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^*And further, that this rite of eating together, the Gentiles themselves did use, especially after such sacrifices as were federal, unto this intent, that by that superadded custom of eating together, upon or after sacrificing, they might the more ratify and confirm such Covenants, first made, and begun by sacrificing. This seems to me to be the intendment, Exod. 34. 15. Lest thou make a Covenant (God speaks it to the Jew) with the Inhabitants of the Land, and thou go a whoring ⟨p. 45⟩after their Gods, and do Sacrifice unto their Gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of their Sacrifices: namely upon pretence of confirming that Covenant, which having first been contracted and agreed on, they might further be drawn on, to Sacrifice and so eat of the Sacrifices also, with those Heathens in token of confirming such a league, as was the known common manner and custom of each to do.

^*And further, that this rite of eating together, the Gentiles themselves did use, especially after such sacrifices as were federall, unto this intent, that by that superadded custome of eating together, upon or after sacrificing, they might the more ratifie and confirme such Covenants, first made, and begun by sacrificing. This seemes to me to be the intendment, Exod. 34. 15. Lest thou make a Covenant (God speakes it to the Jew) with the Inhabitants of the Land, and thou goe a whoring ⟨p. 45⟩after their Gods, and doe Sacrifice unto their Gods, and one call thee, and thou eate of their Sacrifices: namely upon pretence of confirming that Covenant, which having first been contracted and agreed on, they might further be drawn on, to Sacrifice and so eate of the Sacrifices also, with those Heathens in token of confirming such a league, as was the known common manner and custome of each to doe.

1. *Some instances have been collected by Mr. Meade, Diatr. 2. part. upon