I believe indeed there were amongst them who only as it were mimicked Mourning did all these things without being much concern'd But at least those that were really so might freely satisfy themselves Now in general both the Israelites and all the Ancients were more natural than we are in these matters and constrained themselves much less as to the exteriour Demonstrations of their passions They Sang they Danc'd on occasions of Joy On those of grief they wept they groaned aloud When they were in fear they ingenuously confest they were so When they were in choler they vented it in reproaches Homer and the Tragick Poets afford us examples hereof on all occasions Philosophy and Christianity have since very much corrected that outside in all those who have had Education and Politeness They are exercised from their Youths to speak like Heroes or like Saints But the most part are never the better at the Bottom but only dissemble their Passions without striving against them Funerals will suit well with Mourning All the Ancients took a particular care of them and lookt upon it as a great Misfortune when the Bodies of Persons who had been near and dear to them remain'd expos'd to be torn and devour'd by Beasts or Birds or to be corrupted openly and infect the Living Whereas the Greeks burnâ— the corps to keep the ashes the Hebrews interred the common People and embalmed the most considerable Personages to put them into Sepulchers They embalmed much after the same fashion as the Egyptians surrounding the corps with a great quantity of drying drugs Then put them into Tombs which were little Caves or Closets cut out in Rocks whereof each had a Table of the same Stone on which they laid the Body Several of those Sepulchers still remain whereof we may see descriptions in the Relations of Travellers Altho Funerals were a pious Duty yet they were not attended with any Ceremony of Religion On the contrary it was a proâ—ane action which rendred all those unclean who had any share therein untill they were purify'd Which proceeds from that Dead Bodies are either in a state of Corruption or in a Disposition approaching thereto Wherefore so far were they from having occasion for Priests at their Funerals that thy were forbidden to assist at them were it not at those of their near Kinsfolk When Josias fell to abolishing Idolatry he caus'd the Bones of the False Priests to be burnt upon the Altars to the intent those Altars might be had in the greater Detestation CAP. XVIII Religion THis is what concerns the Private life of the Israelites Let us now proceed to their Religion and their State Politick As to Religion I shall not enlarge much in explaining their Belief We ought to know it since 't is comprehended in ours I shall only shew that certain truths were clearly reveal'd to them while others were still obscure tho they were already revealed What they knew was That there was but one God who Created Heaven and Earth that he governs all things by his Providence that we ought to put no trust save in him nor hope for any good but from him that he sees all things even the very secrets of our hearts that he moves our wills within and turns them which way he pleases that all men are born in sin and naturally prone to evil that notwithstanding they may do well with the help of God that they are free and have the choice to do good or evil that God is very just and punishes or rewards according to merit that he is merciful and pardons those who have a sincere regret for their sins past that he judges all the actions of men after Death From whence it follows that the Soul is immortal and that there is another Life They knew however that God out of his meer goodness had chosen them amongst all men to be his faithful People that among them of the Tribe of Judah and of the race of David was a SAVIOUR to be born who should deliver them from all their Sufferings and draw all Nations to the knowledge of the true God This is what they distinctly knew and was the most ordinary Subject of their meditations and their prayers This is that high and most glorious Wisdom which distinguished them from all the Nations of the whole Earth For whereas among the rest of the World none there were but the wise men who knew any of these great Truths and that too very imperfectly and with a great Diversity of Opinions All the Israelites were taught these Doctrines even the very Women and Slaves All had the same Sentiments The Truths which were taught them more obscurely were that in God there are three Persons Father Son and Holy Ghost that the Saviour whom they expected should be God and the Son of God that he should be both God and man that God gave to men his grace and necessary help for the accomplishing his Law only by that Saviour and in view of his merits that he should suffer death to expiate the Sins of Mankind That his Kingdom should be wholly Spiritual that all men should rise again that in the other life shall be the true Recompence of the good and Punishment of the Wicked All this is taught in the Scriptures of the Old Testament and in the Apocrypha but not so clearly as that all the People knew it Nor indeed were men yet capable of receiving such elevated truths But according to my Design I must only explain what their external practises of Religion had most different from our Principles and Manners They had but one Temple and one Altar where it was permitted them to offer Sacrifices to God which was a sensible mark of God's Unity And for the representing likewise his Sovereign Majesty that Building was the most magnificent in all that Country The Temple within the Veil was on the in-side adorned with Sculptures and all overlaid with Plates of Gold True it was not very large But the Courts Galleries and diverse Apartments which belong'd to it for the Lodging of Priests and Levites for the keeping Treasures and sacred Vessels the Magazines of Oblations the Kitchins the Rooms to eat in and the rest all this together made a great mass of buildings which being form'd in symmetry and rare Architecture gave a mighty Idea of that great King who was served in that sacred Palace And to render it's Sanctity the more sensilbe none but those who were pure were allowed to go upon the mount of the Temple The Women had their place apart The Gentiles were only in the outward Court The Israelites were plac'd in one more advanced That where the Altar was was only for the Priests They did not go into the
all Antiquity has judg'd incompatible therewith and against which our Instructors never cease to declaim True we abhor Idolatry but we do not see it any where without it be among the Papists it having been entirely decryed for above a thousand years We must not therefore believe the Israelites were more stupid than other People because the repeated favours which they received from God did not cure them of Idolatry But we must acknowledge that the wound of Original sin was very deep since such holy Instructions and such great wonders were not sufficient to elevate men above sensible things And Besides we see that other People the most illuminated in other things as the Greeks and Egyptians were also without Comparison more blinded herein CAP. XXII State Politick Liberty Domstick Power AFter the Religion we must say a word or two of the Politick State of the Israelites They were perfectly a free People and chiefly before they had Kings In their Country were neither Homages nor Censives nor constraints for Hunting or Fishing nor any of those different sorts of Subjection which among us are so usual that great men themselves are not exempt from them since we see Soveraigns who are Vassals and even Officers of other Soveraigns as in Germany and Italy Thus they enjoy'd that Liberty so much cherish'd by the Greeks and Romans and it was their own fault that they did not always preserve and enjoy it It was the intention of God as appears by the reproaches Samuel made them on his behalf when they demanded a King Gideon was well inform'd of this for that when they would have made him King and setled the Kingdom on his Posterity he generously return'd Answer I will not rule over you neither shall my son rule over you the Lord shall rule over you So that their State was neither Monarchical nor Aristocratical nor Demccratical but as Josephus calls it a Theocracy that is to say God himself govern'd them immediately by the Law he had given them So long as they were faithful in observing it they lived in safety and in Liberty As soon as they broke it to follow their particular Inclinations they fell into Anarchy and Confusion This is what the Scripture shows when it sets it down for the Cause of the greatest crimes In those days there was no King in Israel but every man did that which was right in his own eyes This Anarchy divided and weakned them and gave them up a Prey to their Enemies until that returning to themselves they had recourse to God who sent 'em deliverers Thus it was that they lived under the Judges falling from time to time into Idolatry and Disobedience to the Law of God and by those means into confusion and slavery still recovering themselves from time to time In short they chose rather to have a Master than to remain in Liberty by faithfully keeping the Law of God Their Liberty being reduced to it's just bounds consisted in being able to do all that the Law of God did not prohibit and in not being obliged to do but what it commanded without being subject to the Will of any Particular man But the Domestical Power of the Fathers of Families was very great over their Slaves and their Children Some Hebrews were slaves to their Brethren and the Law set down two causes which might bring 'em into that condition Poverty which constrained them to sell themselves or the Trespass of a Thief who had not wherewith to make Restitution It seems this latter cause does extend to other Debts by the example of that Widow whose Oyl Elisha Multiplyed to the end she might have wherewith to pay her Creditors and keep her Children from bondage nevertheless those Hebrew slaves might become free after six years to wit in the Sabbatical year And if they would not make use of that Priviledge they had that of the Jubile to be free after fifty years and to preserve their Childrens freedom It was recommended to treat them gently and rather to make use of forreign slaves The Israelites might kill their slaves with impunity and that right was then common to all Nations For Slavery proceeded from the right of War when instead of killing Enemies they chose rather to spare their lives that they might have their Service So they supposed that the Conquerour had always a right of taking away their lives if they rendred themselves unworthy of them that he acquired the same right over their Children in regard they could not have been born if he had not preserved the Father and that he transmitted that right when he alienated his Slave This is the foundation of the Absolute Power of Masters and it was seldom that they misused it For their own Interest obliged them to preserve their Slaves who made part of their estate This is the reason of that Law of God for not punnishing him who had struck his Slave after such a manner that he dyed thereof some days after He is his money said the Law meaning his own Loss did sufficiently punish him But if he kills him down-right upon the Spot it declares him culpable Wherein it is more Humane than the Laws of other People who made not that distinction The Romans had during above five hundred years the Right of putting their Slaves to Death and their Debtors into Irons in default of Payment and of selling their own Children even thrice before they went out of their Power and all this by virtue of those wise Laws of the Twelve Tables which they brought from Greece at the same time when the Jews reestablished themselves at their Return from the Captivity that is to say about a thousand years after Moses As to the Paternal Power of the Hebrews the Law permitted 'em to sell their Daughters But that sail was a kind of Marriage and if a Son was disobedient and debaucht the Elders of the City condemned him to dy and he was accordingly stoned to death That very Law was practised at Athens but at Rome the Fathers had a long time the Power of life and Death over their Children as well as over their Slaves This so rigorous right was grounded upon the Children's holding their Lives from their Parents and they supposed there would be none found so unnatural as to cause their Children to perish if they did not commit the most horrible Crimes However that fear was very useful to keep Children in an intire submission The Romans Law was really excessive in giving to the Fathers of Families that power of life and Death by their private Authority without participation of the Magistrate or of the Publick But fallen we are to the opposite extremity suffering that Paternal Power to sink to nothing How young soever a Son be as soon as he is Married or has means of subsistance without his Father presently he pretends he owes him nothing more than a little
considerable away Captive and left only the poorer sort to Manure and till the Lands and yet those that were left were hurried away into Egypt a little while after As to those who were carryed to Babylon they were Slaves to the King and to his Sons as we find in Scripture For such was then the Law of War All that were taken in Arms all the Inhabitants of a City forced or rendred upon Discretion and of the open Country dependant thereon were Slaves to the Conquerour and appertain'd to the Publick or the private Person who had taken them according to the Laws setled in every Country for the Acquisition and the Dividend of the Booty So at the Sacking of Troy all that remained alive were made Slaves even Queen Hecuba and the Princesses her Daughters The Grecian and Roman Histories are Stufft with the like examples The Romans put Irons on the Kings who had obstinately resisted them and Slew them after they had shown 'em in Triumph They sold the People by Inch of Candle and distributed the Lands among their Citizens whom they sent thither to settle Colonies which was undoubtedly a means to secure their Conquests Nor the Jews nor the Israelites were so hardly treated by the Assyrians Some had a great liberty as Tobit under King Enemessar and â—ome were very Rich as Tobit himself his kinsman Raguel and his friend Gabael and at Babylon Joacim Susannas Husband It appears also by the History of Susanna that the Jews tho Captives had the exercise of their Law even to the establishing of Judges who sat upon life and Death However it was impossible but that their being thus intermingled with Strangers should cause a great change in their Manners and Principles Whereof one of the most fundamental was to be seperate from Strangers Several were prevailed with to worship Idols to eat forbidden Meats to Marry strange Women and they all conform'd themselves to their Masters in Indifferent things as is the Language Thus during the seventy years of the Captivity they forgot Hebrew so that none but the Learned understood it And their vulgar Tongue was Syriack or Chaldee such as we meet withal in Daniel and in the Paraphrases on the Scripture which were afterwards made that the People might understand it They changed also their Letters Instead of the Ancient ones which the Samaritans have preserved they took those of the Chaldeans which we call Hebrew CAP. II The Return of the Jews and their State under the Persians WHen Cyrus had given them their Liberty with a Permission to return into Judea and to rebuild the Temple they did not all return nor all those that did at one time A great number of 'em still remained at Babylon and other places where they found themselves setled Those who returned were not all Jews Some few of the ten Tribes were joyned to them and yet taken all together they made up but a small company The first whom Zorobabel conducted did not amount to Fifty thousand including Slaves and we may Guess at their Poverty by the small parcel of their Slaves and their Cattle What comparison of Fifty thousand souls with what there must have been in the time of Jehoshaphat to make up twelve hundred thousand Fighting-men There likewise came back about fifteen hundred and we may judge there were several other Troops Under the first Kings of Persia they were very Feeble hated by Strangers their Neighbours chiefly by the Samaritans exposed to their affronts and Calumnies and ready to have their throats cut by their Enemies upon the least order of the great King as we see by that cruel Edict which Haman obtained against them and from the direful Effects whereof they were preserved by Esther Unable were they to finish the building of the Temple untill twenty years after their first Return and it took 'em up above sixty years more to compleat the Walls of Jerusalem which was thus fourscore years in Re-establishing They did what they could to find out their ancient Inheritances and to keep up the old divisions of their Families For that purpose Esdras gathers all the Genealogies that are in the beginning of the Chronicles where he principally enlarges upon the three Tribes of Judah Levi and Benjamin and very carefully and warily sets down their Habitations For the peopling Jerusalem they received all such as were willing to dwell there which without doubt distracted the order of the Partages Yet it was just that those present should possess the Lands of those who would not return or who were no more to be found So in the later times Joseph resided at Nazareth in Galilee tho his Family was originally of Bethlehem Anna the Prophetess tho of the Tribe of Aser dwelt at Jerusalem but they still knew of what Tribe they were they had preserved their Genealogies as we may see by that of Joseph who was but a poor Artisan The Priests especially were very careful to ally themselves only to Women of their own Tribe and Josephus shows the precautions they used therein even in his time To return to their Reestablishment the Country must needs have been very poor since Herodotus who lived at the same time comprizes Syria Phaenicia Palestine and the Isle of Cyprus under one Government which payed to Darius no more than three hundred and fifty Talents Tribute as one of the lesser Provinces whereas that of Babylon alone did pay a thousand By little and little the Jews Reestablished themselves and in the rest of the Persian Monarchy they lived very peaceably in a kind of Republick govern'd by the High Priest and the Council of Seventy one Elders They had never been so faithful to the true God and since their Return from the Captivity there was no more talk of Idolatry amongst them So sensible had they been made by that severe punishment and the accomplishment of so many Prophecies 'T is true the Apostates had the Liberty to continue among the Infidels yet thus there appeared no Jews but such as were really so The Greeks began then to be acquainted with the Jews in Egypt and Syria whither they often travelled and they gained much by this commerce if we may believe the most ancient Christian Authors as Justin Martyr and Clemens Alexandrinus For they assure us that the Greek Poets Legislators and Philosophers learnt their best Doctrines of the Jews And indeed Solon made a Voyage into Egypt and the Laws which he gave the Athenians had a great coherence with the Laws of Moses Pythagoras was a long time in EEgypt and went to Babylon in Cambyses's time so that he had seen the Jews and might have conversed with them Plato studied several years in Egypt and he makes Socrates speak so many excellent things founded upon the Principles which Moses taught that we may conjecture he had a knowledge of them The Jews did really practise what he proposes best in his Common-wealth and in his Laws
of Meats Add to this that the horrour of Idolatry made the Jews reject Sculpture and Painting and kept them from listning to the Fable of the Poets and reading of their Writings What an indignation would it raise in a Grammarion or a Rapsodist to see a Jew trample upon Homer and term him a false Prophet and an Impostourâ— shew the Lewd and absurd things in the Genealogies of the Gods in their Metamorphoses their Amours How could it be endur'd that he should detest the Infamies of the Stage and the Abominations in the Ceremonies of Bacchus and Venus In short that he should maintain that there was no God but his who was the true God and that they were the only People upon Earth who knew the truth as to Religion and the conduct of Manners The Jews were so much the less hearkned to in that they were not skill'd in making excellent Harangues or in forming and Figuring of Arguments and that for a proof of those great truths they only alledged matters of Fact i.e. the mighty Miracles that God had done in the sight of their Forefathers Now the commonalty of the Greeks did not distinguish those Miracles from the Prodigies they also related in their Fables And the Philosophers believed them impossible because they did not argue but from the Rules and methods of nature which they held necessary of an absolute Necessity The Greeks being thus disposed very willingly open'd their Ears to the Calumnies of the Phenicians Egyptians and other Enemies of the Jews And from hence without question came those silly and impertinent Fables which Tacitus so seriously tells us when he would unfold the Origine of the Jews and act the learned Historian and which we likewise see in Justin who had been also doused in the same Spring But beside those lyes which might easily be slighted the Greeks went on to Violence and Persecution Thus Ptolomee Philopater after having lost the battle of Raphia discharged his choler against them and his Son Epiphanes irritated at his having been hindred from entring into the Sanctuary would needs expose them to Elephants Under Seleucus Philopater King of Syria Heliodorus came to pillage the sacred Treasures and was only lett from doing so by a Miracle In a word under Antiochus his Successours began the greatest Persecution they ever suffered which may at least be equall'd with any the Christians afterwards underwent And indeed among the Jews were the first Martyrs that we know of for the cause of God and his holy Law to Wit the three Companions of Daniel who were put into the Furnace and himself when exposed to the Lions had the merit of Martyrdome but God perform'd Miracles in their Preservation Eleazar the Seven Brethren and others whom the History of the Maccabees does mention gave up their Lives for God and for the Law of their Forefathers and 't is the first example that I meet withal in all Story of that kind of Vertue We can see no infidels before that time nor even Philosophers who chose rather to suffer Death by the most cruel Punishments than to violate their Religion and the Laws of their Country True there were Jews who gave way to the Persecution but such as had so intirely renounc'd their Religion and Laws as to make use of Artifices to hide their Circumcision so that they were no longer counted Jews And those who continued faithful were so Zealous for their Law and Liberty that at last they took up Arms to defend it against the Kings of Syria who openly violated all the Priviledges which the Persian Kings had granted them and which had been allowed 'em by Alexander and the other Macedonian Kings CAP. XXX The Reign of the Asmonians THus are we come to the time of the Maccabees when the Jewish nation did recover it self and appear with a new Lustre They were no longer those poor People who only thought of Living in peace under the conduct of their High-Priest and Elders very happy in having the Liberty to cultivate their Lands and serve the God of Heaven after their own Mode A State it was wholly Independent and supported it self by good Troops Strong Places and Allyances not only with the Neighbouring Princes but with far distant States and with Rome it self The Egyptian and Syriaâ— Kings who had treated 'em so illâ—were afterwards constrained to Court their Friendship The Jews made great Conquests John Hyrcan took Sichem and Gerizem and ruin'd the Temple of the Samaritans So absolute was he in all the Land of Israel He extended his Conquests into Syria where he took many Cities after the Death of Antiochus Sidetes and into Idumea which he so entirely subdued as to oblige the Idumeans to Circumcise themselves and to observe the Mosaical Law as being incorporated with the Nation of the Jews His Son Aristobulus added the marks of Royalty to the real Power taking the Diadem and the title of Kings and Alexander Jaddaeus made likewise sundry Conquests But this glory of the Jews was of a short continuance Whereas the weakning of the Kingdoms of Syria and Egypt had made very much for their Elevation the total ruine of those two Kingdomes drew theirs along with it through the immense increase of the Romans power And their Domestick divisions also much contribuâ—â—d thereto by the perpetual Misunderstanding of the two Sons of Aâ—â—xander Jannaeus Hyrcanus and Aristobulus In short they enjoy'd their Liberty but eighty years since Simon had been declared Head of the Nation after having cast off the Yoak of the Grecians untill that Pompey's being called in by Hircanus took Jerusalem entred into the Temple and made the Jews tributary They were afterwards above twenty years in a miserable condition divided by the Parties of the two Brothers and pillaged by the Romans who carryed away above 700 Millions at several times After the defeat of Brutus and Cassius the Parthians taking advantage of the weakness of Mark Anthony who governed the East rendred ' emselves Masters of Syria and Palestine and carryed way Hyrcanus In all that time of the Roman Civil Wars and the Odds which the Parthians got of them Palestine was exposed to great Desolations by the Passages of so many Armies of divers Nations anâ— by the Incursions of the Neighbouring People particularly of thâ— Arabians 'T is true it recruited it self little under Herod He brought thither Peace and Abundance He was Powerful Rich and Magnificent But we cannot say the Jews were a free People in his time He was not free himself but wholly depended on the Roman Emperours He was a Stranger Originally an Idumean He had no Religion and only kept up an outside of it as an Instrument of his Policy He utterly pull'd down the Succession of High-Priests making one Hananeel to come from Babylon a contemptible Wretch tho of the Sacerdotal Race Since which time there were no High-Priests but whom and as long as the
not only the Gentiles and the Notorious Sinners but all those that exercised odious Professions In short all their Devotion was only Pride and Interest They seduced Ignorant People by their fine Discourses and bigotted Women who threw away their Estates to enrich them and under the Pretence they were the People of God and the Depositors of his Law they despised the Greeks and Romans and all the Nations of the Earth In the Jewish Books we see still those Traditions of the Pharisees whereof they made then so horrible a Mystery and which were written about an Hundred years after the Resurrection of JESUS CHRIST 'T is impossible for those that have been brought up in other Maxims to imagine the frivolous and impertinent Questions wherewith those Books are stuffed viz. Whether it be permitted on the Sabbath day to mount on an Ass to carry him to Water or whether you must hold him by the Neck whether one might walk the same day Lands newly sowed since he runs a hazard of carrying away some Grains with his feet and consequently of sowing them Concerning the Purification of old Leven before the Passeover whether it be necessary to renew the purifying of an House when you have seen a Mouse pass in it with a Crum of Bread whether it be Lawful to keep pasted Paper or a Plaister wherein there is any Flower whether after the old Leaven is burnt it be permitted to eat what has been baked with the coals which remains thereof And a million of other cases of Conscience of the like force which the Talmud is full of with it's Commentaries Thus the Jews forgot the noble Grandeur of the Law of God to apply themselves to low and pitiful things And they were found very gross and very ignorant in Comparison of the Greeks who in their Schools treated of more useful and more elevated Questions or in Physicks or Morality and who had at least a sweet Politeness if they had not Vertue Not but that there were alway some Jews more curious than others to speak Greek well who read the Books of the Grecians and imbibed their Learning in Grammer Rhetorick and Philosophy Such was Aristobulus a Peripatetick Philosopher and Preceptor of Ptolomee Philometor Such were Eupolemus Demetrius and the two Philo's There were Historians also who wrote in Greek and after the Grecian manner as Jason the Cyrenean and the Authour of the Second Book of Maccabees who has abridg'd it and as Josephus It was at Alexandria where most of those Jews were who Studied the learning of the Greeks The other Jews contented themselves with speaking Greek to be understood that is grosly and keeping the natural turn of their own Tongue And 't is in that Barbarous Greek the New Testament is written The Apostles and Evangelists contented themselves with a clearness and brevity of Style despising all the Ornaments of Language and making use of what words were the most proper to be understood by the Common People of their nation Insomuch as for the well apprehending their Greek 't is requisite to know Hebrew and Syriack The Jews of these latter times were much exercis'd in reading of the Law and the holy Scripture They thought it not enough to explain it literally They found out therein several figurative senses by Allegories and divers Appropriations We see it not only in the new Testament and the Writings of the most Ancient Fathers who have disputed against them but in the Talmud and the oldest Hebrew Commentaries on the Law which they call the great Genesis the great Exodus and so of others Those Figurative senses they held by Traditions from their Fathers But in short the Manners of those Jews were very bad and very much corrupted They were sillily proud of being of the Race of Abraham pufft up with the promises of the Messias his Reign which they knew to be at hand and which they formed to themselves all full of Vanquishments and Temporal Prosperity They were interessed avaricious and sordid especially the Pharisees the greatest Hypocrites They were unfaithful and inconstant always ready for Sedition and Revolt under pretence of casting off the Yoak of the Gentiles In a word they were violent Boysterous and cruel as we see by what they made JESUS CHRIST and his Apostles suffer and by the unheard of Mischiefs they did to one another both during all the Civil Wars and the last Siege of Jerusalem CAP. XXXIII The true Israelites IT was however among that People the Tradition of vertue as well as that of Doctrine and Religion was preserved In those later times they had still very rare Examples of Godliness Zacharias old Simeon the Learned Gamaliel and many others set down in the History of the New Testament All those holy Personages and generally all Spiritual Jews circumcised in Heart as well as Body were Children of Abraham much rather by imitation of his Faith than by their own Extraction With a most steady Faith they believed in the Prophesies and Promises of God They waited impatienly for the Redemption of Israel and the coming of the Messias after which they long'd and sighed But they were sensible that it behoov'd them not to confine their Hopes to this life they belived the Resurrection and the Kingdom of Heaven So that the Blessing of the Gospel coming upon such holy Dispositions it was easy to make perfect Christians of those true Israelites FINIS Some Books Printed for and Sold by W. Freeman over against the Devil-Tavern by Temple-Bar in Fleet-street SCarrons Novels viz. The Fruitless Precaution The Hyâ—ocrites The Innocent Adultery The Judge in his own Cause The â—â—ival Brothers The Invisible â—â—istriss The Chastisement of â—â—varice The unexspected Choice â—â—endred into English with some â—dditions By John Davis of Kidâ—elly In Oct. 1683. The Clarks Manual or an Exact Collection of the most approved Forms of Declarations Pleas general Issues Judgments Demurrers and most kind of Writs now used in the Court of Kings Bench. With necessary Instructions to all Clerks Attornies and Sollicitors in the use of the same The second Edition in Octav. 1682. An Infallible way to Contentment in the midst of Publick or Personal Calamities Together with the Christians Courage and Encouragement against evil Tidings and the fear of Death In 12. The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 of Reform'd Philosophy Book 3 of Divine predetermination wherein the nature of Divine Predetermination is fully Explicated and Demonstrated both in the general as also more Particularly as to the substrate matter or Entitative Act of Sin With a Vindication of Calvinists and others from that Blasphemous Imputation of making God the Author of Sin By Theophilus Gale in Quartâ— 1682. The Design of this Treatise Gen. 5. 7. 11. 8. 13. 6. 15. 4. 22. Gen. 12. 8. 13. 18. 28. 18. 31. 48. 26. 18. c. Family Gen. 26. 28. Gen. 136. 32. 14. c. Gen. 14. 14. 13. 2. 24. 22 16. 27. 27. Gen. 4. 17. 10. 10.