion's Head its Eyes its Hands Here are those Feet on which it firmly stands 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ☞ E Coelo descendit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Know thy Self Ex tui Scientiâ fit Conscientia JER 17. 9. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O thou that knowest the hearts of all men Create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me And I saw the dead both great and small stand before God and the Books were opened and another Book was opened which is the Book of Life and the dead were judged of those things which were written in the Books