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A70300	A true narrative of God's gracious dealings with the soul of Shalome Ben Shalomoh of the circumcision after the flesh. As delivered to the Church of Christ assembled at their meeting-house, in Rosemary-Lane, September the 29th, 1699. With some additions made thereunto since; being taken from his mouth by the subscribers to the certificate annexed to the preface. Published for exalting the free grace of God.	Humfrey, Thomas.; Shalome, Ben Shalomoh. aut	1699 (1699)	Wing H3717; ESTC R218738	17,377	32

was opened within me when I heard my Parents speak any thing of the Messiah tho' they would not tell me that he who was slain without the Walls of Jerusalem was the Messiah they talked of two Messiahs one that should come to be slain the other to deliver It may be that both Jews and Gentiles will in a short time be called in the Lord will call them And I wish that at this Day God would turn the Hearts of all People that they may all come to Jesus Christ Oh! the Joy the Comfort the Happiness that is to be found there There is Salvation in none other but in him whether shall we go saith Peter Thou hast the Words of eternal Life Indeed there is no other Way we must have no Confidence in the Flesh we must deny all our Comforts and come to Jesus Christ all must be laid down but Jesus Christ Mr. H. If you have Brethren any other Question to propound Mr. Shalome is very free to answer them It was desired by the Church that something might be asked him concerning his Conviction of Original Sin Mr. H. What do you think about the Pollution of your Nature Shal. What do you mean by Pollution Mr. H. Do you find any Evil workings in your Heart Shal. Yes but Jesus Christ takes them off Mr. H. Whence do you think you received this Corruption and Pollution Shal. From the first Adam for in Sin I was conceived and born in Iniquity and the Corruption of my Nature is such that it hath rendred me utterly unable to keep the Law in its Demands and therefore by the Law was I drove to Jesus Christ i. e. when I saw the Law to be so holy just and good so Spiritual and I so Carnal that it required so much and I was able to perform so little and the Gospel making a Discovery of one who had kept the Law and satisfied Justice to the full I fled for Refuge from the Law as a Covenant of Works to lay hold of the Hope that is set before me in the Gospel as a Covenant of Grace this is what I intend by the Laws driving me to Christ Mr. H. What do you when you find these evil Thoughts stirring in you Shal. What Why then I fly to Jesus Christ to that Blood which hath washed me from all my Sins and roul my self wholly on Christ Mr. H. Think you that you stand Righteous before God Shal. In Jesus Christ I do tho' not in my self for in my self I am a condemned Creature but yet I am fully satisfied that there is no Condemnation to me being in Jesus Christ tho' I may slip and fall through the stirrings of the Old Man in me which in themselves are sufficient Matter for Condemnation yet seeing my self in Jesus Christ I know there is no Condemnation to me for these Facts Mr. H. What think you of Jesus Christ's keeping the Commandments Shal. He kept them perfectly for me had he broke the Law in the least Point he had been no better than the first Adam was and we had been utterly undone Had he broke one Commandment he had been guilty of all Mr. H. Wherefore desire you Communion with this Church Shal. 1st Because Christ hath made it my Duty And 2d To Renew the Actings of my Faith on Jesus Christ Mr. Shalome withdrew Mr. H. Brethren you have heard the Account of God's Dealing with the Soul of Mr. Shalome Let me acquaint you that I have occasionally had a considerable Acquaintance with him perhaps as much as any one Man here I must needs say I think he hath given as uncontroulable a Proof of God's Dealing with his Soul by way of Conversion as any one I have conversed with since I came into the Ministry altho' his Language may be broken and his Phraseology unusual yet I have observed a true Strain of Faith run through his discourse and he hath given me sufficient Reason to conclude that he is a stronger Believer than most of us Gentiles According to the usual Custom observed by the Congregational Churches in their Admission of Members the Question was put affirmatively and negatively whether Mr. Shalome Ben Shalomoh should be admitted a Member of this Church and it passed Nemine Contradicente in the former After I came to the Lord's Supper I found much Joy and Comfort as if I lived out of the World nothing but Joy and Rejoycing I see that Jesus Christ as he is God is my Father but as Man he is my elder Brother It hath pleased God to discover something to me of the Glory of that Covenant that he made with Abraham in Gen. 17. I am assured it is a Covenant of Grace Ratifyed and Confirmed in the Blood of Jesus and doth belong to me and my Seed in their Generations so that I am perswaded and assured that my Children have as just a Right to Baptism as the Seed of Abraham of old had to Circumcision or as Believers have now to the Lord's Supper in as much as it is an external Sign of the Washing away of Sin by the Blood of Jesus Christ God hath made himself over to me in absolute Covenant made to Abraham and to my Seed as a part of me and when I take the Lord's Supper in Faith I see that as really as the Bread is broken and the Wine poured forth the Body of Christ was broken and his Blood poured forth for the Remission of my Sins when I recollect my former State that when I lay in my Blood and was led away Captive by Sin when I thought not on Jesus Christ yea before I was born Jesus Christ thought of me and laid down his Life for me and made Satisfaction for my Sin when I say I consider these things I am made to pray for the Spirit of Praise that I may glorifie God for ever who by the Riches of his Grace hath brought me in as the First-fruits of that great harvest of the Jews when a Nation shall be born in a Day which I firmly believe is at hand ERRATA PReface Page 2. line 20 lege 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 put Art 13. of Church of England to the 21 line The following PROOFS out of the OLD and NEW TESTAMENT concerning the Godhead Manhood Doctrine Death and Resurrection of the Messiah being transmitted to us we thought good to publish it which by the Divine Blessing may tend to the Conviction of the Jews and to the Building up many in their most Holy Faith who profess a Belief in the Name of Jesus Christ. Psalm 110.1 THe Lord said to my Lord Sit thou at my right hand till I make thine Enemies thy foot-stool The only begotten Son of God Mat. 22.43 Mark 22.36 Luke 20.42 The same Words as in the Old Testament Psalm 2.7 The Lord hath said unto me Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee Acts 2.34 Acts 13.33 Heb. 1.5 To which of the Angels said he at any time thou art my

A TRUE NARRATIVE OF GOD'S Gracious Dealings WITH THE SOVL of Shalome Ben Shalomoh Of the Circumcision after the Flesh As Delivered to the Church of Christ Assembled at Their Meeting-House in Rosemary-Lane September the 29th 1699. With some ADDITIONS made thereunto since Being taken from his Mouth by the Subscribers to the Certificate annexed to the Preface Published for Exalting the Free Grace of God Come and hear all ye that fear God and I will declare what he hath done for my Soul Psal 66.16 I say then Hath God cast away his People God forbid For I also am an Israelite of the Seed of Abraham c. As concerning the Gospel they are Enemies for your sake but as touching the Election they are beloved for the Father's sakes Rom. 11.1 28. Wherefore receive ye one another as Christ also received us to the Glory of God Rom. 15.7 LONDON Printed for William Marshal and Sold by hm at the Bible in Newgate-Street 1699. To the READER THE End of Publishing the following Narrative is not to ascribe Glory to one particular Party as if by our own Power or Holiness we had made this Man who was spiritually dead to walk but to obviate such Mistakes which a thing so novel and uncommon may be obnoxious to and more especially to magnifie the Riches of Free Grace which has glorified Jesus Christ by the Manifestations of his Divine Power and Goodness 1 Pet. 2.3 displayed to the Soul of this Son of Abraham And therefore to you who have tasted that the Lord is gracious the ensuing Narrative I presume will be acceptable For tho' it pretends not to the captivating Oratory of our Age yet it may challenge your serious Regard inasmuch as Salvation is come to his House who is according to the Flesh of the rejected Stock of Israel whom it hath pleased irresistible Grace to turn from Darkness to Light Act. 26.184 and from the Power of Satan to Himself Which I hope is an encouraging Presage of the happy Re-ingrafture of the unbelieving Jews into their own Olive-Tree Rom. 11.24 A thing witnessed to by the Sacred Word of God and confirmed to us by this unusual Act By the one he has declared what he will do and by the other what he can do And as the Word of Promise may encourage us to pray so this Instance of Divine Power to hope Ezek. 37.5 9. that God will cause Breath to enter into those dry Bones that they may live But not to enumerate Particulars which is foreign to our present Purpose since there is a profess'd Expectation of the Jews Conversion in these Latter Days among the greatest part of Christians I shall proceed to obviate such Objections as may possibly be brought against the Truth of this Jew's Conversion Object 1. Is it possible that a Person so unacquainted with the Christian Religion and so vicious in his Life and Conversation should so suddenly arrive to such a strong Perswasion of his Interest in a crucified Saviour Answ In Answer hereunto consider 1. That God the most Sovereign Agent is the Sole Worker of Faith in the Hearts of his Elect wherefore it is called Col. 2.12 Faith of the Operation of God And in his working thereof he acts like himself energetically and instantaneously He that commanded Light to shine out of Darkness 2 Cor. 4.6 at once in the first Creation can in a Moment illuminate a Soul benighted with its own Darkness by giving the Light of the Knowledge of his Glory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Person of Christ Why should it be thought then a thing incredible that he who at the last Trumpet 's Sound will effect such an amazing Change in the Bodies of the Saints and that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the twinkling of an Eye should make one no less admirable in the Soul of a poor despised Jew the Conversion of whose Brethren in the Flesh Rom. 11. is represented by Life from the Dead There is doubtless a determinate Instant wherein the Soul of an Elect Sinner is to be delivered from the Power of Darkness and translated into the Kingdom of God's dear Son Ezek. 16.8 which is called the Time of Love Ps 110.3 the Day of Power until which the Soul is polluted in its own Blood Heb 11.6 and whatsoever he doth is displeasing to God because done in Unbelief and having undoubtedly the Nature of Sin To which agrees several Passages in the Homily of Good Works as follows Without Faith all that is done of us Art 13. of the Church of Engl. is but dead before God tho' the Work seem never so gay and glorious before Man Ev●n as a Picture graven or painted is but a dead Representation of the Thing it self that is without Life or any manner of Moving so be the Works of all unfaithful Persons before God Page 46 47. Edit in Octavo 1687. they be as the Course of a Horse that runneth out of the Way which takes Labour but to no purpose Thus far the Homily Hereby you may see how the Sentiments in that Age concerning Words before Faith differed from those which now obtain amongst us What they accounted sinful and dead is now esteemed Righteousness and Life A superficial Reformation of Manners passeth for Conversion and a Moral Heathen shall be caressed for a Serious Christian Whilst the poor Publican who discovers the Depravity of his Nature by the Enormity of his Actions is destined to an unpleasant Pilgrimage before it be allowed him to lay hold of a Gospel-Promise and to serve the Egyptian Task-masters some Years it may be before permitted to enquire after the Freedom of the Gospel And if the God of all Grace heals a Conscience wounded for Sin with greater Expedition than is by some allowed who are forwarder to lay Burthens on others Shoulders than to touch them with one of their Fingers the Cure immediately must be called into question because the prescribed Time was not observed in perfecting it and whilst God is owned to be a Free Agent they rob him of his Prerogative in confining him to Humane Methods and the Person on whom such an instantaneous Change is wrought must expect from them no better Treatment than the Blind Man in the Gospel did from the blinder Jews John 9. 2. Censider some of those Instances recorded in Scripture for our Learning wherein God has exemplified the Power of his Reigning Grace by making stout-hearted Rebels who are far from Righteousness submit to his Righteousness Zacheus Isa 46.12 a notorious Sinner Rom. 10.3 immediately becomes a joyful Receiver of Jesus Christ Luke 19. He that was Prince of Publicans is suddenly pronounced a Son of Abraham as Stella Tom. 2. p. 221. a Papist observes on the place Qui heri peccator fuit jam hodie possit divina benignitate justus effici He who was Yesterday a Sinner by Divine Bounty is to Day made Righteous