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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81179	Petrus Cunæus of the common-wealth of the Hebrews. Translated by C.B.	Cunaeus, Petrus.	1653 (1653)	Wing C7584; Thomason E1311_2; ESTC R209172	48,319	213

round and as the times are turned so are mens manners Verily the same day that deprived them of the fair light of liberty and struck the Scepter out of their hands did also so abate the edge of their ingenuous spirits that they have no more vigor now nor keeness in them Servitude dwarfs the mind and enchains the spirit and choaks all the seeds of generosity What high thoughts can they possibly have who for so many years through the whole world have been wearyed out with so great scorn and contumely whom Children in contempt have pulled by the sleeve and men by the beard lastly upon whom the fury of all the Caesars spent it self Tiberius distributed their young men sending them as it were for Souldiers into the Provinces of unwholesome air The air of Sardinea was very pestilent Thither are four thousand commanded away to meet an untimely death Titus cast almost as many to the beasts when hee set forth shews at Berytum and Caesarea Trajan himself the mildest of all the Princes decreed they should not read the Law so did other Emperors after him at severall times This was the greatest of afflictions and by Rabbi Zacuth is numbred among the persecutions They decreed saith he a persecution that the Jews should not read the Law But these things were done by Pagans Let us who are joyned to them with a closer bond shew them more favour having this communion with them to hear the commands of one and the same God Truly S. Paul desires to lay down his life for them so fervent is his charity to the Nation And it is his saying Rom. 11.16 If the first fruits bee holy the lump is also holy and if the root be holy so are the branches I will not now ambitiously celebrate their praises for wee abhor from nothing more than such Vanity Yet as to these later times the truth is if we cast up the account rightly out Religion is much endebted to that people For who are they but the Jews that have preserved for us the sacred volumes of the Bible safe and sound How many Errata's had stoln into the Holy Scriptures had the custody thereof been committed only to such as Lactantius Austin Gregory Chrysostom most holy men indeed but unskilfull of the Hebrew tongue Amongst all the Greek and Latine Fathers that governed the antient Church Origen and to speak the most Jerom were the only Hebricians the rest had not learned so much as the very Letters Wherefore if the carelesness of Transcribers had made default they were not the men that could make amends But this was all the Jews only study and their sole care to vindicate the Books of Moses and the Prophets and the other holy writings from the injuries of time This is their proper praise wherein no other Nation c●●imeth any share There is an eminent place in Rabbi Abraham * In libre Juchasin of Salmantica whence we learn That all the Copies of the Bible were amended according to a certain Book of venerable antiquity written long before by the hand of Rabbi Hillel High-Priest of the Jews who came from Babylon into Syria sixty years before the Nativity of our Lord God Jesus Christ In the Kingdom of Leon saith he they found the Bible written by Rabbi Hillel and by it corrected all their Copies part of it I saw which was sold in Afric and was written 900. years before my time Kimhi in his Grammar saith the Pentateuch was at the City of Toledo At that time therefore the Jews were the only Correctors to keep the context of the Bible pure Indeed it had been easy for them to alter and corrupt those places which seemed to condemn their follies when the Christians understood scarce three words of Hebrew but piety with-stood and Religion would not permit them to change what was sacred Nevertheless some have charged them with unfaithfulness in describing much of the text but these men have already had sufficient answer from learned * 8. Explan Esaiae Origen As for me when I consider the unwearyed dilligence and infinite pains of the Masorites I do even stand amazed for having revised accurately and compared all the parts of the Hebrew Bible they signed them with certain notes This was done after the destruction of the second Temple about the year 436. It was observed by them not only how many Verses and words but also how many Letters every Book contained Wherefore that afterward when extreme barbatism opprest the world no tittle of that most excellent Book was lost is a benefit we ow to them Not without cause have the Rabbins said The Masora is as it were the wall and the hedge of the Law In Rabbi Zacuth above cited are Judaicall trifles whereby forsooth it is concluded that the Accents and the Points were extant in the time of Ezra which I therefore mention that it may be added to the rest of those vain arguments alleged by some who in our time deny them to be the invention of the Masorites And in the same Rabbies Book by the same proof is the Targum of Onkelos referd to Ezra's age Which although it be false and easily discovers how little worth the other is yet will find some to defend it the rather that the other may not fall Many are so obstinately given they care not what they say if it may but serve to maintain the opinion they have once embraced That the reading of the holy Scripture is not uncertain and subject to any more variation wee thankfully acknowledge the care and pains of the Jews who lived in the later times after the destruction of the second Temple For when they were fallen from their great and wealthy State they made it their business amidst their extreme calamity to save out of the common Shipwrack this one Chest of inestimable value And this is that we love them for the rest deserve our compassion For they read the Tittles and Letters and Books but they read them only not regarding nor seeking the true and sacred sense So that the saying of their own well agrees unto themselves They make that which is fundamentall a lesser matter and the lesser matter fundamentall And which is worst of all they are not sensible of their Childishness and folly for whereas all their infelicity consisteth in their ignorance of the divine Law they complain of the loss of their Country and of the Kingdom taken from them and of the like things whose possession makes no man happy and whose loss makes no man miserable Seneca tels us of his Wifes fool Harpaste that having on the sodain lost her sight she knew not she was blind and often requested her keeper to bring her to another house for her own was dark The Jews are in the same case They carry about in their own breast the cause of all their misery and suppose by some divine favour they should recover Canaan they would change their climat not