Moses and Aaron

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Goodwin Thomas Aiken. Moses and Aaron

THE FIRST BOOK. TREATETH OF PERSONS

CHAP. I. Of the form of the Hebrewes Common-wealth until Christ his coming, and when the Scepter departed from them

CHAP. II. Of the Publicans

CHAP. III. Israelites, Prosylites

CHAP. IV. Of their Kings

CHAP. V. The High-priest, Priests, Levites, and Nethinims

CHAP. VI. Of the Prophets

CHAP. VII. Of their Title Rabbi

CHAP. VIII. Of their Nazarites and Rechabites

CHAP. IX. Of the Assideans

CHAP. X. Of the Pharisees

CHAP. XI. Of the Sadduces

CHAP. XII. Of the Essenes

CHAP. XIII. Of the Gaulonitæ, and the Herodians

THE SECOND BOOK. TREATETH OF PLACES

CHAP. I. Their Temple

CHAP. II. Their Synagogues, Schools, and Houses of Prayer

CHAP. III. Of the Gates of Jerusalem

CHAP. IV. Of their Groves, and high Places

CHAP. V. The Cities of Refuge

THE THIRD BOOK. TREATETH OF DAIES and TIMES

CHAP. I. Days, Hours, Weeks, and Years

CHAP. II. Of their Feasts

CHAP. III. Of their Sabbath

CHAP. IV. Of their Passover, and their Feasts of Unleavened Bread

CHAP. V. Of their Pentecost

CHAP. VI. The Feast of Tabernacles

CHAP. VII. Of the Feast of Trumpets, and their New Moons

CHAP. VIII. The Feast of Expiation

CHAP. IX. The Sabbatical year, or Seventh years rest

CHAP. X. Of their Jubilee

CHAP. XI. The Feast of Purim, and the Feast of Consecration or Dedication

THE FOURTH BOOK. OF THEIR IDOLATRY

CHAP. I. The beginnings of Idolatry

CHAP. II. Of Moloch, Adram-Melech, Anam-Melech, Baal, The Tabernacle of Molech, Chiun, Rempham, Horses consecrated to the Sun, Thamuz

CHAP. III. Of Baal-Peor, Baal-Tsephon, Baal-Zebub, Baal-Berith, Bell and the Dragon

CHAP. IV. Of Dagon

CHAP. V. Of the molten Calf

CHAP. VI. Of Astaroth, Ammonia, Juno, the Queen of Heaven, Diana of the Ephesians

CHAP. VII. Of other Gods mentioned in Scripture

CHAP. VIII. The several manners of Divine Revelation

CHAP. IX. Their Teraphim

CHAP. X. The several sorts of Divination forbidden

THE FIFTH BOOK. OF THEIR CONSISTORIES

CHAP. I. Their Courts of Judgment, especially their Ecclesiastical Consistory

CHAP. II. Of their Excommunication

CHAP. III. Their Civil Consistories, what persons were necessarily present in them

CHAP. IV. The number of their Civil Courts

CHAP. V. Properties required in Judges, and the manner of their election

CHAP. VI. Ceremonies common in all capital Judgments

CHAP. VII. Their capital punishments

CHAP. VIII. Punishments not capital

CHAP. IX. Punishments borrowed from other Nations

THE SIXTH BOOK. OF MISCELLANEOUS RITES

CHAP. I. Of Circumcision

CHAP. II. Of their first fruits and their firstlings, or first-born

CHAP. III. Of Tithes

CHAP. IV. Of their Marriages

CHAP. V. Of their Burials

CHAP. VI. Of their Oaths

CHAP. VII. Of their Writing, Masorites, and their Work

CHAP. VIII. Of Israels pitching their Tents, or of their Camps

CHAP. IX. Their Measures

CHAP. X. Their Coyns. First of brazen Coyns

The Names of Authors cited in this BOOK

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The form and state of Government hath been subject to change and variation amongst all Nations, but especially amongst the Jewes, where these changes are observable.

At first, the Fathers of their several Families, and their First-born after them, exercised all kind of Government, both Eclesiastical and Civil, being both Kings and Priests, in their own houses. They had power over their own Families, to bless, curse, cast out of doors, disinherit, and to punish with death, as is apparent by these examples: of Noah towards Cham, Gen. 9. 25. of Abraham towards Hagar and Ismael, Gen. 21. 10. of Jacob towards Simeon and Levi, Gen. 49. 3. and of Judah towards Thamar, Gen. 38. 24.

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Thirdly,98 From the customs and manners of the world. This heresie of the Pharisees seemeth to have had its first beginning in Antigonus Sochæus. He being a Pharisee, succeeded Simon the Just; who was Coetanean with Alexander the Great: he lived three hundred years before the birth of Christ.

The Pharisees were99 not tied to any particular Tribe or Family, but indifferently they might be of any; S. Paul was a Benjaminite; Hyrcanus was a Levite.100 Each Sect had its Dogmata, his proper Aphorisms, Constitutions, or Canons: so the Pharisees had theirs. My purpose is, both concerning these and the other Sects, to note onely those Canons, or Aphorisms, wherein chiefly they were heretical, and one differing from the other.

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