Ex lib. Zohar. At what time a man is sealed with this blessed seal of this sign, thenceforth he seeth the holy blessed God, properly, and the holy soul is united with him. If he be not worthy that he keepeth not this sign, what is written? By the breath of God they perish, Job 4.9. For that this seal of the holy blessed God was not kept; but if he be worthy and keep it, the Holy ⟨p. 373⟩Ghost is not separated from him.] And after v. 12. ex Maimonid. "[By three things did Israel enter into the Covenant, by Circumcision, and Baptism, and Sacrifice, &c. And so in all ages when an Ethnic is willing to enter into the Covenant, and gather himself under the wing of the Majesty of God, and take upon him the yoke of the Law, he must be circumcised, and baptized, and bring a Sacrifice, &c. When a man or woman cometh to join a Proselyte, they make diligent enquiry after such, lest they come to get themselves under the Law, for some riches that they should receive, or for dignity that they should obtain, or for fear. If he be a man, they enquire whether he have not set his affection on some Jewish woman; or a woman her affection on some young man of Israel. If no such like occasion be found in them, they make known unto them the weightiness of the yoke of the Law, and the toil that is in the doing of it, above that which people of other Lands have, to see if they will leave off. If they take them upon them, and withdraw not, and they see them that they come of love, then they receive them; as it is written, When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her, Ruth 1.18. Therefore the Judges received no Proselytes all the days of David and Solomon. Not in David's days, left they should have come of fear: Nor in Solomon's, lest they should have come because of the Kingdom and great prosperity which Israel then had. For who so cometh from the Heathens, for any thing of the vanities of this world, he is no righteous Proselyte. Notwithstanding there were many Proselytes, which in David's and Solomon's days, joined themselves in the presence of private persons, and the Judges of the great Synedron had a• care of them; they drove them not away after they were Baptized, out of any place, neither took they them near unto them until their after-fruits appeared
Ex lib. Zohar. At what time a man is sealed with this blessed seal of this sign, thenceforth he seeth the holy blessed God, properly, and the holy soul is united with him. If he be not worthy that he keepeth not this sign, what is written? By the breath of God they perish, Job 4.9. For that this seal of the holy blessed God was not kept; but if he be worthy and keep it, the Holy ⟨p. 373⟩Ghost is not separated from him.] And after v. 12. ex Maimonid. "[By three things did Israel enter into the Covenant, by Circumcision, and Baptism, and Sacrifice, &c. And so in all ages when an Ethnick is willing to enter into the Covenant, and gather himself under the wing of the Majesty of God, and take upon him the yoke of the Law, he must be circumcised, and baptized, and bring a Sacrifice, &c. When a man or woman cometh to joyn a Proselite, they make diligent enquiry after such, lest they come to get themselves under the Law, for some riches that they should receive, or for dignity that they should obtain, or for fear. If he be a man, they enquire whether he have not set his affection on some Jewish woman; or a woman her affection on some young man of Israel. If no such like occasion be found in them, they make known unto them the weightiness of the yoke of the Law, and the toil that is in the doing of it, above that which people of other Lands have, to see if they will leave off. If they take them upon them, and withdraw not, and they see them that they come of love, then they receive them; as it is written, When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her, Ruth 1.18. Therefore the Judges received no Proselites all the dayes of David and Solomon. Not in David's dayes, left they should have come of fear: Nor in Solomon's, lest they should have come because of the Kingdom and great prosperity which Israel then had. For who so cometh from the Heathens, for any thing of the vanities of this world, he is no righteous Proselite. Notwithstanding there were many Proselites, which in David's and Solomon's days, joyned themselves in the presence of private persons, and the Judges of the great Synedron had a• care of them; they drove them not away after they were Baptized, out of any place, neither took they them neer unto them until their after-fruits appeared
