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Show 1~0 hR.. D~ttdi Raaic,. of VrinJ aNd Thummim. .L I B. · IV in (h) but hf fpoke bef1:, who ingenuoufly confeiTed that he knew not what Vritn and Thummim was. The fourth degree was 71p nJ Bath Kol? flia voci.r · the Daughter of a Voice, or an Eccho; by 1t a n:eant a voice from heaven declaring the wiD of God; It took place in the fecond Temple:) when the three former degrees of Prophecy ceafed : it gave r c ~limon~ ~f our Saviour; Lo, a voice from hea-ven'J faymg, ihts ts my beloved Su11 in whom I am weU pleafed JHa1.3. I 7. It was in truth the Prologue, f'refllce, or type of that t rue voice Of the Father, that eternal word which revealed hi.r Fathers wiU unto 11tankjnd. · Thefe were the extraordinary means by which God revealed hirnfelf to his people of old : ordinarily, he r~vealed himfelf by his written word. N?t· wi.thfranding the flebr~w.r fa:r, that the Law, even from the firlt time of Its deltvery unto 114ofes, was twofold : the one committed to writing , which they call 1Jti'JJW i1i\n Thora SchebilJab, the wri tten Law : the other delivered by tradition, :"lQ 'iyJ il1"\n Thora hegnal pe , it was alfo termed their Kabbald, from L,Jp Kibbel, fignify ing Accipere~ to receive or lea~n. They fay both were delivered by God unto Moje1 1n Mount Si11ai::J but t~is latter was delivered from Mofts to Joiliua, from Jofhua to the Elders, from the Elders to the Prophets, from the ProphetJ to thofe of the great Synagogue, and fo Juccejfively to after-a(~es, till at /aft it W&U digefled into one Boo~, containing pritJcipaUy precepts ~tnd diref1ions for thofe l[raelites . which inkabited t !Je ho!J Land . .It is caUed Talmud Hterofolyma~nurn. It WtH compofod in the year of our ~or~ .2 3 o~ This bec~ufe it containeth but a few confbtuttons, ts but of ltttle ~ ufe. About 500 year.r after chrift, .then was there a .more fall and exaCt .colle.ction of their confiituti0ns, · tor ' I -.. L I B. IV. OfVrim-alldTIJNnJmim •. for direction o~ thofe Je~r which dwelt in B4 /;.JIIH and ~ther forrelgn ,places; this is termed TaJ,1, 11d Ba~ hjlon~cum? and u of greatefl: ufe among Authors ; . it cor:~a.tnet~ . the body of their Civil and Canon· L~w. Thts rt:adttt?nal Ia~,~ they hold to be as authentick, as thetr written word, a-nd that Jt4ofis received it from ~od, when ~e receive? the Law:, for) fay they, w~re 1t nor for thts. e:xpotitton, the IJecalog~te it felf m.1ghr have been delivered (a) In hQr4 veloci in /ef. a ~l'W:! !'l1N t htrn· an ho11r. ' J.f (!tofe, Koi[tn, ., fi . rn pr~f. . ~ere w1 .edmu note tnat tbe word Kahbala, when rt 1s app te to tJl·e ~ahbalijis , to difference them fro~ the TalmHdzflr, 1; taken in a fhilter fenfe, and figntfieth thofe fubtlettes or myfieries which are ob- . ferved ~rom the different writing ot fome letters in the ~crtpt~re ., from. the trawfpo{ing of them, from 3 . mJ/itcal f<!nd .of Artthmetick_, &c. This was never wholly committed to~ writing, ot"fome infiances we· have)Gen 2 -3.2, Abraham came ,.,11?J~ to wetp for sara. Here (b) becaufe the letter C ti~>h Is Jefs than the relt . th h ' A b h r , b BaAll'Jtt~i ey note t at ra am_ wept hut little for sara, be- , ' ':au ~e fbe .was· oJd. Aga1n, the letter Aleph is found . 11x ttmes tn the firft verfe of Gen·efts ; Hence R. EliiH coJJe&ed t~at the \VQr~d fh?uld endure but fix thoH.• fond Jears. becaufe Aleph\ In the . Hebrew.r comp1tlati. 011 fiandeth for a thoufand~ From the tranfpofitio if letters they conclude after this manner . 0 ., , 0h8 · r-.e m f1i gm. f·i et h .. Anatn'-ema or Excomm11nica' tion,n b~ ea. .Metathefls o_r t·~anfpofition 1Jf Jette1's, . it is mad; 0~, fit~ebem figmfytng 11Jercy ;_by another tranjpojition·. it. J.s made tiD,· Ramach, whtcb letters in the J~w _ p1ttatio11 make 24 8, which in their Anatomy 1 :bm fi·nd to be the juit number of members in a' m ey .. body: their .cone I ufion hen~e is,_ that jf 411 e:c c 0111,~:~ : 1 Z. wic~ttedi |
