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A62471	Digitus dei: nevv discoveryes with sure arguments to prove that the Jews (a Nation) or people lost in the world for the space of near 200 years, inhabite now in America; how they came thither; their manners, customs, rites and ceremonies; the unparallel'd cruelty of the Spaniard to them; and that the Americans are of that race. Manifested by reason and scripture, which foretell the calling of the Jewes; and the restitution of them into their own land, and the bringing back of the ten tribes from all the ends and corners of the earth, and that great battell to be fought. With the removall of some contrary reasonings, and an earnest desire for effectuall endeavours to make them Christians. Whereunto is added an epistolicall discourse of Mr John Dury, with the history of Ant: Monterinos, attested by Manasseh Ben Israell, a chief rabby. By Tho: Thorowgood, B:D.	Thorowgood, Thomas, d. ca. 1669.; Dury, John, 1596-1680.; Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657.	1652 (1652)	Wing T1066; ESTC R219280	112,228	182

to your owne discretion what use you will make of it First then I shall impart unto you some stories which I heard five or six yeeres agoe when I was in the Low Countries concerning the ten Tribes and then I shall adde some information concerning the state of the Iewes in our Europaean and Asiaatique worlds which I have learned at other times by some providences which God hath offered unto mee and upon the whole matter I shall leave you to your further conjectures by that which I shall guesse at The first story which I heard was at the Hague a person of chief quality about the Queen of Bohemia and one of her Counsell and a discerning godly man and my speciall friend told me that the Jew a Jeweller residing ordinarily at the Hague whom I knew had been there at Court and with great joy had told that they of his Nation had received from Constantinople Letters bringing to them glad tidings of two speciall matters fallen out there the one was that the Grand Seignior had remitted the great taxes which formerly had been laid upon the Jewes of those parts so that now they were in a manner free from all burthens paying but a small and inconsiderable matter to that Empire the other was that a messenger was come unto the Jewes who reside neere about the Holy Land from the ten Tribes to make enquiry concerning the state of the Land and what was become of the two Tribes and the half which was left in it when they were transported from thence by Salmanasser This Messenger was described to be a grave man having some attendance in good equipage about him He told them that the people from which hee was sent were the Tribes of Israel which in the daies of Hosea the King were carried captives out of their owne Land by the King of Assyria who transported them from Samaria into Assyria and the Cities of the Medes but they being grieved for the tronsgressions which caused God to be angry with them they tooke a resolution to separate themselves from all Idolaters and so went from the Heathen where they were placed by Salmanassar with a resolution to live by themselves and observe the Commandements of God which in the●… owne Land they had not observed in prosecuting this resolution after a long journey of a yeere and six moneths they came to a countrey wholly destitute of inhabitants where now they have increased into a great Nation and are to come from thence into their owne Land by the direction of God and to shew them that hee was a true Israelite hee had brought with him a Scroule of the Law of Moses written according to their custome The Gentleman who told me this story as from the mouth of the Jew said that it brought to his mind fully by reason of the agreement of circumstances almost in all things the story which is recorded in the Second Booke of Esdras which is called Apocrypha Chap. 13. ver 40. till 50. which will be found a truth if that Messenger came and made this Narrative This was the first story and not long after viz. Within the space of five or six moneths a little before I came from the Low Countries I was told of a Jew who came from America to Amsterdam and brought to the Jewes residing there newes concerning the ten Tribes that hee had been with them upon the border of their Land and had conversed with some of them for a short space and seen and heard remarkable things whiles he stayed with them whereof then I could not learn the true particulars but I heard that a Narrative was made in writing of that which he had related which before I went from Holland last I had no time to seeke after but since the reading of your Booke and some discourse I have had with you about these matters I have procured it from the Low Countries and received a Copie thereof in French attested under Manasseh Ben Israel his hand that it doth exactly agree with the originall as it was sent me the translation thereof I have truly made without adding or taking away any thing and because I was not satisfied in some things and desired to know how farre the whole matter was believed among the Jewes at Amsterdam I wrote to Manasseh Ben Israel their chiefe Rabbi about it and his answer I have gotten in two Letters telling me that by the occasion of the Questions which I proposed unto him concerning this adjoyned Narrative of Mr. Antonie Monterinos hee to give me satisfaction had written insteed of a Letter a Treatise which hee shortly would publish and whereof I should receive so many Copies as I should desire In his first Letter dated Novem. last 25. he saies that in his treatise he handles of the first inhabitants of America which he believes were of the ten Tribes moreover that they are scattered also in other Countries which he names and that they keepe their true Religion as hoping to returne againe into the Holy land in due time In his second Letter dated the twenty three of December he saies more distinctly thus I declare how that our Israelites were the first finders out of America not regarding the opinions of other men which I thought good to refute in few words onely and I thinke that the ten Tribes live not onely there but also in other lands scattered every where these never did come backe to the second Temple and they keep till this day still the Jewish Religion seeing all the Prophecies which speake of their bringing backe unto their native Soile must be fulfilled So then at their appointed time all the Tribes shall meet from all the parts of the world into two provinces namely Assyria and Egypt nor shall their Kingdome be any more divided but they shall have one Prince the Messiah the Sonne of David I do also set forth the Inquisition of Spaine and rehearse divers of our Nation and also of Christians Martyrs who in our times have suffered severall sorts of torments and then having shewed with what great honours our Jewes have been graced also by severall Princes who professe Christianity I prove at large that the day of the promised Messiah unto us doth draw neer upon which occasion I explaine many Prophecies c. By all which you see his full agreement with your conjecture concerning the Americans that they are descended of the Hebrewes when his booke comes to my hand you shall have it God willing In the meane time I shall adde some of my conjectures concerning the Jewes which live on this side of the world with us in Europe and Asia these are of two sorts or Sects the one is of Pharisees the other of Caraits the Pharisees in Europe and Asia are in number farre beyond the Caraits they differ from one another wheresoever they are as Protestants doe from Papists for the Pharisees as the Papists attribute more to the Authoritie and traditions

of latter times Dr Fletcher a neere neighbour to them while he lived among the Russes as Agent for Queen Elizabeth supposeth the same and giveth divers probable arguments inducing him thereto the names of many Townes in Tartary the same with those in Israell Tabor Ierico Chorasin c. They are circumcised distinguished into Tribes and have many Hebrew words among them c. for hee addeth other probabilities yea and the same M. Paris shewes that the Jewes themselves were of that mind and called them their brethren of the seed of Abraham c. There was another transmigration of them when Vespatian destroyed Ierusalem their owne and other Histories speake little thereof it might be well worthy the endeavours of some serious houres to enquire after the condition of that Nation since ou●… most deare Saviours Ascension a strange thing is reported by themselves and of themselves and with such confidence that t is in their devotion It saith when Vespatian wan Ierusalem he gave order that three ships laden with that people might be put to Sea but without Pilot oares or tackling these by windes and tempests were woefully shattered and so dispersed that they were cast upon severall coasts one of them in a Countrey called Lovanda the second in another region named Arlado the third at a place called Bardeli all unknown in these time the last courteously entertained these strangers freely giving them grounds and vineyards to dresse but that Lord being dead another arose that was to them as Pharaoh to old Israell and he said to them he would try by Nabuchedonosors experiment upon the three young men if these also came from the fire unscorch'd he would believe them to be Jewes they say Adoni-Melech most noble Emperour let us have also three daies to invoke the Majesty of our God for our deliverance which being granted Ioseph and Benjamin two brothers and their cosin Samuell consider what is meet to be done and agree to fast and pray three daies together and meditate every one of them a prayer which they did and out of them all they compiled one which they used all those three daies and three nights on the morning of the third day one of them had a vision upon Esa. 43. 2. which marvelously encouraged them all soone after a very great fire was kindled and an ininnumerable company of people came to see the burning into which they cast themselves unbidden without feare singing and praying till all the combustible matter was consumed and the fire went out the Jewes every where published this miracle and commanded that this prayer should be said every Monday and Thursday morning in their Synagogues which is observed by them to this day saith Buxtorfius In this narration if there be any truth wee may looke for some confirmation thereof from America But that there be no Jewes in those parts Io. de Laet endeavours otherwise to evince as 1. They are not circumcised therefore not Jewes but their circumcision hath been made so manifest that this reason may well be retorted they are circumcised therefore they be Jewes Againe the Indians are not covetous nor learned nor carefull of their Antiquities therefore they are not Judaicall in which allegations if there be any strength it will be answered in the examination of those three following scrupulous and difficult questions 1. Whence and how the Iewes should get into America 2. How multiply and enpeople so great a Continent so vast a land 3. How grow so prodigiously rude and barbarous CHAP II. Answer to the first Quere How the Iewes should get into America THE Jewes did not come into America as is feigned of Ganimed riding on Eagles wings neither was there another Arke made to convey them thither the Angels did not carry them by the haires of the heads as Apocryphall Habakuk was conducted into Babylon these were not caught by the Spirit of the Lord and setled there as Saint Philip was from Ierusalem to Asotus Act. 8. 5. They were not guided by an Hart as t is written of the Hunns when they brake in upon the nearer parts of Europe Procopius reports of the Maurisii an African Nation that they were of those Gergesites or Jebusites spoken of in the Scriptures for he had read a very ancient writing in Phaenician Characters thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. We are they that fled from the face of the destroyer Iesus the sonne of Nave and so the Septuagint names him whom wee call the sonne of Nun and as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 formerly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was not in those daies of such odious signification It may be said these might passe from the parts of Asia into Lybia by land but the Jewes could not so get into America which is thought by some to be very farre distant on every side from the Continent Acosta therefore supposeth the Natives might come at first by sea into that maine land alledging some experiments to that purpose but in the next Chapter he judgeth it more probable whosoever the inhabitants be that they travelled thither by land for though some few men happily by tempests might be cast on those shores yet it is unlike so large a part of the earth by such mishaps should be replenished F. Cotton f it seemes was puzled with this scruple therefore in his memorialls he propounded to the Daemoniaque that Interrogatory Quomodo animalia in insulas c. Quomodo homines how got men and other creatures into those Islands and Countries Acosta subscribes at length to the sentence of St. Austin for the entrance of Beares Lions and Wolves that they arrived thither either by their owne swimming or by the importation of curious men or by the miraculous command of God and ministration of the Angels yet his finall determination is and he lived seventeen yeeres in that Countrey America joyneth somewhere with some other part of the world or else is but by a very little distance separated from it And it may yet be further considered the scituation of Countries is much altered by tract of time many places that were formerly sea are now dry land saith Strabo a great part af Asia and Africa hath bin gained from the Atlantique Ocean the sea of Corinth was drunk up by an earthquake Lucania by the force of the water was broken off from Italy and got a new name Sicily saith Tertullian the sea gave unto the earth the Island Rhodes Pliny mentions divers places Islands long since but in his time adjoyned to the Continent and the sea hath devoured many Townes and Cities that were anciently inhabited that Vallis Silvestris as the Latin translation renders Gen. 14. 3. or of Siddim i. e. Laboured fields as t is in Hebrew was certainely a vaile of slime-pits in the daies of Abraham and Lot ver 10. which very place about foure hundred yeeres after was a sea

hundred and thirty yeeres after Gal. 3. 16 17. God bidding Abraham get out of his owne countrey c. Gen. 12. 1. makes a Covenant with him ver 2. 3. and Abraham was then seventy five yeeres old ver 4. Isaac is borne twenty five yeeres after Gen. 21. 5. Iacobs birth is sixty yeeres after that Gen. 25. 26. Iacob was one hundred and thirty yeeres old when hee went downe into Egypt Gen. 47. 28. which together make two hundred and fifteen yeeres and two hundred and fifteen yeeres after they came all out of Egypt for when the foure hundred and thirty yeeres were expired even the selfe same day departed all the Hosts of the Lord out of the land of Egypt Exod. 12. 41. The computation of Suidas in the margent is consonant hereunto and how these seventy in the space of two hundred fifteen yeers did encrease is next to be declared which is also plainly expressed ver 37. They tooke their journey from Rameses to Succoth about six hundred thousand men on foot beside children so great a multiplication of so few in so short a time may easily convince the possibility of a far greater augmentation from a beginning so vastly different and the continuance so much surmounting The Spaniards first comming into America was about the yeere one thousand foure hundred and ninety the great dispersion of the Jewes immediately after our Saviours death at the destruction of Ierusalem was more then fourteen hundred yeeres before and their former importation into the City of the Medes was seven hundred and fourty yeeres before that if therefore upon either of the scatterings of that Nation two thousand or fourteen hundred yeeres or lesse then either number be allowed for the encrease of those that were very many before such multitudes will not be miraculous besides in all that time no forraign power did breake in among them there were thence no transplantations of Colonies no warres did eate up the inhabitants but such light battailes as they were able to manage among themselves in all that long time they did encrease and multiply without any extraordinary diminution till that incredible havocke which was made by the Spanish invasions and cruelties CHAP. IV. Answer to the third Quaere about their becomming so barbarous IF such a passage through Tartary or some other Countrey for them were granted and the probability of so numerous multiplication acknowledged the perswasion will not yet be easie that Jewes should ever become so barbarous horrid and inhumane as bookes generally relate of these Americans Villagagno writing of the Brasilians to Master Calvin speakes as if he had bin uncertaine at first whether he were come among beasts in an humane shape so stupid he found them and sottish beyond imagination But here every reader may take occasion to bemoane the woefull condition of mankinde and into what rude grosse and unmanlike barbarities we runne headlong if the goodnesse of God prevent us not Wee marvaile at the Americans for their nakednesse and man-devouring we cannot believe the Jewes should be given over to such barbarity But in our own Nation the Inhabitants were anciently as rude and horrid 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Herodian the Britons knew not the use of apparell lest their cloathing should hide the severall formes and figures of beasts and other creatures which they paint and imprint upon their bodies and Hierome saith when he was a young man he saw the Scots Gentem Britannicam humanis vesci carnibus and that even here of old were Anthropophagi is averred by Diodorus Siculus and Strabo And to what hath bin said of the Jewes formerly shall here be added It seemes strange to us if they be Jewes they should forget their religion and be so odiously idolatrous although after so many yeeres but if the Scripture had not spoken it could it have bin believed of this very people that they should fall so often into such foule offences as if circumstances be considered have no parallell Israel when but newly delivered out of Egypt by many signes and wonders with severall evident and miraculous impressions of Gods Majesty and power yet in six moneths space all is forgotten they make unto themselves a God of their owne attributing unto it all their deliverance and say These be thy Gods O Israrael which brought thee out of the land of Egypt Exod. 32. 4. which base Idoll of theirs had not it s nothing till they were all come out safe thence who can sufficiently wonder that those very people who saw and heard those terrible things mentioned Exod. 19 20. which forced them to say but a while before to Moses Talke thou with us and wee will heare but let not God talke with us least wee die Exod. 20. 19. Yea God himselfe seems to admire at this and for this to disowne them telling Moses Thy people which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt they are soon turned out of the way c. Exod. 32. 8. It may seeme past beliefe any of Iacobs race should be so unnaturall as to devoure one another as is frequent among these Indians and would it not bee as much beyond credit if the Scripture of truth Dan. 10. 21. had not asserted it that these sonnes of Iacob in former times when they had Priests and Prophets among them and the remembrance of Gods justice and mercy was fresh in their minds That they should then offer their sonnes and daughters unto devills Psal. 106. 36. as they did in the valley of Hinnom 2 King 23. 10. smiting on the Tabrets while their children were burning that their cry could not be heard t is not impossible therefore that the Jews should be againe overwhelmed with such savagenesses and inhumanity nor improbable neither if to what hath bin said three other things be added 1. The threats of God against them upon their disobedience Deut. 28. where be words and curses sufficient to portend the greatest calamity that can be conceived to fall upon the nature of man as hath already bin in severall things declared and M. Paris so answers the objection that the Tartars are not Jewish because they know nothing of Moses Law nor righteousnesse c. If when Moses was alive saith he they were so stubborne and rebellious and went after other Gods they may be now much more prodigiously wicked even as these Americans being unknowne to other people confounded also in their language and life and God so revenging their abominations 2. The ten Tribes in their owne land were become extreamely barbarous renouncing all almost they had received from Moses Ezek. 36. 17. 2 King 17. their captivity is mentioned and the sinfull cause thereof more then abominable Idolatries and they were not onely guilty of wicked but even of witlesse impieties God forbad them to walke after the customes of the Nations Deut. 4. 8. and yet as the Heathen in all their Cities they built high