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Show of the saddttbeJ; · · L lB.]. had refpell: chiefly to the negative Commandements ; but he that conformed tor love, efpecially ref petted the Affirmative. C H A p. XI. .of the saddHces. TO omit other Etymologies of the name, ther~ .are two onely which have £hew of prob~b1hty. fl!.piphAn.l, r., (j) Some derive it from sedec, Juftitia ; as 1f they cap. !4·. had been ]ufiitiaries fuch as would juitifie themfelves t, 'Wm t1.A fEll- before Gods Tribu~al. (t) There are that derive it, ~~~:)(.avo- and that upon more warrantable grounds, from Sa- P.~~f.TtU• doc, the firfr Author of the herefie; fo that the Sad- TbeothJlact. duces were fo called from Sa.doc, as the Arrians from .Arri1uJ the Pelagians from Pelagim, the Do'?atifts from DonattH) &c. This Sadoc lived under .Antigontn Soch£us, who fucceeded Simeon the 1ufl.He was Antigontt.r his fcholar and by him brought up in the DoCtrine of the P h~rifeeJ, but afterwards fell from him, and broacht the herefie of the Sadduces; which herefie, becaufe it had mnch affinity with that which the Heretique Do· . JitheuJ taught, _hence are the. Sadduces faid to_(u) be u Eptph. httref. a branch or iktrt of the Dojitheans, though tn truth d1e4 .pC~ttt,T[cerritpur.l. Do{tt he us, lt·v e d not~~'1 1 ( x ) a~c.t er Ch r t·,,l;l_ a!l d a1 t ho ?g.h c.s.. thefe two hetefies dtd agree 1n many thmg"; yet 1n a -:z<Ortgen.contra • • h d'ff d ( ) D ,.,r; h b l" d h celfwm.l. 2 • matn potnt t ey 1 ere • 'Y · ~J_J~t. eus e teve t e y Ep;pb h£re[. Refurrection, the Sadduces denyed It .; and by confe- 13· . quence the. Dofthe4ns.believed all other points nece.ft- ·farily flowtng from thts. zAbotD. e•pa· The occafion ~f. this her.efie wa&this.( z )When Anti· ~ gonus •. L IB. I. Of the Sadduces~ gontn ta~ght, that we mu!l: not ferve God as fervants ferve thetr Mafiers, for hope of reward, his fcholars Sadoc an~ Baithus underfiood him, as if he had ut- ~erly dented al~ future rewards or re~ompence attend-tog ~ godly hfe, and thence framed their herefie, denymg the refurretJion~ the world to come Angels Spirits~ 6'-c. ' ~ _Their Dogm,zta:~Canons or ConflitHtions,were,z .TheJ · re.;efJ_ed (a)theP_rophet!~& all other Scripture [ave only a]ofeph.Antiq~ the jfve bolv of Mofe~ .. fherefore O\Jr SavioHr when he lih. tj.c.tB. W?uld confute thetr errour, concerning the refurre-chon of the dead, he proves it not out of the Pro :. phet1, but out of Exod.3. 6. I am·the God of Abraham the God of lJt!ac, and the God of Jacob , Mat. 22 • 3 2 • • 2, TheJ re.Jel1ed(~) ~~traditions. Whence, As they . were called i'~~.o MJn.et, t. HeretiaHe.t in refipefr ofth ~ EltaJ «e l fi · b "1 ' c .... i w g~nera oppo ttl on etween them and P bar ifee 1 • ~Irft, ?ecaufe the Pharifee:r w~re in !epute the 00,Jy . €f1tholulv. Secon_d1y, becaufe 1n thetr Docrrine th Pharifees ~ere. much nearer the truth than the ~ad~ tfuce.t: fo tn ~hts_refpefr of this particular oppo{ition, 1n the ones reJeChng , the others urging of. traditions the sadduceJwere(c.)termed l:),N""p· · K11railn B'-'-l ' n .r. . .;fl. I . ' t v er J' c urU;IIU de or S t'rtptur!J,s. trib. ft8.(.!.· 3:fbTheJJafiid-t~llere.wtnhnJ reward for good wor{s, nor '•34·•3 o• pu111 ment. ~r 1 , tnt e world to come. Hence Saint . PaHl percelvtng that in the Counce/the one part -were ~~~dduceJ the other P harifees , he cried out, Of the hope 1. of therewar~ ex_pelJed, and uf the reforretlion of 1 he dead, I am caUedtn queflion., Act4123.6. 4· They denied the reforretJion oft he hodJ Act " & M.atth.22.2~. Luke 20.27. . ' • .... ~. • · 5h· '(he.J faid thefott/s of men are (d) ~ttJnihi/ated dJofep!t.dt 11t t etr death. hda ] J!daic. 6. They denierJ'AngeJI,andfpirits, Act.23, 8. lih~ 2·c· 12 • y, 1he.J |