Moses and Aaron. Civil and ecclesiastical rites, used by the ancient Hebrewes; observed, and at large opened, for the clearing of many obscure texts thorowout the whole Scripture : which texts are now added in the end of the booke ... Herein likewise is shewed what customes the Hebrewes borrowed from heathen people / By Thomas Godwyn.

  • Thomas Godwyn
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1631
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Credit: Moses and Aaron. Civil and ecclesiastical rites, used by the ancient Hebrewes; observed, and at large opened, for the clearing of many obscure texts thorowout the whole Scripture : which texts are now added in the end of the booke ... Herein likewise is shewed what customes the Hebrewes borrowed from heathen people / By Thomas Godwyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i Citiron, 2 6. 2o. others tobeouer-fecrs and ludqes others to be Porters, others Singers^ i Cbron.2 7.a] 1 lie .Ww in time of finging were dad in lin- nen Robes, or Surpldfes, 2 cbron. 5. 12. The Singers were diuided into twenty fonre orders or courfes, 1 chron. 25.8. And the /Vrrcrj into as ma¬ ny , 1 2d. that both might fuppjv their turncs weekly by lot, as the Priefts did. Jn Mofes time alfo, their Confecration beganne at the fine and twentieth yeare of their age : In Dauids at the twentieth, 1 Chron.23.24. Ezra 3.8. Here wee may note the hbertie granted vnto the Church in changing Ceremonies : the office of the in Dauids time, was not the fame as in Mofes . and agame, Mofes and Dauid agreed not in the time of ^jCofemion. Agame, in the Chriftian Church we lhallhnde in Matthias his election, the vie of Lots- nothin Paulsy oranyothcrof thcjtpoftles- In their meetings, vfe of an holykijfe . and at the Lords Supper, vfe of their Louefeafi, both now antiquated throwout Chriflendome^f. Moreouer there are certaine degrees obferue- able among the Unites ; Ftril, their Initiation when they were a moneth old, they were initia¬ ted, and prerented vnto God, Numb, 3.1 5. Second¬ ly, their Confecration, they were confeemedby im ponuon of hands, when they were flue and twen- tie yeares old, Numb. 8.24. From thence for the hue veares following, they learned their office. Thole that impofed hands on rhem, are faid in the Text Numb. 8.10. to bee the fonnesof Ifrael. Chazkuni interpreted that place, the FirJt-borncj of 1 Jr ad. They were the Reprefentatiue Church,
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