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A42036 A most excellent and pathetical oration, or, Declamation of Gregory Nazianzen's stigmatizing, and condemning the Emperor Julian for his apostatising from the truth and containing, by way of history, the persecution of the Christians during his reign, the confutation of pagan abominations and the obscenity, as well as absurdity, both of the substance and ceremonies of their pretended religion, with respect unto its doctrine and the ... ceremonies approved of among the primitive Christians. Gregory, of Nazianzus, Saint. 1662 (1662) Wing G1879A; ESTC R293 69,488 210

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Sect Neverthelesse thou most wise and generous if thou wilt not admire the things I have said came to passe heretofore because of our Religion at least contemplate on that which is present and consider the patience of our Scipioes and Epam●nonda's seeing thou marchest with thy Army and causest thy self be served with meats common and not delicate to eat that approvest very much of those Emperors who make War and conduct their Armies themselves that savourest of I know what generosity and discretion in honouring the virtue of thine enemies and makest more esteem of the valour ●f thine Adversaries then of the ●owardlinesse and idlenesse of whosoever of thine own party ●eest thou not many among us ●aving in their possession neither ●ouses nor goods stript likewise ●f their flesh and blood and yet ●hrough such their sufferings approaching near unto God who ●ye on the bare earth their feet ●as Homer speaks of a certain Devil that desired to honour him all ●irty who are humble and yet ●levated above all here below who are on earth here with men ●nd yet at the same time in heaven above with God who are bound and yet free forced and yet invincible who possesse nothing in the world and yet injoy all things that are in the world who consist of two sorts of lives the one which they make no reckoning of the other whereof they esteem very much who dye to live who through the dissolution of body and soul are re-united unto God who live exempt from all inordinate affections and yet filled with the holy and true love of God to whom appertains the fountain of light whose beams already penetrate their souls who are spiritually nourished as it were with angelicall singing of Psalms and kept turns whole nights together in praising God who have thei● minds already in heaven by a divine rapture before they dye to whom appertains cleannesse and purity who know its all one to depart from this world and to be with God to whom belongs rocks and also paradise to be cast down upon the earth and yet to be set upon thrones in heaven to be naked in their bodies and yet cloathed with incorruption in their souls to be here in deserts but yet in heaven with good company who neglecting and repressing the sensualities of the body injoy for all that a perpetual and un expressible content of the soul whose tears are the deluge ●f sin and restauration of the ●orld whose extended hands put ●ut fire tame the raving of wild ●easts dull the edge of the sword ●ake whole troops fly away and ●now thou also that at length ●hey shall withstand and triumph ●ver thy impiety although for a 〈◊〉 thou bravest it and with thy ●evils dancest as I may so say 〈◊〉 the delights of thine own hearts ●●sts and heathenish devices Nevertheless O impudent fel●ow as thou art how can it be ●hat in the mean time thou better ●onsiderest not of these things ●hou who art as liable to death as ●ny other worldling How can'st ●hou find in thine heart to make no ●reater esteem of those before ●poken Saints of God neither to ●everence them as thou oughtest ●re not the gifts and graces where●ith those clear Lights of heaven ●hine so bright far to be preferred ●efore the unsatiable covetousness ●f Solon that wise man whom Craesus made tryal of with his Lydian gold or the Philocaly of S●crates that is an affection in doating upon fine things for I am ashamed to think of much less b● in love with his foul sin of Sod●my I mean although with ver● much artifice heathen men hav● strove to cover it and are commended for their so doing O● the licourishness Plato shewed i● Sicily which brought him to suc● a condition that he was sold without being redeemed by any of hi● own disciples or other of th● Greek Nation Or the glutton● of Xenocrates the Cinicalne●● of Diogenes who made a Tun hi● house wherein he more accounte● of Beggars then of Princes o● Barly-loaves then of fine Manche●● as the Tragedy hath it Or th● Philosophy of Epicurus who kne● no other soveraign good then th● pleasure he took to please hi● senses You make great account o● Crates Certes 't was an exploi● worthy a brave Philosopher vo●untarily to quit himself of his ●reat revenues and that they not ●inder him in his study of Philo●ophy to cast away much riches ●ormerly possessed by him in great ●ontempt but the manner of his ●penly making known the same ●y boastingly publishing the know●edge thereof to posterity is a ●●gn he was ambitious of popular ●pplause a mark whereby we dis●ern him to be affected as well with ●he tumour of Vain-glory as with ●he humour of being a Philosopher ●ou admire him who being at ●ea and commanding all his goods 〈◊〉 a tempest to be cast over●oard thanked fortune that she had ●educed him to a Sultan or to a ●hilosophers cloak Also Anthiste●es who as a quarreller having all ●is face broken made no more ac●ount of it then the writing on his ●prehead as on a table the name ●f him that had beaten him to ●he end peradventure he might make his complaint more hainous against him when time should serve Thou highly prizest 〈◊〉 other that lived not long since who making his Oraisons to th● Sun stood upon his feet as long a● the day lasted observing it ma● be to begin then when it came nea● the Earth that such his prayer● might be the breifer and finishing them when the Sun set Thou als● makest great account of him who in winter being on the guard too his charge so to heart that he passe● the whole night which froze hard in contemplation and had hi● mind so intent thereon that he fel● not the cold at all Thou praises● also the curiosity of Homer's desir● to know the Riddle of Arcadia● and Aristotle who stayed sometim● on the bank of Euripus to understand the cause of its Ebbing an● Flowing neither of which bein● perfectly understood by either o● them was the cause of the one an● of the others death Thou esteemest also of the Wells of Cleander of the Girdle of Anaxagoras an● of the Weeping of Heraclitus Now tell me how many hast thou of these and how long have they ●asted And wonderest thou not at so ●any thousand of ours that have ●ollowed the like Philosophy and ●ar more admirable all their lives ●eest thou not how in all parts of ●he world as well men as women ●f our Religion have striven one ●ith an other even unto admira●ion on all sides who should be ●ost renowned for vertuous living ●orgetting even the laws of nature ●hen endeavouring to appease God 〈◊〉 their chast conversation and pa●ence not onely the meaner sort ●f people that are wont to live of ●odily labour but the great and fa●ous also for their ancestry and ●ignities Who changed their for●erly accustomed delicious man●er of living in all plentifulness 〈◊〉 variety of