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A42536	The religion of a physician, or, Divine meditations upon the grand and lesser festivals, commanded to be observed in the Church of England by act of Parliament by Edmund Gayton ...	Gayton, Edmund, 1608-1666.	1663 (1663)	Wing G416; ESTC R7653	47,970	120

returning from the Lake of Minturnum where he was forced to skulk from the proscriptions of Scylla Catenae fuga exilium honorificaverunt dignitatem that is their Exilements Imprisonments Scornes Miseries did imblazon their dignities and set a varnish upon that Gold which the evil tongues of those and these dayes had laboured to rust and with Calumnies Canker-eat and deface Victrix causa malis placuit sed victa Gatono I loved the Church when she was unlovely when she was blackest then was she comely A dis-figured Parthenia is the lov'd Mistress of a constant Argalus Bright Cynthia with all he spots is amiable and our Ladies in smaller volumes imitate the pale Lady of the skies In my Mother the Church her spots are not black Foyles but red the Red-letter daies being the Ornament of her Year her Festivals my present subject so many pillars as in Solomon 's Porch the beautie and flourish of the building I do acknowledge that learneder Pens have laboured in this Argument and I come forth burthened with their just Fames and must needs incur the censure of an impertinent and superfluous Scribler Scribendi Cacoethes is a Disease incurable for which there is no dose in our Pharmacopaea I can make no other Apologie then this that Nil est dictum quod non est dictum prius the Mode perchance the Fashion may be new but the ground-work is old If I prove Scinctillula de Scinctilla a Sparkle of a Spark is honour enough Longè sequor vestigia semper adoro The many little Starrs in the firmament make a very rare Via lactea which the greater Luminaries do neither envie nor obscure Let my vantage Candle I pray be taken into the pound to make weight at least while your Christmass Tapers carry the glory of the day These Apologetick complements premised I proceed to prove the Antiquity and Legality of these Festivals wherein also I am prevented by the learned Dr. Gunning after whom to glean is too much honour for me unworthy to carry his Books And first of the Antiquity of Easter what can be more reverend for its Age more holy for its Subject it was instituted by the Apostles themselves kept by them and is indeed the leading Sabbath or rather Holiday of the year Dies Dominicus non Sabbatum creationis the Lords Day a Commemoration of the Resurrection of our Saviour which was the complement and perfection of the Redemption of the World This is the Lords day in which his Arm brought mighty things to passe And for the Antiquity of Lent it is deriv'd by Dr. Gunning very far to whose more authentick authority I refer you According to Helvicus and the Cronologer upon him we finde it instituted by that good Prince Sigisbert amongst us English-men having first restored Christian Religion in the year of our Lord 640. but at Rome it obtained sooner observance in Telesphorus his Episcopacy of that See For then the name of Pope was not appropriate to the Bishop of Rome onely but was shared among the rest of his Brethren but in Phocas the Emperour's dayes Boniface the third usurped the title of Universal Bishop and did affix the name of Papa to the Roman See onely though S. Gregory before him plainly said That whoever did assume that title was the fore-runner of Antichrist What need the Geneva Glosse is not S. Gregory enough to state the Question And in 142 Lent was instituted at Rome the forementioned Telesphorus being Pontifex Maximus but as for the business it self the Antiquity makes no great matter no more then our long contentions for the Superiority of Oxford and Cambridge though in this present Parliament my Mother hath got the right-hand side and to shew my thankfulness for that Vote I shall tell the noble Suffragators of a piece of Petrarch a Poet too yet of good authority wherein speaking of the ancientness of the Disputative Ergo he saith Vetustum illud ergo hoc Oxoniense illud Parisciense Which doth intimate that Cambridge had no name then or no ergo or ergo fallor let these Universities be for ever styled as my Father Ben calls them most politickly in his Dedication before Volpone most equal Sisters It is not the oldness of any thing unless it be also very good makes it praiseworthy Stand in the old way that was the first covenant of the Decalogue was a holy Precept but fight for the Good old Cause which was a covenant for Mischief and Treason was an abominable invitation and a call to Rebellion Curse ye Meroz was a very good commination against those backward Israelites which kept their Tents and would not rise with the Lord against the mighty but to your Tents O Israel and the new Curse you Meroz of our times was the decoy to Sedition Tumults and War and a spur to England to ruine themselves to cut off the best King that ever Christianity knew The Iewes at this day attribute their long abandoning and dispersion to their rebellion against the house of Judah Shall a Iew repent of that sin of Witchcraft and shall the Godly Party wipe their mouths like the Harlot and say it is a sweet thing and persist in impenitency and provide for future Risings Pudet haec approbria vobis Et dici potuisse non potuisse refelli Countreymen I am ashamed of your obstinacy and beseech you to undeceive your selves These Meditations if read with impartial eys will befriend you into the true way that way which your King upon his Theatre of Martyrdom told you you had forsaken Remember the words of your dying Father of a true Jonathan though not the son of Rhacab but a sober Prince a chaste Prince a pious Prince and for his sake who prayed for your Pardon who purchased your Act of Indempnity with his own Blood of his Mercifull Son for his Son's sake for his Christ's sake yet in this your day leave off murmuring repining speaking evil of Dignities and every high thought of heart and come with old Barsillai you and your sons and families bring the King to Jerusalem settle him in his Royal City with joy and make one Festival more then I write of make one Iubilee to the universal rejoycing of this yet distracted Nation At this Repentance Heaven will dance the Angels will be pleasant and your own hearts wil be enlarged with everlasting comforts Which is the hearty vote of a true Son of the Church of England and a Religious Physician That word makes me reflect upon my selfe and commands me to shew some reason why I intitle this Book The Religion of a Physician since that hath been used by Doctor Brown an able Artist in that Faculty To whom for that and his Vulgar Errors the world stands still engaged and obliged I do not do it for this end and purpose that either in Physick wherein he was admirable or in Theologie wherein he was curious I should match my selfe with him or labour to out-vie him A poore Dwarf

like Ezekiel's Vision dry bones lie Look to be raised from mortality But then how naked shall we be how far From any thoughts of an unnatural war That we shall Mountains wish and highest Hills To cover us for acting here such Ills. For as at Herod's Inquisition And bloody Quest away fled Mary's Son And as when Peter drew th' revengefull sword No countenance was given by his Lord But a V ae Gladio and a certain doom Pronounc'd upon blood-drawing men to come So will his second coming be to right The suff'ring Christian punish them that fight That will he will he will not be controul'd But say His Kingdome shall in this world hold These men are Star-gazers led out o' th' way With whom false Ignes fatui do play And run them into pit-falls but beware Come regulate your motions by this Star This Star the Gentils conduct let it be The Badge and Order of Christianity This Star our Phosphorus which did fore-run The rising of th' Eternal Righteous Son VVhich doth enlighten that which rules the day And clears all Heathen Ignorance away Let stars the VVise men lead and VVise men Fooles Let Shepherds teach their Sheep Pastors the Schooles So that this Stars renown'd Epiphany An Universal Guide to Christ may be Upon the Conversion of S. Paul IS Saul among th' Apostles what that Saul Who men and women to the Judge did hale Who held the cloaths of those accursed ones Did devout Stephen unto death with stones 'T is strange but it is he Stephen no doubt Thy dying words this wonder brought about When at thy Vision of the Trinity Thou pray'dst that charge might not against him lie How potent are the words of martyr'd Saints VVho from the Scaffold can obtain such grants VVhich shall convert their enemies such words Like those of thy late crucified Lord's Are of a vast effect Father forgive They know not what their malice doth contrive Did intimate that Providence ore-rules All humane Projects bad men are the Tooles VVhereby it works unseen the greatest good VVho'd think a Salve should rise from shedding blood VVhat Iudas Pilat Jewes act 'gainst thy Son Proves their own Guilts the worlds Redemption Thus the Salvation of Mankind was struck As Light once out of Darkness Chaos-muck From flints and stony hearts and blest events May issue yet from bloody Presidents VVho could imagine a blood-thirsty Saul Should mount a Pulpit and turn preaching Paul But many are not call'd like Saul few are VVe must not then presume or mischiefs dare Upon some singular Examples Saul And one Thief are precedents that is all Two that no man despaire and yet but two That no man should presume like acts to do Then view this form Champion of the Devil Commission'd from the Synagogue for evil The High Priests Letters in his pockets are And what these VVarrants for such speciall care Hast Secrecy and Guards alas to seize Poore people at their holy Services Now to Damascus full of bitter spleen His sword then his enraged heart less keen He and his Troopers march poor upper roomes Look to your selves and Votaries Saul comes But his design is frustrate for a Light This Fury and his Firebrands doth benight See the struck man whose eyes did sparkle now VVith rage hath ne'r an eye his way to shew The Horseman is dismounted hurl'd to th' ground And his Horse-party all in a sad sound How weak is humane force when Heav'n will fight One Angel puts an Assyrian Host to flight A word or two's an army of such force Enough to scatter a good Troop of Horse Trust not in wrong and robbery trust not In Horse nor Guns nor Iron Chariot Look upon Pharaoh and his vanquish'd Host By weakest means a heap of waters lost Look upon furious Saul who did rejoyce His work so nigh confounded with a voice Look on Belshazzar Fortunes Tennis-ball Dis-Emperor'd by a writing on a wall Thus is this Heros in an instant quell'd The Billow-brook with so much malice swell'd Tame as his persecuted souls he 's led To Ananias for new eyes to 's head It is in vain to kick against such pricks VVhich wound the striker hurt the person kicks New light with his new eyes appeares the man Is chang'd a very perfect Christian A Souldier for the Cross to which he stood Stout to the last and with his life made good Read his Engagements what set Battels he In person pass'd and got the victory How many dangers both of Sea and Land Tempests and Starvings Frosts and Iron bands Torments Imprisonments Scourges Stocks and Stones VVhat had he not of Persecutions At Lystra some at Ephesus come see His prize with Beasts oh Inhumanity In Chains led through Ierusalem and beat His death so long'd for some forswore their meat They 'l fast for ever but his blood they 'l have Religious Murderers what Food they crave But that all mischief might be heap'd on thee Nero thou Prince of vast Impiety Paul is reserv'd for Rome there is the stage VVhere this most active Saint shall feel the rage Of that fierce Lion who had burnt his Rome And quench'd the Flame with Christian Martyrdome He playes and sings away their lives what other Usage from one the murderer of 's Mother Peter and Paul in one day felt his rage Two Saints not parallel'd in any age Saint Peter crucify'd with reverst head A bashfull Martyr in that honour'd Bed Saint Paul indulg'd as learned Seneca Bled by high courtesie his life away So because He a Roman was by Birth The Ax dispatch'd his headed Corps to th' earth Upon the Purification of the Blessed Virgin THe first and onely birth of the chast Womb Is by a long us'd Rite to th' Temple come A holy Offering to his Father he Was offer'd thus from all Eternity The Priest for ever the Melchisedeck Both Priest and Sacrifice without a speak Now in the Temple on the Cross anon Offer'd but not in shew as Abrahams son Who by a bleating Proxie dy'd this Lamb Dies pers'nally relieved by no Ramme In this all Sacrifices Bulls and Goats Whose impure blood and insufficient throats Had neither worth nor vertue ceas'd the Creature Was then redeem'd by th' death of the Creator The Type unto the Antitype gives place This onely is the Holocaust of Grace But what had Mary's Virgin-womb just cause To give submission to these womens Lawes Who had Lucina's help or rather none The Holy Ghost being present cause alone Both of Conception and Delivery Mary was laid without their Midwifery No need of them of this same Rite no need For Defaecation after produc'd Seed Of a Piamen but as her great Heire Endur'd the Knife when eight dayes ended were Then took Baptismall washing when from Above Father in Voice was Witness Spirit in Dove So all these Ceremonies were undergone Not for Necessity or Good thereon Unto His sacred Person but to shew What We not He unto the Law did owe He