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A13263	The Athenian babler a sermon preached at St. Maries in Oxforde, the 9. of Iuly, 1626, being Act-Sunday / by Humphry Sydenham ...	Sydenham, Humphrey, 1591-1650?	1627 (1627)	STC 23561; ESTC S530	27,777	47

their opinion stooping neyther to the loosenesse of the one nor the austeritie of the other but of these no mention in the Text. The Areopagites intimated in the foot of this Chapter were not Philosophers but the Athenian Iudges some say others their Consuls or their Senatours In the street of Mars where the Athenians brought PAVL Act. 17. v. 22. and enquired of his Doctrine was their Tribunall where they sate vpon their more weighty affaires and Gen. not ibid. of old arraigned SOCRATES and condemned him of impietie But I haue no quarrell to these since I finde they had none to the Apostle The Stoicke and the Epicure are the sole incendiaries and ringleaders of the tumult whom the very Text points out in this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some sayd men as opposite in their opinion as to the truth one seated his chiefe happinesse in the pleasure of the Body the other in the vertues of the Mind The Epicure attributed too much to voluptuousnesse Aretius in cap. 17. Act. the Stoicke to the want of it that would haue a vacuitie of griefe both in mind and sence this taught his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a nullitie of all affections in eyther These are the broad and common Differences in their opinion and such as heere tread opposite to the Doctrine of Saint PAVL but there are others more cryticall and nice which not finding touch'd by the pen of the Holy Ghost I presum'd to enquire after in their owne Schooles in Zeno's Stoä for one and in Epicurus Garden for the other A trauaile somewhat vnnecessary for Athens amongst Philosophers where they are daily canuast Yet perchance there may bee some Nobles heere of Bereä Vers 17 and Chiefe women of Thessalonica Vers 4 which haue receiued PAVL with all willingnesse which know them not I shall bee onely your remembrancer their informer Epicures for I begin with them they haue the precedence in the Text challenge both name and pedigree from EPICVRVS the founder and Father of that Sect. Hee was borne at Athens seauen yeares after the Death of PLATO where he liued taught dyed Hee wrote 300. Bookes in his owne Art without reference to a second Pen and what is strange obseruation no sentence no precept of Philosopher but his owne those of DEMOCRITVS de Atomis and of ARISTIPPVS de Voluptate DIONISIVS HALICARNASSEVS cals his Lib. 2. Hist His deportment and way of carriage in matters of Moralitie was very remarkeable Lib. de Epicur In Parentes pietas in Fratres Beneficentia in Serues mansuetudo 'T is the triple commendation LAERTIVS giues him And in lieu of these and the like vertues his Countrey afterwards erected many brazen Statues and ATHENAEVS wrote certayne Epitaphes to the perpetuall embalming both of his name and honour Hee was one it seemes more irreguler in his tenent then his life abstenious hee was moderate in his repast A Ferc sic in Lorum in his desires Oleribus vtens exiguis HIEROME sayes and hee confesses himselfe in his Epistles that Temperance was his Feast the lowest stayre of it Allexand ab Alex lib. 3. Genaelium Dierum Cap. 11. Parcemonie Aquâ contentus polentâ His place of teaching was in Gardens and the manner not onely to the capacitie but the Disposition of his hearer The whole Fabricke of his precepts hee builds vpon this double ground The one on Mans part that hee is composed of a double substance a Body and a Soule and both these mortall yea the Soule vanisht sooner then the Body For when the Soule is breathed out the Body yet remaines the same and the proportion of parts perfect Anima mox vt exierit veluti fumus vento diuerberata dissoluitur But the Soule is no sooner seperate then blowne away like smoake scattered by the wind So S. AVGVSTINE relates the opinion in his Tract De Epic. Stoic 5. Cap. On this foundation was raised their great opinion that Mans chiefest happinesses consisted in the pleasure of the Body The rest of that was the end of all Blessednesse For to this purpose doe wee all things In Epistol ad Herodetum that wee may neyther bee disturbed nor grieued 't is EPICVRVS owne Doctrine Yet euery pleasure is not so magnified as that of the Pallate by superfluitie of the Body by effeminatenesse But when after a long tolleration of sorrow a greater pleasure ensues when the Body is no more beaten with griefe the Mind vntost and free from all waues of perturbation there was the true Happinesse Hee was blessed that enjoyed those Delights in present future they neither beleeued nor cared for Death was the slaughterman of all And therefore SENECA calls the Schoole of the Epicures Delicatam Senec. lib. 4. de Benefic vmbraticam apud quos virtus voluptatis ministra For if the Soule also perisheth with the Body the dirge and requiem that they sing is Ede Bibe Lude Eate and Drinke for to morrow wee shall Dye and after Death what pleasure And therefore wee find their vsuall Epicaedium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Death is nothing to vs for what is dissolued wants sence Lib. 3. Pyrron Hypotyp cap. 24 and what wants sence is nothing to vs. For if Man bee composed of Body and Soule and Death bee the dissolution of both the burthen of their song runnes instantly Cùm sumus nòn est mors cùm autèm mors est non sumus so SEXTVS EMPIRICVS Moreouer they would haue the Soule a kind of body otherwise say they it would neyther doe nor suffer Incorporeum with them is all one with Vacuum and therefore the Soule they sayd was composed of Atomes and when the Atoms in a man were dissolued then the Soule dyed as EPICVRVS himselfe in his Epistle to HERODOTVS The other foundation is on Gods part for the Epicure grants there is a GOD but denies his Prouidence howbeit vnder a glorious colour Deum ad Coeli cardines obambulare Gualt in Locum nulla tangi mortalium curâ as if forsooth it would not stand with the maiestie of the world to regard what is done in those sublunary parts Jn Apoleg aduers ginits cap. 24. and so make God as TERTVLLIN complaines Otiosum inexercitum neminem in humanis rebus happely conceiting it might detract somewhat from his delight and pleasure to molest himselfe with the care of this nether World Aboue all things this moued him most Homines Religiosos that the most Religious men were most of all afflicted whereas those which did eyther wholly neglect the Gods or serue them but at their pleasure came into no misfortune or at least no misfortune like other men And in fine Ipsa etiam Templa fulminibus constagrari hee obserued that the Temples also raysed for the honour of the Gods and dedicated to their seruice were oftentimes burnt with fire from Heauen Out of which premisses the silly Heathen gathers this desperate Conclusion Allexand ab