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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

Temple or Tabernacle of Venus from Benoth also hee deriveth her name Let the Learned examine it Bee the conceit true or fals it is attended with an egregious dexteritie in the cariage and probabilitie in the conjecture The Assyrians burie their dead Corps in Honie for the most part and cover over the bodies with the Wax their manner of Lamentations for the Dead is to beat their breasts and to besmear their faces with dirt not unlike in this to the Egyptians Strabo Herod of whom see what Herodotus writeth in Euterpe Arrian maketh mention of certain Sepulcres of the Kings of Ashur found by Alexander amongst the Fenns in Babilonia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lib. 7. expedit Alex. A like place to this I have not as yet found c. Their Habite in Apparel was to wear long garments one without of Woollen another under that of Linnen wee may call the first a Coat the other a shirt they had without these a white Mantle They alwaies wore rings upon their fingers not without a seal they never walked without a staff and their staves had knobs carved with a Rose or Lilie or such like Herod Strabo ibid Against Ashur prophecied Balaam the Magician Esaie Jeremie Zephanie Nahum and others And this was the State of antient Ashur in her florishing times under the famous Rulers of the first Monarchie In this Countrie these Kings acted their parts especially at Babel and Ninive the Assyrian one while bearing Rule otherwhile the Babylonian as hereafter shall appear Having thus briefly and rudely surveied the position and disposition of the Land of Ashur peculiarly and properly taken especially the two famous and Royall Seats of the Assyrian Monarchie Ninive in Ashur and Babel in her borders it remaineth that wee address our selvs to discours the succession of her Kings which Chronologically undertaken ought according to the rules of that Art to proceed either per 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the master Chronologer Eusebius hath don in his first books or els per annos expansos as the same hath don in his second Upon which see Scaliger's most learned Animadversions and his Notes upon the first But the injuries of time have so far prevailed against the Method of this Monarchie that wee cannot make use of anie of these artificial waies the wounds in our golden head beeing so near to mortal that no Principle or Rule in Art may touch them to the quick and therefore our industrie must attemper it self to the necessitie of this Ataxie and confusion which the neglect of Ages past hath breed in this unfortunate portion of Historie The first therefore and most Antient Description of this Kingdom of Ashur was performed by God himself who upon a time discovered to the King of Babel in the night Visions the State and nature of this Monarchie under the form and figure of a golden Head under the form of a Head becaus it bare the first and chiefest place among those Governments which were eminent in the World A Head of Gold First becaus it was the most renowned among the Monarchies as Gold among the Metals 2. For it 's great and admired Strength Gold beeing the strongest of all Metals becaus best and most neerly compacted And for this caus also this Kingdom in another Dream of the Prophet's own is compared to a Lion 3. For it's Perpetuitie Gold beeing the most durable Metal and this Monarchie of the longest continuance which also seemeth to bee intended by the Eagle's wings upon the Lion for the Eagle is observed to bee of a lasting constitution as King David intimateth in the 5. vers of the 103 Psalm and notwithstanding this bird continued long yet shee might live much longer but that her upper beak crooketh in time over the lower and so shee faileth not with age but hunger See here the Prophets own Monument as it is preserved unto us in the tongue of the Chaldeans 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nehuchadnezar's Vision Thou O King art this Head of Gold This Images Head was of fine Gold After thee shall arise another Kingdom inferior to thee His Brest and his Arms of Silver And a third Kingdom of Brass His Bellie and his Thighs of Brass And the fourth Kingdom shall bee hard as Iron His Legs of Iron And whereas thou sawest the feet part of Iron and part of Claie the Kingdom shall bee divided partly strong and partly broken His Feet part of Iron and part of Claie In this choice Lecture of Antiquitie which the Antient of daies vouchsafed to read to his Prophet Daniel to illustrate the night and darkness of the King of Babel's dream wee finde the vast affairs of the wider World summ'd up into a Microcosm a stately statue of Heterogeneous structure indigitates the various passages and different occurrences which had been or were to bee in the world and all this in a Dream becaus all these things should pass awaie like a Vision of the night In the Golden Head behold pourtraied as it were the face of the first Monarchie In the breast of Silver behold the second stretching out her two arms over the two mightie Kingdoms of Media and Persia The brasen paunch swels out in the ambition of proud Alexander The thighs of the same Metal but weakned by division represent the Successors of that great Captain in special the 2 more noted Rulers of the North and South The Iron-leggs lighting upon an Age like themselvs So most of the Writers determine though I will not as yet but in the mean time I have set down the most ordinarie stand out for the * Romane furie whose Martial presumption under the protection of their Grandsire the God of Battel crusht the rest of the World in pieces like a Potter's Vessel In the heat of these Commotions behold a Stone cut out of the Mountain without hands and falling upon the Statue grind's it to powder This Stone the builders refused but is now becom the head of the corner 'T is that Rock Christ who instead of all these petit Dynastie's hath introduced an everlasting kingdom but his Kingdom is not of this World In the continuance and encreas of this spiritual Dominion the strong union of the Iron legs devide's it self and becom's partly Claie whilest the Romane Eagle displaied with two Heads declare's that the power of Rome is imparted to Constantinople and the Western Empire fallen under the rising of the Eastern Letting pass the rest of the members onely the head is that which wee intend to discours of A golden Head this Prophet stile 's it bee it so but it is now so far distempered with the drossie injuries of time that the greatest Alchimist in Historie can scarce extract one dram of the pure and primigenious metal Annius a Dutch Monk undertook the cure of this broken Head thinking to salv up the matter by stuffing up the wound with forged fragments obtruded to the World under

the Earth as they did from that other Deadnesse of their Mothers wombe Wee our selves grow thus up too like the Grasse of the Field we are not seen but found to doe so 'T is so with these fore-running parts If you draw neare to touch a head or a legge you shall perceive no more of this Resurrection for that time but if you give backe and leave the Miracle to it selfe you shall presently finde it more a man at your returne Because I meane to make no more use of this wonderfull prevention of those that sleep then what I first pretended to I shall be bound to trouple you the lesse with any much repetition of the particulars You may finde a competent store of this matter in Camerarius his Historicall Meditations C. 73. of the first Century I will adde to that this onely out of Simon Goulartius from the Relation of one Steven Duplais an eye-witnesse and a man of very good and sober note in his acknowledgement Il me desoit d'avantage avoir comme aussi firent les autres touche divers membres de ces resuscitans Sim. Goulart Histoires admirabil T. 1. fol. 32.34 c. Et comme il vouloit se saisir d'une teste chevelue d'enfant un homme du Care s'escria tout haut Kali Kali ante materasde c ' est a dire Laisse Laisse tu ne scais que cest de cela i. e. And hee told me moreover that hee had and others had done so too touched divers of these rising Members And as he was once so doing upon the hairy head of a Child a man of Cairo cryed out aloud Kali Kali ante materasde that is to say Hold Hold you know not what you doe That which seemeth to bee wanting to the authority of this strange thing is that there should be no ordinary memory none at all I can meete with yet of the matter in any of their owne Bookes That in the Greeke Liturgies out of the Lesson for the time I know not how to make reckoning of as enough to this purpose in any other Bookes of theirs and some likely ones too I meet not with any notice at all And yet as to that I can retort this answer upon my selfe that a thing of so cheape and common beleefe amongst them could not fitly be expected to bee written out as a rarity by themselves and sent forth into these unbeleeving Corners of the World Which though it may passe for a reason why there should not be any such common report of the thing yet leaveth me scope to think that there is some speciall mention of it in the Arabick or Coptick Histories which when it shall be met with if it be found to referre up the Wonder to some excellent and important Originall it will the better defend this matter of Fact from the opinion of imposture Indeed the rising of these armes and legs otherwise is but an ill argument to be used for the Resurrection of our bodies for 't is easier to beleeve this then that The Arabick Nubian Geographer telleth of a place in Aegypt called Ramal Alt sinem or the Sands of Tsinem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Where there is a great miracle of the most Glorious God And it is that if you take a bone and bury it in these Sands for the space of seven dayes by Gods permission it shall turn into a very hard stone c. Clim 3. Part. 3. And what if all our Bones were buryed in the Sands As if God were not able even out of those Stones to raise up Children unto Abraham If the Phoenix of Arabia should prove to be an Vtopian Bird as I will not now suspect after such a size of Apostolicall Authority and so sufficient a countenance given to that It will be enough for us that the Swallowes know their time too as well as the Storke and after such a manner as if they knew or at least would have us to know it ours too These at the beginnings of winter use to fall down in heaps together into the dust or water and there sleep in their Chaos till hearing the voice of returning nature at the Spring they awake out of this dead sleepe and quicken up to their owne life againe Georgius Major A Commentatour upon the Corinthians to this fifteenth Chapter affirmeth that he himself found a company of Swallowes lying dead under an old Table in a Church at Witteberge which for want of the naturall time of the yeare were by an artificiall heate recovered unto life againe CHAP. XXVIII Matth. 3.4 And the same John had his Raiment of Camels haire and a Leatherne Girdle about his Loynes and his meat was Locusts and wild Honey THe rest is plaine enough but for the Locusts there hath been a great deal of unnecessary Criticisme devised and as it fals out to make the word in a worse case then it was before 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the word it can signify nothing here but Locusts and the question needs not to be whether these be mans meat or no it is certain that the Jewes might eat them by the law of Moses Lev. 11.22 In Dioscorid Lib. 2. C. 46. And Mathiolus upon Dioscorides saith that this was the reason why John Baptist made use of them as a strict observer of the Law But that they are eaten in the East and elsewhere you may see Kerstenius his Note upon an Arabick Translation of Saint Mathew's Gospell And John Leo in his Description of Africa But that which is here to the purpose is the note of Agatharchides in his Tract upon the Red Sea where he speaks of the Acridophagi or eaters of Locusts He saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That their habit of body is thinne and meager c. So Cleonards Note of the Countrey people of Fez in Africa will be fit to the matter It is in his last Epistle to his Tutour Latomus towards the latter end Nova de Bellis nihil ad Brabantinos neque enim strepitum armorum audietis alius est Exercitus quem Deus his regionibus immisit paucis ante diebus Fesae vidisses Coelum obductum locustarum agminibus quae hic non solum saltant sed avium ritu volitant Jam coram video minas priorum prophetarum multis in locis Nocte una sata perdunt universa bellum strenue cum iis gerunt rustici Nam plaustra plena Locustis advehunt Fesam nam hos hostes vulgo hic commedunt Ego tamen sum tam delicatus ut malim perdicem unam quam locustas viginti quod totam hanc regionem gens locustica devoravit i. e. I can tell you newes of warres but not like yours in Brabant Vid. Eustath in Hexaemeron No noise of weapons here 't is another kinde of Army which God hath sent into these Coasts Within these few dayes you might have seene the whole Heaven clouded over with Troops of Locusts such as doe