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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88880	Israels condition and cause pleaded; or some arguments for the Jews admission into England. Objections answered, cautions added, with a vindication of Mr. Peters from those foul and unjust aspersions cast upon him by W. Prynn, Esq;.	D. L.	1656 (1656)	Wing L9; Thomason E1677_2; ESTC R202696	42,532	117

was a Jew Are they Hebrews so am I Are they Israelites so am I Are they of the Seed of Abraham so am I 2 Cor. 11.22 accounting these Privileges the greatest carnal blessings that were given unto men To these add that you were Holy Brethren Partakers of the heavenly Calling Phil. 3.1 Of you it was that Saint Paul spoke and thought such things as accompany salvation because of your work and labour of love which you have shewed in ministring to the Saints Hebr. 6.9 10. These are those comfortable honourable and excellent Titles Prerogatives and Privileges that are ascribed unto you above all other Nations and People and are high Incentives and deep Ingagements to make you walk worthy such excellent Endowments and benefits and to raise up your drooping spirits even in the midst of all your long and deep Visitation for as the Prophet Though you have layn among the Pots yet shall ye be as the wings of a Dove covered with Silver c. Psalm 68.13 and God will bring again his own people even as he did sometimes from the depth of the Sea Psalm 68.22 i. e. beyond all mens help and expectation with a mighty hand and out-stretched Arm and then shall Jacob rejoyce and Israel shall be glad that for your comfort The second thing premised 2. Is for your direction and that shall be brief First Hate and leave off that sin which procured this your suffering by repentance that your sins may be blotted out when the time of your refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord Acts 3. 2. Be incessant with God in Prayer that he would be pleased to remember the time the set time to have mercy upon Sion for it pitieth her Servants to see her in the dust and that he would open your eys and give you understanding hearts to believe in and know him whom God hath sent Jesus Christ John 17.3 3. To search the Scriptures and in reading them to pray God to take away the vail that is upon your hearts for the Letter killeth but the Spirit giveth life And consider the Ministration of the Spirit is much more glorious than that of the Letter and old things are passed away and all things are become new and that though the Law was given by Moses yet grace and truth came by Jesus Christ John 1. and that now there is no difference betwixt Jew and Gentile Barbarian or Scythian bond or free but we are all one in Christ Jesus 4 Wheresoever you shall come to be carefull of your carriage to give no offence but to walk worthy of the excellency of that high Calling in Jesus Christ To conclude all I have discharged my conscience in your behalf God is able to bring great things to pass by small Instruments though I be the least yet I am one that wish well to Sion and do heartily pray that God would give you favour in the sight of the Nations and that all those that keep you captives may pity you and that the Nations seeing your conversion may glorifie God on your behalf and say What hath God done This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eys So be it Yours c. FINIS Certain Cautions concerning the Jews Admission into England IT is not fit to direct much less to prescrthe to Superiours in laying down these few Cautions neither is intended onely to render some satisfaction to such who are the great and violent Opposers of the Jews Admission amongst us who though they have no solid or subst●ntial grounds for their Opposition at all yet by these Cautions that may seem tolerable if not allowable to their judgments which before was held altogether unjust and unreasonable And certain it is that had Mr. Prynn in his multitude of Scripture-quotations seriously considered that most if not all these places which mention either the sins or the punishments of this people related to the Babylonish Captivity or to what of judgments before that God was pleased to inflict upon them he would not have so injuriously branded one Generation for another and make those Curses Plagues which are terminated in the third or fourth Generation of them that hate him to be due to the thirteenth or fourteenth Generation downwards and of them too who he knows not whether they hate God or not And so also for his almost innumerable but unnecessary Rabble of Popish antiquated Writers Edicts Statutes Decrees and Records for these I say if he had considered that what was then if yet it was then for we may not give credit to all he says and quotes is not Now for Now is not Then nor Then Now he would I believe in modesty have spared that needless search nor have so bin confident to pin his faith upon those Popish Papers and worm-eaten Scriblers who yet as it is by wise men judged writ out of malice and the the Spirit of Lying too against the Jews for how much credit is to be given to such persons who have not blushed to corrupt the sacred Text it self and to adulterate all both Greek and Latine Fathers for certain such audacious Spirits would not spare when their gains and credit lay at stake and when it was in their power too to lay load enough and the heaviest always on the weakest shoulders and such was the people of the Jews in these times to cause them to be odious to the Nation This mans great opinion of Learning and Judgment hath tainted and poisoned many mens affections and hardened them ●bsolutely against the Admission of any Jews amongst us when yet any one sees how weak his Arguments are if well scann'd and how little of truth is in them To perswade therefore the ingenious that what at first did seem altogether unfitting upon second and serious reflections shall be found not onely fitting but beneficial also and what at first apprehension seem'd so full of danger may upon review be found nothing so I say it is not our intendment that the Jews should come in so as Mr. Prynn seems to fear to dishonour God and Chrst Jesus subvert Religion disturb the Laws raise up Wa●s and Combustions sterve our own Countreymen and Natives undo merchandizing seduce the People disgrace the Gospel rob us of our Wealth bring Gods Plagues Curses and Judgments amongst us with many other such terrible conceited Chymaeraes No nor yet to come Rushing in as an overflowing floud to drown all Religion Laws and all our Privileges nor yet to be such Hors-leaches and Spunges of out Treasure and transport it away nor to usurp upon any mans Birthright nor yet to Cozen oppress poll pill defraud fleece and squeeze the English Nation nor yet to grinde them or cheat them by usury fraud or the like Nor lastly to circumcise or crucifie any children in derision of Christ nor to sacrifices any Bulls or Oxen or Sheep or Lambs for that part of their Religion is too costly and the other is too painfull both unsufferable but for certain they may be admitted in upon divers considerations some of them are these 1. By the leave of the supreme Legis-lators of our Nation they formerly have been and may if when they please be again introduced and who can or dare charge their Actions for unjust they haveing power to save or destroy and therefore power to determine matters of less consequence and then 2. Their admission being from them and but Premissive not absolute but quod diu se bene gesserint restrained to such solid orders as by the Governours of our Nation shall be adjudged most convenient justest and most conducing to Gods glory and ths Honor of our Religion and benefit of our people 3. That there chief heads and Rulers do at their entrance or immediately after give in good security for all that come in to live quietly and subordinately to our Laws in all civil respects so that justice as well communitative as distributive may have it's full vigour as well to releive succour and defend them when oppressed or molested as also to be executed against them when as they molest other 4. All covenants and agreements made with them by our Governours to be confirmed publickly under hands and Seals as mutually bnding and obliging our Magistrates to afford them just and honorable protection and security for Lives and Estates and they to render all Obedience and Tribute and Custome to them for the same that so we with them and they with us may lead a quiet sober and godly life as being all children of the same Father and Heirs of the same promise and all hoping for the same Crown of Righteousness Immortality and Glory many others might have been added but 't is presumption and unmanners to give prescription to our betters and therefore we quietly and conscienciously submit to their judgments and conclusions praying heartily to God to give them the Spirit of wisedom and counsel and valour and the fear of the Lord that they may know how to go in and out before this great people of the Lord their God and the blessings of God be upon all their counsels and actions for the good of the cause of God in these and other Nations Amen FINIS

't is deeply susspected they pray not so effectually and intentionally as they ought for can it be thought that they pray in faith when as yet all know faith doth work by love In faith we say when as this people live as yet in Countries subject to Turks Infidels and Idolatrous Papists where no means is used no ordinarie means but rather all done contrary to any such intention how can they in faith expect their Conversion under such darkness Tyranny and Ignorance How can they believe except they hear and how can they hear without a Preacher and how can they preach except they be sent sayes the Apostle now our Preachers holding the Popish Clergies Mission not lawful but Anti-christian can they believe that Anti-christ will convert to Christ and though some of them preach yet t is seldome and then full of fables stories and Legends of some miracles done by Saints of no efficacy to stir up the soul to that height as to work Repentance or Conversion And secondly how can they pray in Charity when as they will not admit this people into their Congregations nay not into the Nation that yet they might come out from those dark dens of Ignorance and Heathenish Idolatry to be hearers of Gods word powerfully taught and to see the just and upright lives and conversations of men who profess so much godliness as at present England doth these mens prayers and intentions should agree and then certainly they would be glad to hear that God had put it into the hearts of the Jews to desire such a thing at the hands of our present Governours with leaving the Issue to God and the means But for their speedier Conversion the Apostle saies they must hear and hearing implies they must not be shut out of the Land but admitted into it and into our societies it seems a Riddle and almost Ridiculous to hope the Conversion of that people with whom they never converse or confer Conference and Conversation being two main helps to further Conversion the Jews when they had heard Peters Sermon they heard it then the Text saies then they came to the Apostles and said Men and Brethren what shall we do there 's their Conference and they continued with the Apostles there 's their Conversation too Many other examples might be produced I wish all Preachers and others who are against their Coming In to lay this to heart and to take heed that by being against their Coming In they do not make their prayers void and ineffectuall their prayers being for them their Actions against them Now seeing we do Actually pray for their Calling and Conversion which thing all learned men say shall be effected nay the Scriptures are full for it as shall appear yet de modo of the manner of it there is not a generall Consent whether it shall be a Locis migrando or in Locis credendo by travelling from all Countries into which they are scattered into and unto Jerusalem again or by believing in Christ Jesus in the places into which they are so scattered and disperst Much might here be said on both parts but not intending Controversies in this present Discourse we interpose not in it St. Paul expressing himself in this particular to the full saith Rom. ch 10. v. 1. Brethren my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israelis that they may be saved for I bear them record that they have a zeal of God there is heat and therefore hopes of it and the Apostle saies he did heartily and trulie desire it and thereupon prayed for it and how he could even wish himself accursed from Christ for his Brethrens sake and the Prophet David prayes thus Oh that thou wouldst bring home thy people as thou didst sometimes from the depth of the Sea and O think upon Sion and have mercy upon her for it grieveth and pitieth thy servants to see her in the dust nay our Saviour himself it is said of him that he prayed for these transgressors Esa 53. and upon the Cross Father forgive them they know not what they do which he meant of their Sin in murdering him the Prince of Life as Peter tells them Act. 2. and Stephen Act. ch 7. prayes Lord lay not this sin to their charge not onelie the sin of stoning him but that their sin of Crucifying Christ and St. Peter took great pains to work their Repentance Conversion by preaching zealously unto them and did convert 1000s of them and did all these holy and eminent men labour to further this why then should not we that we should I say for our perfection and theirs shall be both together not they without us nor we without them shall be made perfect Heb. 11. v. ult we shall not come to the stature of a perfect man in Christ God being the God both of Jew and Gentile To stir us up therefore to be earnest with God to help on the Jews Conversion consider Davids care the Prophets successivelie sent to this people for the same purpose our blessed Lord took great pains and wrought many Miracles gave them divers instructions as work while ye have the light why stand ye here idle I would have gathered thee O Jerusalem as a Hen gathereth her Chickens I have called and cryed all the day and O that thou hadst known and what could I have done more for my Vineyard and St. Peter and Paul how vigorous and industrious to bring them to Christ Oh let there be in us the same earnest desire to do this people good for God is able to graft them in again O let it never be said of us that Gods people his Ancient people of whom according to the flesh Christ Iesus came being sad and grieved in spirit travelling from one City to another being few in Number hearing that the Gospel was purely preached here that Justice and uprightness flourished here that God had done great things here humbly desired to come In here as hoping and believing they should find some rest here and that they should finde a godly and mercifull people here with gracious and wise Governours here let it I say never be reported that England rejected them England would not give Admission to Gods Ancient heritage England denyed them to hear Gods holy Word whereby they might be saved who can say what Gods Intendments may be whether or no we may not have the Credi● and greatest and first Comfort of their happy Vnion with us in the same faith in the Lord Jesus and why may not they acknowledge the goodness of our Nation me thinks I hear them say Blessed be God that hath delivered us from our Enemies and who hath found out a place of safety and refreshment to us Oh how have we been trod on scorned abused fleeced and butchered in many other places but yet at last God lent us a shelter even England England we say where we finde Comfort for souls and bodies England who holds up Gods glory and