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Thus this matter rested for a season. The study of the Hebrew tongue and learning being carried on, it fell at length on him, who undoubtedly hath done more real Service for the promotion of it, than any one man whatever, Jew or Christian. I mean Buxtorsius the Elder; his Thesaurus Grammaticus, his Tiberias, or Commentarius Massorethicus, his Lexicons and Concordances, and many other Treatises, whereof some are not yet published, evince this to all the world. Even Morinus saith that he is the only man among Christians, that ever throughly understood the Massora; and Symeon de Muys acknowledgeth his profiting by him, and learning from him; Other Jews who undertake to be teachers, know nothing but what they learn of him. To omit the Testimony of all sorts of learned men, giving him the preeminence in this learning, it may suffice that his works praise him. Now this man in his Tiberias or Commentarius Massorethicus, printed with the great Rabbinical Bible of his own correct setting forth at Basil, An. 1620, considereth at large this wh•l matter of the points, and discovereth the vanity of Elijah his pretension about the Tiberian Massorites. But we must not it seems rest here: within a few years after, to make way for another design, which then he had conceived; Ludovicus Capellus published ⟨image 11⟩a discourse in the defence of the opinion of Elijah, (at least so far as concerned the rise of the punctation) under the Title of Arcanum punctationis revelatum. The book was published by Erpenius without the name of the Author. But the Person was sufficiently known; and Rivetus not long after took notice of him, and saith he was his friend, but concealed his name. Isag. ad Scr. 1. cap. 8. This new attempt immediately pleaseth some. Among others, our learned Professor Dr. Prideaux reads a public Lecture on the Vespers of our Comitia on that subject; wherein though he prefaceth his discourse with an observation of the advantage the Papists make of that opinion of the novelty of the points, and the danger of it, yet upon the matter he falls in wholly with Capellus, though he name him not. Among the large Encomiums of himself, and his work, printed by Capellus in the close of his Critica sacra, there are two Letters from one Mr. Eyre here in England, in one whereof he tells him, that without doubt the Doctor read on that subject by the help of his book;

Thus this matter rested for a season. The study of the Hebrew tongue and learning being carried on, it fell at length on him, who undoubtedly hath done more reall Service for the promotion of it, than any one man whatever, Jew or Christian. I meane Buxtorsius the Elder; his Thesaurus Grammaticus, his Tiberias, or Commentarius Massorethicus, his Lexicons and Concordanes, and many other Treatises, whereof some are not yet published, evince this to all the world. Even Morinus saith that he is the only man among Christians, that ever throughly understood the Massora; and Symeon de Muys acknowledgeth his profiting by him, and learning from him; Other Jews who undertake to be teachers, know nothing but what they learne of him. To omit the Testimony of all sorts of learned men, giving him the preheminence in this learning, it may suffice that his workes praise him. Now this man in his Tiberias or Commentarius Massorethicus, printed with the great Rabbinicall Bible of his own correct setting forth at Basil, An. 1620, considereth at large this whl matter of the points, and discovereth the vanity of Elias his pretension about the Tiberian Massorites. But we must not it seems rest here: within a few yeares after, to make way for another designe, which then he had conceived; Ludovicus Capellus published