Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	aaron_n	son_n	transgression_n	11	3	9.6881	5	false

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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

for example There were certain men in Numb 9. 6. that were unclean by a dead corps In this case they could not tell whether they might come to that second Passeover yea or no. Therefore those men brought the matter before Moses as well as before Aaron as they were the chief Heads of the Synedrion And Moses said unto them in vers 8. Stand still and I will hear what Iehovah will command concerning you This deliberate enquiry of Moses into this difficult matter may teach the Elders of any Church or Common Weal not to passe sentence too hastily in doubtfull cases till they have a word from Christ to warrant their judgement 4. It is also evident that all the Iudges of the Synedrion had need to be wise and learned in the wisdom of the Law because they must give judgement and passe their sentence in all doubtful and difficult cases yea even in doubtful Levitical cases Mamony saith that the Elders of the great Sanhedrin were wont to sit in the Temple to judge and try the Priests both touching their Genealogies and Blemishes and what Priest soever they found dis-allowable by his Genealogie they clothed him in black and so he went out of the Priests Court in the Temple But whosoever they found perfect and fit he was clothed in white and went in and ministred with his brethren Ainswoth in his Preface to Genesis By all these testimonies we may see that the Iudges of the Synedrion Court were the general Elders of the Church to look to all matters as well Levitical as Civil Yea sometimes the Priests were so simple in the knowledge of their duty that the Iudges of the Sanhedrin were fain to teach them their duty As for example If the Priests were unclean or unmeet any kinde of way to burn the Red heifer then it was the proper duty of the Iudges of the Sanhedrin to looke to this matter they must take abundant care to see it done as it ought to be done Ains Numb 10. 7. It belonged also to the Elders of the Sanhedrin to judge in all Levitical Ordinances both of Prohibition and Permission between the Clean and the Vnclean and in all like cases Ains in Exod. 23. 2. and it belonged to them to judge in all cases about tythes Ains Levit. 27. 33. And if a Priest were not able to judge of the signes of the plague of Leprosie then it was not lawful for such a Priest to look upon any Plague till a Master had taught him and made him expert in all Plagues Ains Levit. 13. 3. Therefore seeing the Elders of the Synedrion must judge in all such like Levitical cases as this it follows by necessary consequence that they were the general Elders of the whole Church and therefore they had power to inflict the sentence of Excommunication upon any offender as well as other punishments For they judged in all cases as well in matters of Religion as civil Justice and therefore also by the same rule of equity the Judges of the highest Court now may dispence the same power now both they and their Substitutes provided they take the like care that none be made Judges but such as be learned and godly Scholar You said ere while that Iesus Christ put Aaron the high Priest in trust with the care of matters of Religion as wel as Moses the King In that respect I conceive that the high Priest was the principal Elder of the National Church If so then it belonged to him as the chief Elder of the Church to dispence all actions of Church-discipline and so many learned do conclude and affirm Teacher I grant that many learned Divines do usually say and affirm that the high Priest was the chief Elder of that national Church and thus Chrysostome in Photius Library doth make the high Priest the stay of the State But I Answer first Negatively That the high Sacrificer was The high Sacrificer was not the chief Elder of the National Church in Israel as some affirm many times so simple that he was not fit to be chosen for an Elder of the Sanhedrin and therefore not fit to be the chief Elder of the whole Church But secondly I say that if the high Sacrificer were at any time chosen to be one of the Elders of the Synedrion then by that choice he was made an Elder of the National Church or else not His Priestly Office did not make him an Elder of the high Sanhedrin or Synedrion unlesse he were chosen thereto in an orderly way as all the other Iudges of that Court were But If he were orderly chosen to be one of the Iudges of the Sanhedrin then if his gifts and parts were more eminent then others he might haply be more exercised in judging Levitical Laws and Ordinances then others But if his parts were lesse eminent then some other Iudges of the Sanhedrin then other Iudges chosen out of their Tribes might be more exercised in judging Levitical Laws and Ordinances then he and so they might be preferred above him 2. It is evident that the high Sacrificer was not the chief Elder of the Church as he was the high Priest for though he had a priviledge above all other Priests in the Priests Office yet he had no place among the Elders of the Sanhedrin as he was the high Priest For his high Priests Office fell to him partly by birth which hath no learning nor gifts intailed to it and partly he was chosen by the Elders of the Sanhedrin They anointed the high Priest and installed him into his Office because they were the Churches Elders Ains Levit. 6. 20. And Talmud Ierusalemi in Sanhedrin sheweth that the seventie Elders of the high Sanhedrin might be all of Israel without any one of Levi and that the high Priest was not of the Sanhedrin except he were rarely learned and sage but saith the Talmud they were often times so simple that the Elders of the high Sanhedrin were forced to teach them their duty on Expiation day And this the Elders of the high Sanhedrin did not as a voluntary act but as a duty commanded them by vertue of their Office as they were the Churches Elders For it was the Angel of Gods presence that commanded Moses the Magistrate or head Elder of the Sanhedrin to speak unto Aaron the high Priest after the death of Aarons two sons by fire for their transgression to warn him of his duty on Expiation day lest he might transgress in his duty as his sonnes had done vide Ains on Levit. 16. 1 2. 33. And as the Elders of the high Sanhedrin must anoint the high Priest and instal him into his office so also they might excommunicate him for his offences as the Hebrew Doctors do testifie they say they might not excommunicate the King except in Ieroboams case but in great offence the high Sanhedrin would say unto the King Keep your house for a time and salve your honour v. M. Brough