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A85346	Vnheard-of curiosities concerning the talismanical sculpture of the Persians; the horoscope of the patriarkes; and the reading of the stars. Written in French, by James Gaffarel. And Englished by Edmund Chilmead, Mr. of Arts, and chaplaine of Christ-Church Oxon.; Curiositez inouyes, sur la sculpture talismanique des persans. Horoscope des patriarches. Et lecture des estoilles. English.	Gaffarel, Jacques, 1601-1681.; Chilmead, Edmund, 1610-1654, translator.	1650 (1650)	Wing G105; Thomason E1216_1; ESTC R202160	209,056	473

such kind of Follies as these 3. I shall adde further that almost all the Fathers have been of opinion that we might lawfully read the books of the Heathen Philosophers Lib 2. de Doctr. Christ Cap. 39. 40. Lib. 1. de curat Graec. affect and such reasons are given for it by S. Augustine and Theodoret as will force the frowardest Critick to subscribe Now every body knowes that the greatest part of these books teach the Multiplicity of Gods and some of them Idolatry also But as for those of the Jewes who is he that hath ever accused them of either of these Crimes or that found any other Doctrine taught in them then that of the True God And why then may not men of Learning read these since we permit the other to be read to raw Children that are apt to believe any thing If there be many Fooleries to be found in them as it is objected by those that never read them there is yet much lesse danger in These then in Apostacy neither is there any of them so Absurd but that some Good thing may be drawen from them nor yet so barren but that they afford matter to raise some wholsome Doctrine upon Let us therefore take the Truths and passe by the Dreames let us gather the Roses and let alone the Thornes let us take up the Pearles and cast away the Shels In a word let us doe what Damascene teacheth us Lib. 4. de fide Orthod c. 18. Si autem saith he ab his quifornis sunt decerpere quippiam utile valuerimus non aspernabile est Efficiamur probati Trapezitae legitimum purum aurum acervantes adulterimum autem refutantes sumamus sermones optimos Deos autem ridiculos fabulas alienas canibus nibus projiciamus 4. We will now go another way to work and shew that many of those things in the books of the Rabbins which are accounted ridiculous by those that have them only by heare-say have not yet been accounted so by Learned Christians and such as know the Ancients manner of writing and that consequenly they are not to be rejected We shall therefore make choice of some of the most Mysticall Passages that are to be found in their books and shew how those strange doctrines are to be understood that so by these the Reader may be able to judge of all the rest If there be any thing worthy to be accounted ridiculous and absurd that doubtlesse appears to be the most likely which the Ancient Jewes have delivered of a certain Feast that God is to make the Saints hereafter For they write that when God had created the world seeing the bignesse of a Whale which he had lodged in the sea Others speake of Two to be so prodigiously vast as that he had not made any thing that was sufficient to nourish him he presently killed him and salted him up as we use to do Flesh purposing one day to feast the Elect therewith Contribulasti saith the Psalmist capita draconum in aquis tu confregisti capita draconis Possibly this Text may have given occasion of the Fable of Python slain by Apollo and if so this later story seems much more tollerable then the other For what madnesse is it to imagine that God should afterward salt up this Dragon or this Whale called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Leviathan 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Leviathan signifies also a Dragon and that it should be afterwards kept till the Last Day to make a Feast for those that should then have no more need to eat And what excellent entertainment should God bestow upon his Children when their cheare should only be of the flesh of a Powdered Dragon This were one of the grossest Fooleries that could be were there no other Doctrine couched under this Tradition then what the bare Letter affords and who can possibly imagine the Jewes to be a people so void of sence as simply to believe this without looking after any other meaning of the thing Let us rather hereafter entertain a better opinion of this people and esteem otherwise of those men whose wisdome the Christian Fathers have so deservedly admired I will not say but that the simpler son of people among the Jewes may peradventure have believed in the Literall sense this Mysterious Fable as there are among us that believe the stories of Aesope For there are found some old women so simple and I my self have seen such that hearing tell how the Lion talked with the Fox and hee with his companions that so he might devoure the hennes they really believed that in times past Beasts did speak and discourse of their own affairs taking occasion from what they have heard at Church of the speaking of Baalams Asse But as Aesope is very well known to have couched some mysterious sense under his Fables In like manner did these wise Ancients in those which they devised Scio sayes Paulus Fagius veteres Judaeorum Rabbinos aliud mysterium hac de reprodere voluisse qualia alia apud illos inveniuntur In 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 impress Isnae ann 1541. fol. 61. And then that he might take off the vail from these Mysteries and bring them into the open light he presently addes Tu per convivium summam illam ac aeternam faelicitatem quae justi in futuro perfruentur intellige Tum nimirum edent devorabunt Leviathan illum hoc est Satanam cum viderint illum cum omnibus ministris suis in aeterna praecipitari Tartara Insomuch that he must be no Man that sees not that this Doctrine is very little different from that of our Saviour Jesus Christ who sayes That in his Kingdome the iust shall eat and drink at his Table understanding by these expressions Everlasting Blisse 5. There is another Tradition found in the books of the Jewes that appears as ridiculous as the former which is Ib. fol. 100. videatur R. Moses Aegypt in More Neb. lib. 1. c. 65. that at the Creation of the world on the Even before the Sabbath there were ten Miracles created The first was That Prodigious Opening of the Earth that swallowed up Corah his Companions The second the Well or Spring that issued out of the Rocke and followed the Children of Israel and which say They God granted unto them for the merits of Miriam Moses his sister as also the Manna that went along with them and the Miraculous Cloud that attended on Aaron and his fellowes after whose death all these Miracles ceased The Third was Balaams Asse The Fourth the Rainbow The Fifth the Manna The Sixt Moses his Rod by which hee wrought so many Miracles The seventh the little Worme called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Schmair which Solomon used in the hewing and cutting of the stones for the building of the Temple that it might be done without noise though they were very great and very hard as you may see in the story of this