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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47202	Tricoenivm Christi in nocte proditionis suæ The threefold svpper of Christ in the night that he vvas betrayed / explained by Edvvard Kellett.	Kellett, Edward, 1583-1641.	1641 (1641)	Wing K238; ESTC R30484	652,754	551

to thinke it was not meant of his Chariot but is meant of his bed the Hebrew word Aphirion being no where else in Scripture affordeth conjecture to many interpretations Kimchi and Jarchi S. Ambrose with others expound it per Thalamum aut lectulum a bed others reade Conopaeum or conopium of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Canopie most certaine it is that Salomon had most choyse costly and curious Bed-ornaments in so much that the comeliest and fairest among women Cant. 7.8 was compared to the Curtaines of Salomon Cant. 1.5 After this Abasuerus perhaps imitated Salomon for at his feast were white greene and blew hangings fastned with cords of fine linnen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble the beds were of gold and silver upon a pavement of red and blue and white and blacke marble Est 1.6 The representative whore in Ezekiel sate upon a stately or honorable bed Ezek. 23.41 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sedisti in lecto pulcherrimo as Vatablus rendreth the 70. sedisti super lectum honorabilem as hee rendreth the Hebrew and expoundeth all thus In thoro egregio vel pulchro benè ornato inclyto which the common whore interpreteth Prov. 7.16 saying of her selfe I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry with carved workes with fine linnen of Aegypt and she perfumed also her bed ver 17. This was long before Romulus was borne and therefore if the Jewes in our blessed Saviours time were so excessive in their chamber and bed-ornaments they borrowed not those fashions of the Romanes which themselves used long before but the Romanes imitated the luxurie and prodigality of the Iewes and other Easterne Nations PAR. 5. I Might spend much time if I reckoned up all that may be said either of the womens aboundant cost in adorning their Idolls or of the sacred attire of the Levites Priests and especially the High-priest and the Tabernacle briefely thus 2 King 23.7 In the house of the Sodomites women wove hangings for the grove Ezek. 16.16 Of thy garments thou didst take and decke the high places with divers colours Thou takedst thy broydered garments and coveredst Images Ezek. 16.8 The Idolaters cloathed their Images with blew and purple Ier. 10.9 yea silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish and gold from Vphaz the worke of the workeman and hands of the founder Tenues subtiles bracteae seu crustae inducurtur ligneo simulacro quibus imbracteatur that is their woodden Images are curiously over-laid and embellished with gold foyle that I may speake in the phraize of Ammianus Marcellinus concerning sacred ornaments Aarons holy garments were for glory and beauty Exod. 28 2. so were the garments of his sonnes verse 40. made and wrought by all that were wise-hearted whom God had filled with the spirit of wisedome vers 3. At the making of the Tabernacle they offered gold silver and brasse blew purple and scarlet Exod. 25.3 c. see Exod. 39 2. c. and they made the tabernacle with ten curtaines of fine twined linnen and blew and purple and scarlet with Cherubims of cunning worke Exod. 26.1 And not onely the doore but the very Court of the Tabernacle was inclosed with rich broad and long hangings Exod. 27.9 c. And for the very gate of the Court shall be an hanging of 20. Cubites of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twined linnen wrought with needle-worke Moses used purple and scarlet wooll to besprinkle things sacred or to make them sacred Heb. 9.19 PAR. 6. BUt I descend to the wearing apparell of the Jewes the Jewes had varietie of apparell I thinke I may say above other Nations fitted to all occasions 1. For gifts 2. For appearance in publique 3. For disguise 4. For Mortification 5. For feasting 6. For severall ages and degrees in wonderfull plenty 1. Joseph gave Benjamin five changes of rayments Gen. 45.22 Naaman brought with him as a present ten changes of rayments 2 King 5.5 2. Iosephs garment was changed and he shaved himselfe when he appeared before Pharaoh Gen. 41.14 And Pharaoh arrayed Ioseph in vestments of fine linnen or silke ver 42. So Daniel was cloathed with Scarlet by Belshazzar his Command Dan. 5 29. and Mordecai was cloathed with the royall apparell which the King did weare Est 6.11 3. Saul had rayment for disguise 1 Sam. 28.8 and Ieroboams wife in all likehood 1 King 24.2 the widdow of Tekoah put on a new mourning apparell 2 Sam. 14.2 when she undertooke to be a curious Masker 4. In sorrow squalid apparell was used Zech. 3.3 Ioshuah the high-priest was cloathed with filthy garments and God promised him saying I will cloath thee with change of rayment David lay all night upon the earth 2 Sam. 12.16 and afterward changed his apparrell and came into the house of the Lord and worshipped ver 20. In adversity also many lay in sacke-cloath and ashes Est 4.3 c. Cloath of sackcloath was worne in dayes of tribulation Revel 11.3 Yea it was next their very skinne Iob 16.15 I have sowed sackecloath upon my skin penitents sate in sacke-cloath and ashes Luke 10.13 Iacob rent his cloathes and put sackecloath upon his loynes Gen. 37.34 Hierome Epist ad Lucinium fol. 69. literâ 〈◊〉 saith ego insignia paupertatis quotidiana symbola id est signa poenitentiae tibi sorori tuae nisi quatuor Ciliciola apta proposito usibus vestris that is I have sent thee and thy sister 4. hayre-cloathes or Sacke-cloathes the ensignes of poverty and liveries of dayly pennance fit for your use and purpose for hayre-cloth or sacke-cloath was the induments of penitents 5. Eccles 9.8 Let thy garments be alwayes white saith Salomon where he speaketh of times of joy and feasting as appeareth both by the precedent and subsequent verses be alwayes neate handsome cleanely but especially at mirth and feasting alwayes white not alwayes white as whitenesse is opposed to blackenesse but as white is taken for well-coloured shining exquisite and is contra-distinguished to base beggerly sordid or foule Salomon had linnen yarne brought out of Aegypt the Kings Merchants received the linnen yarne at a price 2 Chro. 1.16 So that they might frame the cloth according to their owne desires other phrases are used Iam. 2.2 c goodly apparell and gay-clothing is contra-opposed to vile rayment Philo lib. 2. de vit â Contemplativâ saith the Iewes are wont to feast in white apparell which in likelihood they practised from the cited place of Salomon yea saith Philo the very attendant waiting-boyes at those their feasts were tenuissimas candidissimas praecincti tunicas clad in very thin and white garments anteriore parte ad genua demissas posteriore ad poplites the fore part reaching to the knees the hinder part to their hammes The Lord threatneth in the day of his Sacrifice which was commonly a day of feasting to punish such as are cloathed with strange apparell Zeph. 1.8 which may be well interpreted of

doe the Virgins love thee said the Spouse to Salomon Cant. 1.3 Oyntment even in the abstract oyle powred out not inclosed not unlike the Poet who said Fluere excusso Cinnamafusa vitro While the King sitteth at the Table my Spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof Cant. 1.12 saith the Spouse out of question fore-signifying what in aftertimes was to be done when Christ was to be anointed Nard may be taken as well for an oyntment so called Nardo vina merebere saith Horace to Virgil as for an herbe Pliny 12.12 describeth it S. Bernard taketh it as an herbe whose lownes causes him to discourse of humility Philo Iudaens thus Nardus medicus est fructus Syriae Indiae praestantissimus eolore rufo comosus odoratis simus saporis amari snavitatem odoris diutissime retinens calefacit exiccat viretque perpetuo miscetur antidotis efficacissimas vires ad quam phorimos morbos babet that is spikenard is a most excellent Plant growing in Syria and India of a red colour full of branches and leaves most odoriferous bitter in taste and continues fragrant in smell a very long time it is hot and dry in operation it continueth alwayes greene is an excellent ingredient in your dosies and is a Soveraigne Medicine against most diseases of its use in Compositions or unguents he speaketh not here though some were more thicke some more thinne all appliable to Unctions PAR 15. ASI will not deny in these places abundance of choyce metaphors and spirituall meanings so I will not wholly abolish the litterall sense but freely confesse 1. That both Salomon and his Spouse were gloriously attyred so gloriously that our Saviour thought not fitter of any Art or Artsman to approach in borrowed beauty to the Naturall beauty of the Lilly the worke of Gods owne hand I say unto you that even Salomon in all his glory was not arraied like one of these Mat. 6.29 2. Immediately after the Holy Ghost had sayd literally of Salomon Psal 45.7 God thy God hath anoynted thee with the Oyle of gladnesse above thy fellowes the spirit addeth ver 8. All thy garments smell of Myrrhe Aloes and Cassia so for the Church her cloathing was of wrought gold she shall be brought unto the King in rayment of Needle-worke Psal 45.13 c. And the smell of the Spouses Oyntments was better than all spices Cant. 4.10 And as Aaron's sweete perfumes descended upon his garments as it is in the Hebrew So the very cloathes of those great-ones were not untouched but sweetened with those spreading sweete Oyntments Who is this that commeth out of the wildernesse like Pillars of smoake perfumed with myrrhe and frankincense with all powders of the Merchant saith our last Transl●tion Cant. 3.6 All manner of Spices of the Apothecary as it is in the Bishops Bible pigmentarii of the perfumer saith the Vulgat good part thereof was about their vestments some purposely some casually all with comfort decencie and sweete-smelling But the head above all did they anoint So much be said for the anoynting of the Head in Salomons time before Rome was out of the shell or pipient Let who will now take up the bucklers in defence of Pererius for this third ceremony I am ready to mainetaine the Iewes that custome long before the Romanes and did not so to flatter or imitate the Romanes and the Romanes might imitate the Iewes or other Syrians or the anoynted Graecians Yet what needed all this stirre by Peretius about anoyntings at the feasts of Romanes and Iewes when no Evangelist no Apostle no holy father so farre as my memory beareth ever sayd that Christ and his Apostles were anoynted at the eating of the Paschall-Lambe either a little before or whilest they were earing or presently after since no Ceremony of Pascharizing either transient or permanent or voluntary so farre as is to be proved implyeth such a businesse and no Precept no example of Scripture no tradition of Elders invited them thereunto besides if I should not bee too great a digressour I could quaere whether at any great sacred feasts and festivals the Jewes were wont to be anoynted since the prime end of them was devotion and this festivall was of this sort though I am ready to acknowledge at the lesse-sacred festivities and solemnities at solemne invitations of their better friends and kinred they were accustomed to Unctions especially the able sufficient-rich-ones who used that exercise more frequently and some perhaps dayly without some intervenient occasion to the contrary The Prayer BLessed Saviour the vēry Christ and Messiah anoynted anoynted of the Lord with the Oyle of gladnesse super-eminently above any or all other Creatures in the lower or higher world I beseech thee of thine infinite mercy to powre thy healing Oyle into the wounds of my soule and so anoynt me with Oyle that I may have a chearefull countenance and smell sweete and be pleasing to thee O Lord my God through Christ who is a sweete savour for us all So be it O Lord so be it Amen and Amen CHAP. XX. The Contents of the twentieth Chapter 1. Pererius his fourth Ceremony 2. Romanes and Jewes at their feasts changed their cloathes 3. The Romanes Tricliniary Ornaments wearing apparell Larding and cramming purple Scarlet cloath of gold silver Lex vestiaria 4. The Bed-Ornaments of the Jewes 5. Ornaments of Idolls Levites Priests High-Priest Tabernacle 6. Wearing apparell of the Jewes varietie thereof for divers occasions for 1. Gifts 2. Appearance 3. Disguise 4. Sorrow or Mortification Sacke-cloath feasting white apparrell extraordinary apparrell approved at feasts comely alwayes new-fanglednesse taxed in French English Spanish English in part defended diversity of apparrell for severall ages degrees abundance of apparrell a blessing the excesse taxed 7. Changing of apparrell at feasts practised by the Jewes before the Romanes Romanes had more than one garment on at feasts the wedding garment not the onely garment fashions at sacred civill feasts different 8. Wedding garment What. PARAGRAPH 1. THe fourth ceremony on which Pererius insisteth now followeth Quartò saith he Romani accubituri mutabant vestes quòmundiores viz. hilariores convivarentur in antiquis marmoribus Romanis accumbentes in Tricliniariis lectis magnâ ex parte veste duntaxat unâ super nudo tecti conspiciuntur that is fourthly the Romanes before they went to dinner or supper did change their garments to the intent they might be the more cleanely and merry at their feastings In the ancient marble statues among the Romanes they that lye on their Tricliniary beds are for the most part seene to have but one onely garment upon their bare skinne These points he insisted on they changed their cloathes the ends were two to be cleanlier to be merrier Lastly great part of the ancient Statues represent the discumbents with one onely vestment to cover their bare skinnes that this was observed in the feasts of the Jewes is plainely signified in that parable in the Gospell Mat. 22. Who