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.

VERS. IV.

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Can he enter the second time into his Mother's Womb?

THE common opinion of the Jews about the qualification of an Israelite, qua Isra∣elite, still sticks in the mind of this Pharisee; and although our Saviour useth that term which in the Jewish Language plainly enough intimates the necessity of being born from Heaven; yet cannot he easily get off from his first prejudice about the Israelitish Ge∣neration.

Whereas the Israelites, as they are Israelites have a right to be admitted into the Kingdom of the Messiah, do you therefore mean by this expression of yours, that it is necessary for any to enter a second time into his Mother's Womb, that he may be an Israelite anew?

He knew and acknowledged, as we have already said, that there must be a sort of a new-birth in those that come over to the Jewish Religion, but he never dreamt of any new proselytism requisite in one that had been born an Israelite. He could not there∣fore conceive the manner of a new birth, that he should be made an Israelite anew, un∣less it were by entring into the Mother's Womb a second time, which to him seemed an impossible thing.