JJr ,DEUTERONOMIE XXII. And whether h be oxe and of , or any iwo kindes, whereof one h unclean¢ and the other clean either oif cat - i tell, asafwine and afeep e;orofwilde hafts, aiawilde axe and an Elephant ; or hafts with cane!! as a Bogle with a goat, er the &k; fir anyef theft he is by the Law to be beaten. If a wagon be drawn with heap of di- %ers Odes, he ehatfioteth on the wagon is to be beaten: and ifone fit on the wagon , and another guide it, they are both beaten yea though they be an lamdred that guide it, they are all beaten. It io lawful/to doe work with a man and a beati together : for the Law faith, WIT H AN 0XE AND AN ASSE; it faith not, with a man and an afJì, or witha man and an cxe. A (dean) bead that it become polluted (or unfit) for facrifiee, though it be but one body, yet the Scripture maketb it as two bodies , for that it was holy and'wa: made at boy and as profane mixt together; and thin beati is found àt a cleave beafi with an unclean beat! mixed in me; as it is fail (in Leviticus 27. r I.) IF IT BE AN VNCLEANE BEAST, OF WHICH THEY DOE N07,OF- FER A SACRIFICE TO THE L 0 RD : roe have Beene taught, that this io not fpo- ken but of beafls difabled for a facrifee. Therefore he ' that ploreetb with an oxe difabled for facrifice it to be beaten at for mixed kinder; but this prohibition it come by tradition. MLlaimony in Kiiajim, chap. 9. feft. 7, -t 1. This Law was a11ò typical!, and bindèth not its now according to the letter, but figured out the Mi,nilters in the Church, ads did the oxe that treaded) out the corne,which might not be muz- zelcd, Deuteronomie 25. compared with 1 Co- rinthians 9. 8, 9, -11, I Timoth. 5. 17. & 4. 18. Thefe in the Lords plow, (that is, in the miniftery of his word, Luke9. 62.) mutt not be mixed of cleave and tincleane, of the fervants of Chrift and of Antichrift, 2 Corinth.6.14,15. I1 Verde r r. liufte- wolfie] in Hebrew, Sbagnatnez, expounded in Greeke, Kibdela, which fignifieth things adulterate, or impure!) mixed. Mofes explai- neth it after, laying, wool andfdax;egether,unto which onely the Hebrews t'eftraine it, as is more largely noted on Levit.19.19. This Law was al- fo figurative: the garments of the Saints are prin- cipally Chrift himfelfe, as it is written, Put ye on the Lord pefus Chrifl, Rom. 13. t4 he bath given tinto his Church, that fe fhoulcl be arayedin fine linnen, cleave and bright, which -is the righteoufnefè of the Saints, Revelat. 19.8. that we may be found in him, not having our owne jtdtice (or righte- oufne(fe) which is of the Law, but that which is through the faith of Cbrf , the righteoufneJ of God by faith, Phil. 3.9. There are alto other vertues and graces of the Spirit, wherewith the faithfull are adorned; which are good works, r Timoth.2.9,1 o. 1 Pet. 3. 3, 4. but in the cafe of our juftification before God, thefe may not be mixed together, for a man is *lifted by faith without the deeds of the Law, Rom. 3.28. Gal. 2.16. And as by the letter of this Law, in theHebrews'account, me tbreedof wool/ in a linnen garment, or me limen threed in a wool- len garment , made it unlawfull, (as is noted on Lev.19.19.) though linnen or woollen garments were worn (Morally : fo juftification by faith in Chrift , and by our owne good workes, are fó oppofite, as that they cannot agree together in one man by any manner of mixture, in the cafe of juftification before God ; but, ifit bay grace, then it it no more of works., ; otherwife grace it no more grace : and if it be of works, then is it no me a grace, otherwif work is no more work, Romans 11.6. Ga- lathians3. to. - wool! andjlex] that is, woollen and linnen together , which the direeke tranflateth, in the fame: the Chaldee, moll and flax joined (or mixt) together. Verde 12. Fringes in Hebrew Gedilim, which elfwhere is tranfiated , wreathes, in 1 King. 7. r7. and the wreathes fpoken of in Exqd. 28. 24. and the ropes (or cords) in Judg. s 6.11,12. are by the Chaldce tranflated , Gedilan : and the Greeke here expoundeth it Strepea that is , wreathes, or cords : for they were twilled threeds or thrumbs, which hung upon their garments. Moles called them before Tfit fith, Hum. 15. 38. of the locker of haire like which they did hang. There the fame, though called here by another name; and the Chaldee tranflateth both Tftftth and Gedilim, by the word Cruf ficdin , which is borrowed of the Greeke al eda, which name the holy Ghoft gi- veth to theft Fringes, in Mat. 23.5. where Chrift blanieth the Pharifees hypocrifie for making their Phylaiferies broad,and(eraff eda) /Infringes of their garments large. The making ofthefe by the Jews, is (hewed on Num. 15.38, &c. Here Moles having repeated the mytteries concerning the Church,in ver.9. oldie ntini(terie,inver.so. and of the doPcrine, in verfe 1 i. addeth to them this law of the frigges, which were lignes annexed to the word, and vihble tokens , for them to bake upon, and remember all the commandant= of the Lord, and doe them, and be holy unto their God, Numbers 15.39, 40. See more in the Annotations on that place. Verde 13.tahèawsfe] that is, mare)her : for the 13 taking is after the betrothing or elpoufals, Mat. 1. 18, 20. And before marriage, the betrothed perlons might not come together, as the equitic of this. Law following (heweth. So by the He- brews : The f fioufe it to be reflrainedfrom her husband, b 1 the dolirine of the Scribes, all the while fie it in ber fathers houfe : and he that lieti, :rib his fpoufe in his father in lames heule, ií to be cha{lifèd with pipes. Maimony treat. of Wives, ehap. t o. deft. L. Atter in the fame place he Iheweth him the manner of mariage among them, that it was to be with blef- fings(or thankfgivings)unto God,in an a(fembly of ten men at the leaf.,, and with a dowrie bill which the Scrivener wrote, and the bridegeoome paid for whereby he endowed his fpoufe, if (bee were a virgin,with two hundred dinars [that is, fifty (hekels] and if (he had beene maried before, with Ioo.dinars,[that is, z5.(hekels] and this was called the root(or principall)ofthe dowrie: the dowrie might not be lac, but more fo much., as hewould,ehoughit were toatalêtofgold.Af- ter the downie bill was confirmed by witneffes, the bridegroomewent with his fpoufe into the privy chamber,(or elolet,fuch as is mentioned in , Joel 12
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