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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

from certain living Creatures out of a Principle of Religion The people round about 'em did the same The Syrians did eat no flesh and some have been of Opinion that it was likewise out of Superstition that the Greeks did abstain from it The Egyptians of Thebes ate no mutton because they adored Amnon under the ●igure of a Ram. Besides they abstained from Goats and Sacrificed sheep The Egyptian Priests abstained from all meats and drinks that were fetch'd from abroad And as to what the Country produc'd they abstain'd from Creatures whose Feet were round or divided into several toes or claws or which had no horns as also from Birds of Prey Several ate nothing that had life And in their times of Purification they abstained likewise from Eggs. In Egypt Swine's flesh was held for unclean Whosoever had toucht an Hog but as he past by went presently to wash himself and his cloaths Socrates forbad the breeding of them in his Republick as creatures rendring no Service and of no farther use than for the Table All the World knows that still at this Day the Indian Bramins neither eat nor kill any kind of Living thing And 't is certain they have continued this Humour for above two thousand years Therefore the Law of Moses had nothing new or extraordinary in this point But it was necessary to restrain the people within reasonable bounds to hinder them from imitating the Superstitions of their neighbours without giving them on the other side an entire Liberty which they might have abused For this abstinence from certain meats was useful both for Health and for Manners It serv'd not only to quell their unruly Spirits that God had impos'd upon 'em that Yoke but likewise to divert them from things hurtful They were forbidden to eat of blood or of Fat both being difficult to digest Swines flesh is also very heavy upon the Stomach The same holds good with those Fish that have no scales whose Flesh is oily and fat whether it be delicate as that of Eeles or it be hard as that of Tunnies Whales and other Fishes of that kind Thus we might render natural reasons for the greatest part of these Prohibitions as Clemens Alexandrinus has well observed As to the moral reasons the Ingenious have ever counted Gluttony for a Vice that was first to be subdued as being the source of most others The Socratick Philosophers preached up Sobriety so very much that Plato did not believe that any thing was to be done in Sicily towards the correction of manners as long as people ate there two great Meals aday And it is observed that the aim of Pythagoras his abstinence was to render men Just and Disinteressed by accustoming them to live on a little Now one of the chief branches of Gluttony is the desire of Variety of Meats A too great quantity does very soon disgust But as the diversity is Infinite the desire of 'em is Insatiable CAP. XII Purifications THe Purifications commanded by the Law had the same grounds with the Distinction of Meats Neighbouring Nations practis'd them or such like others and they were useful for Health and for Manners The cleanness and neatness of the Body is a Symbol of the purity of the Soul and is a pretty natural consequence of it since that nastiness does commonly proceed from Sloth from a contempt of others and a lowness of Heart The external purification is in Scripture called Sanctification because it makes men sensible of the Interiour purity wherewith we ought to approach holy things Neatness is otherwise necessary to maintain Health and prevent Diseases especially in hot Countries And indeed men naturally are there more cleanly The heat inviting them to strip themselves to bath and change their cloaths often Whereas in cold Climates People dread the Water and Air and prove more dull and Lazy Certain it is that the Sluttishness wherein most of our common people live especially the poorer sort and those within Cities does cause and keep on foot many and many Diseases What would it be in hot Countries where the air is more easily corrupted and where water is more scarce Moreover the Ancients made little use of Linnen and Woollen is not so easily to be cleansed Let us admire herein the Wisdom and goodness of God who had given his People Laws so many ways profitable Since they served at once to accustome them to Obedience to restrain them from Superstition to regulate their manners and to preserve their Health It is thus that in the Structure of Animals and Plants we see so many parts which serve for several uses Now it was important that the precepts of neatness should make a part of Religion For that considering the inner Corners of Houses and the most secret actions of life there was nothing but the fear of God could cause them to be observed However by these sensible things God formed their Conscience and wonted them to acknowledge that nothing was concealed from him and that it was not sufficient to be pure only in the eyes of men This is the foundation of those Laws which commanded bathing and washing of cloaths after the having toucht a dead body or an unclean Creature and in several the like encounters Hence proceeds the Purifications of Vessels by Water or by Fire of Houses where there appeared any corruption of Women after their lyings in and the Separation of Lepers Tho the white Leper which the Scripture only mentions is rather a Deformity than a Disease The Separation from Strangers was a necessary consequence of these Laws For altho most of the adjoyning People had likewise their Rules for the choice of Meats and for their Purifyings they were not the same So that an Israelite had always a right to presume that the Stranger he met withal had eaten of Swines flesh or of meats offer'd to Idols or had toucht some unclean Beast And therefore he was not permitted to eat with Aliens nor to enter into their houses And this separation was likewise useful for manners serving as a Barrier against their being too much with strangers which is ever pernicious to the Commonalty and which was much more so in those conjunctures of time by reason of Idolatry The Egyptians were extremely addicted to this Maxime the Scripture shewing that they would not eat with the Hebrews and Herodotus testifying that they would neither Kiss a Greek nor make use of his Knife or his Vessel Several such like practices the Mahometans have still at this day But those who have most of 'em and are tyed to them with the greatest Superstition are the Indians Yet the Israelites did not equally shun all manner of Strangers tho they comprehended them all alike under the name of Gojim or Gentiles All Idolaters they abhorred particularly the Uncircumcised For they were not the only people who practis'd Circumcision it was in use among the Egyptians and