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A87160	A vindication of the Holy Scriptures. Or the manifestation of Jesus Christ the true Messiah already come. Being the Christians antidote against the poysons of Judaisme and atheisme of this present age. Proved out of sacred scripture, ancient historians, and Jewish Rabbins. / By that learned, and late eminent divine, John Harrison.	Harrison, John, of the Inner Temple.	1656 (1656)	Wing H896; Thomason E1685_1; ESTC R209168	62,938	174

A Vindication OF THE Holy Scriptures Or the Manifestation of JESUS CHRIST The TRVE MESSIAH Already Come Being the Christians Antidote against the poysons of Judaisme and Atheisme of this present Age Proved out of Sacred Scripture Ancient Historians and Jewish Rabbins By that Learned and late Eminent Divine JOHN HARRISON LONDON Printed by J. M. and sold by J. Benson and J. Playford at their shops in Dunstans Church-yard and in the Inner Temple 1656. The AUTHORS EPISTLE To the forlorn and distressed Jews in Barbary and in them to all others now groaning under the heavie yoke of Captivity in what Nation soever scattered and dispersed throughout the world Grace Mercy and Peace be multiplyed in Christ Jesus the true Messiah BEing employed not long since into Barbary the land of your Captivity where at this present you live in great Bondage and Slavery and so have done this long time as do also the rest of your Brethren and Nation elsewhere dispersed throughout the world groaning under the yoke of their cruel Task-masters as did your forefathers in the land of Egypt four hundred and thirty yeers this Captivity of yours having continued now almost four times four hundred yeers the last and greatest of all then the which was never heard nor read of greater of any people from the Creation of the World to this day nor shall be The King at that time of my arrival upon his expedition towards Fez I appointed to stay at Saphia till his return back from those wars where I remained in the lower Castle almost six moneths solitary and in suspense expecting the doubtful event thereof Whether resorted to me often to accompany me and for my better instruction in the Hebrew whereof I had a little taste before one of the chief Rabbins of that your Synagogue Rabbi Shimeon a man of grave and sober carriage and pleasant otherwise of whose company I was very glad Now and then among other matters arguing and reasoning of the Messiah as ye say yet to come but as we say and are able to prove by invincible arguments and demonstrations both out of your own Law and Rabbins already come which gave me occasion having little else to do and not knowing how to pass that tedious time better to gather together all those arguments and reasons I had read or for the present could conceive of my self drawn out of the sacred Scripture and other Books as touching that controversie Whereby I might be the more able over and besides the matter of employment and business I came about to maintain that Religion professed in my Country and the Vndoubted Faith whereof his Majesty the King of great Britain as others his Predecessors have done pro●●ss●th himself a chief Defender according to that his most just Title Defender of the Faith And afterwards when the King sent for me to Morocus being lodged amongst you by his appointment in the Judaria in one of your principal houses where I staid before I could get a dispatch from the King three moneths and an half where also I grew familiarly acquainted with divers of your Nation and was presented at sundry times especially at your Marriages and solemn Feasts with divers of your Dainties which I took very kindly and ever since have studied what Christian Dainties I might send you back again in recompense or rather Duties insteed of those Dainties Seeing also in the mean time which I could not chuse but see with much pity and compassion the great and grievous oppression under which you groan taxations vexations exactions grammings as you call them even with torments rather then fail drubbings so many hundred blows at once as my self have both seen and heard with that base servile and most contemptible state and condition otherwise above any other Nation or People under which you live not only in Barbary but in all other parts of the world besides as a fatal effect of that heavie curse laid on you by your own forefathers long ago upon the death of Christ when Pilate the Judge washed his hands saying I am innocent of the blood of this just man look ye to it they cryed with one consent his blood be upon us and on our children As also of that Prophesie of our Saviour in his life time when he wept over Jerusalem saying Oh if thou hadst even known at the least in this thy day those things which belong to thy Peace but now are they hid from thine eyes c. And more particularly to his Disciples he reneweth it over and again When ye shall see Jerusalem besieged with Souldiers then know ye that her desolation is at hand For these be the days of vengeance to fulfil all things that are written For there shall be great distress in this land and wrath over this people And they shall fall on the edge of the Sword and shall be lead captive into all Nations c. Which heavie curse of your own forefathers and Prophesie of his how truly they have been fulfilled both the one and the other all the world seeth and ye your selves feel the effect as before The Lord in mercy take away the vail from your hearts that at length ye may know those things which belong to your peace which now are hid from your eyes For why will ye die O ye house of Israel These considerations I say and reasons with some others have moved me and partly in recompense of those your Defina's and Dainties whereof I tasted so often while I was amongst you to send you here a small banquet of such Dainties as Christendome can afford wishing you would but tast some part of mine as I did of yours being indeed Sabbath days dainties Tast I say and see how sweet the Lord is And the rather do I invite you to this Banquet yea rather provoke you thereunto even to your own salvation which through your fall is come to us Gentiles to provoke you as it as in that place for that now the time of your redemption draweth near with ours much neerer now then when we believed foretold also both by Christ and his Apostles as was your desolation and shall one day as surely and certainly come to pass the one as the other For God that hath promised is of power to perform it he will do it He is able to graff you in again into your own Olive Tree Verily I tell you saith our Saviour to the Pharisees ye shall not see me until the time come that ye shall say Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord Therefore such a time shall come without all doubt wherein ye shall so say that is to say most willingly obey the heavenly calling without any more resisting the holy Ghost as did your forefathers Also in another place And Jerusalem shall be trodden under foot of the Gentiles until the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled So long and no longer there is the period And Paul

saying Behold the time shall come that these tokens which I have told thee shal come to pass c. for my son Jesus shal appear c. and after these same years shal my son Christ dye Here is both his birth and passion both his names Jesus Christ plainly expressed Which book though it be not canonical yet was it extant in the world before ever Christ was born Also Rabbi Haccadosch proveth by art Cabalist out of many places of Scripture that the name of the Messiah at his comming shall be Jesus and among other he addeth this reason that as the name of him who first brought the Jews out of bondage into the Land of promise was Jesus or Josua which is all one so must his name be Jesus that shal the second time deliver them Secondly the Angels appearing to the Shepherds in the night of the Nativity with this joyful message from Heaven Behold I bring you tidings of great joy that shal be to all people that unto you is born this day in the City of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord And this is shall be a sign unto you ye shal find the child swad'led and laid in a cratch Thirdly the star that appeared notifying his comming into the world whereof not onely the wise men before mentioned but also generally all the Astronomers and Soothsayers of that age took special notice adjudging it to portend universal good to the earth some gathering thereupon that some God descended from heaven to the benefit of mankind and for that cause had that star an image erected to it in Rome and as Plinies words are Is Cometa unus toto orbe colitur That onely Comet in all the world is adored Fourthly his presentation in the Temple according to the Law of Moses where openly came old Simeon by the motion of the spirit for he had a revelation from God that he should not see death till he had seen the Lords Christ took the child in his arms acknowledged him for the Messiah prophesied that he should be a light to be revealed unto the Gentiles appointed for the fall and rising again o many in Israel with other events which afterwards came to pass So did likewise Anne the Prophetess as it is in the same Chapter Fiftly that most pitiful murder of all the Infants in and about Bethlehem upon this occasion as was prophesied by Jeremy saying A voice was heard on high mourning and bitter weeping Rachel weeping for her children and refused to be comforted because they were not Rachel was buried in the way to Ephrath which is Bethlehem and for that cause those infants were called her children albeit she were dead above two thousand years before they were slain and above one thousand and five hundred before Jeremy wrote this prophecy Among which Infants Herod also for more assurance slew an infant of his own for that he was descended by the Mothers side of the line of Judah Which cruelty comming to Augustus his ears he said he had rather be Herods swine then his son for that he being a Jew was prohibited by his religion to kill his swine though not ashamed to kill his Son Sixtly his flying into Egypt hereupon as also to fulfil that prophesie ' out of Egypt have I called my Son which Isaiah enlargeth further saying Behold the Lord rideth upon a light cloud which is his flesh or humanity and shal come into Egypt and all the Idols of Egypt shal tremble at his presence Which latter point Eusebius sheweth was fulfilled most evidently in the sight of all the world for that no nation came to Christian Religion with so great celerity and fervour as did the Egyptians who threw down their Idols before any other Nation And as they had been the first in Idolatry to other countries so were they the first by Christ his comming unto them that afterwards gave example of true return unto their Creator It followeth in Isaiah I wil deliver the Egyptians into the hands of cruel Lords these were the Roman Lords and Princes Pompey Caesar Antony c. ' And a migh-King shal reign over them c. this must needs be Augustus the Emperor who after the death of Cleopatra the last of the blood of the Ptolomies took possession of all Egypt and subjected it as a Province to the Roman Empire But after these temporal afflictions threatned against Egypt behold a most Evangelical promise of deliverance In that day shal five Cities of the Land of Egypt speak the Language of Canaan c. In that day shal the Altar of the Lord be in the midst of the Land of Egypt c. They shal cry unto the Lord because of their oppressors and he shall send them a Saviour and a great man and shal deliver them c. The Lord of Hosts shall bless them saying Blessed be my people of Egypt c. This blessing I say the Egyptians obtained by our Saviours being in Egypt whom here the Prophet calleth by his own name Jesus a Saviour a great man Finally the comming of John Baptist his forerunner or Messenger as was prophesied Behold I will send my Messenger and he shal prepare the way before me and the Lord whom ye seek shal speedily come to his Temple And again I will send you Eliah the Prophet that is to say John the Baptist in the spirit and power of Eliah as an Angel from Heaven expoundeth it appearing to Zacharias his Father in the Temple sent to foretel him both of his birth as also by what name he should call him even John saying Thou shalt call his name John he shal be great in the sight of the Lord he shall go before him in the power and spirit of Eliah And therefore out Saviour in plain terms he calleth him Eliah Mat. 11.14 And if you will receive it this is that Eliah which was to come he that hath ears to hear let him hear And as our Saviour gave him his due before a multitude then assembled calling him Eliah So did this Eliah also give our Saviour his due in acknowledging him for the Messiah not assuming unto himself that honour offered unto him by the Jews but refusing it absolutely and laying it upon Jesus our Saviour the true owner Then this is the record of John when the Jews sent Priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him who art thou and he confessed and denyed not and said plainly I am not the Christ I am not the Messiah I Baptize you with water but there is one among you whom you know not he it is that cometh after me which is preferred before me whose shoe latchet I am not worthy to unloose These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan where John did Baptize The next day John seeth Jesus comming to him and saith behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world This is he whom I said

right hand of God David saith Thou art gone up on high thou hast led captivity captive and received gifts for men c. And in another place The Lord said to my Lord Sit thou at my right hand c. which is the place alledged by our Saviour wherewith he put the Jews to silence both as touching the Deity and the Humanity of the Messiah for saith he If David call him Lord how is he then his Son Where we may see David acknowledgeth him his Lord and consequently his God even the Son of God sitting at the right hand of God for the present as touching his Divinity afterwards to be accomplished also in his Humanity which David believed as verily should come to pass and foresaw by the eye of Faith as did Thomas when it was come to pass putting his hand into his side and crying My Lord and my God so saith David here my Lord The Lord said unto my Lord c. I say this article of our Faith as touching his Ascension it followeth necessarily to be concluded upon his Resurrection it needeth no other proof For that whosoever seeth and acknowledgeth that Jesus being dead could raise himself to life again will easily believe also that he was able to ascend up to heaven at his pleasure And hereof we have also all his Apostles and Disciples for witnesses eye witnesses in whose presence and sight he ascended as it is in that place They looked stedfastly towards heaven as he went and in witness thereof gave up their lives and sealed the same with their blood Therefore I conclude upon all these premisses so necessarily following and depending one upon another to wit his birth life doctrine actions death resurrection ascension seeing nothing hath hapned in the same which was not foretold by the Prophets of God nor any thing foretold by the same Prophets concerning the Messiah which was not fulfilled most exactly in the person of our Saviour We may most certainly assure our selves that as God is truth and therefore can neither foretel an untruth nor yeild testimony to the same so it cannot be but that these things which have been shewed to be so manifestly fore prophesied and so evidently accomplished in the person of this our blessed Lord and Saviour must needs I say assure us Christians that he was indeed the true Messiah and quite confound the Jews in their vain imagination and expectation of another The sending of the holy Ghost with the first Plantation and wonderful increase of the Church NOw for those things that followed after his Ascension as arguments and effects of his Divine power they were also foretold by the Prophets to wit the sending of the holy Ghost that Comforter from on high with the sudden strange and miraculous increase of his Church throughout the world even against all worldly power and policy by the only power and ministry of his word confirmed with signs and wonders that followed wrought by his Apostles Disciples and other his faithful servants and witnesses in the Primitive Church then the which there can be no greater argument in the world of the truth of Christian Religion if we consider how all other Religions in the world have grown and been maintained by force of Arms Fire and Sword this only by the preaching of Christ crucified in all Nations hath encreased and multiplyed and shal do more and more to the end of the world this must increase all others decrease howsoever the Turks have possessed the greatest part of the world at this day yet our Saviours prophesie in the end shall be found true this Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached throughout the whole world for a witness unto all Nations Now for the first increase of it How small a number were there gathered together after the ascension at Jerusalem from whence they were to march even the twelve Apostles no great army God wot to conquer the world as it is in that place The Law shall go forth from Zion and the Word of God from Jerusalem There was the Rendevous there they stayed there they rested there they continued in prayer and fasting till such time as Christ after his ascension according to his promise sent them the Comforter even the holy Ghost enduing them with power from on high and arming them at all points for so great a work When and where being gathered together all with one accord in one place suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a mighty wind and filled all the house where they sate And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like fire and it sate upon each of them and they were all filled with the holy Ghost and began to speak with other Tongues as there is mentioned And with these fiery cloven tongues these twelve silly souls without any means men money or munition in a very short time conquered a great part of the world insomuch that at one Sermon of S. Peter at the same time there were added to the Church three thousand souls and so multiplyed successively from time to time and from place to place spreading it self from one Country to another and from one Nation to another and so at length into all Nations There is neither Speech nor Language where their voice is not heard Their line is gone forth through all the earth and their words into the ends of the world as we see it is come to pass this day Of which coming of the holy Ghost in the time of the Messiah Joel prophesied saying And it shall be in the last days that I will pour out my spirit c. and on my servants and on my handmaids I will pour out my spirit c. It filled all the house where they sate and it sate upon each of them and they were all filled with the holy Ghost Here is a deluge of Gods grace poured upon the world immediately upon the ascension of our Lord and Saviour First upon his Apostles and Disciples of those times in greater measure as the first fruits of his spirit by the which they wrought miracles spake all manner of languages healed all manner of diseases cast out Divels raised the dead and lastly sealed the same with their blood Poor Fishermen and such like of no reputation in the world without learning without credit without means as before yet by this means conquered the world to the subjection of their master Christ that stone cast aside of the Builders but now become the head-stone of the corner this the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes The sincerity of the Evangelists NOw for the Evangelists or writers of the Gospel that is to say the registers of his Birth Life Doctrine and Death It is to be noted that our Saviour being God took a different way from the custome of man in delivering unto us his Laws and Precepts For that men who have been law-makers unto the world