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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	great_a	sin_n	transgression_n	3,082	5	10.1157	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30785	The Jewish synagogue, or, An historical narration of the state of the Jewes at this day dispersed over the face of the whole earth ... / translated out of the learned Buxtorfius ... by A.B., Mr. A. of Q. Col. in Oxford.	Buxtorf, Johann, 1599-1664.; A. B., Mr. A. of Q. Col. in Oxford.	1657 (1657)	Wing B6347; ESTC R23867	293,718	328

before the sun be up say their prayers and beg pardon for the sins which they have committed The Jews of Germanie also use to doe the like some foure dayes at least before the feast of the new-year moreover they meet every morning and evening through the whole moneth in the Synagogue sounding a rams horn not that they are so commanded by Moses but yet in remembrance of him who when he went the second time into the mount to fetch the tables of the law commanded a horne to be blowen that the people should take notice hereof and not transgress and say Arise and make us Gods which may goe before us as for this Moses which brought us forth out of the land of Egypt we do not know what is become of him Secondly they blow the rams horn that every one may seriously ponder and weigh the last judgment and be terrified with the meditation hereof that they may be affrighted and fear for shall a trumpet be blowen in the City and the people be not affraid and so consequently be hurried along to a bitter condolement eager contrition hearty confession and serious repentance of his sins and offences for even as a King makes some of his servants to blow a trumper that every watchman may keep diligent watch and be ready armed at a moments warning because the enemy approacheth So it is needful for the Jews in the moneth of August which is as herauld to the new year to sound the Rams hornes for to warn every man to repent him of his wickedness that they may more easily resist their enemy Sin Lastly the Talmudists those subtil pated doctors say that the reason why they blow the Rams horns at this season is for to put Satan to flight and to put him to a grievous torture and to make him forget the day appointed for the celebration of the New-years feast lest he should come then and appearing before Gods tribunal accuse them for their sins and offences Upon the Eve of the New-year they rise sooner from supper then ordinary for they have many Prayers to poure out unto God for the remission of their sins They usually eate before day hereby signifying that they are not like the Christians and other people who fast upon the E●es of their festivals y●t howsoever he that fasts offends not In Germany the Jews alwayes eat something before morning prayer alwayes provided that they fill not their bellies too full especially when they are to say many prayers whereupon it comes to pass that though they make great haste in the saying of their prayers yet they commit no offence therein because their guts are not crammed and full stuft which would be a great hinderance to the speedy gallop of their tongue in posting over their petitions Yet some of the more religious sort who would be accounted more holy then other doe fast and that in imitation of a King who imposes a great tribute upon such or such a City and coming with a great power of men commands payment to be made He being yet ten miles distant from the City the chief men and burgesses thereof come and meet him and say unto him O Gracious Soveraign we are poor and have nothing and what shall we give unto thee And so intreating him in the most humble subjective manner that the hams of an Alderman can personate to remit the tax or tribute of which the King remits the third part being brought down by their earish kissing congees When the King is yet five miles from the City then a troop of Citizens of another order and mean estate come to give his Majesty some gaping salutation making the same request with that of the former to whom also he forgives another thirds When he comes neerer to the City then yong and old flock about him and bespeak his Grace in the same language The king then moved by the multitude of petitioners forgives the whole sum In like manner God the King of all the earth willing to make Israel give an account of their life past and of all the sins by them committed requires yea enjoynes every one to give satisfaction in his own proper person whereupon the holy men and chiefest in Israel fast the Eve of this festival and the Lord to recompence them remits unto them the third part of their sins and offences It is therefore enacted that they of the better sort should fast that they may with the more facility obtain their petitions and also some of a lower ranke fortie dayes together whiah are set aside for the doing of pennance Some one must likewise fast upon the day of reconciliation of which day more hereafter and then God will forgive unto them all their sins and grant them a pardon for the same Morning prayer being ended they goe out of the Synagogue into the place where they bury their dead thereby signifying that unless God will be pleased to pardon their sins they are no better then they who are dead and laid in their grave They therefore pray unto God to have mercy on them and that for the merits of those just and holy Jews who are interred in that place Here they distribute great store of alms that their poor may not want wherewithall to celebrate the festival Midday being past the men send for the barber and cause him to use all his art and skill in the trimming of them thereby giving others to understand that they are not like unto other people who sorrowing suffer their hairs to grow and encrease But our security say they banisheth all grief seeing we are certainly assured that God the King of the world will have mercy upon us redeem us from our transgressions and graciously absolve us of all our sins and for this very reason they enter the bath or wash themselves in some running water that the day following they may appear purified and clean before the almighty tribunal It is also recorded that certain Angels fly in the aire who being placed over the world and men descend into these parts below where they being in a manner polluted must necessarily purge and cleanse themselves in the siery stream Dinor mentioned by Daniel before they sing praises unto God Now if it be necessary that such creatures as the Angels are must wash themselves before they may be suffered to praise the Lord how much more is it required at the hands of man who is so vile and loathsome While the Jews are a purifying their bodies and stand even up to the ears in cold water then they make confession of their sins in the form commonly used This their confession comprehends in it two and twenty words according to the number of the letters in the Alphabet at the repetition of every one of which the confessor beats his brest and then hides his body in the water craving so much courtesie of his fellow as to bear him witness Where they are neer

credit that he is come so many years agoe are altogether ignorant for what end and purpose and in what degree his ●comming should be beneficial unto them for all that they expect is only this that he like another Moses and Aaron should deliver them from a terrestrial and corporal bondage and again bring them into their own land and to this end only that they might no longer drink the Wine of bitternesse among the Gentiles but be fed with milk and honey in the Land of Canaan They never dream of a deliverance from the spiritual captivity of sin for they perswade themselves that by pennance done in their own flesh they can satisfie for their own sin and by keeping of Gods Com●andements and their own good works merit eternal life In the 11. Article of their Belief they believe that whosoever doth many good works shall obtain a great reward in the world to come It is read in their Talmud All Israel shall have part in the world to come as it is written All thy People shall be righteous they shall receive the earth for an inheritance for ever the branch of my planting the work of my hands that I may be glorified Yet neverthelesse they shall not all share a like He that hath done many good deeds shall have a greater portion The wicked which never repented them of their sins shal be tormented in Hell or purgatory for the space of twelve months and after that shall have a portion in life everlasting but not so excellent as that of the just They who utterly deny God and profane his holy Name of which number are all those that turn to Christianity their foreskin shall grow again which done they shall the second time be circumcised as though they never had beene Jewes and shall remaine in Hell for ever The Son superviving his deceased Father is bound for a whole year to say a little Prayer called kaddisch for by the repetition of this Prayer he shall deliver his dead Father out of Purgatory such an one gives up the Ghost with great joy and incouragement knowing that he shall be delivered out of Hell by the Prayers of his Son left behind him After the same manner a honest woman may redeem her Husband But sometimes it so falleth out that the Husband ●and Wife are not equal in honesty and therefore it should seem that in the world to come the one should attain to a greater degree of happiness then the other here the Lord out of his mercy gives them both entrance together Briefly the whole nation of the Jews shal be partakers of life eternal and shal all ascend into Heaven but one shal be more glorious then another Even as a King or Duke coming into some great City he all his followers have entertainmet but in a different fashion so shall it be with the Jews in the world to come In the Article of the Resurrection of the Dead they themselves are dead for first they say it shall come to passe that only the Israelites shal be raised to life but the Christian and all other prople shall perpetually sleep in the dust Hence Rabbi ` Bechai in his Book intitu●ed Kadhakkemach saith The Jewes have a four-fold honour and priviledge above other Nations which are these the Land of Canaan the Law the Prophets and the resurrection from the dead All these he repeats and proves in particular in his● Exposition of the 18. and 33. chapters of the fi●t Book of Moses For the confirmation of the last priviledge he brin'gs amongst other the testimony of Isay prophecying of the Christians and other people They are dead they shall not live They are dead they shall not rise And of the Israelites Thy dead men shall live with my dead body they shall arise awake and sing you that dwell in the dust because your dew is as the dew of herbs and the Earth shal cast● out her dead The same Rabbine out of the Talmud delivers thus much that at the great day of judgement three kinds of dead men are to arise the first of the most righteous Israelites the second of the most unrighteous and ungodly the third of a middle sort who did as much good as evil The good shall go into life everlasting the wicked into Hell and fire eternal as it is written Many of them that lie and sleep in the Dust shall arise same to everlasting life some to shame and everlasting contempt From hence sAith the Rabbine we may infer that even the wicked ones in Israel shall be co-partners in the resurrection yet shall this redound to their disadvantage seeing both body and soule shall together in Hell suffer never ceasing torments They of the middle sort shall be tortured for theirs in s in purgatory only the space of twelve months which time expired their bodies shall be consumed and a blustering wind shall scatter their ashes under the feet of the just The Talmudist proves this out of the 13. Chapter of Zachary the 8. and 9. verses for there is written It shall come to passethat in all the land saith the Lord two parts therein shal be cut off and die but the third part shall be left therein And I will bring the third part through the fire and refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold it tried and they shall call upon my Name and I will hear them I will say it is my people and they shall say the Lord is my God And to the same purpose it is spoken 1. Sam. 2. 6. The Lord killeth and maketh alive he bringeth downe to the grave and bringeth up R. David Kimchi upon the first Psalm saith that the wicked shall not rise again but their souls shall perish together with their bodies in the day of death and in the same sence that a Resurrection only belongs to the just and godly in his Commentary upon the 26 chapter of the Prophecy of Esay Rabbi Saadiah upon the former words of the Prophet Daniel saith that the term many designs a certain number and there fore to be restringed to the godly in Israel who alone have a portion in life eternal Them that do not watch he ranks in their number who have forsaken the Lord and t●rned Apostates who for this very thing must be thrust into the lowest Chambers of the infernal pit there for ever to be the Emblems of ignominy To him assent Rabbi Higgaon and Aben Ezra in his Book Perusch or Exposition upon the fore-cited place of Daniel commenting that as many are to watch so many shall not watch the watch●men shall have life eternal they that do not watch never dying reproach The sense of the words in my judgement saith Aben Ezra is this that so many upright Jewes that pay their debts to nature in the Land of their captivity shall rise again and live when the Messias or Deliverer shall come for of