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A39795	Israel redux, or, The restauration of Israel, exhibited in two short treatises the first contains an essay upon some probable grounds, that the present Tartars near the Caspian Sea, are the posterity of the ten tribes of Israel / by Giles Fletcher ; the second, a dissertation concerning their ancient and successive state, with some Scripture evidences of their future conversion, and establishment in their own land / by S.L.	Fletcher, Giles, 1549?-1611. Tartars, or, Ten tribes.; Lee, Samuel, 1625-1691.	1677 (1677)	Wing F1333; Wing L898; ESTC R2002	48,660	138

the Jews wherein he exhorts them to obey the Romans and expostulates thus What do you stretch your hopes beyond the River Euphrates Do any of you think that your fellow Tribes will come to your aid out of Adiabene Besides neither will they upon so unreasonable account engage themselves in this so great a war neither if they would assent to so evil an enterprise will the Parthian permit it c. Whence we learn that in the account of Josephus in an Oration to the Jews themselves the Israelites or 10 Tribes were still resident in Adiabene the Country so called beyond Mesopotamia from the River Ahava or Adiaba or Lycus as we have before recited again in his book of Antiquities which he testifies to have written in the 13th year of Domitian and the 56th of his own age reciting the return of Esdras he asserts that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those of the same Nation in Media having received a Copy of the Letter of the King of Persia were overjoyed and that many of them came to Babylon with a desire to return to Jerusalem and then adds further 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But the whole body of the People remained still in that Country that is of Media so that onely 2 Tribes residing in Asia and Europe are obedient to the Romans But the ten Tribes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they are yet still beyond Euphrates many ten thousands not to be reckoned or their numbers to be known which concords with the Prophecy of Ezechiel that there are some of Israel mixt with Judah but all the House of Israel that is far the greater part and therefore more genuinely to be called the House of Israel were the Companions of Ephraim and both are to be united into one body in the latter day and brought into their own Land and become one Kingdome under David the second the Messiah and anointed Prince of the Covenant for ever But as to the testimony of Josephus what can be more plainly exprest then that the ten Tribes were yet still in the Land of Media under the Parthian Princes and that even to innmerable multitudes in his days and this by the King of the Jews in the hearing both of Jews and Romans and though some of them had formerly come up with Judah yet the main body of the ten Tribes remained still to that day in their old habitations To proceed the Author of the Book of Esdras writes a Story of the travel of the 10 Tribes into Regions far distant from their first settlement under the name of Arsareth let the merit of that Story be what it will I improve it for no other scope then a testimony among the Jews that their fellow Tribes were then in his days in a state of irreduction The Author of that Tract lived and wrote about the year of our Lord 100 and about 30 years after the ruine of Jerusalem as the Learned Dr. John Rainolds hath exhibited in his prelections upon the Apochryphal Books The next testimony shall be out of Origen who speaking of Israel distinct from Judah that he sinned against God under Jeroboam so greatly that he was delivered into the hands of Assyria 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Scripture saith to this very day wherein he seems to continue that Scripture expression to his own time there being no token or tidings of their return Now Origen dyed in the year of our Lord 254. Let the good Anchorite at Bethtem succeed who in his Comment upon Joel on these words of the holy Prophet Chap. 3. 6. The Children of Judah and Jerusalem c. ye have sold to the Graecians Thus Jerome Filii Juda Jerusalem néquaquam Israel decem tribuum quae usque hodie in Medorum Vrbibus Montibus habitant The ten Tribes dwell in the Cities and Mountains of Media to this very day And treating again about the same Tribes in his notes upon Hoseah hath these words usque hodie Persarum regibus serviunt nunquam est earum soluta Captivitatis They serve the Persian Princes to this very day and their Captivity hath never yet bin released Now Jerome dyed in the year of our Lord 421. With this age likewise concurs Sulpitius Soverns who wrote 45 years after the Consulship of Arbitio and Lollianus A. C. 355. and that fell in with the year 400. These are his words decem vero i. e. tribus per Parthos Medos Indos atque Aeihiopas dispersae nunquam in solum patrium sunt regressae bodieque barbararum gentium imperiis continentur But the ten Tribes dispersed among the Parthians Medes Indians and Aethiopians never returned to their ancient inheritance but are subject to the Seepter of Barbarous Princes This Author flourished about the year of our Lord 420 as Trithemius and Bellarmine witness in their Tracts of Ecclesiastical writers I might insert a story out of Orosius l. 3. c. 7. about the Jews in Hircania and Eusebius Chron. p. 136. but I shall not inlarge The next witness may be taken from Benjamin the Jew of Tudela in Spain who travelled and wrote under the Pontificate of Alexander the third and finisht his ramblings A. 1173. as L'Empereur observes in his notes upon that itinerary he acquaints us that in the City of Samarcand the Seat of Tamerlane that great Tartarian Conqueror there were near 50000 Israelites under the Presidency of Rabbi Obadiah and that in the Mountains and Cities of Nisbor there be 4 Tribes of Israel resident sc of Dan Zabulon Asher and Napthali perhaps the Ephthalitae of Theophanes p. 79. and the Euthalitae of Procopius p. 67. in Photius his Bibliotheca which Salmanasser had carried Captive Now although several passages in that Treatise seem incongruous and beyond credit yer so far he may be admitted as to joyn issue with the harmonious Opinion still current among the Jews that their Brethren of Israel or ten Tribes still remain in the North and North-East parts of Persia Mathew Paris may follow as a further witness about the Jews in his time attempting to convey Armes in Barrels to the Tartars for their aid against the Christians in the East believing that the Commons of Tartary were of the Race of those Israelites whom Alexander of old had shut within the Caspian Mountains The Story is too long for recital which he mentions in the year 1241. and is rehearsed onely to our purpose that it was then a current Opinion that the Tartars and Cumans near the Castle Cumania in the Straights of Caucasus Plin. l. 6. c. 11. were of the Posterity of Israel and as yet in his time in their state of dispersion by the Caspian Sea To this purpose I would not let slip what I met with in Bradwardin that famous Champion of free grace who treating about Miracles writes from the Scholastical History of Petrus Comestor as I suppose that when Alexander the

in Stephanus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and likely ist he same with the Candis in Ptolomy upon the River Cyrus which Amimus affirms to have its name from Cyrus the Great the old name being abolisht which with other Cities he places in terris Syromedorum in the Country of the Syrians of Media This may insinnuate that the estimated Fable of Ezra concerning the Israelites travelling from their first seat to some remoter places as Arsareth is nothing but a small remove to some more distant Cities North of Armenia and near the Caspian Sea where Ptolomy places the City Arsarata in Lat. 43. 30. on the River Araxis and possibly is the ancient name of the Modern City Arzerum or near it mentioned by Golius out of Abulfeda and very likely is no other then Ariarsathea in the Authentical Collations From all the foresaid disquisition we may collect 1. That I hope with submission to the Learned that the true place is discovered where these 10 Tribes were first seated and from whence they did further Colonize and spread and scatter about in various dispersions by the Caspian Sea and at length grew so numerous that part of the Regions of Media received the denomination of Syro-Media partly from the Tribes of Israel and partly from the Syrians of Damascus who were captivated into the Country of Kir not Cyrene as some have imagined but by the banks of the River Cyrus To confirm this assertion Ptolomy that great Astronomer and Geographer of Pelusium in Aegypt says that this Syro-Media did extend it self 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 on the South of Media all along the Borders of Persia Nay Amimanus expresly determines Ecbatana the true Achmetha in Ezra in the very Country of the Syro-Medians 2. We may infer that these ten Tribes were at first placed in the Northern Frontires of the Assyrian Empire towards part of Armenia and Media which were then under the Kings of the Medes ever since the starting up of that Kingdom at the fall of Sardanapalus and the rising of Arbaces But let thus much serve in answer to the first Query whither the 10 Tribes were carried The 2d Question moved was where these ten Tribes may probably yet seem to reside at this day In answer to this Query I shall endeavour to shew from their first deportation by a chain or link of times from age to age how we may discern as by a lamp of successive Writers where to scituate their present residence As to the first place of their fixation by the Conquering Assyrian where should they be found but where God himself says they were so far forth as we have light from the Holy Scriptures of truth But the Sacred Scripture directly asserts that at the time of the penning of that portion in the book of Kings that they were in those Cities of the Medes to this day and that the Samaritans were placed in theit room to this day where also mention is made of their continuation to the 4th Generation The Author also of the book of Chronicles declares the Israelites to reside in those seats of their Captivity to the day of his writing Now whoever wrote that book or annexed the additions to it for it seems to be composed by parcels at the dictate of the Spirit of God plainly recites the tenth Generation after the time of the Captivity of Judah and yet had asserted the duration of Israel in the state of Captivity so that they returned not when Judah came back again but were still in their captivated station at the additionals to that book yea even to the tenth Generation The Series whereof stands thus Zorobabel 1 Hananiah v. 21. 2 Pelathiah and Jesaiah 3 Rephaiah v. 21. 4 Arnan 5 Obadiah 6 Shecaniah 7 Shemajah 8 Neariah 9 Elioenaj 10 Hodajah c. v. 25. The Septuagint the vulgar translation the Syriak and Arabick v. 21 read Et filius ejus and his Son as if they had found it in the Hebrew text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So that if we place Zorobabel at the building of the 2d Temple according to the learned Vsher A. M. 3485. and give to each Generation but 30 year apeice that is in the whole 300 and add them to the year 3485 they produce the year of the world 3785. Untill which time at the least by the testimony of Scripture the Israelites were still in a state of Captivity and dispersion Though Lavater be of Opinion that these 10 Generations contain the progression of a linage to the very time of our blessed Lords Incarnation which at present I shall leave in bivio and undiscussed But I may not pass over an Objection made to that expression there to this day which arises from the same phrase applied to the Ark although it were taken away at the Captivity of Judah To which it may be answered that the text about the Ark must be considered with analogy to other places Now the History of the Kings and Chronicles does by clear consequence assert the Ark to be carried away in that it affirms that all the Vessels of the House of God great and small and the Treasures of the House of God were taken away and that all the Vessels of Gold in the Temple which Solomon had made called the goodly Vessels of the House of the Lord were carried away together with Jeconiah at his Captivity wherefore Lavater sticks not to expound those general and comprehensive expressions of the Ark Tables and Candlesticks as well as of all the inferiour Vtensils and implements So that though the Ark may be said to have bin in the Temple to the day when the former part of that book was written yet the last Chapter determines its removal among the other costly and glorious Ornaments of the first Temple But as to the ten Tribes the sacred Author of that History having declared them to have continued in Media at the time of his writing of that Chapter neither Ezra or whoever might finish up that Chronicle does in least measure intimate the alteration of their estates but leaves them there without any notice of their reversion but having asserted them to be carried thither and to have persisted in their tragical state to the day of the exaration or penning of those books even to the tenth Generation which whether it concern a Genealogie of persons reaching to the Incarnation of our Lord though we cannot certainly determine yet however ever for some hundreds of years after their deportacion In the next place we read of their remaining still in Captivity in the days of Josephus who wrote under the Reign of Vespasian and his testimony if worthy of any credit ought to pass for currant as to matters of his own Nation Historically considered in his own time In his books then of the Wars of the Jews which were written before his antiquities we read a speech made by King Agrippa to