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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

and such Feasts were called by the name of Vigills and observed with no lesse reverence then the Fast of Lent This remedy was provided after St. Hieromes time which dyed the year of our Lord 422 when Bonifacius the second was Bishop of the See of Rome The like custome was also observed among the Aegyptians which on the Evens of their high feasts fasted and after they had slept they offered a Cow all such night Sacrifices and observances for like causes were by a perpetuall Law in Greece abrogated by Diagundas a Thebane The Fast of Wednesday and Friday was commanded by the Fathers because on the one day Christ was Crucified and on the Wednesday Judas purposed in his mind to bewray him as Apollonius the Eloquent Oratour supposed Silvester the first Bishop of Rome abhorring the memorial of the vain Gentile gods decreed that the dayes of the Week which had before the names and Titles of the Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus and Saturn should be called the first second third fourth fifth sixth and Seventh Ferie as the Jews counted their dayes from the Sabbath day He did also call the first Ferie Dominicus Dies that we name Sunday and called Saturday Sabbatum of the old holy day and rest of the Hebrews all these things were done at the Suit of Constantine then Emperour Albeit the Apostles before that time had consecrated the Sunday to the Lord because that day he rose from death and the Jews Sabbath was turned into it as may appear by the decree of Pius that ordained the Easter to be kept on the Sunday and therefore I think Silvester did but onely renew the same Act of the Sunday It was the invention of the Egyptians that the dayes were first named after the 7 Planets as Diodorus recordeth Saint Gregory was the Author that neither flesh nor any thing that hath affinity with it as Cheese Milk Butter Eggs should be eaten on such dayes as were fasted We have also a manner and usage of hallowing the Table and meat before we be set that began of the imitation of Christ which used the same fashion over the five loaves in the Wildernesse and at Emaus also he did likewise consecrate the Table in the presence of his Disciples so was the form of saying Grace after Supper taken likewise of the custome that Christ commonly kept at his Suppers The manner to read a part of the Bible at dinner time hath been of long continuance and did proceed of the Godly doctrine that Christ instructed his Disciples in at all times but namely at his last Supper wherein he treated of the perfection of all the Mysteries of our Religion And thus our fathers to keep in memory such an wholesome institution did bring in this manner of reading the Scripture at meat or meal-time CHAP. V. The original of holy-dayes Paschal Candles Birth-dayes LIke as the Jews had in their Law which was but onely a shadow of things to come holy-dayes appointed for the execution of the mysteries of their Religion whom they in one general term named Sabbath-dayes of the rest and vacation that they had from bodily labours semblably our fathers have ordained Feastival dayes in the N●w Testament wherein Christian men all prophane businesses and evil matters laid apart might whol'y apply themselves to godly and spiritual meditations As the perusing and reading of Scriptures hearing of devout Sermons rendring honour to God by sacrificing praying and well doing be works fit and convenient for the holy-day and also reverencing the memorial of Saints on such dayes as be assigned to that purpose is on the holy day laudable For Oblation is onely due to God as Paul and Barnabas did openly testifie at Listra For when he had commanded by the power of the Word of God that the man which was lame from his Mothers womb should arise and walk the people for wonder and marvail of the Miracle would have done sacrifice to them but they renting their cloathes departed out of the press and with sharp words rebuked their enterprise as a thing unmeet to be done to any mortal man or worldly creature First of all the Feast of Easter was instituted by the Apostles and prescribed by Pius the First to be solemnized on the Sunday Afterward Victor that was Bishop of Rome about the 196th year of our Lord decreed That it should be kept and celebrated on the Sunday from the fourteenth day of the first moneth that was March untill the 22 of the same lest our order and account should agree with the Jews which kept it somewhat sooner then that appointment speaketh of albeit many forraign Bishops at the first refused that Constitution because they thought it not amiss to keep that Feast after the president of Saint John the Apostle who renewed the Rite of the Jews in the Feast of Easter The custome of hallowing Paschall Candles on Easter Eve was commanded by Zozinus to be frequented in every Church The manner of keeping holy the birth-day of every man was much used in Rome albeit the Persians had that usage before them For there it is the fashion that every man after his ability should with observance of dainty feasts worship the day of their birth and of them the Romans received that superstition CHAP. VI. Of the Institution of Holy-dayes and Canonizing AS you have heard that Saint John the Apostle did celebrate the Feast of Easter even so the other Apostles as it is said were authours not onely of the same Easter-Feast but also ordained That those dayes wherein our Saviour had done any mystery concerning our salvation or information should be kept holy and to the intent they might be more reverenced of their posterity they themselves kept them during their lives very devoutly as the Sundayes Advent the Nativity Circumcision and Epiphany of our Lord the Purification of our Lady called Candlemas Lent Palm-Sunday Maunday-Thursday when Christ after Supper washed his Disciples Feet Good-Friday Easter the Ascension and Whitsunday the Feast of Pentecost was before used of the Hebrews For fifty dayes after that the Lamb was sacrificed in Egypt the Law written by the hands of God was given by Moses in the Mount Oreb in the wilderness of Sinai And 50 dayes after the death of Christ who like a Lamb was offered of the Jews for our Paschal the Apostles received the law of the Spirit The Feast of transfiguration came also of the Jews for like as Moses his face was transposed into a perfect brightness after he had communed with God in the Mount so now after the shadow and vail were taken away by Christ his coming it pleased God to shew to his disciples his transfiguration as a declaration of the shadow past and a figure or signification of the Immortality to come In consideration whereof the holy fathers perceiving the use of such holy-dayes confirmed and ratified them by a

man might not marry that Maid to whom his father was a God-father It was confirmed first by Gregory and after by Alexander the third That no man should marry his brother's wife lest it should be thought to be a counterfeit of the Hebrews Lanuch was the first that ever had two wives whose example many others ensued afterwards The custome of purifying of women was taken of the Hebrews but there is no day or time appointed for it Nevertheless for an honest order they use commonly not to be purified before the moneth day and then with a few honest Matrons she cometh accompanied to the Church and offereth a wax Taper and the Chrisome CHAP. V. Of the Temples Church-yards when the Crosse was first had in reverence IN the Old Testament Moses set up a Tabernacle curiously edified to God wherein Supplication and Intercession was made to him for the 〈◊〉 of the people And in that he made the Ark of Covenant in the which he put the two Tables of stone containing the Law of the Ten Commandements Aaron's rod and the pot of Manna After him Solomon King of the Hebrews made at Hierusalem ● Temple of costly array and sumptuously wrought I cannot to say truth perfectly tell where the first Church of Christians was builded but by all conjecture it seemeth that it was made of the Apostles either in Ethiopia where Matthew preached or in Lower India where Bartholomew taught or in Scythia where Andrew shewed the Word of God Where they doubtlesse either cause new Churches to be edified or else transposed the Idol's Temples to serve the Christians use abolishing Superstition and planting the true Religion of Christ Albeit it were not against reason to suppose there was a Temple or house of prayer appointed by James at Jerusalem In Rome the first that I read of was consecrated by Pius Bishop of Rome in the street called Patricius at Novatus Baths in honour of the Virgin Prudentia at the request and suit of Praredis her sister And after Calistus made a Temple to the Virgin Mary in a place beyond Tiberis and instituted a Church-yard in Apius's street and called it after his own name But Abraham was the first that made any place of burial in Hebron where he bought of Ephron an Hittite the double Cave for 300 shekels of silver with the the ground about it and there was Sarah his wife and he himself buried Noah builded the first Altar and offered upon it a burned Sacrifice to the Lord. And Bonifacius the third caused that they were covered with linnen cloaths Constantinus when he had won the battail against Maxentius by reason of a vision that he saw of the crosse the day of the battle ordained that from thenceforth no man should suffer death on the crosse And so in processe of time it was had in much reverence and worship And Theodosius made a law That there should no Image of the crosse be graven in stone marble or in earth lest men should tread on it Hellen Constantine's Mother a very vertuous woman repaired to Jerusalem to seek the Crosse of our Lord where with great labour and diligence she fouud it and with it the other two whereon the Theeves were hanged but it was ease to perceive Christ's Crosse by the Title which then did remain albeit sore wasted and corrupted with Antiquity CHAP. VI. Of the ancient rite or sacrificing Feast-dayes dedicating Temples the mystery of Fire Holy Water CAin and Abel the two sons of our first Father Adam offered in sacrifice to God the first fruits of their goods Abel his oblation was a Lamb Cain his gift was Corn. Afterward when the Priesthood was ordained Aaron and his sons offered divers things with sundry Ceremonies which he shewed at large in the book of Leviticus The Gentiles almost all sacrificed to the Idols men or women after sundry rites as appeareth in the Histories of Gentile-Authors And if it fortuned that they omitted any such abominable idolatry they had great punishment destruction of their fruit corruption of their water infection of the Ayr death of Cattel great droughts women had evil deliverance with many such plagues as Dionysius Halicarnasseus witnesseth which the spirits of the ayr procured to delude and seduce men and confirm them in their errour The holy-dayes among the Jews were divers as the Sabbath-day the Feast of the new Moon the Passeover the Feast of unleavened bread Pentecost the Feast of Tabernacles the Dedication day which be all shewed largely in the Old Testament The use of dedicating Churches is of great antiquity for Moses did sanctifie the Tabernacle and Solomon consecrated the Temple that he builded at Jerusalem And Esdras after when they returned from the Captivity of Babylon hallowed the Temple new again Of them we receive our Rite of hallowing of Churches albeit we have more ceremonies then they had Fire was kept continually on the Altar by the Priests for without it and salt could no sacrifice be duly made or ordinarily offered and we in our Masses have ever a Taper of Wax burning And the Emperours of Rome had Fire born before them and the Vestals had ever perpetual Fire in the Temple where they served Vesta The spirits of the ayr that gave doubtfull answers to them that enquired any question of them were at the coming of Christ all destroyed For when he was carried into Egypt which is a Country full of superstition and Idolatry all the Idols of that Region were overthrown and fell to the ground at his coming thither And in the time of Adrian the Emperour both the wicked sacrifices were abolished and also the Oracles of Apollo at Delphos Jupiter-Hammon in Egypt with like vanities were subverted by the power of God through his Son Jesus Christ Holy Water was ordained by Alexander the first to be consecrated to drive away Spirits and was commanded that it should be kept as well in Churches as in private houses for the same use whereof are grown among the common people many superstitious errours contrary to the Word of God CHAP. VII Who ordayned Praying Why we look Eastward Ministring the Sacrament of the Altar FOrasmuch as we are created of God after his own Image for the intent to honour and serve him and so finally to enjoy the eternal inheritance of Heaven which we must attain to by Prayer acknowledging our own infirmities and referring us to the mercy of our most loving Father It shall therefore be convenient to declare the institution of Prayer Prayer therefore was from the beginning as Abel prayed Noah Abraham Isaac Jacob with other Patriarks prayed to God in all their doubtfull affairs and gave thanks for the good atchieving of them Moses and Aaron with other as Anna the wife of Helcanah shewed us an example of Prayer But Christ is the first that did shew us any special form of Prayer as appeareth in the Gospell of Matthew

they that professed it had the title of Wise-men There be three parts of it one called naturall another moral and the faculty of disputing called Logick Naturall treateth of the World and contents thereof which Archelaus brought out of Ionia unto Athens Moral informeth the life and manners of men this part Socrates traduced from heavenly things to the use of life and to discern good and bad Logick inventeth reasons on both parts and was found by Zeno Eliates others divide it into five parts natural supernatural moral mathematical and Logick Dialogues were made first by Plato or at the least furnished with more eloquence for Aristotle saith that they were devised by Alexamenus Scire●s CHAP. XIV Astrology the course of the Stars Sphear nature of the Winds THe Earth is most subject to the influence and operation of the Planets and by the temperate seasonablenesse of the Constellations it bringeth forth abundance of fruits and as Julius Firmicus supposeth the Stars have also a power in the birth of men to make them of one fashion or other this or that complexion of good or bad disposition according as the Aspects Conjunctions or Oppositions do procure And the Egyptians have devised and appointed to every night and day its peculiar god and what destiny or death shall chance to him that is born on any such day And the Chaldees said that to atchieve any good or hurtful thing the Planets help much By this occasion men through diligent observing of the celestial bodies invented Astrology wherein the whole moveable course of the Heaven the rising going down and order of the Planets be comprehended which the Egyptians boast themselves to have found though some say Mercury was authour of it and Diodorus affirmeth it to be Actinus the son of Phoebus Neverthelesse Josephus plainly declareth that Abraham instructed them and the Chaldees in that Art and thence it came into Greece for all the learned men of Greece as Pherecides Pythagoras Thales acknowledge that they were disciples to the Egyptians and Chaldees But Pliny writeth that Atlas was the first founder of it and therefore the Poets feign that he beareth Heaven on his back Servius thinketh it was Prometheus that found it Nevertheless all these as I suppose were the beginners of this faculty every man in his own Countrey onely where he dwelled for even from the beginning of the World the sons of Seth devised first the Science of the Stars and for as much as they feared lest their Art should perish before it came to the knowledg of men for they had heard their grand-father Adam say that all things should be destroyed by the universal floud they made two Pillars one of stone the other of Brick to the intent that if the Brick wasted with water or storms yet the stone should preserve the letters whole and perfect and iu these Pillars they graved all that concerned the observance of the Stars And therefore it is probable that the Egyptians Chaldeans learned Astrology of the Hebrews and so consequently it spread abroad in other Nations and thus began Astronomy conceived to seduce mens wits Among the Romans Sulpitius Gallus in Greece Thales Milesius perceived the cause of the Eclipse of the Sun and Moon Endimeon marked first the course of the Moon and her changing as Pliny writeth Pythagoras as some say observed the course of Venus called the Day-star but as Laertius supposeth it was Permenides The Sphear was divised by Archimedes a Syracusian but Diogenes taketh it to have been Museus and Pliny a●cribeth it to Anaximander The winds were first observed by Aeolus as it is reported upon this reason The Inhabitants of the Islands about Sicily Prognosticate by the smoke of the said Isles three dayes before what wind they shall have and for that cause they say that Aeolus hath dominion over the winds The winds as some divide them be four according to the four principal Regions of the ayr they that be more curious make eight And especially one Andronicus Cerestes which builded in Athens a Turret and set on every side of it the Images of Winds graven against the Region whence the winds came and set them on Pillars of Marble and in the middle he set a brazen Image of Triton which he had made so that it would turn with the wind and stand with his face toward the wind that blew and point with a rod to the Image of the same Wind which manner is now used in all Countries for they set up Weather-cocks or Fans to shew out of what Quarter the Wind bloweth CHAP. XV. Who Invented Geometry Arithmetick with other things NIlus the most famous River of the World from the time that the Sun is in Tropico Cancri untill it come to the Equinoctial line in Libra again doth overflow all the Downs and plain Countries of Egypt by the altitude and deepnesse of this flood the Egyptians foresee the plenty and scarsity of fruits to com For if it increase but unto the depth of twelve or thirteen Cubits it portendeth lack of sufficiency if it passe fourteen and so to sixteen it importeth great plenty In the time of Claudius Caesar it waxed eighteen Cubits which was the greatest tide The least was in the time of the battel at Pharsalia whereby it signified how it abhorred the murther of the valiant Pompey When Nilus with such inundations had partly diminished partly transposed the Meers and Land-marks whereby their portions of land were disordered they were compelled often to measure their bounds afresh for that cause the Egyptians vaunt that Geometry was invented by them to measure Lands As Arithmetick by the Phoenicians the better to perform their Merchandise But Josephus seemeth to attribute both to the Jews saying That God prolonged the time of their lives because they were employed in studies to search out Astrology and Geometry and the Egyptians were ignorant in Geometry and Arithmetick untill the time that Abraham taught them Geometry contained the description of lengths breadths shapes and quantities In this Strabo in Greece excelled in the time of Tiberius and Ptolomy under Trajanus and Antoninus In Italy Plinius and Foninus Measures and Weights were found by Sidonius as Eutropius saith the same time that Procas reigned in Albany Ahaz in Judah and Jeeroboam in Hierusalem Some write that Mercury devised them in Greece Pliny ascribeth it to Phidon of Argos Gellius to Palamedes Strabo to one Phidon of Elis in Arcadie Di●genes saith that Pythagoras taught the Greeks weights and measures but Josephus affirmeth that Cain found them first of all Numbers some say were invented by Pythagoras some by Mercury Livius supposeth that Pallas found them The manner of counting years in Greece was by Olympiads which contained the space of five years as the Romans did Lustra which contained the same

Authority with his Apostles to establish the Common-wealth and Religion of Christians and the 10th day after his Ascention he sent the Holy Ghost into their hearts to strengthen and teach them all truth This was 33 years and 3 moneths after his Incarnation Thus our Religion had its original and the Apostles by their preaching amplified and enlarged it very much For Peter first preaching to the Jews in Jerusalem of the cruel murther that they had committed against Christ Jesus converted and baptised in one day 3000 men and Women And by the miracle of healing the lame man at the beautifull gate of the Temple he stayed and confirmed them strongly in the Faith albeit he suffered persecution greatly for the same And Stephen for his faithfull testimony was stoned to death Philip converted and baptised the Samaritanes and a certain Eunuch of Candaces Queen of Ethiopia the Eunuch turned the Queen with her family and a great part of that Countrey to the faith of Christ After in Antioch the faithfull named themselves Christians Thomas preached to the Parthian● Matthew in Ethiopia Bartholomew in s India Andrew in Scythia John in Asia Peter in Galatia Pontus Cappado●ia Peter was born in Bethsaida a City of Galilee and brother to Andrew He was Bishop of Antioch seven years and converted many people of Asia and after went to Rome in the time of Claudius and there preached the Gospel with great increase At the same time Mary the Virgin and Mother of 〈◊〉 Saviour Jesus Christ did change her life which was the year of our salvation 47 Not long after Paul being converted from his phantasticall Traditions to a Preacher of Christ's Gospel was brought to Rome where he preached boldly the Gospel notwithstanding the great persecutions that he suffered for it and afterward suffered death by the way of beheading at the commandement of Nero the same day that Peter was crucified on a Crosse Thus daily the Congregation of Christians encreased more and more as the Acts of the Apostles and other Histories do declare it fully Albeit there was great trouble and persecution in every place yet God by his power contrary to their expectation turned their cruelty to the furtherance of his Word confirmation of the faithfull and confusion of them that used tyranny CHAP. II. The Institution of Circumcision and Baptism GOD which had made promise to Abraham that he should be father of many Nations and that all the world should be blessed in his seed that is Christ willing to stay his faith in the same promise appointed the Covenant of Circumcision between him and Abraham saying Every male shall be circumcised and the flesh of his fore-skin shall be cut round about for a sign of the League and Confederacy that I make with thee Upon this Commandement Abraham then being 99 years of age did cut his foreskin and his son Ismael's being then 12 years old whom he begat of Hagar his bond-maid and all his servants For this cause as S. Cyprian saith that he might have the first fruits of the blood which should afterward shed his holy blood for the redemption of many yea of all that believe in him The fashion of it was to cut the fore-skin of a man's yard with a knife of stone as God commanded Joshua that he should make knives of stone to circumcise all the Israelites the second time and Moses did circumcise his children with a sharp stone Chrysostome calleth Circumcision the first and most ancient Commandement for there is no Nation that gave any precepts or rules to live by before Abraham or Moses and therefore it is to be supposed that other Countries took example at the Hebrews to circumcise their Children as the Phoenicians and Arabians the Saracens the Ethiopians the Egyptians and the Colchians This Circumcision of the flesh was a figure to us of the circumcision of the heart and casting away of all superfluous lusts carnal desires and importeth a moderation and mortifying of the affects and concupisce●ces of the old Adam I mean the sinful body he that had not this sign was banished out of the number of the people of God and had no part in the promises made to Abraham Baptism wherein is left to us a signification both of the mortification of the flesh and dying to the World that we may walk in a new life and also of the washing away of our sins by Christ's blood and is the token that we be of the body of the Congregation of the faithful was instituted by Saint John son of Zachasry the 15th year of the Emperour Tiberius his reign in the Wilderness beside the famous River of Jordan where he baptized much people This baptism and washing was in the water to ssignifie the washing away of our sins that should be by Christ which baptized in the Holy Ghost and fire There were signs of Baptism in the old Law as the Cloud the Red-Sea the River of Jordan The first that was christned of the Heathen was Cornelius of Caesaria and the Eunuch of Queen Candaces Christening of Infants was instituted among us as Circumcision of children was of the Jews celebrated the eighth day Iginius Bishop of Rome ordained first that children which should be Christened should have a godfather and a godmother for to be witnesse of the Sacrament that it was received And Victor Bishop there did institute the one might be christened either by a lay-man or woman in time of necessity because Infants were often in dange● There be three manner of Baptisms as Cyprian divideth it One in water whereof John was author another in the Holy Ghost and fire whereof Christ was Institutor the third in blood wherein the children that Herod slew were christened It was also the manner in old time that they which were grown in age should be baptized in white apparrel and that was wont to be at Easter or Whit-sunday onely necessity constrained otherwise In the mean time till those dayes came they were taught the mysteries of the Religion of Christ which they should professe Of that custome I suppose the 7th Sunday after Easter is called the White-Sunday CHAP. III. Of the Priesthood of the Hebrews and degrees of the same LIke as in the Christian Common-wealth there be two sorts of men one called the Laytie to whom appertaineth the ministration of the publike weal and all temporal affairs the other is the Clergy to whom belongeth the cure and charge of ministring the Word of God Sacraments and other decent ceremonies so in the old Law of the Hebrews there were two jurisdictions one of them was Captains and Governours of the Commons the other was the Priesthood that did offer up the sacrifices and other oblations Of this degree of Priests Aaron and his sons were the first ordained and consecrated by Moses at the Commandement of God The manner and fashion