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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	false_a	true_a	worship_n	4,780	5	7.8086	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90280	Of the divine originall, authority, self-evidencing light, and povver of the Scriptures. With an answer to that enquiry, how we know the Scriptures to be the Word of God. Also a vindication of the purity and integrity of the Hebrew and Greek texts of the Old and New Testament; in some considerations on the prolegomena, & appendix to the late Biblia polyglotta. Whereunto are subjoyned some exercitations about the nature and perfection of the Scripture, the right of interpretation, internall Light, revelation, &c. / By Iohn Owen: D.D.	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1659 (1659)	Wing O784; Thomason E1866_1; Thomason E1866_1*; ESTC R203092	144,024	386

them 5080000 in battell with an infinite number besides as the Historian speakes by famine sicknesse and fire were consumed He found himselfe to have sustained so much losse by them that he began not his letter to the Senate in the wonted manner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He could not assure them that it was well with him and his army By this second desolation they were very low made weake and contemptible and driven into obscurity all the world over In this state they wandred up and downe for some season in all manner of Uncertainty They had not only lost the place of their solemne worship seeing it wholy defiled the name of Jerusalem changed into Aelia and themselves forbid to looke towards it upon paine of death but also being now unspeakably diminished in their number all hopes of contriving themselves into any condition of observing their old rites and worship was utterly lost Sect. 10. Here they sate down amazed for a season being at their wits end as was threatned to them in the Curse But they will not rest so Considering therefore that their old Religion could not be continued without a Jerusalem and a Temple they began a nefarious attempt against God equall to that of the old world in building Babel even to set up a new Religion that might abide with them where-ever they were and give them countenance in their Infidelity and opposition to the Gospell unto the utmost The head of this new Apostasy was one Rabbi Jehuda whom we may not unfitly call the Mahomet of the Jews They terme him Hannasi the Prince and Hakkadosh the holy The whole story of him and his companions as reported by the Jews is well collected by Joseph de Voisin observat in proaem ad pugi fidei p. 26 27. The summe of the whole concerning this work is laid down by Maimonides in his praefatio in Seder Zeraiim pag 36 37. of the edition of Mr Pococke wherein also a sufficient account is given of the whole Mishna with the name of the Rabbins either imploied in it or occasionally mentioned This man about the year of Christ 190 or 200 when the Temple had now laine wast almost three times as long as it did in the Babylonish Captivity being countenanced as some of themselves report by Antoninus Pius compiled the Jewish Alcoran or the Mishna as a Rule of their worship and waies for the future Only whereas Mahomet afterwards pretended to have received his sigments by Revelation though indeed he had much of his Abominations from the Talmud this man pleaded the receiving of his by Tradition the two maine Engines that have been set up against the Word of God Out of such Pharisaicall Traditions as were indeed preserved amongst them and such Observances as they had learned and taken up from Apostate Christians as Aquila and others with such figments as were invented by himselfe and his predecessors since the time of their being publickly rejected and cursed by God This man compiled the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mishnaioth which is the Text of their Talmud and the foundation of their present Religion under the name of the old orall Law That sundry Christian Ceremonies and institutions vilely corrupted were taken up by the Jews of those daies many of them being Apostates as were also some of Mahomets Assistants in compiling of the Alcoran I shall God assisting elsewhere endeavour to evince and manifest That any Gospell observances were taken from the Jews as being in practise amongst them before their institution by Christ will appeare in the issue to be a bold and groundlesse fancy Sect. 11. The foundation mentioned being laid in a Collection of Traditions and new invention of Abominations under the name of old Traditions by this Rabbi the following Talmuds are an improvement of the same attempt of setting up a Religion under the Curse and against the mind and Will of God that being rejected by him and left without King without Prince without sacrifice without image without an Ephod and without a Teraphim and kind of worship true or false they might have something to give them countenance in their unbeliefe The Talmud of Jerusalem so called for it is the product of many comments on the Mishnae in the city of Tiberias where Rabbi Juda lived because it was compiled in the land of Canaan whose metropolis was Jerusalem was published about the yeare of Christ 230. so it is commonly received though I find Dr. Lightfoot of late on suppositiō of finding in it the name of Diocletianus the Emperour to give it a later date But I confesse I see no just ground for the alteration of his judgment from what he delivered in another Treatise before The Doclet mentioned by the Rabbins was beaten by the Children of Rabbi Jehuda Princeps as himselfe observes who lived in the daies of one of the Antoninus's an hundred yeares before Diocletian Neither was ever Diocletian in a Low condition in the East being a Sarmatian born and living in the Westerne parts only he went with Numerianus that Expedition into Persia wherein he was made Emperour at his returne but this is nothing to my purpose See Lightfoot Chronograph cap. 81. p. 144. The Babylonian Talmud so called because compiled in the land of Babylon in the cities of Nahardea Sora and Pumbeditha where the Jews had their Synagogues and schooles was finished about the yeare 506 or 510. In this greater worke was the mystery of their iniquity finished and the Engine of their own Invention for their further obduration perfectly compleated These are now the Rule of their faith the measure of their Exposition of Scriptures the directory of their worship the ground of their hope and Expectation Sect. 12. All this while the Jews enjoyed the Letter of the Scriptures as they do to this day yea they receive it sometimes with the honour and Veneration due to God alone God preserved it amongst them for our present use their farther condemnation and meanes of their future conversion But after the destruction of the Temple and rejection of their whole Church-state the Word was no longer committed to them of God nor were they intrusted with it nor are to this day They have it not by promise or Covenant as they had of old Isa 59. 21. Their possession of it is not accompanied with the Administration of the spirit without which as we see in the instance of themselves the Word is a dead letter of no efficacy for the Good of soules They have the letter amongst them as sometimes they had the Ark in the battell against the Philistines for their greater ruine Sect. 13. In this state and condition they every where discover their rancour and malice against Christ calling him in contempt and reproach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 relating monstrous figments concerning him and their dealing with him under the name of Jesus the son of Pandira Some deny that by Jesus the