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A51736	To His Highnesse the Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland the humble addresses of Menasseh ben Israel, a divine, and doctor of physick, in behalfe of the Jewish nation.	Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657.	1641 (1641)	Wing M379; ESTC R224573	20,093	36

TO HIS HIGHNESSE THE LORD PROTECTOR OF THE COMMON-WEALTH OF England Scotland and Ireland THE HUMBLE ADDRESSES OF MENASSEH Ben Israel a Divine and Doctor of PHYSICK in behalfe of the Jewish Nation TO His Highnesse the Lord PROTECTOR OF THE Common-wealth of ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND The Humble Addresses of Menasseh Ben Israel a Divine and Doctor of Physick in behalf of the Jewish Nation GIve me leave at such a juncture of time to your Highnesse in a style and manner fitting to us Jewes and our condition It is a thing most certain that the great God of Israel Creator of Heaven and Earth doth give take away Dominions and Empires according to his own pleasure exalting some overthrowing others who seeing he hath the hearts of Kings in his hand he easily moves them whithersoever himself pleaseth to put in execution his Divine Commands This my Lord appears most evidently out of those words of Daniel where he rendring thanks unto God for revealing unto him that prodigious Dream of Nebuchadnezar doth say Thou that removest Kings and sets up Kings And elsewhere To the end the living might know that the Highest hath dominion in Mans Kingdome and giveth the same to whom he please Of the very same mind are Thalmudists likewise affirming that a good Government or Governor is a Heavenly Gift and that there is no Governor but is first called by God unto that dignity this they prove from that passage of Exodus Behold I have called Bazale'l by name c. all things being governed by Divine Providence God dispensing rewards unto Vertues and punishment unto Vices according to his owne good Will This the Examples of great Monarchs make good especially of such who have afflicted the people of Israel For none hath ever afflicted them who hath not been by some ominous Exit most heavily punished of God Almighty as is manifest from the Histories of those Kings Pharaoh Nebuchadnezar Antiochus Epiphanius Pompey others And on the contrary none ever was a Benefactor to that people cherished them in their Countries who thereupon hath not presently begun very much to flourish In so much that the Oracle to Abraham I will blesse them that blesse thee and curse them that curse thee seemeth yet daily to have its accomplishment Hence I one of the least among the Hebrews since by experience I have found that through Gods great bounty toward us many considerable and eminent persons both for Piety Power are moved with sincere and inward pitty and compassion towards us do comfort us concerning the approaching deliverance of Israel could not but for my self and in the behalf of my Countrey men make this my humble address to your Highness beseech you for Gods sake that ye would according to that Piety Power wherein you are eminent beyond others vouchsafe to grant that the Great Glorious Name of the Lord our God may be extolled and solemnly worshipped and praised by us through all the bounds of this Common-wealth to grant us place in your Countrey that we may have our Synagogues and free exercise of our Religion I nothing doubting but that your Clemency will easily grant this most equitable Petition of ours Pagans have of old out of reverence to the God of Israel and the esteem they had to his people granted most willingly free liberty even to apostated Jewes as Onias the High Priest to build another Temple in their Countrey like unto that at Jerusalem how much more then may we that are not Apostate or runagate Jewes hope it from your Highnesse and your Christian Council since you have so great knowledge of and adore the same one onely God of Israel together with us Besides it increases our confidence of your bounty towards us in that so soon as ever the rumour of that most wished-for liberty that ye were a thinking to grant us was made known unto our Countrey-men I in the name of my Nation the Jewes that live in Holland did congratulate and entertain their Excellencies the Ambassadors of England who were received in our Synagogue with as great pomp applause Hymns and cheerfulnesse of mind as ever any Soveraign Prince was For our people did in their own minds presage that the Kingly Government being now changed into that of a Common-wealth the ancient hatred towards them would also be changed into good will that those rigorous Laws if any there be yet extant made under the Kings against so innocent a people would happily be repealed So that we hope now for better from your gentlenesse and goodnesse since from the beginning of your Gouernment of this Common-wealth your Highnesse hath professed much respect and favour towards us Wherefore I humbly entreat your Hignesse that you would with a gracious eye have regard unto us and our Petition and grant unto us as you have done unto others free exercise of our Religion that we may have our Synagogues and keep our own publick worship as our brethren doe in Italy Germany Poland and many other places and we shall pray for the happinesse and Peace of this your much renowned puissant Common-wealth A DECLARATION TO THE Common-wealth of ENGLAND BY Rabbi Menasseh Ben ISRAEL shewing the Motives of his coming into England HAving some years since often perceived that in this Nation God hath a People that is very tender hearted and well wishing to our sore afflicted Nation Yea I my self having some Experience thereof in divers Eminent persons excelling both in Piety and Learning I thought with my self I should do no small service to my own Nation as also to the People and Inhabitants of this Common-wealth if by humble addresses to the late Honourable Parliament I might obtain a safe Conduct once to transport my self thither Which I having done and according to my desire received a most kinde and satisfactory Answer I now am come And to the end all Men may know the true Motives and Intent of this my coming I shall briefly comprehend and deliver them in these particulars First and Formost my Intention is to try if by Gods good hand over me I may obtain here for my Nation the Liberty of a free and publick Synagogue wherein we may daily call upon the Lord our God that once he may be pleased to remember his Mercies and Promises done to our Fore fathers forgiving our trespasses restoring us once again into our fathers Inheritance and besides to sue also for a blessing upon this Nation and People of England for receiving us into their bosomes and comforting Sion in her distresse My second Motive is because the opinion of many Christians and mine doe concurre herein that we both believe that the restoring time of our Nation into their Native Countrey is very near at hand I believing more particularly that this restauration cannot be before these words of Daniel Chap. 12. ver 7. be first accomplished when he saith And when the dispersion of the Holy

High hath created free be forced to beleeve what they beleeve not and to love what they hate This cruelty was reprooved and censured of many Princes of the world and learned men And his owne Chronologer reprehends it with a new postil and speakes freely Regis in Iudaeos facinorum reprehensio That is A censure of the Kinges wickednes against the Iewes Truely with just reason doth Osorius call the workes which the King did unto us Iniquities and injustices deceitfull violences and wicked attempts And so goes on reprooving them with most elegant Reasons Further what happened to the Iewes under other Princes in other Kingdomes and Countries is notorious and enough known to all the world and therefore not necessary here to relate So farre concerning their Bannishment Now I will not conceale to say but that alwayes there have bene found some calumniators that endeavouring to make the Nation infamous laid upon them three most false reports as if they were dangerous to the Goods the Lives and withall to the very Soules of the Natives They urge against them their usuries the slaying of infants to celebrate their Passe-over and the inducing Christians to become Iewes To all which I shall answer briefly 1. As for usury such dealing is not the essentiall property of the Iewes for though in Germany there be some indeed that practise usury yet the most part of them that live in Turky Italy Holland and Hamburg being come out of Spaigne they hold it infamous to use it and so with a very small profit of 4. or 5 per Cent as Christians themselves do they put their money ordinarily in Banco for to lay out their money without any profit was commanded onely toward their brethren of the same Nation of the Iewes but not to any other Nation And however by this Charity is not hurt for it stands in good reason that every one should gaine and get some advantage with his money to sustaine his owne life and when any one to supply his own wants doth take some cours of marchandise by which he hopes to gaine by other mens moneys taken up on trust 't is no inhumanity to reckon and take from him use For as no man is bound to give his goods to an other so is he not bound to let it out but for his owne occasions and profit and not to leave himself destitute of the profit he could make of the moneys Onely this must be done with moderation that the usury be not biting and exorbitant which the Christians themselves use amongst themselves as even in the Mounts of Piety at Padua Vicenza and Verona is to be seen where they take 6 par Cent and elsewere yet much more This in no manner can be called Robbery but is with consent and will of the Contracter and the same Sacred Scripture which allows usury with him that is not of the same Religion forbids absolutely the robbing of all men whatsoever Religion they be of In our Law it is a greater sinne to rob or defraud a stranger than if I did it to one of my owne profession because a Iew is bound to shew his charity to all men for he hath a precept not to abhorre an Idumean nor an Egyptian and that he shall love and protect a stranger that comes to live in his land If notwithstanding there be some that do contrary to this they do it not as Iewes simply but as wicked Iewes as amongst all nations there are found generally some Usurers 2. As for killing of the yong children of Christians it is an infallible truth what is reported of the Negros of Guinea and Brazil that if they see any miserable man that hath escaped from the danger of the sea or hath fallen or suffered any kind of ill-fortune or Shipwrake they persecute and vex him so much the more saying God curse thee And wee that live not amongst the Blacke-moors and wild-men but amongst the white and civilized people of the world yet wee find this an ordinary cours that men are very prone to hate and despise him that hath ill fortune and on the other side to make much of those whom fortune doth favour Hereof the Christians themselves have good experience for during the times of their suppression and persecution under the Roman Empire they were falsly slandred of divers Emperours and tyrannicall Princes Nero accused them that they had set Rome on fire Others that they were Witches and Conjurers and others againe that they slew their children to celebrate their Ceremonies as wee find in divers Authors Even so likewise it is with the Iewish Nation that now is dispersed and afflicted though they have moneys There is no slander nor calumny that is not cast upon them even the very same ancient scandall that was cast of old upon the innocent Christians is now laid upon the Iewes Whereas the whole world may easely perceive it is but a meer slander seeing it is known that at this day out of Ierusalem no sacrifice nor blood is in any use by them even that blood which is found in an Egg is forbidden them how much more mans blood More-over I could produce divers memorable exemples which out in our owne times in Araguza to a Iew how he was accused of this same wickednes and not confessing it how they imprisoned him betwixt two walls and being in that distresse how he cited before God all the Iudges to answer there for what they did and how within a year after many of the Iudges died and those that lived fearing the like might befall them and loose their lives set him free But I must not be too prolix it may suffice to say that by the Pope himself it was defined in full Counsell the accusation to be false and so likewise judged all the Princes of Italy as also Alphonso the Wise King of Spaine and that it was onely a neere invention to drinke the blood and to swallow up the goods of the harmlesse Iewes 3. As for the third Point I say that although Ferdinand and Isabell giving colour to so indiscreet a determination said that they induced the Nobles to become Iewes yet truely this cannot be said but by some false informations For if so be amongst those difficulties and impossibilities it may happen that some of the Sect of the Papists of a better minde embrace the Iewish Religion it cannot therefore be presumed that they were induced thereunto by the Iewes seeing the Iewes do not entice any man to professe their Law But if any man of his own free-will come to them they by their rites and Ceremonies are obliged to make proofe of them whether they come for any temporall interest and to persuade them to looke well to themselves what they do that the Law unto which they are to submit themselves is of many precepts and doth oblige the transgressor to many sore punishments And so we follow the example of Nahomi cited in the Sacred Scripture who did not persuade Ruth to go along with her but said first to her Orpa thy sister returned to her Nation and her Gods go thou and follow her But Ruth continuing constant then at length shee received her Besides this the Iewes indeed have reason to take care for their owne preservation and therefore will not go about by such wayes to make themselves odious to Princes and Common-wealths under whose Dominions they live Now because I beleeve that with a good conscience I have discharged our Nation of the Iewes of those three slanders or calumnies as elsewhere I have more at large written about it I conceive I may from those two qualities of Profitablenes and Fidelity conclude that such a Nation ought to be well entertained and also beloved and protected generally of all The more considering they are called in the Sacred Scriptures the Sonnes of God and 't is said by all the Prophets that they who shall wrong them shall be most severely punished and that he that toucheth them toucheth the apple of Gods eye And at least it was alwayes the opinion of Augustine as he made it appear in his works Libr. de Doctrina Christianâ cap. 28. where he saith Quod omnes homines aequè diligendi sunt That all men are equally to be beloved Now having prooved the two former Points I could adde a third viz. of the Nobility of the Iewes but because that Point is enough known amongst all Christians as lately yet it hath bene most worthily and excellently shewed and described in a certain Booke called The Glory of the Iehudah and Israël dedicated to our Nation by that worthy Christian Minister Mr. Henry Iessey 1653. in Dutch where this matter is set out at large And by M. Edw. Nicholas Gentleman in his Booke called An Apologie for the Honorable Nation of the Iewes and all the Sons of Israël 1648. in English Therefore I will here forbeare and rest on that saying of our King Salomon the wisest on earth Let another mans mouth praise thee and not thine owne FIN