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Show 6 Of the Puhliean1; L I B. T. · ter to be a fore-runner or token of the Me.ffiah his ~oming!) ~hich I take to be t~e . p~i~cipal t~ir~g aimed at in the proph~cy. ThIS optnt~n, as It ts more generally received than the others , fo upon jufter · grounds. Now the Scepter was departed and given to r r. Galatin.l. a Projeltte, never {o before, (s) yea now alfo ~he Law:: !(~i:.i~~:]!: giver was departed from between .Judahs leet, and . rofal. now the M~jfiah born. , · , . C H A P. I I. Of. the Pu6/icans. W EE having feen the rnofi retnarkable changes in the Common wealth of the Hebrews; we will note the chief Obfervations concerning the perfons there inhabiting: and firfi: concerning the Publica11s, who were, in the latter times, an heterogeneous Member ·of that Common-wealth. After that the Jews became Tributary to Rome, (which a 1oft'b Lacw- (A) was efiecred by Pompey threeicore years before Htl dt Pom· • h f S · ) · Offi peiolt. dehella the Btrt o our avtour certain ces were ]Hd.·(·$ ,.720. appointed by the Senate of Rome, unto whom it belonged, as ·well among the 'jews as in other , Provinces, to collect, and gather up .{uch cufiome. money, or tribute, as was exa~ed by the Senate: lhofe that gathered up thefe publique pay ... · . ments, ·were termed Publican.i, Publicans; and by re a• bHarMm/one· fon oftheir covetous exactions they commonly were tat am frequenl ' mentiafAtillejf hated by the People of the Provinces: (b) .Every •11Pud Ctceron. , Province bad his feveral 8ocietie, or company of rn or at pro.Sex. b/' E . h' d' ~. n · . Jtof.Mtcrana, Pu tcanes: very ~\octet; 19 lu.In\.-t GiJvernoilr: tn in en., Plancio4 which refpect it i~., that Zachens is called by the E· vange lift!, LIB. I.· Of the Puh!icanJ. van~~ti.ft.t, drx,1•>-~,;,~ pt'incep~ PNblic~tnorum, the chief Recetver tifJhe trrhlfte? or c href Puhlica11, Lu~e I 2. 2 • 7 An~ ~11 the Provrnc~al Govcrnours in thefe feveral Societies, had one chtef (c) fv!after refiding at Rome, c:S~gon. ~e An· unto whom the other fubordtnate Govern ours gave ttq.Jur~ ct'IJium np their. accounts. Thefe f11hlicant were hated in R.om.Jtb 2.c.4• ~II Provinces, becaufe of then exactions; bot chiefly ~n the Co~monwe~lth. of the Jew.t, becaufe though It were chiefly m_atntatned by the Ga!ileanr, yet it was genera11y tncltned unto by·the Jews, That tribute t>ught-• not to be payed by them : this hatred is con• 6r~ed by that Rah_hinical ~roverb,. (d) Tal{e 11ot a d If·Cafauhsn Wife out of that f.amtlywherern t~ere 1.1 a Pu~lican, for txer~it.I3•37• foch are aU PubltcAns. Yea a fatthful Puhlican was fo - rare at Rome it felf, that one Sabinus for his honell: managing of that Office, in ~n honourable remem:: ~ranee th~re?f, ha~ c~rtain images eretred with this *S11et.in Flav~ fuperfcrJptton; K~J.a~s- T£J.(l)Pnf1'a.v1t, . For the Faithful Vefp af.cap.'l. Pub/zcan. And therefore no marv€'1, if in the GofpeJ, _Puhlic11ns and jinners go hand in hand . . It rs now generally received as a truth undoubted eTertuJ. de that not only Heathen people but iornetimes Jew' pudic. c.9 • • themfelves became Pllblicanes. TertuUi4n was of ano~ f ~eDron}m,t;:if',. h . , ( ) d a ama1 11m. t er optnton, e an thought that a 11 the Puhlicans g Fr~udi fuit were Heathens; but he hath been in that Jong fince acutu.fimo • • C nfi t d b (' ~\ ':t d r. . Pceno He! rii1C4 ~ n e y J .J Jerome, an rea1on It felf perfwa- linlu~t ignor4- detb the contrary. Firfr, lllatthew who was a Puhlict~n t i~~, rtufqlla!" wac aft d ,.01 d h 'emmoccurrtt . '1! erwar s an Apn; .. ~.e, an t erefore unlikely to infontefPuri111 have been an Heathen.. Secondly, Zachens his name illo tex~u1, qlia was a pttre Hehrew name having no affinity w'Jth R• Pre~~~"/.11"m11 • • · .., - o tJ1rmum nr-man names, _Th1rdly, the ground or principal an tit~t~, nnn erit gument on whtch TertHlli11n built, was meerly (g) er• deBtg,l/,p~~- roneous rnl ex filii I • · lfr~te/, Deut. 23• C HA·P. |
