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A44410	A discourse concerning Lent in two parts : the first an historical account of its observation, the second an essay concern[ing] its original : this subdivided into two repartitions whereof the first is preparatory and shews that most of our Christian ordinances are deriv'd from the Jews, and the second conjectures that Lent is of the same original.	Hooper, George, 1640-1727.	1695 (1695)	Wing H2700; ESTC R29439	185,165	511

People and as they had Moses for their Leader and Law-giver under God their King and also Chief Priest for he consecrated Aaron and his Sons so are we a Society or Body united in One Head our Lord Jesus who under the Father is our King and High Priest And accordingly we succeed to the Stile and Title of the Children of Israel (a) Exod. 19.5 6. Deut. 7.6 and their Dignity and Privileges are devolved upon us For so are we become a peculiar People which Christ has purified to himself (b) Tit. 2.14 We are made by him Kings and Priests unto God the Father (c) Rev. 1.6 We are a chosen Generation a Royal Priesthood a Holy Nation (d) 1 Pet. 2.9 § II. THIS his People Our Prince and High-Priest himself still Governs but by such subordinate Officers below as are denominated from the Jews and also with the same Discipline as far as was consistent with his Empire which was to be neither Local nor Temporal not dependent upon any one place nor regarding Worldly Interests The Officers of the Christian Church mentioned in the Scripture are Apostles Bishops Elders and Deacons and what signification such Titles did bear in the Church of Israel we are now to see Only I am to premise That as we shall find all those Titles in several significations so we are to observe the same of the Words Church and Synagogus to whom those Titles belong For each of these as is well known signifies either the People united under the same Covenant a Society or a Local Assembly of those of that Society or the Place where they are to Assemble The highest Office of the New Testament is that of the Apostles and it is a term of large signification both in Greek and Hebrew or Chaldee It is in both Languages the same as Sent a and so may stand for a common Messenger Deputy or Mandatary or for an Envoy from some great Person for an Embassador Ordinary or Extraordinary or any Plenipotentiary-Commissioner With the Jews therefore the Minister of the Synagogue who takes care of the Business of it under the Superiour Governours and reads the Prayers and who is call'd now more commonly Chazan (b) See §. VI. is also known by this Name as being the Deputy of the Congregation It is said too c that he goes by that Name with them who was sent by the Priests to collect their Dues the First-Fruits and Tenths and so they are term'd in the Imperial Law Neither do I find that the Talmud speaks of any higher Authority under that Style nor I suppose will the Rabbins themselves pretend that they have a compleat Information of all their former Government But however it is certain from Epiphanius that it was the Name of such Plenipotentiary-Commissioners as were sent by the chief of the Jews the High-Priest or Patriarch not only to gather Money but to visit and reform a Province and to confirm and displace its Officers For so he says d of one Josephus who was sent with that Power from their Patriarch then residing in Palestine into Cilicia that he brought back to him the Tenths and First Fruits of the Province and besides had displac'd there many of their Rulers of the Synagogues and of their Priests and of their Elders and of their Azanites which are their Deacons or Ministers And before d 2 Apostles are describ'd to be Men of great Authority who are Assessors to the Patriarch Answerable in some manner to this different acception of the Word with the Jews is the Use of it in the Christian Church For it is observ'd that Epaphroditus is call'd by St. Paul (e) Phil. 2.25 an Apostle of the Philippians in an inferior Sence for the Office he discharg'd of conveying their Contribution to him their great Apostle and as it were Patriarch And such it is justly suppos'd those Brethren were who are spoke of to the Corinthians in a Discourse concerning Contributions and are term'd (f) 2 Cor. 8.23 the Apostles of the Churches the Glory of Christ But this Name imported a higher Dignity and greater Power when it was attributed to the Twelve or to St. Paul They were as Assessors to Christ our Priest and our King hereafter in the places of the Princes of the Tribes to sit on Twelve Thrones and judge the Twelve Tribes of Israel (g) Matt. 19.28 and in the mean time endued with Power from above to Act and Speak in his Name and to Govern his Church appointing Officers and prescribing Orders Of this sort was Saint Paul and such an Apostle he professes himself (h) 1 Cor. 15.9 not worthy to be call'd And further as They all were in this manner Apostles of Christ so is Christ himself said (i) Heb. 3.1 to be our Apostle as well as High-Priest being (k) John 20.21 SENT by the Father as they were sent by Him § III. NEXT to the Apostles are Bishops And this too is a Word that signifies at large both in the Hebrew and Greek a of the Old Testament In the Greek of the Septuagint it is said of the Officers of an Army both Captains over hundreds and Captains over thousands (a 2) Nu. 31.14 2 Kings 11.15 of the Provost or Alderman of a Ward (b) Neh. 11.9 of Overseers of Works and Payments (c) 2 Chr. 34. And so the Office is an Oversight or Charge as Eleazar had the Oversight and Charge of all the Tabernacle (d) Num. 4.16 and his Office or Charge let another take (e) Psal 109.8 The word answering to this in the Hebrew denotes a Steward over a Houshold (f) Gen. 39.5 a Superintendant over a City (g) 41.34 and in the Temple it stands for the Head and Director of any Office And the Overseer or Officer of the High-Priest (h) 2 Chr. 24.11 is said by Rabbi Salomon on the place to be the High-Priest's Vicegerent usually call'd the Sagan (i) Jer. 20.1 as also the chief Governour in the House of the Lord k is understood to be by Jonathan the Targumist l whom Kimchi m therefore stiles the High Overseer under the High-Priest Thus is this Word found to signifie in the Old Testament but the Talmudists as far as I can see take no notice of its Office and leave us to be informed of this as well as of the Apostleship from other hands The same Word in the Greek of the New Testament is taken in some Latitude too First of all our blessed Lord himself is call'd the Bishop and Shepherd of our Souls (m) 1 Pet. 2 25. as having the chief Oversight and Care of the Flock In a lower degree the Office of Bishoprick mention'd in the 109th Psalm is apply'd to the Apostleship which Judas lost and Matthias took (n) Acts 1.20 And yet lower Those also who are called Presbyters are at the same time named Bishops as those Presbyters or Elders which S. Paul sent for

find and beg the Reader 's leave again to conjecture at them from other similary cases For first a Proselyte new baptiz'd and purg'd from all his former Sin and admitted to the number of Believers but not yet receiv'd into their Station in God's House was very like to a Leper recover'd from the Plague of his Leprosy which with the Jews resembles a Sinful Life whose Flesh was as that of a Child and who being now purg'd and wash'd and restor'd thereby to the Society of his Brethren was at the distance of seven days to be readmitted into his former place in the Temple And that Solemnity was perform'd in the following manner as we know both from the Scripture and Maimonides (b) Lib. de Sacr. Iract 5. Cap. 4. The clean Leper being again wash'd in the Court of the Women and come up to the Door of the next Court the Court of the Israelites offer'd there a Sin and a Trespass and a Burnt-Offering and was then anointed with the Blood of the Sin-Offering on the tip of his Ear on the Thumb and great Toe of his right side Afterwards for this might be done (c) Ibid. cap. 5. sect 4. de Cult Divin Tract 7. Cap. 18. Sect. 8. many days after the other he was anointed with Oyl on the same parts out of the Priest's hand and what remain'd was poured on his Head And further the Purification of a Proselyte to come near to God into that Court was something of the same nature with the Consecrution of a Priest which was nothing else but his Purification to come nearer yet and to pass into another Court and how that was done we learn from Leviticus (d) Lev. 8. There was first a Bullock offer'd for their Sins and a Burnt-Offering and then after a Peace-Offering with the Blood of which Aaron and his Sons were anointed in the same parts in which the Lepers were After this with a mixture of that Blood and the Holy Oyntment they and their Clothes were sprinkled And besides on Aaron's Head if not on his Son 's too the Holy Oyntment was poured and on his Forehead as the Rabbins (e) Maim de Cult Div. Tract 2. Cap. 1. Sect. 9. Seld. de Success in Pont. lib. 2. cap. 9. tell us Moses the Consecrator made with part of it the Sign of a Cross like a Greek X they say or what we call St. Andrew's Cross For tho' the Forehead be not mention'd in the Text to be so mark'd yet it was the place on which the Plate of Gold was wore by Aaron that had on it the Inscription of the Name of God graven in it like the graving of a Signet (f) Exod. 28.36 There too one of the two Phylacteries or as the Jews stile them Praying-Dresses are now always placed hanging down from the top of the Forehead between the Eyes and having on it a Name of God (f 2) Buxt Syn. Jud. cap. 9. And there those were mark'd with a Mark (g) Ezek. 9.4 in Ezekiel who were to be spar'd by the Destroyers and mark'd they were as some of the Rabbins understand (h) Ki●chi in locum with the Hebrew Letter Ta● which St. Jerome tells us was like a Cross in the old Samaritan Alphabet like to which is the last Coptick Letter of the same sound and as probably the old Greek T might be first made when it came from Phaenice the downright Stroke beginning a little higher above the transverse Answerable to this Mark of Ezekiel is that made for the same purpose in the Revelations (i) Rev. 7.2 13.16 by the Seal of the Living God upon the Forehead of the Elect as there were others who had the Mark of the Beast on their Hands or on their Foreheads the two places where the two Phylacteries of the Jews are fasten'd and as it was the Custom of the Eastern Idolaters to be mark'd with the peculiar Mark of their suppos'd Deity and particularly on the Forehead Thus was the Consecration of Aaron and his Sons perform'd and tho' the succeeding High-Priests were for some time Anointed yet as the Rabbins say they ceas'd to be so inaugurated before the first Captivity And as for the ordinary Priests that follow'd they were never admitted to their Office by a new Unction but their Consecration was in this like the Baptism of a Proselyte not to be reiterated and suppos'd to descend down upon them from their first Progenitors The Kings also of the Jews we are to remember were anointed with an Oyntment but not of the Holy Composition and those only according to their Tradition who were the First of their Race or under a question'd Title (k) Selden ut Supra litera e. Now then as the Leper and Priest were Purified much after the same fashion and as the Case of a Proselyre agrees with either of them so I am willing to suppose that his Purification was perform'd in a mix'd manner betwixt those us'd to the other two The Offerings for Sin us'd to both of them a new-born Proselyte did not want and he therefore might be purified by Oyntment as both of them were either alone or mix'd with the Blood of the Burnt-Offering which Oyntment might neither be simple Oyl nor was it to be of the Holy Sort but of another kind as that for Royal Inaugurations was The Oyntment was pour'd on the Heads of the Leper and High-Priest and also of their Kings and so I suppose it was upon the Head of the Proselyte after some parts of him had likewise been anointed with it before For as he was clean from the sinful Leprosy of his former state so he was now admitted to be one of that Holy Nation a Royal Priesthood or Kingdom of Priests and therefore I presume the Oyntment on his Head was accordingly on his Forehead drawn in some such Figure as might mark him to be Holy to God And after all it cannot be doubted but that the Priest laid his Hands upon him and blessed him that God might list up the Light of his Countenance and his Holy Spirit might rest upon him And if this was perform'd upon a Proselyte probably it was not all to be done by an ordinary Priest but the Proselytism was confirm'd by the leave and direction of the High-Priest or his Vicegerent and the Blessing at least receiv'd from a superior Hand I again confess that this Rubrick of Jewish Confirmation is drawn from Conjecture but we are sure of our Ground having their Authority that there was actually such a Confirmation of a Jewish Proselyte and we had reason from the Agreement in other parts of this great Ceremony to presume it here We know too that Things and Persons were Consecruted by Oyntment as well as by Blood that the Oyntment was us'd alone to the Priest and apart to the Leper and that the Forehead was the place with them for a Mark of the Name of God which all the Faithful were suppos'd to