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A42201	Hugo Grotius Against paganism, Judaism, Mahumetism translated by C.B.; De veritate religionis Christianae. English. Selections. 1676	Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.; Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.	1676 (1676)	Wing G2082; ESTC R33798	40,194	106

speak unto them by his f Jerem. 30. Ezech. 36. Prophets and comfort them by hope of a return notifying the very g Jer. 25.15 time thereof But now since they have been once cast out of their Country they remain exiled condemned no Prophet comes unto them no signification of any future return Their Masters as possessed with a Spirit of giddiness are fallen to shameful Fables and ridiculous opinions wherewith the Talmud Books are replenisht Which yet they are so bold as to stile the Law and to compare with or prefer before the Writings of Moses As for that which is read there of Gods weeping because he sussered the City to be overthrown of his daily diligence of reading the Law of Behemoth and Leviathan and many other h Quorum multa transcripsit Christianus Gerson in suo ad Judaeos libro things they are so absurd that I am loth to repeat them Howbeit in all this time the Jews have neither departed to the Worship of false Gods as of old not do they pollute themselves with Murders nor are they accused of Adulteries But they labor to appease God both by prayers and by Fastings and are not heard Which things being so one of these two Conclusions will certainly follow either that the Covenant Mosaical is wholly abrogated or that the whole Nation of the Jews is Guilty of some great sin abiding so many Ages Which sin what it is let themselves pronounce or if they cannot let them believe us it is that sin of rejecting the Messias who came unto his people before these calamities began to fall upon them XVII Jesus proved to be the Messias by the Prophecies What we have alledged serves to shew that the Messias so many ages agon is come We are next to prove he is no other but Jesus For whosoever else assumed this litle or had it given them have left no Sect in which that opinion might persevere None do now profess themselves the sectators neither of a Qui 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Justino Herod nor of Judas Gaulonites no nor of Barchocheb who took the name of Messias in Adrians time and deceived some men b As Rabbi Akiba lib. Zemach David very learned But the followers of Jesus ever since he was on earth have been and are unto this day very many not in one Region but all the World over I could here bring many other things of old predicted or credited of the Messias which we believe came to pass in Jesus when of others they are not so much as assevered Namely that he was of Davids c Ps 89.4 Esa 4 2. Mat. 1.1 race that he was born of d Esa 7.14 Mat. 1.18 a Virgin the Husband of the Virgin being admonished of it from Heaven e Mat. 1.20 who would not have kept her otherwise with Child that he was born at f Mich. 5 2. Mat. 2.2 Bethlechem that he began his preaching in g Esa 4.1 Mat. 4 12. Galilee that he healed all manner of Diseases h Esa 53.5 Mat. 11.5 Add this that he raised the dead which R. Ben. Gerson puts among the chief make of the Messiah made the blind to see and the lame to walk But I am content with onething the effect whereof endureth to this day It is as clear as the Sun from the Prophecies of i Ps 2.6 David k Esa 2.2 Esay l Zach. 8.20 Zachary m Hos 2.24 Hose that the n Esa 2.18 Messias should be the Master not only of the Jews but of other Nations that he should overturn the worships of false Gods and bring a huge multitude of aliens and strangers to the service of the only true God Before the coming of Jesus almost all the World was overspread with false Religions and after by little and little they began to vanish and not single persons alone but Kings and Nations were converted to the One Gods Worship This is to be ascribed not to the Jewish Rabbins but to the Disciples of Jesus and their Successors So were they made the o Hose 2.24 people of God who before were not and it was fulfilled which had been foretold by Jacob Gen. 49. p Vide pulchrè dicta apud Chrysoft Serm. Christum esse deum That before the civil power should be wholly taken away from the posterity of Judah Shilo whom the Chaldee and other interpreters expound the Messiah should come and to him also other q Vide Esa 11.10 Nations should submit themselves XVIII Objection that some things are not fulfilled answered Here the Jews are wont to oppose that some things are predicted of the Messias times which are not seen fulfilled But the things which they alledge are obscure or of doubtful signification for which we ought not to relinquish those which are manifest Such as are the Holiness of Christs precepts the excellency of reward clearness of the promise Whereunto miracles being added there is nothing wanting that may move us to embrace his Doctrine To the right understanding of Prophecies which are called by the name of a sealed Book a Esa 29.11 Dan. 12.4.9 Vide Chrysost Serm. 2. Cur obscurum sit V. T. oft are needful certain helps of God which are justly withdrawn from them that are negligent of plain Revelations Now the places they object they know are variously expounded and who soever w●ll compare the old interpreters living under the Babylon Captivity or about the time of Jesus with the Interpreters that wrote after the Christian name was odious to the Jews shall find new expositions invented studio partium when formerly other had been received agreeing well with the sense of Christians They are not ignorant many places in Holy Scripture are to be understood not by the propriety of words but b Quomodo Maimon in lib. I. ad locum Esaiae II 6. de Messiae temporibus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vult intelligi figuratively As when God is said to have c Vide Maimon duct dub 1.10 and 11 29. descended when d Jerem. 9.12 mouth e Ps 31.3 ears f Ps 34.16 eyes g Ps 18.9 nostrils are attributed to him And why may not we after this manner expound many things spoken of Messias times As that the Wolf shall dwell with the h Esa 11.6 Lamb the Leopard with the Kid the Lyon with the Calf that the Infant shall play with the Snake that the Mountain of God shall rise i Esa 2.2 above other Mountains and Aliens shall come thither to offer Sacrifice Some promises there are which by the antecedent or consequent words or by the very meaning of the place contain in them a tacite condition So many things were promised the Hebrews on condition they would receive the Messias sent unto them and obey him Which promises if they be not performed they must lay the fault upon themselves Some things also definitely and without condition promised if

1. of Esay God saith he loaths the new Moons and Feast days they are a burden to him and he cannot abide them Touching the Sabbath particularly 't is objected That the precept is universal and perpetual as being given not to one people but in the beginning of the World to Adam the Parent of all I answer the most Learned of the Hebrews assenting The Command of the Sabbath was twofold the Command of remembring it Exod. 20.8 and the Command of observing it Exod. 31.13 The precept of remembring is fulfilled by a Religious memory of the Creation the precept of observing is placed in the exact abstinence from every other work That first Command was given in the beginning and without doubt the Pious Men a From whom also to the Grecians some vencration of the seventh day was derived Clemens before the Law obeyed it Enoch Noah Abraham Isaac Jacob of which last although we read many peregrinations yet no where find we that they rested or intermitted any journey b In this sense Justin and Tert. deny the Pious men of those times to have sabbatized for the Sabbath day which after the going forth out of Egypt you shall meet with always For after that the people being brought out of Egypt and having happily passed over the Red Sea the first day of safety kept a Sabbath and therein Sang an Epinicion since that time that exact rest of the Sabbath was Commanded whereof the fist mention is in the gathering of Manna Exod. 35.2 and Levit. 23.3 And in this sense the cause of the Law of the Sabbath is rendred the deliverance out of Egypt Deut. 5.21 and withal by this Law provision is made for Servants against their Masters hardness indulging them no respiration from their labors as appears in the places cited True it is that the strangers also were obliged by this Law the reason was th t the face of the Commonwealth while they rested together might be but one But that this Law of exact rest was not imposed upon other Nations appears hence because in sundry places as Exod. 31.13.16 't is called a sign and a special Covenant between God and Israel Now that things ordained in memory of the deliverance out of Egypt were not such as never to cease we have shewed afore from the promise of much greater mercies Besides if the Law requiring rest on the Sabbath had been made in the beginning and in that sense as never to be cancell'd certainly that Law in the conflict with other Laws would have prevailed Which now is otherwise For 't is evident that Infants are lawfully Circumcised c Proverb Heb. Circumcisio pellit Sabbatum Vide Jo. 7.22 on the Sabbath day as also Sacrifices while the Temple stood were slain d Num. 28.9 as well upon the Sabbath as other days The Hebrew Masters themselves do shew the mutability of this Law when they say that at the Command of a Prophet work may rightly be done on the Sabbath which they prove by the example of Joricho taken on the Sabbath day at the Command of Joshua And some of them well assert that in the times of the Messiah the difference of day shall be no more alledging the place of Esay c. 66.23 Where it is Prophecied that the Worship of God shall be continued from Sabbath to Sabbath and from one new Moon unto another XI Of outward circumcision Come we to Circumcision which is no doubt ancienter than Moses being enjoyned to Abraham and to his prosterity But this very precept was an inchoation of the Covenant published by Moses For so we read God said to Abraham Gen. c. 17. I will give unto thee and to thy Seed the Land wherein thou hast been a stranger even the Land of Canaan for an everlasting possession Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore thou and thy Seed for ever This is my Covenant between me and you and your Seed that every Male be Circumcissed But we have understood above that into the place of this Covenant should succeed a new one and this common to all Nations for which reason that necessity of a distinguishing mark must also cease Moreover this is manifest that in the precept of Circumcision is contained a certain mystical and more excellent signification which the Prophets do declare when they command the Heart a Jerem. 4.4 to be Circumcised to which all the precepts of Jesus do pertain and therefore the promises added to Circumcision must likewise be referred to some greater thing Namely that promi●e of an earthly possession to the Revelation of a possession b Heb. 4. truly Eternal which was never more clearly opened then by Jesus and that of making Abraham a Father of many c Gen. 17.5 Rom. 4.11 Nations to that time wherein not some few but innumerable people dispersed all the World over should imitate that so memorable Faith of Abraham and verily this came to pass not otherwise but by the Gospel Now it is nothing marvelous that the shadows of a designed work should vanish when the work is finished But that Grace is not tied to this d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ait justious in Colloq sign you may learn hence because not the more antient only but Abraham himself as yet uncircumcised pleased God and in all the time of Travelling through the desarts of Arabia Circumcision was e Jos 5.4 omitted by the Hebrews God never expostulating with them for that omission XII The Apostles toleration of Jewish rites Certainly the Hebrews had cause to render great thanks to Jesus and his Apostles that they were by him delivered from that heavy burden of Ceremonies and were assured of their liberty by gifts and miracles not inferior a They were greater as appeared in raising the dead to Moses And yet those first publishers of our Doctrine did not exact of them so much as this that they should acknowledge their own felicity but easily suffered them would they receive the precepts of Jesus full of nothing but goodness in things indifferent to follow what way b Act. 16.3 Rom. 14.1 Gal. 5.6 they pleased yet so that they should not impose upon the Gentiles to whom that Law of rites was never given a necessity c Act. 15. Gal. 2.3.15 of observing it Which one thing is enough to convince the Jews of their unreasonable rejection of the Christian Faith under that pretence of the ritual Law The grand objection against the Miracles of Jesus being answered let us proceed to other arguments fit for the Jews conviction XIII The Jews confess a promise of the Messiah It is agreed between us and them that in the Books of the Prophets above many whom God gave the Hebrews Authors of great benefits one was promised much more excellent then the rest whom though by a common name yet eminently competent to him alone they call the Messias Him we assert to have come long since they expect him to