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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39821	The manners of the Israelites in three parts. I Of the patriarchs. 2. Of the Israelites after their coming out of Egypt until the captivity of Babylon. 3 Of the Jews after their return from the captivity until the preaching of the Gospel. Shewing their customs secular and religious, their generous contempt of earthly grandeur. And the great benefit and advantage of a plain laborious, frugal, and contented life.; Moeurs des Israélites. English	Fleury, Claude, 1640-1723.	1683 (1683)	Wing F1364A; ESTC R218945	81,805	250

Ceremonies and Precepts of Morality It contain'd also their Civil Laws Thus that Book alone which is the Pentateuch or the five Books of Moses included all they were to know Not but they had many other Books For that I may not speak of the Books of Joshuah of the Judges of Samuel and of other Sacred Writings which were made afterwards In the time of Moses mention is made of a Book of the Warrs of the Lord as also of a Book of Jasher The Books of Samuel and Kings do often refer to the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah and Israel Solomon wrote three thousand Parables and five thousand Canticles He made Treatises of all Animals and Plants And he himself complains of the Infinite number of Books that were composed All those Books and perhaps many others we know not of are lost as well as those of the Egyptians Syrians and other Eastern people The only Books which remain of that antiquity are those which God himself dictated to his Prophets and which he had preserved by a Particular Providence The other part of Studies was Musick I judge thereof by the Greeks who from the Orientals had taken all their Studies and all their Politeness Now certain it is that the Greeks had all their Children taught to sing and play upon Instruments This study is the most ancient of all Before ever Letters were us'd the memory of great things was preserv'd by Songs The Gauls and Germans had that Custome in the time of the Romans And the same Custome is still kept up by the wild Inhabitants of America Altho the Hebrews had Letters they knew that words in measure and put into a Song are always easilier remembred and from thence the great care arose which they took to compose Canticles upon any thing considerable that happened to them such are the two which Moses made the one at the passage of the Red-sea and the other when he lay adying to recommend the observation of the Law Such is the Song of Deborah that of Samuel's Mother and many others and especially the Psalms of David These Poems are of a wondrous Instruction full of God's Practises of the Memory of his Benefits of Moral Precepts and all the Sentiments which a good man ought to have in all the different States of Life So that the most important Truths and the most exact thoughts agreeably enter'd into the minds of Children with Tunes and Words If we may judge of the goodness of their Tunes by that of their Words they must have been altogether excellent grave and solid but touching and various If we judge of 'em by the effects Scripture seems to attribute to 'em such as were supernatural We see their Musick charm'd evil Spirits by the example of Saul who found himself better when David play'd upon the Harp We see that the sound of Instruments did help the Spirit of God which moved the Prophets by the example of those whom Saul met with according to the Prediction of Samuel and with whom he himself enterd into Heavenly transports of Joy and by the example of Elisha who call'd for a Ministrel that he might Prophecy This shews that Musick appeas'd the motions of the Spirits and humours which the Devil had raised in those Persons God had permitted him to possess and that on the contrary meeting with calm and deseate hearts it raised them up to God and inflamed 'em with Devotion disposing them thus for the better receiving the powerful impressions of his Spirit In like manner the Greeks relate to us the prodigious effects of their Musick for exciting or for calming Passions And we must either give all Histories the Lye or confess the Musick of the Ancients was much more charming than ours Not that it was rare amongst them they were all Musicians And to confine my self to the Hebrews and not to speak of those who were Musicians by profession there were in David's time Four thousand Levites destin'd to that employ only under the conduct of 288 Masters the chief of whom were Asaph Heman and Jeditshun so often named in the Inscriptions of the Psalms David himself was a great Poet and a great Musician And 't is well known how much the inclination of Kings serves to the advancement of Arts. A great Diversity they had of wind and other Instruments whereof some had eight or ten Strings and their Tunes were accompanyed with dances for this is the meaning of the word Chorus which the Latins have taken from the Greeks and which amongst them signifyed a company of Dancers dress'd and cloathed in one and the same manner They Sang together and danc'd a kind of Brawles They were coupled according to their age and sex young men Maids Women Old-men without intermixture with one another Now 't is improbable that the dances of the Hebrews offended the Rules of Modesty There is mention made of Choirs at the Procession which David made to transfer the Ark into Sion and on several occasions of victories when the Maids went out of the City Dancing and Singing But the greatest part of their studies did not consist in Reading Regular Lessons but in the Discourses of their Fathers and of their old men Who were obliged to inform their Children of the great things God had done for them and their Forefathers And it is for this reason that the Law commanded them so often to explain to their Children the Reasons of the Feasts and the other Ceremonies of their Religion Wherefore those Instructions applyed to sensible Objects being so frequently repeated could not fail of being sound and solid They likewise taught them all that concerned Agriculture joyning to their Lessons a perpetual Practice And we shall not doubt but they were very knowing therein if we consider that during so many ages they made it their sole occupation Now altho this art be exercis'd among us by people of gross and unthinking Souls yet it contains a vast extent of Knowledge much more useful to mankind than these Notions of the greater part of Speculative men who are esteem'd Learned And tho for knowledge we should reckon only what is written in Books the Ancients and Moderns have written enough of this to give us a good opinion of it Thus an Israelite who by the Tradition of his Fore fathers by his own experience and some reading had inform'd himself of his Religion the Laws which were to regulate his life and the History of his Nation who knew how to procure to himself all things necessary who perfectly understood the several qualities of Earth and of Plants proper to each what course was to be taken with 'em and in what Season what precautiong were to be used against the diverse Accidents which cause the Fruits of the Earth to perish how they were to be gathered and preserved who knew the nature of Cattle their Food their Diseases their Remedies and so many other the like