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.

CHAP. XX. Wit stollen by Iews out of the Gospel. (Book 20)

Gospel.	Jews.
OUR Saviour saith to his Disciples, the harvest truly is great, but the la∣bourers are few, Matth. 9. 38.	RAbbi Simeon saith: to day is the har∣vest, and the work is much and the labourers are idle, and the reward great, and the Master of the house urgent, Pirk Abhoth Per. 2.
Whosoever heareth these sayings, and doth them, I will liken him to a man that built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and floods came, &c.	He that learneth the Law, and doth ma∣ny good works, is like a man that built his house, the foundation of stone and the rest of brick, and the waters beat, and the stone stood, &c.
And every one that heareth these sayings, and doth them not, shall be likened to a foolish man that built his house upon the sand. Matth. 7. 24, 25. &c.	But he that learneth the Law, and doth not many good works, is like a man that built his house, the foundation of brick and the rest of stone, &c. and the brick wasted, &c. Abhoth Rabbi Nathan.
Of every idle word that men speak, they shall give account thereof at the day of Judge∣ment. Matth. 12. 36.	The very same words almost in Orehhoth hhajim.
With what measure you meet, it shall be measured to you again. Matth. 7. 2.	Rabbi Mair saith, With the measure that a man measureth, they measure to him again, Sanhedrin.

The whole Lords Prayer might almost be picked out of their works, for they deny not the words though they contradict the force of it. The first words of it they use frequently, as Our Father which art in Heaven: in their Common Prayer book, fol. 5. and Humble your hearts before your Father which is in Heaven in Rosh hashava. But they have as much devotion toward the Father while they deny the Son, as the Heathens had which could say 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. * 1.1 Our Father Jupiter, and worshipped an unknown god, Act. 17. They pray almost in every other Prayer, Thy Kingdom come, and that Bimherah bejamenu quickly, even in our days, but it is for an earthly Kingdom they thus look and pray. They pray, Lead me not into Temptation, fol. 4. Liturg. while they tempt him that lead them in the Wilderness, as did their Fathers, Psal. 95. By this Gospel which they thus filch, they must be judged.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Frequent in Homer.