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PAR. 4.
THe Author of that excellent worke, whosoever he was, called a Patterne of Catechisticall Doctrine, Pag. 122. &c. sheweth, first, that the Iewes had the effect of every Commandement in them, before the Law, as
- 1. Gen. 35.2. Put away the strange gods.
- 2. Gen. 31.34. Idolls; Gen. 35.5. Earerings.
- 3. Gen. 25.3. Sweare by the Lord God of Heaven.
- 4. Gen. 2.3. And Exod. 16.23. Rest of the Sabbath.
- 5. Gen. 27 41. Dayes of mourning for my Father.
- 6. Gen. 4.9. Cain hideth his killing of Abel.
- 7. Gen. 38.24. The whore Thamar to be burnt, and 34.3.
- 8. Gen. 44.7. God forbid we should steale.
- 9. Gen. 38.20. Iudah kept promise, not lying, or deceiving by untruth's.
- 10. Gen. 12.17. and 20.3. It was sin to looke on a woman, with lust after her. Vide (si libet) plura hâc de Re, apud Nicolaum Hemmingium, in libro de lege Naturae. Secondly, not onely the Iewes, but the Gentiles also had the same law by Nature in their hearts; though some of the Commandements, more manifestly, than other some,
- Manifestly sixe, namely, the 3.5.6.7.8.9.
- Somewhat obscurely, foure, as 1.2.4.10.
For the most manifest Commandements; the third was a Law of the Aegyptians, as Diodorus Siculus faith, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, sweare not, nisi morieris, lest thou dye; let me adde, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, He who sweareth, and nameth, Eccles. 23.11. for Reve∣rence to the Name of God; this word [God] is not in the Greeke, but wholly for∣borne; nor in Hentenius, and Santandreanus; though the Bishops Bible, and our late Translation have expressed it, according to the sense, without difference of Character; and though the precedent verse doth necessarily cause it to be under∣stood of God. Drusius on the place thus; the Iewes doe so scrupulously, if not superstitiously observe the precept, that they doe not write in their letters, the name of Elohim, which name yet is communicated to the Creatures; but the proper Name of God, they called Iehovah, which they call 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or the word of foure Letters; they are so farre from naming; that they know not this day, how it is to be read, or pronounced. Furthermore, it is very likely, that the Heathen imi∣tated the Iewes; for the Religious among them did forbeare to speclalize, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 but contented themselves with the reserved sense and understanding, saying onely, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 so Suidas. The fifth, Homer saith of one, that had a misfortune, it was Quia parentes non honoravit, because he honoured not his Parents: the fixt is a Rule even in Nature, Homicîda, quod fecit, expectet, let the murtherer expect murther: the se∣venth Stephanas, out of Nicostratus, Fuge nomen moechi, si mortem fugies; avoyd A∣dultery, as thou wouldst death: the eighth Demosthenes against Timocrates, repea∣teth it as Solons Law, in the very words; Thou shalt not steale. The ninth in the twelve tables, Tarpeio saxo dejieatur, cast him downe from a high rocke, who gi∣veth false testimony. For those they had somewhat obscurely. For the first, Py∣thagoras sayd; if a man come and say, I am God, let him create another world, and we will beleeve him. For the second they agreed, that every god should be wor∣shipped, as he himselfe thought good; and this is the very foundation of the second Commandement. For the fourth, little can be found; but sufficient for their con∣demnation; they know that numerus septenarius est Deo gratissimus, the number of seaven is most pleasing unto God, and it was numerus quietis, a number of rest; and thence they might have gathered, that God would have his rest that day: and so saith the Doctor the seventh day after birth, they kept exequiae; and the seventh day after death, the funerall; which words were mistaken, or mis-printed: the tenth their Lawes neuer touched, yet the scope of them was, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, non concupis∣cere,