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A91895	Endoxa, or, Some probable inquiries into truth, both divine and humane: together with a stone to the altar: or, short disquisitions on a few difficult places of Scripture; as also, a calm ventilation of Pseudo-doxia epidemica. / By John Robinson, Dr. of Physick. Translated and augmented by the author.; Endoxa. English	Robinson, John, M.D.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1700; Thomason E1821_1; ESTC R203377	61,732	159

are conferred upon the place as glory holinesse c. These titles did indeed in some measure and for a certain time befit the Temple at Jerusalem because this sole place God had assigned for his solemn Worship But the Vaile being rent any place of service so it were in truth and spirit was agreeable unto him John 4. which hath of late made a just distinction between a meeting Templum quod teneat populum people and house But to the thing There being several opinions concerning a Church both ancient and modern I will endeavour what may be to build upon such general concessa drawn from Sacred page or reason as whereby the truth may be most manifest That God had a Church that is a selected company out of the World from Cain's time shall have unto the end is undeniable among all professing Christianity First in Families as in Noah Melchizedeck Abraham afterward in the Nation of the Iews and now under the Gospel dispersed throughout the face of the earth This Church as it is taken for an Universall Congregatum or Collective are all the believers past present and in some sense to come The Jews Gods elder daughter did not disdain to call the Church of the Gentiles their younger Sister though without breasts i. e. the sincere milk of the Word yea yet unborn Cant. 8. 8. This may be called as vulgarly it is the Universall or Catholick Church out of For which who prayeth prayeth for the dead which there is no salvation And of this many have been and are amongst the Pagaus Turks and remotest Hereticks saved by a way unknown to us as little Children are said to believe Math. 18. 6. i. e. onely passively having the root though not the form These hidden things are beyond the reach of any Ecclesiastical Consistory But that there are particular Churches and joyned into bodyes is past all controversie Now that the way of gathering of them as well as ruling is in a determinate manner unalterably set down either in the heart of man which none can averre or in the holy word by God himself let them especially look to this who urge an uniforme discipline upon all Churches might be gathered thus A Prince demanding obedience of his Subjects must needs set down positive Laws unalterable but by himself and not leave it to their prudentiall change Where When and How to obey This is a clear dictate of reason which God doth not ordinarily contradict Thus did Adam Noah Abraham before the written-Scripture teach their Families by the primmer of divine Traditions Not that every one by Enthusiasm was immediately inspired the teaching of their Children else had been frustraneous which God and Nature abhorreth Afterward God himself gave Moses a perfect pattern of every particular thing in the Tabernacle even unto the smallest bagatello's from the which he might not warp an Inch which did bind the Children of Israel immutably unto the time of Salomon who likewise did not in the least deviate from the expresse command of God in the meanest punctillo Hereunto were the Iews obliged untill Christ's time And what the Pharisees did in the worship of God either omit adde or alter was listed among the traditions of men and so rejected as spurious And is it reason that after Christs comming it should be left to prudence of man either Prince or Church to vary any way of worship of God according to the mutability of their own discretion The whole stream of both Testaments run irresistably this way God menaceth judgments to the Iews because their fear towards him was taught by the precepts of men Isa 29. 13. And the Temple speaking of Christian Churches is exactly measured by John Revel 11. which is far wide from any prudentiall way or which prudence importeth any alteration upon occurrences Moreover the Author to the Hebrews doth expresly teach the faithfulnesse of Christ as a Son above Moses as a Servant in setting down every particular concerning the ordering of his House which is the Church which no earthly power can or ought to change or silence the publishing of it but every one is bound faithfully to submit unto and in his place to divulge He is bound I mean in foro divino That God did at any time change the externall garbe of his Church was no mark of unadvisednesse in the Guardian but of weaknesse in his Ward He would in the twi-light and morning of the Gospel have his orphane put on her night-attire that the Sun being risen she might wear her Nuptiall Garment untill it with all outward services do set for ever What Politicians distinguish between Law and Counsell is granted between man and man but the introduction of this distinction into divinity doth look with the face of an encroachment For to despise either of these is sin and that is the breach of the Law The reason is clear because all his Commandements aime at our good and all his counsels are unquestionably profitable for us none of which quadrateth with those of men That Christ Mark 10. doth bid the young man sell all must not be taken in an absolute sense for a positive command or standing rule to him or any others but by way of probation If these things be true give a Testimony the selling of all thy goods To wade a little further the causes of a Church as being known I do but mention The Efficient God out of his love through the word and spirit perswading mens hearts to believe in his Son The Materiall are all the Saints and members of his mysticall body The Pormal Union with him and one with another The Final his own honour their revesting themselves into the formet or rather better image of Himself the edifying one another and their mutuall eternall blisse Now the way of gathering and rule of governing is the same namely the preaching of Ex quibus constamus iisdem nutrimur the word of God But because the manner of divulging the Gospel is by some of our age controverted and they would have nothing to be the word of God but the very text of the Old and New Testament because say they a concionatory way is not wholly intrinsecally undoubtedly and meerly true driving rather to content themselves with a private conclave worship by reading of the sole Scripture as it is and layeth than to be present at an assembly publickly serving God In a body Politick it is no wise to be tollerated much lesse in any Ecclesiasticall corporation that without mutuall help whilst every one sets up for himself the externall invasion of publick adversaries or the domestick pruning of rotten branches should be neglected Of these I desire first to ask one questiou Whether the Word in its original not being understood be able to convert souls Or Whether all to be converted must be masters of the Hebrew and Greek Languages Which both seem absurdities Or which necessarily must follow they must be

as the learned Author doth rationally deliver § 12. of this Chapter And if their poison cease I should scarce trust their antipoison yet the plague after many years sleep in linnen or wollen will awaken and rage by the testimony of our predecessours backt with our own experience Chap. 27. The yellownesse of the stomack and gutts in the chicken doth not necessarily argue its nourishment on the yolke though I believe the thing yet not the reason For the same colour is apparent in all new-born babes except with some Omnia ex ovo which in a Metaphorical and florid sense may be admitted with a Rhetoricall strain but in a Physicall demonstration in strict termes is hard to be understood BOOK IIII. CH. 1. That sitting is not proper to Man only the several kinds of Apes by their untaught Mimicks and Dogs by teaching will draw it into question If sitting upon the ground or flat may come under that denomination Man can do no more than these beasts and will make a cute Angles between Back Thigh and Leg bone though inverted as do irrational animals And beasts will upon seats make as right Angles two lines to an Angle as doth man Ch. 5. The uncertainty of generating males by a ligature of the left testicle may more solidly be refuted because in congress the males right is the females left which left side is not thought the proper place for masculine conception so that this conceit falleth by its own weight Neither was this arrow full drawn home to the head Some probability there might be in those creatures which ingender by infilition There are three kinds of Being Real Rational and Modal the latter is neither of the former but more then Rational yet lesse then Real Such is this relative site The want of which accurate distinction bringeth one into a maze of confusion Ch. 6. That fat bodies do soonest float there is an errour à non causâ ad causam The true reason is that they have lesse proportionable weight depressing them then lean bodies If the whole body were fat it would never sinke Not that fat is under water more prone unto fermentation which is the cause alledged We besprinkle our almonds in beating with Rose-water to preserve them from restiness To speak properly Oyly or fat bodies scarce grow rotten but rancid Neither doth fat so readily symbolize with air as the Schools teach Let oyl grease or tallow be boyled unto vapours and I will believe super-infused it will preserve liquours fresh excluding all allien air By the same reason it defendeth iron from rust and locketh up faithfully whatsoever it is intrusted withall To say it will soon conceive a flame is no satisfactory argument for the same happeneth unto chalk-coal which yieldeth no smoak the product of kindled fatness Besides when the acme of fermentation is over except there be at the very height of it a fixation from some external cause the subject will fall into a more compacted gravity Ch. 7. There may be a mistake in a blown bladder about the weight of it if either the bladder be moist and then with extension it dryeth or if it be blown up with the breath of man which containeth some water Further Gold foliated and feathers expansed will not weigh so much nor fall so swiftly as the same will being contracted Smoak rarified doth ascend but being condensated into soot its nature is to descend The common road of conception and production of rain is an ancient and sufficient testimony Ch. 10. If the Small-pox have their Original from some quality in the Menstruum imprinted upon the child in time of gestation It must needs follow that this disease is endemical to the whole world because of the universality of its cause The truth whereof is worthy examination and unto mine as far as travellers report is to be credited the assertion is seconded That others undergo them never others often is according to the disposition of the receiver Ch. 12. The measuring of the motion of bodies doth teach us their duration No duration then to the center either of earth or heavens because destitute of motion If it be replyed the motion need not to be in the thing but either in the Sun or Earth neither is that absolutely true For a motion of either up-upon its own axis if the body be homogeneous which is questioned concerning the Sun will be no rule of measure A loco-motion will be requisite How far shall Saturn out-dure the Moon A step higher There may be a time of duration without motion as were the three first days before the Creation of Sun or Stars There was a flux of time in the dayes of Joshua when the Sun stood still This Philosophers call interval time Ch. 13. If since the world began Syrius arose in ♉ and before its end may have its ascent in ♍ by that compute the world's glass should run yet 12000 years And where are then the last times wherein the Apostles lived Sed meliora spero BOOK V. CH. 4. Might not these words have been spared In Paradise there was no creature hurtful Since there was none the Devil excepted all the world over It might with better reason have been questioned Whether there were any Medical Plants I think to say any Therapeutick Medicines were existent before a disease be in nature is frustraneous But that they had then a Prophylactick vertue to prevent all seminaries of maladies may easily be understood The Botanicks comprehend corn trees and fruit within the tome of their Herbals Rosins might be a preservation against rain and darkness As other Physical Plants so Rubarb might serve for food to some creature Many things stand for symmetry and complement of the Universe But to speak with the Schools there were remedies in Innocency radically and potentially but not actually and formally So was repentance and commiseration in sinless Adam Ib. There was a natural ability in Eve after impregnation with a boy without imperfecting the Creation as she had killed the soul so to destroy the body of Adam without the abolishment of a Species But this would I confess have ushered in many moral absurdities Ch. 5. That Adam should be created without a Navel because he was not nourished that way I see no necessary consequence For it is of all sides granted that to the same part of the body do appertain several offices Now if for the Navel be taken the out-side only it serveth to the Umbo of the belly for a Center in way of ornament or for an emunctory Nature many times curing Dropsies that way Of like use are Paps to men If for the Navel be understood the Vasa umbilicalia the inward Ligaments Adam could not spare them they serving to hold up the Liver and Blather the excision of them bringeth sudden death which kind of punishment is according to the Historians in use with the Egyptians A Skar is a defect in the skin But the outward

Commandement No man might imitate that holy perfume Exod. 30. or transfer it into a domestick use But that it should over-awe us hitherto morally savoureth too much of Judaism By the same Law we shall be forbidden the smell of Frankincense yea Bread and Wine being once instituted for a Sacrament must not be exposed to a natural and common prophanation If the whole Species were annihilated though it were but in one individual as that happeneth unto some creatures it mutilateth the Creation and bringeth a lameness into the beauty of the Universe Ib. A Peach though with a hard kernel is named Pomum by the learned And so are jugulandes and siliqua by Pliny Ch. 4. The Galaxia or Milk-way if it had a natural signature of both rain and fair weather might be as comfortable I dare say more frequent then the Rainbow Besides the former is not imitable by the industry of man the latter every plebeian hand can at pleasure command yea a Horse trotting through shallow water if the Sun approach near the Horizon shall unwittingly raise the colours in the Bow as hath been mentioned before The constancy in duration and scituation might challenge a preheminency but it is safe to acquisce humbly in the wisdom of the Maker Ch. 5. Abraham and Ishmael instead of Isaac So Ch. 15. Gold will swim in quick silver wherein iron and other mettals sink I dare not but lay the slip upon the oscitant Printer Ch. 7. The Hyssop upon the Wall I would rather take for our Parietaria or Pellitory which is used for cleansing and pollishing of Vessels and Glasses This for site and virtue will best suite which the Herb which the Priest used in sacrifice and the Botanicks of Solomon Dioscorides is dubious Chap. 13. If the Moon by exciting the nitro-sulphurous spirits at the bottom of the Sea cause high-water It is either in regard of its vicinity or by vertue of her body or her lihgt The first cause is vain For the periodicall estuation would be at the time of the perigaeum The body of the Moon is unchangeable Neither can we conferre this effect to its light because at new-Moon the spring-tide is not inferiour Galileus's subtile device concerning the motion of the earth hath its scruple It is true that the water will rise to the sides of the Vessel being swiftly moved but that the same befalleth the Sea arrested by the shoar is a doubtfull consequence because the motion of the one is naturall the other violent In water as in all liquid things I acknowledge a double naturall motion by the one in regard of its gravity it descendeth by the other because of its tenacity it runneth into the form of a Globe Reiterated drops upon a true levell if there be any Physicall plane will evince this which swelling in the midst cast themselves into a circle That dolefull deluge which did compasse the whole earth was a sad example The latter propriety is the product of the former Chap. 17. That God made all things double one against another and that poison is not without antipoyson I desire to have my assent excused Not to speak of morall things where one contrary hath severall contraryes and one vice as adverse to another as vertue to them both I think God made no Poyson but all things in the world were made for the use of man Their chiefest deleterium is either in the quantity or some other circumstance as in Lettice Lecks Casservi c. whose integra are aliments though juices mortiferous Those things that are pernicious by their externall form as beaten Glasse Sponges c. have not deserved the brand of poyson Those that are really lethiferous are but peccatorum sudores excrescences of sin came in with the thorns The Serpent was destructive rather to the soul then the body Besides some Vincetoricks are generall and will be contrary to severall kinds Finally in divers creatures one part is alexipharmacall to the other as is confessed in the subsequent Section by our Judicious Author to whom be peace FINIS