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Show Of the 'EffineJ. , L I B: (. -husbandry they fowed no feed, nor planted V tne rds nor had any Jer .55 .7• The Effenes, on the-con· Y a ' , " b · h fi · (f) and £Jo[!pb.J.ntiq. trary, they dwelt not tn tents, u~ tn ~u es, lib.tB.r·1· they irnployed thernfelves eipect~ll y to husbandry· g Scalig. in One of the (g) Hebrew voaors fatth, that the Ejfenes Trib~r. ~ap.23: were Nazarites: but . that can.not be, b~caufe the Law eo. oyned the NazariteJ' when the ttrne of the Confec/ation was out, to prefent themfelves at the coor of the Tabernacle or Temple, Num. 6. Now the Ejfenes had no accefs to the Temple. W~en the!ef?re, ~r from what Author ,this Sefr took n.s begtnn~ng, .t s.uacer ta·tn . The firfi that I find menttohne dr by dth .e name of an F,jfene, was one (h) 1udas, w o tve _tn h1ofeph.-li3· the time of ArifiobultH the Son of Joannes Hyrcanm, '•19· before our sa:viours Birth about one ~un?red y(~)a~s: i Jofrph.),q. ·Howfoever the Seet was of greater an~tqntty 5 ~ ror '· 9' .all three. pharifees, sadduces, and Ej]enes, were tn Jo· ·nathan's. time, the brother ofJudeas /ltlacc~ake~J, who .w as fi1c1. ty years before Ari:fJl •o bhu lud-s .. Cefr tain tt8 I s, .t hat this SeCt continued unttl t e ates o our avtour, .and after; for Philo and 1ofeph~ fpeaks of them as 1. · ·10 their times. What m1ght be the reafon . lhV tDg that there is no menu• on o f t he rn .t o t he Ne w ~:;· ent 2 1 anfwer ; Firft , The number of them . f:e~:h n~t to have been great, in Phil~ and 1_ofeph'!f h' time (It) about four thoufand, whtch betng dtf-k Philo li~~ \ 15 c. d -1 ' 0 many C·ities made the Faction weak: and 4HOd om11U petle ' s • r d h 1rob1u,p,672. haply in jerufalem when our · av_zo11r tve , t ~~ w~re either few or none. Secondly' tfwe ~bferve htuones we ihall find them peaceable and qutet, not oppofi~ any and therefore notfo liable to reproof as the Phd.- . rife;s and SaddHttJ who oppofed each other~and both ·o ned againfr oh:ijl. Thirdly' why might they not ~sy well be pafied over in file nee in the. New 1e.f!am_ent, · cfpec1ally : L I ·B. I. of t/Je Ejfene1~ 51. ( efpecially containing thernfelves quietly ·without contradiction of othets) as the Rit:hahites in ·the old Teftament, of whom there is mention only once, and that oblique I y , although their Order continued a-bout three hundred years before this tefHmony wa ~ g-iven ofthem ·by the Prophet Jeremy ; for between Jehu (with whom -Jonadab was Coetanean) and Zedt-hjah, Chronologers obferve the difrance of many ~ears .. Lafily, though the name ofEjfenes be not found ln Scrtpt~re, • yet we iliaii find in S. Paul's Epifiles 'E-JlideChemn;~~ many thtngs reproved , which were taught in the exem,co,c .Trt - S h 1 f h ~n;, Of h. clent.parr..quart ~ oo o t e E11enr1, t ts nature was that advice P"l· uo. gtven unto Timoth;, 1 Tim.5.23. Drink.... no longer W4ter hut ufe a little wine: Again, x Tim. 4· 3· ForbiddiNg,; marrJ, and commanding to ahflainfrom meats k aDos lJrine of Devils ; but efpecialJy Co/off. 2• in many pafiages the Apoflle feemeth directly to point at them,Let no man condemn JOH in meat and drin~,v .1.6. I.:et no man bear rule over JOH, by h~tmbleneft of mind, and worjhipping of Angel~, verf. 18. T~ J'o{~tt.1I~~c:7t, Why are Je jitbjelJ to Ordinattces? ver.2o. The Apoflle u{eth the wound tN{tJ.ct7tt., which was applyed by the ~J(en~s t~ denote their OrdinanceJ? .Apho~ifms , or Confittutton~. In _the verfe foHowtng he gtves an in-fiance offome particulars, Touch not, tqfte not handle n~t, verf. 2 J. No~ the Junior company of E.ffine1 m1ght not touch thetr S~niors. And in their diet their tafi:e was limited to bre'ld, fait, water, and hyffop. A?d thefe ordinances they undertook, 1'1d. ,.z~ov ~~~~~, fatth Philo~ for the love of wifdom : but the A poHle conclud,eth, verf. 23~ That thefe things had only, Aryo\1 ~o~lct.~, a iliew of wifdom. t\nd whereas Philo term.eth th: Religion o~ the E./fenes, by the name of ~i~~,,_J whtch word ~gntfieth re.figiQHs .worjfJip, the .A-I pojlle |