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Animadversions on a treatise entitled Fiat lux, or, A guide in differences of religion,…Animadversions on a treatise intituled Fiat lux, or, A guide in differences of religion,…
Animadversions on a treatise entitled Fiat lux, or, A guide in differences of religion, between papist and Protestant, Presbyterian and independent by a Protestant.Animadversions on a treatise intituled Fiat lux, or, A guide in differences of religion, between papist and Protestant, Presbyterian and independent by a Protestant.
London: printed by E. Cotes for Henry Cripps, 1662
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CHAP. XV.
Mass. SECT. 22.
Masse. SECT. 22.
The Title our Author gives to his first head of Observation, is Meshach, on what account I know not; unless it be with respect to a ridiculous Hebrew Etymology of the word Missa; as though it should be the same with [Greek or Hebrew] a word quite of another signification. If this be that which his title intends, I wish him better success in his next Etymologizing, for this attempt hath utterly failed him. Missa never came out of the East nor hath any affinity with those tongues; being a word utterly unknown to the Syrians; and Graecians also, by whom all Hebrew words that are used in Religion came into Europe. He that will trouble himself to trace the pedigree of Missa, shall find it of no such ancient stock, but a word, that with many others came into ⟨p. 287⟩use in the destruction of the Roman-Empire, and the corruption of the Latin-tongue. But as it is likely our Author having not been accustomed to feed much upon Hebrew roots, might not perceive the insipidness of this pretended traduction of the word Missa, so also on the other side, its not improbable, but that he might only by an uncouth word think to startle his poor Countrymen, at the entrance of the story of his Travels, that they might look upon him as no small person who hath the Meshach, and such other hard names, at his fingers ends: as the Gnostics heightened their Disciples, into an admiration of them by Paldab•oth, Astaphaeum, and other names of the like hideous noise and found.
THe Title our Author gives to his first head of Observation, is Messach, on what account I know not; unless it be with respect to a ridiculous Hebrew Etymologie of the word Missa; as though it should be the same with a word quite of another signification. If this be that which his title intends, I wish him better success in his next Etymologizing, for this attempt hath utterly failed him. Missa never came out of the East nor hath any affinity with those tongues; being a word utterly unknown to the Syrians; and Graecians also, by whom all Hebrew words that are used in Religion came into Europe. He that will trouble himself to trace the pedigree of Missa, shall find it of no such antient stock, but a word, that with many others came into