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Even lero'sh pina, The Jevv turned Christian, or, The corner-stone wherein is an assertion of Christ being the true Messiah / by John Jacob, formerly a Jew, but now turned a Christian.
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Jacob, John, 17th cent.
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everlasting God Moreover in the Prophecy of Jeremiah in Chap. 23.5 6 God saith so Behold the day is come that I will raise unto David a righteous branch c. And this is his name whereby he shall be called The Lord our Righteousness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now the name Jehovah is so proper to God that it cannot be communicated by any means to any creature it is Gods own memorial as David speaks of it yea God himself saith with a kind of jealousie Jehova is my name and my glory will I not give to any else Besides that Reason it self shews us the incommunicability of this name because no living creature can give a Being to another yea neither to himself and therefore cannot be call'd Jehovah But because Messiah is call'd here in the quoted place Jehovah it must needs follow that he is the true and everlasting God who hath a Being from himself and sustains all things besides himself But the Jews use here a kind of exception saying the name Jehovah is communicated to others as to the Ark when it is said Arise Jehovah before Jehovah and thy enemies shall be dispersed But I answer this to be a vain exception 1. Because the Jews themselves when they are not in any disputation they not only confess this name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be a wonderous powerful name so that one may do great miracles if he knoweth the right pronunciation of it as they say Christ did all his miracles by that name because he had stolen the right pronunciation of it in the entry of Solomon and therefore they say the pronunciation of it is hidden so that they either call it Ihu or Shemhammephorash the name of four and twenty Letters but also they dare not pronounce the same for its holiness sake How then can this name that is of such a great efficacy and holiness be communicated to any creature and especially to such an one as hath no life but is more than irrational 2. The Ark is not call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but the Israelites call at the Ark or in the presence of it as of a thing where God more especially manifested himself upon because they say 1. Arise Jehovah which they could not say to a dumb Ark which could not hear nor rise up without the help of another 2. The effect of that arising cannot be ascribed to the Ark And thy enemies shall be destroyed which is only the Work of the Almighty So that here is not meant the Ark but God himself Moreover the verity of this assertion is not only proved by Scripture but likewise by the assentment of the Jews themselves amongst whom the most subtil Rabbies and Philosophers do yield that Messiah should be an Angel of the face of God Isa 63. and so not created but in some measure of that same essence with God which doth infer nothing else but that he is a true God and co-essential with the Almighty Father So then the Messiah being constituted of both natures divine and humane is so become a Mediatour and to undergo the office of a King of a Priest and of a Prophet which was adumbrated in the Old Testament by several which either had those Offices distinctly or joyntly together as Melchisedec David Samuel Solomon and this is the reason he is call'd a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec Psal 110.4 Let then the blind Jews dream of another end for which Messiah should come into the World as to deliver them out of the hands of their corporal enemies to re-edifie the Temple to set up the sacrifices to subdue all other Nations under their dominion yet it is plain and evident that the end of his coming should be spiritual to perform the Office of a King of a Prophet and of a Priest He was to be a King to over-power the works of Satan a Prophet for to teach us the Will of God and a Priest for to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring everlasting righteousness All the offerings and sacrifices in the Old Testament could never make the comers thereunto perfect Heb. 10.1 not only because they could not cleanse from sin and were but a shadow of the things to come but also because they could not destroy the works of the Devil who still according to the assentment of the Jews had his part in the offerings We read Levit. 16.7 8 c. And he shall take two goats and present them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and Aaron shall cast lots upon the goats 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one lot for the Lord and the other for Azazel and Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the Lords lot fell and offer it for a sin-offering but the goat on which the lot fell to be scape-goat shall be presented alive before the Lord to make an atonement with him and to let him go for Azazel into the wilderness c. Here they say That by Azazel is to be understood the Devil who still had a power over them and unto whom they were forced to offer to mitigate him that they might be free from his assaults and hence proceeds the Jewish Proverb an offering 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Azazel when they are to give a bribe to a wicked man to stop his mouth who in his nature is as bad as the Devil Therefore it was needful that the Messiah should come as a spiritual King and as a Priest of an high power to tread the enemy under our feet to bruise Satans head and to destroy utterly his works that so he might take away that fear that was in the believers before his appearance in the flesh Now the considerations of those things did plainly shew unto me which is my last point that none else but Christ in whom Christians believe is the true Messiah because in him all the Predictions are fulfilled The Scepter did not depart from Judah nor a Law-giver from between his feet until Christ came when as I said above the Jewish Government was abolished and they dispersed through all the World The second Temple was yet in its flower when Christ appeared there and honoured the place with his presence and since that time it was desolated The Messiah was to be born of a Virgin so was Christ born being conceived by the Holy Ghost in the womb of the Virgin Mary as the Evangelist doth testifie Matt. 1.18 He was to be born in Bethlehem so was Christ the Saviour of the World Luke 2.4 7. The Messiah was to come after the end of Daniels Weeks so did Christ come as we may see by accompting of the time The Messiah was to suffer for our sins Isa 53 to be cut off and dye Daniel 9 he should cause the sacrifice and oblations to cease ibid. All this Christ did he offered his soul for the sins of men Joh. 10 he died for our sins Rom. 4 and after his death not only the sacrifices did cease but also the place of oblations which was the Temple in Jerusalem was abolished without any hopes of restauration The Messiah was to be God and Man so was Christ a Man because born a God because he shewed it by his Works and Miracles which a created power could never have done And to be short in a case so plain as this is All these Scriptures which did sound of the Messiah were fulfilled in Christ either touching his nature or the end of his coming yea not only in the things themselves but also in the circumstances as we may see by reading the New Testament written by the Apostles and Evangelists So then I concluded That the true Messiah was come that he was to be God and Man and that Christ in whom Christians believe was and is the true Messiah whom I have embraced truly and hope to be saved by his infinite merits And now I will exalt thee O Lord for thou hast lifted me up by the arm of thy mercy and hast not made my foes to rejoyce over me O Lord Satan Hell and Death had opened their mouths to devour me and so to rejoyce in that prey but thou O Lord hast shewed me the way of thy salvation and made me to cry out O Death where is thy sting O Grave where is thy victory I cried unto thee and thou hast healed me thou O Lord hast brought up my soul from the Grave thou hast kept me alive that I should not go down to the pit of eternal damnation Thou by thy favour hast made my mountain to stand strong and madest me take hold of the horn of thy salvation Sing then unto the Lord my Soul and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness Bless him and forget not all his benefits he forgiveth all thy iniquities and healeth all thy diseases Do thou O Lord strengthen me with thy grace that I may not fall from thee and from thy only Son our Saviour Jesus Christ to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be praise and glory for ever Amen FINIS
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE JEVV TURNED CHRISTIAN OR THE Corner-Stone WHEREIN IS An assertion of Christ being the true MESSIAH By JOHN JACOB formerly a Jew but now turned a Christian LONDON Printed by A. M. and R. R. for Tho. Cockerill at the Three Legs in the Poultry over against the Stocks-Market 1678 9◠Imprimatur Ex aedibus Lambethanis Nov. 16 1678. Geo. Thorp R mo in C. P. D. D no. Gulielmo Archiep. Cant. a sacris domesticis To His most Excellent and Sacred Majesty CHARLES the second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To the Most Reverend Father in God William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace Primate and Metropolitan of all England And to the Right Reverend Fathers in God the Bishops the Reverend the Deans and Doctors in Divinity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 IN all humility I present this Book to your Majesty and to you Most Reverend Right Reverend Archbishop Bishops Deans and Doctors of the Church of England 'T is no wonder I joyn your Illustrious Majesty with persons spiritual because as well the Head must not be separated from the Members as the Nourishers of the Church from them who are the Light of the World and the builders of Jerusalem I beseech therefore your Most Sacred Majesty to accept of this present as Cyrus did of a little cold water from his Subject And you spiritual Lords as a testimony of my true Conversion Your Most Illustrious Majesty and of the rest Most Humble Client and Servant John Jacob a converted Jew A Polander 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE JEVV TURNED CHRISTIAN OR THE Corner-Stone LET Epicure exalt his sensuality and others set up as an Idol some kind of vain and perishing felicity for their chiefest good yet mans principal good is God not only because he is the only good yea goodness it self but because the Soul can have no full satisfaction in any thing besides Him who is the end of all things For of him and through him and to him are all things Rom. 11.36 The Lord hath made all things for himself yea even the wicked for the day of evil saith Solomon Prov. 16.4 If all things then especially Man into whom he implanted his own image if the wicked then to be sure him that hath put on the new man which is renewed in knowledg after the image of him that created him Col. 3.10 if for himself then one may safely conclude there can be no quietness in the Soul which naturally aimeth after its good until it cometh to rest in Him who is the chiefest portion of David So that all the pleasure of this world yea of all other things besides God are contained in that short but weighty periphrase of Solomon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vanity of vanities Eccl. 1.1 and are to be compared to the Mule of Absolom who after he had carried his Master a long time up and down the world in pleasure and riches goeth under the thick Oak-boughs of everlasting peril and having hanged him goeth his ways 2 Sam. 18.9 Whatsoever is created must either vanish or be polished and brought to a better perfection by an outward cause and for that reason it cannot satisfie the desires of the Soul which is one of the most perfect creatures that God ever formed and so a co-heir of that same felicity with Angels yea the Soul being immortal cannot hint at any thing which is subject to mortality or at least cannot be brought to that same nothing from whence it had its off-spring but by the power of the Everlasting Let then this be a true and un-overthrown principle That God is the chiefest good of a man and that for this reason it is the duty of every one to acquaint himself with God and to be at peace that thereby good may come unto him Job 22.21 But as in all other things so likewise in coming near unto God and to the enjoyment of those riches which are in him there is some means for which every one ought to search Before Adam had fallen and brought all his Children into a praemunire and the guilt of that same transgression he committed he needed no other but his own righteousness to get by that the enjoyment of his Maker being it is sin only that makes a separation betwixt us and God and brings upon us its reward which is death according to Gods proclamation In the day thou eatest thereof 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thou shalt dye with death Gen. 2.17 But after his fall and the entrance into a Covenant it was and it is impossible for any one to arrive to the enjoyment of the Almighty by his own righteousness being we are by nature viz. corrupted enemies of God and turn our back to his Commandments and callings upon us So that here instead of natural and concreated perfection must succeed Grace attended by the promise grounded upon the blessed seed of which the Almighty speaks Gen. 3.15 I will put enmity between thee and the woman between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel The Almighty God having from eternity foreseen the fall of Adam decreed out of his infinite mercy to succour him and his posterity by the death and satisfaction of his own Son whom he hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood c. Rom. 3.25 26. And for that same reason immediately after the fall of Adam he doth not only promise him a Saviour but likewise declareth by an institution of a sacrifice and by the words of Gen. 3.8 22 And the Lord God said behold the man is become as one of us to know good and evil The first offering we read of in the Scriptures is the offering of Abel Gen. 4.4 Who offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain by Faith Heb. 11.4 Now Faith presupposeth a promise and a commandment because it cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God Rom. 10.17 But we find no express commandment given to Abel for to offer Sacrifices therefore we must either yield to the Papists a free service to be admitted of or else make the aforesaid words of the Apostle to be true and find out an institution of sacrificing before ever Abel had offered made by God himself whose doings are a rule of our faith and obedience So then methinks I may find the first institution of it Gen. 1.21 Vnto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them Those skins could not be of any torn Sheep by the cruelty of the wild Beasts by reason vanity had not yet over-swayed the World nor skins of Cattel kill'd for the use of Adam because he was bound to eat only of the Herbs Gen. 1.29 So that I may probably conclude they were the skins of such Cattel as were kill'd by the Commandment of God for sacrificing that so the