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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84114	A brief compendium of the vain hopes of the Jews messias. The ignorant fables of their Rabbies, and the confuting of the Jewish religion, Written by Eleazar Bargishai a born Jew, for the upholding of Christianity.	Eliazar Bar-Isajah.	1652 (1652)	Wing E332A; Thomason E674_33; ESTC R207207	9,634	23

the whole world together and they are stedfast in their opinion that so soon as they shall be gathered together in that place their Messias shall appear upon that old Asse upon whom also all the Jews shall sit and so altogether be transported through the sea into the promised Land about Jerusalem This the Christians and all other Nations shall see and desiring likewise to ride over into that Land with them shall not have such favour of God that they may sit upon the body of the Asse yet this shall be granted that they may sit upon the tayl of him which shall be lifted up and so soon as the Asse shall be in the middest of the sea he shall let his tayl sink that all the Christians may fall down and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is in a moment be drowned but the Jews shall safely ride along through the Sea at their pleasure into the holy Land Now loving Jews this must be a monstrous great Asse whereupon ye must all together sit but I think all the unfaithfull Jews must be put into a sack in a lesser form than the motes of the Sunne to be carried into that Land of promise otherwise it is impossible that such a beast as the Messiah had should carry them all through the Sea and when they are in the middle of the Sea down falls the sack and all the Jews are drowned and the true Christians through the blood of the true Messias Jesus Christ of Nazareth and his sufferings on the holy Crosse shall be saved But my dear friends where in what place is this Asse now at this present I think he is with the Bull and the Cow the Whales the great Frogs and Birds mentioned in your Songs which ye call Acdomes and which ye sing with great devotion upon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Whitsunday in your Synagogues which is thus in Caldean 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which interpreted is thus when I begin to speak and begin to say I will take consent and coming into the middest of the Song you cry aloud in your Synagogues in these words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is to say the Whale moveth himself with his sins Here loving Christians you may see what is set in their fabling Talmuths A Rabbie by Name Rabbie Solomon writeth a strange story from this Song and that in this manner That when our Lord God created the World he created two great Whales who were so extremely great that the whole world could not contain them for to multiply therefore God killed the female of these two Whales which he salted for the faithfull Jews O ye blind and hard-hearted will ye make God a fish-killer or a Master of such business Moreover he writes That God created a great Bull and a great Cow who were likewise so great that in multiplying the world was not able to support them which the Lord foreseeing killed the female thereof and salted it as he did the Whale and all for the good Jews In the same Book the Author writes and teacheth his Nation That when the time approcheth and is at hand that their Messias shall appear then God shall shew them this sport and pleasure that is that the great Whale and the Bull shall engage in a great fight the one defending himself with his horrible fins and the other with his horns but the one should not hurt the other till God comes with his sword and kills them after the Jewish and Levitish manner so they make God a great killer and fight-Master O the cursed teaching and abominable fables And to continue further in his wicked story he saith That after God shall have slain this horrible Whale and Bull 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is the Priests of the Jews are ready and at hand to cut them in peeces whereof the Priests shall have a delicate and costly banquet at which banquet they shall drink precious Wine which from the beginning of all beginnings was hid secretly in cellars that no Christians or other Nations shall know of for they are become 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say unclean and so the Jews ought not to drink with them but I beleeve they make their reckoning in the winde and wait thereupon without any profit for they shall all drink of one cup wherein there shall go so much in number as to that Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is 287. my meaning is that this is the Cup whereof the Prophet Jeremy in his Prophecy maketh mention filled with the wrath of God so that they shall have enough to drink for ever But verily my lost Brethren Sure yee must have a very great fire to boyl broyl and rost this great Bull and this great Whale but so much concerning the Jews banquet Now I will speak a little of the greatnesse of the Leviathan or Whale who shall be so horrible great that the whole world shall stand upon him but I would fain know how he should endure upon his body such a great burden or weight but I suppose the great Frogs and Bird mentioned in the Talmuth in the book 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chap. 8. shall help him to support and sustein part of the great weight otherwise the Whale happly alone might perish under so great a burden It is wonder that such unbeleeving people should publikely write and teach such grosse lyes Omer Rabi Bar Chanina saith also in the Talmouth I have seen and behold on the one side a Frog in greatness like a Village or Town of 60 Houses another Frog much greater then the former which cometh and beguileth and devoureth the first and afterwards a bird or great fowl whom they call Guina likewise came and beguiled the second Frog and after flew upon a Tree and there rested whereupon the Author said see and behold how great a Tree must that have been where such a great fowl can sit upon now said Rabbi Papa had I not been there and seen the Bird at that time I should not have beleeved it Rabbi Saffera tells another Fable saying As I once sayled in a Ship behold I saw a Fish who lifted his head out of the water and I espied upon him two Horns whereupon was written I am the least Creature that is created by God in the Sea and am indeed three miles long and must enter into the mouth of the Leviathan that is the Whale and be devoured of him Now hark ye my lost brethren ye speak much of your Leviathan that but one shall be in the Sea Surely this Whale your hoped for Leviathan Anno Domini 1642. was brought into Riga upon the Frontiers of Lifland under the jurisdiction of the Queen of Swede at which time I was with my brother there who is a Merchant and there was taken at Riga a great Whale and at a Merchants there by name John Kortrimans did eat of the Whale whereof there were many hundred tuns salted and I