THE ARGUMENT OF EACH BOOK and CHAPTER.
Reading edition
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.
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.
9. Their Sabbatical year.
10. Their Jubilee, their use thereof.
11. Their feast of Purim, and feast of Dedication.
The fourth Book. Of their Idolatry.
Chap. 1. The beginnings of Idolatry.
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.
4. Dagon.
5. The molten Calf.
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.
9. Teraphim, what they were.
10. Sorts of Divination forbidden.
The fifth Book. Of their Consistories.
Chap. 1. Courts of Judgements, their Ecclesiastical Consistory.
2. Sorts of Excommunication.
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.
5. Manner of electing Judges.
6. Ceremonies common in all capital Judgements: whence that phrase came, his bloud be on us and our children.
7. Their capital punishments what they were.
8. Punishments not capital.
9. Punishments borrowed from other Nations: whether S. Paul fought with the beasts at Ephesus.
The sixth Book. Of Miscellaneous Rites.
Chap. 1. Circumcision; whence, the use of Godfathers in Baptism.
2. First-fruits, first-lings, first-born.
3. Sorts of Tithes, manner of paying them.
4. Marriages and divorces, copies of their dowry bill, and bill of divorce: what meant by power on the Womans head, 1 Cor. 11. 10.
5. Burials, manner of embalming, manner of their Sepulchres, what meant by baptization of the dead, 1 Cor. 15. 9.
6. Of their Oaths.
7. Of their writing, their Masorites, and their work.
8. Israels pitching of their tents, or of their camps.
9. Their Measures.
10. Their Coyns, first of brazen Coyns, silver Coyns, and gold Coyns.
