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A87478	The resurrection of dead bones, or, The conversion of the Jewes. In a treatise, wherein are clearly demonstrated the places where, and manner how the ten supposed lost Tribes of Israel do at this day subsist. With a description of the future glorious estate of the Twelve, at the incomparable union of Judah and Ephraim; which must shortly be in reference to its compleating the whole mysterie of mans redemption, and real establishing of the kingdom of Jesus Christ, after the Jews conversion. / Written by J.J. Philo-Judæus.	J. J.	1655 (1655)	Wing J19; Thomason E1501_1; ESTC R208651	64,571	139

the Jews in respect of their cruelty unto Christ and only in an affectionate way about pa. 73. That notwithstanding all those curses with which he had already out of the word of God threatned them yet saith he Tanquam talis est calamitosa desolatio in domo Judaica Dei nos Christiani expectamus eorum conversionem certam acceptionem For the present saith he there is great desolation made amongst Gods antient holy people so that most men do for their blind and ignorant but horrid offence committed against the Son of the everliving God despitefully handle them yet saith he we Christians do believe that they shall be converted and received again into the favor of God in Christ and therefore do we longingly expect and wait for it I might here shew the great difference between the Christ-like and heavenly affections of the Primitive Fathers and the cold world-like affections of the men of our dayes But that shall be brought in its proper place 3. Effrem Syrus whom Jerom doth so much extoll in his Catalogue of the Fathers for so merciful a man to all such as he did not see in as prosperous a condition as himself so that Jerom terms him in one place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a man full of Divine actions Effrem the Divine writing on the small continuance of the persecution in comparison of that everlasting crown of joy which all Gods Saints and servants should possess after this miserable and frail life did in one of his Epistles to the Christians in Phaenicia entreat them not like others of the world but according to their profession to use all possible means to relieve and succour the outcasts of Israel saying that notwithstanding their hardness of heart 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they have the same hope as we have although for the present they possess not the same Christian faith for how can they believe in him of whom they have not heard with such opened ears and hearts as the Lord ere it be long will give unto them Ambrose saith Quid pet is O Judaee Deus tribuet tibi panem aeternam qui dat omnibus illum rogantibus quotidie dat semper dat O Jew saith he what is it thou wouldst beg of God do but ask him and he will give thee bread everlasting who giveth daily and always giveth Observe now when this Father had reckoned up those Nations which had the least hope in or knowledge of God then he bringeth in the Jews at the latter end of the barbarous Nations and they lived not neither do live without God yet he thought and that judiciously how that they were furthest off Christ because of the full calling of the Gentiles to be first accomplished and therefore saith Would the forsaken Jew but beg of God and the Lord would give unto him of that bread of life which whosoever eats of shall never hunger more Indeed this Father comes far short of Effrem in his charity towards Israel and writes as if so be the Jews had the least reason of all Nations to expect any favor from the hands of the merciful God Jerom saith in his book de Temp. Quod nec Judaei nec Christiani repentè benefaciunt nec convertuntur ideo Judaei nondum Christiani sunt in nomine vero in re ipsa erunt That is how neither Jew nor Christian onely by his profession are suddenly for the most made new creaturesi and therefore because the Jews as yet have not attained the names of Christians yet let no man doubt but that they will be converted and brought back into that true and good old way in the which Enoch Shem Noah Abraham Isaac Jacob Moses and Job with the rest of the Patriarchs walked even according to the mind of God who though they lived so long before Christ came in the flesh yet by Faith they saw his day and were glad even so although Israel will not see Christ in the flesh being he hath already offered up himself upon Cross one Sacrifice to serve for ever yet as sure as the Lord liveth who did once in their fathers remembrance cause the Sun to stand still over Gibeon and the Moon over Aialon which unto this day is a matter of great experience amongst the Jews I say so sure will the Lord perswade them nay he will constrain them to believe that he which for the present they call Ben-Ioseph was that true Emmanuel Ben-David who came and went up and down in the world doing good being meek and lowly riding on an Asse through the streets of their old City Ierusalem These things they do now deny but ere long they shall believe with joy unexpressible and cry Hosanna to the Son of David as if he now were riding before them bearing palms in their hands or rather grace in their hearts saying with the Samaritans We have not only heard by the report and sound of the Gentile Christians but now our own eyes have beheld the salvation of our God And as we may find at this day written in great letters at Rome one of the notable statutes of Lu. Aemilius how that Omnes Dii peregrini è civitate ejiciantur so at this great restauration they will throw away and detest not only out of their present habitations but also out of their hearts all strange and contrary opinions which for the present they do after various manners possess As in Persia they rely for the most part upon the belief and religion of the Bramin Merchants and so in the East-Indies but here in Europe they do give far more earnest heed unto their present book which they call the Gemara in which are written those secreta ac fines temporum spoken of in the book of Esdras whom they now have in special request above others of the Prophets A name and matter as they believe which doth surpass their old Talmud and yet they say at the presence of their King it shall vanish and decay expecting a third edition which will be delivered unto them by the hands of Elias Alluding as I suppose unto that third part which the Lord saith he will bring through the fire pure and burnisht without the least dross amongst them So that in our dayes to shew and testifie how that they are of those true Jews indeed and not of the sect spoken of in the Revelations as we read in the holy oracles viz. in Haggai that when such as had formerly seen the glory of the first Temple did now behold the glory of the second they wept and was it not because God had ecclipsed their old splendor seeing they would not hearken unto the word of his power they would none of his counsel but despised all his reproof by striving to put the evll day far from them I would that English-men had but such Jewish eyes to perceive and hearts to understand how far short we come of our former nick-named Puritanical glory notwithstanding all our talk of so

practice and lives without God in the world if knowing of God as he pretends yet notwithstanding does not study to glorifie him as God but in his works does deny him But in Zech. 12.10 In that day I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Ierusalem the spirit of prayer and supplication and they shall look on him whom they have pierced and mourn over him c. In that day that is when Ierusalem shall be a cup of trembling to all the Nations round about and shall be like a torch of fire in a sheaf Now it is well known unto most men who are at all skilfull in the Scriptures that they never were as yet a terror unto any people since they were led away captive by Nebuzaradan into Chaldaea But ever since that time they have been tributaries unto one or other or else by the good providence of God it may be they have had rest for a time as they have in some places at this day But it was and is an unquiet and doubtful rest and at this time they are in bondage with their children under people and nations which neither they nor their fathers have known and therefore this time is still for to come But secondly God will pour out upon them the spirit of prayer and this will be as miraculous in their eyes as it was amongst those in the Acts which had not so much as heard of the Holy Ghost but yet it shall be so powerfull a spirit that when the Lord hath breathed it on their souls it will make all rough places plain and the parched ground shall then bring forth pleasant fruit Indeed so long as the heart is rocky and stubborn the aquaduct or conduit-pipe thereof will be stopped whereby grace should be conveighed to the souls of poor sinners but when the word of the Lord which is sharper then a two-edged sword shall beat upon this same that is harder then the neather milstone it doth presently change its nature milstone it doth presently change its nature even contrary to nature like unto Moses his causing of water to proceed out of the barren rock This is part of those effects which the terrible voice of a holy God produceth in an unholy people so as to think the time past of formality too too much for to spend so vainly And now all old things will be done away and all things will become new in their hearts and this will be the initial of the Hebrews regeneration I am perswaded that those which live to see these days of Israels glorious defence will cry out and that with the same amazement as the Jewes said of Paul Was not this he so Were not these they which did so hate Christ and now they do preach Christ and as the primitive Christians were exceeding joy-full to hear that the Gentiles had received the Gospel and were baptized even so I doubt not but all good Christians will rejoice to hear and to see what great salvation Israel hath obtained But thirdly another sweet effect of this good spirit of God is by causing them to look upon him whom they and we have pierced And though they shall do this with an eye of faith yet intimating as if they now beheld their King and their daily expected Jesus suspending on the Cross and their fathers nailing of him and themselves piercing and thrusting his sides through with the spears of sin And here is faith going out from them before repentance for they are perswaded and doe believe that which they now deny and then they begin to look up Christward with teares in their eyes resipiscentiam agentes and mourn over him with a bitter weeping and mourning like unto the mourning of Hadradrimmon every family apart It will be more then a tear-shedding lamentation yea rather it will be a heart-affecting and an-inexpressible sorrow too unconceivable for any but those who have tasted how gracious the Lord is It will be as I conceive that same sorrow which the holy Apostle deemed unlawful to be repented of because it is only a quick passage out of a barren Kedar into a fruitful Canaan No man can come to the Manziel of Goa before he pass the dangerous shoals of Quiloa And then they shall turn to the Lord with their whole heart and then God will make good that promise I will and you shall and none shall then dare to disquiet Israel any more But the true worship of God in Christ will be established amongst them and then they shall be called the faithful and chosen people the true worshippers of the Father in spirit and in truth And in Jer. 31. what sweet expressions do we find concerning their future estate as in the 9 verse saith the Lord With weeping and with supplications will I lead them in the wilderness God did not thus lead them nay they were then for the most part so far from entreating the Lord for any mercy as that they did demand for this thing and that vanity and that in a murmuring manner so that the Lord did make a great slaughter amongst them for their many prevarications wherewith they provok'd the eys of his jealosie to anger against them And the Lord promiseth further that he will cause them to walk in a streight way wherein they shall not stumble Indeed formerly so long as they did or as any man doth walk loftily and proudly they were and any man is more apt to fall and stumble then he which with the Publican useth to look low and carry his heart humble before the Lord but it shall be otherwise Now God having promised to be their guide and that in a streight way surely there needs not the least distrust for Israel to have concerning their Elohim and Adonai and this is great matter of hope and comfort to Israel that when as in the dayes of old God calling them the fewest in number amongst all the Nations did yet love them above all Nations with a peculiar distinct love So though they themselves doe at this present day conceive that there is no people so scarce the Aramaspi except yet God doth still own them and doth acknowledge Ephraim to be his first-born and therefore he promiseth to be a Father to him But 2. I shall clear it a little by shewing you the consent of the Fathers in believing of this truth And first Augustine writeth Quomodo adhuc mors christi apud Judaeos maledicta est sed proculdubio Deus illuminabit oculos eorum salvos fierent in die salutis That is that although the death of Christ unto this day is held accursed amongst the Jews yet doubtless in the fulness of time God will open their eyes and bring them home to himself even then when he shall take away their sins and put his law in their inward parts then and not till then is their hour of salvation 2. John Chrysostome saith in his book which he wrote against