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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42536	The religion of a physician, or, Divine meditations upon the grand and lesser festivals, commanded to be observed in the Church of England by act of Parliament by Edmund Gayton ...	Gayton, Edmund, 1608-1666.	1663 (1663)	Wing G416; ESTC R7653	47,970	120

THE RELIGION OF A Physician OR DIVINE MEDITATIONS UPON The Grand and Lesser FESTIVALS Commanded to be observed in the Church of England by Act of Parliament By EDMUND GAYTON Batchelor of Physick And Captain Lieutenant of Foot to His Illustrious Highness IAMES Duke of York Whom God preserve LONDON Printed by I. G. for the Author 1663. PErlegi hunc librum cui titulus Divine Meditations upon the Great and Lesser Festivals c. in quo nihil reperio Sacris literis contrarium ideoque Imprimatur Guil. Brabourn S. T. D. Reverendiss in Christo Patri ac D. D. Archiep. Cant. Sacellan Domestic To His Royall and Illustrious HIGHNESSE JAMES DUKE OF YORK May it please Your Highness TO admit a Centurion of yours into Your Presence without his Sword by his side of which he is most joyfully disarmed by this blessed change of Peace which he hopes no threats of murmuring Malecontents will be ever able to interrupt It is long since I waited upon your Highnesse after the Surrender of Oxford unto the Town of Uxbridge where I took my leave of as much Happiness as could be left Your Royall Father of ever Blessed Memory was then alive a Confessor Royal and soon after Martyr for the Protestant Religion the Priviledge of Parliaments the Liberty of the Subject and the Lawes of the Land All which no man ever defended so unto Blood as Himself nor indeed could any man For He was butteressed up by especial Grace high Undestanding the Pen of a ready Writer and invincible Patience Not long after His bloody Exit off the Stage of this World with the general Plaudit of good Men and Angels your Highnesse made an happy escape from St. Iames's where you now are at more Liberty God be thanked then before I have lov'd the Play of Hide and Seek ever since and with just regard honour those Gentlemen who from the Royall Bo-peep were grand Instruments to metamorphize the Pyrocles of their Land into a Philoclea Who would not take this History for a Romance were it not that the truth thereof is undeniable How did the Red Rose blush adorn'd in a Silk Gown and Sattin Petticoat with what Art and cover of Handkerchiefs or Gloves did you imitate Virgin smiles even to the beguiling those who knew of your disguise the Pilot and Master of the Ship never carried such a noble Fraight which was his Barques protection and tutelary power Not a Tar-paulin but would have throwne his cap at you while the enamour'd winds followed your Ship with all speed more to salute the Royal Passenger then to forward the sailes Credentne posteri Posterity will stagger in belief of the future Annals and Credulity it self will stand awhile dubious when it shall be wrote That two such High descended Brothers should be preserved the one in standing the other in swimming Oak Properly from hence shall our Ships be called The walls of this Nation which kept safe such a Royal Depositum and Charge Sacra Iovi Quercus The Oak is a Tree dedicate to Iupiter and no doubt it was never more divine then in those two Services The Oak as it is in it selfe free from Thunder-stroaks so it prov'd to all in its protection and loyally secured your Royal Persons from the roarings and thunderings of our late Bull-Rampant who rag'd like Hercules furens in his poisoned shirt at your Highness his Escape and never recovered his spirits after His Majesty's Deliverance from him and his Blood-hounds For though he died not presently upon the effugium yet as Queen Mary said of the losse of Callice you might find the sad impressions of that miscarriage imprinted in her heart Let a new Dodona's Grove be revived upon this Royal Tree which crushed the spreading growth of that luxuriant Bramble which had like to have overspred all the lesser Trees of the Forest which hath over-topped the neighbour Vine and the remoter Olive and brought the Willow to a just subjection Sacred be that Oak whereby we Shrubs of the Myrtle and the Lawrel Grove doe shoot up again more then cropt and brouz'd by the Vermine of those dayes For all that while your Captain was in a Brown study in the City and at many a dangerous Forrage in the Countrey In which solitudes these ensuing Meditations were wrote and did visit some friends abroad when the Author durst not Now as Gentlemen who keep Hounds send a couple to some friend and a couple to another until there be a free time for game So I the liberty of Studies being restor'd in Caesar onely have called home these dispersed Poems and brought them to hunt in a narrow compasse I am sure they do not run Counter nor are at a fault but all follow upon the right scent and open in good musick and go along in harmony pardon the Metaphor with the Uniforme Pack I humbly present these Fancies Royal Sir to Your Highness protection which is a Goord too good for their shelter yet the amplitude of your extended favour may shroud at once a Captain a Physitian and a small Poet. In all or any of which Capacities it is my desire to be ever esteemed though at a most mannerly distance SIR Your Royall Highness his most obedient Captain and Servant EDM. GAYTON To the Favourable READER QUod feliciter vortat Academici c. That it may prove happy to my Mother the Church and our Civil Father the King and his Ward or Pupil for that is all the Wards is left him the Common-wealth I have wrote these sollowing Meditations in a time when it was not a sin but punishment to observe them I remember very well that those two famous Prelates of our Church the Bishop of London-derry and the eminent Scholar Dr. Gunning with many others were questioned for celebrating the Nativity of our Saviour when the third of September was kept most religiously for the routing of a King But Crescit sub pondere virtus The Dog barks but the Moon goes on 'T is not the threats of men nor their unjust oppressions must scare us from doing our duty I have heard a learned Prelate say That Nemo moritur in officio a Vicechancelour hath not leisure to be sick and it hath obtained this Faith de facto that even those spirituall aduenturers I before named have triumphed over their persecutions and they live in honour and high esteem when the Remora's and Sword-fish of those dayes the Thorns and Briars of their sides are crackling as under a pot in their abhorr'd Non-conformity If ever there may be a boast of visibility or of infalibility of a single Church then modestly we of our Church may lay some small claim to it which from the scoffs of our neighbours and the deplored opinion of most of her own spurious children is raised Deo Gratias like Job from the dunghil more nich more honoured more conspicuous then ever so that I may say of my restored Mother and King as it was said of Marius