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A75307	A treatise concerning religions, in refutation of the opinion which accounts all indifferent· Wherein is also evinc'd the necessity of a particular revelation, and the verity and preeminence of the Christian religion above the pagan, Mahometan, and Jewish rationally demonstrated. / Rendred into English out of the French copy of Moyses Amyraldus late professor of divinity at Saumur in France.; Traitté des religions. English.	Amyraut, Moïse, 1596-1664.	1660 (1660)	Wing A3037; Thomason E1846_1; ESTC R207717	298,210	567

the true God and delivered the same to us disintricated from the confusion of so many false Deities to whom our Ancestors were devoted It gave them to know after what manner the World was at first formed and ha's preserved fresh amongst them the memory of the most remarkable matters that arrived in that primitive Age of Men of which other nations have had onely some kind of obscure and faint glimpses in fabulous stories which afford onely enough evidence to convince the books of the Pagans of vanity and to confirm the truth of what is found in the Jewish histories And that which advantages them yet more is that their Law contains such an excellent model of all piety and virtue that more wisdom ha's been revealed to them in ten words onely then can be collected out of the Books of all the Philosophers were the quintessence extracted out of them In a Word the Books of their Law and the Revelations of their Prophets are proceeded from Heaven and as it shall more amply appear they bear with them most undeniable testimonies of it But the polity of their Religion how divine soever was to be changed and its time being expired we must otherwhere seek the rules of that which we ought to follow Wherefore to shew that their Law was to be changed and that it was establisht but for a time it must be consider'd in each of its principal parts As in the Political Laws upon which their Republick was founded In their Ceremonial Ordinances in observation whereof consisted all their external divine service And in the Ten Commandments of the Two Tables which contain the General Precepts of piety towards God and virtue which ought to be practis'd amongst men As for their Political Laws they were excellent indeed for the government of that Nation and establish'd with singular Wisdom But I conceive there is no Jew so opinative as to account them proper for the government of all sorts of Nations in all Ages For every country every people and time must have its respective laws and there is necessity of altering the same according to the variety of circumstances And as Divorce was permitted in the Commonwealth of Israel in its political government for some necessity particular to that Nation so there may be some other Nations in which likewise for some political necessity it must be absolutely forbidden It would seem unreasonable in a country where the houses are built with plain ridges for the publick authority to demolish all sort of edifices of that fashion enjoin to build only with battlements and ballisters Now it is as little comprehensible how in such a Country as France is the Laws given by Moses concerning the determination of Law-suits could be practis'd It would be requisite not only to change the order of Magistrates and practise of Courts but to new mold the manners of the intire Nation And how could the divers forms of Governments of Kingdoms and Empires be conformed to the political Law of Israel as Monarchy in France Aristocracy in Venice and Democracy in Athens Must they that should become Jews in these parts of Europe renounce all soverain powers that are so well establish'd therein according to the genius of every Nation to reform them all according to the model of the Jewish policy And if the great Cham of the Tartars with all his subjects should cause themselves to be circumcised to what purpose would the Laws of Tenths for the Levites the like be in his Country Indeed all the policy of Israel was regulated either according to the nature of that people different from most others or according to the division of their Tribes wherewith other Nations had no resemblance or else according to the quality of the Country which was unlike to others in many respects But on the other side their great Legislator the most pious amongst their Kings and the divinest amongst their Prophets have expresly promis'd the Calling of the Nations to the communion of one and the same Law with the Jews so that they shall make up but one people Rejoyce O ye Nations his people saith Moses Deut. 32.43 And David in the 117. Psalm O praise the Lord all ye Nations praise him all ye people Why but for being called to his knowledge And in Psal 69.1 O sing unto the Lord a new song All the Earth sing unto the Lord vers 3. Declare his glory among the heathen and his Wonders among all people But Isaiah more expresly when he promises in the 55. chap. of his Revelations that the Messias shall be equally a Legislator of the Jews and others vers 4. Behold I have given him for a witness to the Nations to be a leader and commander of the people Behold thou shalt call a Nation that thou knewest not and the Nations which knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord thy God And 't is for the same reason that he speaks thus to the Church of God in the foregoing Chapter Sing O barren thou that didst not bear break forth into singing and cry aloud thou that knowest not what it is to travel with child c. Enlarge the place of thy tent and let them stretch forth the curtaines of thy Pavillions spare not lengthen thy cord and strengthen thy stakes For thou shalt spread forth on the right hand and on the left and thy posterity shall inherit the Nations and make the desolate Cities to be inhabited And the Jews themselves await the accomplishment of these promises Wherefore it follows necessarily that their Law as to the policy of the Commonwealth was to alter and that whereas before it oblig'd all those who had any interest and title in the Alliance which God had contracted with them the use thereof in this respect is now become free and not necessarily obligatory The truth is though political Laws of Republicks be nothing but the natural laws of justice and honesty which being general are applyed to particular matters according to the diversity of circumstances which are infinite and infinitely variable provided that in the government of every Nation the image of that natural justice be always resplendent in their Laws it is not important whether there be difference in things of lesser concernment And it would be too rigorous a yoak to subject all Nations to the same form of Laws without regard whether the humors of men and conditions of times permit it Now whereas the Law of Moses is composed of three parts equally the change of one necessarily infers with it the alteration of the rest And it must needs fall out here as it do's in the building of Palaces For he that should go about to change one part of a great uniform edifice it would be needful for him to change it all and ruine it all from top to bottom otherwise the disparity of its parts would render it unproportional and deformed But this is more manifest in the Ceremonial Law in