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lord_n	honourable_a	majesty_n	privy_a	10,396	5	9.6495	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63903	Boaz and Ruth a disquisition upon Deut. 25, 5, concerning the brothers propagating the name and memory of his elder brother deceased : in which the antiquity, reason, and circumstances of that law are explained, the mistakes and impositions of the Jewish rabbins, in this and other matters detected ... / by John Turner ...	Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50.	1685 (1685)	Wing T3303; ESTC R10986	186,035	472

BOAZ and RVTH A Disquisition upon Deut 25.5 concerning the BROTHERS Propagating the NAME and MEMORY OF HIS Elder Brother deceased IN Which the Antiquity Reason and circumstances of that Law are explained the mistakes and impositions of the Jewish Rabbins in this and other matters detected and a fair way opened for a clearer understanding of the most obscure and dark passages in the Law of Moses TOGETHER With a discovery of several things as well in the Eastern as the Roman Antiquities never yet explained or understood by any By John Turner Hospitaller of St. Thomas Southwark and late fellow of Christs-College in Cambridge Credat Judaeus Apella Non ego Qualiacunque voles Judaei somnia vendent Si veritas Nobiseum quis contra nos LONDON Printed by H. Hills Jun. for Walter Kettilby at the Bishops-Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1685. To the Right Honourable and my very Good Lord George Lord Jefferies Baron of Wem Lord Chief Justice of England and one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council My Lord I Do humbly Dedicate this disquisition to your Lordship after some small though very Hearty endeavours to let your Lordship and the World see how extreamly sensible I am of your goodness to me not only out of a principle of gratitude but interest too in gratitude I was obliged to bethink my self of a present more suitable to your Lordships deserved Character and Greatness than any I have yet had the hardiness or opportunity to make and in interest I considered with my self that having engaged with so potent adversaries as the memory of Mr. Selden who was the glory of the last Age and the living fame of a Person yet in being it concerned me to look out some Patron of the Highest Quality and the most universally acknowledged merit to give some countenance to my undertakings which are intended purely for the discovery of truth and for the benefit and advantage of the World I have in this Essay given a deadly blow to the Rabbinical Learning not that I pretend or would be thought to suggest as if they were not to be believed in any thing they say for who is so guilty of mistakes and impositions as not to speak truth sometimes But if by virtue of a pretended Tradition they shall impose any falsity upon us as I have proved in this Treatise they have done very many we are not to believe any thing upon account of any such precarious Tradition without other circumstances and probabilities to vouch it as a witness of crackt credit and profligate reputation may yet put new wait into the Scale of Truth if he have eitheir other circumstances or more allowable testimony to concur with him but upon his own account he is nothing and if any have a mind to support the credit of the Rabbins it is not to be done by proving that in some things they have been in the right but that they are so in those particulars wherein I have laid falshood and forgery to their charge If Mr. Selden were alive I should not despair but he would acknowledg his Error and that of those upon whose authority and credit he depended but of the other I have no other hope then only that he will not pretend in scriptis to confute me though he may possibly whisper in the dark where I can neither hear nor see him and may have a party in the Coffee-house to stand by him But not content barely to have confuted these two Learned Gentlemen I have substituted positive and affirmative Doctrines in the room of those which they would have obtruded upon us I have I hope held out a Key to the Learned World by which the most difficult passages in the Law of Moses may be explained and have besides given so fair an entrance into the Antiquities of Rome and shown so plainly their dependance upon those of the East from whence they are unquestionably derived that it is clearly a new sort of Learning scarce ever yet so much as pointed at by any and capable of very great and very usefull improvements all which I do humbly submit to your Lordships known Candor and unbyast Judgment and with my most earnest Prayers to Almighty God for the continuance of your Lordships health and safety in which that of the publick hath so great a share I am may it please your Lordship Your Lordships most Humble Obedient and Obliged Servant John Turner TO THE READER Reader I Here Present you with a Discourse the greatest part of which was long since Written upon that Law of Moses by which the surviving younger Brother was obliged to propagate the name and memory of his Elder Brother in his stead in which I will be bold to say I have discovered more of the Jewish Antiquity then all the Rabbins put together have with the same certainty and convincingness done for most of what they tell us amounts to no more then hear say depends upon very uncertain and questionable Traditions and is Jumbled together with such an oglio of monstrous and impertinent Winter-tales that it is very difficult where there is any Truth to separate the Truth and Falshood from each other and besides this I have occasionally so far inquired into the most remote Antiquities of Rome as to show they were manifestly of Eastern growth and the comparing of the Customs and Language of the one with the other which I take it for granted is a subject which neither one Man nor one Age can exhaust is that that will give great light and certainty to both and may with much more reason be depended upon in our inquiries into Truths of this nature then any of those pompous Tales the Rabbins tell us though drest up in Hebrew and coming into the World in the shape and appearance of profound Learning You will find by several passages up and down in this Treatise that what I have now written was designed as preparatory and introductory to another which it is now a long time that I have promised or threatned or what you please to call it concerning the Marriage of Cosin Germans if you ask in what sense this may be thought preparatory to that though it may seem an hard Question yet I will make it easie by giving it a plain Answer and indeed the Answer is two fold First This was a Matrimonial Case as well as the other which though it be now perfectly Antiquated and out of date not only amongst us but even the Jews themselves yet I had a mind to shew by an Essay upon this subject that I was not altogether a stranger to subjects of this nature that upon the Credit of this performance I might remove the prejudices that lie against me and might be thought possibly to understand what I said better then those that censure me when I affirmed the Marriage of Cosin Germans to be in all Christian Politics and in all ordinary Cases ex antecedenti prohibited and Unlawful In