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A91415	The Jewes synagogue: or, A treatise concerning the ancient orders and manner of worship used by the Jewes in their synagogue-assemblies. Gathered out of the sacred scriptures, the Jewish Rabines, and such modern authors, which have been most conversant in the study of Jewish customes. Wherein, by comparing the scriptures in the Old and New Testament together, many truths are fully opened, and sundry controversies about church-government truly and plainly stated. By William Pinchion of Springfeild [sic] in N. England.	Pynchon, William, 1590-1662.	1652 (1652)	Wing P4309; Thomason E802_4; ESTC R207368	80,705	99

Mat. 18. 18. I confesse that some do expound this Text to mean the Power of Excommunication but yet reserving to them all due respect I take it to be meant only of their Authoritie to preach what is loose and what is bound And I shall be ready to give some further reasons of this Exposition hereafter Mr Broughton in his Explication of the Article of the Descent p. 30. saith All Ecclesiastical discipline-terms I dare undertake to shew from Maymony and the two Talmuds yea even the phrase of loosing and binding in making a Doctor absolute by the Sanhedrin with imposition of hands Scholar I would fain see what manner of Discipline it was that Christ ordained for the orderly Government of his particular Churches in their Synagogues Teacher Neither the holy Gospel nor the Epistles do teach any other thing for Ecclesiastical Government but as the holy synagogues did vid. Mr Broughton in Apoc. 303. I say they had the same discipline for substance as it may appear by comparing the Discipline termes of the New Testament with the Discipline terms of their synagogues as they may yet be found in Maymony and the two Talmuds Therefore seeing the Hebrew Doctors speak the same things the Apostles do reason will teach us that The Discipline which Christ ordained for the government of the Iewes synagogues is recorded by fragments in Mayomy and the two Talmuds the Apostles speeches which are like theirs only and differing from all others should be expounded according to their Dialect and peculiaritie of phrase and speech and what though all the Rabbins now extant be later then the Apostles Yet saith M. Broughton Seeing they only of all forreign writers have some hundreds of speeches which are used in the New Testament we may well conclude that the old Hebrews before them used those speeches whom the Apostles do follow Vid. Mr Broughton in Melchizedek cap. 3. and in D. 3. he saith thus The latter Rabbins have much from the ancient Rabbins agreeable to the Apostles doctrine yet stained with their late dogged blasphemies notwithstanding their Records in pieces of ancient truth must be regarded and as the mouth tasteth so Wisdom will taste their sayings and know which agrees to the sense of Scripture and which not Scholar You say that the Hebrew Doctors above all forreign writers have some hundreds of speeches yet abiding in their Records which no other writers have but the New Testament Now I pray you shew me how often the New Testament doth Talmudize or borrow speeches from their ancient Hebrew Doctors as they are yet recorded by their latter Hebrew Doctors Teacher It will be a long digression from the point of their Synagogues order to number up all the words and phrases which the New Testament doth borrow from the ancient Hebrew Doctors yet notwithstanding I hold it necessary to enlighten your understanding with some particulars Our Lord Iesus Christ The New Testament hath many phrases that are Thalmudik which cannot be so fitly opened as by the Thalmud saith M. Broughton doth often confirme the Hebrew Doctors particular Decrees and learned speeches such as plain reason of all know to be good Our Lord reverenced the divine schole of the Sanhedrin at twelve years of age Luk. 4. 46. sitting among them hearing and posing them the reverence of all gestures which their Decrees have for the reading of the Law in their Synagogues May. Tom. 1. And our Lord dotb shew his approbation of their Decree for that gesture by his practise in Luk. 4. 20. Their just Excommunication he allowed and their Law for excommunicating them who mis-use Authority as it is recorded by Maymony Tom. 1. himself by himself alone practised upon the Scribes and Pharisees and upon all Ierusalem Mat. 23. But their late traditions now in the Talmuds he damned as foolish and contrary to Godlinesse Mat. 5. 6. 7 chapthers and chap. 15. 9. Yet what the latter Rabbies have from the ancient Rabbies he alloweth All their Terms Phrases and Proverbial Sentences The world to come The dead Tasting death Resurrection of the dead Forgivenesse in this world Paradise Gehenna and Gehenna large in Mid. Tillin Eating and drinking the object of Faith Eating and drinking in the world to come Carrying the Crosse These and many other phrases the New Testament doth borrow from the Hebrew Doctors common use yet abiding in their Records yea and to singular use Jod and Prick and in Greek proverbial speech Alpha and Omega after the Hebrew manner from Aleph to Thau in Ben. Aram. on the contrary He taunteth Talmuds Raca the swearing by the Head their Corban their Abothenu and Rabbi c. These and such like corruptions he blameth Vid. Mr Broughton on Daniel 9. in his Reduction Scholar I confesse it doth ad a great deal of light to the full interpretation of Scripture to seethe ground and rise of every borrowed speech From what custom or dialect it is taken Teacher You judge rightly and therefore M. Broughton hath often given special caution concerning this usefull observation Scholar How many sorts of Dialects are contained within the several parts of the New Testament Teacher Four sorts of Dialects are especially to be marked in the New Testament 1. Much of the New Testament is attique or common Greek such as Heathens used for matters known to heathens for no man will deny but that they which will move others must speak in such a Dialect as is proper to their capacitie 2. More of the New Testament is borrowed from the Septuagint Translation and it was needfull that when the Apostles did relate to the Church such things as concerned the Jews matters they should expresse it from the seventy translation which was in common use among them Mr Broughton saith that he gathered many thousands of words out of the New Testament which the Apostles took out of the Seventy but lately saith he I used the help of Kirkerus his Hebrew-Greek Concordance for a book of which nature I would have given formerly an hundred pound sterling and saith he I am sorry that our Vniversitie students know not the use of this most profitable work 3. Much of the New Testament is Apostolike Greek for as all faculties draw common terms to their Trades peculiar to each Trade so do the Apostles they fit many Greek words to the Hebrew in a new manner differing from all others 4. Much of the New Testament is Talmudique-Greek being framed according to the Schole phrases of the Hebrew Doctors and of this last sort I have given many instances already Scholar I acknowledge you have shewed how that sundry terms and phrases of the New Testament Discipline is taken from the Jews synagogue discipline but I desire yet more fully to know how the New Testament doth imitate their Talmudical Doctrines in other points also for that will enlighten mine understanding and perswade me more fully that the New Testament doth indeed borrow its discipline terms from the Synagogue-customs

Doctors of Ezraes Age gave another rule for the preservation of the Hebrew text They reckon how often every letter cometh in the Hebrew text how often words of short or full writing were diversly written and where and what strange text would seem corruptions to the unstayed and how often eth and vau little particles do come together in sort easie to deceive a Coppyer without a Table of Direction Such points are a Brazen wall to keep the Scriptures certainty vid. Mr. Bro. in Epist to the Nobil p. 7. From this provident care of God over the Hebrew text I conclude that neither book nor letter of the Hebrew text which was written by Gods Prophets for the use of all ages is lost onely those books are lost which some Prophets wrote in the nature of humane Chronicles for the present use of that Age and Nation and in that respect they took no more care to preserve them then they did of their humane Chronicles because they did nothing at all concerne other Nations in after Ages But every book and letter which the Prophets wrote as Divine Scripture for the use of all Nations and Ages Jesus Christ hath preserved by the diligence of the Massorites And their Tables of Direction are extant and kept safe with great care until this day one of those Tables is kept Naharden upon Euphrates and another is kept at Ierusalem Again the Hebrew Doctors from and after Ezra took special The Hebrew Doctors took care for the preservation of the truth of doctrine as well as for the preservation of the Hebrew Text. care to preserve the truth of Doctrine unto Posterity and for this end they made the ten Commandments to be the foundation of every point of Doctrine And our Saviour Christ saith that the whole Law and the Prophets doth hang upon the two Tables Matth. 22. 40. Therefore the ten Commandments must needs contain in them all matters concerning faith and manners and therefore the ancient Hebrew Doctors might well make the ten Commandments the foundation of every point of Doctrine And for the honour of the two Tables they did number up all the letters of the two Tables and found them to be six hundred and thirteen then they drew up all the Laws of Moses unto six hundred and thirteen They might have made them mo or fewer but by Gods spirit in honour of the two Tables they bring them just to the number of six hundred and thirteen they make two hundred forty and eight bidding Commandments telling us what we should believe or do and 365. forbidding evil vid. M. Brought in Apoc. 175. But after the Hebrew Doctors under this silver age of the Persian Monarchy were decayed then the Jews began to be more loose in Religion under the iron Dominion of the Seleucidae and Lagidae The cruel wars of those daies bred such profanes among the generality of the Jews especially under the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes that many Jews became Atheistical Sadduces yet then in these evil daies God by his providence raised up some Schools of Learning wherein were some godly Doctors that took care to preserve the truth of Doctrine in opposition to those Atheistical Sadduces And this they did by enacting divers terms of Religion They called all the Books of the Old Testament The Law Because the Sadduces did now reject all the Books of the Old Testament except the five Books of Moses Law They also enacted divers termes wherein they professed the immortality of the soul in opposition to the said Sadduces as I have formerly noted it before at large After those daies they had still some care of godly learning for in the daies of our Saviour they did maintain Schools of Learning and our Lord was present among the Doctors hearing them and posing them with Questions Luke 2. 46. And in Jerusalem there were certain of the Synagogue called Lubartines which rose in opposition to Stephens Doctrine Acts 6. 9. These Lubartines must not be taken for Libertines as some unadvisedly do call them because of their opposition to Stephen but that is a great mistake I say they were called Lubartines because they belonged to some Lubar or Colledge Lubar saith M. Weemt signifies a high place● and on such high pieces of ground they used to build their Schools Again in another of these Schools Paul was brought up at the seet of Gamaliel and there he was taught according to the perfect manner of the Law of the Fathers Acts 22. Again many such Schools were erected am●ng the dispersed Jews while they lived in Heathen Countries one of these Schools was governed by one Tyrannus and there the Disciples disputed daily Acts 19. And thus Iesus Christ by the means of these Schools hath in all ages nursed up many godly and able scholars fit to teach the Law in synagogues and fit to bear Office as Elders in the Sanhedrin Courts And these Schools of Learning were so highly set by among the Jews in ancient time neoterici nostrates effuciunt that they accounted it a great shame for any man of wealth or leisure if they did not frequent those Schools at the least three times a week except hand-labourers Maymony in Thal. Thora saith That all the Jews but hand-labourers did bring up their children from seven yeers old to fourteen in learning the plain tongue yea they studied the Tongue all their daies weekly for some few hours not minding gains thereby but delight to know God And our Saviour at twelvs yeers of Age delighted to sit in the midst of the Doctors hearing them posing them and asking them Questions and all that heard him were astonied at his understanding and answers Luke 2. 46 47. This place where Christ sate amongst the Doctors was such a Colledge or house of Doctrine as that was where Huldah the Prophetess lived 1 Kings 22. 14. Yea the Jews set a higher esteem upon their Schools of Learning then they did upon their Synagogues vid. Ainsw in Levit. 26. 31. and such priviledges did belong to Schools of learning as rewards of learning that if a Scholar at unawares committed man-slaughter and thereupon was exiled to a Citie of Refuge his master must go with him as it is written and live For the life of them that love and seek after Wisdom is counted as death without the Doctrine of the Law In like sort if the master were exiled his School goeth with him vid. Ains in Deut. 19. 4. This great priviledge Iesus Christ gave to Schools and Scholars as a reward of learning Scholar What rules of direction can you give for the well ordering of Schools of learning in these daies that so the Scholars thereof may speedily attain to the knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew Tongues and to the right understanding of the holy Scriptures Teacher No question but a better way of discipline may be found out then yet is practised as M. Broughton hath often warned and hath propounded sundry directions that way but it would be a two-handed labour for me to bring all particulars into a compendious method The Lord in mercy stir up others to take this work in hand for the advancement of Learning and Godlines Amen FINIS