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

Date:: 1631

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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$groundjCJr.they were 7^7*/, Artificers • The Theo¬ rizes {'pent the day in meditation, and prayers, whence they were by a kinde of excellency,by Philo termedSupplicantes. 3. T'he PraBickes had enery day their dinner and (upper allowed them • The Theoricks onely their {tipper. 4 The PraBicks had for their commons, euery one his difti of Water-gruel,and bread; The Theo- ricksj only bread and faltiifany were of a more deli¬ cate pallat than other, to him it was permitted to eat hyffop . their drinke for both, wascommon water. Some arc of opinion that thefe Theoricks were Chriftian Monkesy but the contrary appeareth, for thefe reafons: 1. In that whole booke of Philo, concerning the Theorizes, there is no mention either of Chrift, or Ckt4ftiansyo{the E uangelifis, or Apoftlcs; 2. The Theoricks in that booke of Philo’s, are not any new Sea of late beginnings the chriftians at that time were,as is cleerely euidenced by Philo his owne words. Firft, in calling the doarine of the Ef~ fenes^m pi\**Philofophy deriuedvnto them by traditionfrom theirfore-fathers,Secondly, in lav¬ ing, Habentprifcorum commentariosy qui buiusfeB# autoreSjfre. ' The infeription of that booke, is not only fiUv bntalfo, iWr: Now Philo he\{c-t>?bki»pM, where caller h the whole Nation of the I ewes y n \u7,mv $>'©-,which argueth that thofe Theoricks were mm> t ]ewesynot chriftians. K C a & i\$

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