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A68868	A treatise of the foure degenerate sonnes viz. the atheist the magician the idolater· and the Iew. VVherein are handled many profitable questions concerning atheisme, witchcraft, idolatry, and Iudaisme: and sundry places of Scripture, cleared out of the originall tongues. Being the fourth volume, of the Workes of Mr. Ioh. Weemse of Lathocker in Scotland, and Prebend of Dunelm.; Works. Vol. 4	Weemes, John, 1579?-1636.	1636 (1636)	STC 25218; ESTC S119529	289,084	416

him and untill he bee devested of those usurped titles his edicts have strength to bind the subjects so long as the tyrant stands they are to obey him and implicit● he hath the approbation of the subjects that is they wish that hee may doe Iustice so long as he rules The Romans subdued the Iewes and made them their captives and the Iewes by their tacite consent acknowledged them as their Lords and masters therefore Christ bidds them gave tribute to Caesar Mat. 22. So when they were carried captives to Babylon the Lord bidds them pray for the peace of Babylon Ier. 29.7 the people gave there tacite consent to the Babylonians and although they led them captive yet they were to pray for them as there superiors so the Priests although they sinned in usurpation of the priesthood as not being descended of Aaron yet durante tali statu so long as they continued their consecration was valide and they had gotten the tacite consent of the people by prescription of tyme. Quest 3. Who consecrated the high Priest after his fathers death Answ An inferiour Priest did consecrate him see Exod. 29.29 Num. 20.26.28 Quest 4. When the Idolatrous Priests hand was filled and a peece of flesh put therein whether had bee right to sacrifice and consecrate or not Answ None at ●ll for out of the Church there is no consecration therfore Ionathan in his 〈◊〉 Paraphrase calles him not Cohen but Cumer that is No consecration 〈◊〉 of the Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a heathen then Priest Iud. 18.30 the same phrase of sitting of the hand is used in consecrating of Ieroboams Priests a Chro. 13.9 and yet Ieroboam had no power to consecrate them the water which came out of the rocke 3 Cor. 10. was a sacrament to the Israelites when they dranke of it but when the beasts dranke of it it was no Sacrament to them so this consecration was no consecration to them who were out of the true Church And as Ishmael although hee was truly circumcised by Abraham yet to his posteritie who left the true Church and used circumcision still it was no Sacrament So this consecration out of the Church was no consecration to them and they had no more right to it then the theefe hath to the true mans purse when he takes it The third irregularitie in this consecration was this that he made an Ephod for his sonne to serve this Idoll with There were three sorts of Ephods the first was a religious Ephod such was the Ephod of the Priests Three sorts of Ephod The second sort of Ephod was a politicke or civill Ephod which David wore when he danced before the arke and that which Gid●on made and left at Ophrah The third was an Idolatrous Ephod which is joyned here with Teraphim and not with Vri●● and Tha●●●●●● as the Lords Ephod was The fourth irregularitie was this when hee were consecrate he sacrificed in a private place his fathers house and not in Shilo in the place where the worship of God was performed at that time and this was as badde as if hee had sacrificed in the high places or in the groves Then it was added they did this because there was no king in Israel Kingly governement of the best governement Observe here first that Kingly governement is the best governement and a King here is put for a best magistrate because the Lord was to bring in this kingly governement amongst them Therefore they were called Kings before the institution of Kings as Moses is called a King Gen. 36.31 Deut. 33.5 And because Kingly governement was the most excellent governement therfore it is that sundry things take their denomination from a King at the King lawes Iam. 2.8 so the Kings highway Num. 20.17 so the shout of a King Num. 23.22 that is a joyfull shout as when they were choosing a King A magistrate must have a care both for maintenance of religion and Iustice They committed this Idolatrie because there was no King in Israel so they abused the Levites wife because there was no King in Israel Iudg. 19.1 Here wee see th●● the magistrate is custos utrinsque tabulae and it belongs to him to vindicate the worship of God Idolatrie is iniquit●s Iudicum Iob 31.28 That is it is to bee punished by the Iudge and to punish wrongs done by men to men there are two pillars strong like Iakin and Bag●as 1 King 7.21 Iustice and religion when these two faile then the land●elts Psal 75.3 the Hebrewes say the world is upholden by three things Super lege super cultusacro super retributione benificiorum when these three faile then the world goes to decoy Now Micah will have another Priest then his sonne a Levite of Iudah to be his Priest Quest How could he be a Levite and of Iudah for the Levites were not of the tribe of Iudah Answ Hee hath beene of the tribe of Levi by his mother for women of one tribe might marie with men of another tribe providing that they were not heretickes then they were alwaies bound to marrie within their owne tribe to keepe the inheritance distinct Micah chused this Levit to sacrifice but the Levites might not sacrifice nor inquire any thing of the Lord The Levites might not sacrifice but by the priests When the Tabernacle was to be taken up or set downe no stranger might come neare it here all are called strangers who are not priests or Levites Num. 1.51 But when they were to sacrifice no stranger might sacrifice that is neither Israelite nor Levite Num. 3.10 Therfore when he chose a Levite to sacrifice here there was a great irregularitie their callings were two distinct callings The calling of the Levites and the priests were two distinct callings the Levites did some things which the priests might not doe as to carry the Arke therefore Vzza was killed who touched the Arke being a priest and the Levites might not sacrifice under the paine of death Num. 3.10 This wandering Levite was redacted to great miserie and he was content with a poore portion It was a great curse upon the posterity of Eli when they should come and crouch for a peece of silver and a morsell of bread and should say Put me I pray thee into one of the priests offices that I may eate a peece of bread 1 Sam. 2.36 So when this base Levite sought to be a priest and was content with ten shekells of silver a yeare and a suite of apparell and his victuals Iudg. 17.10 then he came and crouched downe for a peece of silver and a morsell of bread None that served in the temple or tabernacle in the basest office did it for nought as they that shut the doores and kindled the fire Mal. 1.10 or the Nethinims Iosh 9.27 who hewed the wood for the sacrifices and drew water for the temple or the Levites that flead the beasts or the Priests that offered the

buried in the captivitie and never revived againe amongst the Iewes The three children of Israel could not bee drawne by any meanes to bow before the golden image which Nabuchadnazor set up neither could the Iewes in Babylon be any wayes moved to doe any worshippe to Belus And Mordecai in the captivity refused to give religious honour to Haman so after the captivity of Vespatian they detested Idoles Peter in his Epistle salutes the Iewes dispersed through Pontus Bithynia Capadocia which hee would not have done if they had beene Idolaters and they gloried most in this that they detested Idolls Rom. 2.23 thou who abhorres Idoles he is speaking here to the Iewes And as often as they remember of the great judgements that have befallen them they burst forth in these words Non accidit tibi O Israel ulla ultio in qua non sit uncia de iniquitate vituli that is there is no judgement which hath befallen thee O Israel in which there is not an ounce weight of the sinne of the golden calfe and they call the temples wherein Idoles are worshipped 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Beth haturphan domum turpitudinis the house of filthinesse and when they see the shaven popish priests they call them Kumarim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 these Cemarim were the Priests who sacrificed to the host of heaven all in blacke or soiled with the smoake of the sacrifices The Iewes abhorres now all sorts of Idolles and they count them but like the heathen Priests and Camilli The Iewes when they detest a thing they call it Pesall from Pesall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth an Idoll When Pilate and Petronius were presidents of Iudea they tryed by all meanes to set up the images of Caligula and Tiberias in the temple but the Iewes withstood them Iosephus lib. 18. cap. 4. 10. And the Iewes at this day will not suffer in their Kalenders not so much as these three markes ☉ ☾ ⚹ As this Idolatry of the Jewes was buried in the captivitie so wee hope that the Idolatrie which is now shall bee buried and quite abolished before the second comming of Christ OF The fourth degenerate Son the JEW who killed his Father HE that was the first born in Israel had sundry priviledges and dignities conferred upon him before the Law above the rest of his brethren the first priviledge was this that he had the princely power and dominion over his brethren Gen. 27.29 Be Lord over thy brethren Secondly they were Priests in their fathers family untill the Levites succeeded in their place Thirdly they had the double portion of all their fathers goods Deut. 21.17 Fourthly the first borne were redeemed with five shekels which the rest were not as especially consecrate to the Lord. Fiftly they had a peculiar sort of apparrell whereby they were distinguished from the rest of their brethren Such was Esau his goodly raiment which Rebecca put upon Iacob Gen. 27.15 which had a goodly smell as the smell of a field which the Lord had blessed Sixtly they had the dignity to sit first at the Table Gen. 43.33 Iob 1.13 And last the first borne were blessed after a singular manner by their father in his death Reuben Iacobs first borne by committing of incest and defiling his fathers bed he lost all these dignities Iudah got the Princely dignity Levi got the Priesthood Ioseph the double portion and after that his brethren reverenced him not and he lost all the rest of his priviledges none of his posteritie came unto any dignitie or preferment and they were more obscure than dull Issachar Issachar was asinus ossium had strong bones to labour and to carrie burdens But Reuben was like water spilt Issachar was valiant in battle against Sisera Iudg. 5.14 but nothing is spoken of Reuben his posteritie never Iudge came of him neither souldier came of him all feeble and weake Issachar was given to study and knowledge 1 Chron. 12.32 but no learned men came of Reuben and all this befell him because hee dishonoured his father in defiling his bed So the Iewes the Lords first borne Exod. 4.22 had all these dignities conferred upon them but for murthering the Lord of life they were spoyled of them all first they were a Kingdome of Priests Exod. 19.6 that is they were Kings and Priests to the Lord but for murthering of the Lord of life this dignitie was tranferred to the Gentiles 1 Pet. 2.9 Then they had the double portion the Lord was their portion Psal 23. this was a worthy portion or a double portion but now they have lost this portion he redeemed them before by a great price not with five shekels but now he sels them for nought and their price is not increased Psal 44.12 Then he cloathed them with broydered worke shod them with Badgers skinnes Ezeck 16.10 but now the Lord hath stript them naked and bare v. 39. They sate first at the Lords Table and some Gentiles like whelpes eate but the crummes under the Table but now they that are first shall be last and they that are last shall be first and shall sit downe with Iacob in the Kingdome of God Luke 13.29 Last the Lord hath cursed these wilfull murtherers of him in his death what could the Lord have done more to his first borne but this degenerate sonne optimi vini pessimum acetum hath despised him he counted all the world but dogges in respect ●f them Math. 15.27 but they like dogges turned againe and rent him Psal 22. And this his first begotten sonne is now become bukera sakla primo genitus stultus qui non fert nomen patris sui he is become that foolish first borne that cannot abide the name of his father SECT 1. Of the threefold estate of the Iewes and first when they were gnammi my people THe Iewes are to be considered in a threefold estate first as they were gnammi my people Secondly as they were lo gnammi not my people and thirdly as they are Ruchama to be pittied When they were gnammi his people then he carried them as a girdle about his loynes Gnammi Ier. 13. then he had them graven upon the palmes of his hands The great dignities of the Israelites when they were his people Then he loved them as the aple of his eye Psal 17.8 and he reckoned them as his peculium 1 Pet. 2.3 Then they were the head and not the taile Deut. 28.37 In this estate he made choise of them to be his sonnes Foure sorts of sonnes The Lawyers make foure sorts of sonnes first naturall and Legittimate Secondly Legittimate but not naturall Thirdly naturall but not Legitimate Fourthly neither naturall nor Legitimate Naturall and Legitimate sonnes are those who are begotten in honourable marriage And those the Hebrewes call Cashirim rectos 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and to those they oppose pesulim who are not begotten in lawfull marriage Legitimate but not naturall they call

They will not transferre their sinne as Eva did upon Adam and the Iewes upon Judas neither extenuate their sinne as Aaron did but they will exaggerate and lay out their sinne to the full then The Monkes and Friers use to talke much of the nailes the speare the crowne and the scourges which were the instruments of Christs death but they insist not upon the proper cause the sinnes which crucified the Lord of glory but the Iewes then shall behold their sinnes which crucified their Lord This beholding of the Lord crucified for them and by them will be a happie beholding to them as they who looked upon the brasen serpent in the wildernesse were cured when they were stung by Serpents So shall they be cured when they shall behold Christ crucified this wayes As for their sorrow it shall be a sorrow not to be repented of and although they sow in teares yet they shall reape in joy Rachel when her children were not she would not be comforted but they shall be comforted But by what meanes Even by the Gospell which they mocked and scorned The Gospell shall be the meanes to comfort the Iewes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before they called avengelina Nuncium vanum but then the Gospell shall be the glad tidings of salvation to them Then how beautifull shall the feete of those be who bring the glad tidings of salvation to them there shall then be an happie union betwixt the Iew and the Gentile The Iewes of old thought to have intailed the covenant onely to themselves and would have had the Gentiles secluded from salvation and the meanes of it therefore they say that when the Law was translated into Greeke by the 70. that there was three daies darkenes and they say fuit dies ille durus Israeli sicut dies quo factus est vitulus that was as grievous a day to them as that day on which the golden calfe was made and they kept a yearely fast or humilation for that This was in detestation of the Gentiles because they willed not their salvation What hatred wsa betwixt the Iewes and the Gentiles of old But now they will be glad of this union They called the Gentiles before uncleane common and dogges they would no more eate with them than if they had beene dogges Iob when hee speakes of base men Iob. 30.1 he saith he would not have given their fathers libertie to eate with the dogges of his flocke The Iewes thought not the Gentiles worthy to eate with their dogges but now they will be glad to sit downe and eate with them that come from the East and from the West then the multitude of beleevers shall be of one heart breaking bread together in singlenesse of heart And as the Iewes hated the Gentiles before so the Gentiles detested the Iewes calling them Verpi Recutiti Appellae and Curti then shall all these differences be taken away and they shall take the Iew by the skirt and say Ezach 8.22 We will goe with you for wee have heard that God is with you This happie union shall make a way to the converting of other Heathens and Heretickes and then there shall be great light for the understanding of the Scriptures and hid places in the Prophets yet not understood and then knowledge shall abound as the water of the sea and this shall be heaven upon earth and one of the great dayes of the Lord and the earth shall rent when the Iew and Gentile shall say Blessed is he that commeth in the name of the Lord the shout shall be so great When the Samaritans were excommunicated it was a terrible day When the Samaritans were cast out of the Church it was a feorefull excommunication they brought 300. priests and 300. trumpets and 300. bookes of the Law and 300. boyes and they blew with the trumpets and the Levites singnig cursed the Cutteans in the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or or Iehovah and they cursed them with the curse both of the inferiour and superiour house of judgement and they said Cursed is he who eates the bread of the Cutteans Drusius ex Sepher Tanna qui Tilmidemi dicicur And let not a Cuttean be a Proselyte in Israel neither have any part of the resurrection of the just Morinus in Pentatenchū Samaritanum exercit 1. These curses they wrote upon tables and sealed them and sent them through all Israel who multiplied also this great Anathema or curse upon them This was a fearefull rejection of the Samaritans when they were cast out of the Church but when the Iewes shall be called againe what a great joy shall there be in the Church When the Iewes shall be called to the Church this will be a day of great joy Christ saith at the conversion of a sinner there is great joy in heaven amongst the Angels what joy then shall there be in heaven amongst the Angels when so many thousands shall be gathered to the Church againe At Saint Peters preaching there were three thousand added to the Church but now there shall be thousand of thousands added to the Church and then the net shall be like to breake for the multitude of beleevers that shall be caught in it A little before Immanuel Tremelius died some that stood by desired to heare his novissima Inter apothegmata morientium habetur hoc or his last words Hee cried out Vivat Christus pereat harabas This was a joyfull speech to shew that he disclaimed Iudaisme and was not like the Iewes who cried let Barrabas live and Christ die will it not be a comfortable day then when the Church of the Iewes shall all crie Vivat Christus pereat Barabbas this will be canticum ex canticis a most excellent song Now for the joyning themselves to the visible Church there can be no salvation without the Church The Iewes shall be joyned to a visible Church Act. 2.47 The Lord added to the Church daily such as should be saved And where there is a visible Church to contemne it and to separate themselves from it that is a great sinne and for such there is no salvation to be expected When they shall be gath●red to the Church they shall be gathered sincerely not hypocritically When they shall be gathered to the visible Church the number of them which shall be gathered to it shall be many before this time there came to the Church but one of a citie and two of a familie Ier. 3.14 but now houses families and tribes shall be gathered to it But this must be understood in toto cōmuni but not in toto vniversali that is there shall be many of them gathered to the Church although not all When they shal be gathered to the Church they shall be gathered sincerely and truly they shal be there not as the chafe amongst the corne but as good corne indeede when the Iewish Church was in