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Show ·o~~ ... • Ifr4elitcJ, Pro.Jjlitas. L I 6. 1. rite!, and ordinances, only he was ty_ed to the obedience of thofe commandments, whtch among the Hebrew DolJors go under the name of No4hs feven c shtiaaler in Commandments ; (e) which they reckon thus : lenr~tglor. P· 1. Judgements or Punilhments for Malefa&tours. 1..530.· '. Bleffing the name of God; und.er t~is !s contained the keeping of . .the Sabbath. 3. D1fclatmtng ofldola .. try. 4. Uncovering ones nakednefs. S· Shedding of blood. 6. Robery. 7. Eating of any member of a beafr, taken from it alive. Of this fort, were NaatJJan the Syrian, the Eunuch, Corw.eliHJ, and thofe of whom we read, That there were dwelling at 1erufolem, foiAvJ'f~~·. Jews (f) Men that feared God of every Nation un- ~1\«-~~ .• der Heaven, Ali s 'l. 5. Secondly, to the making of one to be a Profjlite of the Coven11,nt according to the difference of fex, and the difference of times the Rites of initiation varied. e Mofe! Kotfur, To the making ot ( g ) a Ma/e.P,-ofif;te, at firft three fol. 4~ f 01• 2 ' things were required. 1. * Circumcijon. 2 • .A ftin d of :r2 "Dj purificatirUJ hy 'fl'tlter. 3. The hlood of oblation. This ob· nI ~17~ J ,tD,JJ,, l att.o n was commonl y two T urt1 e s or p·1 geons. T o t he ., '-1wo"'D1 making of a Woman Profelyte, were- required only h ~:U},r, de purification by wat~r, and oblation ( h' ). _Now beca ufe rrib. SeEl.z P~ the Jews have neither Altar, nor Sacnfice, .they fay i1 ~0jt1 /E.g .. _that for the A-lflles, Circumcifton, and purification hJ tiru. in Affu~~. wattrfufficeth ; and for the Females, only purification Jbi4h,~ere~ !'. by water,(i)ln Davids time, they fay that many thou:s ~aerl.a rI i~u7m. t"r..it ·d e 1" an ds of p ro.... ;ry Ii tes we,re J. Oyne d unto t h· e Ch 1 11c h W.i t h•I b,#ref, l .2,c ,, out Circumcifton, by this pflrifi~ation •. Hence we may ~bferve, that a k1nd of Initiation , .hy rtMter · WdS long in ufe among the Jews., though it were not Sacramental until Chrifi his inHitution : yea therefore it may ieem to have been ufeQby them , becaufc they e:xpetted it .at the c.oming of the ~1ef fiat: L 1 B;.t; . Of their K.lng1; fi~J,a.s , appeareth by ~heir ·corning unto John ·que· fhontng not fo much hts Baptifm as hi~ Auth .; b what aut,horiiJ he b~ptized .-· ~h,'baptizefl th::~z:n ~ J thhou be not that Chnfi, nor Ehas;neither that Prophe;) u. 1J [. 2·). . ·-II : - Th~rdly' the r~fpeet born by the JewJ towards - Rrofjlttes, was chan table; (~)they ufed no upbraiding k P"'FAg; Ex()/ I terms towards them, faying Keme·ntber th ~ 2 • 21 • • deed N · hft · . 'J former · s.. otwtt andtng It-was alfo provided C,l ) N I M<'fl Projjlzte. fhould .be el!gible into the ·Court ~f thei~ lib.!!.~r~.l'~'· Sanhedrnn; yea tn theu common commerce th h d trall.sanhe-rir~ an ofual proverb, which :admonifhed the~-ofey a. c. 2. n~f,s (' : ) ~·e 1 a d de cu. nam ~·~qt: ; generationem a Profwe!aJrttis- m Cafad . ai .. CllVC ~ Beware of Profy htes to the tenth generation. Vtrf/J arontl '1.7 • CHAP. IV. Oft-heir Khtgr. J :W E fha11 read of three forts of 1(ing1 in the . . 01~ Tcfiament. Me/chifedecll was King and Przejt ; Davzd King and Prophet; others fimpl K · Melc?ifedecl{ was King and Prieft, David ln;;~d Propbet. The c~ncurrence of Princely Sovereigntj and Ho!J Order~, In the fame man, intimates that fa: p~eme Anthont~ !hould alwayes be a·ccompanied wuh care o~ Rellgton-: In which refpect }odfh whe he was anotnted King ' received the T e frirno~y o~ Book of ~he L~w, 2 King 11. 12-. Neither did thefe two meet only In Melchifedeclt& Dttvid , but the f~me a R~ Anha, Pm a.n among the H. e a th ~ns ( a ) was o fit entt·m es Kiltg and mRiemxt tmd,emPh h~~u-.· rt~fl. J:'.nd Trifmegiflus had his nftme Ter. maximus ~~ e Sacerdo, .. (b.:bec:;t~{e he was Phi/ofoph~ts maximur Sa~erdos ma: r~rg. .lli.r.tid, X1111HJ :J&Rex mAximus. All Kings were ~ot anointed, ~At~. Ntep~. C 2. ~ , but ~: · li h.z. Cifp. |