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Show 22~ Of their Mdrri4gtJ. hundred thirty years befot·e our I avioitrJ I7carnati· on, corruption {o prevailed, that th~ people tn a man· ner neglelled all titheJ, yea oo~e or very few p1yed either their firfr)fecond,or posr mat~ns tithe,o_nl )' they paid the greAt he4ve•ojfiri11g jufily. For thts reafor.t }~t~';;~:1.~~ (faith (h) MofeJ Kotfl~fir) in the. d4iet of Joh~ the Priefl, who foccccckJStmeon the)Hft.., (I take tt he meanetb JobaHnes HJrcan~)thetr great Court, ~erm· ed their Sanhedrim,made a Decree,that more fa1thful Ove',feers fhould be appointed ~or the Tithe!. At this time many things became quefhon~ble, whether th~y were tithable or no; whence the htgh Court oftheu Sanhedrim decreed,that in the things d,lfblfHl (which i. ~~o[tJ K ,rfen • . they termed ,~01 Demai) ( i) though they paid nei A tb~ti. ther firft, nor poor mans tithe, yet they paid a fecond lithe, and a (mall heave offering; namely, n~oo 1MN ..one part of an h11ndred: 11-lint, Anife and Cummim, [;;emeth to have been of thefe clouhtft~l things; in which,though \:he decree of theirSdnhedrim required but Dne in the hundred) yet the P~~~ifees would pay a jufi tenth, JJJat. 2 3.13 13Hd hence It IS that they bo~tt ... ed, TheJ gave tithes of all that theJ poffe.f!ed) Luk. t8·· 11. In which.they outfiripped the other ]ews:J who in thefe payments took the liberty granted them by the Sanhedrim. CHAP. IV. , Oft heir .Uarriltger. · · I N this.Chapreroftheir Marriages, we are to confider: Firfi ,the difli~tlJcon oft~eir ~ives. Secondly the tJJann{r ofthe~r hetrothi11gs. thirdly, the rites an~ cere1JJonics ~f tEeir »JJt;riag~. bafily, the form 9[-tbetP divorce, , 1 te Patriar&hs lD the Old Te.ftament h2d - many LI P-. V l, Of their lvlarrittgeJ. many of them, lrdJ_.(orlsofwives: both of them fVe·;·e repHttd law[Ht, and tr11e wive.r and therefore the cbiJ,.. d ren ot b 1 oth \Vere accounted legitimate. The Hebrew1 common.y ~all t~e one .o~un Ndfchim ; trimar;- w~.'l!e.r > mar ned wnh nuptJal ceremonies and rites re- -C]rtJ~te. S_ome deriv~ the \vord from nw' N ~Jcha, o6/ttw [r11t, tptaji obltvio.fe JifJ ce,bec~u(e for.. the molt pa.tt ~ women.r memor1 is not fo firong tH 1/tetJs :but they thtnk not amifs, who f1y that ·women are fo called fi·?m ~Llivio11, or forgetf;~/1ttf.r, becaufe the Fat hers famrl y IS forgot let~. and in a m1nner ext in{} in . their. tla11ghterswhenthey, are »Jttrried.Hence proceeds that . - f. . f· . . . a n.., ~w~ .common ay1ng o the Hehrew1, (a) Fanulta matris ,., . ,~ IJN non voc~lu~ fanJi/ia: and for the contrary reafon, a ~-: 1ip m:~/e ch1ld 1s called i::li Zctcar, from his memory be·' .n0wo 4;~ h ctt,.;et eme"!O'J o1J.f . ltJ' e Fat he r..u preferved in the' (h)llAt~temn tE.. ·{,rtt 1 2'. Son, accordtng to that fp.eech of Abfolom, 1 have 110 b E.rtnde:rz pro- Son to h..,eep IHJ name in renuJ»br11nce 2 S.tnl , o _1g ltr '!'afcul~h . Th r. , • , • O· - ratzmem <~ht· e oth~r 10rt of w~ves they call (c) f'iOt~gfhin tam apRd feco1Jdttr} wives, or half wive 1 • the E11g fifl; trant]ate~ Gr.1co1 !e.f.la· t h...... m CO IIC11Lo •t 11es,an d t ha tnotu' n fi thr forJf'~o metJ•m es ·'c";:'- E, HTiptd•n . h l d • . J' -7UMJ ')'«.f t e Heore~ wor H felf denoteth an infamOII$ strum- otlt;P 'X;;I'tf J(el, or common Hltrlot. J!ra-evtt. The differences between thefe Conct~hineJ and the c tvl7 \J chief or primtJr} wives,are mant7. 1 .A dir;parit: io thRir ,v.,.x.ar fecund a· • J 'J t ., • a 1JOCtm cam- au~horlty , or houfho Jd government: the Wife Wls a tnfiram e]Je-ai· _ A-liflref.r, the CotJcubh;e as an hr1nd '/JJaid or lfrv411r ~~~, rx ),9 S.~l e h. a d on Jy J~u-·1 t ho rr·J a trt~e and lawful rightJ 1"1 1ilo t be' Dntwt~pid tJr.xe; r&, ·l»arrrage hed as the~htef WJfe had; otherwife fhe was 9~·~11 NX,'IY di •.. i~ ali refpefrs infedour. And this appeareth in th; ~i~:/" dimi · hlltory of Sarah and f!agar: Secondly~ the hetrothing was different: the chtef wife at her tfpoufa J s rccei • ·ved from her 1-lus~aod ·certain Gift( and To~ntt as pledges and ceremooi~s of the ·contract. 1 hus Ahra-ham. r |
