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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

THE JEWES Synagogue OR A TREATISE CONCERNING The ancient Orders and manner of Worship used by the JEWES in their SYNAGOGVE-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 in N. England LONDON Printed for John Bellamie and are to be sold at his shop at the three golden Lions in Cornhill neer the Royall Exchange 1652. To the Christian Readers of great BRITANY CHristian Reader all the Authors that I have read about the discipline of the Iews Synagogues have mixed many of the Jewes late superstitious practices among some of their ancient approved practices and because they have not distinguished the one from the other they have rather confounded the Reader than given him any distinct aime how to judge of their Synagogue-orders and whether they were ever any particular Churches of Jesus Christ Nay many learned have concluded that they never were ordained for any true Churches of Christ And therefore they have slighted all their discipline-practices as nothing exemplary to the government of the particular Churches of Iesus Christ at this day But my apprehensions are otherwise for I conceive that Iesus Christ did originally ordain them as true particular visible Churches Therefore I thought it necessary to search out as well as I could their Synagogue-worship together with some of their ancient Discipline-practices and herein I have endeavoured to avoid their late superstitious observations which they have added from their own brains in the time of their Apostasie This labour I thought necessary to communicate to the godly for the better searching into the fundamental grounds of Church-Discipline If any thing I have alledged be profitable to thy understanding let God have the glory in the wise improvement thereof for the peace and comfort of all the Churches of Iesus Christ Amen A Table of some chiefe Heads Chap. 1. That the Jewes Synagogue-Assemblies were true visible Churches of Jesus Christ 1 THe Jewes Synagogues were particular Churches of Jesus Christ pag. 1. 2 Their nationall Church-worship was not sufficient of it self to preserve the truth of Religion among them But their Synagogue-worship was sufficient without their nationall worship both when they lived in the wildernesse and when they lived in Heathen Countries p. 9 3 The antiquity of Synagogues in heathen countries p. 12 4 The provident care of Jesus Christ for the speedy spreading of particular Christian Churches into all parts of the world doth mightily appeare by his dispersing the Jewes into sundry heathen countries to build Synagogues and to get Assemblies before hand fit for the Apostles and Disciples of Christ to preach to 12 5 The Christians that were first converted by the Apostles in the Iewes Synagogue did not presently separate themselves from the Iewes Synagogues to make particular Churches by themselves untill the Synagogues did first persecute them for their faith in Christ crucified 15 6 Iesus Christ did ordain that the place of his particular Church-meetings should be conveniently seated in some convenient distance from every ones dwelling 16 7 If ten men of Israel did live remote from any synagogue they must prepare a new synagogue nigh and fit for their dwellings 17 8 That kinde of worship which Christ ordained to be used in their synagogue-assemblies was prayer and preaching without any leviticall ceremony 18 9 They used to keep weekly Lectures in their synagogues 21 10 How the Iewes received Heathens to be members of their Nationall Church and of their particular synagogue also 21 11 The Iudges of their Sanhedrims were the Elders of their nationall Church 22 12 In their synogogues they observed dayes of publick fasting upon occasion of any distresse that was upon them 24 13 How the blessing was pronounced in the synagogue after the Lecture of the Law was ended 25 14 No Leviticall worship was lawfull to be used in their synagogues 25 15 What officers the Iewes had in their synagogues 26 16 Why they called the Pastor of their synagogue Zeliah Zibbur 26 17 In the Heathen countries when the Hebrew tongue was lost from the common use then Zeliach Zibbur did read his text in the Hebrew tongue but afterwards he did expound it in the common Dialect of that nation where they lived 27 18 The Pastors of their synagogues were not Levites but they were chosen out of any tribe 28 19 The manner how the Elders of the Sanhedrim made Doctors at large 92 20 This phrase Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven is a Talmud phrase 29 21 The Discipline which Christ ordained for the government of the Iewish synagogue is recorded in fragments by Maymony and the two Talmuds 31 22 The New Testament hath many phrases that are Talmudique which cannot be so fitly opened as by the Talmud 32 Chap. 2. That the government of the Church of the Jewes was instituted by Jesus Christ to be 1. Dependent when they lived together in the land of Canaan 2. Independent when they inhabited in Heathen Countries 1 The Jewes Synagogue Discipline was sometimes dependent and sometimes independent 38 2 In heathen countries every Synagogue had a generall license to exercise such a discipline among themselves as tended to the correction of vice except life and limb 39 3 Their synagogue-Discipline was dependent as long as they lived in Canaan 41 4 When the Sanhedrim government was first ordained 41 5 Iesus Christ first constituted the Sanhedrim government 42 6 The high Sanhedrim ordained all the other Sanhedrims 43 7 To sit in Moses Chaire is to judge according to Moses Lawes 46 8 The Elders of the Sanhedrim were the generall Elders of the Church and therefore they had power to deale in all matters of Religion as well as in civill causes 47 9 The High Sacrificer was not the chiefe Elder of the Nationall Church of Israel as some affirm 49 10 Christ gave the power of excommunication originally to the Elders of the Sanhedrim in the Wildernesse 53 11 In what cases the Elders of the Sanhedrim did excommunicate 55 12 An excommunicate person and a publicane might goe into the Temple but an heathen might not 58 13 What kinde of excommunication is the Anathema Maranatha 59 14 Christ did not first ordain excommunication in Matth. chap. 18. 1 62 15 This phrase Tell the Church means nothing else but Tell the Elders of the Sanhedrim 69 16 A Court of Elders is a Church in Scripture phrase 70 17 All the outward professors of faith through the world doe make an universall visible Church of Christ 78 18 Who are to he accounted as fit persons to be admitted as members of a particular visible Church 80 Chap. 3. That Schools of learning were at the first erected by Jesus Christ for

not ashamed to expound the Law of God being sent unto the people for that purpose hence I gather that any Prince of any Tribe having a fair calling by the Sanhedrin might as lawfully preach in any synagogue of the Jews as Paul of Benjamin might or as the Apostles of Iudah might But this example ought not to be imitated by such as want an outward calling or that want learned abilities After this Iehosaphat prosecuted this new-begun Reformation by restoring the Sanhedrin courts to their original puritie First He reformed those Courts that consisted of three and twenty Judges in all the strong Cities of Iuda Citie by Citie 1 Chron. 19. 5. 2. He reformed the high Sanhedrin of seventy Judges setting up some Levits some Priests and some of the chief families of Israel for the Judgements and Cause of the Lord 1 Chron. 19. 8. The Rulers of Israel did not take themselves necessarily tyed to set up some Levits among the Elders of Israel For the Hebrew Doctors say that this high Sanhedrin might be all of Israel though usually they adjoyned some of Levi to them Aaron was joyned to Moses the King in the first election Numb 11. afterwards Moses also did appoint some Priests and Levits to sit with the other Judges of the other Tribes Deut. 17. 9 to 14. and Aaron was joyned with Hur among the Elders of Israel at Mount Sinai Exod. 24. 14. After the captivitie Ezra also did obtain so much favour of the Persian Princes that he restored this government again to the puritie thereof Ezra 7. 25 26. with ch 10. 14. But in processe of time when the Romane Emperours were Lords over the Jewes then they took away from them the power of life and death about a yeare or two before the death of Christ For Talmud Ierusalemi and Maymony in San. do shew that 48. yeers before the destruction of Ierusalem causes of life and death were taken away from Israel and this Testimony is confirmed by the Jews own confession to Pilate for they told Pilate that it was not lawful for them to put any man to death Ioh. 18. 31. and this was brought to passe before the death of Christ by Gods special providence that the words of Christ might be fulfilled when he fore-told the manner of his death that it should not be after the Iewish but after the Romane manner Ioh. 12. 32. 33. Mat. 20. 19. And yet though the Romans took away the power of life and death from the Jewes they did not take away all power of Government from the Jews but they still left them to exercise the power of their Sanhedrin Courts in all other cases as Pilats speech to the Scribes and Pharisees doth import when he bade them take Christ and judge him according to their own Law Ioh. 18. 31. * And our Saviour taught the Jews to Hear that is to say To sit in Moses chair is to iudge according to Moses Lawes to obey the Scribes and Pharisees as long as they sate in Moses chair that is to say As long as they judged according to the Gramatical sense of Moses precepts and for that cause our Saviour doth eight times over curse them because they urged the observation of their own traditions with equal authoritie to Moses Lawes Mat. 23. Therefore the Jews did exercise the power of Government in their Sanhedrin Courts except in the case of life and death when the Romans had taken away from them the power of life and death Scholar I had thought this speech of hearing the Scribes and Pharisees that sit in Moses chair had been meant of such Preachers and Teachers as used to expound Moses Laws in their synagogues and not of the Sanhedrin Doctors that expounded Moses Laws in their Sanhedrin Courts or Scholes Teacher This speech Hear the Scribes and Pharisees that sit in Moses chair doth plainly point out unto us that we must hear and obey the Laws and Constitutions of the Scribes and Pharisees as long as they sit in Moses chair that is to say As long as they expounded Moses Laws in a Grammatical sense For as Christ the Angel Act. 7. was the first giver of all Moses Laws and ordained Moses to be the chief head of the Sanhedrin Court so he bade the Jews Hear all those that sit in Moses chair It was Christ that bade Moses charge the Levits to lay up the book of the Law in the side of the Ark as the Standard of all their Laws and Constitutions and as the rule of all their judgements and proceedings Deuterenomie chapter 31. verse 24 25. Scholar You said ere-while that the Elders of the Sanhedrin were the Elders of the Church But how doe you prove that the Elders of the High Sanhedrin were the general Elders of the whole Church in all matters of Religion as well as in matters of the Common weal Teacher I have already proved that Christ did put this power into their hands 1. They are plainly called the Elders of the Church Levit. 4. 14 15. 2. It is evident that every Elder of the chief Synedrion was chosen to be a general Elder of the whole Church Numb 11. 25. 30. And the Elders of this high Synedrion set up other Courts and other Elders in every Citie who judged in all matters of Religion that fell out in their respective parts as The Elders of the Sanhedrin were the general Elders of the Church and therefore they had power to deal in all matters of Religion as well as in civil causes well as in civil matters except the matter were too hard for them and then in such cases Moses ordained before-hand that all such hard matters should be brought in an orderly way unto the high Synedrion which was setled afterwards at Ierusalem And this orderly way of bringing the difficult causes before them is described by the Hebrew Doctors as you may see it set down by Mr Ains in Deut. chap. 17. 9. 3. It is evident that the Elders of the high Synedrion were the general Elders of the Church because they were ordained to bee Judges not only in civil Causes but also in Levitical matters as these places well examined doe fully testifie Deut. 19. 12. and 21. 2. 19 20. and 22. 15. to 19. and 25. 7 8 9. and 27. 1. and 29. 10. and 31. 9. And the Angel-Iehovah Christ 1 Cor. 10. commanded Moses the Magistrate as well as Aaron the Priest to instruct the people in all his Levitical Laws Speak ye to all the people of Israel saying c. that is Teach them to observe all my Levitical Laws Levit. 11. 2. Hence it is evident that if any question did arise about the practise of the Levitical Lawes that Moses the chief Magistrate as he was the Head of the Sanhedrin must expound the true sense and meaning of such Lawes both to the Levits and people and in case any did walk contrary to their Teaching they might correct and punish them as