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head_n	ephraim_n	hand_n	left_a	2,932	5	12.0419	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30105	Chirologia, or, The naturall language of the hand composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof : whereunto is added Chironomia, or, The art of manuall rhetoricke, consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence, by historicall manifesto's exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life and civill conversation : with types, or chyrograms, a long-wish'd for illustration of this argument / by J.B. ...	J. B. (John Bulwer), fl. 1648-1654.	1644 (1644)	Wing B5462A; ESTC R208625	185,856	386

hath been practised in Ecclesiasticall absolution Parisiensis for this reason would have it a sacrament because it hath a sacring and sanctifying signe to wit a sign having a naturall resemblance with inward sanctification it self which is the Hand To this gesture as it is cunningly made an Appenage to the Papall policie of auricular confession I have nothing to say only I finde that the ancient form of absolution was to hold both the Hands conjoyned over the parties head which was to be absolved which may be also exhibited by one Hand laid in sequence of the other or both conjoyned and held above the head so appearing in the aire without any residence at all upon the head The manner of performance at this day it seems is to lay on both the extended Hands upon the head so that they touch the crowne and rest and settle downe thereon ¶ As this gesture is significant in benediction it was used by Isaac upon his death-bed when he blessed his sonne Jacob who supplanted Esau of his blessing by counterfeiting the rough Hands of his elder brother And thus Jacob about to dye blessed his twelve sonnes every one of them with a severall blessing Our Blessed Saviour who with the sacred gestures of his Hand hath sanctified the expressions of ours and made them a holy language was often seen to use this expression of the Hand whence the Church commenting upon his action saith He by his outward gesture and deed declared his good will to little children in that He embraced them in His Armes LAID HIS HANDS UPON THEM and blessed them And the very last expression that flowed from His sacred Hand was blessing for at the time of His ascention He LIFTED UP HIS HANDS and blessed His Apostles and while they beheld Him in this posture blessing them He departed bodily from them ascending up into Heaven Hence in all tacit posies of His ascention this figure of the sacred property of His Hand is most emphatically significant ¶ That in conferring the blessings of primogeniture and adoption this gesture of the Right Hand is more peculiarly significant is excellently illustrated by the adoption of Ephraim unto the birthright of Manasseth by Jacob when he blessed Joseph sons For Joseph bringing his sonnes to be blessed of his father tooke Ephraim in his Right Hand towards Israels left hand and Manasses in his left hand towards Israels Right Hand so he brought them unto him But Israel STRETCHED OUT HIS RIGHT HAND and laid it on Ephraims head which was the younger and his left hand upon Manasses head directing his Hands on purpose for Manasses was the elder But when Joseph saw that his father laid his Right Hand on the head of Ephraim it displeased him and he staid his fathers Hand to remove it from Ephraims head to Manasses head And Joseph said unto his father not so my father for this is the eldest put thy Right Hand upon his head But his father refused and said I know well my sonne I know well he shall be also a people and shall be great likewise But his younger brother shall be greater then he and his seed shall be full of Nations So he blessed them that day and said In thee Israel shall blesse and say God make thee as Ephraim and Manasseth And he set Ephraim before Manasseth For the Historicall sense of this expression see Tiraquel and Dr. Field Pererius Rupertus and Isidorus affirme that in a mysticall sense this cancelling or crossing of the Patriarchs Hands in exhibiting his blessing and transferring the right of primogeniture to the younger was representatively done to prefigure a mystery of the calling of the Gentiles and the preferring of them before the Jewes and that this was the first type or prefiguration of the manner of the promised Messiahs passion in the decreed way of redemption ¶ The same gesture we use in gracing our meals an expression very proper and significant For the Hands reverently erected without any other forme of speech annexed seem naturally to pronounce this Grace O Thou supreame Power the giver of all good things who openest with thy Hand and fillest every living thing with thy blessings vouchsafe O Lord benedicendo benedicere to let thy Right Hand blesse sanctifie and confirme unto us the blessings of thy left And it is a brand of prophane unmannerlines in the rough Hand of Esau that he was readier to strike Hand with a chapman to sell Gods blessing for his meat then with his Hand to invite it to his meate Whereas our Blessed Saviour thought blessing bid by this reverend invitation of the Hand a considerable guest at a feast who to shew that man liveth not by bread only upon all such occasions used the signification of this gesture Thus He blessed the five loaves and two fishes wherewith he wrought his feeding miracle And from this Chireulogia or act of blessing and giving thanks the Sacrament used at His last supper is called the Eucharist And in the tearmes and stile of School-men or naturall Divines to speake to the fundamentall point of this gesture now in Hand The Hands and Blessing seem to be conjugates in the Schoole both of Nature and Grace Benediction being a naturall rite neare allied unto the Hand and of spirituall affinity with prayer For Religion and Grace disa●●●● not the powers of naturall expressions but advance them to a full and purer perfection improving the corporeall sense of those manifestations to a more spirituall and sanctified signification That inexhaustible fountaine therefore of Blessing our Blessed Saviour having ordained himselfe a Hand and having taken upon Him the corporeall nature of man was constantly pleased to honour the nature He had so taken and to enforce by the precept and authority of His owne example the significant convenience religious use and decent importance of this property of blessing annexed to the Hand ¶ In consecration this gesture hath the like congruity of signification for there was never any thing by the expresse command of any legislator to be hallowed by a dedication but the Hand was called to and injoyned to attend as a proper addition to confirm and sanctifie all other rites not that there is any inherent holinesse in the Hand or solemne forme of expression but an adherent only The very heathens have acknowledged a significant vertue in this expression of the Hand for we read that Numa was consecrated upon mount Tarpeian by the chiefe of the southsayers called Augures laying his Right Hand upon his head a piece of superstitious apishnesse they learned from the grand spirituall Impostor Moses a man skilfull in all the learning of the Aegyptians among which some secrets of our Chirosophie were judiciously veyled by inspiration commanded the Right Hand of the high Priest to wit the thumbe thereof or vice-hand to be hallowed with the oyle in his left palme from thence called the Holy Finger a forme

accept of the peace with the conditions Archelaus had agreed unto nor untill Mithridates had made him answer that he did would he accept of his proffered and suspected amity for then and not before he resaluted embraced and kissed him Thus Fredericke partner and consort in the Kingdome with Uladisla●● the second King of Bohemia REFUSED TO GIVE HIS RIGHT HAND to Sobieslaus whom his father received into favour after he had attempted to raise garboyles in Moravia pretending he had the gout in his Hand And so that lofty and stately Prelate Dunstan REFUSED TO GIVE KING EDGAR HIS RIGHT HAND before he was excommunicated because he had defloured a Virgin but rating him Darest thou touch my Right Hand that hast ravished one devoted to God I will not be a friend to him that is an enemy to God injoyned him seven years penance after which he was absolved and the childe christned Chare diligo Gest. LX. VVE PUT FORTH BOTH OUR HANDS TO EMBRACE those we love as if we would bring them home into our heart and bosome as some dear and pretious thing as Aristotle gives the reason of the gesture To which expression I find that of the Psalmist referred My Hands will I lift up unto thy commandements which I have loved A proverbiall speech taken from this intention of the Hand as Simon de Muis observes Cornelius a Lapide notes the naturall disposition of the Hands in embracing who commenting upon the second of Canticles 6. His left Hand is under my head and his Right Hand doth embrace me for lovers and parents use to put their left hand under those they tenderly affect and then with their Right Hand to EMBRACE the whole body and so bring them to their bosome comprehending them in the compasse of their armes as in the most naturall circle of affection Honoro Gest. LXI TO APPREHEND AND KISSE THE BACKE OF ANOTHERS HAND is their naturall expression who would give a token of their serviceable love faith loyalty honourable respect thankfull humility reverence supplication and subjection From this naturall gesture the Spaniards tooke their usuall formes of salutation and valediction whose complement usually is Baso les vostres mans I kisse your Hand The sonne of Sirac acknowledgeth the signification of this submissive gesture in that saying Till he hath received he will kisse a mans Hand If we should looke backe up on the actions of affectionate lovers whose inflamed hearts have moved them to sacrifice kisses on this low altar of friendship and to offer their service by this modest insinuation of gesture we might finde many passages of historicall antiquity to confirme and illustrate the sense of this expression How passionate was Cyrus when he came to the place where his friend Abradatas lay slaine seeing his wife sitting upon the ground by the dead body of her Lord for bursting forth into this patheticall ejaculation O thou good and faithfull soule art thou gone and left us and there withall TOOKE HIM BY THE RIGHT HAND and the Hand of his dead friend followed for it was cut off with the cymeter of an Aegyptian which Cyrus beholding it much aggravated his sorrow But Abradatas wife Panthea shriked out and taking the Hand from Cyrus KISSED IT and fitted it againe to its place as well as she could To match this president with another most illustrious postscript of surviving affection that bright mirrour of masculine constancie T. Volumnius when he had long wept over the body of his friend M. Lucullus whom Marke Anthony had put to death because he tooke part with Brutus and Cassius desired Anthony he might be dispatched upon the body of his friend whose losse he ought not to survive and having obtained his desire being brought where he would be having GREEDILY KISSED THE RIGHT HAND of Lucullus he tooke up his head that lay there cut off and applied it to his breast and afterward submitted his neck to the sword of the Conquerour Valerius Maximus in the relation of this Story runs high in setting out this hyperbole of friendship and unmatchable paterne of Roman fidelity ¶ Allusius the Cel●iberian used this expression of thankfull humility to Scipio when he had received that unexpected favour at his Hand to have his captive betrothed wife preserved by him and freely delivered unto him seeing it could not be comprehended nor equalled by any recompence or thanks he was held seised with joy and shame and taking Scipio by the Right Hand prayed all the gods to requite the great favour he had done him seeing he found himselfe insufficient to make any satisfaction as he desired ¶ As this gesture is a signe of honour and obsequious reverence Cato Utican had his HAND KIST by his Army in especiall honour of him at his departure Scipio the conquerour of Africa received the like respect and reverence from certaine Pirates who when they had intreated him they might presume to approach into his presence and to have a view of his person he let them in and immediately they went and worshipped the posts and pillars of his gates as if his house had been the harbour of some sacred deitie and having laid their gifts and presents at his threshold ran hastily to his HANDS AND KISSED THEM which done overjoyed as it were with so great a hapinesse they returned home Delapsa Coelo sidera hominibus si sese offerent venerationis amplius non recipient saith Valerius This token of love and honor may be further amplified out of Livie For when T. Quintius had vanquished King Philip and proclaimed liberty by the Beadle to many of the parts of Griece as the Corinthians Phocensions and others there was such joy as men were not able to comprehend at last when their joy was once confirmed by making the Beadle to cry it once againe they set up such a shout and followed it so with clapping of Hands redoubling the same so often as evidently it appeared how there is no earthly good in the world more pleasing to a multitude then liberty is and afterwards running apace unto the Roman Generall in such sort that his person was in some danger of the multitude crouding so hard upon him alone to TOUCH HIS RIGHT HAND Thus Charicles a Physitian departing from Tiberius as it had been about some businesse of his owne under colour of duty TAKING HIM BY THE HAND felt the pulse of his veines Thus also we finde Gadatas and Gobrias in Xenophon worshipping the Right Hand of Cyrus But the most unseasonable and servile use of this expression the Senatours made towards Nero when even in the height of their griefe the City filled with funeralls the Capitoll with sacrifices one having his brother another his sonne put to death or friend or neare kindred gave thanks to the gods deckt their house with bayes fell downe at the Emperours knees and WEARIED HIS RIGHT HAND WITH KISSES It was a strange