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The scepter of Iudah: or, what maner of government it was, that unto the common-wealth or Church of Israel was by the law of God appointed. By Edm. Bunny
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Bunny, Edmund, 1540-1619.
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6 17 18 More specially of som Iericho was after this maner by Iosuah abandoned Those that do appertain more specially to som by reason of their special profession are especially but of two sorts such as appertained to the preests and such as appertained to the Nazarites The preests were such as God had chosen from among the rest of the people neerer unto him and to have much dealing with him on the peoples behalfe Vnto them therfore he praescribeth certain rules of special sanctification somwhat more streightly than unto others As namely first generally to al that they should r Le. 10 8-11 not drink wine or any strong drink when it was their course to be about the office of their administration to the end that they might the better be able to judge betwixt the holie and unholie between the clean and unclean and better teach the children of Israel as they ought And that ſ Lev. 21 16-24 none of them of the seed of Aaron having a blemish in any part of their bodie might execute the preests office and yet might live with them and take their part of the holie offerings as much as others Two other laws there were appointed to the preests but not unto everie of them alike the one of marrieng the other of moorning and other duties to frinds departed Concerning marrieng the law that was given was to restrain the abuse of unseemly marrieng of themselves The t Lev. 21 13-15 high preest mght not marrie any that had plaid the harlot or been divorced or was a widow but only a maid The u Lev. 21 7 8. inferior preests might marrie widows but not such as had been polluted or defamed or before divorced from any other Concerning moorning and such other funeral duties the high preest might x Lev. 21 10-12 not moorn for any or do such things at funerals as others commonly were woont and might The inferior preests had som more libertie but y Lev. 21 1-6 yet restrained to certain persons that were neer unto them as father mother son daughter brother and unmarried sister otherwise they might not have ought to do with the funerals of any no not of the magistrate As also not only Aaron the high preest z Lev. 10 6 7. but Eleazar and Ithamar likewise being under preests though heer they have libertie to moorn for their brethren yet there they were forbid to moorn for those two of their brethren that were then suddēly destroied with fire for their sin belike bicause they were taken away in Gods displeasure and they could not wel moorn for them but that they must seem somwhat to repine against the severitie of Gods judgements The Nazarites were such as tooke upon them a special vow of holines not cōstrained but as it were of their own accord Seeing therof that needs they would be Nazarites that is separate from the common sort and drawing neerer for the time unto the Lord he gave unto them also certain outward observations of special holines that so in that voluntarie separation of theirs they might not so easily take in vain the name of God but do indeed as they did praetend and tooke upon them to observe And the law that was given to the a Nu. 6 1-21 Nazarite was no more but to teach how or in what maner to b Vers 1-5 consecrate himselfe how in the time of his separation he might c Vers 6-9 be defiled how that pollution was to be d Vers 9-12 clensed again and how he had to e Vers 13-21 finish his vow of separation But the soldier also hath a special charge f De. 23 9-11 if he know himselfe to be unclean to avoid himselfe out of the camp for the time 24 The other point of this their dutie And that they must be zealous withal that was to be directed to the person of God is that they should be zealous towards God or earnestly bent to the way of godlines and religion so to cal them from the common corruption of the world in being so carelesse of religion or so faint in the worship of God or any good work and yet marvelous earnestly bent on the vain and corruptible things of this praesent world The things that do appertain heerunto are three First the requiring of the seventh dais rest then the commending of the scriptures unto them last of al the allowing of vowes Concerning the seventh dais rest it was ordeined First in the sabbaoth that a Ex. 20 8-11 23 12.31 13-17 34 21.35 1-3 Lev. 19 3 30.26 2. Deu. 5 12-15 everie seventh day should be a sabbaoth that is a day of rest the meaning wherof was that the people themselves withal their families their cattel also and that al such strangers as dwelt among them with their families and cattel should that day cease from al maner of their usual labors and keep it an holie rest unto the Lord. To the end they might the better observe it he doth both give them to understand that as he doth therby b Lev. 19 2 3. require holines of them so doth he himselfe c Exo. 20 11. 31 13. sanctifie those that truly observe it and so performeth in them his own request and although he do so praecisely require it that he alloweth not so much as the d Exo. 35 3. kindeling of a fire on that day no not e Exo. 34 21. in seed time nor in harvest yet maketh he the f Exo. 31 14 15. 35 2. breach therof to be death As also he sheweth them another commoditie that hangeth theron which himselfe to their own use requireth that is that he wil have that a rest-day g Exo. 20 10. 23 12. that themselves their servants and cattel may rest theron from their woonted labors which must needs make them a great deal more fresh to continu their labor Then in the studie of the scriptures The scriptures were commended unto them that they should have a special regard of them and be very studious both to know to do the law of the Lord. To this they were lead three maner of wais The first was that they should have the words of the law written and that verie plainly k Deut. 27 2 3 4 8. first upon certain great stones set up and plastered for the same purpose at the entrance of the land so soone as they shal com thither then l Deu. 6 5-9 in their own houses upon the gates and posts therof yea and to have the same m Deut. 11 18-21 bound to their hands and as a frontlet between their eies to put them in better remembrance therof The next was that they were commanded to have n Num. 15 37-41 Deu. 22 12. fringes and ribbands of blew silk upon their garments to put them in remembrance of the law of the Lord to do after it
d Nu. 18 18. Deut. 18 3. certain portions of the beast sacrificed The third consisted in that the people were bound to bring unto the Lord which the preests by his appointment were to have the first of al that it pleased God to blesse them withal Wherof there were two sorts one of e Num. 18 15-18 Le. 27. living creatures as they fel both man and beast yet in such sort that both men-children and the increase of unclean beasts should by a certain price be redeemed the other of the f Num. 18 12 13. Deu. 18 4. fruits that the land every yeer doth yeeld which at a certain time and before they tooke therof to their own use they should bring to the preests as after followeth Their extraordinarie avails I term those fees that were du unto them out of the vowes that the people would oft times extraordinarily make of their own accord Which were somtimes of som kind of oblation g Lev. 27 11-22 Nu. 18 14. and somtimes of som other blessings that God had given them h Le. 27 1-8 somtimes likewise of themselves or their children Out of which lightly i Nu. 18 8. Lev. 27 1-25 som commoditie came unto them according to the nature of the vow So likewise k Num. 5 8. if one man had trespassed against another and then purposed with himselfe to restore it again with a fift part more added therunto as the law required and could not find neither the partie himselfe alive nor any of his kin to receive it that also should he bring to the preest besides his sacrifice for that trespas 17 In what maner they should possesse this good land Of the teâ—â—â—e of their lands which in this sort they had divided among them cannot be heer very fully declared for that the discourse therof hath so great affinitie with those others that follow So that until we see in what sort they have to live therin and how their trespasses are by the sentence of God to be punished we are not able fully to find out what is to be said of this matter Nevertheles som laws there are but those very few that may be taken apart from the others and properly concern this praesent matter Possession resteth in these two things in lands goods Concerning lands som of the laws that I speak of concern the holding of lands and som the redeeming of theÌ„ Concerning the former first we have to note in what sort they are appointed to descend then how afterward they are to hold the same both towards God and towards their neighbor How they should descend is cheefly declared upon occasion that a Nu. 27 1-11 Zalphaad one of the tribe of Manasses had no sons but only five daughters that at his departure he left behind him For by that occasion it came in quaestion and was decided by the mouth of God that in al such cases if a man had any son the same should be accounted his heir if he had no son then his daughter if he had no daughter then his brother if no brother his fathers brother if no such uncle then the next of his kin whosoever So likewise doth he els-where determin that if upon som il persuasion of a second wife b Deu. 21 15-17 a man would dishaerit his eldest son by a former wife to make the son of the second his heir yet may he not so do but leave the birth-right unto the eldest Nevertheles we read that Ruben for c Gen. 35 22. 49 3 4. 1. Par. 5 1. defiling his fathers bed d Gen. 49 4. 1. Par. 5 1. was put from his birth-right being the eldest and Ioseph and Iudah taken into his room That which concerneth the maner of their hold towards God is only that law that was of a certain e De. 26 1-10 homage that every yeer they were commanded to do unto the Lord for such lands as they held of him Which was nothing els but to bring of their first fruits unto the Lord and there to confesse that God had praeserved their fathers and them from time to time and been marvelous gracious unto them that he had given them that good land as before he promised that they did now injoy the same and therfore brought of the fruits therof unto him A notable tenure and such as disgraceth many of ours that were notwithstanding devised and appointed by notable men as then they were taken Wherunto may be added that f Ex. 23 10 11 Lev. 25 1-11 every seventh yeer and in the Iubile they should suffer their land to rest so to teach them to moderate their affections on that behalfe to depend on the providence of God and not utterly to wear out the soil that was given them That which concerneth the maner of their hold towards men was that they might have it several and yet not so but that the poore and generally al might somtimes have som use therof That they might have it several it appeereth both by the partition that before is spoken of and in this also that g Exod. 22 6. if any should with his cattel eate up or otherwise hurt his neighbors feelds he should make good the same again with the best of his own That the poore and others generally might notwithstanding have som use therof it appeereth in this that so oft as the land should rest without any husbandry bestowed on it h Exo. 23 11. Lev. 25 4-7 such things as it yeelded of it selfe should be common and i Deut. 23 24 25. that when it was several any passing by the way might take and eat of the fruits of the ground to serve his need so that he carried none away 18 As for redeeming of land that once was gone from the ancient owners Of redeming their lands two laws there are that belong therunto The one restoreth lands hom again generally to al the other restoreth them but unto som The law which restoreth lands hom unto al is double wherof one is the law of Iubile Which was that if any through povertie or unthriftines had sold his lands or any part therof a Lev. 25 10 13 28. yet in the yeer of Iubile which was every fiftith yeer those lands should return again either to him if he were alive or els to his heirs if he were dead The other that which is set down in expresse words b Lev. 25 24. that no lands shal be bought but with clause of redemption That is that he that selleth must ever have libertie to bie his lands again so that it be within the time appointed That law which is more particular issueth out of the latter of these and it selfe also is double first as it respecteth al other Israelites then as it respecteth the Levites only That which respecteth al other Israelites hath two principal members For first as touching land generally