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Show ·r8 · The;r-citoiet of'R~foge. t I B. I I. oflike nature; ~od promifed the Ifraeliles, uron con .. clition of their obedience, after their Coafts were-in~ larged ;- but it feemeth that.difobedience hindred the accomplifhment thereof, for the Scripture mention• eth not the fulfilling of it. Concerning thefe Cities, the Hebrews not~ trom thefe words, Thou Jhalt prepare the ~ay,. Deut. '9~ 3· That the Senate, or Magiflrate ih lfrael, were bo "nd h Maimon in to prepare the ways to the Citier of Refuge, and (h) to R.otfaeh.cap.8, make them fit and broad and to remove out of ftl1 s ' ,, · ' them all fh:~mbling.blocks and obfracles: and they fuffered not any Hill or. Dale to be in th~ way, nor water-fireams, but they made a Bridge over it~ that nothing might hinder him that fled thither. And the breadth of the way to the Cities of Refuge, Was not lefs than two and thirty Cubits, and at the pa~titions of the ways, they fet up in writing, Ref~ge, Re· fuge : that the man.,Oayer might ·know and turn thi. ther~vard. On the fifteenth of tQe moneth A dar, -Qr Fehruarr, every yeat: the JVIagijirt1tes fent meffengers to prepare the ways. Furthermore it was provided, that two .or three wife m~n · fhould be irnployed, to perfwade the Avenger of hlood, if haply he did purfue the:man-Oayer on the way, that he iliould offer no violence, until the Caufe were heard and examined. The manner of examination was thu~ ; The Confifiory or Bench 9f Juftices, who lived in that quarter where the murder cPaul,Fagi d h b · b h Num. 3 ,.6. was committe ~ (c) placed; t e party ~1ng roug t back from the City of Refuge, 'in the Court,, or Judg· ment-Hall, and diligently enquired and exttmined the caufe, who i{ he were found guilty of voluntary murder, then was he punHhed with death, ·but if or therwife the FaQ: .were .found cafua]0 then dip they · · fafe· L lB. 11,.. T!Jeir CitieJ of Refuge. fafdy conduct the party b~c~ again to the Cii.J of !le_.fHge, where he el'lJOJ.:ed h1s ltberty; not only with- In ~he walls of the Cu:y'} but within certain Terri& tortes and bounds of the City, being confined to fuch and ~u ch limits, until the ~eath of t~e High l'riefl ) that ·was In thofe days, at what time it was }awful for the offend~r.. .to r~t~n ~e come into bj own City, and .... unto hts ~wn houfe, rev.en unto the c· y from whence he fled ) }ojh.2o.6: By thi~ m~ans the offender, though he ~as nD ~ pumfhe? vvtth death, yet he lived for the time a krnd of exJLe, for his ownhumiliation and for the abatement of his wrath w·hn tn-,s th""' A ' • if hl 'd .,.. -·- . ' v ;rvq '"'"ve..nger o oo . (d) Jlhe Areopag11£ h~d a proceeding againfi d Ma/iHJ ;, mans.il~ughter ~ot ~uch unhk~, punifhing the of: Jof,c~p.-~G. f~nder tt,.,v,~u71a-p.~, wtth a year~ h~nijhn1ent: Why the time ~f tht~ extlement ~as hmrted to the death of the H1gh. Prreft ~t that time, is not agreed upo b Expofitors. ·· But, it is m0Il: probably thought, ~hft th.e offen~e~ was .therefore. confined withiQ , bat Ctty as wtthtn a Pnfon,_ durtng the .Hig'h prieft's life., ( ~) beca~e the o~ence dJd ~o(t directly Hrike .againfi .. ht~;- as .bemg~m()ngft men_,~4 .. ,@-,· Ac princepJ.fo,N.a.;,. e Majitu thtd tattJ, Tbe chuf God on ea,.th; J • : , • · ~· • • .. . . ' "": '· , |