"17. Be thou well pleased, oh Lord our God, with thy people Israel, and have regard unto their prayers; restore thy worship to* the inner part of thy house, and make haste with favour and love to accept of the burnt sacrifices of Israel, and their prayers; and let the worship of Israel thy people be continually wellpleasing unto thee.-Blessed art thou, oh Lord, who restorest thy divine presence to Zion!

"18. We will give thanks unto thee with praise. For thou art the Lord our God, the God of our fathers for ever and ever. Thou art our rock, and the rock

of our life, and the shield of our salvation. To all generations will we give thanks unto thee, and declare thy praise, because of our life which is always in thy hands, and because of thy signs, which are every day with us, and because of thy wonders, and marvellous lovingkindnesses, which are morning, and evening, and night, before us. Thou art good, for thy mercies are not consumed; thou art merciful, for thy lovingkindnesses fail not. For ever we hope in thee. And for all these mercies be thy name, oh King, blessed, and exalted, and lifted up on high for ever and ever; and let all that live give thanks unto thee. Selah. And let them in truth and sincerity praise thy name, oh God of our salvation, and our help. Selah. Blessed art thou, oh Lord, whose name is good, and to whom it is fitting alway to give praise.

19. Give peace, beneficence, benediction, grace, benignity, and mercy unto us, and to Israel thy people. Bless us, our Father, even all of us together as one man, with the light of thy countenance. For in the light of thy countenance hast thou given unto us, oh Lord our God, the law of life, and love, and benignity, and righteousness, and blessing, and mercy, and life,

* i. e. The adytum templi, which in the temple of Jerusalem was the holy of holies, into which none ever entered but the highpriest once a year, on the great day of expiation. From this place, after the Babylonish captivity, were wanting the ark, the mercy seat, the Shecinah of the divine presence, and the urim and thummim, which causing an imperfection in their worship in respect of what it was formerly, a restoration of them seems to be what is prayed for in this place.

and peace. And let it seem good in thine eyes to bless thy people Israel with thy peace at all times, and in every moment. Blessed art thou, oh Lord, who blessest thy people Israel with peace. Amen."

"God hath given them the spirit of slumber; eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear unto this day.

'Behold the goodness and severity of God; on them who fell severity, but toward thee goodness, if thou continue in his goodness, otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so, ALL ISRAEL SHALL BE SAVED: for there shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.' Paul, Rom. xì.

Aspice, VENTURO lætentur ut omnia SECLO:
O mihi tam longæ maneat pars ultima vitæ,
Spiritus et quantum sat erit tua dicere facta!

TALIA SECLA CURRITE !*

* VIRG. Bucol. iv.

INDEX.

A

ABRAHAM, a sort of king, 24; numerous servants, 25; waits on

his guests, 28.

Adam, probably the first who offered a sacrifice, 216; note.
Administration of justice among the Israelites, 149.

Adoring, what, 110.

Ag, the first foundation of authority, 147.

Agriculture, see Husbandry.

Alienation of lands revoked every fifty years among the Israelites, 51.
Altars erected for memorials of great events, 23.

Altaschith, what, 103.

Angel of the church, what it signifies, 240, in the note.

Anointing, reason of it, 62.

Animals used in sacrifice, 219, 220; manner of killing such, 220;
flaying, salting, &c., 220, 221; offered at the door of the taberna-
cle, 222.

Animals, different, eaten and abstained from among different na-
tions, 68.

Apostles among the Jews, their office, 180.

Arms, all persons capable of using them, ecclesiastics as well as lay-
men, made up the ancient militia, 155; what the ancient arms con-
sisted of, 156, not worn by the Israelites except on duty, 156.
Arts, curious ones among the Hebrews, 53, 54.

Artificers, few among the Israelites till the time of David, 54, 55;
many of the Greek heroes such, 55.

Arure of land, how much, 46.

Asmoneans, see Maccabees.

Athenians, how at first divided, 31.

Ayeleth Shahar, what, 102.

B

Babylon, the fertility of its plains, 40.

Bakers, when first at Rome, 55.

Balsam-tree only found anciently in Palestine, 44.

Baptism administered to proselytes, 193; how performed, 193; how
administered to women, 195.

Bathing, why frequent in the east, 62.

Beards long, worn by the Israelites, 62.

Bedsteads in the east often of ivory, and placed against the wall, 63.

Bells in churches, of modern invention, 125.

Bissextile how computed, 213.

Books now lost referred to in the Old Testament, 88, 89.

Bramins neither kill nor eat animals, 69.

Bread, how much per day a man eats, 46; very little bread kept among
the Israelites, 55; the word used in Scripture means all sorts of
victuals, 67,

Breastplate, 238, 239.

Britons, ancient, their dress, 19.

Burial, the manner of it among the Israelites, 116, 117; no religious

ceremony used at it, 117.

Byssus, what it was, 60.

Cakes of libation, 221, called nakudeem, 67.

Calends, what, 213.

Canaan, the Israelites prohibited from marrying with his descendants,
32, 74; Canaanites the same with Phoenicians, 53; their tribes,
197, 198.

Canopies, the use of them in the east, 63.

Captivity of the ten tribes above a hundred years before that of the
other two, 164; the consequences of captivity anciently, and of
Israel and Judah in particular, 165; the restoration of Judah from
it, 166; much reformed by it, 167, 168; how long after it before
they could rebuild their city and temple, 168.

Castration of cattle prohibited to the Israelites, 51.

Cato the censor, writes of country affairs, 38; his opinion of the
pastoral life, 26; a maxim in his book the same with one in Prov.
xxiv, 27, 42.

Cavalry of little use in mountainous countries, 157; forbidden to the
Israelites, though much used in Egypt, 157; numerous, however,
in Solomon's time, 157.

Ceremonies, some borrowed from the Jewish church, 193.

Cælosyria described, 203.

Chazan, who, 240.

Children of this world-of darkness-light, &c., whence the expres-
sions, 31; increase of them desired by the Israelites, 81, 82; how
numerous in some families, 82, 83.

Chimneys among the ancients little known, 65,

Chlamys of the Greeks, what, 58, 60.

Christians eat too often, 70.

Church, whence the word, 149.

Cicero, what he means by Jewish gold, 180.

Circumcision, practised by many nations besides Jews, 74; performed
in private houses without the ministry of priests, 81; the seal of
the covenant, 192.

Cities in Judea, the habitation of labourers, and very numerous, 150;
their gates the seats of justice, 150; at first built by wicked men, 26.
Cloaks a sort of military dress, 60.

Clothes of the ancients injudiciously represented by most painters, 58,
59; fashions of them little changed in the east, 59; ill conse-
quences of their change, 60; of white colour most in use among
the Israelites, Greeks, and Romans, 61; made generally among
them all very plain, 61; of the women more sumptuous, 62, 63.
Concubines, though generally slaves, yet to keep them not reckoned
disreputable, 84; ill consequences from the use of them, 84, 85.
Confession of faith, 244, 245.

Corban, what, 226.

Council of seventy-two and the highpriest at Jerusalem, and of twenty-
three in the smaller cities, their power, 149; kept their court at the
gate of the city, 150; continued while the Jews were subject to the
Persians, 169; and to the Romans, 180.

Country people, the cause of their misery, 36.

Courts of judicature among the Romans at the forum, of the Israelites

at the city gates, in feudal times at the courts of lords' castles, 150.
Craftsmen, valley of, 57.

Crusades laid waste the Holy Land, 43.

Cubit, two sorts mentioned in Scripture, 120.

Cynara, what, 93.

D

Day, how divided by the Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans, 206.
David, his riches, 160.

Dancing in use among the Israelites, 93, 94,

Daughters of the patriarchs bred to hard labour, 26.

Death of the patriarchs, how described in Scripture, 28.

Decapolis, described, 202.

Deism of a Jewish rabbi, 263.

Diet of the ancient Israelites, 66, 67.

Divorce, ill consequences of it, 85; when first heard of at Rome, 85.
Dress of the Hebrews, 58; of the English, 19.

E

Eastern fashions change little, 60; their compliments more like ours
than those of the Greeks and Romans are, 110; play at no games
of hazard, 113.

Edom, what it signifies, 200.

Egypt, physic supposed to have been invented there, 29; what food
the Egyptians abstained from, 68; Solon, Pythagoras, and Plato,
studied there, 169; becoming an addition to the Roman power
hastened the ruin of the Jewish, 177.

Elders of Israel, the Jewish sanhedrim, 147, 180; the seat of the elders,
what meant by it, 148; number of, 148.

Elijah, meaning of the name, 32.

Embalming practised by the Israelites as well as Egyptians, 116.
Eponymi, what, 31.

Ephod described, 238, 239.

Equinox, what, 212, 214.

Essenes, their manner of life, 183.

Ethnarchs, what meant by them, 180.

Eumeus described by Homer making his own shoes, 55.

Eunuchs, servants about the king's person, without denoting personal
imperfection, 154.

Evenings, two, what, 205.

Fashions, see Clothes.

F

Fathers among the Israelites had power of life and death over their
children, 145; but under the direction of the magistrate, 146; the
same law practised at Athens, 146.

Fasts proclaimed by sound of trumpet, as well as feasts, 126; how
many stated ones, 127; Mohammedan, 130.

Feasts, religious, the number of them among the Israelites, 125, 140;
were times of general joy, 125, 126.

Feet, custom of washing them at visits, 62; to water and to cover the
feet, what meant by it, 111.