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.

§. 2. The division and distinction of the learned of the Nation.

Thus was the first and general division of the Nation into learned and unlearned, men bred up in the study of Law, and men that were not: and to this division doth that speech of the Pharisees themselves refer, Joh. 7. 48, 49. Doth any of the Rulers or of the Pharisees believe in him? But this people which know not the Law, &c. Now the learned of the Nation which were called The wise and The Scholars or Disciples of the wise were parted and even crumbled into many sub-divisions: Scribes, Pharisees, Sadduces, Herodi∣ans, mentioned in Scripture, and Esseans, Chasidim, Jechidim, Zelotae, Therapeutae, in Jewish writers.

Now the reason of this their division was in regard of some of them holding to, and others of them warping from, the National and State Religion, some more, some less, some one way, some another. For if their own Authors did not tell, reason it self and common sense would do it, that that Nation, which only of all others, had Religion among them, had some common and set Rule for their Religion, by which they were to go and to be guided in the practise of it. The Rule was Moses and the Prophets: the setting of this rule for practise, that is, giving it its fixed and determinate sense for that purpose, was by the Sanhedrin or great Council: and according as any one kept exactly to the rule so determined, or swarved from it by excess, or defect, he came under one or other of these titles and recognisances.