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…

3. Although Mr. Selden, comment: in Eutych: Orig: pag. 17. &c. to 34. and in his Uxor Ebraica. lib. 1. chap. 15. holdeth that the Jewish Elders or Presbyters, were such as were created by imposition of hands, receiving thereby a judicial faculty or degree, so that thence forth they were capable of membership in the Sanhedrin, either of 23. or 71. and were fit to preside in judging of civill causes: and so endeavoureth to show that it was a civill, not a sacred or Ecclesiastical dignity and preferment; Yet he furnisheth me with some considerable arguments to confirm my opinion, beside that which was last mentioned. As 1. He tells us in Eutych. pag. 16. that nomina officiorum Sacrorum, ut patriarcha, Pr•byter, Apostolus, Diaconus, Primas Et Episcopus, in Christianismum ex Judaismi veteris usu, &c. manarunt. But if the Jewish Elders were not promoted to a sacred, but to a civill jurisdiction, that name should have been transferred to Magistrates, Judges, Parliament men, rather then to Church officers. 2. He tells of a divided, distinct, bounded & particular Ordination of the Jewish Elders, some of them being ordained to a faculty or power of judging, but not to judge of lawful or unlawful rites, others of them being ordained to judge of rites, but not of pecuniary causes. The form of words which he citeth, is this, Et sit tibi sacultas judicandi, sed ita ut minime sit tibi facultas decernendi quinam ritus illiciti, quinam liciti, aut sit tibi hujusmodi facultas decernendi, ita tamen ut causas pecuniarias non sit tibi facultas judicandi. Behold a sacred and a civill jurisdiction distinguished. Mr. Selden himself, uxor. Ebr. lib. 1 cap. 15. tells us that the word Presbyters or Elders, is by the Talmudical writers used no only for those who were created by imposition of hands to a Magistratical or judicial faculty, such as the members of the Sanhedrin, or such as were candidates in that faculty, and as it were expectants of a place, and memberships in their Courts of justice, but also for other fit and idoneous persons, ⟨p. 233⟩who might be called for counsel or advice. Therefore all their Elders were not civill Magistrates.

3. Although Mr. Selden, comment: in Eutych: Orig: pag. 17. &c. to 34. and in his Vxor Ebraica. lib. 1. chap. 15. holdeth that the Jewish Elders or Presbyters, were such as were created by impositione of hands, receaving thereby a judiciall facultie or degree, so that thence forth they were capable of membership in the Sanhedrim, either of 23. or 71. and were fit to preside in judging of civill causes: and so endeavoureth to shew that it was a civill, not a sacred or Ecclesiasticall dignity and preferment; Yet he furnisheth me with some considerable arguments to confirme my opinion, beside that which was last mentioned. As 1. He tells us in Eutych. pag. 16. that nomina officiorum Sacrorum, ut patriarcha, Prbyter, Apostolus, Diaconus, Primas Et Episcopus, in Christianismum ex Iudaismi veteris usu, &c. manarunt. But if the Jewish Elders were not promoted to a sacred, but to a civill jurisdiction, that name should have been transferred to Magistrates, Judges, Parliament men, rather then to Church officers. 2. He tells of a divided, distinct, bounded & particular Ordniation of the Iewish Elders, some of them being ordained to a faculty or power of judging, but not to judge of lawfull or unlawfull rites, others of them being ordained to judge of rites, but not of pecuniary causes. The forme of words which he citeth, is this, Et sit tibi sacultas judicandi, sed ita ut minime sit tibi facultas decernendi quinam ritus illiciti, quinam liciti, aut sit tibi hujusmodi facultas decernendi, ita tamen ut causas pecuniarias non sit tibi facultas judicandi. Behold a sacred and a civill jurisdiction distinguished. Mr. Selden himself, uxor. Ebr. lib. 1 cap. 15. tells us that the word Presbyters or Elders, is by the Talmudicall writers used no only for those who were created by imposition of hands to a Magistraticall or judiciall facultie, such as the members of the Sanhedrim, or such as were candidats in that facultie, and as it were expectants of a place, and memberships in their Courts of justice, but also for other fit and idoneous persons,