The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

§ As his Custom was he went into the Synagogue.

Whether it mean, as his custom was at this present, or as it had been whilest he lived there a private man, (which I rather conceive, the expression aimeth at) I see not, what in the world the Separatists that withdraw from the publick worship in our Congregations, can say to this example: For was not their publick Worship in their Synagogues as corrupt as ours is pretended to be in our Congregations? was not the people of Nazareth as corrupt a people, as most Congregations now are? see their desperate wickedness in vers. 29. What did Christ all the while he lived there a private man, did he never go to the Synagogue? Sabbath, and Holy days and Sy∣nagogue days, whilest others went to the publick Service and Congregation did he sit at home? Nay I assert, that now when he is become a publick Minister, he goes to the Synagogue of Nazareth, as a member of that Congregation, and as a member he reads publickly there; you find not in all the Gospel, (though he preached in every Synagogue where he came, yet) that he read in none of them but only in this: and you find not in any Talmudick or Jewish record, that they that read the Law and Prophets in their Synagogues were any others but members of that Con∣gregation. It is true indeed that strangers, if they were learned might Preach in their Synagogues, as Paul and Barnabas did, Acts 13. 15, 16. &c. but none did publickly read there but a member of that Synagogue. In all the Scripture we find not, that either any that were holy indeed, or any that took upon them to be holy, no nor he that was holyness it self, did separate and withdraw from the publick service in the Congregation.