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A65093	The works of the famous antiquary, Polidore Virgil containing the original of all arts, sciences, mysteries, orders, rites, and ceremonies, both ecclesiastical and civil : a work useful for all divines, historians, lawyers, and all artificers / compendiously English't by John [i.e. Thomas] Langley.; De rerum inventoribus. English	Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555.; Langley, Thomas, d. 1581.	1663 (1663)	Wing V596; ESTC R28374	121,672	340

men of Greece hath an opinion that water was the material cause of all things Contrariwise Heraclitus an Ephesian and Hippasus suppose all to be procreated of fire Empedocles saith the four Eleme●ts were the causes of things as Lucretius writeth Of Water Earth Ayre and fiery glede All things natural duely procede Anaximenes thinketh all things to have their beginning of the Ayre Metrodorus assirmeth the universal World to be eternal without begining or end Epicurus one of Democritus disciples putteth two causes Atomes or Motes and vacuity or emptinesse of these he saith the four Elements come These are the opinions of the Philosophers that were men without the knowledge of God but as Moses and Josephus record the Scripture concludeth that in the beginning God made all things of nothing as Saint John saith all things were made by him And therefore as Lactantius writeth let no man be curious in searching of what materiall God made these great and wonderfull works for he formed them all of nothing by the power of his mighty word For as David the Prophet singeth he spake the word and they were made he gave Commandement and they were created Of the same opinion is Plato in his book called Timeus CHAP. III. The procreation of Man the diversity of Languages and division of Nations THe most famous writers of natural Histories as Diodorus recordeth spake of two sundry manners of birth and first stock of mankind For they which contend that the World was ungenerate and without any danger of corruption say also that man hath been in a certain perpetuity without beginning Of this opinion were Pithagoras Architas Xenocrates and Aristotle with other Peripateticks affirming that all things in the eternal world which have been or shall hereafter come to passe be by Generation endlesse and without beginning and have onely a circuit and course of Generations wherein both the birth and naturall resolution of things may be perceived Other that suppose this world had both an Originall cause of being and shall also end by putrifaction hold opinion that man had a time of his Generation For this cause the Aegyptians report that men were first born among them as well by reason of the fruitfull ranknesse of the soil and seasonableness of the Ayre and because of the River Nilus which for the lusty fatnesse of the slime doth procreate diverse kinds of beasts and hath in it self naturally a certain nutritive power For in the Country of Thebais Mice be engendred of the mud wherefore men in those parts stand in admiration when they behold the fore-parts of them to the brest wallow and move sensibly in the mire and the hinder partts not yet fashioned and without shape Neverthelesse Psammaticus their King desiring to know in what Countrey men were first begotten devised this means He caused two young Infants new born to be delivered to his herdmen to be brought up among his cattell and commanded that no man should speak any word to them because he would know what word they would speak first Then two years after when the herdmen opened thè door where they were nourished they stretched out their hands and cried Becos which in the Phrygians language signifieth bread Thus it was known that the Phrygians were the eldest lineage and first born The Ethiopians do conjecture themselves to be the first because no man would come out of any other place into that Region and they of that be by a general con●ent called home-bred and as Diodorus saith it is probable that those under the Meridional Aequator should be the ancientest of all For seeing the heat of the Sun drieth up the moysture of the earth and hath also of it self a power to give and preserve the life of things it is like that the place which is scituate nearest to the Sun should bring forth the first living creatures For that cause Anaximander taught that men first sprung of water and Earth warmed with lively heat Empedocles in a manner confirmeth the same where he writeth that every particular member was severally made and proportioned of the Earth as a mother and so to have been compacted and conglutinated by heat and moisture into the perfect figure and shape of a man Democritus thinketh men were first made of Water and Mudde tempered together Zeno judgeth the cause of Mankind to have proceeded of the New World And men to be onely begotten by the ayd and comfort of the divine fire that is the providence of God As for the Poets some feign how man was made out of soft clay by Prometheus Some say that they sprung of the hard stones that Deucalion and Pirrha cast And thus much is of the vain opinions of the Gentiles But to speak the truth as Scripture teacheth the beginning of man was in Jewry For God when he had finished the World did create the first man Adam of the Earth of the field of Damascus as some think Thus Adam made by God marrying his Wife Eve was authour and beginner of the whole Posterity and Linage But for as much as God formed but one man and indued him with one kind of speech onely to utter and declare the things that he contained in his mind men perchance will marvail what the cause should be that there be at this day so many diverse languages that according to the variety of Countries there be sundry speeches And therefore I thought it convenient to shew the occasion of the same When Nimrod the son of Cham that was son to Noe after the universal floud went about to withoraw men which feared the danger of drowning from the worship of God supposing all their hope to consist in their own might and power perswaded them to build a Tower of such altitude that the water should not be able to overflow it Whilest they were thus earnestly occupied about their enterprise God divided their speeches in such sort that not one of them could understand another by reason of the discord and disagreeing of their languages And thus began the diversity of tongues that we use now The same was the occasion that the posterities of Noe were dispersed and scattered abroad For when one could not understand another's language it came to passe that every man departed into sundry Provinces add Countries and there named places whereof they had the government and also Cities which they builded after their own names as Eusebius testifieth The sonnes of Noe were Sem Cham and Japhet The issue of Sem was Elam whereof the Elamites came Assur of whom the Assyrians were named Arphaxad was the first founder of the Arabians and Lud of the Lidians the children of Cham were Chus that named the Ethiopians and Mesre the beginner of the Egyptians Chanaan of whom the Canaanites had their name the linage of Chus was Seba whereof the Sebees came

Patriarchs and Archbishops Patriarchs at the first were of Rome Antioch Alexandria Jerusalem and Constantinople Archbishops had their title to be called Metropolitans because their See was in the Mother-City of the Province 〈◊〉 the first ordained that all Patriarchs and Archbishops shou●d wear a Pall which which doth signifie Meekness and Justice wherewith they should especially be garnished Then also the inferiour Orders began to be divided as that the Arch-Deacon should be above a Deacon and Arch-Priest above the Priest and over them the Deans and then were ordained Canons that sing in Cathedral Churches 〈◊〉 permitted that a Bishop might change his Bishoprick for another upon an honest cause if he were thought sufficient to discharge a greater for his learning and godlinesse Caius first made a Statute that a Priest might not be Convented before a Temporal Judge but lest any man should be circumvented by fraud or guile Eu●●chianus instituted That the accusati●● should be put in writing before the Judge Likewise Cornelius decreed 〈◊〉 a man should not take or require 〈◊〉 oath of a Priest but onely in matter● concerning Religion and Faith The manner of Swearing was in ol● time of this sort He that should swe●● took a Stone in his hand and said If I deceive you that I know Jupiter banish me out of all good mens company preserving the rest of the City as I cast away this stone from me And as Pliny 〈◊〉 write it was not lawfull for any man to bear an Office five dayes unless he were sworn In like manner our Bishops Kings Priests or other Offices-swear before they be admitted to the Office Justinianne Emperour appointed first that men should swear by the Gospel and now adayes all that swear lay their hand on the book and kisse it saying So help me God and the holy Gospel because as the Gospel of our Religion and Faith may for no cause be violated so an Oath in no case may be broken The fashion of excommunicating men that be obstinate and disobedient to the Officers or common tran●gressors came as some think out of the Rites of the Jews which banished out of their Synagogue all those that ran in obstinacy against their Traditions And some suppose it sprung of the Religious folk in France named Druides which as Caesar recordeth if either a private man or officer were ●ot conformably ordered after their Ceremonies excluded him out of their company CHAP. IX Consecrating Nuns taking off our Ca●kissing the Pope● feet and washing of feet THe custome to consecrate Virgins making a vow of chastity was 〈◊〉 by Pius the first which instituted 〈◊〉 that none should be made before 〈◊〉 were 25 years old and that they migh● be consecrated at no time but in the Epiphany or Twelf-day Easter Eav●● and on the Feasts of the Apostles 〈◊〉 it were when any professed were 〈◊〉 point to dye And Sotherus caused 〈◊〉 a Decree was made that no such Professed should touch Cope or put Ince●se into the Censors the year of our Lord God 175. It seemeth to have begun 〈◊〉 the Apostles which is proved by Pauls words where he saith let no Widow be chosen before she be threescore years of age with divers like sayings Lynus Bishop of Rome commanded that no woman should enter into the Congregation or Temple with her head bare which appeareth to have been taken of the Hebrews for the Bishop i● the old Law might not uncover his head and in Arabia and Carthage it 〈◊〉 taken for an unhonest and unreverent thing if a Woman should uncover her head and go bare The taking off of our caps to our Superiours signifieth that we should disclose and shew them all such things as we have in our custody The Rite diabolick of Kissing the Bishop of Romes feet took its original of the manner of the Romans which in their Paganism used to kiss the feet of the people and other nobles in token of obedience as Seneca telleth how Caius Caesar stretched out his left foot that Pompeius a Carthaginian might kisse it Pompenius Laetus writeth that the Emperours used to give their hands to be kissed of the Nobles and then to take them up to kisse their mouths and the Commons kissed their knees but Cuius Caligula and Dioclesianus made them to stoop to their feet This Pagan example our Christian Bishop and Gods Vicar full uncomely and ungodly doth counterfeit All other Bishops used to deliver their right hand to be kissed of such as came to salute them For the Right hand as Pliny saith in the 11th book hath in it self a certain Religion and therefore we make all Covenants and Promises with it The manner of saluting with kisses is very ancient for it was the manner of the Hebrews to kisse strangers at their first meeting as Jacob kissed Rachel before he broke unto her that he was of kinred and Laban after he knew him to be his sisters son embraced him with his Arms and kissed him And the Romans custome was to kisse their kinsfolk but afterwards it was extended to further familiarity and is now frequented very lasciviously Albeit in Rome it was an Ordinance that Women should kiss their kinsfolk because that if Sshe had drunk any Wine contrary to the Law made against the Women for drinking of Wine by such means she might be espied Washing of feet on Maundays-Thursday that the Priests use among themselves and Nobles to inferiour persons is a counterfeit of the institute of Christ who to shew them a pattern of humility and meekness washed the Apostles feet The Kings and Queens of England that day wash the feet of so many poor men and women as they be years old and give to every of them so many pence with a Gown and an ordinary Alms of meat and kisse their feet and afterwards give their gowns on their backs to them that they see most need of all the number It is a godly institute I would there were more such Ceremonies to help the poor For they be now neglected and not regarded but lie dead often in the streets for lack of sustenance CHAP. X. The Institution of Priests called Flamines with other Religions of the Romanes NUma Pompilius the second King of Rome willing to reclaim that fierce Nation from war and Chivalry to the regard of Justice and keeping of Peace ordained to the High God Jupiter a Sacred person called Flamen Dialis that is Jupiters Priest And to advance the order he set him in a Chariot of Ivory and a costly Robe but so soon as his Wife was deceased he was discharged and gave over his Office He never road out nor might not lye one night out of the City lest any sacrifices should be neglected by such absence Swearing was clean forbidden him because an Oath is a manner of punishment to any free-born man and namely to a Priest which hath charge of all divine observances For