A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

First, they had Elders who were Spiritual or Ecclesiastical (not civill) rulers. Whence it is that Salmasius de primatu papae, pag: 3. and long before Ambrose in 1 Tim: 5. doeth parallel the Jewish Elders not to the Christian Magistrate, but to the Elders of the Christian Church ordained by the Apostles. I do not say that they had no Elders who were civill Magistrates; but they had some Elders who were Church Governors, or had an Ecclesiastical jurisdiction. Which I prove 1. By the arguments brought before, Book 1 chap: 3. pag: 26. 27.

FIrst, they had Elders who were Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall (not civill) rulers. Whence it is that Salmasius de primatu papae, pag: 3. and long before Ambrose in 1 Tim: 5. doeth paralell the Jewish Elders not to the Christian Magistrate, but to the Elders of the Christian Church ordained by the Apostles. I do not say that they had no Elders who were civill Magistrates; but they had some Elders who were Church Governours, or had an Ecclesiastical jurisdiction. Which I prove 1. By the arguments brought before, Book 1 chap: 3. pag: 26. 27.

2. The Jews when they had lost their State, power, and civill Government, had still under the Roman Emperors their Presbyteri and Archisynagogi. Whereof Mr. Selden in Eutych: pag: 15. 16. brings clear instances under Arcadius and Honorius. Now the Roman Emperors did not permit to the Jews their own civill Government, but only an Autonomy in Religion. So ibid: pag: 34. he showeth us that the Kings of England have permitted to the Jews in England their Presbyteratus, which he doth not deny, but half yield, to have been the same with their Sacerdotium.

2. The Jewes when they had lost their State, power, and civill Government, had still under the Romane Emperours their Presbyteri and Archisynagogi. Whereof Mr. Selden in Eutych: pag: 15. 16. brings cleare instances under Arcadius and Honorius. Now the Romane Emperours did not permit to the Jewes their owne civill Government, but onely an Autonomy in Religion. So ibid: pag: 34. he sheweth us that the Kings of England have permitted to the Jewes in England their Presbyteratus, which he doth not deny, but halfe yeeld, to have been the same with their Sacerdotium.