Gleanings of antiquities / By John Beaumont, Gent.

  • Beaumont, John, -1731.
Date:
1724
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    among them judged a purging of the Mind to be the chief Religion. So Pliny, in his Panegyrick on Trajan, fays, I obferve the Gods are not £0 much pleafed with the diligent Prayers of their Adorers, as with Innocency and San&ity; and that he is more gracioufly received by them, who brings to their Temples a pure and chafte Mind, than another a meditated Prayer. And fo Per fins. Sat. 2. Quin damns id Super is, de magnd quod dare lance Non poffit magni Mejjala lippa prop ago. Compofiturn Jus fdfque Animo fanBofque recejfus Mentis, & incoBum generofo PeBus honefto, Hac credo ut admoveam Templis & Fane Idaho. jWe give the Gods, what Great Men, from their Store, Cannot prefent them, far from giving more : A Mind fincere to God and Man we bear, An hone ft Heart, not fway’d by Hopes or Fear9 Of this let me be (till an Offerer. This Myftery lay hid under their luftral Ceremonies, which were inftituted by their Anceftors for an A- mendment of Manners, and rectifying the Exorbi¬ tances of Life ; and they had recourfe to Heaven as the Source of this San&ity and interiour Purgation. So Cicero, /. 2. de Nat. Deor. Both our City and Greece have brought forth many lingular Men, no one of whom is to be thought to have become fo but by God’s particular AiTiftance : Wherefore the Poets, and efpecially Homer, joins certain Gods with the chief Heroes, Vlyffes, Diomedes, Agamemnon, Achilles, as Companions in their Dangers and Straits; and af¬ terwards concludes, No one, therefore, has ever been a Great Man without feme Divine Afflatus. Concerning the Poets that Paflage is well known ; Eft