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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91415	The Jewes synagogue: or, A treatise concerning the ancient orders and manner of worship used by the Jewes in their synagogue-assemblies. Gathered out of the sacred scriptures, the Jewish Rabines, and such modern authors, which have been most conversant in the study of Jewish customes. Wherein, by comparing the scriptures in the Old and New Testament together, many truths are fully opened, and sundry controversies about church-government truly and plainly stated. By William Pinchion of Springfeild [sic] in N. England.	Pynchon, William, 1590-1662.	1652 (1652)	Wing P4309; Thomason E802_4; ESTC R207368	80,705	99

Doctors of Ezraes Age gave another rule for the preservation of the Hebrew text They reckon how often every letter cometh in the Hebrew text how often words of short or full writing were diversly written and where and what strange text would seem corruptions to the unstayed and how often eth and vau little particles do come together in sort easie to deceive a Coppyer without a Table of Direction Such points are a Brazen wall to keep the Scriptures certainty vid. Mr. Bro. in Epist to the Nobil p. 7. From this provident care of God over the Hebrew text I conclude that neither book nor letter of the Hebrew text which was written by Gods Prophets for the use of all ages is lost onely those books are lost which some Prophets wrote in the nature of humane Chronicles for the present use of that Age and Nation and in that respect they took no more care to preserve them then they did of their humane Chronicles because they did nothing at all concerne other Nations in after Ages But every book and letter which the Prophets wrote as Divine Scripture for the use of all Nations and Ages Jesus Christ hath preserved by the diligence of the Massorites And their Tables of Direction are extant and kept safe with great care until this day one of those Tables is kept Naharden upon Euphrates and another is kept at Ierusalem Again the Hebrew Doctors from and after Ezra took special The Hebrew Doctors took care for the preservation of the truth of doctrine as well as for the preservation of the Hebrew Text. care to preserve the truth of Doctrine unto Posterity and for this end they made the ten Commandments to be the foundation of every point of Doctrine And our Saviour Christ saith that the whole Law and the Prophets doth hang upon the two Tables Matth. 22. 40. Therefore the ten Commandments must needs contain in them all matters concerning faith and manners and therefore the ancient Hebrew Doctors might well make the ten Commandments the foundation of every point of Doctrine And for the honour of the two Tables they did number up all the letters of the two Tables and found them to be six hundred and thirteen then they drew up all the Laws of Moses unto six hundred and thirteen They might have made them mo or fewer but by Gods spirit in honour of the two Tables they bring them just to the number of six hundred and thirteen they make two hundred forty and eight bidding Commandments telling us what we should believe or do and 365. forbidding evil vid. M. Brought in Apoc. 175. But after the Hebrew Doctors under this silver age of the Persian Monarchy were decayed then the Jews began to be more loose in Religion under the iron Dominion of the Seleucidae and Lagidae The cruel wars of those daies bred such profanes among the generality of the Jews especially under the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes that many Jews became Atheistical Sadduces yet then in these evil daies God by his providence raised up some Schools of Learning wherein were some godly Doctors that took care to preserve the truth of Doctrine in opposition to those Atheistical Sadduces And this they did by enacting divers terms of Religion They called all the Books of the Old Testament The Law Because the Sadduces did now reject all the Books of the Old Testament except the five Books of Moses Law They also enacted divers termes wherein they professed the immortality of the soul in opposition to the said Sadduces as I have formerly noted it before at large After those daies they had still some care of godly learning for in the daies of our Saviour they did maintain Schools of Learning and our Lord was present among the Doctors hearing them and posing them with Questions Luke 2. 46. And in Jerusalem there were certain of the Synagogue called Lubartines which rose in opposition to Stephens Doctrine Acts 6. 9. These Lubartines must not be taken for Libertines as some unadvisedly do call them because of their opposition to Stephen but that is a great mistake I say they were called Lubartines because they belonged to some Lubar or Colledge Lubar saith M. Weemt signifies a high place● and on such high pieces of ground they used to build their Schools Again in another of these Schools Paul was brought up at the seet of Gamaliel and there he was taught according to the perfect manner of the Law of the Fathers Acts 22. Again many such Schools were erected am●ng the dispersed Jews while they lived in Heathen Countries one of these Schools was governed by one Tyrannus and there the Disciples disputed daily Acts 19. And thus Iesus Christ by the means of these Schools hath in all ages nursed up many godly and able scholars fit to teach the Law in synagogues and fit to bear Office as Elders in the Sanhedrin Courts And these Schools of Learning were so highly set by among the Jews in ancient time neoterici nostrates effuciunt that they accounted it a great shame for any man of wealth or leisure if they did not frequent those Schools at the least three times a week except hand-labourers Maymony in Thal. Thora saith That all the Jews but hand-labourers did bring up their children from seven yeers old to fourteen in learning the plain tongue yea they studied the Tongue all their daies weekly for some few hours not minding gains thereby but delight to know God And our Saviour at twelvs yeers of Age delighted to sit in the midst of the Doctors hearing them posing them and asking them Questions and all that heard him were astonied at his understanding and answers Luke 2. 46 47. This place where Christ sate amongst the Doctors was such a Colledge or house of Doctrine as that was where Huldah the Prophetess lived 1 Kings 22. 14. Yea the Jews set a higher esteem upon their Schools of Learning then they did upon their Synagogues vid. Ainsw in Levit. 26. 31. and such priviledges did belong to Schools of learning as rewards of learning that if a Scholar at unawares committed man-slaughter and thereupon was exiled to a Citie of Refuge his master must go with him as it is written and live For the life of them that love and seek after Wisdom is counted as death without the Doctrine of the Law In like sort if the master were exiled his School goeth with him vid. Ains in Deut. 19. 4. This great priviledge Iesus Christ gave to Schools and Scholars as a reward of learning Scholar What rules of direction can you give for the well ordering of Schools of learning in these daies that so the Scholars thereof may speedily attain to the knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew Tongues and to the right understanding of the holy Scriptures Teacher No question but a better way of discipline may be found out then yet is practised as M. Broughton hath often warned and hath propounded sundry directions that way but it would be a two-handed labour for me to bring all particulars into a compendious method The Lord in mercy stir up others to take this work in hand for the advancement of Learning and Godlines Amen FINIS