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A70760	Bishop Overall's convocation-book, MDCVI concerning the government of God's catholick church, and the kingdoms of the whole world.; Bishop Overall's convocation book	Overall, John, 1560-1619.; Sancroft, William, 1617-1693.	1690 (1690)	Wing O607; ESTC R2082	200,463	346

of his said Chamber and brought thither again the Vessels of the House of God with the Meat-offerings and Incense CAN. XXIX IF any Man therefore shall affirm either that Almighty God kept not his promise to the Iews made in his name by the Prophet Jeremy as touching their deliverance by Cyrus out of their Captivity because they were not restor'd to any such perfect liberty and Government as they had before or that the said Kings of Persia continuing still by God's appointment a supream Authority over the Jews so restor'd might by them for any cause or under any colour have been defrauded of their Tributes or resisted by force of Arms or otherwise impeach'd either in their States or Persons or that Zorobabel and Nehemiah were not lawful Princes over the Jews because they were placed in that Government without the Peoples Election or that they the said Princes by dealing in Cases Ecclesiastical as is aforesaid did take more upon them than by God's appointment appertain'd to their charge or that the Priests both high and low had not grievously sinned if they had not submitted themselves in the said Ecclesiastical Causes to the direction of those their civil Governours he doth greatly Erre Placet eis CAP. XXX THE High-Priest as before we have said in that mild and temperate Government which God himself had Ordained was the second Person in the Kingdom Whereupon the same after the Captivity being turn'd as it were into a Dukedom and for ought that appeareth the Princes after Nehemiah's time growing poor by reason of their payments to those Kings to whom they were Tributary and receiving small assistance or countenance from them because they were still jealous of them whereas the Priests it seemeth being freed from all-Tributes and Impositions grew rich and were no way suspected it came to pass the sins of the people so requiring that the High-Priest did easily oversway both their Princes and their People and thereby attained very great Authority in that Principality Only they stood in awe for the time of the Kings of Persia to whose Obedience they were bound by an Oath when they were made High-Priests but otherwise for ought we find they had no great regard of any other Authority which so advanced the dignity of the Priesthood as afterward the practices of the High-Priest's Children to succeed their Father in that high dignity grew as troublesome to the People as was their servitude to the Persians For Jesus the younger Brother of John the second High-Priest after Eliasib mentioned by Nehemiah procured by corruption the favour of the chief Governour of the Persians in those Countries adjoining for his assistance to deprive his Brother that he himself might enjoy the High-Priesthood whereof his elder Brother having some notice did kill him in the Temple which the said Governour took in so evil part as he spoiled the said Temple being as he said profaned with Blood and laid an exceeding great Tribute in that respect upon the People to indure for seven Years But John the High-Priest continued in his place After whose Death his two Sons Jaddus and Manasses fell at great variance the younger to make himself strong against his elder Brother Married contrary to the Law of God with a Daughter of Sanballat another Chief Ruler in Samaria under the King of Persia For which offence Jaddus notwithstanding the Authority of Sanballat remov'd him from the dignity of Priesthood and thereupon he the said Manasses procured by Sanballat's means a Temple to be built in Mount Garizin near Samaria in form and magnificence like to that in Hierusalem where he flourished and whither all the lewd persons of Judah had daily recourse Upon which occasion much trouble arose afterwards betwixt the Samaritans and the Jews The said Jaddus lived till the Monarchy of the Grecians began who when Alexander having overthrown Darius the King of the Persians sent unto him that he should assist him in his Wars and become Tributary to the Macedonians as he had been to the Persians return'd for his Answer that he might not yield thereunto because he had taken an Oath for his true Allegiance to Darius which he might not lawfully violate whilst Darius lived being by flight escaped when his Army was discomfited We have here cited and shall hereafter cite some things out of the Books of the Maccabees and other ancient Historiographers of purpose to continue the manner of the Government of the Jews in what case they stood from time to time after the days of Nehemiah not meaning thereby to attribute any Canonical Authority unto them nor to establish any point of Doctrine out of them but only to proportion and measure the regiment and actions of that people by the rules and analogy of the holy Scriptures CAN. XXX IF any Man therefore shall affirm contrary to the grounds and truths of the said holy Scriptures either that albeit Kings of Persia had authorized some succeeding Princes as they did Zorobabel and Nehemiah and whether they did so or no is not certain yet the High Priests might afterward have lawfully born the sway that they did and not been subject unto them as their Predecessors had been to Zorobabel and Nehemiah or that if Nehemiah continued alive in that Government till Jaddus's time as it is probable he did he might not lawfully being authorized as before though he were old have reform'd any abuse in the Priests both high and low or that they were not bound in Conscience to have obey'd him therein or that the Jews might lawfully have rebelled for any cause against the Persians during their Government over them or that Jaddus the High-Priest did amiss in binding his Allegiance to King Darius by an Oath or that he had not sinned if he had refused being thereunto required so to have sworn or that having so sworn he might lawfully have born Arms himself against Darius or have sollicited others whether Aliens or Jews thereunto he doth greatly Erre Placet eis CAP. XXXI ALexander by God's Providence having vanquished the Persians the Jews amongst many other Nations became his Subjects He dealt favourably with them released them of some Payments granted them liberty to live according to their own Laws and left their Government in every point as he found it their Duties ordinary Tributes and some of their Royal Prerogatives always reserved to the Macedonians as they had been before to the Persians but this their tolerable Estate endured not long For upon Alexander's death his chief Captains conspiring together made such a scambling Division of the Empire amongst themselves as they could every one almost notwithstanding seeking how he might suppress the rest and attain the whole alone to himself So as thereupon the Jews were as free from the Macedonians as any other of their bordering Neighbours none of the said Captains having any lawful Interest or Title to Judah But that which turned to the benefit of some

others brought a great detriment for want of Ability unto them for one of the said Captains having gotten to himself a very strong Kingdom in Syria and another of them in Egypt the Jews dweling betwixt them both were miserably on every side vexed by them Sometimes the Egyptians by Oppression and Force brought them under their Subjection and imposed great Tributes upon them and sometimes the Syrians growing mightier than the Egyptians did likewise very greatly afflict them especially in the Reign of Antiochus Epiphanes whose Invasion and Government was most unjust and Tyrannical He shed innocent Blood on every side of the Sanctuary spoiled the Temple erecting in it the Abomination of the Gentiles and caused it to be named the Temple of Jupiter Olympius The Books of the Law by his Commandment were cut in pieces and burnt and they with whom they were found were put to death A general Commandment was by him published that they should offer no more Sacrifices nor circumcise their Children nor execute any other parts of their own Law in the Service of God but wholly to conform themselves therein to the manner of the Gentiles Whereupon the People by heaps forsook the Lord and offered Sacrifices to Idols and such as refused so to do chusing rather to obey God than Man were most cruelly slain and murthered by thousands until Mattathias moved with the monstrous Cruelty and Tyranny of the said Antiochus made open Resistance the Government of that Tyrant being not then either generally received by submission or setled by continuance It is not pertinent to our purpose to intermeddle with sundry Questions which might here arise Only we observe that Mattathias undertook that charge that he commended the same afterwards to his Sons and that it continued in them and their Posterity until both they and their whole Countrey were vanquished by the Romans CAN. XXXI IF any Man therefore shall affirm either that the Jews generally both Priests and People were not the Subjects of Alexander after his Authority was setled amongst them as they had been before the Subjects of the Kings of Babylon and Persia or that they might lawfully have born Arms against him or that they were not all bound to pray for the long life and prosperity both of Alexander and his Empire as they had been bound before to pray for the life and prosperity of the other said Kings and their Kingdoms whilst they lived under their subjection or consequently that they might lawfully upon any occasion whatsoever have offered violence and destruction either to their Persons or to their Kingdoms for the long continuance and prosperity whereof they were bound to pray or that after the Jews were delivered from their servitude under the Kings of Syria and the Government over them was settled in Mattathias's Posterity it was lawful for the People upon any occasion to have rebelled against them or to have offered violence to their persons He doth greatly Erre Placet eis CAP. XXXII THE afflictions which the Jews endured whilst the Government of the Grecians lasted were much the more grievous unto them by reason of the great disorders which were then amongst their Priests For whereas they should have been a stay and a comfort unto them in their greater miseries their negligence one way and their ambition another way in striving about the High Priesthood did so distract them into parts taking as that thereby great effusion of blood did oftentimes ensue shortly after Jaddus's time this was the general report which for their Wickedness was given out of them The Priests were now no more diligent about the Altar but despised the Temple and regarded not the Sacrifices They did not set by the honour of their Fathers but liked of the glory of the Gentiles most of all The Temple was full of dissoluteness and gluttony of the Gentiles which dallied with Harlots and had to do with Women within the circuit of holy places and brought in such things as were not lawful The Altar also was full of such things as were abominable and forbidden by the Law and two or three of the High Priests applauded thereunto Simon the High-Priest leaving three Sons behind him Onias Jason and Menelaus was not long dead but Jason for three hundred and sixty Talents of Silver procured such assistance of Antiochus King of Syria as he thrust his elder Brother Onias out of the High-Priesthood and not long after had the same measure repay'd unto him again by his younger Brother Menelaus who upon some cunning information and for six hundred and sixty Talents got the place himself Whereupon Jason assembled Forces drove Menelaus into a Castle slew the Citizens without Mercy and in the end being repulsed died abroad as an exile Menelaus afterward caused his Eldest Brother Onias to be Murder'd because he blamed him for stealing certain Vessels of Gold out of the Temple Next Menelaus succeeded Alcimus whereas Onias the Son of Onias before-mentioned should in right have had that dignity Of all which four Persons eminent in their time these things are left for Records unto Posterity Jason to get Antiochus's good will for the High-Priesthood promised him besides his great Bribe to set up a School of Gentilism likewise to build a Brothel-House by the Temple and that the People of Hierusalem should be named Antiochians after the Kings Name He drew his Kinsmen to the Custom of the Gentiles and sent to Tyrus three hundred Drachms of Silver for a Sacrifice to Hercules Menelaus also took the like course or rather a worse for besides that he conform'd himself wholly in effect to the manners of the Grecians it is further thus written of him Antiochus went into the most holy Temple having Menelaus that Traytor to the Laws and to his own Country to be his Guide He thrust himself into the Kings Army against Judas Maccabaeus and the City of Hierusalem hoping thereupon to have attain'd that Government But Lysias the King's Lieutenant crossed his purpose therein and inform'd the King that he the said Menelaus had been the cause of all the mischiefs which had ensued the Wars with the Jews as being the Man who perswaded his Father Antiochus Epiphanes to compel them to forsake the Laws of their Fathers adding thereunto that whilst Menelaus lived the Jews would never be quiet Whereupon the King commanding him to be put to Death he was smother'd in Ashes because he had committed many sins by the Altar whose fire and ashes were holy Alcimus the High-Priest next succeeding was no sooner in his place but he took upon him to be the Captain of all the ungodly Men of Israel and solicited King Demetrius to make War against Judas Maccabaeus complaining that he had killed all the King's Friends The King thus instigated sent an Army against Hierusalem with one Bacchides and Alcimus who pretending that they came in Peace and being thereupon trusted