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Show r~~r· (Jf(IJeir ExccmmfntiratiOJ1. if they abfolved any, they wrote the lett~r fi in theta• ble, it being the fir!l: Jetter of Abfolvo =. 1f the~ wou!d . condemn any, 'they cafi in a table wnh ~ wntten tn it which is the firft-letter of Condemno : tf the matter w'ere hard to determine, they would cafi in other ta• J bles with N L, lignifying Non Liquet. The (d) Grttci· da E.p.rra£f,/ igA· at, .a ns 1. .n 11' k e manner uf ce d ttu. ree 1e t t ers : & t k o · was a o en of co.ndemnation, which occafioned that of PerfitH·. Et pctis es nigrum') vi.tio· pr,:[igere !h:ta. 'I was a token of abfolution; ~' ?f ampltalton. Others fignified condtmnation, by gtvtng a blac4jione ; and abfolution by giving a whitejlone. Mils erat.antiqHil ~ niven atrifque lapillis~ . Hos damn are reos, illos abfolvere culpa. - O·vid. Metamorph. IS· Tn this there feerr.eth to be allufion, Re'lJ. 'J • . , 7~ To him who overcometh I will give a white flone; that is, r will .abfolve and acqlJit him .. in the Jay of judgement. . . Note thefe three phrafes, aJ'tt$'nra:r ef.~ xe!r1tv~ ·'l'o t'·ife. tip to j11dgment; rlv~s-nrcu ~ xbffE-1, To r~ 11p in judgment.; ~~th~fiv K.a.1tJ.JieJ'IxttgEv~, To deparf gudty . T~e fidt IS applied to the Judge in the execution of J u(ltce, When God rofe '~P. to judge, Pfalm. 76. 1 O· that.ts, to execute judgement. The fe~ond. is applied to the party prevail-ing in judgment. The men of Nineveh fhall rife up ~n j11-dgement with this generation, ~at .12. 4 I. tl:~t ts, foatl be j'![Jifted beforf. this generdtton. The I all: _Is .ap-· plied to the party condemned; Pfal.Jo9.7 Let~t"!de· p_4rt.guilty or wic~ed:the ungodly.ffiall notfl~nd tn Judgment, Pjal. I. The like phra{es we.re. in ufe among> the Romani') Stare in Senatu, to prevatlln the Senate; Gaufa cadere, to be cafl in .onesfuit' But thefe phrafes among: the. Romans I think to hav.e be~n taken o~~ Their civitCtJtfiflories; 189 of the~r Fence .. Schools, where the fet pbfture of the body, by which a man prepareth himfelf to fight and grapple with his enemy, is termed Statui, or Gradus as cedere de Statu, to give back; Gradum '/Jet ft atHm fer: vare~to k...eep's oneflanding: and from thence have thofe elegancies been .tranilated into places ofJ udgment. CHAP .. IV. The nunJber of their Civil courts. T Heir Civil Courts were two, o~)1:1JOt :"~'?11lt s a1;hcdrim gedola, the great Conj{iory, or su~· pre me Senate, :1Jl.Di:l O•i1r1~1:1 Sanhedrim Ketanna , t be lefftr and inferiour Court. Thu~ 1 find them divid· ed generally. ~.Y the Rahbins: And although the latt~ r was fubdtvid ed, as will after appear; yet in old·, · u_me there were onely two firfi branches: whichdi- . vtfion our Saviour chrlft feemeth to have followed calling the 1effer Court xtf.0'1v, by the name of }Ndge;· ment : the g~eater a-vvi/'~ov~ ~y the name of a Counfel •. , Whofoever IS angry wtth hts brother unadvifedly, . fhall he cul pab!e of ]Hdgement. Whofoever faith .. unto his brother Racaf fhall be worthy to be punifh. , e.d by the Coun[el: ~ hofoever fhall fay Fool, fhalf . be worthy. t~ oe punifhed with the fire of Gehenna, Mat,~. In whtch words, a there ~s agrttdation of /ill' € Rae a no11 J • .Anger, apaffion .of the rn ind .. 2 Raca (e)fcorofulJ~randit alicH• 1]• h • ·h I ., ''- ')IU ejJ (trmrT or tg ung fpeec , as ~ut~ 1uftJ., ~":c. 3. Fool, re. co"v!tii,fed proachful and opprobrtous names.: fo likewife magtJ; 60"· th ere ·IS a gra d a I z.o n of p1.1 11;7/J; 1Jment. J. J~l tfJJ_ t,ement, a ereftm,&pn rneng-alerutlmu leffer Cout:t. 2. Counce!) the greater Court. 3. The dicenri1 ~/;ry .. fire o+'Gekenna.: ·Now Gthenna was a V:alley terr)bl~ftM.h om,J. 16~ 'J. .. . '- ' • · -' rn 11t · · for. ' |