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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B20667	The case of the Jews is altered, and their synagogue shut to all evil-walkers, or, A vindication of the Jewes from the false imputations laid upon them in a scurrilous pamphlet intituled, The case of the Jews stated, or, The Jews synagogue opened. / by Joseph Copley ...	Copley, Joseph.	1656 (1656)	Wing C6084	3,883	8

THE CASE OF The JEWS is Altered AND Their Synagogue Shut To all Evil-WALKERS OR A VINDICATION OF THE JEWES From the false IMPUTATIONS laid upon them in a scurrilous PAMPHLET INTITULED The CASE of the JEWS Stated OR The JEWS SYNAGOGVE Opened By Joseph Copley Gent. LONDON printed for the AUTHOR 1656. The Case of the JEWS c. THere came lately to my view a Libel which did pennance in a sheet as I am informed its Author did once doubtless for some of his good qualities upon the pillory intituled The Case of the Jews stated or their Synagogues opened A man would admire to finde so much venome in the body of so little a Spider but what can be more poisonous than the blood of a red haired man This Scriblers pen was once filled with malice and slander as black as his ink yet God sends curse Cows short Horns and 't is in vain for such Wolves to bark against the Moon As this Fellows heart is filled with envy and malice so his noddle is as well gifted with a goodly talent of beastly ignorance which he betrayes at the first dash when he would needs have the Archi-Synagogues to be Levites and Prophets whereas the Levites are one certain Tribe and the Archi-Synagogue neither were alwayes chosen out of that Tribe nor constantly Prophets In the next place he picks out a ridiculous fable out of Matthew Paris which relates the crucifixion of some children by the Jews 't is a likely matter that the Jews should first circumcise a Child to make him a Jew and then murder him or that in such their enterprizes they should cause one to represent Pilate when none of them that I ever spake with believe there was any such person besides this Hebraeo-Mastix should if he would have had his story credited have bestowed some Hebrew name on his child rather than Jurnin We do not deny but some such things were father'd upon the Jews as also poisoning of Wells about the time they were expelled but who I beseech you were the actors of these crimes none but the Monks and Friers men who besides their practice of Necromancy and other unlawful Arts did frequently murder children in their Monasteries to keep their unclean conversation from the knowledge of the world they moved by envy at the prosperity of the Jews crucified Children and poisoned Wells that laying the blame upon the Jews they ●●ght provoke the hatred of the common people toward● them and also to have matter where-with●●●●r which to compl●in of them to the King that they might pr●●●●e from him their B●nishment for which they h d l●●g time before very earnestly though in vain solicited ●im as Mr. Daniel sheweth whose excellent pen hath set forth very much of the injurious dealing and cruelties used towards the Jews from the guilt of which I bes●●ch the Lord to absolve this Generation give us good hearts towards his poor afflicted people who are therefore dispersed amongst us that we may have occasion for the exercise of mercy and hospitality and because Almighty God will try whether we will like savage Canibals devour strangers or with good Abraham and Lot receive them kindly into our houses This fellow says moreover for though Iupiters brain could produce but one Minerva his whimsical noddle can hatch a thousand Chymaeraes of folly that the Jews were enjoyed by a Statute to wear a piece of woollen Cloath upon their brests that they might be thereby distinguish'd but he tells us not in what time this Statute was enacted so that we must let it remain Apocripha till we have leasure to search and then I doubt it will be canoniz'd nemine contra dicente amongst the rest of his lyes But that which I most blame in this Companion is that he goes about by a secret way to instruct sic sus Minervam docet the supreme Authority what is to be done for his presumption intends this Patch as a president for them and flatters himself that it may prove a Remora to their favourable proceedings in the Jewish affairs But admit the Jews were commanded to wear such a badge of distinction formerly in England as now they are at Rome caused to wear Hats of a different colour from others must the same measure be used towards these Jews in these times and under this most excellent Government must we imitate Papists in using strangers to whom we give harbor despitefully doth this man finde it in the Gospel that we must do good to those who persecute us and will he persecute those who do him no hurt is this to assert the Kingdom of Christ truely it is rather the mystery of iniquity and the voice of an Antichrist there is no reason for this pretence against it there is for should the Jews have Re-admittance here it would behove many of them and some very eminent persons who have been forc'd to dissemble their Religion among the Papists to keep themselves still in some sort secret which they cannot do if they may be known by their Garments lest the Jesuitical spies which are here should send intelligence of them beyond Sea and upon their account cause their Friends in Spain and Portugal and in some parts of Italy where the Inquisition is as in Millain to be called in question In the next place it would grieve one to see how the pitiful thing doth stretch his slender wits upon the tentor-tentor-books to muster up the Jews Ceremonies Prayers and Benedictions used in their Synagogues which he hath borrowed ou● of Purchases Pilgrimage or Rosse his View of Religions who took them upon trust themselves but if he had met with Leo Modena's Book of the Manners and Customes of the Jews translated by Mr. Edmund Chilmead he might have been better informed however we must take it at his hand as men buy wares at the third and fourth Mart with all the sophistications so that it may he said of him in respect of his Pamphlet as one said of Homer in regard of his Iliades And thus he lyes thus mingle false with true 'T is true that many of those Blessings and Ceremonies are indeed used by the Jews for which they are not to be blamed by him or any other but when he would perswade people by the opening and shutting of Heavens Gates that the Jews believe God hath need of rest or sleep or shunneth importunities risum teneatis amici And since I read the story of his Cock I profess I never saw a Cock but I thought of him for a Coxcomb when he comes to the privy he paddles to the very throat in stinking lyes and there we will leave him to play the Gold-finder for 't is a place much fitter for him than the Pulpit onely we must take some notice of his malicious assertion That the Jews constantly curse the Christians in their Assemblies cujus contrarium verum est for in their dayly prayers they beseech God for the peace of those Nations among whom