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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35425	An essay towards the recovery of the Jewish measures & weights, comprehending their monies, by help of ancient standards, compared with ours of England useful also to state many of those of the Greeks and Romans, and the eastern nations / by Richard Cumberland ...	Cumberland, Richard, 1631-1718.	1686 (1686)	Wing C7581; ESTC R14108	50,390	164

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When the Maneh is set for a sum of Mony or Coin it contains but 60 Shekels To this number the parts of a Maneh in Ezek. 45.12 added together do amount And Josephus lib. 14.12 affirms the Jews 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is derived from Maneh to be two Pounds and an half which reckoning 12 Ounces to the pounds as the Greeks and Romans in his time did is just 30 Ounces which we have shewed to be just 60 Shekels and Rabbi Gedaliah in Schalsh agrees with him Neither is it unusual to take the same word in one sense when it relates to meer Weight as we do a Pound meaning thereby the Pound Troy used in weighing Silver for 12 Ounces and in another sense the same word Pound when it relates to Mony meaning thereby the Pound Sterling which of Silver Coin contains not quite four Ounces and of Gold contains not quite the third part of an Ounce I will not digress to consider the great variety of Minae used among the Greeks and Romans but only suggest that the various import of the word in these Nations seems to have proceeded from the inconstancy of its signification in the Oriental Tongues from whence it its derived I will conclude with an observation of the Harmony or good Correspondence of the Measures and Weights thus stated The Cubit will lead to all the Measures and to the Shekel with the other Weights thence derived and reciprocally the Shekel will lead not only to the Weights but to all the other Measures Thus take the Cubit from the Egyptian Standard its Cube is Ardob the sixth of that is Epha whose tenth is Homer its tenth Cotyla its tenth gives an Ounce Averd. of Water half that gives the Shekel's weight precisely So reciprocally take a true Shekel as divers still remain that doubled gives an Ounce of Water this ten times is Cotyla this ten times Homer ten such are Epha six Ephas an Ardub It s Cube Root will agree with the Standard-Cubit of Egypt I will conclude this Discourse with the Proposal of a Method whereby this Doctrine may be made useful to all Nations most of which are unacquainted with our English Standards of Measure or Weight to which only I have made my Principal Reduction in this Book This I shall do by shewing that either the Jewish Cubit or our English Foot may be expressed and understood by a known Proportion to an universal measure which is either already known or may easily be found by the diligent enquirer in any Nation such is a Thread with a Bullet annexed adjusted by carefull tryals to that length that every single vibration of it will spend just a second Minute so that it will vibrate 60 times in a first minute This length will be the same in all Nations and Ages and may easily enough be found either by help of a true Pendulum-Clock or otherwise exactly enough for humane uses And as its Motion will serve to measure all Time so its Length by the help of Arithmetical Operations and application may be employ'd to measure all other continued Quantities It s whole length may be called the Horary Yard as a third part of it is denominated the Horary Foot by the Learned Proposer of it Hugenius in his Treatise de Horologio Oscillatorio This Length being found in any Nation may be applied to their usual Measures whereby it will appear to the Eyes how it must be expressed in that Nation as in ours it is expressed by 1 Yard 3 Inches 25 Centesimals of an Inch or by 39 Inches 25 Centesimals whereas the Jewish Cubit was found by us to be shorter viz. 21.888 Wherefore to find what Proportion or Rate the Universal Measure hath to the Jewish Cubit it will be conveniet to suppose this Measure divided into Decimal Parts 10000 and then we may find how many such parts of that Length are in their Cubit by this Analogy As the Pendulum Length in our known Measure 39.25 is to the Jews Cubit in the same Measure 21.888 so is the Pendulum's Length in Decimal Parts 10000 to the Jews Cubit in such Parts 5576 5. This fourth Proportion gives the Jews Cubit in its Rate to 10000 which are Terms most fit for general use which was the thing sought for Now the Cubit being so determined the Proportion of the side of an Epha answering thereunto may be found by the Method intimated in the Harmony of Measures lately delivered And the Epha being made 1000 part thereof will give the Ounce whose half is the Shekel Wherefore by this Method my labour in reducing these to our English Standard may become useful to those that know not our Standard and consequently to all that understand the Language in which it 's now written or into which it may be translated if it find acceptance Corollaries shewing the Uses of this Discourse of Measures and Weights 1. THese are sensible Instances of God's care of Justice among Men. These determine every Man's Property the Bounds of his Land the Quantity of the Fruits thereof and the Value of his Mony Wherefore they are used both in the first setting out of all Estates and in all Traffic succeeding thereunto 2. The fit Measures of the Tabernacle and Temple to the uses of the whole Nation of the Jews demonstrate God's early care to settle his People Israel in the form of one entire National Church under Moses Aaron and the other Priests who were general officers for all Israel The Church in the Wilderness mentioned by St. Stephen Acts 7.38 was thus National and is the first collective Body of Men called a Church in the Scripture-Language by a Man full of the Evangelical Spirit Synagogues for particular Neighbourhoods convenience in the publick Exercise of Religion were introduced long after by the pious prudence of the National Governours of the Jewish Church and State and accordingly were all subordinate to them It 's to be observed also that this Limited Place for publick National Worship was within their own Nation in the midst of their Camp in the Wilderness in their own Land in Canaan No recourse from it to a Foreign Church by Appeals but all Differences finally decided within their own Nation and therein all even Aaron although the High Priest and elder Brother to Moses yet was subject to Moses who was King in Jesurun By these means all Schismatical setting up of one Altar against another was prevented National Communion in solemn and decent Piety with perfect Charity was promoted which being no Shadows but the most substantial Concerns of Religion are to be preserved in the Gospel-Times 3. Hereby is more evidently prov'd the Magnificence Symmetry and Beauty that was in the Structure of the Temple and the liberal Maintenance which God provided for the Levites his Ministers For if the Cubit by me proposed determine the Area both of the Temple and of the Priests Suburbs as the Scripture sets them both out by Cubits they must be much