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A38614	Shibboleth, or, Observations of severall errors in the last translations of the English & French Bibles together with many other received opinions in the Protestant churches, which being weighed in the ballance are found too light / written by John Despagne ... ; and translated into English by Robert Codrington ...; Shibboleth. English	Espagne, Jean d', 1591-1659.; Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.	1656 (1656)	Wing E3271; ESTC R20162	51,713	172

generall yet there will be many in particular and we shall observe new Religions that will result out of the mixture of Judaism with Christianism Who knows what monsters will proceed from thence All the precautions which other States do use to hinder that Judaism corrupts not Christians are found too feeble there where the torrent of an unbounded licence hath already in so many places over-topp'd and broken down the bounds which ought to restrain it I shall alwaies wish that we travail to convert the enemies of the Faith but without indangering those who are of the Houshold of it For this were to do evill that good may come thereby and GOD who knows both the time and the means he will imploy for the conversion of the Jews hath no need that we should do evill for the performance of such a good It were rather to be desired that those English vvho have such an affection to the Jews who blaspheme the name of Christ had as much charity towards some strangers vvho do here profess the name of Christ their own Country not vouchsafing them the liberty to exercise the Arts necessary for the sustenance of their own persons and families unless they will abjure the Orthodox Religion to become Idolaters Of the Presagers who boast they have a prophetick Spirits Of the follies and Blasphemies which they produce WE have sometimes seen in Holland one Doctor Stephens a Divine who published a Book of his own on one part of the Revelations That which is spoken of Christ this man did attribute to Frederick King of Bohemia who then lived He also foretold that the said Prince should take the Pope and the King of Spain Prisoners commence a Process against them and cause them to suffer under the stroak of the Executioner Time hath since confuted this Doctor who notwithstanding was discreet and modest in all other things About that time there was at Geneva a Boy of twelve years of age of honest Parentage who took upon him to discover marvailous things he discoursed pertinently and magnificently which caused an admiration of him in all that heard him Insomuch that some excellent Divines were at a stand about it doubting whether it were not an extraordinary inspiration of GOD But at last the Spirit which made the Boy to speak did discover himself for the Divill vvho served himself with the tongue of that poor creature did cause him to speak the most ridiculous things in the vvorld making mocks himself at the credulity of those whom he had abused It is commonly seen that a knowing and a vvise man is never so much admired as an ignorant fool who speaketh like a wise man for we imagine that he proceeds from God when oftentimes there do come causes from him vvhich are vvorse than folly it self And it is a great simplicity to give more regard to one good vvord proceeding from the mouth of a frantick man than to the knovvledge and wisdom of him who is alvvaies discreet and judicious As for those vvho counterfeit the Prophets the vvisdom of God hath alwaies left some mark on them to be known to be Impostors One dead Fly onely doth trouble and cause the vvhole perfume to stink Eccl. 10. One onely Impertinency vvhich is found in a prophecy doth discover the falshood of the Author How much more if there be blasphemies in it Hovv much more if they be unnumbred and in the swarm A● this day a senseless fellovv hath dared to publish that there is none but himself alone who hath the Spirit o● Illumination and Instruction Tha● all Divines are in darkness Tha● many places which cannot be understood but of the Son of GOD onely do signify a King mortall which according to the saying of that man shall reign for ever throughout the vvorld That Jesus Christ hath not been in possession of this Kingdom untill the coming of this King who nevertheless dyed some few years since that this King is truly the third person and whosoever speaketh against him shall never be pardoned That in this King all the Scripture is accomplished That the Elect are no where but here in England and that they are confined onely to this Country That the Liturgy of England otherwise called the Book of Common Prayers is the rule of the Spirit of truth nay and the onely Rule That the Reformation of Luther of the Calvinists and Huguenots in France and Scotland and others are but onely rules of Rebellion like unto the Rods of the Sorcerers of Egypt That the Saviour who is spoken of Esay 19. 20. is not Jesus Christ but another I would not vouchsafe to make mention of such horrors were it not that there are men of understanding who do lend an ear to the predictions of such senceless people because they meet sometimes vvith some events which have followed them To speak no more their Blasphemies sufficiently do demonstrate what is the Spirit which doth dictate these prophecies unto them Of some false Miracles which have been held for true ones THere hath been in our time a flying report of a maid who hath lived many years vvithout eating or drinking It hath been beleeved for a truth and on this presumption all the world hath cryed out a miracle The Philosophers the Physitians the Divines have been exercised on the question It there could be any naturall cause for so long an abstinence But there was no need for it for it hath been verified and confessed that this pretended fast was but an Imposture and the greatest miracle to be seen was the credulity of the people It is recorded that at Cairo in Egypt there is seen every year on a certain day a spectacle worthy of admiration which is the Bodies of men which appear some half out of the earth others shewing their heads onely and some having nothing to be seen but their Arms or their Legs The Evening before their is no appearance of any such thing at all but the wonder doth discover it self on the Morning following and there are then to be seen pieces of Bodies which in this posture do shew themselves as if they had been forced out of the Earth They are all that day to be beheld but if you return the next morning there is nothing to be seen On the Day of this Prodigy for it is yearly on a prefixed Day they flock thither from all parts far and neet to behold the miracle which hath been a fruitfull Argument for many discourses For amongst the divers causes which are rendred of it there are some who report that heretofore in the self same place the Pagans devoured a great number of Christians who were there assembled to pray unto GOD And that every year since on the same Day in which the Massacre was committed these imperfect and dismembred Bodies do shew themselves out of the Earth as if still they would attest the truth for which they were murthered This was a brave miracle if it were a true one