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…

My second Argument shall be taken from the Jewish Ordination of Elders, (Ordination being an act of the power of jurisdiction, not of order) with imposition of hands, from which Mr. Selden, Eutych. pag. 24. 25. tells us, the Christian Ordination and imposition of hands upon Presbyters, was bo rowed (even as the Christian baptism from the Jewish baptism at the admission of Proselytes, and the Lords Supper from what was used in the passover,) whereunto he saith, any man will assent, if he consider what is found in the Talmudical writers of the number of three, (which was the least number which could suffice to the ordaining of a Jewish Elder; and the same was the least number which the ancient Church thought sufficient for Ordination:) Also of the internal effect of that Jewish Ordination, with laying on of hands, which effect was the resting of the holy Ghost upon the Elder so ordained. And this was drawn from Num. 11. 26. Deut. 34. 9. See ibid. 21. 22. There is so much of the Christian Ordination borrowed from the Jewish, that D. Buxtorf: lex: Rabbin. pag: 1499. where he speaks of the Jewish Ordination, referrests to 1 Tim. 4. 14. I will add other three cited by Mr. Selden, ibid: pag: 22. First, I. Scaliger, Elench▪ Triher: cap: 20. When I turn to this place, I find Scaliger moves the question, how it came to pass that Christ was permitted to sit, and to teach among the Doctors in the Temple, not being ordained. (Mark here an Ordination which was for public teaching, not for a power of civill judicature, which Christ never assumed) and how it came that both he and John Baptist were called Rabbi: also he parallels one newly ordained among the Jews, with a young Bishop in the ancient Canons. The next shall be, H. Grotius annot. in Evan. pag: 329. When I turn hither, I find Grotius speaking thus, Manuum impositio ⟨p. 234⟩apud Judaeos indicabat invocationem divinae potentiae: ut alibi diximus. unde factum est ut munia publica eo ritu conferentur, etiam civilia ut Senatorum. Sed & in archisynagogis & senioribus synagogae, idem observatum, unde mos [Greek or Hebrew] ad Christianos transiit. Here is an Ecclesiastical Ordination to offices in the Synagogue, which he distinguisheth from civill offices. Lastly I turn to Itiner Beni. pag: 73. 74. Where I read of one D.