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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89670	An apology for the honorable nation of the Jevvs, and all the sons of Israel· Written by Edward Nicholas, Gent.	Nicholas, Edward.; Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657, attributed name.	1649 (1649)	Wing N1081; Thomason E544_16; ESTC R203014	9,175	15

laziness and pride that they wrought a faction against him and not that the whole Nation were guilty for the people ere-while brought him into the city crying Hosanna And it s said when Jesus was condemned by Pilate and the chief Priests and Elders that they perswaded the people to refuse Jesus and to choose Barrabas 't is probable that they are so well versd in their own business of so high a nature that they can say more for themselves It is too great an undertaking for me and will require a larger Tract to clear the matter against all Objections which may be done by men of more learning then I profess to have the regal Government of the Jews being long before ended what God in his secret will and judgement intended in the scattering of the Jews I presume not to understand or to guess at my purpose is onely to prove That God yet owns them for his people and though cast off for a time yet their certain future reduction is promised as Paul in Rom. 11.24 25 26. For if thou wast cut out of the olive-tree which was wilde by nature and wast grafted contrary to nature in a right olive-tree how much more shall they that are by nature be grafted in their own olive-tree For I would not brethren that ye should be ignorant of this secret lest ye should be arrogant in your selves that partly obstinacy is come to Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in And so all Israel shall be saved as it is written Isa 59. and 27.9 and Jer. 31.33 34. Heb. 8. and 10. I have next to offer to your considerations the many promises made by God by the mouthes of his Prophets for the reduction of them into their own countrey still owning them for his own people a countrey I say lawfully theirs by the donation of God himself and a propriety that no Prince under Heaven can plead the like the promises also setting forth the restauration of the pure worship of God the restitution of all things to their primitive Estate That the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea Isa 11.49 60. 61. to the end of the Prophesie besides many more places in this and other Prophets some whereof do more plainly extend to the advantage of the Gentiles as Isa 56.6 And the strangers that cleave unto the Lord to serve him and to love the name of Jehovah to be his servants every one that keepeth the Sabbath from poluting it and takes hold on my Covenant Even them will I bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all peoples And consequently for us the faithful as well as for the Jews Now weighing well with our selves both these threats and promises were it not a strange negligence I conceive it a madness in us to forego so great priviledges as by those honorable people of the Jews may accrew unto us and as great wilfulness to lay our selves open to those judgements threatned I leave to the judgement of all men that are any thing affected in this matter or that tender the glory of God their own good charity towards that the people of God We have great and important cause to take heed lest we of this Kingdom of England putting from us and abandoning these people of God we separate not our selves from Gods favor and protection this being a greater aggravation of the sin for that it is now more known It is not tollerable even amongst Moral men if we go no further to adde affliction to the afflicted as we do in continuing Laws in force against them it stands not with a generous spirit to triumph over a man helpless and in misery much more hateful is it in men that profess themselves the servants of god but rather that we endeavor to comfort them and if it were possible to give them satisfaction for the innocent blood of theirs shed in this Kingdom and to restore them to commerce amongst us It is objected That many of these prophesies have respect to the seventy years Captivity and their release from Babylon and of Gods vengeance on the Enemies of the people of God of those times In Answer Although many prophesies do so yet the places abovementioned and many moe do abundantly prove the reduction of all the house of Israel the ten Tribes never yet returned into their own Land and the great joy that is promised them in those yet future blessed times as Hosea 3. they are esteemed by God as the spouse to the husband and in the last Verse Afterwards shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord and David their King and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days And Ezek. 36. the Prophet is directed to the whole house of Israel as appears more plainly in the 10 Verse And I will multiply the men upon you speaking of the mountains of Israel all along before even all the house of Israel wholly and the Cities shall be inhabited c. And a much more luculent place is the 37 Chapter of Ezek. where mention is made of the return of all the Tribes of Israel the Prophet being commanded to take a piece of wood and to write upon that to Judah and the children of Israel his companions and then to take another piece of wood and write upon that to Joseph the tree of Ephraim and all the house of Israel his companions and joyn them one to another into one stick and they shall become one stick in thine hand And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee saying Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these say unto them Thus saith Jehovah God Behold I will take the stick of Joseph which is in the hand of Ephraim and the Tribes of Israel his fellows and will put them with him even with the stick of Judah and make them one stick and they shall be one in mine hand And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes And say unto them Thus saith Jehovah God Behold I will take the children of Israel from among the Heathen whither they be gone and will gather them on every side and bring them into their own Land And I will make them one Nation in the Land upon the mountains of Israel and one King shall be King to them all And they shall be no more two Nations neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols c. These words are an explanation of the parable of the dry bones in the beginning of the Chapter whereby part of my purpose is sufficiently proved that their restauration and inhabitation of their countrey here on Earth is yet to

be fulfilled for the ten Tribes that were first captivated by Shalmanezzar never yet returned to this day which yet shall be in the time appointed by God and consequently their oppressors bear the greater and notorious sin undervaluing a people to whom God hath made such precious promises And whereas it is again Objected That these places of the several Prophesies do intend the state of the Church triumphant of the new Jerusalem conceived to be in Heaven after the day of Judgement and that these places have a mystical signification in them mentioning David to be their King who was a type of Christ Answer doubtless God hath given us the Scriptures for our instruction and edification and hath given us reasonable souls understanding and other faculties it were strange then that there should be a literal construction of these places following which are so adapted to the understanding of even the simplest that nothing can be more clear Isaiah 65.21 22. speaking of the Jews return And they shall build houses and inhabite them and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them They shall not build and another inhabite they shall not plant and another eat For as the days of a tree are the days of my people and mine elect shall enjoy in old age the work of their hands and Zech. 8.5 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts there shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem and every man with his staff in his hand for very age and the streets of the city shall be full of boyes and girls playing in the streets thereof and Ezek. 28.26 And they shall dwel safely therein and shal build houses and plant vineyards yea they shall dwell safely when I have executed judgements upon all round about them that despise them they shal know that I am Jehovah their God and Micah 4.4 and Jer. 31. and Zech. 10.6 and 12.6 with many more pregnant places As these Scriptures do most plainly set forth and prove their reinhabitation of their countrey so it proves that the same hath not been yet fulfilled for after their return from Babylon we know how their countrey hath been desolated by the invasion of their Enemies and how often by many Nations as it continues to this day It is further Objected that in divers places mention is made of David to be their King for ever who is held a type of Christ and that therefore it seems to allude to the future estates of the Saints in Heaven Answer though mention be made of Davids being their Prince for ever and of their dwelling in their Land for ever yet I conceive those places do not conclude the estates of the Saints in Heaven for it is said in Jer. 30.21 And their noble ruler shall be of themselves and their governors shall proceed from the midst of them and I will cause him to draw near and approach unto me We know that this Prophesie was long since Davids time and therefore how this future kingdom shall be instituted God onely knows which he will reveal in due time 'T is plainly proved by other places that they shall enjoy their honor here on Earth and in the sight of the Heathen their oppressors which doth plainly imply that it shall be here on Earth that the Jews shall enjoy this blessing and deliverance c. Ezek. 28.25 Also we read Jer. 31.36 If these ordinances depart out of my sight saith Jehovah then shall the seed of Israel cease from being a nation before me for ever So that their continuance to be a Nation proves a terrestrial estate whatsoever additions of glory and priviledges further God will confer on them Commentators have their several judgements herein and differ among themselves yet whatsoever they say I conceive we have no warrant to wrest those Scriptures onely to a spiritual sence unless they do repugn some known truth of God in the Scripture Since these things are so How far are we from that godly zeal of those people of God of the Gentiles that shall bring the beloved Jews in their arms and their daughters on their shoulders when Kings shall be their nursing fathers and Queens their nurses Isa 49.22 23. The rage of men in all countries of the world have been very extreme against the Jews 't is not so much wonder to see the barbarous Infidels robbing them and embruing their hands in their blood as that men that profess more of Gods truth though falsly In Spain there were 120000 Jews cast out and banisht in the year 1493. In Italy and other places the like hardship they have endured But I hope better things of our Nation that when our troubles at home by Gods mercy are composed there are many gallant men now in arms and others that may be instrumental for the beating down Gods Enemies and the Enemies of his people Gods power is enough and who shall let it yet he usually works by means and who knows but these now in arms may have the honor to do Gods work herein I am sure 't is to be wished that we wrastle with God by Prayer that this design for Gods glory and his people may be advanced and that our weapons when quiet here at home may be bent against the cruel oppressors of his people in forraign parts and those mercyless Tyrants so rigorous towards the Jews where they are vexing them and spoiling them of their lives and livelyhood That at the last we may beat our swords into plow-shares and our spears into pruning-hooks when Nation shall not lift up sword against Nation neither shall they learn war any more Isaiah 2.4 I trust God will direct his instruments in their proceedings to this great deliverance whosoever they be in just and righteous ways and will crown those actions that are built on just foundations When Solomon built the temple in Jerusalem it was ordered that the Timber and stone was hewen and prepared in Lebanon that noise of hewing being not heard at the erecting of that glorious House for Gods worship what mean out late tumults and blooshed then as a reverend Preacher now deceased well observed Sith God will do his own work his own way and by his own onely power but this may be the hewing and working in Lebanon which we have heard it behoves then all the Servants of God so to approve their hearts to him that when the Lord comes with Refiners fire and Fullers sope such instruments may have the blessing to be exact in Gods work that others imployed hereafter outdo them not howsoever there are many infirmities in the best yet is it their duty to strive for perfection Whereas I stile them honorable though it may seem ridiculous to their Enemies and the ignorant yet I may truly say They are of the highest and most honorable descent of any Nobility in any Countrey in the world being ennobled by God himself and the reason is given which must be most righteous not

for any thing in them or for their multitude but because God set his love upon them We see Princes favorites are much courted there 's much more reason that Gods favor should attract a greater respect to these sons of Israel then they have God made good his promise made to Abraham Isaac and Jacob who descended from Sem the choice and beloved seed The works and wonders God shewed in their deliverance out of Egypt honoring them with his presence and leading them by a pillar of a cloud by day and alpillar of fire by night Why should then the great Princes and Nobles of the world so much magnifie themselves for their ancient and honorable descent whereas the Jews were Gods chosen people and beloved and descended from the most holy men of God accounted Princes and Prophets in their times and of the Kings of Judah whereof there were more Religions Princes then of any Kingdom we read of in all ages or Nations And this I believe to be true Nobility having God to ratifie it The Gentile Princes had the beginnings of their greatness by the Sword Tyranny and Policy most ordinarily as the Turks now and the Romans of old and others And what challenge can they yea more legitimate Princes then they make from Gods dispensation in comparison of the Jews And though the Jews have contracted a great guilt for their unthankfulness for the peculiar blessings given them of God and other grievous sins yet when God who is Lord over all and against whom their sins were committed shall acquit them of this guilt pronouncing Isa 40.1 2. That her warfare is accomplished that her iniquity is pardoned and that she hath received of the Lords hand double for all her sins Why then should Princes and their great nobility both which are but the progeny of Princes of a lower degree then Abraham and David furthermore why should the Pope and his Cardinals with their Clergy that are but impostors and have cheated the whole world and but upstarts of base degree why should all these and what have they to challenge to themselves to be so hard masters to those honorable people of whom God hath pronounced That the Jews shal be feared of them whose servants they were I know the great impugners of this Apology for the Jews will be the Pope and his Clergy and of them the Jesuits his principal Agents for that this opposeth their chief principle the political upholding of the Papacy and themselves and it s no wonder their cruelties shewed upon them and their detestation of them is such that in Italy though they are allowed some commerce which the Italians do for their own profit they make by the Jews divers ways yet the enjoyn them to wear apparel of colour distinct from other people insomuch that men abhor the wearing of a red Hat least they should be accounted Jews The Papists are especially offended with them because the Jews so much abhor the Imagery and Idolatrous Worship of theirs for touch that and touch the corner stone of their Politique foundation The Jesuits do nestle into all Kingdoms and States of Christendom and have an influence on their Counsels as also of Universities Armies great Cities and Corporations wherein they imploy the choycest wits they have who undertake any kinde of professions the better to cloak their designs as Gentlemen Divines Phisitians Soldiers It is most heartily wished and now hoped for that their Cyrens Songs shall not inchant the ears of the godly whatsoever they may work on carnal Politicians and Hypocrites I humbly offer this Apology with these considerations to the whole Kingdom of England from the highest to the lowest that as God hath exceedingly blessed this Kingdom above others especially in this that it hath been almost One hundred years the chief Bulwark for defence of the Truth and retreat of the afflicted in Europe so now that we all shew our selves compassionate and helpers of the afflicted Jews and pray that the same Authority that proceeded against them formerly that now the same power and authority will repeal those severe Laws made against them That our receiving them again and giving them all possible satisfaction and restoring them to commerce in this kingdom may be exemplary to other Nations that have done them and continue to do them wrong till which time God putting their tears into his bottle God will charge their sufferings upon us and will avenge them on their persecuters And what I have now written was not upon any mans motion of the Jews Nation but a thing that I have long and deeply revolved within my heart but truly and indeed my endeavors are for the glory of God the comfort of those his afflicted people the love of my own sweet native countrey of England and the freeing of my own soul in the day of account for I thought my self obliged in conscience to publish my conceptions herein and furthermore do most earnestly pray That the potent parties may no longer continue in division but denying all Councels of the flesh the acquiring of Honors and all self-ends may ingenuously confess themselves and their failings one to another and dealing with lenity one towards another and humbled before Jehovah may obtain remission of our sins and miseries and a blessing from God be showed down upon us which God Almighty of his infinite mercy grant FINIS