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Show The form of the,l1ebrewes Common•f#ealtbt LIB. I. Gen.49·3· an~ of ]udah t~war.ds Thamar, ~en.38.21· In Mofos his .days then dtd this prerogat_Ive of P!I .. mo geniture C:eafe: a~d as Aa~on, aod ~ts p~ftenty was iovefied wtth the rtght and tttle ofPrteq_s , fo. Mo, fit, and after him Jofhua, r~led aU the people Wtth a kind of Mb~tarchic~l authonty • .For Mo.fes was among the righteoU!; as King, Deut .3 2. 5. , After Jofbu~ iucceeded Judget; thei: Offi~ers were of abfolute and independent authonty, hke unto · King1,_ when once they were eleUed. But there were I ong vacancies, and chafms comm~nl y between the ceffation of the one, and the elechon of the other : yea for the mof\: part, the peop'e n_eve~ chofe a 1udge, but in time of great trouh\es,a':ld tmmtnent.dange.rs ; which being over-pafr, he rettred to a pnvate hfe. After that Gideott had delivered the people outof the hand of the Midianite{, he-being ()ffered the I(ingdom, · replyed, I will not reign over ·you,nehher £hall my Child reign over you, Judg.S/2 3· T~a~ of Samuel, that he judged Jfrpel ?11 the days o~ hts hfe, a Zt!p~er lib,, 1 sam. 7. r '). was (a J extr.aordtnary. I o thts refpefr, lrg.Mo[ cap .6. their J'!dges fymbolize With the Roman Dillators. Th1s -fiate of Regiment continued amongf.t them by b 1wt.deCiv. the- computation ot S. (b) AugHjlin.e, thre~ hundred D#J,l·l8 '-~~ twenty nine years. In thefe vacancte~ or difrances of time between Judge and ]udge , the greater and weigqtier matters wer.e determined by that great Court of the SeventJ called the 6enddrili; in which refpe8: . the form of Government may· be thought Ariftocrat'ical. KingJfucceeded the ]u~ges, anathey continued from saul unto the Capttvtty of Bah;/on, c ~tp_per.leg. that is, (c) about 502 years. Mo{~ttc.L.,. c.~: From the Captivity unto the coming of Chrifr d V'aie F~tncar . • . ' , cbronol.. (wqich ttme [S (d) thought to have been five hun- . · dred ' LIB;I. J unJilC!J.rifl his Coming, ttnd'Ji,h;n) &c. dred thirty fix years ) ihe fiate of the JeweJ became . ·. ~ . \T~ry-con~ufed, Sometimes they were ruled by Depu· . . ~resand fl'tcegereNtJ, who'had notfupream autborit In t~mfelves, but as it pleafed the Per/fan Monarcls e Maimon. in to a tgne ~hem J (e) they Were termed nH7J 1WN, fad. lib. vit .. Rafch~ ga/1-uth, rJ.IX.fJ.rtA"'>drx.·cu Her1ds of the Captivit • :.a:.?e~~ed;~~ Ofthls for.t was Zorobabel and his fuccefiors~ who a!e f ~eder olam. reckoned In the (f) HehrewChronicles to be thefe mrnru, Ale[t~Uam, Hananiah, Bel·achiah, and ·Hofadiah. Ali , whtch are .thought to have reigned under the Perflan M_ on4rchJ, a~.d to have been of the Pofierity of Davrd: as ltkewJfe t~e other fucceeding ten chiefGover. nours afcer AJext~;nder the Great. In the I aft ofthefe t~n, the government departed from the Houfe of D-a' IJtd, and was·tranflated to the MatchabeeJ, who defcended ~rom the Tribe of Levi. They were called ~tacct~b£r., from 1udas Mactabeus, (g) and he had this · nha.m eM , NJ:Jo M· t l~c ha bt £~1, fi h g Carum chtu. • rom t e Capital Letters of lib. 2. p.1 44• t !s otto, wrtt~en In hts Enfigne or banner, -;-,~~, . t:l 7 7NJ 1,0J •o Jf.!!tJ ficut ·tu inter Deos, ·0 Domine ~ \\ here the fir{t l~tters are, M,C :B ,A )I. Among the Maccahees fove~a•g!l, a~ thruity continued until He-rod ~he Asi{alontte his reign \ at what time our Saviour Chnfr was born, according -to jacobs prophecy: The ~cepter iliall no~ depart fr~m Judah, nor a Law• giver M rom.between hts feet, unttllshiloh, that is, ~the (h) h7'argum v~;. efsta.r come, Gen. 49• to. el. _eaiem p~ne ~or the right ~nderfi:anding of this Prophecy, We T:!~mhj~:. mu ~ote two thtngs; 1. The time when·the :Scepter ftlpn, was given to Judah : .2 .. When taken from him But firft we mufl: obferve how thefe two words J. d h and the Scepter, are diftinguifhed. _ ' u a ' • J l,; . B 2 1 .. ·For |
