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A39795	Israel redux, or, The restauration of Israel, exhibited in two short treatises the first contains an essay upon some probable grounds, that the present Tartars near the Caspian Sea, are the posterity of the ten tribes of Israel / by Giles Fletcher ; the second, a dissertation concerning their ancient and successive state, with some Scripture evidences of their future conversion, and establishment in their own land / by S.L.	Fletcher, Giles, 1549?-1611. Tartars, or, Ten tribes.; Lee, Samuel, 1625-1691.	1677 (1677)	Wing F1333; Wing L898; ESTC R2002	48,660	138

the Jews wherein he exhorts them to obey the Romans and expostulates thus What do you stretch your hopes beyond the River Euphrates Do any of you think that your fellow Tribes will come to your aid out of Adiabene Besides neither will they upon so unreasonable account engage themselves in this so great a war neither if they would assent to so evil an enterprise will the Parthian permit it c. Whence we learn that in the account of Josephus in an Oration to the Jews themselves the Israelites or 10 Tribes were still resident in Adiabene the Country so called beyond Mesopotamia from the River Ahava or Adiaba or Lycus as we have before recited again in his book of Antiquities which he testifies to have written in the 13th year of Domitian and the 56th of his own age reciting the return of Esdras he asserts that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those of the same Nation in Media having received a Copy of the Letter of the King of Persia were overjoyed and that many of them came to Babylon with a desire to return to Jerusalem and then adds further 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But the whole body of the People remained still in that Country that is of Media so that onely 2 Tribes residing in Asia and Europe are obedient to the Romans But the ten Tribes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they are yet still beyond Euphrates many ten thousands not to be reckoned or their numbers to be known which concords with the Prophecy of Ezechiel that there are some of Israel mixt with Judah but all the House of Israel that is far the greater part and therefore more genuinely to be called the House of Israel were the Companions of Ephraim and both are to be united into one body in the latter day and brought into their own Land and become one Kingdome under David the second the Messiah and anointed Prince of the Covenant for ever But as to the testimony of Josephus what can be more plainly exprest then that the ten Tribes were yet still in the Land of Media under the Parthian Princes and that even to innmerable multitudes in his days and this by the King of the Jews in the hearing both of Jews and Romans and though some of them had formerly come up with Judah yet the main body of the ten Tribes remained still to that day in their old habitations To proceed the Author of the Book of Esdras writes a Story of the travel of the 10 Tribes into Regions far distant from their first settlement under the name of Arsareth let the merit of that Story be what it will I improve it for no other scope then a testimony among the Jews that their fellow Tribes were then in his days in a state of irreduction The Author of that Tract lived and wrote about the year of our Lord 100 and about 30 years after the ruine of Jerusalem as the Learned Dr. John Rainolds hath exhibited in his prelections upon the Apochryphal Books The next testimony shall be out of Origen who speaking of Israel distinct from Judah that he sinned against God under Jeroboam so greatly that he was delivered into the hands of Assyria 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Scripture saith to this very day wherein he seems to continue that Scripture expression to his own time there being no token or tidings of their return Now Origen dyed in the year of our Lord 254. Let the good Anchorite at Bethtem succeed who in his Comment upon Joel on these words of the holy Prophet Chap. 3. 6. The Children of Judah and Jerusalem c. ye have sold to the Graecians Thus Jerome Filii Juda Jerusalem néquaquam Israel decem tribuum quae usque hodie in Medorum Vrbibus Montibus habitant The ten Tribes dwell in the Cities and Mountains of Media to this very day And treating again about the same Tribes in his notes upon Hoseah hath these words usque hodie Persarum regibus serviunt nunquam est earum soluta Captivitatis They serve the Persian Princes to this very day and their Captivity hath never yet bin released Now Jerome dyed in the year of our Lord 421. With this age likewise concurs Sulpitius Soverns who wrote 45 years after the Consulship of Arbitio and Lollianus A. C. 355. and that fell in with the year 400. These are his words decem vero i. e. tribus per Parthos Medos Indos atque Aeihiopas dispersae nunquam in solum patrium sunt regressae bodieque barbararum gentium imperiis continentur But the ten Tribes dispersed among the Parthians Medes Indians and Aethiopians never returned to their ancient inheritance but are subject to the Seepter of Barbarous Princes This Author flourished about the year of our Lord 420 as Trithemius and Bellarmine witness in their Tracts of Ecclesiastical writers I might insert a story out of Orosius l. 3. c. 7. about the Jews in Hircania and Eusebius Chron. p. 136. but I shall not inlarge The next witness may be taken from Benjamin the Jew of Tudela in Spain who travelled and wrote under the Pontificate of Alexander the third and finisht his ramblings A. 1173. as L'Empereur observes in his notes upon that itinerary he acquaints us that in the City of Samarcand the Seat of Tamerlane that great Tartarian Conqueror there were near 50000 Israelites under the Presidency of Rabbi Obadiah and that in the Mountains and Cities of Nisbor there be 4 Tribes of Israel resident sc of Dan Zabulon Asher and Napthali perhaps the Ephthalitae of Theophanes p. 79. and the Euthalitae of Procopius p. 67. in Photius his Bibliotheca which Salmanasser had carried Captive Now although several passages in that Treatise seem incongruous and beyond credit yer so far he may be admitted as to joyn issue with the harmonious Opinion still current among the Jews that their Brethren of Israel or ten Tribes still remain in the North and North-East parts of Persia Mathew Paris may follow as a further witness about the Jews in his time attempting to convey Armes in Barrels to the Tartars for their aid against the Christians in the East believing that the Commons of Tartary were of the Race of those Israelites whom Alexander of old had shut within the Caspian Mountains The Story is too long for recital which he mentions in the year 1241. and is rehearsed onely to our purpose that it was then a current Opinion that the Tartars and Cumans near the Castle Cumania in the Straights of Caucasus Plin. l. 6. c. 11. were of the Posterity of Israel and as yet in his time in their state of dispersion by the Caspian Sea To this purpose I would not let slip what I met with in Bradwardin that famous Champion of free grace who treating about Miracles writes from the Scholastical History of Petrus Comestor as I suppose that when Alexander the

will set his hand again the secondtime to recover the remnant of his people and that not of Judah onely for Ephraim i. e. The ten Tribes must be restored and the Out-casts of Israel and the two Kingdoms shall envy one another no more and this ascension must be as when Israel came up out of the Land of Aegypt i. e. when all the 12 Tribes came out of that ancient bondage But not to transcribe any more I desire to refer the studious in these Prophecies to Scriptures of the like Analogy as Isai 49. 6. and 60. 21. Jer. 30. 3. and 33. 15. and 50. 19. Ezek. 37. 21. Hos 2. 19. and 3. 5. Joel 3. 1. 10. Amos 9. 11. 14. explained by Acts 15. 16 Zech. 10. 10. which Scriptures manifestly exhibit this truth that the return of Israel is to be performed after our blessed Lords Incarnation and after the great Conversion of the Gentiles is accomplished but the Tribes of Israel never returned out of their various dispersions since the manifestation of our blessed Saviour and therefore that promise to the seed of Abraham remains yet to be fulfilled Wherefore whatever parcels of those Tribes might come up out of Media at the return of Judah from the Babylonian Captivity doth no ways arise to the dignity and lustre of those prohecies which are connext with the glorious days of the Messiah 2. Arg. 2 These Tribes are to return with a conversion to the Messiah and his Law To this point the Prophet Hosea speakes expresly as to the Children of Israel in general that after their rejection for their spiritual whoredome they shall become the Sons of the living God and that the Children of Juda and Israel shall be gathered together and appoint themselves one head and shall come up out of the Land i. e. of their dispersion This return is further accomplished in the 3 Chapter that after they have bin many days without a King or Prince or sacrifice c which was not verified upon all the Tribes till the Incarnation of our Lord Then shall they return after those days of the intermission of government and seek the Lord their God and David their King and fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days This is the day spoken of by the Prophet Zephany when the Lord will forme to his People i. e. of Israel a pure language that they may all call upon the name of the Lord to serve him with one consent from beyond the Rivers of Ethiopia or Cush not that Ethiopia South of Aegypt but the Easterne Cush which was compassed by the River Gihon or Gyndes a branch of Euphrates which ran down upon the East side of Arabia where the people of Cush or Cushim did anciently inhabit which is as much as to say the people which were scattered beyond Euphrates and its branches in Persia and Media shall return to their own Land and be converted when God will save her that halted that is In point of Worship between God and Baal and gather her that was driven out i. e. by the Assyrians and bring them again to their own Land and get them a name and a Praise among all the People of the Earth This shall be performed In that day when God will rise up to the Prey assemble the Kingdomes and pour out his indignation even all his fierce anger and all the Earth shall be devoured with the fire of his Jealousie and God will undo all that have afflicted his People This Famous Day shines sorth yet more clearly by the illuminated Pen of the Prophet Zechary when God will save the Tents of Judah first that the glory of the House of David and of the Inhabitants of Jerusalem i. e. of all the Tribes as they were under David at Jerusalem in one united Kingdome may not magnifie themselves against Judah It is his special grace to save the Jews in the first place before the ten Tribes be fully returned In that day God will pour out upon the House of David c. i. e. the whole Kingdom of David the Spirit of Grace and Supplication and they shall look upon him whom they have pierced and mourn and be in Bitterness as for the First-Born and as for Josiah at Hadadrimmon or Maximianopolis in Jerom a little Town near Megiddo in the Valley of Jezreel where that godly Prince was slain That we may be further assured of the right application of these and the like Prophecies the Spirit of God is a most clear witness by the Mouth of Holy Paul applying two Texts of Isaiah to this purpose One That Gods great design by all the afflictions of his Israel is to purge iniquity and take away their sin Then In that day he will gather the Children of Israel One by One i. e. Every one to a man out of their Captivity from Assyria and they shall worship the Lord in the Holy Mountain at Jerusalem The other more especially that The Redeemer shall come to Zion and to them that turn from transgression in Jacob Now saith Paul this is the Mystery both as to the matter and time that though blindnēss or hardness of heart is happened in part to Israel yet that shall endure no longer then till the Fulness of the Gentiles shall come in that is till their full time be accomplished so long to continue as the utter desolation shall last Then all Israel shall be saved Then this Veil shall be taken away and their hearts turned to the Lord. The First Fruits of Israel were reaped in the Apostles days but the full Harvest the Joyful Day of their full and compleat Conversion shall not be till the days of the Gentiles be come to a period then the Messiah will gather into one the Children of God that were scattered abroad Let us then re-assume the Argument and conclude That since the Return of Israel is to be attended with a glorious Conversion to the Gospel And since it hath never yet been accomplished from the time of their Dispersion or the setting out of those Splendid Prophecies that it still remains to be fulfilled to the joy of Israel and the comfort of all the Church both Jews and Gentiles to be united in one Flock under one Shepherd and to the honour of Divine Mercy which in the latter days will shine out from the second Mount Paran when God will ride upon his Horses and Chariots of Salvation For so I understand both that verse and the whole third Chapter of Habakkuk in the future tense as a Prophecy of the glorious times of the latter day as yet remaining to be accomplished 3. The Tribes of Israel are to return into their own Land at or about the time of the Destruction of Gog and Magog in Ezekiel But the Ruine and Extirpation of those Nations signified by Gog c. as yet rests under the conduct of Providence to be fulfilled

and therefore those Tribes were never yet restored to their glorious State but remains still to be effected in the latter day Who these People are that shall come like Stormes upon the Mountains of Israel I shall not here stand to discuss but rest with the general apprehension of many learned that they denote the Turks who came Originally from between the Euxine and Caspian Seas conjoyned with Mesech who were planted at first by the Montes Moschici in Cappadocia and Tubal or the Tubareni in the adjacent Coasts Some think the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Strabo l. 11. p. 523. placed in North of Media to be these People Ortel They had their name from Terk and Tork that signifies a Shepherd those Countries being used to Pasturage and wafting up and down like the Nomades in Carts and Waggons with their Cattel and are most likely the Turcoe in Pliny and Mela and have left a notable remain of their Name in the City Terki so called at this day on the West side of the Caspian Give leave also to represent one Text of Scripture about Gogs ruine in the latter days mentioned in Balaam's Prophecy according to the Samaritan Copy of the Pentateuch where speaking of the latter times of the World He saith in our versions Israels King shall be higher then Agag and his Kingdomes shall be exalted The Samaritan reads it and so the Seventy He shall be exalted above Gog. Not to argue about the Authentickness of that Lection at present let it suffice that according to that ancient reading Israel is to be exalted above the Kingdoms of Gog in the latter days that is above the Turk as we apprehend by consideration of Ezekiel who acquaints us that the Lord had spoken of old concerning Gog and his ruine by his Prophets in former times But as yet the Turk is in great Splendor though we hope his Crescent is a waining and tending to his fatal Eclipse and Period as might be further evidenced by the finishing of the second Wo-Trumpet in the Revelations at the rising of the Witnesses 4. Arg. 4 The Tribes of Israel are to rule over their Babylonian Enemies and all their ancient Oppressors They never returned as yet to enjoy a Kingdom sui juris but after the return of Judah from Babylon were as a Province inserted into another Empire of the Persians the Ptolomies the Syrians or the Romans c. Therefore the promised State of an absolute or glorious Kingdome to rule over their enemies was never yet fulfilled and remains to be accomplished When God shall raise up Judah and Ephraim and the Sons of Zion against the Sons of Greece or Javan Who are the Sons of Javan but the people that live under Gog and Magog and who is the present Possessor of Greece but the Turkish Gog And who is the Assyrian in the Land of Judah but the Ottoman Family Who holds part of the Ancient Assyria and all the Land of Canaan under his Damaseen Scymiter at this day But Israel is to Captivate those in the latter day that had led them Captives in former times Now this hath never been fulfilled to this moment and therefore rests under the veracity of God to accomplish to his Ancient People They shall possess them in the Land of the Lord for Servants and Hand-Maids and they shall take them Captive whose Captives they were and shall rule over their Oppressors The Nation and Kingdom that will not serve Israel shall perish yea those Nations shall be utterly wasted The Sons of them that have afflicted Israel shall come bending to them and all that despised them shall bow themselves down at the soles of his feet In like manner the Lord threatens the Tyrians that sold his People to the Grecians that God will sell their Children to Judah and they shall sell them as Captives to the Sabeans in Arabia Who are the Tyrians at this day but the Turk who rules longè lateque all round the Phaenician Shores Further the Lord commands all Nations in the latter day to come up to Jerusalem and keep the Feast of Tabernacles The Feast of Israels Deliverance from the House of Bondage and the Feast of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Incarnation of our Lord of his Tabernacling in our Nature upon Earth i. e. to Worship the great Messiah and Lord of our Redemption And if any of all the Families of the Earth shall not obey this Command the Lord will smite them with Famine if they come not up to Worship King David the Lord of Hosts at Jerusalem in the latter day This glorious Deliverance of Israel shall not dawn till the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled So long saith our Lord shall Jerusalem be trodden under foot or as the Apostle Paul expresses 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Fulness of the Gentiles be come in i. e. the fulness of time or the full time of the Gentiles Dominion in the World Now 't is frequent in Scripture Phrase to set forth the End of a Nation its Glory its Power and Prosperity and its Dominion by the time or times of such a Land or Nation its fixed period predetermined and foreappointed of God as you may observe Isai. 13. 22. Jer. 27. 7. and 50. 27 31. Ezek. 7. 7 12 and 22. 3. and 30. 3. 5. Arg. 5 They are to possess a far larger Country then ever they did since they were a People In that day the Lord shall beat off from the Chanel of the River unto the Stream of Egypt i. e. drive their enemies from the River Euphrates to Sihor or the little Stream at the entrance into Egypt and the Dominion of David the second shall be from the River Euphrates to the Ends of the Earth i. e. to the Sea Shore He shall have Dominion from Sea to Sea and from the River unto the Ends of the Earth I will set saith the Lord his hand in the Sea and his right hand in the Rivers i. e. His Power and Dominion Israel must enjoy whatever was contained in that ample Charter given to Abraham as may be more fully expressed in the sequel of this Tract They rise not up to the Dignity of the Promise who cut them short of that large possession granted to their Fathers of old from Euphrates to the entring in of Egypt though they tell us that David and Solomon possessed the Promised Country by Garrisons yet let them remind that those Princes held also by the same tenure of tribute Edom Moab and Ammon and the Children of the East When some further add that Israel fell short of the Promise by Sin that 's not cogent for so they might have fallen short of all and the Lord acquaints them that he chose them them not to be his People for their greatness or worth and therefore brought them into Canaan at the first but to get himself a glorious Name Nay

Tartars And a little after v. 26. Then dwelt they there till the latter time but when they shall come forth again the most High shall hold fast the springs of the River to wit Euphrates that they may pass through therefore sawest thou the multitude peaceably Where he tells that this return of the holy people over Euphrates towards their Country in the latter times is meant of the Israelitish 10 Tribes who were carried Captive by the Assyrians who after the manner of that people would live alone not commixed with other Nations and therefore brake out of the Colonies where they were placed by the Assyrians and went from thence to a remote and inward try as is Tartaria from the society of other men which cannot be said of the Jewish Tribes who notwithstanding by the example of those other Tribes shall be encouraged to joyn together and to march likewise out of the places where now they are towards the Country of Judea without any impeachment or resistance of other Nations As for the manner of their passing over the said River whether it shall be actual drying of the River or a removing of all impediments which may stop or hinder their speedy passage in this their expedition towards their Country I will not argue it at this time That it shall be an actual exiccation of the River with no less miracle then the drying up of the Red Sea or River Jordan when they passed towards the Land of Canaan that so this work of God which shall be famous in all the World even the restoring of this people may be observed by other Nations with great reason and probability is affirmed by Th. Brightman the last interpreter of that Book whom God endued with special gifts and great brightness after his name for the full clearing and exposition of that Prophecy above all that hitherto have written of it FINIS A DISSERTATION concerning the Place and State OF THE dispersed Tribes OF ISRAEL By S. L. THIS Discourse may be divided into 4 partitions 1. Whether the Israelites the ancient and true proprietors of the Land of Canaan by Gods immediate promise donation and their own actual possession were driv'n 2. Where probably they reside at this day 3. Whether they shall return to their ancient propriety in that Land which is now become part of the Turkish Dominions 4. When shall be the time of their restitution As to this disquisition I shall first consider the state of the ten Tribes and then glance upon the two Tribes remaining in the Land for a while after the dispersion of the former The Ten Tribes Here I shall not be anxious about the numbring of the 10 Tribes Whither after their first secession from the house of David part of them did remain with Judah that is whether Simeon and Dan whose Lands were parcelled out of the great territory of Judah and lay West of that Tribe towards the midland Sea did continue within the bounds of the Kingdom of Judah As to that we must herein acquiesce that holy Scripture tells us that 10 Tribes did revolt from Rehoboam the Son of Solomon though its certain that several out of all the Tribes of Israel came up after the Priests to sacrifice to the Lord God of their Fathers at Jerusalem and 't is very probable from their religious inclination to pure worship and the hazard of returning that many might sit down and live under the dominion of Judah We shall then take in the whole Kingdom of Samaria or as commonly called the Kingdom of Israel under the name and title of the 10 Tribes in this disquisition because made up of far the greater part of both the Tribes and people and also the quantity of Land and possessions This Kingdom first raised to that distinct state and dignity by Jeroboam Son of Nebat was scituate in the North of Judah and had at first Shechem for the Royal City Then Tirzah and lastly Samaria In the first place let 's enquire whither these 10 Tribes were carried Captive For answer to this query we find in sacred Page that the Land of Israel was thrice assaulted by the Assyrian Emperors The 1st impress made upon that Country was by Pul possibly Sardanapalus as might be spoken to in reference to Nineve and Scripture Chronology This was acted in the Reign of Menahem who payd to him a 1000 Talents of Silver and diverted him from any further attempts only that the rod of Gods anger was shaken over the Land The Second inrode was performed by Tiglath-Peleser who seems to be the same with Belesis the 1st King of the Assyrians after the revolt of the Medes This Prince took many of their Cities and conquered Gilead and Galilee and all the Land of Napthali and carried the People Captive to Assyria He transported the Reubenites Gadites and the half Tribe of Manasses on the East of Jordan unto Halak and Habor and Hara and to the River Gozan So that in the Book of Kings we find the Country mentioned at large and in Chronicles the particular places to which they were conveyed The 3d. and last aggress was managed by Salmanasser mentioned by Eusebius in his Greek Canon p. 46. who in the 9th of Hoshea sweeped the Land of its inhabitants and carried them to Halak and Habor by the River Gozan and into the Cities of the Medes Hence we may observe in general that the ten Tribes were carried into Assyria and Media as to Media no particular places are mentioned but in Assyria Halah Habor Hara and Gozan the scituation whereof I shall a little examine 1. Halah written in the Hebrew with Cheth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chalach which letter is sometimes turned into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and sometimes into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Greeks The 70. such as we have read the text thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if Hala and Habor were the names of 2 Rivers along whose banks the Israelites were placed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some think to be the Original of the name and people of Cholchis between the Euxine and Caspian Seas but they came from Cashuhim in Aegypt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But we must seek it in Assyria and accordingly we find a Country called Calacine by Ptolomy placed above Adiabene belonging to Assyria It s termed Chalachena by Strabo and seated in the North part of Assyria between the River Tigris and Lycus and separated from Armenia by the Mountain Niphates The inhabitants it may be are the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Dionysius if not the Calneh in Genesis and Isaiah The Province at this day is called Chalcal by Olearius The chief Cities of old were Marde Dithaba perhaps Bithlis now Savara Bessara c. At this day those places are near unto and South west of the Mountains Sehend and Etwend and the Cities are Hemadan Sultanie and Senkan for the River which runs a little

ruins and inhabited in the same place When God shall bring again the Captivity both of Israel and Judah into the Land which he gave to their Fathers and they shall possess it when they shall serve the the Lord their God and David their King whom he will raise up to them And this is over and over prophecied to Jacob that he shall return not only Judah but all the Seed of Jacob and they shall fear no more and that the Lord will disanul the Ordinances of Heaven before they shall cease from being a Nation before him for ever even the two Families which the Lord hath Chosen the Seed of Jacob he will break first his Covenant with Day and Night and reject his Ordinances both of Heaven and Earth He will heal their back sliding and love them freely for his anger is turned away from them where that holy Prophet treats through that whole Chapter of the excellent State of Ephraim or the ten Tribes in the latter day 8. Arg. 8 The last Argument to prove that the ten Tribes have not attained their promised Felicity to this day but rests under divine good pleasure to be accomplished is this That if those Scriptures are to be construed in reference to a deliverance mixt with Judah by the Indulgence of the Persian Princes of old then must they never have been brought under any farther yoke of Captivity or misery of dispersion which all that were mixt with Judah did undergo by the fatal stroke of the Romans But the Holy Scriptures do promise that when they are reduced to their own Land they shall never remove more Not to insist upon that place in the Lamentations that they shall no more be carried into Captivity since that Text refers unto Judah and Edom sc that Edom shall never more have any influence upon Judah in aiding the Babylonian against him which their sin is sorely threatned by several of the Holy Prophets But there be several Scriptures more pregnant and clear Thou shalt no more be termed forsaken neither shall thy Land be any more termed desolate They shall not sorrow any more at all The City shall be no more plucked up nor thrown down any more for ever Strangers shall no more serve themselves of Jacob. They shall no more be a prey to the Heathen neither shall they bear the shame of the Heathen any more The Lord will cause the men of Israel to walk upon their Mountains and they shall no more bereave Israel of his men by the sword of battel and they shall dwell in the Land that he gave unto Jacob his Servant wherein their fathers have dwelt they and their Childrens Children for ever God will so fully and amply reduce them out of their several scatterings and dispersions that they shall leave none behind them and Judah shall dwell for ever and Jerusalem from Generation to Generation The Lord will bring again the Captivity of his People Israel and they shall build the wast Cities and inhabit them they shall plant Vineyards and they not their enemies shall drink the Wine they shall make Gardens and eat the fruit of them and they shall no more be pulled up out of their Land which the Lord hath given them The King of Israel even the Lord shall reign in the midst of them and they shall see evil no more The wicked insulting enemy shall no more pass through them but shall be utterly cut off The Lord will smite all the People that have fought against Jerusalem with this sore plague Their flesh shall continue away while they stand upon their feet and their eyes shall consume away-in their holes and their tongues shall consume away in their mouth and there shall be no more the Canaanite in the House of the Lord. I might yet further encrease the number of Scripture Arguments and Evidences to demonstrate this assertion that Israel and Judah shall be one Kingdom in the latter days in their Ancient Land and the Territories thereof greatly magnified and augmented that they shall be a holy and spiritual People honoring worshiping and reverencing the Messiah our blessed Lord Jesus their King and ours That Land of Canaan as theirs by right of donation from God was taken away for their rebellion against him But when they shall return to their obedience what should hinder but that they should inherit their ancient patrimony before any other Nation in the World it is their right if God pardon them and command them to return who shall detain their possessions Furthermore that the Church of God united into one body both of Israel and the Gentiles shall enjoy surpassing peace plenty and prosperity in the beauty of Evangelical Ordinances for a long succession of years even till the time of the Son of Mans coming to Judgment But I shall wave any more enlargement at present upon this Subject humbly advising persons to take heed of applying these and other Ancient Prophecies to the solution of the Babylonian Captivity and thereby to contract and narrow the exuberant and resplendent Mercies of God to Israel and Judah since the Apostles both Paul and Peter in the Acts and in the Epistles apply those Texts to the times of the Messiah concerning glorious things spoken of Zion the City of God which were never yet accomplished either before or since the Incarnation of our blessed Lord to this very day Neither do I see how any rational man can make any proper and genuine sense of the Prophets nor deduce any consequencies from them but such as tend to confirm what we have treated on in several arguments to prove and demonstrate that there is a great glory coming on for the Church to enjoy in the latter day I shall for a Coronis to the foresaid deductions present some Srciptures of the Old and New Testament in their orderly series reflecting strongly upon this Truth which would require some Interpretation and then might lye fair for application to this point of the Restitution of Israel and the wonderful splendor of the Church in the close of times in all places where the four Monorchies have obtained from India to the Atlantick Ocean and how far further the Church shall bear sway among the Heathen from Pole to Pole is not for us distinctly to amplifie till holy Scripture doth enable us by future manifestations of some dark places together with admirable Providences commenting by event Restitution of ISRAEL Numb 24. 7 17. Deut. 32. 43. Psal 68. 22. 69. 32 33. 110. 2 3. Song 8. 10. Isai 2. 2. 9. 7. 11. 11. 14. 2. 30. 21 22. 33. 9 17 20. Isai 41. 15. 43. 1 c. 49. 16 17. 51. 1 2 3. 65. 17 c. 66. 12 c. Jer. 3. 17 18. 30. 3. 33. 6. 50. 19. Ezek. 16. 61. 20. 34. 37. 21. Ezek. 39. 21 29. 40. to the end 48. Dan. 12 13. Joel 2. 28

the height of their expectation they shall be most miserably torn Jerusalem taken the Houses rifled the Women ravisht and half carried out for a new Captivity then will the Lord set his feet upon the Mount of Olives for their deliverance Then a Saviour shall come upon Mount Zion to judge the Mount of Esau i. e. the opposite enemy and the Kingdom shall be the Lords But to repair to the connexed Epocha of 1290 to initiate and begin 1260 we must infer that since all the forenamed roots of numeration are past without deliverance either to Gentile Churches in Europe or to Israel that we are to spring another rise and that is from the taking away of the Gospel-Sacrifice of pure Worship by a new Babilonian Monarch by a second Antiochus by the grand Antichrist who setting in the Temple of God as God hath introduced most horrible pollutions and defilements in the Evangelical Worship Now this Prince of Sin arose gradually together with the ten Kings from the year 410 when Rome was taken by Alaricus and continued increasing and waxing in his grandeur and power till that was taken away which hindred his revelation in the World which was the Roman Empire But the Roman Empire drew its last gasp and was finally and totally extirpated in the year 476 Thus divine Providence doth usually perform its mighty works gradually by distinct intervals of progress which leads us to a consideration of a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or compass of years contained within the latitude of 66 from the year 410 to 476 in which year Augustulus was deposed So then if ye add the 1260 years we arise to 1736. About which I am verily persuaded that the great Mystery of the ruine of Antichrist will be amply manifest and visible upon the face of the earth and forasmuch as the ten last Caesars were rather Caesarculi some appointed from the East and some rising out of their mutual combustions and that the Roman Territory was exceedingly diminisht cut short in Italy by the Goths We may indeed look upon the Roman Empire as good as ruined at the death of Valentinian the third in the year 455 which by connection of the 1260 brings us to 1715 about which times the pre-consideration of the ruine of the Roman Empire conducts to the expectation of great devastations and confusions in the Papal The fuller indagation of these periods belonging to another paper I return to Israel and Daniel's computation of their times by adding 30 years more to these 1260 there with making up his 1290. So that if the 1260 do finish about 1700 or 1715 or at utmost in 1736 then 30 years after their expiration and the great conflicts with the Papal powers in the West will begin the stirs and commotiabout the Jews aud Israel in the East if then to 1736 we add 30 more they reach to 1766 the times of Israels gatherings from their dispersions and conflicts for their Country with the Nations and powers that may detain and obstruct them which times of distress and perplexity are determined to last 45 years longer which answers in some measure to the Typical remembrance of the time from their ancient coming out of Egypt till they were almost quietly settled in most parts of the Land of Canaan If then we conjoyne these 45 years more to 1766 it produces 1811 for those times of happiness to Israel for blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to 1335 days to the consumption and destruction of their enemies But how far further the finishing of the remainders of that Assyrian War when 7 Shepherds and eight principal men alluding to the King of Persia and his 7 great Princes or Counsellers of State shall be raised up for the defence of Israel how far I say those times may extend and how long it shall be to utter abolition of the Papal remnants after the 1260 days of his power are expired that is how long the Vials shall be pouring out upon him his Throne and all his Adherents in the West and upon the jurisdiction of his City when the three parts only shall remain of his 10 Principalities or how long it shall be to the utter ruine of the Turk in the East and the deliverance of the Graecian Churches and the subduing of all other powers that shall assemble and withstand the design of God in erecting the Kingdom of the Stone cut out from the Mountains of Gods Decrees without hands of humane aid or power I say how far those times of the victorious success of the Church may be amplified and extended is beyond man to dictate and determine Neither do I yet clearly see by what texts of Scripture we can distinctly proceed to chain or connex the 1000 years glory of the Church in a compleat golden link with any former expiring currents of Prophecy unless it be to the end of Daniel's 1335 or the end of the Vials and some other latent numbers not yet apparent to us in the surface of Scripture neither may we be so bold as to build upon that notion of the house of Elias mentioned by that Learned Earl of Mirandula and others for the continuation of the World in its state of misery and bondage for 6000 years according to the six days of Creation It was a current Notion in the Primitive times among the Christians applying that of Peter One day with the Lord is as a thousand years as if so be it did pre-signifie the duration of the World as I have before touched out of Justin Martyr and that the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the resurrection of the World to a Sabbath of rest and glory and felicity doth reflect upon the seventh day wherein the Lord rested from his labours and was refreshed and then the eigth day from the Creation for the resurrection of our Lord should presignify the Saints rising to glory and being for ever with the Lord in Heaven Let these hints suffice at present not willing to expatiate in gratifying our curiosity with conjectures that perhaps may not prove clearly scriptural Let 's study with the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be wise to sobriety and not surmise beyond what 's written Leaving the punctual particularitys of the timeing of Prophecies with the issues of Providence unto the Father in whose holy hands the signatures of all times are written Let 's be very thankful that our blessed Saviour hath so far indulged his Church as to signify by his servant John the duration of Antichrist their last and principal enemy to be 1260 years and that we may collect from evident Scripture proof that these years are well nigh expired 'T is a wonderful mercy let 's be highly thankful for this discovery and rejoice in Zion's approaching glory The Conclusion It s now high time to fix a period to this inquisition and conclude with a serious reply to such as may demand Cui bono