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Show ,, z p!Jila item Jo(epb. a Jaftpb. tit bello ]11daic, lib;~.capal~· · b 1({eph ,i6. . L y·s. I. # -of the E/feneJ. . . their commons allowed them, bdt without, not tn . the common dining Hall ·The fecond year they ad-. mitted them to the pArticipation of holy matterJ, and infl:rufred them in the ufe of them a Two years after they admitted them in fuO m4nner) ~aking them of their Corporation aft cr they had received an Oath, truly to obferve 'all th Rules and Ordinances of the Ejfenes. If any brake his oath, an h~ndred of th~m being aifembled together, expelled htm, _up.on ·whtch expulfion commonly follgwed death wn~1n a· iliort time ; for none having once entred thts Order _, might receive alms or any meat from other; and 1 themfelves would feed fuch a one, only with difrafr .. I· ful herbs, which wafl:ed his body, and b~ought'it ver ry low : fometimes they would re-adm1t ftach a one being brought near unto death; but commonly they fuffered him to die in that mifery. r : 1 o. The Effenes (z) worjhipped tonutrd the Snn· ri(lng. \ 11 • . The E.ffines bound themfelves in their oath, 19 , (a) preferve the nam_es of .Angels: The phra!e imply· ' eth a kind of worfi11pp1ng of them. . \.I I 2: TheJ were above all others flrifJ in the obferva; tion of the (b) Sahb4thday-; on it they woulddrefs c Philo de t~ita 'orate mplat. no meat, kindle no fire, remove no Vefiels out of their place; no, nor eafe Nature, (c) Yet~, they obferved '~/'op.J./61'1 t~Jtop.ef.le~, every Jeventh week, 11 fo· lemn Pentecpfl ; {even PentecPjis., evtr1 year. . · 13. TheJ abflainedfrom marridge, not that they dtf· liked marriage !n it felf, or inte~ded a~ end or pe· ·riod to procreation: but partly, tn \Vartnefs of wo. mens intemperance; partly, becaufe they were per-f waded that no woman ·would continue faithful to ·one man. This avoiding of marria~e is not to be un• derftood generally of all theEjfenees Jor they-difagreed ' among LID. I. Of l~e EUenet, S5 am_o?g tl)etnfel ves in this point. Some were of the ~p1n1on ~e~ore. noted : others married for propaga• tton. .Nzhzlomtn111. aute_m cum tanta ipj moderatione co~yentunl:l~.' per trten~zum explorenl valetudinem jll!· mtna~~m; & f confta~tt p~rgatione apparuerint idone£ partuz,tta etH tn matrtmonza afcifcunt.Nemo tamen cNm pr£gn~nte co~cumbit,ut o.ftendant ~qu'od nuptias non voluptaltt, Jed ltberorum caufa inierint. Thus the latter fQrt preferved their SeCt by the procreation of chil• dren _: the former fort preferved it by a kind of a. doptto~ of othe.r mens c~ildren, counting them aJ near Ktnfmen, and tutonng them in the Rules of Difc!pline, as Jofephut witneifeth~ (d) Pliny addeth d Pli•.hifl.l.s, . alfo, that many .other of the Jewt, when they be .. 'ap.17• gan to be fl:ruck tn y~ars, voluntarily joy ned themfelves ·.unto them , betng moved thereunto either becaufe of ~e variable fiate and trouble; of the "Yorld, or upon ·confideration of their own former . hcent!ous c?urfes, ~s if they would by thi~ means . exerctfe a ktnd of penance upon themfelves Concerning. th~ beginning of this Sefr from whom, or when tt began, it is har<l. to tlet~rmine (e) ·some make them as ancient as the Rech~~,hite..s and the Hechabiiet to have differed only in the addition e ~erariul of {o 1 d .,. fi Trthlfrtf.l,3~ . . me ru es an ora1nances rom the Kenites, men- cap.s. tloned J'!dg. t . I 6: And thus by confequence the Ef-fines were as anc ent~ as thelftaelites departure out of EgJpt: ~or.JethrQ, MofeJ ~ather-in.I~w, as appear~ · eth by the f ext,- wa ~ a Kentte: but nett her of thefe fee~eth _probable. For the Keniret are not mentioned tn Scripture, as a rltftinll order or fetJ of people but , as a difi.inll f .Jmily, ~ndred, or Ntlti01t, 'Mtmb. 24: 21 • . Secondly , . the Re~httbilef, they neither did build · houfes, but dwelt 1n Tents; neither did they de&~l in . husbandry,. |