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A13262	The arraignment of the Arrian. His beginning. height. fall In a sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, Iune 4. 1624. Being the first Sunday in Trinitie terme. By Humphry Sydenham Mr. of Arts, and fellow of Wadham Colledge in Oxford.	Sydenham, Humphrey, 1591-1650?	1626 (1626)	STC 23559; ESTC S101838	24,628	39

insinuari cius verbum And of this God and the Word the very Philosophers were not ignorant for wee meet with a Hermes and a Zenon stiling the maker orderer of the Vniuerse 〈◊〉 The Word which they inlarge with other attributes of Fate necessity God what sauours a little of a heathenish relique Animū Iouis taking Iupiter in the sence that they doe God as Lactantius in his 4. booke de vera Sapient cap. 9. But why doe we rob them of their maiden honour and take their sayings vpon Tradition meerly let them speake themselues in their peculiar and mother-tongue Numenius a famous Pythagorian one who twixt Plato and Moses put no difference but of Language calling Plato Mosen Attica Lingua Loquentem Moses speaking the Atticke Dialect Deus primus saith he in scipso quidem existens est simplex propterea quòd secum semper est nunquam diuisus Secundus tertius est vnus The first God is alwaies existent in himselfe simple indiuisible the second and third one and a little after he calls this first God Creautis Dei patrem The father of the creating God Had they all adored what he here acknowledged a Trinity in vnity so to be worshipped I should then propose their precept not onely to be embraced but their practice to be imitated Search on and loe that rich mine of Truth is not yet at her drosse or bottome for Heraclitus next one who was wont to call S. Iohn Barbarian that Euangelist to whom belonged the Eagle as well for sublimity of Stile as Contemplation he censet verbum Dei in ordine Principij atque dignitate constitutum apud Deum esse Deum esse in quo quicquid factum sit fuerit viuens vita ens tum in corpora Lapsum carnemque indutum hominem apparuisse ostendens etiam tunc naturae suae magnitudinem Harke how the Frog chaunts like the Nightingale It is Maximilians Ethnici audiendi non tanquam Philomelae sed Ranae and curiously counterfeits her in euery straine How closely this obscure Heathen followes not onely the Gospels truth but the phrase too In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and was God all things were made by him euery liuing Creature life and thing then this Word was made flesh and appeared man euen then shewed the glory of his nature How sweetly he warbles with his Barbarian as if by an easie labour of Translation hee had bereft him both of Truth and Eloquence I maruaile not now at that Testimony of Basil the Great vpon those words In principio erat verbum Hoc ego noui multos etiam extra veritatis rationem positos I haue knowne many saith he and those put without the pale and list of diuine Truth men meerely secular aduancing and magnifying this peece of Scripture and at length bold to mixe it with their owne decrees and writings And S. Augustine seconds it with an instance Quidam Platonicus A certaine Platonist was wont to say that the beginning of S. Iohns Gospell was worthy to be written in letters of gold and preached in the most eminent Churches and Congregations in his 10 book de Ciuitate Dei c. 29. O the diuine raptures and infusions that God doth sometimes betroth to his very enemies who can but conceiue that as the very worst of men haue knowledge enough to make them inexcusable so the best of Heathen had enough to make them Saints were their faith that he should be their Sauiour as great as their knowledge that he was the Sonne of God With what rich Epithites they bedecke and crowne him Mentis Germen Verbum Lucens Dei Filius it is his saying who I know not by what search found out almost all Truth Mercurius Trismegistus the mindes blossome the word that gaue light the sonne of God What else did S. Iohn adde but that the word was light And S. Augustine giues this farther testimony of that heathen that he spake many things of Christ in a propheticke manner eadem veritate licet non eodem Animi affectu with the same truth the Prophets did but not with the same affection pronunciabat illa Hermes Dolendo pronunciabat hac Propheta Gaudendo in his 8. booke de Ciuitate Dei 23. chapter And why should we batre some of their Philosophers of a propheticke knowledge when a Poet shall fill his cheekes with a Chara Deum Soboles Magnum Iouis incrementum And if wee looke backe to those Oracles of old the Sybills sacred Raptures we shall finde them more like a Christians Comment than a Heathens Prediction Tunc ad mortales veniet mortalibus ipsis In terris similis natus Patris omnipotentis Corpore vestitus Whereof if we enquire a little into the originall Saint Augustine In oration contra Arrian will tell vs that the Greeke coppies giue vs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iesus Christ the Sonne of God the Sauiour and it is not onely probable but euident that the Gentiles had a knowledge of Christ as he was the Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. as it appeareth by that of Serapis vnto Thulis King of Egypt And it is strangely remarkeable what wonderfull Titles and inscriptions the Platonists dedicate to his name and memory with which as with a wreath and Lawrell they girt beautifie his Temples Dei verbum Mundi Opifex Idaea boni Mundi Archetypum moderat or Distributor Imago primi entis rationalis Creaturae exemplar Pastor Sacerdos vlna humens Lux Sol coelumque candens mentis germen Diuinae verbum Lucidum filius primogenitus primi dei semper viuentis vmbra vita splendor virtus candor lucis character substantiae cius and the like which could not but flow from a heart diuinely toucht and a tongue swolne with inspiration as Rosselus tels vs in his Trismegisti Pimandrum 1 booke 107 page For these and the like sayings some of the ancient Fathers haue coniectured that Plato either read part of diuine story or whilst he trauelled in Egypt had a taste of sacred truth out of the sayings of the Hebrewes by an Amanuensis or interpreter For then many of the Hebrewes the Persians reigning wandered in Egypt Moreouer Aristobulus the Iew who flourished in the time of the Machabees writing to Ptolomy Philometora King of Egypt reports that the Pentateuch before the Empire of Alexander the Great and the Persian Monarchie was Translated out of Hebrew into Greeke part whereof came to the hands of Plato and Pythagoras and he is after peremptory that the Peripateticks out of the bookes of Moses and the writings of the Prophets drew the greatest part of their Philosophy and it may seeme strange what the Iewish Antiquary traditions of Clearchus the most noble of that Sect who in his first De somno brings in his Master Aristotle relating that he met with a certaine Iew a reuerent and a wise man with whom he had much conference concerning matters both naturall diuine and receiued from him such a hint and specialty of choicer learning which did much improue him in his after knowledge especially in that of God as Iosephus lib. 1. contra Appionem Eusebius in his 11 de praeparat Euangelica c. 6. Clement Alexandrin 5. Stromaton And thus I haue at length though with some blood and difficultie trauersed the opinions of the ancient and shewed you the errours of primitiue Times in their foulest shapes I haue opened the wiles and stratagems of the aduersary and how defeated by the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof what Bulwarkes and Rampires the Fathers raised for propugning of Christs diuinitie and how besieged by cursed herefies with what successe what ruine Let vs now returne where we began and place Christ where we found him before Abraham before the world where me thinkes he now stands like a well rooted tree in rough storme where though winds blow on him so furiously that he is sometimes forced to the earth as if he were meerely humane yet he bends againe and nods towards heauen to shew that hee is diuine and but a plant taken thence grafted in our Eden here where though tost vp and downe with blasts of Infidelity yet when the enuy of their breath is spent as we see a goodly Cedar after a tempest he stands strait vn-rent as if he scorned the shocke of his late churlish encounter and dared his blustring Aduersary to a second opposition Gloria in excelfis Deo FINIS