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THE ARGUMENT OF EACH _BOOK_ and _CHAPTER_.
Chap. 1. The form of their Common-wealth till Christ, and when the Scepter departed.
2. Publicans, their Office, who the chief.
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.
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.
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.
Chap. 1. Their daies, hours, weeks, years.
2. Their manner of feasting, salutations, blessing, cup of blessing.
3. Their Sabbath; a Sabbath-daies-journey, how much, and whence.
4. Their Passeover, and feast of unleavened bread: How a soul cut off from Israel.
5. Their Pentecost, what the second-first Sabbath was, _Luk. 6. 1._
6. Their feast of Tabernacles, Hosanna, and Hosanna-Rabba.
7. Their feast of Trumpets, their New-Moons, Translation of feasts.
8. Their feast of Expiation: what meant by the filth of the world, and the off-scouring of all things, _1 Cor. 4. 13._
11. Their feast of Purim, and feast of Dedication.
2. Moloch, Adram-Melech, Anam-Melech, Baal, the Tabernacle of Moloch, &c.
3. Baal-Peor, Baal-Tsephon, Baal-Zebub, Baal-Berith, Bel and the Dragon.
6. Astaroth, Ammonia, Juno, the Queen of Heaven, Diana of the Ephesians.
7. Other Idol-gods mentioned in Scripture.
8. Sorts of divine revelation, Urim and Thummim.
Chap. 1. Courts of Judgements, their Ecclesiastical Consistory.
3. Civil Consistories, what persons necessarily present, what meant by the Magistrate, Judge, and Officer, _Luk. 12. 58._
4. The number of their civil Courts, what meant by a Council, Judgement, fire of Gehenna, _Matth. 5._
6. Ceremonies common in all capital Judgements: whence that phrase came, his bloud be on us and our children.