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A46295	The wonderful, and most deplorable history of the latter times of the Jews with the destruction of the city of Jerusalem. Which history begins where the Holy Scriptures do end. By Josephus Ben Gorion whereunto is added a brief of the ten captivities; with the pourtrait of the Roman rams, and engines of battery, &c. As also of Jerusalem; with the fearful, and presaging apparitions that were seen in the air before her ruins. Moreover, there is a parallel of the late times and crimes in London, with those in Jerusalem.; Josippon. English. Abridgments.	Joseph ben Gorion, ha-Kohen, attributed name.; Howell, James, 1594?-1666.; Ibn Daud, Abraham ben David, Halevi, ca. 1110-ca. 1180.; Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1671 (1671)	Wing J1086A; ESTC R216340	213,458	417

Titus Vespatianus Emperour of Rome Conquerour of Ierusalem Surnamed the delight of mankind w.s. sc. THE WONDERFUL AND MOST Deplorable HISTORY OF THE LATTER TIMES OF THE JEWS With the Destruction of the City of Jerusalem Which History begins where the Holy Scriptures do end By JOSEPHVS BEN GORION Whereunto is added a Brief of the ten Captivities with the Pourtrait of the Roman Rams and Engines of Battery c. As also of Jerusalem with the fearful and presaging Apparitions that were seen in the air before her Ruines Moreover there is a Parallel of the late Times and Crimes in London with those in Jerusalem London Printed for John Sims at the Sign of the Kings Head at Sweethings Alley end in Cornhil next the Royal Exchange 1671. To the Honorable Sir JOHN ROBINSON Knight and Baronet Lievtenant of the TOWER and Alderman of the CITY of LONDON Honorable Sir THIS rare and remarkable Piece of History as it was Dedicated before to the City of London in generall because of the quality of the Subject Treating of the ruine of one of the most famous Cities upon Earth So upon this Review and new Edition I take the boldness of Dedicating it to You alone who are one of the Eminent Members and Ornament thereof as also being Governor of that Place wherein lies her chiefest security It was formerly Dedicated to this City in the highest brunt of the late civill Confusions And the Noble Author of the following Epistle thought it very seasonable to do so out of an express design to awaken and warn Her of her desperate condition at that Time And it produced so happy effects that it made such impressions upon the spirits of many of the best Citizens that they began to recollect themselves and see their Error The said Author representing unto them that the same Crimes and Crying sins which raigned in Jerusalem before her last and utter destruction were very rife then in London which were the spirit of Sedition instable and stubborn Rebellious hearts their murmurings at Government and an itch after Innovations As also the defiling of their Temple the Irreverence and comtempt of the Priests the violation of the Tombs of the dead with other acts of Prophaness and Sacriledge But principally the Crucifying of the Lord of Life The City of London was guilty at that time of all these ugly and enormous Crimes and may be said to be lead all along by a true Jewish spirit And concerning the last viz. the Crucifixion of our Saviour though no Comparison may be made without a high prophaness yet the manner of murthering CHARLES the first may be humbly said to bear a kind of analogy and resemblance with it Nay the Jews whereof there are swarms now in this City will not stick to say that it was a Murther beyond theirs for what they did they did it out of blindness and ignorance for they neither knew nor acknowledged Him to be King of the Jew But the English did accuse and arraign they did condemn and murther King CHARLES by the name of their own King the King of England God Almighty avert those further judgments which hang over us as prayeth Honorable Sir Your most humble servant and Fellow-Citizen J. S. TO Englands Imperial Chamber THE Renowned City of LONDON To the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor the Right worshipfull the Sheriffs Mr. Recorder with the Court of Aldermen and Common Councel c. AS among men so there is a resemblance and a kind of affinity among Cities which are the Mansions of men and a reverence due to some more then to others Carthagena in Spain doth acknowledge old Carthage in Africk to be her Mother Leyden in Holland doth glory that she is allyed to Lions in France both of them bearing the name of Lugdunum Saragosa in Aragon confesseth her self daughter to Syracusa in Sicily and London by some Antiquaries is called Troynovant as having been first founded by the Trojans But of all the Cities upon the earthly Globe Jerusalem deserves most reverence in regard our Salvation was wrought and consummated in Her In regard that grand Prepitiatory Sacrifice for hum●…ne souls was offered in her Therefore under favour I held it not improper to Dedicat the History of this once so famous Metropolis to the flourishing City of London In the holy Bible the most authentick Patent of saving Faith there is a Text which reflected upon the ●…ncient Nation of the Jews and aymed only at their C●…ntry viz. In Jury God is known c. Psal. 76. He was known indeed in that Land by the multitude of his Mercies but afterwards by the severity o●… his Judgments That race of people partly because they were not co-labourers at the building of that Mount of humane pride the Tower of Babel were for many ages the objects of his favour till they made themselves afterwards the subjects of his fury And as the Philosopher tels us Corrup●…o optimi est pessima or as we find that the sweetest wines become the tartest vineger so those heavenly indulgences turn'd to heavy indignations those silver showers of extraordinary benedictions became black sto●…ms of vengeance It is the method of divine Justice to correct first w●…th rods then with scourges and if that will not do with ●…corpions The Jews felt all the three degrees and never was any people upon earth made greater examples of wrath th●… his own chosen Inheritance a peculiar people that mig●… have ●…m'd the right hand of primogeniture among the re●… of mankind Now whoso●…ver desires to make reserches into the grounds of these sad dysasters will find it was their sedi●…ious proud spirits their instable and stubborn rebellious hearts which did them more mischief then the Roman R●… or any other destructive Engines the defiling ●…f their Temple the violation of the Tombs of the dead with other acts of profaneness and sacriledg but principally the rejecting and crucifying of the Lord of life For never any thing did thrive with them afterwards insomuch that if there were no other motive for the Jews conv●…sion the length of these beavy judgments under which they groan to this day were ●…nough to do it And t is observed the length of these judgments doth often puzzle their intellectuals and put them at a stend F●…r some of their Rabbies will stare and shrink-in their shoulders at it and sometimes break out into a kind of confession that their judgments could not last so long but for crucifying one that was more then a man Besides the punctuall accomplishment of our Saviours predictions were sufficient to conv●…nce any rationall creature For not long after their Land became a stage of blood and all kind of barbarisms Their so renowned City their Temple and Sanctum Sanctorum so fam'd all the earth over was made level to the ground And observable it is that these judgments fell upon their Temple at the highest time of holiness at their Passover or Jubilee so that one might

floods of the seas persecuted them that persecuted thee Hath not the earth swallowed up them that despised thee and the winds scattered them a sunder that made insurrections against thee hath not thunder from heaven destroyed thine enemies and stars fought against thy foes What means this therefore and how cometh it to pass that thou hidest thy face from us to whom hast thou delivered the sheep of thy pasture Look upon us our God and behold thy people and inheritance that thou broughtest out of Egypt with a mighty power and a strong hand with wonders and signs leading them untill this day in thy faith take pitty upon them in thy mercy and extend not thy wrath against thy servants Where art thou Moses the son of Amram stand up and see thy people and flock of sheep which thou feedest all thy life with thy wisdom see how Wolves and Lions tear them see how the Israelites are become foes to their own lives and souls yea wasters and destroyers are sprung up of their own selves Behold the people of GOD for whose sake thou lifted'st up thy staff over the sea wherewith thou struckest and dividest it that it was made dry ground so the Israelites passed through and escaped their enemies Remember thy prayer when as in time of famine and lack of food thou obtaindft for them meat from heaven and at the same time when they were weary of their lives for thirst thou broughtest water out of the most hard rock Come forth Aaron most holy Priest of God that didst put thy self between the living and the dead to turn away the plague from Israel and staydest the destroyer that he should not come ●…igh the living Arise out of thy grave thou Phineas that moved with such fervency didst revenge the glory and majesty of the Lord God of Israel come and run through the Seditious in thy fury which murther the people of God and his Priests Awake thou Ioshua that didst throw down the walls of Jericho with the sound and shout of thy Trumpets that the holy Priests held in their hands Come now and see thy people that thou madest to inherit many Nations and to conquer most puissant Kings how they kill one another how they further and help forward the Idolater to rule and have the Dominion of the holy Land that thou gavest thy people Israel to inherit Why sleepest thou King David Awake and come with the sound of thy Psaltery and Harp sing to thy holy Psalms too Ask account of thy sweet words that are ceased from the mouthes of this people and out of all mens mouthes because of the maliciousness thereof See how their Princes be transformed into enemies and destroyers and do as thou diddest good King David that didst give thine own life for theirs saying Let thy hand O Lord be turned against me and against the house of my father and do not fall upon thy people to destroy them Where art thou Elizeus Come and see what thou canst do if thou canst rescue the remnant of Israel and find them any gap to escape at Didst not thou by thy prayer bring the power of the Syrians to a Town of defence and prevailedst against them without dint of sword or battel and broughtest them down smiting them with blindness that they turned their enmity towards Israel into love Indeed thou wast he●…that vanquishedst the Syrians by thy prayer that they fled for fear of the same Now therefore ye heard-men of Israel assemble together and listen with 〈◊〉 and hear my words that I will speak in your ears this day Tell me What is become of your prayers that ye have made for the people of Israel to defed and turn away from them a I wrath indignation tribulation fury and inmissions of evill spirits How is it that now ye see not the Sanctuary turned into a vile sink of blood for the dead bodies of Priests lye in midst of it The holy City Jerusalem is become a strange City as though the name of the Lord had never been in it and the Sanctuary of the Lord is in that case at this present as though the Godhead had never dwelt therein for the Temple is turned into a den of theeves a lodging of Seditious persons a tabernacle of cruel murtherers And who so flieth thither for refuge there they be slain as the Seditious have murthered in the midst thereof Anani the high Priest and Joshua a Priest also that were Princes and chief Priests the most reverend amongst the people of God whom ere this Kings and Nations had sued to and desired their favour but never cast their slain bodies in the midst of the Temple The Nobility also of Jerusalem the Elders of Juda the Sages of Israel whose friendship Kings and Nations have sought after and desired to make peace with they lye now slain here and there in the midst of Jerusalem are meat for the fouls of the ayre and beasts of the field to dogs and ravens because there is no man to bury them These died not for their offences but because they found fault with the Israelites when they sinned How are they slain in thee O Jerusalem thou holy City renowned throughout the whole earth all just men all holy men whom the Seditious have overcome those helhounds and blood-suckers that have brought all these evils upon thee how are the Priests of the Lord and his Prophets slain amongst those holy men For before the holy Temple was the Prophet Sechariahu that just and holy man butchered and murthered yea without all buriall neither was his blood covered with earth but yet still wandreth about and cryeth in thee The blood of Anani also and Joshua the chief Priests was yet never covered which were both slain in thy Temple as men be wont to kill theeves yea the blood of the godly young men and valiant that would have revenged them was shed also by the Seditious like floods of water How are the hearts of the people turned so aukwardly that they will bear no admonition of just men but are like unto blockish Images that neither see nor hear nor yet understand any thing All beasts be they never so brutish all plants and things that grow upon the earth withstand them that invade them to do them injury and endeavour to avoid the force of their enemy but thy children that thou keepest within thee are changed into enemies and one brother murthereth ●…nother with the sword Where is now thy valiantness thou that never wouldst bow to bear the yoak of the Gentiles upon thy shoulders but hast cast away the bondage of the Egyptians Philistines Aramites Assyrians Chaldees Persians and Medes Where is the strength that God gave to the Chasmonanites that with a very small company defended thee and prevailed against the great and puissant Army of the Greeks destroyed the stout souldiers of Babylon vanquished the mighty Army of the Persians slue Kamitiatus and Antiochus and pursued their Armies making great

of brute beasts which according to nature bear rule one over another Notwithstanding in mankind it should never have come to passe that the bigger should so have dominion over the lesse unlesse for their sins for the the which they are so punished that one is compelled to bow his neck under anothers yoke Now therefore my dear people take humility and meeknesse unto you never covet to alter the law of Nature but rather receive my words and follow my counsell Obey the Romans prepared and ready to make league with you according to their bountifulnesse that ye may live and do full well CHAP. II. WHen Joseph had spoken these things in the hearing of the Citizens of Jerusalem they burst out and wept gnashing with their teeth and railed at Joseph over the walls hurling stones and darts at him to have killed him Therefore when Joseph saw they would not follow his counsel butwere so stiffe-necked he began to rebuke them crying unto them in this wise Wo to all froward people and such as rebell against the Lord God! What mean ye you wretches what have ye to leane unto that ye are so stubborn when neverthelesse the Lord is gone from you For you are wicked people and have sinned against him How can your sins be purged which you have committed in the Temple of the Lord by shedding of innocent blood without all mercy Ye are most guilty for ye have fought in the Temple and Sanctuary of the Lord ye have defiled it with dead bodies of them which ye have slain in the very midst thereof Besides ye have prophaned and unhallowed the Name of the Lord with making of Wars upon the Sabbath day upon your solemn and festival da●…es Tell me now ye froward rebels whether did ever your forefathers prevail against their enemies with spear and shield but rather with prayer pennance and purenesse of heart wherewith they served God and again he delivered them But you what have you to trust unto when as ye are unfaithful Your shelter and protection is departed from you and your Lord God aideth your enemies whose power he maintaineth to destroy you if you ima●…ine to be delivered with your swords and speares you are fouly deceived whereas God would not that ye should escape the hands of your enemies Open your eyes and see what David the annointed of the Lord said For the Lord will save neither by sword nor spear Call to your remembrance ye very fools Abraham your father which begot you by what means he overcame Pharaoh the King of Egypt who violently had taken away Sarah his wife from him surely none other way did he obtain the victory then by prayer to the Lord who stirred the spirit of Pharaoh and put him in mind to restore his wife Sarah clean and undefiled Abraham was quiet in his bed and at rest from all troubles but Pharaoh that great Lord and Ruler was punished in the mean season with great plagues because of Sarah whom he had taken to him by violence to deflower her which God would not suffer but rather uncovered Pharaohs flesh that he was fain to shew the secret parts of his body to Physitians to see if they could heal them But who can cure the infirmities which God sends or who knows his intents For who knew that Hezekiahs biles could be healed with a plaister of figs or Naman the Syrian's leprosie with the w●…ter of Jordan or the bitter water with wormwood Wherefore when as no man could cure Pharaoh he was fain to speak Abraham fair and to intreat him to pray to God to take away from him his plague and so by his prayer Pharaoh recovered Then Pharaoh apparelled Sarah in precious garments gave her gifts of Gold and Silver and precious Stones and sent her home honest pure and holy to Abraham living then at his own house ●…saac when he was driven out by Abimelech King of the Philistins and had with him the bond servants of his fathers houshold to the number of 800. and 18. with whom Abraham had discomfited five Kings beside many other more of his family so that he had been strong enough to have invad●… the Philistines yet he would not do it but with all meeknesse and humil●…ty he used himself towards the King of that Country Notwithstanding after he was driven out of the Land the Philistines came unto him and entreated him saying We perceive the Lord God is with thee c. as it is written in the Scripture What shall we say of Jacob when he f●…ed from the presence of his brother Esau he carried nothing with him but a bare staffe wherewith he passed ov●…r the River Jordan as it is w●…itten With my staffe passed I this Jordan His Ammunition that he took with him for his journey was pray●…r wherewith he made all his wars That was it for the which God assisted him when he went away to Laban and when he returned from him when also he was delivered out of the hands of his brother Esau who sought to kill him And this also he did b●… the way as he returned when he wrestled with a certain man that overcame him O Lord Who is able to number the mercies of the Lord and the marvels which he wrought with our fathers of worthy memory Abraham Isaac and Jac●…b What should I speak of Moses our shepherd the man of God that feared the cruelty of Pharoah until he writ in the Law that he had called the name of his son Eleazar for he said the God of his father helped him and delivered him out of the hands of Pharaoh And when he came before Pharaoh to deliver Israel out of his hands and to lead them out of Egypt With what things else overcame he the Tyrant withal then with prayer Did he not overthrow the pride of Pharaoh and his Charmers only with the Rod of the Lord which he had with him Wherewith also he smote Egypt with ten plagues a●…d divided the Sea into twelve parts And at the red Sea Moses resisted not Pharaoh and his host with force of Arms but with p●…ayer wherefore Pharaoh and all his were drowned in the bottom of the Sea But Moses sung a song of praise unto our God while the souldiers of the Egyptians perished that came against Moses and the people of Israel with weapons horses and chariots Notwithstandiug by Moses prayer they we●…e overwhelmed all in the Sea so that not one of them escaped Who is ignoraut of this that prayer is of more force than all instruments of war that it speedeth and hasteneth the help of the Lord and his saving health Do you not know when Joshua the minister of Moses passed over Jordan that he was a warlike man and had with him very many most valiant souldiers neverthelesse he destroyed not the seven walls of Jericho by force of War but only with prayer and with shouts and noise of the Priests of the Lord our forefathers Know ye not that