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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

the super scription of the Crosse of Christ and yet not one of them litterally agreeing with another Some make a strange paraphrase upon it My thoughts are that the Holy Ghost setteth down nothing a la vole at random but there is a reason of every iota in that incorruptible System And he foreseeing that the Antichristian brood would idolize that title I. N. R. I. hath on purpose varied the expression in the Elements holding all to the same sense that so there might be no ground left for the canonization of that devised tetragram The same prevention did God of old use with the Jews in the secret burying of the body of Moses which if that people prone to idolatry had discovered would have turned his tomb into superstition The like I conceive of the birth day of our Saviour All the records we have is In the dayes of Herod Whereas other acts of inferior concernment have the year of the reign of the King the month and day registred unto posterity This me-thinketh might in sober-minded men take off the edge of that eager pursuit in the celebration of the Nativity of our Redeemer Though the Grandees in Mathematicks would have the conjunction of the eightht and ninth sphere to have been that day A. M. 3967 in ♈ yet that this account doth differ one two three four or more years and upward many grave Authors have probably concluded Better is a modest sitting down under a dutifull ignorance than the extolling of an uncertain errour Mat. 27. 44. The Theeves also that were crucified with Him cast the same things in his teeth IT is certain by the harmony of the Evangelists that one of these Sufferers was a convert and having faith in Christ did rebuke his fellow It is obvious for the Holy Ghost to put a plurall for a singular or the whole for a part and vice versà In this there is something more The denomination is from the most eminent For this was a notorious valliane His unbelief did overtop the remorse of the believer not in worth but in degree Practically it denoteth the contagion of sin that a guiltlesse person in company should be branded with the infamy of the malefactor See Josh 7. 11. Mat. 26. 8. Here it is a happiness to keep aloof Joh. 20. 17. Iesus saith unto her Touch me not for I am not yet ascended to my Father THese words do not import a naturall or moral absurdity of the touching of Christ Not naturall For by his tangible quality he proveth himself to be no spirit Luke 24. 39. and layeth it in against suspicion of imposture or delusion Nor morall For he biddeth his disciples handle and see him both in a verse one sense being as lawfull as the other vers 27. He biddeth Thomas reach his finger and his hand and touching him thrust it into his side But knowing the strength of Maries faith he would have her live higher then sense On the other side he did condescend to meet with the weaknesse of Thomas's belief and make his outward feeling subservient to the strengthning of his inward faith As leight meat in a robust stomack or stronger viands in a feeble body both are subject to corruption So doth our wise and indulgent Houshoulder bring forth suitable dishes of dispensations according to every ones spirituall disgestion The hardest knot remaineth yet undissolved viz. the coherence of the words Why his not yet being ascended could be a reason of his interdiction of her touching him My conjecture is because at heavens door faith leaveth us or rather is swallowed up by the real fruition of that beatitude which we in this life did but hope for He bid her delay the highest degree of perfection till they should meet in heaven It was enough here that she by her worshipping and Rabboni-ing of him did own his Resurrection Though to live by faith doth argue more fortitude yet to live by sense is more certain and more happy The former most fit for a Souldier Militant the latter proper to a triumphant Victor Whereas it is said Faith is of things nor seen sight is not synecdochically taken for any sense It was a strong evidence of her faith to believe not feeling And thus expounded it may be unto her particular a sufficient reason of her interdiction But from hence to derive a standing rule that Our Saviour's raised body was either Physically or morally intangible sheweth a defect of naturall Logick 1 Cor. 11. 7. For a man indeed ought not to cover his head THe senseof this place to us is contrary to the Letter which seemeth harsh to them who being slaves to syllables do not consider the scope and place where this was written For the intention of Paul was to preferre the man above the woman the subjection of woman being signified by their covering and that naturall v. 15 by naturall must be meant the custome of the place not an internall cause for that is also common to a man I question not but most males would Absolon-like if sciffers were abandoned vye with many women for length of hair as it was a token of superiority to be uncovered which custome pleaseth severall Nations unto this day In the Eastern Countries a servant is not permitted to enter bare-headed into the presence of his Master And the French Potestants do upon the same ground justifie their preaching having their heads covered So some of Hipocrates Aphorisms though with them unfallible oracles transplanted into our nations by losing their lustre contract a suspectednesse and without subscribing to a Protagorean Sceptism That which is true in one place may be false in another 1 Tim. 1. 8. I was before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief FRom hence most Divines conclude Paul to have been an unbeliever before Christ appeared unto him yet this may be questioned For he was zealous for the Jewish Religion not yet fully buried brought up at the feet of Gamaliel and according to the rule of charity as we are if judgment will permit bound to construe all things in the most favourable sense he did trust in the seed of the woman Shiloh the Messiah the individuum vagum though through ignorance he wot it not to be the Son of Mary Else I know not how to construe 2 Tim. 1. 3. And Acts 23. 1. I thank God whom I serve from my forefathers with a good conscience I doubt not but the Eunuch Acts 8. before Jesus was preached unto him by Philip was a believer Apollo no lesse Acts 18. Conversion after conversion you find in as eminent an Apostle Luk. 22. 32. Mat. 18. 3. I know that the habits of all graces are infused together yet the emanation of them by degrees in Scripture-idiom is a new conversion or conversion renewed as well in the extense as in the intense Finally for in-measure they were his own aggravating depressing words to extoll

unto the full Esa 63. 1. Who is he that commeth from Edom with died garments from Bozrah THis litterally is not meant of the sufferings of Christ as many think but the rednesse of his blood is rather of his enemies than his own Bozrah and Edom did belong to the adversaries of the Church He speaketh of his anger and fury v. 3. in the day of vengeance v. 4. So I gather that the red wine of the press as also that Rev. 19. 15. is not of his passion but of his victory Though the former were the way to the latter and they as the effect upon the cause succeeded one another yet in conception of reason can and ought to be distinguished Esa 66. 7. Before she travailed she brought forth before her pain came she was delivered of a man-childe NOt onely Papists to maintain the virginity of our Saviour's mother in ante post partum but some of our Orthodox Expositors hold this Text to describe Christs birth But in my judgment farre wide For neither in the antecedent or consequent is there any shaddow pointing toward the Virgin Mary Yea v. 10. Jerusalem is mentioned and v. 8. Sion is said to travel Besides here the Earth is described to bring forth and that many Children So that necessarily it must be understood of the suddain and unexpected fruitfulnesse of the Church The same exposition doth sute the like words Mich. 5. 3. Esa 49. 20. Jer. 31. 22. A Woman shall compasse a Man COngeneous unto the former is this mistake neither will the Originall a strong man nor the sense of the sequell v. 32. bear it concerning the Incarnation of Christ But it is spoken of the Church under the Gospel and of the New Covenant And so the Author to the Hebrues expoundeth it at large Chap. 8. 8. Many places in holy writ designe a state company or order which fastened upon singularities and individualls openeth no small gap unto errors The same must be understood of Antichrist which must have its termination in a profession not in a personality He is Antichrist that either in word or deed denieth the Father and the Son 1 John 2. 21. Daniel 12. 3. They that turn many shall shine as Starrs for ever HEnce some conclude that the converter must necessarily be saved which notwithstanding in the absolutenesse of its truth I question Christ did adde to his word the gift of miracles to beget faith in the hearers and the Disciples returning did rejoyce that the Devils were subjected unto them among these was the son of perdition Hereupon is grounded Pauls watchword 1 Cor. 9. ult Least while I preach to others I my self become a cast-way It were a notable shaking to my faith if the messenger by whom it was conveighed should turn to heresie or wordly vanity By the power of his word God calleth some though through the mouth of a wicked one a childe yea I scorn the suspicion of coynage or forgery a stage-player A weak or leprous hand may sow good seed the treasure is more to be valued then the earthen vessel This then with other places which by the holy Ghost are delivered universally for fear of corruption must be taken with limitation and seasoned with the salt of restrained sense a communiter an ut plurimùm c. So Heb. 9. 27. It is appointed for all men once to die This cannot be reaching every individuall for some never tasted deaths cup Others who had their lives reiterated have twice undergone it At the day of judgment instead of death there will be a momentaneous change 1 Cor. 15. 51. Severall things are set down absolutely which must have a comparative interpretation Prov. 8. 10. Receive instruction and not silver and knowledge rather then gold Luk. 14. 26. Whosoever commeth unto me and hateth not his Father and Mother cannot be my Disciple Rom. 9. 19. Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated These positives must have their exposition graduall Mat. 3. 14. IOhn in a godly courtesy excused to baptise Christ saying I have need to be baptised of thee and comest thou to me compared with Math. 11. v. 4. Art thou He that should come or do we look for another seemeth as if John at first knew him to be the Saviour of the World and afterward doubted of him which would have been but a slow progresse in such a ones faith when he had heard and seen so much of him and from him But the probablest reconcilement I conceive is that he sent his Disciples rather to confirme their faith then to informe his judgment In him it was rather a work of charity then of doubt yet I think his knowledge was confused and overclouded till he saw the spirit descend on him Joh. 1. 33. It is very unlikely that upon the temptation of a prison his faith should be shaken who was more then a Prophet 11. 9. The messenger to prepare the way v. 10. The greatest of them that are born of women v. 11. The Elias to come v. 14. These encomiums would have been very unseasonable at such a time by him who did all things in season when his affiance was a staggering and his confidence a wavering Mat. 8. 6. My servant lyeth at home sick of the palsy grievously tormented WHat if a Medicall notion should correct his Torments For a palsy is a resoluon of the sinewes without any pain a deprivation no depravation of sense might it not better be rendred for a triall of his faith and exploration of his patience Since the word in its Originall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth denote a touchstone by which silver and gold are brought to their due examen The same word is predicated of things void of sense and feeling Mat. 14. 24. Mat. 9. 22. Thy faith hath made thee whole BY this and other parallel places some conclude a generall notion That Christ or his Disciples did never work miracles but upon believing persons Faith being fore-seen either in themselves or in their friends But this will not hold touch For what faith there could be in the dead bodies of the Saints or in their souls that were raised from the grace Mat. 27. 52. I cannot understand The last miracles Christ wrought in his life time faith was far to seek in the subject Malchus Joh. 18. 10. or in his kinsman v. 26. See Acts 28. 8. In severall there was a foregoing belief not all That Christ saith Thy faith hath made thee whole we must understand as we are said to be justified by works Iam. 2. 21. i. e. declaratively not instrumentally Be it unto thee according to thy faith v. 29. is not for or by thy faith Else the lustre of miracles would have been divided Saving faith was the end not the meanes of miracles not the seed but the fruit Mat. 27. 37. This is the King of the Jews IN the whole Volume of the N. T. nothing is more harmoniously recorded by the four Evangelists then

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