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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42079	Gregorii posthuma, or, Certain learned tracts written by John Gregorie. Together with a short account of the author's life and elegies on his much-lamented death published by J.G.	Gregory, John, 1607-1646.; Gurgany, John, 1606 or 7-1675.	1649 (1649)	Wing G1926; ESTC R2328	225,906	381

ours Here followeth a Custom most detestable and unfit for anie Everie woman throughout all the Countrie was bound once in their lives to repair to the Temple of Venus and there to prostitute their bodies to whomsoever that would but throw down a certain piece of monie were it less or more which monie was given to the Temple and to the honor of the Goddess Their manner was thus The Women sate down in the Temple distinguished one from another by little lines of Cord which hee that would might take awaie or break if the Woman seem'd to bee coie and so take their Strumpet out of the Temple into a by-corner c. The Epistle of Hieremie if that bee his which wee finde annexed to the Apocryphal Baruch maketh mention of this horrible and impious practice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And the women encompassed with lines sit down in he Allies burning Bran for perfume but if anie of them drawn by som that passeth by lie with him shee reprocheth her fellow that shee was not thought as worthie as her self nor her Cord broken This Venus also they called Mylitta as they might for as good reason as they did the Moon but as in their Gods so in the names of their Gods hee that readeth shall finde notable confusion Master Selden understandeth by Succoth Benoth nothing els but this 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 Goat 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 דניאל 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 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 stand out for the So most of the Writers determine though I will not as yet but in the mean time I have set down the most ordinarie 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 securitie of old promissing names of undoubted Grandies in Antiquitie Egyptian as Manetho Chaldeän as Berosus Persian as Megasthenes whom hee falsly calleth Metasthenes Munster undertook the defence of this Annius his Countrieman but without caus or Commendation hee that would hear his reasons let him repair to his Cosmographie Munsteri Cosmograph l. 3. c. 8. pag. 362. and read the begining of his discours concerning Germanie manie a creadulous Reader hath been deceived by giving too much reverence to naked names for Berosus his sake believing Annius in that of Berosus which Berosus never dreamed of Scaliger therefore upon better consideration and stricter examination seriously abhor's him Calvisius both refute's him and condemn's him No master in Historie but denie's him wee may conclude him therefore Adulterine and yet not indictâ caussâ for in the continuance of this discours wee shall be disturbed with unhappie opportunities to prove him so to bee In the mean time this supposititious crew shall nothing prejudice those precious relicks of lawful Antiquitie though they bear the same name with the Autor of these spurious pieces for to refuse the good becaus the bad have usurped their names were a consequence most preposterous best fitting the stubborn Logick of a Jew who therefore abhorred the true Christ when hee came becaus there had been before him a fals Messias called by the name of Jesus of Nazaret Leaving therefore this faithless Monk to his unadvised admirers wee will follow the steps of sacred Moses and the best of those Jewish glosses whose Autors have sate in Moses's seat where these fail us wee shall have recours to the better Berosus of the two to the true Manetho Megasthenes Alexander Polyhistor Diodarus Herodotus and Dionysius of Halicarnassus c. adding conjectures where necessitie enforceth but with that moderation that shall best becom our Minoritie In the later part of the Monarchie the sacred style of the Holie Ghost will help us in the high Priest's Annals or Chronicles in the Prophets Esaie and Daniel and els-where Had the entire works of Berosus the Chaldean Priest remained perfect to these daies or those two Volumes which Juba wrote concerning the state of Ashur this labor might have had better success wee should also have been much enformed by Abydenus had not hee suffered wrack with the rest under the injurious behaviour of a careless age however wee will make the more of those chois remainders which are yet left out of which wee will endeavour tenderly and carefully to gather together the decaied pieces of this maimed Monarchie Though this Historical work in hand bee in nature practick yet it must bee indebted to the Theorie of this Art for som certain terms as Aera's or Epoches Characters of the Sun and Moon 's Circle the Eclipses and the Letters Dominical First of all an Aera in Theorical Historie is a certain bound or Terminus à quo whereby they restrain the infinitie and indifferencie of Computation It was called Aera from an indifferent error which escaped the Transcribers of the Spanish Computation In Libro de correctione Anni So Sepulveda and hee a Spaniard conceiveth in his book of the Correction of the Romane Year where hee saith that His antient Countriemen for the great respect they bear to Augustus Caesar thought nothing more worthie then his Name from whence matters Noteable might bear their Date and therefore when they would point out a Time wherein such or such a thing was don they said Annus erat Augusti it was such a year of Augustus that form in time began to bee contracted when men wrote in haste so that instead of Annus erat Augusti they set A. er A. and after a little more negligence put this together and spelt it into a word of Art so that now Aera in Historie signifieth a determinate and set time from whence Chronologers account their years as each man dateth his Letter in the Aera of our Lord when hee setteth down as wee do at this time dated the 20 of December in the Year that is in the Aera of Christ 1630. Scaliger lighting upon this Conjecture of Sepulveda reprehend's both the Conceit and the Autor Lib. de Emendatione temporum the Conceit becaus fals as hee intimateth in the Chap. De Aera Hispanica mainteining that the word Aera signified as much with the Antient Latines as Summa and that in old Spanish Monuments it was not set Aera but Era and therefore could not bee corrupted out of A. er A. The Autor hee reprehendeth becaus hee seemeth to bee so far in love with this new Conceit that for no other reason hee writ the whole Book of the correction of the Romane Year onely to acquaint the World with this plausible devise A hard censure from a matchless man for whom it had been happie that hee had been ignorant but of this one thing that hee knew so much James Christman Keckerman's most learned Master fetcheth this word out of his Arabi●k It was called Aera saith hee from Arah which in the Arabians tongue signifieth computare to reckon Ch●istm i● lib. de connexione Annorum The Reader may enjoie the priviledg of this varietie and take his Chois if hee take them all hee may perchance lack the right and hee shall not take much amiss if hee take anie by either and by that wee have said hee may easily understand in what manner the word is used in Historie In stead of Aera which the Latines used the Greeks write Epoche the same in effect it beeing derived from the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying inhibere becaus an