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sin_n	law_n	transgress_v	transgression_n	5,886	5	10.8651	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01814	Moses and Aaron Ciuil and ecclesiastical rites, vsed by the ancient Hebrewes; obserued, and at large opened, for the clearing of many obscure texts thorowout the whole Scripture. Herein likevvise is shewed what customes the Hebrewes borrowed from heathen people: and that many heathenish customes, originally haue beene vnwarrantable imitations of the Hebrewes. By Thomas Godwyn, B.D.	Goodwin, Thomas, 1586 or 7-1642.	1625 (1625)	STC 11951; ESTC S103106	195,098	343

the sinnes of the people and by the performance of certaine rites and ceremonies expiate them and make an attonement vnto God for them The Ceremonies at this time to bee performed concerned either the people and the Priest or the Priest alone Those which concerned the people and the Priest consisted in the afflicting of their soules by fasting Whence this feast was also called a Iosephus de bell Iud. p. 43. Dies ieiunij The fasting day Ier. 36. 6. Which serueth for the vnderstanding of that Acts 27. 9. Sayling was now dangerous because the Feast was already past that is the feast of Expiation was now past and winter was at hand Those Ceremonies which concerned the Priest alone were two First then the high-Priest entred into the Holiest of Holies which was peculiar vnto this day Secondly he being about to sacrifice for himselfe and his house he tooke vnto him a young bullocke for a sinne offering and a ram for a burnt offering putting on his Priestly robes after he had washed himselfe in water he tooke of the Congregation two he-goats for a sinne-offering and a ram for a burnt offering The two he-goats hee presented before the Lord at the doore of the Tabernacle casting lots which of them should be sacrificed which let scape aliue This last was termed the b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gnazazal ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gnez capra 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Azal ab●j● K. D. Kimchi in radic Scape-goat because the other being slaine this was sent aliue into the wildernesse The Greeke Interpreters call this goat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Malorum depulsorem A defender from euils which name the Heathens applied to their Tutelar Gods They intimated that when this Scape-goat caried away the sinnes of the people into the wildernesse hee likewise caried away all those euills which belonged vnto those sinnes And for the securing the people in this point the Lord commanded the High Priest to confesse in the name of all the people and to disburden the sins of the whole Congregation vpon the head of the Scape-goat The forme of Confession according to the relation of the Hebrew Doctors was this c P. Fag Leuit. 16. O Lord thy people the house of Israel they haue sinned they haue done wickedly they haue transgressed before thee I beseech thee now ô Lord pardon the sinnes iniquities and transgressions with which the people the house of Israel haue sinned done wickedly and transgressed before thee as it is written in the Law of thy seruant Moses That in that day he shall make attonement for you that he might cleanse you and that you might bee cleane from all your iniquities before the Lord. The moderne Iewes now because there can be no proper sacrifice the Temple of Ierusalem being destroyed the men they take a white cocke on this day the women an hen d Buxtorf Synagog c. 20. This cocke they swing three times about the Priests head saying Gallus Gallinaceus hic commutatio erit pro me That is This cock shall be a propitiation for me After that they kill the cocke acknowledging themselues worthie of death and then they cast the intralls vpon the top of the house that some Rauen or Crow might carrie both them and together with them their sinnes into the wildernesse And lest they might seeme to bee mad without reason they assigne the cause why they make choyce of a cocke at this time to be this This word * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gebher in the holy language signifieth a man in their Talmud it signifieth a cocke Now say they the iustice of God requires that as Gebher sinned so Gebher should make satisfaction From this feast of Expiation it is probable that the Grecians vsed an yeerely Expiation of their cities which was performed on this manner Certaine condemned persons were brought forth with garlands vpon their heads in manner of sacrifices these they would tumble from some steepe place into the sea offering them vp to Neptune e Suidas in voce 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vsing this forme of words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sis pro nobis peripsema As if they had sayd Bethou a reconciliation or propitiation for vs. The like kinde of expiation was vsed among them in time of any pestilence or contagious infection for the remouall of such diseases they then sacrificed certaine men vnto their Gods * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vetus Scholiast in Aristophan Plut. pag. 48. such men they termed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 These two words are vsed by the Apostle 1 Cor. 4. 13. and they are translated filth off-scouring we are made as the filth of the world and as the off-scouring of all things The words signifie properly the filth or dirt scraped off mens shooes or from the pauement of the ground But in f Budaeus annot reliq in Pandect De poenis p. 334. Budaeus his opinion the Apostle had allusion vnto those kindes of expiations in vse among the Heathens As if he had said We are as despicable and as odious in the sight of the people as much loaded with the reuilings and cursings of the multitude as those condemned persons who were offered vp by way of publique expiation Now seeing at this feast principally the High Priest was a type of Christ it will not bee amisse to note the agreement betweene the type and the truth Aaron 1. The high-Priest went into the Holiest of all Leuit. 16. 3. 2. Hee went once a yeare Exod. 30. 10. 3. Hee with the bloud of goats and calues Heb. 9. 12. 4. He alone Heb. 9. 5. Hee cloathed with his Priestly robes Leu. 16. 4. 6. He tooke two goats Leu. 16. 7. The goat did beare the peoples iniquities Christ 1. Christ our High-Priest went into the holy place namely the heauens Hebr. 9. 12. 2. Hee entred once Heb. 9. 12. 3. Hee by his owne bloud Heb. 9. 12. 4. He alone hath trodden the wine-presse Is 63. 3. 5. Hee ordained and sealed to this office by his father from all eternitie 6. He tooke two natures the impassibilitie of his Godhead was shadowed by the Scape-goat his sufferings in his manhood by the goat that was sacrificed Theodoret Quaest 22. in Leuit. Christ was made sin for vs 2 Cor. 5. 22. CHAP. IX The Sabbaticall yeare or Seuenth yeares rest AS euery seuenth day was a Sabbath day so euery seuenth yeare was a Sabbaticall yeare Leuit. 25. And as the Sabbath day signified that they themselues were the Lords and therefore they abstained from their owne worke to doe the Lords So the Sabbaticall yeare was to signifie that both they and their land was the Lords The obseruation of this feast consisted chiefly in two things First in the not tilling or manuring of their ground whence it was called a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Schabath Haarets the Sabbath of the land Leuit. 25. 6. Secondly in the Creditors discharging their debtors and releasing