Child who fmote or curfed his Father or his Mother, or was obftinately rebellious and incorrigible, was to be put to Death, Deut. xxi. 17, 18—21. Exod. xxi. 15, 17.

7Q What are fome of their Special Laws about Mafters and Servants? A. Any Servant might go free, if his Master had maimed him: And an Israelitish Servant, though he were bought with Money, fhall go out free for nothing in the feventh Year and if he will not go out free, his Mafter` fhall bore his Ear through on the Door-Poft with an Awl, and he fhall ferve him for ever, Ex. xxi. 2-6. and 26, 27.

Note, This Word For ever fignifies till the Year of Jubilee, for all Servants or Slaves who were Hebrews were then to have their Freedom, and return to their own Lands and Poffeffions in their own Tribe. See › Lev. xxv. 39-42. And this is the best way of reconciling Exod. xxi. with Lev. xxv. where one Text faith,, the Servant fhall go out free in the feventh Year, and another in the Year of Jubilee, and the third faith, he fhall ferve for ever.

8Q. What Special Laws had they relating to their Food? A. That they fhould eat no Blood, nor the Fat of the Kidneys, nor any thing that died of itself, or was torn of wild Beafts, nor any of the Beasts or Birds or Fishes which were pronounced to be unclean, Lev. xi. and xvii. Deut.. xiv. 21. And therefore they would not eat with Heathens, left they should tafte unclean Food.

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9Q. What were fame of the Laws relating to, their Clothing? A. A Man must not wear the Raiment of Women, nor a Woman the Raiment of Men: They muft wear no mixed Garment, made of Woollen and Linnen: and they were required to make Fringes in the Borders of their

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Garments, and put upon the Fringe of the Borders a Ribbon of blue, that they might look upon it and remember to do the Commandments of the Lord, Num. xv. 38, 39. Deut. xxii. 5, 11,

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Note, In our Saviour's time they wrote Sentences of the Law on Parchment, and put them on their Foreheads and their Garments: Thefe were called Phylacteries, Matth. xxiii. 5.

10. Q. What are fome of their Special Laws a bout Houfes and Lands? A. That every feventh Year the Land fhould reft from ploughing and fowing, and God promifed to give them Food enough in the fixth for the three Years. And every fiftieth Year, which is the Year of Jubilee, all Houses and Lands that were fold fhould return to their former Poffeffors, except Houfes in walled Towns, Lev. xxv. 2-17, 20, 21, 30, &c.

Note, Every feventh Year in which the Fields were not to be tilled, was called a Sabbath or a Sabbatical Year: And after feven Sabbatical Years, i. e. fortynine Years, was the Year of Jubilee in the fiftieth: Though fome have fuppofed the Jubilee to be the fortyninth Year itself, that fo two Sabbatical Years might not come together: for in the Jubilee 'tis plain there was to be no Ploughing nor Sowing, nor Reaping, nor Vintage, Lev. xxv. 11.

Q. What were fome Special Jewish Laws about Corn and Husbandry? A. They were forbid to plough with an Ox and an Afs together: to fow their Fields with Seeds of different Kinds: or to make clean riddance of their Harvests either of the Field or of the Trees, for the Gleanings were to be left for the Poor, Deut. xxii. 9,

10, 11. Lev. xix. 9, 10, 19. And any Travellers might eat their Fill of Grapes or Corn in a Field or Vineyard, but might carry none away, Deut. xxiii. 24, 25.

12 Q. What were fome of their peculiar Laws about Money Goods and Cattle? A. They might Tend Money upon Ufury to a Stranger, but not to an Ifraelite. That a Thief fhould restore double for whatfoever Thing he has ftolen; but if he ftole Cattle, and killed or fold them, he must pay five Oxen for an Ox, and four Sheep for a Sheep, Exod. xxii. 22. Deut, xxiii. 19, 20. Ex. xxii. 19. But if he has nothing to pay, the Thief fhall be fold for his 'Theft, ver. 3.

13Q What Special Laws related to Beafts and Birds? A. They were forbid to muzzle the Mouth of the Ox that trod out the Corn, that fo he might eat fome while he was treading it: Nor when they took a Bird's Neft in the Field with Eggs or Young ones, were they permitted to take the Dam with them, Deut. xxv. 4. and... xxii. 6, 7.

14 Q What Laws were given them about the First-born? A. The First-born of Man and Beafts were devoted or given to God as well as the Firstfruits of the Trees and of the Field, Exod. xxii, 29, 30. Num. xviii, 12, 13.

Note, The Firft-born of Men were redeemed by the Levites: The First-born of Beasts were to be facrificed, or fome way put to Death, if not redeemed, Exod. xii. 2, 12, 13, 15. Num. iii. 41.

15 Q. What were the Laws about the Maintenance of the Priefts? A. The Priefts were to be maintained by the Firft-born of all Cattle and

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the Firft-fruits of Oil and Wine and Corn, and they had a Share in various Sacrifices, (viz.) the Heave-Offerings, the Wave-Breaft, and the right Shoulder, &c. Num. xviii. 8-19.

Note, Heave Offerings were to be moved upwards and downwards towards Heaven and Earth. Wave-Offerings were to be shaken to and fro, or moved towards the Four Quarters of the Heaven: All this is fuppofed to fignify an Offering of them to God, as univerfal Lord. of all Parts of the Creation, and who dwells every where.

16 Q. What were the Laws about the Levites Maintenance? A. They were maintained by the Tenth or Tithe of Fruits and Corn which God. appointed for them, Num. xviii. 21, 24. And they had fome Cities and their Suburbs given them out of every Tribe, Job. xxi.

..17 Q. What were fome of their special Laws about the Bodies and the Lives of Men? A: He that killed or ftole and fold a Man, muft die for it, Exod. xxi. 12, 16. And in all Cafes of real Injury or Mischief, Life was to pay for Life, an Eye for an Eye, a Hand for a Hand, or a Foot for a Foot, Lev. xxiv. 17-20. And this was the Penalty of a falfe Witnefs, who intended to bring any Mischief whatsoever on another, Deut. xix. 18, &c. for the fame was to be executed on the falfe Witnefs.

18 Q. Was there no Pardon for him that killed another? A. If he did it wilfully, there was no Pardon: but if it were done by Chance, there were fix Cities of Refuge in the Land of Canaan appointed, to which the Manflayer might fly and be fafe. But he was bound to dwell there till. the Death of the High-Prieft, Num. xxxv. 11-33

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19 Q. Was the Law the fame for the Servant or Slave, and for the Freeman, in cafe of Maiming and of Murder? A. Not entirely the fame; for in fome cafes of maiming or killing a Slave, the Offender was not punished to the fame degree as if the injured Perfon had been a Freeman, Exod. xxi. 20, 26.

20 Q. What were fome of the ufual Puniments of Criminals appointed in the Jewish Law? A. A Fine of Money or Cattle to be paid, a cutting off from the People or Congregation, fcourging or beating at moft with forty Stripes, the lofs of a Limb, or the lofs of Life, Exod. xxi. 19, 22, 36. Lev. xix. 20. xxiv. 17-20.

21 Q. What is the Meaning of being cut off from the People or the Congregation? A. In fome greater Crimes, fuch as prefumptuous Rebellion' against the Laws of God, wilful Sabbath-breaking, &c. it may fignify capital Punishment or Death by the Hands of the Magiftrate, Num. xv. 30, 31. Exod. xxxi. 14. In fome cafes it may intend a being devoted to fome Judgment by the immediate Hand of God, Lev. xvii. 10. and xx, 5, 6. But in fome leffer Crimes perhaps it may fignify no more than to be excommunicated or fhut out of the Congregation of Ifrael, and the Privileges thereof; as, For eating leavened Bread at the time of the Paffover, Exod. xii. 15. or for a Man's going unto the holy Things with his Uncleanness upon him, Lev. xxii. 3. where it is expreffed, that that Soul fhall be cut off from the Prefence of God. But this Queftion hath fome Difficulties in it, and learned Men' differ about the Senfe of thefe Words, Being cut off.

22 Q. If the Jews were permitted to give forty Stripes, how came Paul five times to receive but

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