as we tearm it saith he Ps. 132. 6. Lo we have heard of it at Ephrata we found it in the Fields of the Wood Giving us to understand that this place of your Messiah's Birth was as hard to be found as it is for a stranger to finde a House that is in the midst of a great Wood Therefore if you ask our now English Ministers why the Prophet Micah 5. 2. calls it Bethelem Ephratah And the Evangelists coating the same Scripture Mathew 2. 6. calls it Bethelem in the Land of Iuda they cannot answer you but the Reason why the Evangelists doth not mention Ephratah is because that he understood these things in part that I now manifest unto you namely that there should come another great One for your deliverance out of some Country signified to Jesus Christ and his Apostles by that same woman called Ephratah And in this sence your Wisemen call your Messiah an Eprathite and not that he must come out of the Tribe of Ephraim Loynally as you suppose Ieroboam did 4. That this late War of England in which War King Charles the first died which War is not yet ended nor will not end in England is the last War of Gog and Magog may be easily proved for this Land as our English Chronicles report of old until the Btittains Conquered it was Gogmagogs Land As further in the great Hall of London called Guild-Hall you may see the very Picture of Gogmagog and Brittainus that slew him in there full stature set up for a memorial to show what Mighty men of strength stature were in those daies Thus you see how King Charles is the Son of Ioseph and an Eprathite how he died in the last War of Gog and Magog and how he is to rise again in his Son to be according to his Name a Steeward or a Vice Roy under Jesus as Ioseph was under Pharaoh all agreeable to what your Wisemen say of him for the seed of Gogmagog that remained in this Land rose up against their King sold him and slew him to fulfil the Scripture But he shall rise again according to it as abovesaid for your deliverance as Constantine the Great also born in this Land arose to deliver the Christians from the Tiranny of the Heathenish Roman Emperours 5. You may know King Charles Steeward to be the man that you look for or your Messiah as you call him by the Star that appeared at his birth 2 Pet. 1. 19. according to the promise of Iesus Revelat. 2. 26 27 28. For as there was a Star seen at the Birth of Jesus which Star directed the Wisemen of the East unto him and by which Star they knew him to be the King of the Jews Mat. 2. So the same Star appeared at the Birth of King Charles Revel. 2. 27. 28. as it is written Psam 50. 6. The Heavens shall declare his Righteousness for God is Iudge himself Selah He sendeth his Star to Justifie Charles And again Psalm 97. 6. The shall Heavens declare his Righteousness and all the people see his glory Very few saw the Star that appeared at the Birth of Jesus but thousands and my self for one saw the Star that appeared at the Birth of Charles and there was Verses made of it in Latine and presented to his Father the late King Charles as he went to Pauls Cross to give thanks for the Queens Deliverance Thus in English When to Pauls Cross the grateful King drew near A shining Star did in the Heavens appear Thou that consults with Divine Mysteries Tell me what this bright Comet signifies Now is there born a Valiant Prince ' i th' West That shall Eclipse the Kindomes of the East 6. You may know King Charles to be the Messiah you look for by the discription of his person in Scripture for saith the Spouse Cant. 5. 10. 11. My beloved is White and Ruddy the chiefest among ten thousand his head is as the most fine Gold that is Iesus his locks are bussie and black as a Raven that is Charles and for his Stature also Esdras saith That he is taller then all about him 2 Esdras 2. 42 43 44 45 46 47. and such a proper person King Charles is Your Fore-fathers refused Jesus because of the meaness of his Birth and Parentage though indeed Jesus is the most Excellent of all men But what can you say against King Charles the Servant of Jesus he is a King of the highest Birth being the Successor of above three hundred Kings who were his Fore-fathers in Scotland The Turk and all the Kings in the World for Antiquity are but younger Brothers in comparison of him for the first King of Scotland was Gathelus Fergus of the Seed of Iaphet the Successor of Melchizedek which Gathelus Fergus Married Scota the Daughter of Pharaoh that took Moses for her Son and when the Plagues was in Egypt fearing least those Countries because of their wickedness should have been destroyed as Sodam was Gathelus Fergus and Scota withal their people came away to Sea and brought with them from Bethel the very stone which was Iacobs Pillow there Gen. 28. 18 22 and the first place they landed at was Portugal thence they came to the North of Ireland and built a City calling it after the Kings Name Knockfergus and from thence they came to Scotland which they so Named from Scota the Queen And there they are though many times brought low as now they are yet an unconquered people to this day And of the stone of Iacob which they brought from Bethel in Canaan they made of it a Chair in which Chair of old they were wont to Crown their Kings but some hundred years agone the English got the said stone Chair from them and brought it to London which stone now is to be seen for a Monument in Westminster Abby I have seen it my self and there is a Prophesie of it runs thus The Scots shall have that Land as Native Ground If words fail not wheresoever this Stone is found And we have seen it partly so fulfilled for since King Iames came to England the Scots had England as their own Native Land And what beauty every way else can be desired but is to be found in this King for his Wisdom Godlyness and Valour there is none like him wherefore the Prophet Isaiah said of him to the Jews when by the spirit he saw his glory Isai. 33. 17. Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty they shall behold the Land that is very far off giving you to understand that the King was full of beauty yet that the Land of his Nativity even England was very far from Iuda as he saith again Isa. 30. 27. Behold the Name of the Lord cometh from far so here in also it is plain that your Messiah was not to be a Jew because no Jew now can descend of such a Noble Linage as King Charles came from for the Jews have been a cursed ever in
Captain and Deliverer who will bring you to present happiness if you follow him 2. I say those Jews who would come into England without his command come against God and their Messiah appointed of God for them and therefore if they come they shall in a short time be spoiled and destroyed 3. I that tell you these things am a man that have had the Spirit of Prophesie this twenty four years and I have declared above twenty two years agone all the Judgements that came since upon this Nation as thousands of English can witness it And that then I was a Prisoner three years upon that account And you may see more of this in my Book called A voice from Heaven and my Book called the Eccho to the Voice from Heaven 4. I tell you that King Charles Steeward by descent as his Star did manifest is the first Born of Iaphet the Elder Son of Noah Gene. 10. 21. And therefore the said King Charles by right is Heir to all the World And God will give him and his Seed-Royal in due Season the preheminence of it And all the Jews shall be converted unto Jesus in him Iohn 6. 56. and be an eminent people under him and his Seed-Royal in places of preferment and in your own Land Flourish Thus much I see from the Holy Scriptures and Visions But you will say How can King Charles be the said Messiah seeing our Wisemen say that he must be the Son of Ioseph and come of the Tribe of Ephraim and that he must die in the last War of Gog and Magog and afterward rise again for to enjoy the dignity of a Vice Roy as Ioseph was in Egypt 1. I answer that the two Messiahs are signified in them Shem and Iaphet because they were to come out of their Loyns Jesus of Shem and of Abraham and David Charles of Iapeht and by adoption in Jesus Of Abraham and Ephraim or by imputation and not by a carnal Generation because Iaphet the Elder was to come first into the Tent of Shem and so to be exalted by that voluntary Act of condescending and giving the honour to his Brother Shem according to the will of his Father Therefore the saying of Noah to his sons Gen. 10. 25 26 27. is the Ground-work of all that is spoken concerning the Messiah and from that Ground did all the Prophets Prophesie of the Messiahs yet there was ground given to Noah for his saying to his Sons From the Beginning Cain should have had condescended to Abel for God ordained it then that the Elder in love and respect should serve the Younger for God had respect to Abel and Cain should have had respect unto him for that cause and not to have hated him and slain him for it 2. I say King Charles is called the Son of Ioseph not that he cometh out of his Loyns but because he is like unto him for as Ioseph was beloved of his Father above all his Bretheren in so much that he made him a Coat of Honour as Kings Children had 2 Sam. 13. 18. It being of divers colours like a Kings Parliament Robe for which cause he was hated of his Bretheren and because of his faithfulness to his Father and his Visions they hated him yet more and sold him away to the Ishmalits Gen. 37. So in like-manner because King Charles the first was beloved of God his Father and honoured above all his Scots Bretheren they hated him and because of his Wisdom Faithfulness and Visions of God they hated him yet more and sold him away to the English Parliament Marchants And as Ioseph was long in affliction before he was exalted Gen. 39. Gen. 40. So King Charles suffered much for a long time being imprisoned and at last slain and he shall be likewise exalted by his Resurrection in the King Charles his Son both in person and power as he saith in the conclusion of his last speech to his Son in his book Let my Memory with my Name ever live in you for the King believed that God would raise him up again in his Son And as Ioseph being a Stranger in Egypt yet was he exalted above all the Egyptians except Pharaoh there King who adopted him and gave him that power Gen. 41. So King Charles being a Stranger by Nation and not a Jew shall be exalted above all the Jews except Jesus the King who doth adopte him and give him that power In these things King Charles is like Ioseph and therefore by an Allegory he may be called his Son Thus he is also an Eprathite I have all wayes found that England in Scripture is signified to us by Mount Ephraim and more perticularly in Dan. 11. 45. is called the glorious holy Mountain between the Seas And that the Prophesie of Hosea which speaks much of Ephraim is very much fulfilled among us now for England feeded one Winde and followeth after the East Winde which hath blasted the glory of our Church and Kingdom and made it desolate Hosea 12. 1. For following the Winde-breath and lyes of Sectuaries coming from New England Holand and other places East from us hath spoiled the glory of our Nation And much more I could shew to prove that England in Scripture is signified by Mount Ephraim and specially is that Ephratah spoken of by David Ps. 132. 5. 6. and by Micah 5. 2. From whence your Messiah comes for the present King Charles Steeward is an English man born but an Ephrathite born in Mount Ephraim by Scripture account And I finde that there was in the Country of Israel two sorts of Ephrathies First the Seed of Levi born in the Land of Ephraim were called Ephrathites 1 Sam. 1. 1. Secondly they that were of the Seed of Caleb by his Wife Ephratah 1 Chorn. 2. 19 24 50. were called Ephrathites Ruth 1. 2. And these last Ephrathites did much signifie the English for Ephratah who was joyn'd to Caleb of the Tribe of Iuda was an obscure woman whose kindred is not known which woman signifies a strange Land that should bring forth light to Israel which woman is first called Ephrah that is a Mother 1 Chron. 2. 19. and then after that is called Epratah 1 Chorn. 2. 24. 50. 1 Chron. 4. 4. that is Mother of many Nations as Abraham was first called Abram that is a Father and then afterwards called Abraham that is a Father of many Nations Gen. 17. 5. yet it is more then probable that this woman called Ephratah was a Gentile because the place from whence her Name is derived Gen. 35. 16. 19. was called Ephrah by the Ancient Inhabitance of the Land of Canaan I mean some Holy Ones such as Melchizedek and the like else the Name Ephratah had not been of such esteem in Israel as we see David and Micah laies it for a Ground-work and as David enquiring for the Habitation of the Mighty God of Iacob which God of Iacob signifieth the second Messiah by your term or the third person
went to Lorain and perswaded him to go back again and went to both sides brought them together and made them good Friends again Then the people seeing the great work that he had done cryed him up to be the man of God in so much that at last the French King and his Council became Jealous of him and they joyned themselves with his Enemy and most unnaturally for he was their near Kinsman and most ungratfully in regard he had saved them they forced him to go out of France as he was forced to go out of England and that is in God's Book of Remembrace the French shall be called to account for it one day Again when King Charles went to Scotland and all his Nobles there were Enemies one to the other he presently by his loving Wisdom made them all good friends to the admiration of the people So that I may surely say there is not such another Peace-maker in the World and yet Manasseth Ben-Israel think this King shall not rise again I am sorry to see the hardness of his Heart But beloved take you notice of what I say for a sign to you if King Charles Steeward King of England do not come into his Throne within this five years without one drop of blood spilt in the cause believe nothing of what I say in this Book but afterward some of those that took upon them to judge the Old King this Kings Father most cruelly murthered him and yet will not repent and come unto the King for mercy most die for it the King shall not save them for Law and Justice shall take place where mercy is refused Now there is no people under Heaven that boast and stand so much upon their Sword as these States-people of England do yet God will order it so for King Charles his sake that their Sword which they glory in shall fall out of their hands and they shall not know how nor which way they lost it and God will put it into the hand of King Charles so that all the world will wonder at the strangness of his Salvation and they shall glorifie God on his behalf when they see such an excellent thing done that no age can paralel And when right is done to the King and Church and to the Kings Friends and Servants though it be done with much favour to the Enemies there will be many discontented persons that will plot and strive to maintain the States false interest to their own Ruin and Destruction Besides the proud State of Holand though they be now sufficiently beaten and spoiled by the English State will then for their own ends make show as if they would help them and presently before the King is much setled in his Throne they will pick a Quarrel with him but the harmless and Wise King being inclinable thereunto will make Peace with them upon any terms and agree Notwithstanding the False Envious Persidions Covetous Holander being proud is not quiet but reprocheth the King with foul Language because of his former afflictions by which God Refined and fitted him for future glory and takes all occasion and advantage to do what mischief they can to the King and his Subjects And though God in that time send the Plague among them for it so that they dye by thousands at a time yet they will not forbear but still go on in their malice against the King that God might utterly destroy them and the English Enemies that go to them by the Sword Plague and Famine and blot out their Names from being a State under Heaven for so God will fight against all the Enemies of King Charles and proud Holand shall be made the first Object of Gods wrath against them that fight against King Charles and despise him but do you depart from Holand betimes Therefore blessed and happy shall those Kings and people be that shall take their Power and Authority from King Charles and live under his protection for all his proud Enemies that shall despise him and refuse to submit unto him shall be destroyed because God with King Charles will do a new work upon the Earth and bring all the world unto himself under one Head and for this cause God chose King Charles and Refined him in the Furnace of affliction as the Prophet saith Esai 48. 10. Esai 51. 16. About the same time the Turk will come and fight against the Emperour of Germany and he shall prevail for a time but afterward the Emperour shall beat him sadly then shall you arise and under the Baner of King Charles with an Army of a hundred forty and four thousand twelve thousand of every Tribe go to your one Land and possess it for ever and ever and you shall believe in Jesus Christ who is your everlasting King as your Rabbins say in their Talmuds If you can but understand them aright for they say that Jesus Christ whom they truly call Messiah the Son of David shall be your everlasting King when ye come to your own Land as ye have them cited in the 26. Sect of the foresaid Book called The Hope of Israel thus But which way that Redemption shall be no man can tell but onely so far as we may gather out of the Prophets That at that time the Ten Tribes shall come to Ierusalem under the leading of a Prince whom some Rabbins in the Talmud and in some places of of the Caldy Pharaphrase do call Messiah the Son of Ioseph and elsewhere Messiah the Son of Ephraim who being slain in the last war of Gog and Magog shall shew himself to be Messiah the Son of David Who shall be as Ezekiel and Hosea say the everlasting Prince of all the twelve Tribes Our Wismen do in many places especially in the Babilonish Talmud in tract. fuca C. 5. make mention of Messiah the Son of Ephraim where they say that he shall dye in the last War of Gog and Magog and they so expound that of Zech. 12. 10. And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his onely Son They add also that the four Captains of whom the said Prophet speaketh of chap. 6. 1. are Messiah the Son of David Messiah the Son of Ioseph the Prophet Elias and the high Priest which four are those Dignities which shall shew their power in that blessed Age Observe that sometime they call Messiah the Son of Ephraim sometime of Ioseph for he shall come out of the Tribe of Ephraim and shall be Captain of all the Ten Tribe who give their Name to Ephraim because that their first King Ieroboam was of that Tribe not without cause do they call him the Son of Ioseph for he was the true Type of the house of Israel in his imprisonment and future happiness add to this that he was so long hid from his Brethren that they knew him not as in like manner the Ten Tribes are at this day who are
led Captive but shall come hereafter to the Top of Felicity in the same manner as Ioseph did That Messiah of Ioseph shall die in the Battail of Gog and Magog and afterward shall rise again that he may enjoy the Dignity not of a Kingly Scepter but the office only of a Vice Roy as Ioseph in Egypt For that the Empire of the House of Israel fell under the Reign of Hosea the Son of Elah as the Prophet Amos saith in Chap. 5. 2. Therefore the Kingdom of the Ten Tribes shall be restored as Ezekiel saith Chap. 37. Under the Reign of Messiah the Son of David who shall be everlasting for by the death of Messiah the Son of Ioseph the Ten Tribes shall see that God will not that they should have more Kings then one as it is already said Thus much out of that Book called The Hope of Israel Now brethren you see by their words that your Rabbins and Wise men say that when you are restored to your own Land again Messiah the Son of David that is Jesus Christ shall be your King for ever who will have his Vice Roy King Charles Steewrad to be over you as Pharoah had Ioseph over Egipt and mark as Ioseph was a stranger and not an Egiptian yet Governed them all so must you have â—a stranger even King Charles Steeward as his name signifieth a Vice Roy for a Kings Steeward is a Vice Roy to give you order in all things and not as Manasseth-Ben-Israel say in his Observation upon your Rabbins and wise mens words who would have us beleive that your Messiah which your Rabbins and wisemen call the Son of Ioseph and of Ephraim must needs be a Natural Jew descended from the Loins of Ioseph and Ephraim and the Reason he gives for it is because that their first King Ieroboam was of that Tribe but Ben-Israel is mistaken for they not knowing how to call him otherwaies improperly call him the Son of Ioseph and of Ephraim as Eli calls Samuel his Son 1 Sam. 3. 6. and the Benjamite his Son 1. Sam. 4. 12. 16. and King Hezekiah calls the Levites his sons 2. Cron. 29. 11. after such a manner neither can he prove that Ieroboam came out of the Tribe of Ephraim only he supposeth because King Solomon made him Ruler over the house of Joseph 1 King 11. 28. that argueth no such thing but rather that he was of the Tribe of Iudah for Kings use to prefer their own kin and put them into places of trust as you see King Saul makes Abner General of all his Army because he was a man of Valour and his Uncles Son 1 Sam. 14. 50. and King David made Joab Captain General of his Army because he was a man of Valour and his Sisters Son 2 Sam. 8. 16. 1 Chr. 2. 15. 16. and I beleive that Solomon made Ieroboam Ruler over the House of Ioseph because he was his Kinsman of the Tribe of Iuda and for Zereda where his Father dwelt that is hard to be found If it was Zeredatha in the Plain of Iordan on the other side Iordan neer Succoth 2 Chron. 4. 17. For Succoth and all those Countries was the Tribe of Gads Inheritance Ioshua 13. 27. Then was Ieroboam of the Tribe of Gad But if Zereda was the City of Zareathits 1 Chron. 2. 50. 53. Then was he of the Tribe of Iuda and his Father is called an Ephrathite as Iesse and others are called Ephrathites Ruth 1. 2. 1 Sam. 17. 12. More of this in my book following And the four Dignities or four Captains signified by four Chariots Zech. 6. 1. Which your Wisemen call Messiah the Son of David Messiah the Son of Ioseph the Prophet Elias and the High Priest The first is Jesus Christ your King giving order to King Charles Steeward in what he shall do The second is our King Charles Stuart executing his office in doing what his Master Jesus Christ commanded him to do The third is a Prophet his works will make him known The fourth is an Arch-Bishop of Canterbury which shall be setled here when our King Charles comes to his Throne who shall fend to you to shew you our Christian Religion to convert you and settle it among you that you may live happily as once we did and yet shall do but now we are in Captivity as well as you and I am sure we shall be delivered in a short time both Jew and Gentile And King Charles Steeward t is Gods chosen Vessel to deliver us all and when you obey your King Jesus Christ then shall you have this preheminencie above all the Nations in the World you will have a King that is King of all the Kings and Emperours in the World as all Christian Kings confess now and all others must do it And he that Ruleth you as his Vice Roy shall be higher then any of them and shall be over them also as Ioseph was over all the Nobles in Egypt they being the Subjects of Jesus Christ And to conclude we have had sixteen hundred years ago great and glorious Noble Persons of your Nation that came from Ierusalem and tendred Jesus Christ unto us and we were soon converted and received him to the great comfort of our Souls and Bodies and do obtain Eternal Life by him Oh! do you now receive him from us who now tenders Jesus Christ unto you for your Salvation that you also may be made happy and obtain Eternal Life by him and enjoy your own Land again for certainly there is no other means to save you or us but he Alas beloved all other means without him are vain for he only is appointed of God to save the World Prayers Sacrifices Kings Princes and whatsoever else that is or can be named will do no good to them that have not Jesus Christ to appease Gods wrath against them for the Sin of Adam and their own Sins Oh then you are his Bone and his Flesh he is your glorious King a Native Iew born in Bethelem-Iuda who ever liveth to make intercessions to God for you as your good Kings and Rulers used to do Numb. 14. 13 19 20. Ioshua 7. 2 Chron. 30. 18. 19 20. Do not refuse Jesus Christ and your own Salvation which you cannot have without him I wish you as well as to my own Soul and so Farewel Your Friend Arise Evans TO Manasseth Ben-Israel Arise Evans Wisheth Grace and Truth Through God our Saviour Amen Worthy Sir I Am sorry that our difference of Language is such that you and I cannot converse toether I having a matter of so great concernment to impart unto you but I trust that by the help of the Ingenuity of the worthy Interpreter it will faithfully be communicated unto you it being answerable to your expectation manifest in the 26 Sect. of your Book called The Hope of Israel 1. I say King Charles Steeward Son to the late King Charles of England is he whom you call your Messiah
the work of God for your Deliverance and under such notion shall he prevail against all that oppose him until all be brought in due season under his Scepter Besides I say all these late transactions in England came to pass only for your sake God now being mindful of his promise to your Nation for there was no other cause why the people of these Lands should rise against their King and prevail as they did no people under Heaven being in a better condition then they were when this war began but that some holy Ones here had prayed for your conversion and God granted their request and stirred up cruel Ones to bring these things about to effect it 11. I say that you Jews shall never come rightly to understand the Scripture and reconcile them until you come to acknowledge your King Jesus Christ to be the only Messiah and no other for the Scripture speaks but of one Messiah neither shall the Christians ever come to understand them right and reconcile them until they come to acknowledge Christ Jesus second coming to be in Charles Steeward for his Deliberance †And why because the Messiah sometimes in Scripture is said to come of a dry Ground that is of poor Parentage and so as to have no beauty or things desirable in him And therefore we see his people despise him and reject him Isai. 52. 13 14 15. Isai. 53. 23. And though he be their only King yet they cut him off and take life and all so far as they can from him Dan. 9. 26. And sometimes in Scripture he is said to be a Glorious Victorious King and that his people shall willingly receive him Psal. 110. 1 2. Isai. 33. 13. Isai. 63. 1 2 3 4 5 6. And this is the cause why men cannot agree about their Messiah The Jews will have him only to be a Glorious Victorious Warlike King The Christians will have him only to be a poor man without any worldly pomp at all but they should look on him as he appeared first in Jesus and after in Charles Then their expectation on both sides will be answered and take notice what the Spouse saith of him Song 5. 11. His Head is as the most fine Gold that is Iesus His Locks bussie and black as a Raven that is Charles Lo here are two men discribed one with Yealow Hair like Gold another with Hair as black as a Raven yet in the singular number because of the Union that is between them And therefore I say again to you because the Messiah in some places of Scripture is said to be a poor despised person which none regards and in other places he is said to be a most glorious person This is the Reason why men vary and differ in their Judgements concerning the Messiah which Messiah was to be manifested in his first and second coming by two persons yet both of them by the Scripture so interwoven together as if they were but one man wherefore few as yet understand a right the Mystery of the Messiah Moreover I say when men come to consider what manner of beginning and being Jesus Christ had in the world comparing it with the Scripture and to consider what manner of beginning and being Charles hath also in the World comparing it with the Scripture confessing them both Then men shall understand the Truth and finde the Mystery opening it self to them Then shall the Jews and Christians agree for their is but a little difference Now the Jews look for the coming of their Messiah the Christians look for Christs second coming both in substance is the self same thing yet the danger stands in a mistake of the person and the manner of his coming The Vulgar Christians and not the Learned who know it to be a Mystery look for Jesus to appear in a strange manner yet in that same body of flesh which suffered on the Cross though himself and St. Paul tells them plainly that they should not see him nor know him no more in that body Iohn 16. 10. Corin. 5. 16. But he appears in Charles according to the manner that you Jews look for him Embrace him and receive him for they that refuse him now shall be miserable for ever and ever 12. I say that by considering these things you shall come to understand the Truth and see the promise of God fulfilled unto you in this point but take heed least you be deceived in that you believe that your Messiah must needs be a Jew and come Loynally out of Ephraim because as you say Ieroboam the first King of the Ten Tribes came of Ephraim for I tell you Ieroboam was none of that Tribe but he rather came of the Tribe of Iuda or of the Tribe of Levi for if Ieroboam had come of Ephraim he had been called an Ephraimite as you see Ioshua 16. 10. Iudges 12. 5. 6. Those of the Tribe of Ephraim are called Ephraimites and Ieroboam is said to be an Ephrathite 1 Kings 11. 26. and not an Ephraimite and so as I said before the Seed of Iuda are called Ephrathites Ruth 1. 1. 2. Yea David himself is called the Son of that Ephrathite 1 Sam. 17. 12. And Elkanah is called an Ephrathite because he was born in Mount Ephraim 1 Sam. 1. 1. yet he was of the Tribe of Levi 1 Chro. 6. 27 28. none of the Seed of Ephraim are called Ephrathites and for the place from whence Ieroboam is said to come called Zereda who can tell where it was if it be not the City of the Zareathites who were of the Tribe of Iuda and of the Seed of Caleb by Ephratah 1 Chron. 2. 50 53. or from whence Nebat and Zeruah Ieroboans Parents came except they came from thence and being also the Seed of the Woman Epbratah 1 Chron. 1. 50. came to be called Eprathites who can tell whence they were except they came from Iuda for we reed no more of them but what we read in 1 Kings 11. 26. Yet you will ask me how comes David to be called the Son of that Ephrathite seeing he came not properly of the woman Ephratah 1 Sam. 17. 12. 1 Chron. 2. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18. I answer David came to be called the son of that Ephrathite from Boaz Marrying of Ruth the Wife of Malhon the Ephrathite Ruth 1. 1 2. to raise up his name as he was an Ephrathite upon his Inheritance so that Obedâ—esse and David are sons of that Ephrathite by imputation for the blessing was conferd upon Boaz because of his kindness to the dead Ruth 4. but their was a nearer Kinsman to Malhon that refused to take Ruth and do it Ruth 3. 12. And who can tell but that Ieroboam came from that unworthy nameless Kinsman of Malhon for it is clear that he came not from Ephraim And since the Scripture is so silent in his Pedegree if a man had a minde to be contentious he might hold an Argument that