Moses and Aaron: Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, Used by the Ancient Hebrews. Goodwin Thomas Aiken
of Divine Revelation.
CHAP. X. The several sorts of Divination forbidden.
THE FIFTH BOOK OF THEIR CONSISTORIES.
CHAP. I. Their Courts of Judgment, especially their Ecclesiastical Consistory.
CHAP. II. Of their Excommunication.
CHAP. III. Their Civil Consistories, what persons were necessarily present in them.
CHAP. IV. The number of their Civil Courts.
CHAP. V. Properties required in Judges, and the manner of their election.
CHAP. VI. Ceremonies common in all capital Judgments.
CHAP. VII. Their capital punishments.
CHAP. VIII. Punishments not capital.
CHAP. IX. Punishments borrowed from other Nations.
THE SIXTH BOOK OF MISCELLANEOUS RITES .
CHAP. II. Of their first fruits and their firstlings, or first-born.
CHAP. VII. Of their Writing, Masorites, and their Work.
CHAP. VIII. Of Israels pitching their Tents, or of their Camps.
CHAP. X. Their Coyns. First of brazen Coyns.
The Names of Authors cited in this BOOK.
A TABLE OF THE Several Texts of Scripture Explained in the Six Books.
THE ARGUMENT OF EACH BOOK and CHAPTER.
The first Book. Of Persons.
Chap. 1. The form of their Common-wealth till Christ, and when the Scepter departed.
2. Publicans, their Office, who the chief.
3. Prosolytes, who, how made.
4. Kings, Why Pilate clad Christ in Purple; Herod in white.
5. High-Priests, Priests, Levites, Nethinims.
6. Prophets, who, the Wise-man, Scribe, and Disputer, mentioned, 1 Cor. 1. 20.
7. Title of Rabbi, when, how, to whom given.
8. Nazarites and Rechabites.
9. Assideans; difference between the Righteous and Good man, mentioned, Rom. 5. 7.
10. Pharisees, whence their name, when they began, what their Dogmata.
11. Sadduces, whence their name, when they began, what their Dogmata.
12. Essenes, whence their name, when they began, what their Dogmata.
13. Gaulonitæ, and Herodians, what they were.
The second Book. Of Places.
Chap. 1. Their Temple, how forty six years a building. Why certain Psalms are entituled Graduales Songs of degrees.
2. Synagogues, Schools, Houses of Prayer; why their School preferred above their Temple.
3. Gates of Jerusalem.
4. Groves and High-places.
5. Cities of Refuge.
The third Book. Of Daies, Times, and Feasts.