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Show ~-6I 1heir Circumciflon~ LIB. V. · iCQ!l. Jthotlig. female · on the eighth. The (i) Athenians gave names ~·;;;ft~~·;jt •. on the tenth. (4,) Others on the feven;h. Thefe (l) nim.lib.?. C. J2 . daies Tertu!lian calleth Nomi1talitt. 1 he Grecians beldllertul de 6 I- fides the tenth day on which they named the Chjld, 0 • caf• I • h ( ) h' h d m Scholiajf. A- they obferved alfo the fift , 111 on w 1c ay the rtJloph. in Lufi~ Midwives took the Child, and ran about a fire made fslruaitd_~ 'pl .i8n8 6. It 'for that purpo1r_e , Uct log t ba t C er:mony as a .Purt" fi cau·•- &.p.~tJ'e}cJ.et on of themfelves and the Chtld: on thts day the n St~~im de Neighbours alfo fent in gifts, or foJ.tll to/zens, A-lunertl convtv.l t.c.J6• ) f h" · (l: h n h · o Mt"'N 1 \"rJ natalitid; (n rom w 1ctl c~ om .t at amongu ~ rz~ M,n .. ftians, of the GodfatberJ fendtqg gtfts to the baptized ~f7D l)'n'iN Infant, is thought to have flown. But to return again ;w~~ o'7,)1i1 to the Rites of the Jewt. After the Child had been )'~'~~~ circumcifed) the Father faid : (o) Blejfed he our Lord 1),11 God, who hathfont1ified 111 with his precepts, and hath \O'\J:ln1 commandtd tn, that we fJoiJid caufe this child to enter oni'J"~"" w~31J inte the covenant of A br ll h am. Ac1: ter t h_"I S, t h: wh o 1 e lJ)JN Church or company prefent replyed tn thts man- ~!o~;~:.tfd~- ner, (flp) As thho~ hafl 1 ,r;..made hifn.to 1 en 1hr ~nto t?e Cov1e. cumci[.fol.u;. nant, o nJa~ un ttt.Jo to enter tn o e aw, tfJto .lit. a• r owJ lrimonJ, and into good'wor4t. )110JJ:'1W The penaliJ for the omiffion of Circumcifion run .. ;:1Mq:J7 ing in this form; T'h11t 'OHl ]ball be cut off'from his UnC"Jll . J' n. d h 1 ,n'7 people, Gen.l7 .14. I underlLan. t e pena~ty to be pro• M!l\M'7\ nounced againft fuch an omtffion:, whtch proceed~ O"Wl)D7J ed either from contempt or wilful neglefl. In this 0 ':l1to cafe the que{tion is, what is meant by this phrafe, :J:~:JKoeftn. HisfoNljhaO be cwt ojffrom the people. S~condly, who ought th1H ~o be punifbt? whether the chtld, or the parents, and fuch .who fopply the p!dce of parents t For the fitft, befides Godr fecret action in punHhing {uch Delinquents , methinks there· i"s a rule of direll:ion for the Church, how to proceed againfr fuch in her Difcipline: If any under£\:and here, by cutting off . , fo~ Of Cir~Hmci]ion. fuch ~ m~ns foul fro~ his reople' the fente nee of tJt&IJm-- 2 J 7 , tnunzeatton~ or caftrng hun out oJ the SJI11afJI)gTie I fhalf not oppofe It; though I rather incline t ou thof~ w underfiand h;reby~a bodily death infliCted upo~ fu~~ an offender'ltn whtch fenfe the phraf is tak en E rJ 3 1 • 1 4· Whofoever doth any wor/zon the s abh th ~h · _(out (haU be cNt off fi·om among his people And a it j at ry remarkable, that when lldufes h. s child was s v_e .. c~mcifedl the Lor_djought to kfll Mojes: which a:7tc;~: ttm~ted ~he puntllirnent of this fau lt to be a hodil death fo It clearly ev.inceth, that not the c6i!cl till h~ cometh to rears of dtfcretion, but the parents were li· able ·t o puhn"t fhment ·T h. e o. pinion of the R ao1 v1· 1• ne.s con-cerntn~ ~ ts-latt~r potnt Is thus delivered. ( ) If h Fathaer d c trcumctije him not ' th en th e 'f1l l dr ges aqr e cotm e tqra Ml/o,(felf_CJ VK.omtfc. f . man e to circttmcife him : and if it !Je unf<.,nown 1 th- fol. • 14, cot 4: }rtdges~ and they circuntcite hint not when he;-~' 0 h · b d . e 'J'" ' ,.r waxen ~heat) e 1S' oun to ctrc11mcife hiuifelh and every da at P.tt.!Jeth over htm'}after he is waxengreat~and.he ci~ cu':[ijet~ not himfelf,lo be hreaketb the Commandment t:re tt may be demanded, ho·w it is poffible for; man~ after.once he hath been marked with the fi n of Ctrcumet{ion, to blot out that character . and bg co~~ uncircumcifed? for thus lOme ]ewt, f;r fear ~f .Antrochus, made themfel ves uncircurncifed I JVJ. I k:~ Othcrrs for !bame, after they were_gai~ed t~~j1; wle~~e of_ Chnfi ' and to entt»rtainrnent of t~e chrijitafl fatth,uncircumcifed thenifelves I Cor 7 I . (r) The anfwer is, that this wa$ done by d : .. up thefo~e~h.,in with a Chirurgion hts infi:rumen;~wtna ~ Epithdlf.'ib~ ' unto t?t~ th~ Apoft/e in the fore quOted plac: a~~. P:.~~~~ It. deth, P.JJ ~(J]j~::Jo, Ne tlftr.ahat ._rd!hUtium Tit" . k Ct/f~ l.:ac,25; d . · · , Y r • 1 5 WlC :a e tnvent_Jon Is afcnbed unto E(au, as the firfr Author , and pra.Cbfer thereof. F f CHAP. |
