the spring of Both. 'T is for no other reason that wee ourselvs stick our Hearses with Flowers and go forth to the grave with Rosemarie Our Precedents were the Jews whose antient Custom it was by the waie as they went with their Corpses to pluck everie one up the Grass as who should saie they were not sorrie as men without Hope for their brother was but so crop't off and should spring up again in his due season But the Prophet Isaiah's Comparison of the Flourishing of our Bones like an Herb is yet further made good by as I think one of the greatest Secrets that are yet known in Nature A Learned Chymist who spent much time in the Contemplation of Tinctures and Impressions of Vegetals to prove the Great Principle of Salt made this experiment Hee took several Herbs and Plants and calcined them to Ashes hee put up the Ashes into several Glasses sealed Hermetically and written upon with the several names of the Calcined Herbs When hee would shew the Experiment hee applied a soft flame to the Glasses whereforthwith hee might perceiv the self same Herbs rising up by little and little out of the Ashes everie one in his proper form and the flame subtracted they would return to their own Chaos again The Spectators as the Chymist beheld this with the greatest Admiration and giving thanks to God concluded from thence the Resurrection of the Dead Bodie Wee may take an Omen of our Rising again from the Time of our Saviour's Resurrection The first fruits rose in the Spring and that 's the time so the Senator Manilius wherein the Phenix riseth out of her ashes And 't is the time wherein the Egyptians celebrate their Annual Resurrection for upon the 26. of March they solemnly go to a place by Nile where they see and touch the Bodies Rising out of their Graves It will seem strange I confess but it hath been seriously testified and believed Howsoever wee shall take this but as a staff of Egypt a broken Reed or but such an one as Gehazi laid upon the Dead Childe But the master cometh shortly and shall command the Breath to com from the four Winds and breath upon our Slain and then these Bones shall live But I would not have this Doctrine two partially applied our Saviour indeed is said to bee the first Fruits of them that sleep in Him Those that sleep in Him are such which here awake and stand up from the Death of sin For as there is a second Death so Here is a first Resurrection In the great morning of the World the Dew shall fall down upon the dead in Christ as that other Dew upon the Fleece of Gideon and the rest of Mankinde shall bee drie But another dew shall fall upon the ungodlie a Blasting Mildew and then the rest of the ground shall bee wet and the Fleece onely shall bee drie The ' wicked lie in the graves like Sheep saith the Psalmist that are appointed to the Slaughter and the Righteous shall have dominion over them in the Morning In the field of the World where our Saviour is the first Fruits the Good are the Wheat and the Bad are the Tares which as they both are cut down alike so shall they both alike bee gathered up But the Tares for the Fire and the good Corn for the great Husbandman's Barn They seem indeed to bee of the Lump but no more title to the First Fruits then that as these were cut down so those were sowed in the Night If these things bee so what manner of persons ought wee to bee in all holie Conversation But if the Resurrection were to bee argued from the Sanctitie of Life there was never less Hope of it then now Nay wee take the onely cours to prove that our Saviour is not yet Risen 'T is but the Conversion of S. Paul's Proposition If Christ bee not risen then you are yet in your sins But you are yet in your sins and yee know what follow 's In all holie conversation c. Why there was never more Holiness pretended to never less practised then now And yee must not count mee your Enemie becaus I tell you this Truth What streining here is at the Gnat of a Cerimonie by them which can swallow whole Camels of other Profitable Abominations How odious is the verie name of a Cope or a Surplice to those which yet can love the garment spotted with the Flesh All possible means hath been taken to purge the material Temple of anie suspicious Rust contracted by the inconsiderations of Time but the Temples of our Bodies and they should bee those of the Holie Ghost they are Painted still Painted Sepulchers They appear well outwardly and wee have been persuaded to wash our selvs in Jordan from the Romish Leprosie wee do well onely in this the Lord bee merciful unto mee Wee will have Rimmons still And what was Rimmon think yee 'T was the Strumpet Ladie of Lust and Wantonness If it bee well to deface a Picture in a Church will it not bee much better to restore the Image of God in our selvs I do not saie that these things ought they not to have don I leav that to a higher Discretion but I may and must saie that if the other things bee left undon yee have but wash'd the outside of the Platter What availeth if the Statutes of Omri are not kept when other Judgments shall bee turned into Wormwood and the fruits of Righteousness into Hemlock Talk of Christians Get to bee Heathens first I can believ that these men hope to rise again for they saie and they do as they would bee don by The Bodie and Blood of Christ are the Sacraments of Resurrection but can I think them to bee so to Them who so duely com to Receiv them unworthily It is the caus saith S. Paul manie are weakand sicklie among you and manie sleep If yee bee indeed risen with Christ Seek those things which are above But do they do so that sit brooding upon this Earthlie pelf to hatch a Cockatrice Egg Or such an one as the sillie Estrich leaveth on the Sand Do wee seek those things which are above but as wee do these which are below Wee can light a Candle and sweep the Hous and ballance that eternal weight of Glorie with a fals Measure Will you hear the end of all Fear God and keep his Commandments for this is the whole dutie of man Pretend to what you will Pure Religion and undefiled before God and the Father you know what it is It is to visit the Fatherless and Widows in their Affliction and to keep himself unspotted of the World FINIS ΚΑΙÎΑΠΔΕΥΤΕΡΟΣ OR A DISPROOF OF HIM in the 3. of S. Luke v. 36. By JOHN GREGORIE Master of Arts of Christ-Church in Oxon. יהוה IVSTVS VIVET FIDE DEVS PROVIDEBIT I. Y LONDON Printed by William Du-gard for Laurence Sadler and are to bee sold at the Golden-Lion in Little Britain
Tail or Head No emptie Surface-Learning could suffice No Light no Floating Notions bound thy Eies But down thy Plummet dive's to th' deepest sound Still mining through till it had prest the Ground Art hath her Quick-sands which no Hold endure Hee strike's the Bottom that will Anchor sure While dull wee finde the Found the same Mark hit The shackled Circumscription of Our Wit Thy unconfin'd Enquirie bid's at more Launches in deeps ner'e fathomed before Plough's the rough Desarts up scorn 's old Abode Or Prostitute Directions of a Rode Yet thy Nice Pilgrimage doth never straie But turn's the crooked Maze to Beaten-Waie So through wilde Seas the adventurous Keel is hurl'd Not to Loos this but Finde the other World Thy vigorous Brain releiv's from lazie Rust Disguis'd in Characters but more in Dust Graie Customs which our dead dismettled Sloth Gave up to surfet the undaring Moth. Craz'd Giants thus distressed Damsels hold Not by their strength but ' caus their Champion's cold Euclide and Ptolomie were so thine Own As the fair Building 's is the Corner-stone Whose beauteous Pile doth by the Basis clime Yet This preceed's in Worth though That in Time Astrologie so obei'd Thy Learned Eie As all the Wheels and Clock-work of the Skie By Curious Nature were asunder ta'ne To guid Thy Art and then set up again And when her Motions jar her staggering Team May fix afresh by Thy King Henrie's Scheme The Sacred Hebrew thy Judicious Rage Pursu'd to finde it's Mystick Parentage With Keen and Eager yet with sated Flight Not to Ride-over but Ore-take the Light Rude Rabbines like rude Herbarists go to 't They mar the Plant by digging for the Root Thy Numerous Language could have circuit run T' Interpret Countries to the Travelling Sun Discours ' a his Rising to the Western Seas And phras'd his business with th' Antipodes Yet this bright Stock thy Bountie did afford As thy Disbursment still but not thy Hoard Not to amuse the Needie but supplie 'T was thy Dominion not thy Tyrannie Hence when I askt thy Torch to light my Waie And gain'd som Twilights from Thy Glistering Daie Thy Liberal Art the Labyrinth did undo With the same Cheer as I had been thy Clew Thy Candid Guidance back the Compass brought And call'd Mee Tutor still for beeing Taught Now these Loud Parts like a Shril-thundering Peal Which is the Belfree's Pride but not it's Weal Rent thy frail Tenement and made us see Thy Musick 's Excellence and Crueltie An Envious Gout the Leiger of thy Feet To aw thine Industrie laie arm'd to meet Thy wakeful Midnight-Watch and brought Thee back For each Raw Learned-Night a Fortnight's Rack And when the single Threats of one Diseas Bark at thy Vigilant Moons but not displeas When Customarie Anguish now sat by Like thy Companion not thy Maladie The Enraged Mischief made her Partie strong Swell'd her vext Unitie into a Throng Charming Confederates their mixt Powers to reach To storm the Fort for Shee had made the Breach Till the Fresh Host possest of everie Part Whil'st Gouts secure thy Joints the Rest thy Heart Thy over-number'd Corps at last did fall No one sick Patient but an Hospital M. LL. UPON THE DEATH Of my Loving Friend Mr JOHN GREGORIE SUre it must needs bee so or els I shou'd Think Providence but little understood The State of things when a dull sensless Tree Stand's and outlive's a Jewish Pedigree But Man whose Knowledg might new Worlds create And so compose a wiser Book of Fate Him the least breath must scatter into Air As if his dust not yet compacted were For I don't speak of one whose Destinie Was but to make a Sermon and so die Such as the Law deliver in a Cloud Thicker then God at first did and as loud Such as blaspheme by Preaching ne're have don Until their Comments make an Alkaron Who scare the Turk from beeing Christian And Indians fear they then should put off Man Hee search't Religion's Source Gospel and Law From Moses in the Flags to Christ in Straw And was so skill'd in these Antiquities That hee could almost tell where Moses lie's Who was †'T is the opinion of a Learned man that Melchisedeck was not called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 becaus hee had no Father and Mother but becaus it was not known who his Father and Mother were Melchisedeck's Father Rectifie A Jew ev'n in 's own Genealogie Who saie's hee die'd too soon that had liv'd o're All Ages whatsoever were before And knew so much of Language that alone Hee might have sav'd all Nations in their own Idiome and Dialect though there never fell A Cloven Tongue or other Miracle Great Citizen of the World though thou die'dst here Yet thus wee prove thou wert born Every where And like the Sun too didst thou never sleep But when wee call'd it Night thou still didst keep Thy journey on till with as large an Eie Thou viewd'st the Univers as much as hee But thou could'st not endure alass to run O're the same Circle still so having don Surveying this our Globe thou went'st to see * Galileans probably conjectured all the Planets were inhabited Worlds What other worlds did do aswel as wee Thus art thou fled and left us here to bee Sad Ruines of an Universitie VVhat Ignorant Malice could not reach unto Nor War it self thy single Fate did do The World began at Noon but thy bright Raie More glorious Sun did set at thy Mid-daie Now wee do'nt mourn our State for at thy Fall 'T is fit this Kingdom perish World and all Our heap of Stones at Christ-Church prove's to bee But a more spatious Monument to thee And when wee purifi'd from this Age shall name And dedicate a Temple to thy Fame Wee 'l call this Island thine which is no less Famous for thee then it 's unhappiness When Cities Temples burnt shall bee forgot And Sacrilege too the prais of thee shall not Parents shall hither bring their Sons of Years To paie their Tribute in a Sea of Tears And pointing to thy Tomb crie There are found Oxford and Gregorie in one yard of Ground Fr. Palmer Upon the much deplored Deceas of Mr John Gregorie Chaplain of CHRIST-CHURCH HEnce Exclamations on Disastrous Fate Let none here call the Stars unfortunate Or rail at Lachesis The Soul that 's gon Scorn's such a whining Celebration And dare's that Autor whosoe're hee bee To search into the Stars so far as hee Since Life was lent him 'till hee had a view Of all the Mysteries that Nature knew And had a perfect Knowledg of each Art That either Rome or Athens could impart 'T was time now Learning 's banisht to suspend His labor and to get to his Journei's end Should this so sad Intelligence bee sent The Hebrews and Chaldeans would lament The Syrians and Arabians though so far VVould send to know this an Ambassador But vain and fruitless would their Labor bee VVhen none could give an Answer t'
c. The Raiment of a Man saith a Learned Rabbin is his Bodie And had our Father Adam stood wee had needed no other Thou hast Clothed mee saith holie Job with Skin and with Flesh when therefore wee die wee are said in S. Peter's language to put off this Tabernacle as in S. Paul when wee rise again to bee Clothed upon with our hous from Heaven O're night wee put off this weed of Mortalitie but the Morning cometh and wee shall bee covered again with our skin and put on Incorruption our Better Cloths as to go and see God in this Flesh The same flesh wee put off the night before but with this difference that this Fowl Garment which could not bee kept Unspotted of the world shall in the mean time bee washed clean in the Blood of the Lamb. Our Clothes put off wee laie our selvs down and take our rest And to Die In the Prophet Isaiah's Phrase Isa 43.17 57.1 is but to lie down in our Beds And when thy daies shall bee fulfilled saith Nathan to David and thou shalt sleep with thy Fathers so indeed wee read it as wee may but the Original is And thou shalt lie down with thy Fathers 2 Sam. 7.12 So Asa the King's Coffin is called a Bed 2 Chron 16.14 and our forefathers in their Saxon tongue style a Burying place legerstoƿ or place to lie down in as in the Laws of King Canute Numb 3. In the Case of Natural Rest 't is not the whole man onely the Earthlie part falleth asleep the Soul is then most awake The Bodie 's Night is the Soul's Daie our Better part saith Cardan is never it 's own man till now when exalted unto a State of Separation as it were in the bodie it spendeth the time in Contemplations free and congeniall to its own Extraction So in the sleep of Death 't is not the totus Homo the Bodie indeed is dead becaus of sin the Soul is then most Alive Here as a Servant it is still required to the Exigencies of the Bodie having no time of it's own to spend but what it can get by stealth when the Master is gon to bed But there like it's Redeemer free among the Dead and delivered from the Incumbrances of the Bodie it begineth to bee a Soul to it self minding that which is above and looking with a more piercing eie upon the Invisible things of God It is noted by the Naturalists and wee finde it true in observation that no nois awaketh Natural Sleep more suddenly then an Humane voice Nay though it bee that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that dead and dangerous sleep as the Aphorism noteth it in Hippocrates But especially the Experiment holdeth if the voice calleth upon him in his own name But that wee shall all bee awaked out of this other Sleep by the sound of our Proper Names is more then I can pretend to though S. Peter's call was Tabitha surge and our Saviour's to his Friend Lazare veni foras Lazarus com forth To saie nothing to Epiphanius his Tradition that when our Lord went down into Hell and there found our Father Adam fast hee took him by the hand and called him by his own Name in the words of S. Paul Surge Adam qui dormis so indeed som Antient Copies read it Arise Adam thou that sleepest and stand up from the dead Christ taketh thee by the hand But this I am sure of that wee shall all bee awaked by a voice the voice of an Archangel and the word shall bee as som think Surgite mortui c Nor shall it bee the voice of a God and not of a Man it shall bee an Humane voice for by the Archangel wee are to mean the Son of Man For the hour cometh in which all they that are in the Graves shall hear his voice and shall com forth Job 5.28 Which why it should bee strange of us I know not since it is true of the Swallows by a certain and confest Experience that when the Winter cometh they lie down in the hollow of a Tree and there falling asleep quietly resolv into their first Principles But at the Spring 's approach they are n t so though throughly dead but that they hear the stil nois of Returning Nature and awaking out of their Mass rise up everie one to their life again Ego novi hominem c. I know a man saith the Learned Prince of Concordia who in his soundest Sleep could walk talk write and dispatch anie business of the most required Vigilance They seem to have had som such conceit of Death who hold it no absurditie to write Letters to their dead Friends as the Emperor Theodosius to S. Chrysostom more then thirtie Years after his deceas as if Death were a kinde of live Sleep Such an one as that which Jupiter sent of an Errand to awake Atamemnon And may wee not as properly saie that to bee Dead is to bee Alive as to saie to Die is to bee Born And yet the Antients as if Corruption had been their Father and the Worms their Mother were wont to call the daies of their Death Natalia not Dying but Birth-daies Mos inolevit in sancta Ecclesia it hath been the custom in the holie Church saith Haymo when a Saint of God departed this life to call it not the daie of his Death but the daie of his Nativitie That which wee call Death's they call Life's door Seneca himself said as much Dies iste quem Tutanquam Supremum reformidas Aeterni Natalis est As if all this were so indeed the Jews to this daie stick not to call their Golgotha's Batte Caiim the Houses or places of the Living At the least they have an Effectual life in them for the Mummies are known to bee most soveraign and Magistral in Medicine and the Principal Ingredient of the weapon-Salv is the Moss of a dead Man's-skul as the Recipe delivered by Paracelsus to Maximilian the Emperor Once more and I leav the Parallel Sleep wee know is most natural to Animal-Creatures and for Men so Necessarie that Aristotle saith that the end of it in us is Bene Ratiocinari And yet hee himself is cited by Olympiodorus to have known a Man who never slept in all his Life And the strangeness hath been quitted by an Experience of later daies The Comparison hold th in the Sleep of Death 't is Omnibus communis common to all men as wee use to saie And yet som Jews believ that the last age of Men shall bee so long liv'd as to prevent the Resurrection But S. Paul himself hath promised 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that wee shall not all die som shall bee changed And therefore 't is no vain Article which wee so daily profess that our Saviour shall com to judg both the Quick and the Dead Wee are to saie then of all those that are departed this life as the Jews of their Father Jacob Non est Mortuus or as our