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Grotius, his arguments for the truth of Christian religion rendred into plain English verse.; De veritate religionis Christianae. English
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Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.; Virgil. Bucolica. 4. English.
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bring They Zacharias at the Altar slew The Victim of their Cruelty the Priest did view Nor were their Priests less scandalously ill They by false Witness Jeremy would kill Lay-Piety indeed came in to 's aid Yet him their Influence a Captive made Until themselves were forc'd to the like fate Is' t said while Jesus blest this Earthly State The Priests then living greater consci'ence made This fond Belief Josephus will dissawde Read there how great their Crimes how strange their Woes That these were short of their Demerits he avows Nor can the Sanhedrim be better thought Since as by th'History of those times we 're taught Not choice but great Men's Pow'r to th' Office brought Often who gave the most promoted were Before for Life then but from Year to Year What wonder then if People swell'd with Pride With Av'arice or Ambiti'on for their guide Should be with an insatiate Fury mov'd At one whose holy Life theirs so reprov'd Against him they could no Objection raise But what they always met who merited most Praise The Prophet Micah thus to Prison was brought For standing to the Truth which God had taught Against four hundred of a diff'rent thought Ahab against Elias that did urge From which the Priests put Christ himself to purge That he was the disturber of that Rest Of which till then Israel had been possest Did Christ against the Jewish Temple preach For this they did condemn their Jeremy's Speech Add farther as their ancient Rabbies say Men shall be known in the Messiah's day As bold as Dogs as stubborn as the Ass The Cruelty of Beasts far to surpass And God himself who plainly did foresee What in Messiah's time the Jews would be Says a new People he for his will chuse While from the Streets and Cities of the Jews Scarce one or two ascend the holy Mount But he with Gentiles would fill up th' account Isa 8.14 A Stone of stumbling an offensive Rock Shall Christ become to Isra'l's scatter'd Flock Psal 118.22 But yet that Stone which the first Builders leave Others shall into the chief place receive XXI Answer to the Objection that many Gods are worshipp'd by Christians Two Calumnies do yet untouch'd remain With which the Jews Christi'anity would stain First That we worship many Gods they feign But here with malice obvi'ous to discern A Doctrine opposite to their's they turn Th'Objection equally affects the Jew As does their Philo evidently shew He three Hypostases in God does name Unto him adds his Word which made this frame Who otherwise than Men from 's Father came On the belief he of a Third does fall Him does Embassador or Angel call To whom he does assign the care of all Moses Nehmanni's Son with him agrees And in their Cabalists the like one sees They God distinguish as a threefold Light Some have the Names of which the Christi'ans write The Father Son or Word and Spirit Divine Here what 's confest by all the Jews to joyn That Spirit known the Prophets to inspire They do as something increate admire Distinguish'd still from him by whom 't was sent And so of what by Schechina is meant That Force Divine should in the Christ reside Which they call Wisdom many Jews confide Whence the Chaldaean Par'aphrast does accord With Christi'ans calling him th' Almighty's Word David Isaiah with more taught of Heav'n The Name of God and Lord to him have giv'n Another Imputation here they lay XXII And that the Humane Nature is ador'd That we to a meer Creature Worship pay But this with mighty ease is wip'd away Since we to Christ no other Honour give Than what we in the Psalms his due perceive The second David Kimchi thus applies Psalm 2. Finding King David not so high to rise In Christ the Character at large descries Yet none did more than he Christ'anity oppose Psalm 110. The hundred and tenth Psalm which this yet fuller shows Must needs be thought of the Messiah meant That which some Jews of later time invent Of David and of Hezekiah some Is but their Malice boyling up in scum the Psalm is David's as th'Inscripti'on shews Where then King David calling Lord one views Can it be thought this to himself he 'd use Or Hezekiah coming from his Line When yet he did in nothing him out-shine Abr'am no Priestly Character possest Gen. And him Melchisedec devoutly blest As one whom a more sacred Order did invest Psal 110.2 That which we added by the Psalmist know 'A Rod of Strength shall out of Sion go ' And make his distant Foes his Prowess see Does evidently with the Christ agree Nor did the ancient Jews e're differ here And this in their old Paraphrasts is clear So great their Probity was fully known Who for the Christ the Nazarite did own That we for this might credit them alone As well as Moses is by Jews believ'd In what himself alone declares from God receiv'd But more and stranger Arguments maintain That Pow'r Supream this Jesus did obtain That many saw him come to Life again That he was seen when to the Hev'ns he past That out of Men he raging Daemons cast Diseases cur'd by his tremendous Name And that the Gift of Tongues t' his Follow'ers came Which he had promis'd for his Empire 's sign His Scepter too that is his Word Divine From Sion went devoid of Humane Aid And did the Limits of the Earth invade People and Kings its sacred force obey'd Exactly answ'ering what the Psalmist told Their Cabalists a middle Nature hold Between the Highest and the Humane Mind For whom the name of Enoch's Son they find With a much lower Pow'r to him assign'd To him how much more justly this we yeild Who has himself with so much Light reveal'd Against the Father's Pow'r this does not make Since we confess he this from him did take 1 Cor. 15.24 To him at th' end of all it must return And we his Honour brightned hence discern Unto more subtile Questions to descend XXIII A Conclusion of this part with a Prayer for the Jews Were but the Readers time in waste to spend These things I think may be enough to prove That no Objection any Skill can move Argues the Doctrines which this Jesus taught Either absurd or impious to be tought What hinders then but all Men should imbrace Those Doctrines which such Miracles did grace Which Precepts of such Sanctity commend With a Reward so glorious in the end Whoever this for his Live's Rule does take But Questi'ons more particular would make Must search those sacred Books which we maintain The whole of our Religi'on to contain That on Mens Minds these their due force may gain We ought with fervent Zeal that God t'implore Whom Jews and we with holy Fear adore That he to them would open the clos'd Door That they may feel the beams of Light Divine In their most inward Parts serenely shine That that
The Universe shall under him be blest And find the Father in the Son exprest The unforc'd Earth shall ready Tribute bring At the Nativity of thee its King The blushing Berry with green Ivy twin'd Th' Egypti'an Bean with Herbs of sov'raign kind The Pails with fatning Goat's Milk shall run o're Nor shall the Herds fear when the Lions roar All sorts of new-sprung Flowers thy Cradle strew Courting thy Infant Tears before the Morning Dew Serpents shall die the Poison's force decay And wild Assyrian Roses cloath the way But when the Hero's Praises and the Deeds Th'enlightned Youth of his dread Father reads And knows the grounds from whence true Fame proceeds Corn shall enrich the Field where none did sow And chearing Grapes on common Bushes grow From the hard Oak shall roscid Hony flow Yet there some remnants of old Fraud shall be Which shall again provoke to try the Sea A num'rous Neighbourhood with Walls t' enclose And vex the passive Earth with fur'wing Ploughs Of a new Tiphys Stories shall be told Another Argos shall cull'd Hero's hold Fresh Wars shall be begun another Troy Shall an Archilles feel sent to destroy But when thou shalt in Years become mature The Sailer shall no more rough Seas endure No Ships shall coast about for Foreign Ware All things within it self each Realm shall bear Plough-shares no more shall tear the fertile ground No Pruning-hooks the bleeding Vines shall wound The lab'ring Ox shall from the Yoak be free Nor shall we Wool dy'd with false Colours see A nat'ral Purple or becoming Red Shall as he stalks along the Ram bespread Lambs a more orient Red shall sweetly stain Such times as these the steady Fates ordain Working th'agreeing Links of the sure Chain Enjoy thy sacred Honours now in peace Thou darling Son o'th'Gods Jove's great encrease See! how the tott'ring World expects thy hand Made to support the Heav'ns the Sea and Land Nature behold puts on a chearful Face Finding thy Season rowling on apace Oh! that my Life and Spirit might suffice To praise the Glories to which thou shalt rise While full of thee I should not fear to vie With Orpheus were the Muse his Mother by Nor Linus tho Appollo did inspire His raptur'd Son with all his holy Fire Should Pan ev'n in his own Arcadia sing Arcadia should to me the Lawrel bring By Smiles the knowledg of thy Mother gain Thou perfect Recompence of all her Pain Learn by the Smiles where Parents don't rejoyce No God or Goddess made that House their choice SIcilides Musae paulo major a canamus Non omnes arbusta juvant humilesque myricae Si canimus sylvas sylvae sint Consule dignae Vltima Cumaei venit jam carminis aetas Magnus ab integro saeclorum vertitur ordo Jam redit Virgo redeunt Saturnia Regna Jam nova Progenies Coele dimittitur alto Tu modo nascenti puero quo ferrea primum Desinet ac toto surget gens aurea Mundo Casta fave Lucina tuus jam regnat Apollo Teque adeo decus hoc aevi te Consule inibit Pollio incipient magni procedere menses Te duce siqua manent sceleris vestigia nostri Irrita perpetuâ solvent formidine terras Ille Deûm vitam accipiet Divisque videbit Permistos Heroas ipse videbitur illis Pacatumque reget Patriis Virtutibus Orbem At tibi prima puer nùllo munuscuba cultu Errantes heder as pà ssim cum baccare tellus Mistaque ridenti colocusia fundet acantho Ipsae lacte domum referent distenta Capellae Vbera nec magnos metuent arment a Leones Ipsa tibi blandos fundent cunabula flores Occidet Serpens fallax herba veneni Occidet Assyrium vulgo nascetur amomum At simul Heroum laudes facta parentis Jam legere quae sit poteris cognoscere virtus Molli paulatim flavescet campus aristâ Incultisque rubens pendebit sentibus uvae Ep durae quercus sudabunt roscida mella Pauca tamen suberunt veteris vestigia fraudis Quae tentare Thetin ratibus quae cingere muris Oppida quae jubeant telluri infindere sulcos Alter erit tum Tiphys altera quae vehat Argo Delectos Heroas erunt etiam altera bella Atque iterum ad Trojam magnus mittetur Achilles Hinc ubi jam firmata virum te fecerit aetas Cedet ipse mari vector nec nautica pinus Mutabit merces omnis feret omnia tellus Non rastros patietur humus non vinea falcem Robustus quoque jam tauris juga solvet arator Nec varios discet mentiri lana colores Ipse sed in pratis aries jam suave rubenti Maurice jam croceo mutabit vellera luto Sponte suà sandyx pascentes vestiet agnos Talia saecla suis dixerunt currite fusis Concordes stabili fatorum numine Parcae Aggredere ô magnos aderit jam tempus honores Chara Deûm soboles magnum Jovis incrementum Aspice concexo nutantem pondere mundum Terrasque tractusque maris Coelumque profundum Aspice venturo laetentur ut omnia seclo O mihi tam longae maneat pars ultima vitae Spiritus quantum sat erit tua dicere facta Non me carminibus vincet nec Thracius Orpheus Nec linus huic mater quamvis atque huic pater adsit Orphei Calliopea Lino formosus Apollo Pan Deus Arcadiâ mecum si judice certet Pan etiam Arcadiâ dicet se judice victum Incipe parve puer risu cognoscere matrem Matri longa decem tulerant fastidia menses Incipe parve puer qui non risere parentes Nec Deus hunc mensâ Dea nec dignata cubili est APPENDIX Concerning Prophcies and Predictions particularly the Sibyls and the foregoing Translation of what Virgil rehearses out of the Cumaean Sibyls Verses 1 Thes 5.20 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Despise not Prophesyings Or rather reckon not as if there are no true Prophecies CHAP. I. Of the Importance of Prophecies for confirmation of the Christian Religion how the Sibyline Verses were preserved and the Primitive Christians justified in their Appeals to them Their Authority confirm'd by a Passage cited as St. Paul's by Clement of Alexandria OF all the Arguments excellently urg'd by Grotius and but enervated by my Rythms there is none which seems more undeniably to enforce the belief of a Deity and the Religion which Christ Jesus taught Mankind than the Evidence that there have been at least in some Ages of the World such Predictions as have manifested a fore-knowledg of those future Events of which it was impossible to have the least intimation from any Cause or Sign appearing only by natural Light and that such an one as the blessed Jesus had been fore-shewn and was accordingly expected about that time when he first convers'd among Men. Numbers not injudicious may be impos'd upon with appearances seemly miraculous either by a Confederacy flight of hand or natural Magick in applying the occult