Add hereunto that those Heathens, who were strangers from the Common-wealth of Israel, though they made not the seventh day as Festival as the Jews did; yet did they attribute some holiness to it, and gave it a peculiar honour above the other days of the week; wherein they retained ⟨p. 75⟩some Relics, and preserved still some clear foot-steps of the first institution. Quinetiam populi jam *olim, saith Josephus, (sub fin. lib. 2. contra Apion.) multùm nostram pietatem aemulantur: neque est civitas Graecorum ulla usquàm aut Barbarorum, nec ulla gens, ad quam septimanae, in qua vacamus, consuetudo minimè pervenerit; Jejuniaque & candelabra accensa, &c. of which Rite of lighting of Candles, or Lamps rather, mention also is made by Seneca in his 95th. Epistle: Accendere aliquam lucernam Sabbathis prohibeamus; quoniam nec lumine Dii egent, & ne homines quidem delectantur fuligine. And by Tertullian lib. 1. ad Nation. cap. 13. where he noteth also those to be the Sabbaths observed by the Nations, saying thus unto them. Qui solem & diem ejus nobis exprobratis, agnoscite vicinitatem: Non longè à Saturno & Sabbatis VESTRIS sumus, wherein though their devotion were somewhat like […] of the Jews, (which is ⟨p. 76⟩all that those words of Josephus do import; Multum nostram pietatem aemulantur,) yet that it was not done by any late imitation of them, or with any relation at all to their observance; that other place of Tertullian doth seem to evince, in the 16th. Chapter of his Apologeticum. Aequè si diem solis laetitiae indulgemus, aliâ longè ratione quàm religione solis; secundo loco ab eis sumus qui diem Saturni otio & victui decernunt, exorbitantes & ipsi à Judaico more, aquem ignorant. And that they did not celebrate their Saturdays, with that solemnity wherewith themselves did their annual festivities, or the Jews their weekly Sabbaths, may appear by the words of this same Author, in the 14th. Chapter of his book de Idololatriâ, thus speaking unto the Christian, (who observed 52 Lords days every year, whereas all the annual festivities of the Pagans put together, did come short of fifty.) ⟨p. 77⟩Ethnicis semel annuus dies quisque festus est; tibi octavo quoque die. Excerpe singulas solemnitates nationum, & in ordinem text; Pentecosten implere non potuerunt.
Adde hereunto that those Heathens, who were strangers from the Common-wealth of Israel, though they made not the seventh day as Festival as the Jews did; yet did they attribute some holinesse to it, and gave it a peculiar honour above the other dayes of the week; wherein they retained ⟨p. 75⟩some Relicks, and preserved still some clear foot-steps of the first institution. Quinetiam populi jam *olim, saith Josephus, (sub fin. lib. 2. contra Apion.) multùm nostram pietatem aemulantur: neque est civitas Graecorum ulla usquàm aut Barbarorum, nec ulla gens, ad quam septimanae, in qua vacamus, consuetudo minimè pervenerit; Jejuniaque & candelabra accensa, &c. of which Rite of lighting of Candles, or Lamps rather, mention also is made by Seneca in his 95th. Epistle: Accendere aliquam lucernam Sabbathis prohibeamus; quoniam nec lumine Dii egent, & ne homines quidem delectantur fuligine. And by Tertullian lib. 1. ad Nation. cap. 13. where he noteth also those to be the Sabbaths observed by the Nations, saying thus unto them. Qui solem & diem ejus nobis exprobratis, agnoscite vicinitatem: Non longè à Saturno & Sabbatis VESTRIS sumus, wherein though their devotion were somewhat like 〈…〉 of the Jewes, (which is ⟨p. 76⟩all that those words of Josephus do import; Multum nostram pietatem aemulantur,) yet that it was not done by any late imitation of them, or with any relation at all to their observance; that other place of Tertullian doth seem to evince, in the 16th. Chapter of his Apologeticum. Aequè si diem solis laetitiae indulgemus, aliâ longè ratione quàm religione solis; secundo loco ab eis sumus qui diem Saturni otio & victui decernunt, exorbitantes & ipsi à Judaico more, aquem ignorant. And that they did not celebrate their Satturdayes, with that solemnity wherewith themselves did their annuall festivities, or the Jewes their weekly Sabbaths, may appear by the words of this same Author, in the 14th. Chapter of his book de Idololatriâ, thus speaking unto the Christian, (who observed 52 Lords dayes every year, whereas all the annual festivities of the Pagans put together, did come short of fifty.) ⟨p. 77⟩Ethnicis semel annuus dies quisque festus est; tibi octavo quoque die. Excerpe singulas solemnitates nationum, & in ordinem texe; Pentecosten implere non potuerunt.
- *This word was not well left out by Gomarus, in Investigat. p. 123. The Greek, S. [Greek or Hebrew].This word was not well left out by Gomarus, in Investigat. p. 123. The Greek, S. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
- aUpon these two words I ground the strength of the Argument: which will hold, notwithstanding the correction of Gottef•edus, out of that in libro, 1. ad Nationes cap. 13. Quod quidem facitis, exo•bitantes & ipsi à vestris ad altenas religiones.
