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Show 2 ·~ Of the NazarJ,tes and .B.ech~bites ~ L lB~ I. :J c-. h Re2der to the aforefatd Texts of Scnp.· .reiei ·ht e 1 we will note the difHnfrion of Naza-ture , ere on y d'G f - . The firfi are thefe Votaries, terme o rom Ill -~~~;r to feparate, becaufe they fe~arated themfe!·ves from ;hree things ; Firft, from Wtne, and -all thtngs roceeding from the Vine. Second{} .from the Razo~, kcaufe they fuffere~ no Razor to come upon !he!~ h ad but let their hatr g.tow ~u the dayes of theu f~ p~ra:ioo. Third!J, from pollutio~ by the dead: thts fe ·aration again was twofold, et~her for a fet numb p of days or for a mans whole hfe; that the~ ter· • m~d Nazi r ~ 11t ttm dierit m, this, N ~tzi r t£ 11 t !I m Je. cu/1 : of .. {• that fort was p aNI, and thofe four wtth htm, .A[/ s . \ ... 21• 24• ()fthisfortwasSampfonJudges 13.and]ohn . Baptift. The jufi number of days, ho~ long the for- .' . ' mer of thefe tWO feparated themfe!ves:> IS not expr~f· aSheinller,in -fed in S.criptHre, but the (a) i!thr~w DolJors determtn_e Penta,lor. them to ~thirty, becaufe it ts fatd, N11m. 6. 5· Do"!z· no fonfJ~s,: n,:-., erit ~ which ~ord (fay they ).contatn· . ing thirty , expreffeth the JUfl: numb~r of days to ·be ~bferved in· this voluntary feparatJon. The fe· > • cortd fort of Nazarites, \'Vere fo termed from ,~'l r Natfor from whence con1eth Natjaret h, er Nazare~h, :t~e q~~e of a certain Village in Galilee; where C~r1fi was concei-ved and brought up: Hence our Savtour ·hirnfelf was called a Nazarene, or Nazarite, Mat .2.23• and thofe that embraced his Doctrine, Nafjarites,Allt 24 • .5. Afterward _certain Her~tic4J fprn~g Up? who a~ , the samllritau~~ned]ewijhceremon1es wtt~ Hea . thenifhRites.: fo (b)they joyned together chrifland ~r!'~~~::re· l'vltJfes, the Law and the Gofpel; Baptifm and Circum· ftrt Epiphani· c.ifion: of the beginning of thefe we fhall read, .AfJJ IU ,l,J.Tom. 2 • I~ 2 Then came down certain from ':f,~dt£a ~ ann btr•29· . .1• • • J,. h the brethren, faytng, E~cept 1e he circumcifed after. t e manner of Moje.J,ye cannot be filved.. ~Thefe. Herettcks were called .Nazarilt:s, either of malice by the Jewes, ' tO LIB. I. Of the AjJidettNJ. 33 to bring the greater difgrace upon chriflian religion··; or elfe becaufe at firll: they were true, though weak Nazarites, that is, chrifiians mif-led by PeterJ }Hdai-zing at .Antioch, Gal. 2. 1 r. And hence it is (c) that the cFrllnc!Jc.Jun, ah11rch at Antioch, in detefration of this new:bred he- paral.ltb.J.S. r~fie, faftened upon them by the name of Nazarites, ·forfook that name, and called themfelves chrifii.ttn.r, .A{/.r 1 1.~ 6.Symmachu.r, that famous Interpreter of the old Teflament, was a firong Defender of this herefie., and (d) from him in after times t~ey were named ~:r;;t~~~~!; SJmmAchiani. The Jeuu had them In a~ g~eat hatred Manich~tum • as the samaritanes; whereupon (e) three ttmes every '·~E.·. h d ay, at mornt.n g, noon. tt.u J e, an d even1.n g, t he y c1 o fce d Teo mp. tp An. 1' r. 2 . h£re{. their -Prayers with a folernn execration, Male die Do· 29 • , mine Nazar£is.La(U y ,another fort of N azarite.r there "Were, fo termed from 10J Nazar, fignifying to aholifh or cut off; {f) becaufe they did abolijh and cut r'jf the . . five books of Mofes, rejecting them as not Canonical. f E.pzphan.I. '· 7. m.1. h~re[. -----------------------'18 . CHAP .. I X. Of the .AffideanJ. I T is mtieh co_ntr-O-verted, whether the .Ajjidean1 were Pharif'e_e.r or E./Jenes, or what they Were. Were I worthy to deliver my opinion, or, as the Hebrews Proverb is, To thrufi: in my head among the heads of ' ' thofe wife men ; I conceive of the .Ajfideans thus : Before their captivity in Babylon , we {ball find the word o,,tin Cha/idim, (tranOated 41fid£i, .A/fidelln.r) to fignifie rhe fame as., _0{')1,~ Tfaddikjms Juft, or good tJJen: both were u{ed promifcuoufly, the one for the other, and both ftood in.oppofition to the O,J.;Wi·RefchagNim, that is,ungodl; or wic~d men.At this time the F whole |