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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42072	Gregorii Opuscula, or, Notes & observations upon some passages of Scripture with other learned tracts / written by John Gregory ...; Works. 1650	Gregory, John, 1607-1646.; Gurgany, John, 1606 or 7-1675.	1650 (1650)	Wing G1921_PARTIAL; Wing G1925_PARTIAL; Wing G1927_PARTIAL; ESTC R14029	370,916	594

the guilt of Theomachie or Ingratitude Upon this Consideration the wise Son of Sirach that Eloquent Encomiast raised his Monumental Pillar to the Patriarchs hence doubtless hee took his Rise to that loftie Panegyrick of the Primitive Saints Laudemus Viros gloriosos Ecclus 44.1 c. Let us now prais famous men c. And in Imitation of Him I might say much in Commendation of this Autor whose Worth aswel natural as acquisite was the Miracle of his Age. But my Account shall bee brief and plain as most suitable to the sadness of my Thoughts on this Subject leaving all Flourish and Fancie to the Gallantrie of Poëtrie from whose sweet strains I shall not long detein you Camden 's Brit. Amersham in the Countie of Buckingham enobled hitherto onely by the Honorable Familie of the Russels may now boast as much in the Birth of this Autor which happened on the 10th of November 1607 And though his Parents were but of mean Extraction and Estate Ovid Metam lib. 9. Ingenuâ de Plebe virum nec census in illo Nobilitate suâ major sed vita fidesque Inculpata fuit c. Yet of such noted Pietie and Honestie as gained them love and respect from the Best of that Place Whence this their eldest Son about the 15th year of their pious Education of Him was chosen by my worthie Friend Dr Crook to wait upon Sr William Drake and soon after on Sr Robert Crook at christ-Christ-Church in Oxford where they had the happiness to bee under the Tuition of the most Ingenuous and Learned Dr George Morley whose Directions and Encouragements to studie were so exact and impressive as that they soon eased him of farther trouble with this Autor The Account of this his young Scholar's Studies beeing above the Leisure of a Tutor to receiv especially one so greatly and publickly engaged For besides mine own Observation of him enjoying him no small time in my Chamber in Christ Church hee confest unto mee That for divers years hee studied 16 of everie 24 hours and that with so much appetite and delight Aenea pila Diog. Laërt Lud. Viv. de Cor. Art as that hee needed not the Cure of Aristotle's drowsiness to awake him or my Observation of his Indefatigable Industrie which Magnetically drew my Affections toward him my Love beeing as great to Learning as my Nature unapt and impatient of extraordinarie Labors Hence I loved him unto a Filial Adoption and after confirmed it by an Academical Exercise for our first Degrees wherein his Worth like the Rising of the Sun began to discover it self darting forth such fair Hopes and Glimmerings of future Perfection as were quickly espied by the then vigilant Dean of Christ Church Dr Duppa since Lord Bishop of Sarum who immediately received him into favor and soon after made him Chaplain of Christ Church and after that his own Domestick and Prebendarie of Chichester and Sarum For which Favors hee now began about 26 years old at once to publish to the World his Worth and Gratitude in the Dedication of his Notes on Learned Ridley's Civil Law to his and my honored Patrone the Bishop of Sarum In which Notes hee made an earlie Discoverie of his Civil Historical Ecclesiastical Ritual and Oriental Learning together with the Saxon French Italian Spanish and all Eastern Languages through which hee miraculously travelled without anie Guid except Mr Dod the Decalogist whose Societie and Directions for the Hebrew Tongue hee enjoied one Vacation near Banburie For which Courtesie hee ever gratefully remembred him as a man of great Pietie Learning Gravitie and Modestie of which Graces also this Autor was as great a Possessor as Admirer Hence those manie Tracts both in English and Latine were bashfully laid by in his youth as Abortives som whereof I have here published and entituled Posthuma's as so manie Testimonies and Monuments of his general Learning For which hee was much honored by the Acquaintance and Favor of men of the greatest honor and eminence in Learning Arch-Bish Laud B. Mountague B. Lindsey Mr John Selden c. that this Age hath produced besides the Correspondence in Points of Learning which hee held with divers famous Men abroad aswel Jesuites and Jews as others And now being like the Sun in his Zenith readie to shine in his greatest lustre Behold the whole Kingdom began to bee clouded with Judgments Ovid. Met. lib. 1. Sic Deus inductâ nostras caligine Terra● Occuluit like that Egyptian Darkness which even then began to damp and hath since quite extinguisht the greatest and purest Lights of this Nation such as were not to bee parallel'd by anie other for Pietie and Learning Among whom notwithstanding the Hope of a clear Daie preserved this Learned Autor awhile sufficiently spirited for Studie whereby hee composed and published a little before his Death those his Excellent Notes upon som Passages of Scripture in which kinde of holie Studie hee intended to spend the rest of his Life But behold after 20 years trouble with an Hereditarie Gout improved by immoderate Studie and now invading his Stomach Atropos stand's readie to cut his Thread of Life beeing laboriously spun out but 39 years when fore-seeing the Glorie was now departing from our Israël his Spirits began to fail in an extraordinarie manner For Recoverie and Supportation whereof his first Noble Patrone the Bishop of Sarum being disabled by Sequestration c. the liberal hand of a second Mecenas was presently extended which though it could not save him as Christ's did St Peter from perishing in these waters of Affliction yet 't was not in vain for as our Saviour said of that Unguent so may I of his last Patrone's Charitie Mat. 26.12 Joh. Antioch Hist translated out of Greek into Latine with Annotations Was it not to burie him yes and to rais him too with the Trump of Fame beeing very active and free toward the Publication not onely of this Posthumous Off-spring but also of som other of greater Exspectation And here Reader I cannot but drop a Tear for the loss of that his excellent Piece entituled by himself Alkibla In which Tract with very great Judgment and Learning hee vindicated the Antiquitie of East-ward Adoration especially in all Churches as far beyond an Altar or a Crucifix the Romish Bounds as the Flood preceed's in time these Superstitious Distinctions of the Christian Which gallant Refutation of that Popish Error I the rather mention becaus som suspected him a Favorer of that Waie but to my certain knowledg their Jealousie was unjust and groundless hee having often declared and protested not onely to mee but also to manie of his familiar Friends his Abhorrence of Poperie and his sincere Affection and Constancie to the Protestant Religion as it was established in England by Acts of Parliament At Kidlington Mar. 13. 1646. and was buried in Christ-Church in Oxford And as hee lived so hee died also a most Obedient and Affectionate