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A63641	Antiquitates christianæ, or, The history of the life and death of the holy Jesus as also the lives acts and martyrdoms of his Apostles : in two parts.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.; Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667. Great exemplar of sanctity and holy life according to the christian institution.; Cave, William, 1637-1713. Antiquitates apostolicae, or, The lives , acts and martyrdoms of the holy apostles of our Saviour.; Cave, William, 1637-1713. Lives, acts and martydoms of the holy apostles of our Saviour.	1675 (1675)	Wing T287; ESTC R19304	1,245,097	752

should cause the Sacrifice and the Oblation to cease At the time of Christ's death the veil of the Temple from top to bottom rent in sunder to shew that his death had revealed the mysteries and destroyed the foundations of the legal Oeconomy and put a period to the whole Temple-ministration Nay the Jews themselves confess that forty years before the destruction of the Temple a date that corresponds exactly with the death of Christ the Lot did no more go up into the right hand of the Priest this is meant of his dismission of the Scape-goat nor the scarlet Ribbon usually laid upon the forehead of the Goat any more grow white this was a sign that the Goat was accepted for the remission of their sins nor the Evening Lamp burn any longer and that the gates of the Temple opened of their own accord By which as at once they confirm what the Gospel reports of the opening of the Sanctum Sanctorum by the scissure of the veil so they plainly confess that at that very time their Sacrifices and Temple-services began to cease and fail As indeed the reason of them then ceasing the things themselves must needs vanish into nothing 10. THE third sort of Laws given to the Jews were Judicial and Political these were the Municipal Laws of the Nation enacted for the good of the State and were a kind of appendage to the second Table of the Decalogue as the Ceremonial Laws were of the first They might be reduced to four general heads such as respected men in their private and domestical capacities concerning Husbands and Wives Parents and Children Masters and Servants such as concerned the Publick and the Common-wealth relating to Magistrates and Courts of Justice to Contracts and matters of right and wrong to Estates and Inheritances to Executions and Punishments c. such as belong'd to strangers and matters of a soreign nature as Laws concerning Peace and War Commerce and Dealing with persons of another Nation or lastly such as secured the honour and the interests of Religion Laws against Apostates and Idolaters Wizards Conjurers and false Prophets against Blasphemy Sacriledge and such like all which not being so proper to my purpose I omit a more particular enumeration of them These Laws were peculiarly calculated for the Jewish State and that while kept up in that Country wherein God had placed them and therefore must needs determine and expire with it Nor can they be made a pattern and standard for the Laws of other Nations for though proceeding from the wisest Law-giver they cannot reasonably be imposed upon any State or Kingdom unless where there is an equal concurrence of circumstances as there were in that people for whom God enacted them They went off the Stage with the Jewish Polity and if any parts of them do still remain obligatory they bind not as Judicial Laws but as branches of the Law of Nature the reason of them being Immutable and Eternal I know not whether it may here be useful to remark what the Jews so frequently tell us of that the intire body of the Mosaick Law consists of DCXIII Precepts intimated say they in that place where 't is said Moses commanded us a Law where the Numeral Letters of the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Law make up the number of DCXI. and the two that are wanting to make up the complete number are the two first Precepts of the Decalogue which were not given by Moses to the people but immediately by God himself Others say that there are just DCXIII letters in the Decalogue and that every letter answers to a Law But some that have had the patience to tell them assure us that there are two whole words consisting of seven letters supernumerary which in my mind quite spoils the computation These DCXIII Precepts they divide into CCXLVIII 〈◊〉 according to the number of the parts of man's body which they make account are just so many to put him in mind to serve God with all his bodily powers as if every member of his body should say to him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 make use of me to fulfil the command and into CCCLXV Negative according to the number of the days of the year that so every day may call upon a man and say to him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 oh do not in me transgress the Command Or as others will have it they answer to the Veins or Nerves in the body of man that as the complete frame and compages of man's body is made up of CCXLVIII Members and CCCLXV Nerves and the Law of so many affirmative and so many negative Precepts it denotes to us that the whole perfection and accomplishment of man lies in an accurate and diligent observance of the Divine Law Each of these divisions they reduce under twelve houses answerable to the twelve Tribes of Israel In the Affirmative Precepts the first House is that of Divine worship consisting of twenty Precepts the second the House of the Sanctuary containing XIX the third the House of Sacrifices wherein are LVII the fourth that of Cleanness and Pollution containing XVIII the fifth of Tithes and Alms under which are XXXII the sixth of Meats and Drinks containing VII the seventh of the Passeover concerning Feasts containing XX the eighth of Judgment XIII the ninth of Doctrine XXV the tenth of Marriage and concerning Women XII the eleventh of Judgments criminal VIII the twelfth of Civil 〈◊〉 XVII In the Negative Precepts the first House is concerning the worship of the Planets containing XLVII Commands the second of separation from the Heathens XIII the third concerning the reverence due to holy things XXIX the fourth of Sacrifice and Priesthood LXXXII the fifth of Meats XXXVIII the sixth of Fields and Harvest XVIII the seventh of Doctrine XLV the eighth of Justice XLVII the ninth of Feasts X the tenth of Purity and Chastity XXIV the eleventh of Wedlock VIII the twelfth concerning the Kingdom IV. A method not contemptible as which might minister to a distinct and useful explication of the whole Law of Moses 11. THE next thing considerable under the Mosaical Oeconomy was the methods of the Divine revelation by what ways God communicated his mind to them either concerning present emergences or future events and this was done 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Apostle tells us at sundry times or by sundry degrees and parcels and in diverse manners by various methods of revelation whereof three most considerable the Urim and Thummim the audible voice and the spirit of Prophecy imparted in dreams visions c. We shall make some brief remarks upon them referring the Reader who desires fuller satisfaction herein to those who purposely treat about these matters The Urim and Thummim was a way of revelation peculiar to the High Priest Thou shalt put on the breast-plate of Judgment the Urim and the Thummim and they shall be upon Aaron's heart when he goeth in before the

Lord and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the Lord continually Thus Eleazar the Priest is commanded to ask counsel after the Judgment of Urim before the Lord. What this Urim and Thummim was and what the manner of receiving answers by it is difficult if not impossible to tell there being scarce any one difficulty that I know of in the Bible that hath more exercised the thoughts either of Jewish or Christian Writers Whether it was some addition to the High Priests breast-plate made by the hand of some curious Artist or whether only those two words engraven upon it or the great name Jehovah carved and put within the foldings of the breast-plate or whether the twelve stones resplendent with light and completed to perfection with the Tribes names therein or whether some other mysterious piece of artifice immediately framed by the hand of Heaven and given to Moses when he delivered him the two Tables of the Law is vain and endless to enquire because impossible to determine Nor is the manner of its giving answers less uncertain Whether at such times the fresh and orient lustre of the stones signified the answer in the Affirmative while their dull and dead colour spake the Negative or whether it was by some extraordinary protuberancy and thrusting forth of the letters engraven upon the stones from the conjunction whereof the Divine Oracle was gathered or whether probably it might be that when the High Priest enquired of God with this breast-plate upon him God did either by a lively voice or by immediate suggestions to his mind give him a distinct and perspicuous answer illuminating his mind with the Urim or the light of the knowledge of his will in those cases and satisfying his doubts and scruples with the Thummim of a perfect and complete determination of those difficulties that were propounded to him thereby enabling him to give a satisfactory and infallible answer in all the particulars that lay before him And this several of the Jews seem to intend when they make this way of revelation one of the degrees of the Holy Ghost and say that no sooner did the High Priest put on the Pectoral and had the case propounded to him but that he was immediately clothed with the Holy Spirit But it 's to little purpose to hunt after that where fancy and conjecture must decide the case Indeed among the various conjectures about this matter none appears with greater probability than the opinion of those who conceive the Urim and Thummim to have been a couple of Teraphim or little Images probably formed in humane shape put within the hollow foldings of the Pontifical breast-plate from whence God by the ministry of an Angel vocally answered those interrogatories which the High Priest made Nothing being more common even in the early Ages of the World than such Teraphim in those Eastern Countries usually placed in their Temples and whence the Daemon was wont oracularly to determine the cases brought before him And as God permitted the Jews the use of Sacrifices which had been notoriously abused to Superstition and Idolatry in the Heathen World so he might indulge them these Teraphim though now converted to a sacred use that so he might by degrees wean them from the Rites of the Gentile World to which they had so fond an inclination And this probably was the reason why when Moses is so particular in describing the other parts of the Sacerdotal Ornaments nothing at all is said of this because a thing of common use among the Nations with whom they had conversed and notoriously known among themselves And such we may suppose the Prophet intended when he threatned the Jews that they should abide without a Sacrifice without an Image or Altar without an Ephod and without a Teraphim A notion very happily improved by an ingenious Pen whose acute conjectures and elaborate dissertations about this matter justly deserve commendation even from those who differ from it It seems to have been a kind of political Oracle and to be consulted only in great and weighty cases as the Election of Supreme Magistrates making War c. and only by Persons of the highest rank none being permitted say the Jews to enquire of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unless in a case wherein the King or the Sanhedrim or the whole Congregation was concerned 12. A SECOND way of Divine Revelation was by an audible voice accompanied many times with Thunder descending as it were from Heaven and directing them in any emergency of affairs This the Jewish Writers call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the daughter or Eccho of a 〈◊〉 oice which they confess to have been the lowest kind of revelation and to have been in use only in the times of the second Temple when all other ways of Prophecy were ceased But notwithstanding their common and confident assertions whether ever there was any such standing way of revelation as this is justly questionable nay it is peremptorily denied by one incomparably versed in the Talmudick Writings who adds that if there was any such thing at any time it was done by Magick Arts and diabolical delusions partly because it is only delivered by Jewish Writers whose faith and honesty is too well known to the World to be trusted in stories that make so much for the honour of their Nation not to mention their extravagant propension to lies and fabulous reports partly because by their own confession God had withdrawn all his standing Oracles and ordinary ways of Revelation their notorious impieties having caused Heaven to retire and therefore much less would it correspond with them by such immediate converses partly because this seemed to be a way more accommodate to the Evangelical dispensation at the appearance of the Son of God in the World A voice from Heaven is the most immediate testimony and therefore sittest to do honour to him who came down from Heaven and was sure to meet with an obdurate and incredulous Generation and to give evidence to that Doctrin that he published to the World Thus by a Bath-Col or a Voice from Heaven God bare witness to our Saviour at his Baptism and a second time at his Transfiguration and again at the Passover at Jerusalem when there came a Voice from Heaven which the People took for Thunder or the Communication of an Angel and most of S. John's intelligences from above recorded in his Book of Revelation are ushered in with an I heard a 〈◊〉 from Heaven 13. BUT the most frequent and standing method of Divine communications was that whereby God was wont to transact with the Prophets and in extraordinary cases with other Men which was either by Dreams Visions or immediate Inspirations The way by Dreams was when the Person being overtaken with a deep sleep and all the exteriour senses locked up God presented the Species and Images of things to their understandings and that in such a

an uncertain hill and the way to it had been upon the waters upon which no spirit but that of Contradiction and Discord did ever move for the man should have tended to an end of an uncertain dwelling and walked to it by ways not discernible and arrived thither by chance which because it is irregular would have discomposed the pleasures of a Christian Hope as the very disputing hath already destroyed Charity and disunited the continuity of Faith and in the consequent there would be no Vertue and no Felicity But God who never loved that Man should be too ambitiously busie in imitating his Wisedom and Man lost Paradise for it is most desirous we should imitate his Goodness and transcribe copies of those excellent Emanations from his Holiness whereby as he communicates himself to us in Mercies so he propounds himself imitable by us in Graces And in order to this God hath described our way plain certain and determined and although he was pleased to leave us indetermined in the Questions of exteriour Communion yet he put it past all question that we are bound to be Charitable He hath placed the Question of the state of Separation in the dark in hidden and undiscerned regions but he hath opened the windows of Heaven and given great light to us teaching how we are to demean our selves in the state of Conjunction Concerning the Salvation of Heathens he was not pleased to give us account but he hath clearly described the duty of Christians and tells upon what terms alone we shall be saved And although the not inquiring into the ways of God and the strict rules of practice have been instrumental to the preserving them free from the serpentine enfoldings and labyrinths of Dispute yet God also with a great design of mercy hath writ his Commandments in so large characters and engraven them in such Tables that no man can want the Records nor yet skill to read the hand-writing upon this wall if he understands what he understands that is what is placed in his own spirit For God was therefore desirous that humane nature should be perfected with moral not intellectual Excellencies because these only are of use and compliance with our present state and conjunction If God had given to Eagles an appetite to swim or to the Elephant strong desires to fly he would have ordered that an abode in the Sea and the Air respectively should have been proportionable to their manner of living for so God hath done to Man fitting him with such Excellencies which are useful to him in his ways and progress to Perfection A man hath great use and need of Justice and all the instances of Morality serve his natural and political ends he cannot live without them and be happy but the filling the rooms of the Understanding with aiery and ineffective Notions is just such an Excellency as it is in a Man to imitate the voice of Birds at his very best the Nightingale shall excel him and it is of no use to that End which God designed him in the first intentions of creation In pursuance of this consideration I have chosen to serve the purposes of Religion by doing assistence to that part of Theologie which is wholly practical that which makes us wiser therefore because it makes us 〈◊〉 And truly my Lord it is enough to weary the spirit of a Disputer that he shall argue till he hath lost his voice and his time and sometimes the Question too and yet no man shall be of his mind more than was before How few turn Lutherans or Calvinists or Roman Catholicks from the Religion either of their Country or Interest Possibly two or three weak or interested phantastick and easie prejudicate and effeminate understandings pass from Church to Church upon grounds as weak as those for which formerly they did dissent and the same Arguments are good or bad as exteriour accidents or interiour appetites shall determine I deny not but for great causes some Opinions are to be quitted but when I consider how few do forsake any and when any do oftentimes they chuse the wrong side and they that take the righter do it so by contingency and the advantage also is so little I believe that the triumphant persons have but small reason to please themselves in gaining Proselytes since their purchase is so small and as inconsiderable to their triumph as it is unprofitable to them who change for the worse or for the better upon unworthy motives In all this there is nothing certain nothing noble But he that follows the work of God that is labours to gain Souls not to a Sect and a Subdivision but to the Christian Religion that is to the Faith and Obedience of the Lord JESUS hath a promise to be assisted and rewarded and all those that go to Heaven are the purchase of such undertakings the fruit of such culture and labours for it is only a holy life that lands us there And now my Lord I have told you my reasons I shall not be ashamed to say that I am weary and toiled with rowing up and down in the seas of Questions which the Interests of Christendom have commenced and in many Propositions of which I am heartily perswaded I am not certain that I am not deceived and I find that men are most confident of those Articles which they can so little prove that they never made Questions of them But I am most certain that by living in the Religion and fear of God in Obedience to the King in the Charities and duties of Communion with my Spiritual Guides in Justice and Love with all the world in their several proportions I shall not fail of that End which is perfective of humane nature and which will never be obtained by Disputing Here therefore when I had fixed my thoughts upon sad apprehensions that God was removing our Candlestick for why should be not when men themselves put the Light out and pull the Stars from their Orbs so hastening the day of God's Judgment I was desirous to put a portion of the holy fire into a Repository which might help to re-enkindle the Incense when it shall please God Religion shall return and all his Servants sing In convertendo captivitatem Sion with a voice of Eucharist But now my Lord although the results and issues of my retirements and study do naturally run towards You and carry no excuse for their forwardness but the confidence that your Goodness rejects no emanation of a great affection yet in this Address I am apt to promise to my self a fair interpretation because I bring you an instrument and auxiliaries to that Devotion whereby we believe you are dear to God and know that you are to good men And if these little sparks of holy fire which I have heaped together do not give life to your prepared and already-enkindled Spirit yet they will sometimes help to entertain a Thought to actuate a Passion to imploy and hallow