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Author: Gregory, John, 1607-1646.
Title: Gregorii Opuscula, or, Notes & observations upon some passages of Scripture with other learned tracts / written by John Gregory ...
Print source: Gregorii Opuscula, or, Notes & observations upon some passages of Scripture with other learned tracts / written by John Gregory ...
Gregory, John, 1607-1646., Gurgany, John, 1606 or 7-1675.
London: Printed for R. Royston ..., 1650.
Alternate titles: Works. 1650
Notes:
Vol. [1] has added t.p.: Notes and observations upon some passages of Scripture. The second edition.
Table of contents: v. 2, p. [25]-[26]
Vol. [2] has t.p.: Gregorii posthuma, or, Certain learned tracts / written by John Gregorie ... ; together with a short account of the autor's [sic] life and elegies on his much lamented death / published by his dearest friend J.G., B.D. of Merton College. -- London : Printed by William Du-gard for Laurence Sadler ... 1650.
Tracts in v. [2] have separate t.p.'s dated 1649.
T.p. on p. [45]: A discours declaring what time the Nicene Creed began to bee sung in the church ...
T.p. on p. [55]: A sermon upon the resurrection from the I Corinth. XV.XX ...
T.p. on p. [75]: Kainan deuteros, or, A disproof of him, in the 3. of S. Luke. V. 36.
T.p. on p. [93]: Episcopus puerorum, in die innocentium, or, A discoverie of an antient custom in the Church of Sarum, making an anniversarie bishop among the Choristers ...
T.p. on p. [125]: De æris & epochis : shewing the several accounts of time among all nations, from the creation to the present age ...
T.p. on p. [175]: The Assyrian monarchie : being a short description of it's [sic] rise an fall ...
T.p. on p. [255]: The description and use of the terrestrial globe.
Reproduction of original in British Museum.
Subject terms:
Gregory, John, -- 1607-1646.
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Theology -- 17th century.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A42072.0001.001
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TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD BRIAN, Lord Bishop of Sarum, and Tutour to both their Highnesses, The most Illustrious CHARLES the Prince of Wales, and the most noble JAMES the Duke of York, my most Honored Lord and Patron.
To the Reader.
NOTES VPON SOME PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE.
CHAP. I. Also he had them teach the Children of Judah the (use of the) bow: Behold it is written in the Booke of Jashar. 2 Sam. 1.18.
CHAP. II. Why our Saviour said not Jehovah Jehovah, but Eli Eli, (as Saint Matthew) or Eloi Eloi (as Saint Marke) in that great case of Dereliction.
CHAP. III.. And hee shall shew you a large Upper Roome, &c. Mark. 14.15. And when they were come in, they went up into an Upper Roome, &c. Act. 1.13. Whom when they had washed, they layed her in an Upper Chamber, Act. 9.37. Then Peter arose and went with them, when hee was come, they brought him into the Upper Chamber, v. 39. And there were many lights in the Upper Chamber, where they were gathered together, &c. Act. 20.8. And there sate in a window a young man named Eutychus, &c. v. 9.
CHAP. IV. Es. 3.2.And her gates shall lament and mourne, &c.And she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
CHAP. V. The Kingdome of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force, Mat. 11.12.
CHAP. VI. Noah's Lent. And the Raine was upon the Earth forty daies and 40 nights, Gen. 7.12.
CHAP. VII. Caeci & Claudi. And (the Jebusite) spake unto David, saying, Thou shalt not come up hi∣ther unlesse thou take away the Blind and the Lame, saying (with themselves) David shall not come up hither. And David said in that day, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusite, and recovereth to the Fort, and (smiteth) the Lame and the Blind, hated of Davids Soul,—Therefore they said, The Blind and the Lame shall not come into the house, 2 Sam. 5.6.8.
CHAP. VIII. Wherefore you shall make Images of your Emrods and Images of your Mice that marre the Land, and ye shall give glory unto the God of Is∣rael: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your Gods, and from off your Land.
CHAP. IX. . Act. 19.35.
CHAP. X. .
CHAP. XI. .
CHAP. XII.
CHAP. XIII. .
CHAP. XIV.
CHAP. XV.
CHAP XVI.
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CHAP. XVIII.
CHAP. XIX.
CHAP. XX.
CHAP. XXI.
CHAP. XXII. The meaning and Considerations of Light in Scripture.
CHAP. XXII. Gen. 1.7. Tehom Rabba. And God made the Firmament, and divided the waters which were under the Firmament from the Waters which were above the Firmament, &c.
CHAP. XXIV. Deut. 22.3. Lapis errantium. And with all lost things which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou doe likewise.
CHAP. XXV. Heb. 12.24. Sanguis Abel. And to the bloud of sprinckling which speaketh better things then that of Abel.
CHAP. XXVI.
CHAP. XXVII.
CHAP. XXVIII.
CHAP. XXIX.
CHAP. XXX.
CHAP. XXXI.
CHAP. XXXII. But by my name Jehovah was I not knowne unto them.
CHAP. XXXIII.
CHAP. XXXIV.
CHAP. XXXV.
CHAP. XXXVI.
CHAP. XXXVII.
CHAP. XXXVIII.
CHAP. XXXIX.
A NOTE OF THE TEXTS of Scripture which are purposely interpreted or any otherwise referred unto.
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TO My highly-honored Friend, FOR VIRTUE and LEARNING, Ed. Bysh, Esquier.
A Short Account of the Autor's Life and Death.
Upon the DEATH of my dearest Friend, the AUTOR.
An ELEGIE On the Learned AUTOR.
TO THE MEMORY OF My dear Friend, and Tutor, Mr. JOHN GREGORY.
UPON THE DEATH Of my Loving Friend, Mr JOHN GREGORIE.
Upon the much deplored Deceas of Mr John Gregorie, Chaplain of CHRIST-CHURCH.
Epitaphium Joannis Gregorii.
The Particular Titles of this Book.
A DISCOURS OF THE LXX INTERPRETERS; The Place and manner of their Interpretation.
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A DISCOURS Declaring what time the Nicene Creed began to bee Sung in the Church.
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A SERMON UPON THE RESURRECTION.
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. OR A DISPROOF OF HIM, in the 3. of S. Luke. v. 36.
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Episcopus Puerorum, IN DIE INNOCENTIUM. OR, A Discoverie of an Antient Custom in the Church of Sarum, making an Anniversarie Bishop among the Choristers.
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DE AERIS & EPOCHIS. Shewing The Several Accounts of Time among all Nations, from the Creation to the present Age.
CHAP. I. Concerning the Characters of Time.
CHAP. II. Of the Eclipses.
CHAP. III. Concerning the Cycle of the Sun.
CHAP. IV. Concerning the Cycle of the Moon.
CHAP. V. Concerning the Ferial Character.
CHAP. VI. Concerning the great Conjunctions.
treatise
Concerning the Civil Characters, and first of the Sabbatical Years.
CHAP. II. Concerning the Indictions.
CHAP. III. Concerning the Periods.
CHAP. IV. Concerning the Aera's.
CHAP. V. Aera Orbis Conditi.
CHAP. VI. Nabonassar's Aera.
CHAP. VII. The Aera of the Olympiads.
CHAP. VIII. Aera Ʋrbis Conditae.
CHAP. XI. Aera Septimanarum Septuaginta, the seventie Weeks.
CHAP. X. Aera Alexandrea,
CHAP. XI. Aera Dhilcarnian
CHAP. XII. The Jews Aera.
CHAP. XIII. Aera Dionysiana Philadelphi.
CHAP. XIV. Aera Hispanica.
CHAP. XV. Aera Actiacae Victoriae. &c.
CHAP. XVI. Aera Christi Nati.
CHAP. XVII. Aera Passionis Dominicae.
CHAP. XVIII. Hegira Muchammedis.
CHAP. XIX. Aera Jesdigerdica.
CHAP. XX. What is Proleptical, and what Historical Time.
CHAP. XXI. Considering the Causses of that infinite Varietie which is found to bee amongst Chronologers.
CHAP. XXII. Of Canon Chronological.
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THE ASSYRIAN MONARCHIE, BEEING A short Description of it's Rise and Fall.
NIMROD. Annus Mundi 1718. Ante Christ. Nat. 2230. Cycle of the Sun 18. Cycle of the Moon 12.
Nimrod.
Synchronism.
Belus 2.
Synchronismi.
Ninus.
Synchronismi.
Ninus.
Athenaeus lib. 12.
Diodor. lib. 2.
Semiramis.
Synchronismi.
Zames sive Ninias.
Synchronismi.
Sardanapalus.
Synchronismi.
PHUL. Circa Annum Mundi 3182.
Phul
Synchronismi.
Tiglath Philassar.
Synchronismi.
Salmanassar.
Synchronismi.
Sennacherib.
Synchronismi.
Asarhaddon.
.
The First King in this last Dynastie of Ashur was
Nebuchadnezar.
Synchronismi.
Hevil Merodac
Synchronismi.
Belshazar.
Synchronismi.
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treatise
Of the Meridian without the Globe.
Of the Axel and Poles of the Globe and of the Hour Circle.
Of the Horizon.
The Reason of the Difference in Computation be∣twixt the Old and New Accompts.
Why the Meridians and Horizons which are so several upon the Earth, are but single without the Globe.
Of the Quadrant of Altitude, and the Compass.
Of the Great Circles upon the Globe, and first of the Meridians.
Concerning the Difference of Geographers in the pla∣cing of their Great Meridian, and the Caus∣ses pretending thereto.
What Cours is to bee taken with this Varietie of Meridians, and how followed, or neglected by the Geographers.
Of the Lesser Meridians.
Of the Equator, and the Lesser Circles.
The Description of the Waterie-Part of the Globe by the Rumbes of the Mariner's Compass.
The Original of the Mariner's Compass from the Magnetical Constitution of the Earth.
The Use of the Terrestrial Globe; and first of the Rectification.
By the known Place to finde out the Longitude and Latitude, and by the known Longitude and Latitude to finde out the Place.
Of the Difference of Longitude and Latitude, and what is to bee observed in the con∣verting of the Degrees of either into Miles.
To finde out the Bearing of one Place from ano∣ther, and what is meant by the Angle of Position.
To finde out the several Positions of Sphere, Clime, Parallel, &c.
Of Astrological Geographie, and to tell under what Sign, or Planet, a Region, or Citie is subjected.
The Description and Ʋse of Maps and Charts Ʋniversal and Particular.
The Description of the whole by Parallelogram.
The Description of the Whole by Planisphere.
Of the Section by the Equator.
Of the Section by the Meridian.
Example of this in the Description of the Planispherical Map of Hondius.
The Description and Use of Particular Charts.
Example of all this in the Description of Saxton's Map of England and Wales.
Of Topographical Maps, and for an Example the Description of Middlesex by Mr Norden.
Of the Resemblance of Countries, and to other things in Art or Nature.
Of the old and new Names of Places, and other Artificial Terms met with in the Maps.
The Concernment of All This.