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Light for the Ievvs, or, The means to convert them in answer to a book of theirs called The hope of Israel, vvritten and printed by Manasseth Ben-Israel, chief agent for the Jews here, 1650.
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Evans, Arise, b. 1607.
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went to Lorain and perswaded him to go back again and went to both sides brought them together and made them good Friends again Then the people seeing the great work that he had done cryed him up to be the man of God in so much that at last the French King and his Council became Jealous of him and they joyned themselves with his Enemy and most unnaturally for he was their near Kinsman and most ungratfully in regard he had saved them they forced him to go out of France as he was forced to go out of England and that is in God's Book of Remembrace the French shall be called to account for it one day Again when King Charles went to Scotland and all his Nobles there were Enemies one to the other he presently by his loving Wisdom made them all good friends to the admiration of the people So that I may surely say there is not such another Peace-maker in the World and yet Manasseth Ben-Israel think this King shall not rise again I am sorry to see the hardness of his Heart But beloved take you notice of what I say for a sign to you if King Charles Steeward King of England do not come into his Throne within this five years without one drop of blood spilt in the cause believe nothing of what I say in this Book but afterward some of those that took upon them to judge the Old King this Kings Father most cruelly murthered him and yet will not repent and come unto the King for mercy most die for it the King shall not save them for Law and Justice shall take place where mercy is refused Now there is no people under Heaven that boast and stand so much upon their Sword as these States-people of England do yet God will order it so for King Charles his sake that their Sword which they glory in shall fall out of their hands and they shall not know how nor which way they lost it and God will put it into the hand of King Charles so that all the world will wonder at the strangness of his Salvation and they shall glorifie God on his behalf when they see such an excellent thing done that no age can paralel And when right is done to the King and Church and to the Kings Friends and Servants though it be done with much favour to the Enemies there will be many discontented persons that will plot and strive to maintain the States false interest to their own Ruin and Destruction Besides the proud State of Holand though they be now sufficiently beaten and spoiled by the English State will then for their own ends make show as if they would help them and presently before the King is much setled in his Throne they will pick a Quarrel with him but the harmless and Wise King being inclinable thereunto will make Peace with them upon any terms and agree Notwithstanding the False Envious Persidions Covetous Holander being proud is not quiet but reprocheth the King with foul Language because of his former afflictions by which God Refined and fitted him for future glory and takes all occasion and advantage to do what mischief they can to the King and his Subjects And though God in that time send the Plague among them for it so that they dye by thousands at a time yet they will not forbear but still go on in their malice against the King that God might utterly destroy them and the English Enemies that go to them by the Sword Plague and Famine and blot out their Names from being a State under Heaven for so God will fight against all the Enemies of King Charles and proud Holand shall be made the first Object of Gods wrath against them that fight against King Charles and despise him but do you depart from Holand betimes Therefore blessed and happy shall those Kings and people be that shall take their Power and Authority from King Charles and live under his protection for all his proud Enemies that shall despise him and refuse to submit unto him shall be destroyed because God with King Charles will do a new work upon the Earth and bring all the world unto himself under one Head and for this cause God chose King Charles and Refined him in the Furnace of affliction as the Prophet saith Esai 48. 10. Esai 51. 16. About the same time the Turk will come and fight against the Emperour of Germany and he shall prevail for a time but afterward the Emperour shall beat him sadly then shall you arise and under the Baner of King Charles with an Army of a hundred forty and four thousand twelve thousand of every Tribe go to your one Land and possess it for ever and ever and you shall believe in Jesus Christ who is your everlasting King as your Rabbins say in their Talmuds If you can but understand them aright for they say that Jesus Christ whom they truly call Messiah the Son of David shall be your everlasting King when ye come to your own Land as ye have them cited in the 26. Sect of the foresaid Book called The Hope of Israel thus But which way that Redemption shall be no man can tell but onely so far as we may gather out of the Prophets That at that time the Ten Tribes shall come to Ierusalem under the leading of a Prince whom some Rabbins in the Talmud and in some places of of the Caldy Pharaphrase do call Messiah the Son of Ioseph and elsewhere Messiah the Son of Ephraim who being slain in the last war of Gog and Magog shall shew himself to be Messiah the Son of David Who shall be as Ezekiel and Hosea say the everlasting Prince of all the twelve Tribes Our Wismen do in many places especially in the Babilonish Talmud in tract. fuca C. 5. make mention of Messiah the Son of Ephraim where they say that he shall dye in the last War of Gog and Magog and they so expound that of Zech. 12. 10. And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his onely Son They add also that the four Captains of whom the said Prophet speaketh of chap. 6. 1. are Messiah the Son of David Messiah the Son of Ioseph the Prophet Elias and the high Priest which four are those Dignities which shall shew their power in that blessed Age Observe that sometime they call Messiah the Son of Ephraim sometime of Ioseph for he shall come out of the Tribe of Ephraim and shall be Captain of all the Ten Tribe who give their Name to Ephraim because that their first King Ieroboam was of that Tribe not without cause do they call him the Son of Ioseph for he was the true Type of the house of Israel in his imprisonment and future happiness add to this that he was so long hid from his Brethren that they knew him not as in like manner the Ten Tribes are at this day who are
as we tearm it saith he Ps. 132. 6. Lo we have heard of it at Ephrata we found it in the Fields of the Wood Giving us to understand that this place of your Messiah's Birth was as hard to be found as it is for a stranger to finde a House that is in the midst of a great Wood Therefore if you ask our now English Ministers why the Prophet Micah 5. 2. calls it Bethelem Ephratah And the Evangelists coating the same Scripture Mathew 2. 6. calls it Bethelem in the Land of Iuda they cannot answer you but the Reason why the Evangelists doth not mention Ephratah is because that he understood these things in part that I now manifest unto you namely that there should come another great One for your deliverance out of some Country signified to Jesus Christ and his Apostles by that same woman called Ephratah And in this sence your Wisemen call your Messiah an Eprathite and not that he must come out of the Tribe of Ephraim Loynally as you suppose Ieroboam did 4. That this late War of England in which War King Charles the first died which War is not yet ended nor will not end in England is the last War of Gog and Magog may be easily proved for this Land as our English Chronicles report of old until the Btittains Conquered it was Gogmagogs Land As further in the great Hall of London called Guild-Hall you may see the very Picture of Gogmagog and Brittainus that slew him in there full stature set up for a memorial to show what Mighty men of strength stature were in those daies Thus you see how King Charles is the Son of Ioseph and an Eprathite how he died in the last War of Gog and Magog and how he is to rise again in his Son to be according to his Name a Steeward or a Vice Roy under Jesus as Ioseph was under Pharaoh all agreeable to what your Wisemen say of him for the seed of Gogmagog that remained in this Land rose up against their King sold him and slew him to fulfil the Scripture But he shall rise again according to it as abovesaid for your deliverance as Constantine the Great also born in this Land arose to deliver the Christians from the Tiranny of the Heathenish Roman Emperours 5. You may know King Charles Steeward to be the man that you look for or your Messiah as you call him by the Star that appeared at his birth 2 Pet. 1. 19. according to the promise of Iesus Revelat. 2. 26 27 28. For as there was a Star seen at the Birth of Jesus which Star directed the Wisemen of the East unto him and by which Star they knew him to be the King of the Jews Mat. 2. So the same Star appeared at the Birth of King Charles Revel. 2. 27. 28. as it is written Psam 50. 6. The Heavens shall declare his Righteousness for God is Iudge himself Selah He sendeth his Star to Justifie Charles And again Psalm 97. 6. The shall Heavens declare his Righteousness and all the people see his glory Very few saw the Star that appeared at the Birth of Jesus but thousands and my self for one saw the Star that appeared at the Birth of Charles and there was Verses made of it in Latine and presented to his Father the late King Charles as he went to Pauls Cross to give thanks for the Queens Deliverance Thus in English When to Pauls Cross the grateful King drew near A shining Star did in the Heavens appear Thou that consults with Divine Mysteries Tell me what this bright Comet signifies Now is there born a Valiant Prince ' i th' West That shall Eclipse the Kindomes of the East 6. You may know King Charles to be the Messiah you look for by the discription of his person in Scripture for saith the Spouse Cant. 5. 10. 11. My beloved is White and Ruddy the chiefest among ten thousand his head is as the most fine Gold that is Iesus his locks are bussie and black as a Raven that is Charles and for his Stature also Esdras saith That he is taller then all about him 2 Esdras 2. 42 43 44 45 46 47. and such a proper person King Charles is Your Fore-fathers refused Jesus because of the meaness of his Birth and Parentage though indeed Jesus is the most Excellent of all men But what can you say against King Charles the Servant of Jesus he is a King of the highest Birth being the Successor of above three hundred Kings who were his Fore-fathers in Scotland The Turk and all the Kings in the World for Antiquity are but younger Brothers in comparison of him for the first King of Scotland was Gathelus Fergus of the Seed of Iaphet the Successor of Melchizedek which Gathelus Fergus Married Scota the Daughter of Pharaoh that took Moses for her Son and when the Plagues was in Egypt fearing least those Countries because of their wickedness should have been destroyed as Sodam was Gathelus Fergus and Scota withal their people came away to Sea and brought with them from Bethel the very stone which was Iacobs Pillow there Gen. 28. 18 22 and the first place they landed at was Portugal thence they came to the North of Ireland and built a City calling it after the Kings Name Knockfergus and from thence they came to Scotland which they so Named from Scota the Queen And there they are though many times brought low as now they are yet an unconquered people to this day And of the stone of Iacob which they brought from Bethel in Canaan they made of it a Chair in which Chair of old they were wont to Crown their Kings but some hundred years agone the English got the said stone Chair from them and brought it to London which stone now is to be seen for a Monument in Westminster Abby I have seen it my self and there is a Prophesie of it runs thus The Scots shall have that Land as Native Ground If words fail not wheresoever this Stone is found And we have seen it partly so fulfilled for since King Iames came to England the Scots had England as their own Native Land And what beauty every way else can be desired but is to be found in this King for his Wisdom Godlyness and Valour there is none like him wherefore the Prophet Isaiah said of him to the Jews when by the spirit he saw his glory Isai. 33. 17. Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty they shall behold the Land that is very far off giving you to understand that the King was full of beauty yet that the Land of his Nativity even England was very far from Iuda as he saith again Isa. 30. 27. Behold the Name of the Lord cometh from far so here in also it is plain that your Messiah was not to be a Jew because no Jew now can descend of such a Noble Linage as King Charles came from for the Jews have been a cursed ever in