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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

strong Swell'd her vext Unitie into a Throng Charming Confederates their mixt Powers to reach To storm the Fort for Shee had made the Breach Till the Fresh Host possest of everie Part Whil'st Gouts secure thy Joints the Rest thy Heart Thy over-number'd Corps at last did fall No one sick Patient but an Hospital M. LL. TO THE MEMORY OF My dear Friend and Tutor Mr. JOHN GREGORY I 'L not accuse thy Fall that well-plac'd Fate Made thee th' Desire of th' Age no more the Hate 'T is just it wants what it contemns that They Wander unpitied who despise the way Fools their own Sentence still and Judgement are They beg their Ill and suffer that false Pray'r Nor will we pity Thee since what thy Minde In its Restraint and Prison could not finde Press'd with its Body and the Time it now Free'd from th' ungratefull Loades does clearly know Truth 's thy Possession and what e're begun Of Knowledge here ends how in Vision Errour and Wonder cease and that Pure Fire Which when it cover'd lay and shaded here Thou could'st not fully by its languishing Faint Ray discover the True Face of things As colours are not judg'd i th' Twilight where Wants Darkness to be hid and Light t' appeare Shines out unclouded now and does enjoy All its High Essence dares a Bright Full Day Of Knowledge where Pure Unmix'd Light does streā No false Refraction nor Errours in the Beam No Doubtfull Colour that Veyl of Shade and Light Disguises things no Distance breaks the sight But that Unbounded Glory that Certain Light Commands all Objects Sure and Infinite Let it not wrong thy Memory that we Admiring what thou Now art doe pass by Thy Knowledge Here as if 't were wanting no What Man could find Thou need'st not Dye to know Language was thine and what that Language frames Thou wert not seen onely in Empty Names Those the Materialls of thy Knowledge were But not the Work Thou onely enter'dst there Where Others rest and loaden with their rich Prey Thou brought'st home thence Arts numerous as They. 'T were idle to recount them by thine own Remains th' hast left us they are greater known Then by our Faint Report 'T is They must raise Trophies that will outlive all Lesser Praise For to the same Duration Sacred be The Aged Relique and the Memory R. GOODRIDGE UPON THE DEATH Of my Loving Friend Mr JOHN GREGORIE SUre it must needs bee so or els I shou'd Think Providence but little understood The State of things when a dull sensless Tree Stand's and outlive's a Jewish Pedigree But Man whose Knowledg might new Worlds create And so compose a wiser Book of Fate Him the least breath must scatter into Air As if his dust not yet compacted were For I don't speak of one whose Destinie Was but to make a Sermon and so die Such as the Law deliver in a Cloud Thicker then God at first did and as loud Such as blaspheme by Preaching ne're have don Until their Comments make an Alkaron Who scare the Turk from beeing Christian And Indians fear they then should put off Man Hee search't Religion's Source Gospel and Law From Moses in the Flags to Christ in Straw And was so skill'd in these Antiquities That hee could almost tell where Moses lie's Who was † 'T is the opinion of a Learned man that Melchisedeck was not called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 becaus hee had no Father and Mother but becaus it was not known who his Father and Mother were Melchisedeck's Father Rectifie A Jew ev'n in 's own Genealogie Who saie's hee die'd too soon that had liv'd o're All Ages whatsoever were before And knew so much of Language that alone Hee might have sav'd all Nations in their own Idiome and Dialect though there never fell A Cloven Tongue or other Miracle Great Citizen of the World though thou die'dst here Yet thus wee prove thou wert born Every where And like the Sun too didst thou never sleep But when wee call'd it Night thou still didst keep Thy journey on till with as large an Eie Thou viewd'st the Univers as much as hee But thou could'st not endure alass to run O're the same Circle still so having don Surveying this our Globe thou went'st to see * Galileans probably conjectured all the Planets were inhabited Worlds What other worlds did do aswel as wee Thus art thou fled and left us here to bee Sad Ruines of an Universitie VVhat Ignorant Malice could not reach unto Nor War it self thy single Fate did do The World began at Noon but thy bright Raie More glorious Sun did set at thy Mid-daie Now wee do'nt mourn our State for at thy Fall 'T is fit this Kingdom perish World and all Our heap of Stones at Christ-Church prove's to bee But a more spatious Monument to thee And when wee purifi'd from this Age shall name And dedicate a Temple to thy Fame Wee 'l call this Island thine which is no less Famous for thee then it 's unhappiness When Cities Temples burnt shall bee forgot And Sacrilege too the prais of thee shall not Parents shall hither bring their Sons of Years To paie their Tribute in a Sea of Tears And pointing to thy Tomb crie There are found Oxford and Gregorie in one yard of Ground Fr. Palmer Upon the much deplored Deceas of Mr John Gregorie Chaplain of CHRIST-CHURCH HEnce Exclamations on Disastrous Fate Let none here call the Stars unfortunate Or rail at Lachesis The Soul that 's gon Scorn's such a whining Celebration And dare's that Autor whosoe're hee bee To search into the Stars so far as hee Since Life was lent him 'till hee had a view Of all the Mysteries that Nature knew And had a perfect Knowledg of each Art That either Rome or Athens could impart 'T was time now Learning 's banisht to suspend His labor and to get to his Journei's end Should this so sad Intelligence bee sent The Hebrews and Chaldeans would lament The Syrians and Arabians though so far VVould send to know this an Ambassador But vain and fruitless would their Labor bee VVhen none could give an Answer t' it but Hee Hee so admir'd of all that had alone Diversitie of Tongues for 's Portion So fluent so redundant in them all That each which hee had got seem'd Natural The Pious Fates gave him a lingring Death Fearing all Arts might perish in one breath But fearing too that if hee should live long All Nations would again becom one Tongue They added this Confusion to the world And thus together too his Ashes hurl'd Asscend Departed Saint to bee a Guest To Dialogue with Abram and the rest Thou hadst most Tongues but know thy Joie's excess Is far more now then Angels can express Epitaphium Joannis Gregorii NE premas Cineres hosce Viator Nescis quot sub hoc jacent Lapillo Graeculus Hebraeus Syrus Et qiu Te quovis vincet Idiomate At nè molestus sis Ausculta caussam

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Majim 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 Metaphrast Ms in Archiv Baroc Feb. 25. for that in the Tetrampodus or Quatrefois of that City 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 Gazcorum Episcopi otherwise the Authors owne derivation must be taken If the Prophet may at all be understood in the sense of the Midbar it foundeth not much unlike to that which the Emperour Julian told the Antiocheans in his Misopogon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 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. The 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 grieved 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 Ancients termed him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Phavo●inus 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 Sunne it selfe shined 7 times brighter before the fall then ever it did since To bring the world out of that darkenesse into this Marvellous 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 Iulii Schiller praefat in Vranograph Christian p. 6. Col. 2. that is as in the China Tongue it signifieth the rising Sunne that Sunne 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 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 the Sun and his very Clothes 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 doe 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 Angell bodie Natus est c. This day is borne to you c. Therefore also at the setting of this Sunne which was the Reverse part of the Mystery darkenesse fell upon the Earth the Naturall Sunne 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 blacknesse who rising from the Horoscope beheld these two Eclipses in a square Malignant aspect Not so onely for in the selfe same day which is more perhaps then you have heard of there happened a naturall defection of the Moone in the 11 of Libra beginning at Hierusalem about 6 in the Evening in so much that the Sun was no sooner gone downe but the Moone appeared in the East Eclipsed 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 Sunne was once unnaturally and the Moone twice Eclipsed The Calculation and Figure of this Lunar Eclipse you may see if you will in Chronologia Catholica Henrici Buntingii 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 Hieromes Testimony though it were Lighted in the Sunne Supposing therefore out of Albumazar that every Religion is governed by some Planet as the Mahumetan by Venus the Jewish by Saturne c. Some Astrologers did not inconveniently to attribute the Christian to the Sunne 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 ardens 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 do 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 Vigilia 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 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eucholog fol. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A. 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 Theodesian's Code Coelestis Lumen Lavacri