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A89453	The hope of Israel: written by Menasseh ben Israel, a Hebrew divine, and philosopher. Newly extant, and printed in Amsterdam, and dedicated by the author to the High Court, the Parliament of England, and to the Councell of State. Translated into English, and published by authority. In this treatise is shewed the place wherein the ten tribes at this present are, proved partly by the strange relation of one Anthony Montezinus, a Jew, of what befell him as he travelled over the Mountaines Cordillære, with divers other particulars about the restoration of the Jewes, and the time when.; Miḳṿeh Yiśraʼel. English	Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657.; Wall, Moses.	1650 (1650)	Wing M375; Thomason E1350_3; ESTC R18014	43,634	105

he did not truly perform that first agreement though confirmed by Letters Patents who because he could not digest the disgrace of bowing to his Enemy he prepared a new Army and went against them but a second time he being entrapped by the badnesse of the countrey he lost his life and many with him in a gulf which the Nephthalites had prepared for him having dressed it over with reeds and some earth thrown a top they having left in the middle some high grounds and trees where their Souts were that their stratageme might not be found and that the Persians might more confidently attempt the ditch Thus a rash King paid for his perfidy he excelling more in daring then in counsell as Agathias saith The Patent by which peace had been agreed was hung upon a spear and might be seen of him at distance that he might remember his oath repent and disist from his enterprise but he cared little for that But when by his unexpected fall he saw he should die it is said that he pulled off from his right ear a pearl of huge bignesse and whitenesse and lest any after him should finde it more likely that his carps should not be known he threw it a great way off The same Author asks who those Nephthalites were and by many arguments he proves that they are the relicks of the Jews saith he I do wholly think that they are the relicks of the Jews of the tribe of Nephtali whom Triglath Pilesser the Assirian carried into those places in 2 King 15.29 For 1. The name in the best copies of Agathias which Lewenclavius hath mended is the same fully in other books it wants nothing but an b now it is searce possible that in a word of many syllables that should fall out by chance 2. Their countenance discovers it for as Procopious J C saith they are not black or foule in their countenance as the Huns are among whom they live but the onely white men of that countrey that it may evidently appear that they came from some other place thither 3. Their manners agree for the same Author saith that they are not Nomades as the Huns who are unconstant in their dwelling and eat up one place after another but they inhabit one certain place Beside they observe Law and equity as the Romanes and have pollicy being well governed by their Prince both which is rare among their neighbour Nations Also they do not lay abroad their dead as the Barbarians do but they desently cover them with earth Lastly their jornals do testifie that many Jews live there especially in the mountains who have searched to the mid-land countreys of East-Asia R. Benjamin f. 23. From thence the coast of Persia is 28 daies journey to the mountains Nisebor which are neer the river Gozan The Isralites which come from thence into Persia say that there in the Cities of Nisebor are 4. Tribes so Dan Zabulon Aser Naphtali of the first captivity which Shalmaneser the Assyrian carried thither as in 2 King 17.6 he brought them to Habor and Halab the river Gozan and the mountains of Media The compasse of that countrey is 20. daies j●urney and they possesse Cities and Castles upon the mountains by one side of which runs the river Gozan neither are they subject to the Nations but have a Governor over them by name R. Joseph Amarkela a Levite and there are among them some who study wisdom They sowe and reap yea they ●rage war to the Countrey of Cuth In the same place O●telius addes in the countrey Tabor or Tibur which Solinus commends in c. 49. they dwell a people who though they have lost the holy writings they obey one King who came into France in Ann. 1530. and spoke with Francis the first was burnt at Mantua by the command of the Emperour Charles the fifth because that he did privately reach Judaism to Christian Princes and to the Emperour himself Boterus saith the same in his relations of the farthest part of Tartary But both these were deceived for Rabbinus Jesephus Cohon a man worthy to be believed relates this more truly in his Chronology saying that the Jew who came out of that countrey was the brother of the King of the Israelites was called David the Reubenite and having seen India in his passage he came to Portugal where he converted the Kings Secretary to Judaism who fled from thence with him taking the name of Selomoh Molho he in short time was so well versed in the Law yea in the Cabala it self that he made all Italy admire him The Secretary together with the Rendenite endevoured to draw the Pope Charles the fifth and Francis the first to Judaism Selomoh Molho was taken at Mantua and burnt alive in the year 1540. He yet was offered his life if he would turn Christian The Reubenite was by Charles the fifth carried prisoner into Spain where he shortly after died Abraham Frisol Orhotolam remembers the Reubenite saying 45. years agone David Reubenita a Prince of the Israelites came from Tabor a Province of Tartary into Europe who said that two Tribes are there and other Tribes a little farther under their Kings and Princes and also an unspeakable number of people Perhaps the Province Tabor is the same that Habor which is mentioned in ● King 17.6 that the ten Tribes were brough●● by Salmaneser to Habor and Halah now the Hebrew letters h and t are neer in fashion Eldad Danita of the Tribe of Dan came out of those Countreys 500. years agon a letter from whom which we call Sephar Eldod a-Dani is kept to this day and being examined by the Rabbins was found an approved man The learned Rabbi David Kimhi who lived 450. years since in etymol. suo in the word Segiah he saith Rabbi Jonah writes of the name of Rabbi Juda Aben Karis that he heard Eldad Danita say c. And so what I said is true as appears by the testimonies produced SECT XVIII PArt of the ten Tribes also live in Ethiopia in the Habyssin Kingdom as divers Habissins reported at Rome Boterus in his relations speaks the same thing that two potent Nations do live neer Nilus and that one of them is that of the Israelites who are governed by a mighty King A Cosmographer who hath added notes to Ptolomyes tables saith thus in his table of New Africa that part of new Africk was unknown of old the head of Nilus not being known which is in the mountains of the Moon as the Ancients call them where there dwels a great number of Israelites paying tribute to Prester John Rabbi Abraham Frisol in the book already quoted saith that in his time some who had been in those Countreys reported the same to Hercules the Duke of Ferraria And without question from hence the Habyssins learned circumcision the observation of the Sabbath and many more Jewish rites Of these Isaiah seems to speak in Isa 18.1 2. Wo to the land which under the shadow of