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…

A third argument I take from the Synagoga magni, see Aaron's Rod, pag. 4. 5. 137. 146. Add Mr. Selden in Eutych▪ pag: 42. where he tells us out of the Jerusalem Gemara, Centum & viginti Presbyteri, è quibus octoginta prophetae fuere aut instar Prophetarum, hanc precandi formulam institueruut. Mark they were Elders, and that an Assembly was an Eldership or Sanhedrin. But is it credible that Ezra Zerubbabel, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachia would consent that such an Assembly, for which there been neither institution nor president before, should assume that great power in Church affairs? Salom. Glassius Phil. sacr: lib. 1. Tract. 1. pag: 26. 27. Rectius est originem ejus (Masorae) ad veros Synagogae seu consistorii magni (cujus praeses Ezra sacerdos, legis divinae peritissimus, Ezra 7. 6. Symmistae & [Greek or Hebrew], Haggaeus, Zechariah, Malachi, Nehemiah, Zerubbabel, Sacerdos, Jehoshua, aliique primarii Sacerdotes & Levitae, ducis Zorobabelis ex Babylonia comites, numero centum viginti) reducere, Ezra 7. 10. & haec communis Hebraeorum est sententia. Following the most received opinion of the Hebrews themselves, ascribes the making and composing of the Masora (a most ingenious and laborious critical doctrine upon the Hebrew Text) to the men of the great Synagogue.

A third argument I take from the Synagoga magni, see Aarons Rod, pag. 4. 5. 137. 146. Adde Mr. Selden in Eutych▪ pag: 42. where he tells us out of the Ierusalem Gemara, Centum & viginti Presbyteri, è quibus octoginta prophetae fuere aut instar Prophetarum, hanc precandi formulam institueruut. Marke they were Elders, and that an Assembly was an Eldership or Sanhedrim. But is it credible that Ezra Zerubbabell, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachia would consent that such an Assembly, for which there been neither institution nor president before, should assume that great power in Church affaires? Salom. Glassius Phil. sacr: lib. 1. Tract. 1. pag: 26. 27. Rectius est originem ejus (Masorae) ad veros Synagogae seu consistorii magni (cujus praeses Ezra sacerdos, legis divinae peritissimus, Ezra 7. 6. Symmistae & 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Haggaeus, Zacharias, Malachias, Nehemias, Zorobabel, Sacerdos, Jehoshua, aliique primarii Sacerdotes & Levitae, ducis Zorobabelis ex Babylonia comites, numero centum viginti) reducere,