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…

Fourthly, consider the triple Crown which the Hebrews speak of Pirke Aboth, cap. 4. sect: 13. Tres sunt coronae, corona legis, sacerdotii, & regni. Here is an Ecclesiastical and civill Government, and jus divinum over both. Pirke Aboth. cap. 6. sect. 5. Major est lex sacerdotio aut regno. See Aaron's rod, pag: 36. Philo saith, Moses divided the Civill and Ecclesiastical administration.

Fourthly, consider the triple Crowne which the Hebrewes speak of Pirke Aboth, cap. 4. sect: 13. Tres sunt coronae, corona legis, sacerdotii, & regni. Here is an Ecclesiasticall and civill Government, and jus divinum over both. Pirke Aboth. cap. 6. sect. 5. Major est lex sacerdotio aut regno. See Aarons rod, pag: 36. Philo saith, Moses divided the Civill and Ecclesiasticall administration.

The fifth Argument I shall take from that Ecclesiastical Government and discipline which the Jews since their dispersion and the destruction of Jerusalem and of the Temple, have exercised, where they had at all liberty to exercise their Religion. I read much in Itinerarium Benjaminis of the Antistites, praepositi, praesides, praefecti, Moderatoris Synagoga, synedria & capita synedriorum, among the dispersed Jews. pag. 70. decem in istâ civitate (in Bagdado) sunt concessus sive Synedria, Chrisost. lib. 1, quod Christus sit Deus, makes mention of a Patriarch of the dispersed Jews, [Greek or Hebrew], and he had a great power and rule among the Jews, as may be collected from that and other places of Chrysostom. This can be no civill Government or Magistratical courts (though Benjamin is too vainglorious that way) as Const. L' Empereur in his preface to the reader, proves from the Testimonies of Jews themselves, Kimchi, Abrabaniel, Maimonides, and the Chaldee paraphrase on Hos. 3. all making it manifest, that after their second dispersion, they had no Magistratical nor judicial power: See also for this, L' Empereur his annotations in Benjam. pag: 196. 200. Which answereth that of Mr. Selden in prolegom. ante lib. de success: Nullo adeo in aevo fere non erat hoc nationi huic (judaeorum) singular, suis fere legibus alieno in regno seu republica uti. Well, what then was the power of those rulers and courts of the Jews in Benjamins observation, who wrote in the twelfth Century? He tells pag: 30. of their excommunicating of Epicurean Jews, and pag: 73. 74. 115. of their ordaining of Rabbis, Readers and Preachers. From pag. 92, he tells a story of one David Alroi, who being a witty sorcerer, rebelled against the King of the Persians, called himself the King of the Jews, and got some followers. After he was in the hands of this King of the Persians, he escaped by his magical Arts, and though pursued, could not be overtaken and catched, whereupon this Persian King, writes to Caliphas a Machumetan Prince