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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85683	Notes and observations vpon some passages of scripture. By I.G. Master of Arts of Christ-Church Oxon.	Gregory, John, 1607-1646.	1646 (1646)	Wing G1920; Thomason E342_8; ESTC R200932	149,461	200

Or if it were found that these Orgia were first or most celebrated at Maiuma the sea side of Gaza 't is possible that the place might give name to the celebration which hath the more colour for that in the Tetramphodus or Quatrefois of that Citie upon an Altar of stone there stood a marble statue of Venus representing the figure 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of a naked woman c. as Marcus Diaconus in vita Porphyrii Gaz●orum Episcopi otherwise the Authors owne derivation must be taken If the Prophet may at all be understood in the sense of the Midbar it soundeth not much unlike to that which the Emperour Julian told the Antiochians in his Misopogo● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There 's none of you all saith he but can willingly spend upon your private banquetings and feasts and I well know how much many of you can throw away upon the Maiuma but for your owne or the Cities safety no man offereth up any thing either in private or in publike The word of Amos is Wo to them that are at ease in Zion c. That stretch themselves upon their Couches and eate the Lambes out of the flocke and that chaunt to the sound of the Violl c. That drinke wine in bowles c. But they are not greived for the afflictions of Joseph CHAP. XXII The meaning and Considerations of Light in Scripture GOD is Light and in him there is no darkenesse at All. John 1. The Reflexion of this Originall Glory shining upon the dust the dust became Light that is man for so the Antients termed him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Phavorinus we call a man light but the opacous body of sinne interposing it selfe betwixt this borrowed Light and the Fountaine cast a shadow the shadow of death The darknesse being so thicke and so exceeding that if we regard what the Master of the Sentences hath said the Sun it selfe shined 7 times brighter before the fall then ever it did since To bring the world out of that darkenesse into this Marveilous Light the day spring from on high was to visit us To prepare for this day there first appeared a Burning and a shining Light John 1. but he was not that Light but came before to beare witnesse of the Light Soone after Jesus that is as in the China Tongue it signifieth the rising Sun that Sun of Righteousnesse himselfe arose with healing in his wings Malac. 3. It was then the longest Night in all the yeare and it was the midst of that and yet there was day where he was for a glorious and betokening Light shined round about this Holy Child So the Tradition and so the Masters describe the Night-peice of this Nativity At his Transfiguration a greater Light shined about him His face was brighter then tbe Sun and his very Cloathes whiter then the Light Till now the Father of Lights himselfe dwelt in the thicke darkenesse never shewing himselfe but in a Cloud but in these last dayes he is God manifest 1 Tim 3. 16. and in the Brightnesse of his glory Heb. 1. I do not finde saith Venerable Bede among so many Angels that were sent before the Law that ever any were seene with a Light shining about them Now a Light shineth about S. Peter in the prison and about Saint Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a very great Light Nay a Light shined about the Shepheards too And though it were then the dead of the Night yet the word was brought by the Angel hodie Natus est c. This day is borne to you c. Therefore also at the setting of this Sun which was the Reverse part of the Mystery darkenesse fell upon the Earth the Naturall Sun eclipsed in the midst of Heaven and therefore the Moone making it more then Midnight in the subterraneous position all of the colour of Saturne the signifier of blackenesse who rising from the Horoscope beheld these two Eclipses in a square Malignant aspect Not so only for in the selfe same day which is more perhaps then you have heard of there hapened a naturall defection of the Moone in the 11 of Libra begining at Hierusalem about 6 in the Evening insomuch that the Sun was no sooner gone downe but the Moone appeared in the East Ecclipsed of more then halfe her Light So that as the Light was taken from that day so darkenesse was added to that Night and within the space of 6 houres the Sun was once unnaturally and the Moone twice Ecclipsed The Calculation and Figure of this Lunar Ecclipse you may see if you will in Chronologia Catholica Henrici Buntingij fol. 237. b 238. a See also Sethus Calvisius in Tiberius Caesar ad An post Ch n 33. to the 3 day of April As our Lord himselfe so his Gospell also is called Light and was therefore anciently never read without a burning Taper etiam sole rutilante 't is Saint Hieroms Testimony though it were lighted in the Sun Supposing therefore out of Albumazar that every Religion is governed by some Planet as the Mahumetan by Venus the Iewish by Saturne c. Some Astrologers did not inconveniently to attribute the Christian to the Sun Not the Gospell but the Preachers of it also are called Lights Vos estis Lux Mundi ye are the Light of the World and the first preacher of Repentance was said to be Lucerna ardeus c. a burning and a shining Light The carefull Church perceiving that God was so much taken with this outward symbole of the Light could doe no lesse then goe on with the Ceremony Therefore the day of our Lords Nativity was to be called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Epiphany or appearing of the Light and so many Tapers were to be set up the Night before as might give Name to the Vigil Vigili● Luminum And the Ancients did well to send Lights one to another whatsoever some thinke of the Christmas Candle The receiving of this Light in Baptisme they call'd not usually so but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Illumination which further to betoken the rites were to celebrate this Sacrament 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. with all the Tapers lighted c as the Order in the Euchologue The Neophytus also or new convert received a Taper lighted and delivered by the Mystagogus which for the space of seven dayes after he was to hold in his hand at Divine Service sitting in the Baptistery Who perceiveth not that by this right way the Tapers came into the Church mysteriously placed with the Gospell upon the Altar as an embleme of the truer Light It was imitated againe by the white garment received at the same time in Baptisme as the Emperours expound it in Theodosian's Code Coelestis Lumen Lavacri imitantis nova● sancti Baptismatis Lucem vestimenta testa●tur Cod. Theod. de Spectae So the Preist in the order of Severus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Change saith he bespeaking the new Converts your Garments

Corne in her hand and a Childe in her Armes she seedeth him and giveth him suck c This Maiden saith Abumazar we call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adre nedefa the pure Virgin She bringeth up a Childe in a place which is called Abrie the Hebrew Land and the Childs name is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eisi Jesus Introductor lib. 6. c. 1. This was enough to make Albertus Magnus beleeve that our Saviour Christ was borne in Virgo and therefore Cardinall Alliac erecting our Lord's Nativity by his description casteth this signe into the Horoscope But that was not the meaning of Abumazar His meaning was saith Frier Bacon quod beata Virgo n●ta fuit q●ando Sol est in Virgine ita habetur signatum in Cal●nd●rio quod nutriet Filiu● suum in Terra Hebraeorum That the said Virgin was borne the Sun being in that signe as also we have it set downe in the Calendar and that she was to bring up her sonne in the Hebrew Land But according to the received Tradition of the Church our Saviour was borne the 25 day of December at midnight in the yeare of the world 3967. The Circle of the Sun was ● and of the Moone 1. c. Therefore the Ascendent of his nativity was not ♍ Virgo but ♎ Libra and this was the Figure of the Heavens ♌ 5. 42. ♏ 5. 22. Lanceator 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ⚹ sive Aucturus ⚹ Spica ♍ ♎ 1. 43. ♃ 7. 8. ⚹ Gemma Coron● Conjunctio ●r●tum ♎ 28. 29. ♍ 27. 41. ⚹ Lucida ☋ ♐ Lyra 28 24. 69. 1. 51. ⚹ Praesepe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 s●●e Cor Leoni● in ♌ 1. 5. ⚹ Stella Nova 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 JESU CHRISTI Do mini nostri 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An. M. 3967. Decemb. die 25. Nocte media Ad Latitud Horizont Bethlehem Juxta Calculum Prutenicum ♑ 1. 51. ☉ 1. 5● ☿ 5 33. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 27. 35 ⚹ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive Clara Aquil● ☍ 27. 41. ♌ ♊ 28. 24. ♄ ♊ 12. 8. ⚹ Pro●●on 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive S●rius ♈ 28. 29. Plei● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in ♉ 1. sive Oculus ♉ 5. in ☍ 11. 15. Con Orb. ⚹ Prima Stella Ari●tis ♈ 1. 43. ☽ 27. 44. ♂ 7. 22. ♓ 5. 22. ♒ 5. 42. ♀ 16. 58. I tell you I do not this as if I thought the Starre of Jacob were Subject to his owne Firmament I abhorre to say as Cardan did that Iupiters being in the ascendent was the cause of his so soone disputing with the Doctours or that he so often travelled from place to place because the Moone was with Mars in a Terrestiall signe or that it should be from Saturnes altitudes that our Saviour should be so often seene to weepe but never once to laugh much lesse that Saturne with Venus could make him to have a mole in his Face He quoteth Iosephus for these two last accidents but you will not finde it there That excellent Author giveth indeed a very grave honourable Testimony of Jesus Christ in the 4th of the 18th booke of his Antiquities but without any such mentions as these But still I do but hold you in hand That which I may lawfully and innocently observe in the Scheme of our Lords Nativity concerneth thus First the ☉ of Righteousnesse was very fitly borne in Libra the signe and Constellation of Justice Next to this the Redeemers Horoscope was quite contrary to that of the World The Ascendent of the Creation was Aries for the World was created in the Spring as to the position of Iudea I cannot stay to prove it here I have done it elsewhere But much above all this there fell out at this time a Conjunction the greatest that can be of the 8 and 9 Spheares in the Head of Aries From whence it will follow that whereas at the beginning of this world the Asterismes were all out of their proper places it pleased God to have it so now at the restitution of the world they were all found in their owne divisions It is an appeareance of that kinde which nature can shew the World but once The same Figure of the Heavens never could before nor never can fall out agen unlesse the World should unreasonably last against all Christian expectation by the most moderate Account for if you cast about the slow Revolution of this period it will trouble you to call these or allmost any other the latter dayes The period according to some is to finish a Circle of 30 if not 40 thousand yeares This great yeare began at our Saviours Nativity but for any man to expect that it should ever have an end as to us and this World cannot be thought of but upon grounded Atheisme and absurdity I have onely one thing here to confesse that this figure of our Saviours Nativity is erected according to the Dionysian rate of account which useth to be called Vulgare initium annorum Domini The vulgar Epoche of the yeares of Christ but demonstrated to be false as they themselves doubt not by Mercator Christmannus Ioseph Scaliger Sethus Calvisius Suslyga the Polonian and others Masters all in Mathematicall Chronology some of them demonstrate that this Aera is false by one yeare some by two others by three the Polonian by foure and some others by five But when I saw that there could be so many true Accompts I thought it best to sit downe and abide by the old false one as well in reverence to the Tradition of the Church as for the rare appearances in the Scheme it selfe sufficient of their owne strength to evidence that this was the time both for the yeare and day though reason and Tradition should pretend against it And because there be some and some too that know not why they do it neither who continue to call in question the Antiquity and truth of this day I will put in a little more weight into their Scale who have very well assured this matter already both by historicall tradition and Mathematicall demonstration That which I meane to superadde first is an Apostolicall Canon as I finde it in Ioseph the Aegyptian's Arabick Code 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Also that you Constitute an Anniversary feast at the Nativity of the Lord Christ in the day in which he was borne and that was the 25 of the first Canun for this is the principall of all the Feasts Also that you do every yeare celebrate the Feast of Alchamim or Baptisme of our Lord the Christ upon the day in which he was baptised by John the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Forerunner and that was the sixt day of the second Canun A Persian Ephemeris to the same day of the same Canun setteth downe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nativitas Eisi or the Birth of Iesus So Alkas Cyriacus in a Calendar of the like Nature 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i e. the Nativity of Iesus Christ The