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A56206	A short demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued barred remitter into England Comprising an exact chronological relation of their first admission into, their ill deportment, misdemeanors, condition, sufferings, oppressions, slaughters, plunders, by popular insurrections, and regal exactions in; and their total, final banishment by judgment and edict of Parliament, out of England, never to return again: collected out of the best historians and records. With a brief collection of such English laws, Scriptures, reasons as seem strongly to plead, and conclude against their readmission into England, especially at this season, and against the general calling of the Jewish nation. With an answer to the chief allegations for their introduction. / By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolnes-Inne.; Short demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued remitter into England. Part 1.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing P4079; ESTC R205682	263,888	373

held in Lent the young men and Souldiers who had taken upon them the sign of the Crosse and were then ready to go to Ierusalem with the King assembling together there out of divers counties disdaining that the Jews being the enemies of the crosse of Christ possessed such great store of goods and wealth when as they had not sufficient to defray the necessary expences of so great a journey and imagining that they should do God good service if they assaulted these his enemies boldly rushed upon them no man opposing himself against so great attempts whereupon divers of the Jews were slain and the rest being received into the castle hardly escaped with their lives their goods being all plundered and the plunderers departing freely away with their booty none of them being so much as questioned or punished by the Kings discipline The citizens of Lincoln hearing what was done to the Jews of Stanford taking occasion and being animated by the examples of others were willing to do something against them and being assembled together against the Jews inhabiting together with them became inraged against them But these Jews being made more wary by the slaughters and damages of others some few of them suffering harm and damages the rest fled timely with their monies into the Royal Fort and there secured themselves In all other places wheresoever the Jews were found they were pillaged and slain by the hands of the Pilgrims who hastning through England towards Ierusalem decreed to rise up first against the Jews before they invaded the Saracens Hereupon all the Jews who were found in their own houses at Norwich were slain on the 8 of February some few of them only escaping to the Castle At the same time the Nobles and Gentry of Yorkeshire nothing fearing the Kings Proclamation the wicked Jews having by Usury reduced them to extreme poverty joyning with them some holy foldiers brake up the Houses of the chief Jews equal to the Kings Palace slew their families spoild their Goods burnt their houses in the night then retired themselves to their homes in the dark After which the promiscuous multitude making an assault upon the Jews slew them without distinction of sex or age except some few who would give up their names to Christ in baptism to save their lives On the 18 day of April being Palm-Sunday the rest of the Jews in the City of Yorke being 500 men and women besides their children fearing the violence of the Christians shut up themselves within the castle of Yorke by the will and consent of the Guardian thereof and of the Sheriff who being thus received into the castle for their defence by the Guardian and Sheriff would not afterwards deliver it up unto them again Whereupon the Sheriff and keeper of the castle being much offended with them assembled the souldiers of the county and men of the city that they might free the castle from those Jews exhorting them to do their utmost endeavors to effect it who when they had assaulted the castle day and night the Jews offered a great summ of money to save their lives but all in vain the people being so incensed against them that they would not accept it whereupon a certain Iew skillfull in their Law stood up and said Men of Israel hearken to my counsel It is better for us to die for our Law then to fall into the hands of the enemies of our Law and our very Law commands the same thing Upon which all the Jews as well women as men consented to his counsel and every Father of a family going with a sharp razor first of all cut the throats of his own wife and children and then of his family casting the dead corps of those whom they had thus sacrificed to Devils over the castle walls upon the Christian people After which burning their rich cloathes and casting their golden Vessels and Jewels into Privies that the Christians might not be inriched by them these murderers shutting up themselves and the rest they had killed in the Kings house set it on fire and so burnt both themselves and it After which the Citizens of Yorke and the souldiers of the county burning all the Jews houses together spoiled their goods seized their possessions to themselves and burn'd all the charters of their debts The King being informed hereof and much incensed both for the contempt of his Royal proclamation and Authority and dammage to his Exchequer to which all the Goods and Debts of the Iews being Usurers belonged commanded his Chancellor to inflict due punishment upon the authors of this Sedition Whereupon after Easter the Bishop of Ely the Kings Chancellor gathering a great Army together came to Yorke to apprehend those as malefactors who had destroyed the Jews of the city And understanding that this was done by the command of the Sheriff and Governour of the castle he put them both from their Offices and took sureties from the Citizens of the City for to keep the Peace of the King and kingdom and to stand to the Law in the Kings court concerning the death of the Jews and commanded the Souldiers of the County who were at the destruction of the Jews to be apprehended but the chief of them flying into Scotland escaped not one of them all being put to death for this great Massacre and Riot Henry de Knyghton De Eventibus Angliae l. 2. c. 13. gives this censure of these slaughters popular tumults against the Jews The Zeal of the Christians conspired against the Jews in England but in truth not sincerely that is for the cause of faith but either out of emulation and envy because of their felicity or out of gaping after their goods The Justice truly of God not at all approving such things but decently ordering them that by this means he might punish the insolency of a perfidious Nation He likewise addes that one Iohn a most bold Christian flying from Stanford with many spoyls of the Jews to Northampton was there secretly slain by his Host to get his money and thrown without the city in the night the murderer flying thereupon After which through the dreams of old women and fallacious signs the simple people attributing to him the merits of a martyr honoured his Sepulchre with solemn vigils and gifts This was derided by wise men yet it was acceptable to the Clerks there living by reason of the gains Which the Bishop hearing of presently unsaincted him and prophaned the Monuments of this false martyr continued by the study of simple and covetous persons I wish no such plunderers as this might be saincted and adored in our age as too many of them are even before their deaths who will be un-saincted after them as well as this bold plunderer of the Jews Mr. Fox in his Acts and Monuments Vol. 1. p. 305. relating the story of the massacres of the Jews this year out of the Chronicle of Westminster saith That there were no less than

peace and plenty and enjoy their Merchandizes and other franchi●es together with their Schools and Synagogues as Benjamin the Sonne of Ionas a Jew records at large in his Peregrination together with Mr. Samuel Purchas in his Pilgrims l. 9. c. 5. And Menasseh Ben-Israel him self confesseth in his Epistle Dedicatory and Addresses where thus he writes Our Nation at the present is spread all about and hath its seat and dwelling in the most flourishing parts of all the Kingdoms and Countries of the world as well in America as in the other three parts which he prosecutes more at large p. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. boasting of their extraordinary wealth Offices Power and Priviledges in other places And therefore this only remains in my judgement Before the Messia come and Restore our Nation that first we must have our seat here ●●kewise therefore having so much Elbow-room already throughout the world their reception here will be no act of piety or charity in us neither do they presse it as such but an act of the highest impiety they now insisting on it as a necessary preparative to the coming of th●ir long expected false Messia to restore them to their temporal Kingdom again and Fathers inheritance as he expresly writes These general Reasons against the Jews readmission premised which I hope will satisfie most men I shall conclude with some particular Reasons drawn from late published Declarations of our Grandees which I conceive will best satisfie them of any other and for this end I hope without any just offence or Scandalum magnatum I shall crave leave to presse them home in this common cause for the defence of the Glory Honor Scepter Gospel Kingdome of our Lord Jesus Christ the only Potentate the Prince of the Kings of the Earth the King of Kings and Lord of Lords the head of all principality and power and God over all blessed for ever before whose feet all other subordinate Kings and Potentates whatsoever ought to prostrate not only their persons but Crowns and most peremptory Royall Wills and Edicts too for whose pleasure honor and glory alone all things and powers likewise both are and were created in whose cause we must be mo●t bold and zealous not fearing the faces of any Mortals My 1. Reason shall be drawn from the very words of the Declaration of 21. Novemb. 1655. inviting the people of this commonwealth to a day of solemn Fasting and Hum●liation on the 6. of December last a day of trouble and of rebuke of blasphemy provocation in respect of the violence acted on it that time seven years when the children were come to the birth and there was no strength to bring forth but only to obstruct and pull out the Members to prevent out peace and settlement The principal cause whereof they Declare to be The abominable Blasphemies vented and spreading of late through the Apostacy of and the abuse of Liberty by many professing Religion And to joyn with them in solemn and earnest supplications to the throne of Grace That the Lord will disappoint the designs of those that labour to lift themselves up against the interest of Christ and his people That he will rebuke the foresaid Evils and give his people to know the things that belong to their Peace that so we may with one heart and shoulder serve the Lord both theirs and ours The Jews of all other Nations in the world are the greatest venters spreaders of abominable Blasphemies against our Saviour and the Gospel the greatest Apostates from God and abusers of Liberty of any professing Religion The greatest designers plotters and lifters up of themselves against the interest of Christ and his people as the Premises undeniably evidence And their introduction amongst us at this season when the generality of the people and professors of Religion likewise are so bent to Apostacy and all kind of Errors of Novelties in Religion will no ways allay but most certainly increase the venting and spreading of abominable Blasphemies amongst us multiply the Apostacies of and abuse of liberty by the professors of Religion and make thousands in probability turn Apostate Jews instead of converting any of the Jews to Christianity It will not disappoint but most of all advance the designes of those that labour to lift up themselves against the interest of Jesus Christ and his people this being as some justly fear the Jews very end and plot in pressing now to be received amongst us to seduce us unto Judaism to which many are now inclined and to deny our Saviour Christ in words as too many have denied him in their works and some in their opinions of late years It will not rebuke but foment the foresaid Evils obstruct Gods people both from knowing and pursuing the things that concern their peace and instead of enabling them with one h●art and shoulder to serve the Lord divide them into more Sects and Schisms than formerly and set up Judaism to affront Christianity with open face as 2 Pet. 2.1 Jude 3.4 c. Tit. 1.10.11 1 Joh. 4.3 2 Joh. 7 resol●● so multiply the late Rebukes and Judgements of God upon the Nation Therfore their re-admission into England after such a Sol●mn Declaration and Day of Humiliation as this and some others formerly prescribed observed through the Nation for the late monstrous growth and spreading of Errors and Blasphemies amongst us if resolved and effected wil● be reputed by God and Men A most palpable violation yea contradiction of this Declaration and Humilation a mo●t hypocritical Atheistical mocking of God himself to his face a most prophane abuse and per●ersion of this Solemn Fast and Humiliation a frustration of all the prayers hopes of most religious people thereon who observed it for far other prescribed ends and an high Provocation of Gods severest wrath against the perverters of it to this very end to introduce the long-since banished Jews the debate whereof was proposed immediately before and began the very next day after it My 2. Reason shall be deduced from the Declaration of the 24 Novemb. 1655. in order to the securing of the peace of the Commonwealth Declaring it necessary to use all good means to secure the Peace of the Nation and prevent future troubles within the same The bringing in of the Jews at this season when the people are ●o generally divided discontented and declare for ought I can learn their highest unanimous dislike and detestation of it is the most probable means to disturb the peace of the Nation and to engender future new troubles Tumults within it the generality of the people in England and in other Countries having in former ages frequently ri●en up in armes against them massacred burnt ●nd de●●royed them notwithstanding their Kings and Magi●●r●te Proclamations and Edicts to the contrary And the Jews themselves in all ages having been principle firebrands of sedition both in their own Land and all places where they

care and cost as the richest Pearls Treasures and Jewels of the Nation To which I answer● 1. That all our wisest Kings Parliaments Ancestors Statesmen in former ages had ever a special care to record all businesses of publike or private ocncernment and to preserve our ancient Records as the choicest Treasures appointing special Treasu●ies places to preserve them in and Custodes R●tulorum Treasurers Chamberlains Registers Clerks to keep them safe from injury corrupting and embe●●l●ing and enacting many Statutes for this purpose wi●ne●●e not only the Chests Cyrographers Officers and o●hers forementioned for keeping the Records and Charte●s of the Jews and their Rolls but also 13 E. 1. c. 25.30 1 E. 3. c. 4. 5 E. 3. c. 12. 9 E. 3. c. 5. 6 R 2. c. 4. 13 H. 4. c. 7. 2 H. 5. c. 8. 4 H. 6. c. 3. 8 H. 6. c. 12.15 10 H. 6. c. 4. 18 H. 6. c. 1.9 27 H. 8. c. 16. 32 H. 8. c. 28. 34 H. 8. c. 22.28 37 H. 8. c. 1. 2 E. 6. c. 10.3 4 E. 6. c. 1.1 2 Phil. Mar. c. 2. 23 Eliz. c. 3. 27 Eliz. c. 9. 31 Eliz. c. 3. 1 Jac. c. 6. with other Acts And must they now after all these Statutes be all ma●e a burnt-offring unto Vulcan upon the crack-brain'd Motion of an Ignatian Incendiary 2. The Statute of 8 H. 6. c. 12. still in force O●dai●s That if any Record or parcel of the same writ retori● pa●el proces or warrant of Attorney in the Ki●gs Cou●ts of Chancery Eschequer the one Bench or other or in his Treasury be willingly stolen taken away withdrawn or avoided by any Clerk or other Person by cause whereof any judgement be reve●sed 〈…〉 ●al●r taker away wi●hdr●●● 〈◊〉 and avoider their Procurers Counsellors and Abettors being thereof ina●●ted and by process the●eupon 〈◊〉 thereof duly convict by their own confession or by enquest to be taken by legal men whereof the one half shall be of the men of some Court of the same Courts and the other hal● of ●●her shall be judged for Felons and shall incurre the pain of Felons And that the Iudg●s of the sai●●our●●● of the one Bench and of the other have power to hear and det●rmine such defaults before them and thereo● to m●ke due puni●hment as is aforesaid And now Hugh Peters if I may be thy Counsel●or in sober sadnesse look to thy neck which as thou hast oft indangered forfeited by thy late Fire-works to blow up Kings Kingdoms Parliaments Lords our old fundamental Lawes Liberties Government as Straffords Canterburies late Impeachments Sentences with Mr. St. Iohns and others Arguments at their Atta●nd●rs will resolve thee and thy open treasonable advising abetting the seising imprisoning of my self and above 40 more Members of Parliament in Hell on the bare boards Decemb. 6. 1648. whose names thou didst then list with an iron Sword under thy arme instead of the Sword of the Spirit So this thy Iesuitical Project to burn all our old Records whereby all former Judgement Titles Fines Recoveries c. will be nulled reversed which thou publickly abettest counsellest thy Magistrate to effect in Print proclaimes thee by thine own Confession without other evidence a Notorious Felon within this Act in the highest degree The burning avoiding of all our Records in general being a more transcendent Felony yea Treason to the whole Kingdom Nation than the embezelling only of one or two private Records or Writs relating but to one private person And if ever thou be brought to a legal Trial for it before such a Iury and such Iudges as this Act prescribes thou art sure to undergoe a Halter-Martyrdome at Tyburne which all will cry up according to thy Pamphlets Title for A good work of a good Magistrate and a short cut to great quiet for thy devoting all our old Records to a fiery Martyrdom in Smithfield which I trust they shall never undergo And that upon these en●uing weighty Considerations First the●e old Records which he would have burnt contain in them all the antient Rights Titles Evidences Charters Agreements Leagues Compacts of the Kings Kingdom Nation and people of England to all their pristine and present Dominions Jurisdictions Prerogatives Preheminences Priviledges Hereditaments and enjoyments both at home and abroad by Land and by Sea as they are a Kingdom Nation Republike body Politick in general and that both in relation to themselves and their own intrinsecal affairs at home as they have been owned reputed negotiated treated with upon special occasions as a Kingdom Nation Republike by any forraign Kings Princes Kingdoms States whose ancient undoubted Rights Titles to all or any of our Dominions Territories Jurisdictions Royalties cannot otherwise be legally c●eared judicially evidenced upon any emergenr occasion or controversie between our Kingdom Nation and other Forraign States and Realms or between our selves at home but by our old Records the only publike evidences of the whole Kingdom and English Nation as necessary to defend maintain justifie their common publick Rights Dominions Possessions Jurisdictions Claims priviledges upon all occasions as any private Noble or Gentlemans ancient Charters Records Writings are to defend manifest his right and Title to his private Inheritance and Injoyments witnesse the famous Letter of the King Parliament and Nobles of England written and sent to the Pope Anno 1302. to clear the subordination of Scotland to the Crown of England and the Homage of the Kings of Scotland made for their kingdom to the Kings of England as their superiour Lords from time to time manifested by the ancient Histories and Records of England beyond all contradiction Mr. Selden his Mare Clausum proving the Dominion and Jurisdiction of the Kings of England o●er the Narrow Seas by Records and Sir Robert Cottons Posthuma Therefore it must necessarily be as bad and mad a worke for a bad and mad Magistrate to burn all the publick Evidences and Records of the whole Kingdom and Na●ion upon the frantick motion of a Bedlam in this particular as for a Great landed Nobleman to burre all the old Charters Evidences of his Lands and Honors or for a rich Usurer to burn all his Bonds and Morgages which all wise men will repute an act of Frenzy and Hugh Peters too in his right senses 2. They contein in them all the great publike Charters Contracts Agreements Leagues formerly granted or made by the Kings of England to or with the Prelates Earles Barons Freemen Commons of England Ireland Scotland Wales Gernsey Iersy Man and all other Isles and Dominions belonging to the Crown of England in general all Charters Patents Grants Contracts Writs Releases Gifts Pardons Offices Honors Liberties Franchises Customs Priviledges Faires Markets Inheritances Rents Revenues Licences compositions formerly granted by our Kings to the respective Counties Cities Towns Burroughs Villages Hundreds Arch-bishops Bishops Deans Chapters Prebends Abbies Priories Nunneri●s Colledges Hospitals Free-schools Universities great Officers Chancellors Generals Admirals Marshals

can find no syllable in any Domestick or foreign Historians or Writers whatsoever nor yet that they inhabited here or were here in the Briton Saxon or Danish Kings Reigns which if they had some of our Historians Synods Decrees and Laws in those ages would have mentioned it as well as the Gothish Spanish Histories Laws Councils and Constitutions where they resided in which there is not one syllable of them but only in the forecited Law foisted in amongst the Confessors to which doubtless it was puny but in William the Conquerours reign Together with their ill deportments misdemeanors sufferings massacres servile condition and manifold popular tumults against them during all the time of their residence in England and final banishment out of it never to my knowledge collected into one intire History before The serious consideration whereof will in my weake judgement sufficiently satisfie convince the whole English Nation that they have just grounds and reasons in point of piety of policy never to re-admit them more into our Island and likewise resolve the very Jewes themselves that they have little cause or reason at all to desire to re-plant themselves in England where their ancestors in times past susteined so many miseries massacres affronts oppressions fleecings upon all occasions themselves can expect little better usage for the future To this principal part of my undertaking for fuller satisfaction I shall hereunto subjoyn a Tast of such Laws Scriptures Reasons as seem strongly to plead yea conclude against their re-admission into England at least in that latitude and freedom as formerly they there enjoyed and now petition for As 1. To erect new Synagogues Temples amongst us or turn any of our Churches Chappels into Synagogues for the free publique exercise of their Judaism Jewish Worship Customs Religion diametrically contrary to the Gospel Person Kingdom Priesthood Offices Mediation Redemption of our Lord Jesus Christ which they thereby professedly deny renounce as false and fabulous 2ly To set up a Jewish Corporation or Fraternity amongst us in our Cities and Corporations distinct and separate from the English subject to their own immediate peculiar Officers and Judges as heretofore 3ly To purchase Houses Habitations Rents Lands exercise Merchandizes and all sorts of Trades and Manufactures amongst us as free Denizens or Merchants upon such terms and qualifications as shall be indulged to them 1. For our Laws and Statutes these following make directly or obliquely by way of necessary consequence against their re-admission 1. For their Jewish Synagogues Worship Sacraments Religion these ancient pious Laws of our Saxon and Danish Kings made in their great Parliaments and Councils before the Jews first coming into England strongly oppose their admission now As namely the Laws of King Alfred and Guthern Lex 1.2 of King Ethelred in the Council of Aenham c. 1.3.27 29 30. of Habam c. 1. with the Laws of King Knute the Dane Lex 1.27 28. All which enact That the only true God and our Lord be loved worshipped in all ages by all the people with all their might the one Christian holy Catholick faith orthodoxly kept and the Churches of God to be diligently frequented throughout the Realm That all Paganisme and false Religions be renounced both in words and deeds That who ever wickedly resisteth the Laws of Christ shall be grievously fined and put to death and that all men should diligently seek out by all means Ut recta Christi rel●gio maximè provehatur That the right religion of Christ might be most of all advanced obtesting all Ecclesiastical and secular persons again and again most earnestly to keep the sincere faith unanimously in the true God and the right Christian faith in a right manner diligently to hear the Teachers of Gods word studiously to follow their Doctrine and Precepts to maintain peace and tranquility in the Church of God and there diligently to pour forth their prayers All which particulars exclude all Jewish Synagogues and Judaisme and are of perpetual force being grounded on the very Law of God Moreover King Cnute his Ecclesiastical Lawes made by the advise of his wise men to be observed throughout all England prohibited That no Christian should be sold or sent out of the Realm or banished amongst those who had not as yet embraced the faith in Christ lest per adventure those Souls should perish at any time which our Lord Jesus Christ had redeemed with his own blood and life If Christians for this cause ought not to be sent sold or banished amongst Jews and Infidels much more then ought not Infidel Jews with their Jewish Synagogues Religion Ceremonies to be now introduced amongst us Christians to the hazard of many Christian Souls redeemed by Christs blood 2. All the Statutes concerning Uniformity of Common Se●vice and administration of the Sacraments as 1 Ed. 6. c. 1 2. 2 Ed. 6. c. 1. 6 Ed. 6. c. 1.1 Eliz. c. 2.23 Eliz. c. 1.35 Eliz. c. 1.2 most of them still in force being never legally repealed do fully and directly oppugne the introduction of any J●wish Synagogues Service Sacraments Worship Ceremonies with the use of them in any place within our Realm 3. The Statutes of 3. E. 6. c. 10.13 Eliz. c. 2.23 Eliz. c. 1.28 Eliz. c. 2.6 35 Eliz. c. 1.3 Jac. c. ● against Popish Recusants Seminary Priests Jesuites Friers Masse-Books Agnus Dei's Popish Books Superstitions for eventing the withdrawing of the Subjects of this Realm from the publique Ordinances Sacraments and Religion here established and for speedy banishing all Seminary Priests and Jesuites and keeping them perpetually out of the Realm upon this account amongst others though professing Christ Christian Religion and agreeing with us in all Articles of the Creed and most fundamental points of Christianity Must in Substance Law Reason in this regard much more perpetually exclude abolish all Jews Jewish Priests Rabbies Synagogues worship Ceremonies Superstitions out of our Dominions being far more dishonourable to Christ opposite to our Christian Religion and destructive to the peoples souls if once admitted then any Jesuites Seminary Priests Friers Popish Recusants or any Romish Masses Superstitions whatsoever And if the Jewish Priests Judaism and Jewish Ceremonies may be now set up and practised publiquely amongst us notwithstanding all these Statutes then much more Masse-Priests Masses Popery and Prelacy by the self-fame reason justice equity To these I might annex all the late Ordinances for the Directory The solemn League and Covenant and for Suppressing punishing of Heresy and Blasphemy therefore of Judaism which is both Heresy and Blasphemy and Jewish assemblies the very Synagogues of S●tan and Jews great blaspemers by Christs own resolution Rev. 2.9 c. 3.9 Acts 18.6 Rom. 2.21 With the late printed Instrument of Government which although it allows not only toleration but protection to all Sects and Religions professing faith in God through Jesus Christ though differing from the Doctrine and Discipline publickly held forth in the Nation

no Covenant with them nor shew mercy to them Neither shalt thou make marriages with them Thy Daughter thou shalt not give unto his Son nor his Daughter shalt thou take unto thy Son for they will turn away thy Sons from following me that they may serve other Gods so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against thee and destroy thee suddenly If ye doe in any wise go back and cleave unto the remnant of these Nations and go in unto them and they to you know for a certain that the Lord will no more drive out any of these Nations before you but they shall be snares and traps unto you and scourges in your sides and thorns in your eyes until you perish from the good Land which the Lord your God giveth you But thus ye shall deal with them ye shall destroy their Altars and break down their Images and cut down their groves c. for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God Now the not driving out of these Nations by the Israelites from amongst them according to the●e command o● God is charged 〈◊〉 special sin upon them by God ent●ce● them to Idolatry and brought his severe wrath upon them ●udges 1.27 to 36. c. 2.2 3 12 13 19 20 21 22 2● and is thus expressed by the Psalmist Psal 106.14 to 43. They did not destroy the N●tions concern●ng ●●●m t●● L●●d commanded them but were mingled amongst the heathen and learned their works and they served their ●●ol● which were a snare unto them yea they sacrificed their Sons and Daughters unto Devils and shed innocent blood even the blood of their Sons and Daughters whom they sacr●ficed unto the Idols of Canaan and their Land was defiled with b●ood Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his peo●le insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance and he gave them into the hands of the Heathen and they that hated them were Lords over them their enemies also oppressed them they were brought unto subjection under their hands The morality ground and equity of which precepts as they justifie our Ancestors expulsion of the Jews out of England with their adulterous worship Ceremonies Synagogues heretofore So I conceive they strongly oblige all English Christians especially after our late solemn League and Covenant to seclude and keep them out from re-entring coming in mingling and dwelling among us now for fear they draw the self-same sad effects and bring down the same or like heavy judgements of God upon us as these Scriptures threatned and God himself inflicted on the Israelites for transgressing them In brief the Parables of the Vineyard and Husbandmen the King going into foraign parts and Marriage-Supper Mat. 21.33 to 46. c. 22.2 to 11. c. 23.21 to the end Mar. 12.1 c. Luk. 19.12 to 28. c. 20.9 c. particularly applyed to the Jews and notably setting out their desperate malice against our Saviours person Kingdom Government Ordinances Ministers Gospel and his rejection of them for it Together with Rom. 16 17 18.31.32 1 Cor. 5.4 c. Phil. 3.2.3 Mat. 7. 15. c. 16.7.11.12.17 Col. 2.8 2 Pet. 3.17 c. 2.1 c. 7 8.20 21 22. 2 Tim. 3.1 to 10. c. 2.16 17 Titus 3.10.11 Rev. 2.9.14 Heb. 6.4 to 9. c. 16.26 to 32. Ph. 4.2 3. Gal. 4.29.30 will all furnish us with sundry arguments against their re-admission amongst us as likewise Prov. 9.27.28 Amos 3.3 Psal 101.3 4 5 6 7 8. Psal 119.104 Psal 139.21 22. Numb 8.13 Numb 16.26 27. Psal 6.8 Psal 119.115 Psal 139.16 which every good Christian may peruse at leasure and apply as he sees cause 3. For Reasons against their re-admission into England they are divers Theological Political and mixt of bo●h 1. God himself by his Prophets Son Apostles before their rejection while they were his special peculiar chosen people treasure above all other Nations of the world most frequently complains of them and the generality of the Nation That they were a most rebellious disobedient gainsaying stiff-necked impenitent incorrigible adulterous whorish impudent froward shamelesse perverse treacherous revolting back-sliding idolatrous wicked sinfall stubborn untoward hard-hearted hypocritical foolish sottish brutish stupid ungratefull Covenant breaking Nation House People a seed of evil doers a generation of Vipers doing evil greedily with both hands according to all the Nations that were round about them as bad nay worse than Sodom or Gomorrha casting all Gods Laws Ordinances behind their backs trampling ●em under their feet rejecting forsaking despising God himself provoking him continually to his face grieving him to the heart forgetting him days without number alwayes erring in their hearts and disobeying his voice and the like And dare can we then harbour such a Nation as this and bring them in amongst us now they are worse in all these resects than ever 2. God himselfe hath denounced against and inflicted upon the Iewes greater severer Woes Iudgments Calamities Dispersions Devastations Captivities Desolations Curses Plagues of all kinds for their sins rebellions impenitencies and to on their Nation Kingdom Countrie Cities than to or on any other Nations Kingdoms People and that more frequently than against any other Swearing against them in his wrath that they should never enter into his rest Psal 95.11 Hebr. 3.10 11 18. stiling them the generation of his wrath Jer. 7.29 and averting of them that wrath is come upon them to the utermost 1 Thess 2.15.16 And can or shall we then receive such a Nation as this into our bosoms now without entertaining and pulling upon us that wrath and these curses of God which are denounced against and do now pursue and accompany them in all places 3. The Jews were alwaies heretofore a very murmuring mutinous discontented rebellious seditious people for the most part not only against God but their lawfull Governors Kings Priests Prophets oft tumul●uously rebelling against disobeying revolting from deposing murdering their Kings and Sovera●gns and contemning disobeying slaying killing stoning the Prophets Messengers whom God sent unto them Whence God himself gives us this black Character of them 2 Chron. 36.15 16. And the Lord God of their Fathers sent unto them by his Messengers rising up betimes and sending c. But they mocked the Messengers of God and despised his words and misused his Prophets until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people till there was no remidy c. And our Saviour Christ a worse Lu. 13.33 34. It is impossible or cannot be that a Prophet perish out of Jerusalem Mat. 23.27 O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou that killest the prophets and stonest those that are sent unto thee Which St. Stephen thus seconds Acts 7.51.52 Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears ye do alwaies resist the holy Ghost as your fathers did so do ye W●●ch of the Prophets have not your Fathers persecuted and they have slain them which have shewed them before of the coming of the Just One of whom ye have been now the betrayers

have been d●spersed as the Texts and Authors in the 3. and 7. premised reasons with the foregoing Relations out of our English Historians attest Therefore their re-admission into England especially in this unquiet season must needs be diametrically contrary to the scope of this Declaration and neither in policy nor prudence to be resolved on but utterly rejected My 3d. reason shall be grounded on this clause of that Declaration That no person who hath or shall be sequestred or e●ected for Delinquency or being in actual arms for the late King against the th●n Parliament or for Charis Stuart his Son c. out of any Benefice School or Colledge shall from and after the 1. day of December be kept as a Chaplain or School-master in any s●questred persons house Nor after the 1. day of January keep any School publike or private Nor preach in any publike place or private meet●ng of any other persons than those of his own family No● shall adm●nister Baptism or the Lords Supper or Marry c. upon pain that every person so offending in any of the premisses sh●l be proceeded against as by Orders therin mentioned is provided prescribing 3 months imprisonment for the 1.6 months for the 2 d and banishm●nt for the 3 d Offence as I am inform●d If native freeborn Eng●ishmen formerly ejected out of any Benefice Colledge or School only for their old delinquency in adhering to the l●te King and Prince though according to their Oaths duties and dictate of their consciences after some years publike liberty to preach Articles of Agreement confirmed by the Army and both Houses and that which some call An Act of Oblivion and future indempnity though orthodox in Doctrine unblamable in con●ersation and eminent in learning without any particular impeachment hearing conviction of any new Delinquency or mi●demeanors whatsoever must not have so much liberty as to keep any School or preach Gods Word in publike or private or to be entertained in formerly sequestred Englishmens h●uses under the foresaid penalties at this season only in Order to the Nations peace Then much lesse ought J●ws meer aliens who always have been and still are ●●ofessed Enemies in arms against the Person Kingdom Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ which the late Parliamen● by their solemn Protestation Vow and Covenant eng●ged by all good means to d●fend and advance to be ent●rtained by any Engli●h Christians or publikely or priva●ely to teach preach spread propagate their Jewish Doctrines Errors and abo●ished Ceremonies in our Island but to be banished for ever from amongst us if any o● them should pub●ikely or privately attempt to creep in amongst us Else not on●y all sequestred Delinquents but the whole Eng●ish Nation and world too will cry out and say the faithfull loyal Chaplains S●rvants followers Friends of the late K. and Pr. though English Nativs Freemen ye our felow brethren Members in Christ are more execrable to more injuriously unchristianly uncharitably dealt with by their Fellow English Christians in present power only for their loyalty and conscientious adhering to their late temporal King and Prince than the very alien Jews who both denied rejected crucified the Lord Jesus Christ their own tem●oral Soveraign who was born King of the Iews and had this very title inscribed on his Crosse and their our only spiritual King and Saviour whose Honour Power Kingdom Gospel we avowedly profess to ad●ance that they enjoy lesse Christian or civil liberty for themselves their wives and families necessarie subsistance for whom they must provide unless worse than Infidels now in their Native country then the Jews where they must neith●r teach nor preach Christ Jesus to any in publique or private though Gods word and their function condition en●oyn necessitate them to do both when as these admitted Jews may and all other kind of Sectaries do both teach and preach against him too in publick and privat Which restraints on these English Royalists on the one hand and indulged liberty to the alien Jew Antichr●sts on the other if now put in execution I humbly ref●rre it to the saddest confiderations and conscientious meditations of all in power to resolve themselves how scanda●ous and odious it will prove both to God and all good men how much it will resemble the proceedings not only of the malicious Jews themselves against the Apostles Ministers of Christ recorded Acts 4.1 to 24. c. 5.24 to 32.1 Thess 2.14 15 16. of beheaded Canterbury again●t Mr. Workman of Glocester whom he first prohibited from preaching then from teaching School and practising Physick to su●port himself and his family whereby he was reduced to great extremity But likewise of that detestable Apostat Emperour Julian who out of his desperate malice to Christ to undermine and exti●pate Christian Relig●on without shedding the bloud of Christians first shewed himself a most zealous Christian professor reducing the O●thodox Bishops Ministers christians whom the persecuting Arian Emperour Constantius had exiled and restoring them to their confiscated Bishopricks to ingratiate himself with the people but not long after turning Apostat he took away all the priviledges honours revenues of the Clergy setled on them by Constantine with the Laws for their establishment shut up the Churches and Schools of the Christians prohibiting them to preach or teach in publike or private or to set their Children to School unless they would renounce their former Religion and turn Pagans impoverished oppressed the Christians with extraordinary doubled Taxes from which the Pagans were exempted and cast many of them into prison But on the contrary at the same time he shewed extraordinary favour and affection towards the Iews sent for the chiefest of them to his Court where he dicoursed with them writing a special Letter to them wherein the desired their prayers for him granted them free exercise of their Jewish ceremonies and sacrifices long discontinu●d encouraged and assisted them with monies out of his publike Treasury to re-edifie the Temple at Jerusalem to revive set up all their Jewish Sacrifices and customes there formerly used whereupon they began to build it till miraculously interrupted therein and all to vex and undermine the Christians By which indulged Liberty the Jews then grew so insolent against the Christians that they greivously persecuted divers of them destroyed and burne down some of their Churches and threatned to persecute them worse than the Pagan Romans had done as the Marginall Historians record more at large The imitation of whose proceedings now in any degree in these particulars what harsh cons●ructions and sad events they may produce I refer to all wise Christian States-men seriously to ponder for their own and our Religions honor and Security My 4. argument is this The Orders for securing the peace of the Nation which the Declaration relates to contrary to all the Statutes Acts Resolutions of our Parliaments and Law-books forecited upon another occasion authorize the Major