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A91895	Endoxa, or, Some probable inquiries into truth, both divine and humane: together with a stone to the altar: or, short disquisitions on a few difficult places of Scripture; as also, a calm ventilation of Pseudo-doxia epidemica. / By John Robinson, Dr. of Physick. Translated and augmented by the author.; Endoxa. English	Robinson, John, M.D.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1700; Thomason E1821_1; ESTC R203377	61,732	159

with Scripture that Moses and thence all Magistrates are the preservers of both tables will hardly go down with me By keepers they must understand impertinency attends others interpretations overseers to look to the outward execution of the Ten commandements which if it were granted unto Moses it would prove but a lame argumentation to derive it unto Princes under the Gospel because their Church and Common-weale were the same subjects We are to pray and endeavour for the conversion of the Jews which can hardly be conceived without conversation But upon their co-habitation with us to compell them against conscience to a positive Celebration of our Lords day were Duci non trahi volunt a preposterous way to gain them to the true faith The interdiction of publick labour for the not disturbance of the rest is sufficient Neh. 13. 19. The Sabbath being a lesson of grace cannot be read by the letters of reason as was mentioned before But as the injunction of all Divine worship upon an unbeliever hath little equity in it so neither is it possible for the Supreme Power to take cognizance of the breach of every Commandement For the last precept Thou shalt not covet c. the new conceived motions and infant-affections of the desire of our Neighbour's goods are forbidden which because not apparent they are as if they were not I speak ad hominem according to that Maxim Non entis non apparentis eadem est ratio When these concupiscences break forth into actions they are to be ranked under the heads of Adultery or Theft And the Dealogue doth not admit of Tautology This concupisence if it be hidden to ones own self Rom. 7. 7. How shall it be manifest unto others Thus God securerh both tables with a lock which no key of reason can open That place Esa 65. I will create new Heavens and new Earth with the like consonant places are meant of new-moulding the State both in Church and Common-wealth under the Gospel when they shall be more remarkably distinguished But these men labour for a monstrous prothusteron that the Heavens should be ruled by the Earth the Higher governed Gen verkeerde weerld by the Lower and the greater by the lesser orbes Let every Sphere enjoy its proper Intelligence Neither can I so readily assent to those who affirme that two or three gathered together into a society rise up to an Organicall Church For that Mat. 18. speaking of such a Church presupposeth more persons For if thy brother offend thee there are two persons and after reproof will not hear thee take one or two with thee there are four perfons and those males whereas experience daily teacheth the contrary Acts 16. 13. besides the Church yet how small the embryo of a particular Congregation may be is hard to depose definitively As in all sensitive bodies these three faculties are required to attract to nourish and to expell the same may be said of every Congregationall body It must have power within it self to admit and receive in to nourish and foster those received and to expell or decline that which is noxious But the grand Quere will be Whence this Power is derived Doubt They of the See of Rome lay claim of inheritance to it by succession from Christ and Exam. his Apostles and so exclude as Hereticks all those that usurpe the title of a true Church or Ministry without succession or ordination from them Others even of our brethren in the Reformed Churches do deny this to belong to a Church without some succession or dependency on other Churches Of whom I dedesire the solution of these two Questions Whether a company of godly people being by Quest 1. shipwrack cast into the a barbarous or empty Iland where they are like to live out their dayes may not joyn into a spiritual body and so raise up unto themselves the exercises of all Ordinances revealed in Gods word If any one think that by stating the godly Sol. out of the Church it is a begging of the question he must have recourse unto the former distinction that they are indeed dispersed parts of the Vniversall Church but not organized by union unto Ecclesiasticall duties A multitude but no people Paul when he assayed to joyn himself unto the Church of Jerusalem Acts 9. 26. was as a private man no actuall member of any determinate Church but as an Apostle vertually of all confined to no particular place rather a Father then a Nurse to most of the Churches of the Gentiles Lest any should deny this Demand these things are tendred to their consideration Whatsoever is Spiritually a living body is Spiritually 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 perfecting it self An Axiom grounded upon Reason Aristotle applyeth it to the Soul of Man But all Believers are Spiritually living Bodies and have an inward principle to build up themselves and others in their holy faith So 1 Thes 5. they are commanded to edifie one another and 1 Pet. 2. the Faithful are called living stones Now presuppose that a company of living stones it is lawful to dispute upon a false Hypothesis meet and joyn together who will doubt but they may and ought to rear up from themselves a perfect Edifice Ephes 2. 21. From this ground arise all Politick Corporations Common-Weals and Kingdoms since a man for his well-being hath need of several things and one alone is not laid in with all kind of Handicraft or Art for a mutual good there is a coalescency So in the Church every one is nor an eye or hand some must act the ear others the foot Semblable is that of Solomon Eccles 4. Wo to him that is alone for if he fall who shall raise him up Again I ask In time of Reformation from Quest 2. Idolatry or profaneness to an Orthodox Holiness Whether there be not the same necessity which there was in the case stated before How shall they be reduced where there is Exam. no Church will be the question The Examples of the Disciples that were sent out by Couples will teach that These Hewers of Stone and Timber did by converting many fit and square them for a Spiritual Edifice If it be answered affirmatively then they may unite together into a Church without succession or dependency on other Churches If not either they must procure some Superltious or profane Minister to receive-in Members to ordain Officers in a true Church which is absurd or else they must stay till they meet with another true Church or Ministry which besides the difficulty favoureth of a Prelatical Jurisdiction of one Church over another of which something in the subsequent Chapter where the difference of Authority and benefit of one Church towards another is more copiously examined Some that meekly yet earnestly contend against this way object two main Arguments The first is It is unlawful to withdraw or separate from a true Church The second is concerning readd Prayer A word to

If for us He became Man He did also for us fulfill the Law 2 His Intercession by which our Persons and Prayers are made acceptable to Him that sitteth on the Throne is altogether forgotten Without the apprehension of either of these a Soul shall find but small solace in the highest pitch of his own performances and slow Returns of his humblest Addresses Rev. 12. 11. The Woman having the Moon under her feet THis is generally expounded of the Church trampling upon sublunary and unconstant things Later Writers take it for the Church under the Gospel which is promoted a form higher than the School of the Law that is then the Jewish Ceremonies and Festivals which were commonly regulated by the course of the Moon None of these Expositions are Heterodox or strangers from the Text but may have their secundary place still reserving the most honourable Seat for the principal first-born signification The most genuine sense to me is if a tender Fore-head may have a place among more composed Brows to synchronize with the History of that time wherein John lived to signifie the Churches treading down all Idolatry which was generally all Asia over to Diana of Ephesus whose Embleme among the Heathen the Moon Crescent was and is given in the Arms unto this day of the most puissant Idolater of the whole Earth An encouraging Omen for all Christians to wage War with the Grand Turk Aquilae augurium Though they had other several Gods yet this exceeding in Universality and Magnificence is Synecdochically put for all the rest FINIS A Calm Ventilation OF Pseudodoxia Epidemica OR Doctrine of Vulgar Errours Set forth by the hand of the most sedulous THOMAS BROWN Dr. in Physick By the still GALE OF JOHN ROBINSON His Fellow-Citizen and Collegian Pro captu Lectoris habent sua fata libelli LONDON Printed by J. Streater for Francis Titon at the three Daggers in Fleet-street 1658. The Contents BOOK 1. CHap. 1. In the first Fall whether the stronger were deceived by the weaker 113 Chap. 2. Whether Adam and Eve were the greatest sinners 114 Ibid. Whether Satan tempting knew Christ's Deity Ib. Ibid. Whether the Devil's Despair be sin Ib. Chap. 3. Errour defined 115 Ibid. Whether all things be known by their causes Ib. Ibid. Whether the Egyptian Ear-rings were stoln 116 Chap. 4. Of Pythagoras's Bean. 117 Chap. 6. Whether whole Nations be indisposed to Learning Ib. BOOK II. CHap. 1. Of warmth of Springs 120 Ibid. Of freezing of Eggs. Ib. Of the Spirit of cold Ib. Whether sparks be the accension of Air 121 Chap. 2. Of the variation of the Needle by submarine Earth Ib. Of its rest in the midst of Water Ib. Chap. 3. Of the Terrestrial Pole 122 Of the Wound-Salve Ib. Of revealing of Secrets Ib. Chap. 4. Of Electricks 123 Chap. 5. Of Daniel and the Dragon 124 Of boiled Gold 125 Of Coral Ib. Chap. 6. Of Generation by Putrefaction 126 Of Cloves Ib. Chap. 7. Of Cats 127 BOOK 3. CHap. 1. Of Elephants 128 Of the site of Musculs 129 Chap. 2. Of Horses dunging Ib. Chap. 9. Whether propagation be from every part Ib. Chap. 12. Of the Soul of Adam's Rib. Ib. Chap. 13. Of Frogs 130 Chap. 16. Of Vipers Ib. Chap. 17. Of Silk-Worms Ib. Chap. 18. Of Moles Ib. Chap. 21. Of the use of Nostrils 131 Of Aliments taste Ib. Chap. 22. Of Chilification 132 Chap. 23. Of Unicorn Ib. Chap. 24. Whether Terrestrial Creatures were first named 133 Chap. 26. Of the Glo-Worm Id. Of the Pigmire Ib. Of singing of Birds 134 Of the Spider and Toad Ib. Chap. 27. Of the yellowness of the Stomach 235 BOOK IV. CHap. 1. Whether Man alone sit 136 Of the Generation of Males Ib. Chap. 6. Of Fat floating 137 Chap. 7. Of the weight of a Blown-Blather Ib. Chap. 10. Of the cause of the Pox. 138 Chap. 12. Of time Ib. Chap. 13. Of the Dogg-stars rising 139 BOOK V. CHap. 4. Whether any thing in Paradise were hurtful 140 Whether Eve could kill her Husband Ib. Chap. 5. Of Adam's Navel 141 Chap. 6. Of the Jews Ceremonies 142 Chap. 14. Of Jephthe 143 Chap. 19. Of Long-tail'd Bears Ib. Chap. 21. Of sitting cross-leg'd Ib. Chap. 22. Of Palmestry 144 BOOK VI. CHap. 2. The World created in Autumn 145 Chap. 5. Of the motion of the Sun in the Equator Ib. Chap. 7. In Paradise were the principles of all things 146 Ibid. Of the advantage of the East Ib. Chap. 10. Of the Mores blackness 147 Ibid. Of Sight Ib. Chap. 11. Of cold fire Ib. BOOK VII CHap. 1. Of the forbidden Fruit. 148 Ibid. Of the word Pomum Ib. Chap. 4. Of the Rain-bow 149 Chap. 5. The Printers faults Ib. Chap. 7. The ancient Hyssop Ib. Chap. 13. Whether the Moon be the cause of flowing and ebbing Ib. Chap. 17. Of Poisons 150 Preface THE enchaining of Knowledge within the Fetters of Humane Authority surpasseth the Turkish Thraldom Set the understanding free and dis-ingaged from the usurpation and tyranny of precedent opinion it will sore into a serene height Nay as further disquisition and experience of man doth promote clearness of mind so is it no shame upon second review to lay Battery to ones own former weakness and upon the demantling of it to cast up a stronger Breast-work still allowing the full weight of reverence unto Antiquity if it be right This candor I have found in my honoured Friend and Author who in his maturer years is willing to rectifie what himself and others in their younger days were falsly seasoned withall It is the freedom besides of a Philosopher to cite any thing doubtful and suspicious to the Assizes of Rational Inquisition There need but little care concerning the choice of a Language For I am sure whose art cannot afford him more Tongues then Nature doth Eyes he will never attain to the full understanding of his elaborated exercitations which I confess require a more subtile Reader and Judge then my self my cold Brain would Snail-like be contented to cozen the Winter with a three Moneths sleep But zeal unto truth the spark of labour hath almost awakened me from my wonted drow siness not that I desire to reciprocate the Saw of Contention Here I do but more regularly examine what we have in private without infringing the limits of Amity more loosely discussed We both being loyal Subjects to Truth agreeing on that third cannot disagree from our selves nor from any that subscribeth with me to be Her faithful Follower John Robinson BOOK I. CHap. 1. In the first fall the strongest was not deceived by the weakest For Satan in the Serpent as being created a Sphere higher then man was the stronger We must not think that the edg of his intellect was dulled by sin this line not being defective in length but straightness Neither are a regenerate man's thoughts subtiler but sublimer The experience of Eves sense v. z. not dying immediatly did give the foil to her husbands faith Ib. Whether