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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42238	The truth of Christian religion in six books / written in Latine by Hugo Grotius ; and now translated into English, with the addition of a seventh book, by Symon Patrick ...; De veritate religionis Christianae. English	Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.; Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1680 (1680)	Wing G2128; ESTC R7722	132,577	348

Interpreter of it is that in Jer. 7. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts the God of Israel Put your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices and eat their flesh your selves For I spake not unto your fathers nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the Land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices But this thing commanded I them saying Obey my voice and I will be your God and ye shall be my People and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you that it may be well unto you Agreeing with this is that in Hosea 6. To shew mercy to men is more acceptable to me than sacrifice to think rightly of God more than all burnt-offerings Lastly in the sixth of Micah when the question was made what was the best way to obtain the favour of God whether by coming before him with a great number of rams or with a great quantity of Oyl or with Calves of a Year old to this God answers and saith I will tell thee what is truly good and acceptable unto me namely to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God By all which places it being apparent that Sacrifices are not in the number of those things which God desires for themselves or primarily and that the People a naughty superstition creeping in as is usual by little and little among them placed a great part of their piety in them and believed they made a sufficient compensation for their sins by sacrifices what wonder is it if God at length took away a thing which was not now in its own nature indifferent but whose use was now become a Vice since King Hezekiah did not stick to break even the brazen Serpent erected by Moses because the People began to honour it with Religious Worship Moreover there are divers Prophecies that foretold these sacrifices whereof we speak should come to an end which any one may easily conceive who doth but consider that according to the Law of Moses only the posterity of Aaron was to do sacrifice and that only in their own Country But in the 110 Psalm there is a King promised whose dominion should be most ample the beginning whereof should be out of Sion and this same King was to be a Priest also for ever and that after the order of Melchisedeck So Isaiah saith chap. 19. That there shall be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the Land of Egypt where not only the Aegyptians but the Assyrians also and the Israelites shall worship God And in the 66 chapter he saith that the People of all Nations and Languages which are far and widely distant shall come as well as the Israelites and offer gifts unto God and of them also there shall be ordained Priests and Levites All which could not come to pass so long as the Law of Moses remained in force Add unto these that in the first of Malachy God foretelling future things saith he abhorred the offerings of the Hebrews I have no pleasure in you neither will I accept an offering at your hand For from the rising of the Sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name and a pure offering for my name shall be great among the Heathen saith the Lord of Hosts Lastly Daniel in his 9. chapter rehearsing the Prophecy of the Angel Gabriel concerning Christ saith that he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease And not by words only but really and indeed God plainly enough shews that he likes not any longer those Sacrifices which were prescribed by Moses seeing that he hath suffered the Jews for the space of one thousand six hundred years and more to be without Temple without Altar and without any certain distinction of their Tribes or Lineage whence it might appear who they are that may lawfully offer sacrifice SECT IX The difference of Meats NOW what we have declared concerning the Law of Sacrifices the same may be proved of that Law which forbids the use of some kinds of meats For it is plain that after the great Deluge God gave licence unto Noah and his Posterity to use any sort of victual Which Right therefore passed not only to Japhet and Cham but also unto Sem and his Posterity Abraham Isaac and Jacob. But afterward when the People being in Egypt were addicted to the naughty superstitions of that Countrey then began God to forbid them the eating of some kind of living creatures either because the Aegyptians offered those creatures unto their Gods and made divination by them or because in that ceremonial Law Mens sundry vices were shadowed out by divers kind of living creatures Again that these precepts were not universal it is manifest by that statute which was made touching the flesh of a Beast that died of it self Deut. 14. which to eat was not lawful for the Israelites but it was lawful for the strangers that dwelt among them unto whom the Jews by divine command were to perform all offices of courtesie as persons esteemed by God Likewise the ancient Hebrew Doctors do plainly teach that in the time of the Messias the Law concerning forbidden meats should cease when the Sow should be as clean and pure as the Oxe And verily in as much as God out of all Nations would collect unto himself one Church it was more just and equitable to have a common liberty than a bondage in such things SECT X. And of Days IT follows that we consider of Festival Days all which were instituted and ordained in remembrance of that benefit received of God when they were freed from Egyptian calamity and afterward brought into the promised Land Now the Prophet Jeremy in the 16. and 23. Chapters saith that the time would come when more new and greater benefits should so obscure the remembrance of that benefit as that afterward there should scarce be any mention thereof Besides that which but now was said concerning Sacrifices is true also of Festival Days the People began to put confidence in them thinking that if they kept and observed them well it was no matter though they transgressed in other matters whereupon in the first Chapter of Isaiah God faith that his Soul hated their new Moons and appointed Feasts and that they were such a trouble unto him as that he was weary to bear them More particularly it is objected concerning the Sabbath that the law thereof is universal and perpetual because it was not given to one peculiar People only but to Adam the Parent of all Mankind at the very beginning of the World I answer with the most learned of the Hebrews that there is a twofold precept concerning the Sabbath the first is a precept for commemoration Exod. 20. 8. and the second is a precept for observation Exod. 31. 31. The former is fulfilled by a religious remembrance of the Worlds creation and the latter