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CHAP. XV. (Book 15)
Masse. SECT. 22.
THe Title our Author gives to his first head of Observation, is Mes∣sach, on what account I know not; unless it be with respect to a ridiculous He∣brew Etymologie of the word Missa; as though it should be the same with 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 a word quite of another signification. If this be that which his title intends, I wish him better success in his next Etymolo∣gizing, for this attempt hath utterly failed him. Missa never came out of the East nor hath any affinity with those tongues; being a word utterly unknown to the Sy∣rians; and Graecians also, by whom all Hebrew words that are used in Religion came into Europe. He that will trouble himself to trace the pedigree of Missa, shall find it of no such antient stock, but a word, that with many others came in∣to