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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30333	The conversion & persecutions of Eve Cohan, now called Elizabeth Verboon a person of quality of the Jewish religion, who was baptized the 10th of October, 1680, at St. Martins in the Fields, by the Right Reverend Father in God, William, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1680 (1680)	Wing B5772; ESTC R7379	14,133	33

THE Conversion Persecutions OF EVE COHAN Now called Elizabeth Verboon A Person of Quality of the Jewish RELIGION Who was Baptized the 10 th of October 1680. At St. Martins in the Fields By the Right Reverend Father in God WILLIAM Lord Bishop of St. ASAPH LONDON Printed by I. D. for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1680. THE PREFACE THe World has been so often deceived in many pretended Converts who make a Trade of changing their Religion that it is no wonder if Men are not easily perswaded of the sincerity of those who come over from one Religion to another since it is certain the prepossession of Education and Custom is so strong that such as turn to a New Religion must either be led to it by a clear Conviction which will shew it self in other signal Effects or are guilty of great levity and fickleness of Mind that disposes them too easily to change for changes sake or do it upon a baser account of working upon the Compassions of those who being very Religious themselves are apt to deal their Charity liberally to such as seem to follow the steps of Abraham who being called to it forsook his Kindred and Country to serve the true and living God But here is a Convert that is indeed a Disciple of the Cross and has in all the steps she made towards her Change been oft in danger of her Life and has suffered much from her Mother and Kindred Whose Persecutions ceased not after she had taken sanctuary in this Country where she might reasonably have thought that either the Jews durst not presume to have pursued her any longer or if they would have attempted it could not have found Instruments to have served their wicked Designs But even here as they found out cursed Tools to have spirited her away so when they failed they betook themselves to all the Arts of Villany in which they are so well practised and hoping that nothing could resist their Wealth of which they resolved to be prodigal upon this Occasion they carried their Designs so far that she was neglected by some and hardly used by others from whom a greater Zeal to the Christian Religion ought to have been expected When she seemed thus abandoned by many Christians the Jews then hoped to have prevailed on her weakness and fears and her Mother writ tenderly to her to perswade her to return home again But God left her not wholly destitute for as he directed her to lodg in a House where she met with all the care and tenderness she could have expected from her nearest Relations so she was found out by that eminent and learned Convert Charles du Veil Doctor of Divinity who being born and bred a Jew was first converted to the Christian Religion in France but both he and his most learned Brother seeing and detesting the Idolatry of the Church of Rome forsook the great Advantages they had and might have expected there and came hither and joined themselves to our Church This Dr. Du Veil remembring that word of our Saviour to St. Peter When thou art converted strengthen the Brethren made it his Business both to instruct and comfort her and to procure the charitable Supplies and Assistances of others to her He applied himself chiefly to the Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of St. Asaph as the Churchman most concerned in it since this Convert had taken shelter in the Parish of St. Martins of which he was then Vicar and he followed her Concerns with that Zeal that the Occasion required And the Lord Mayor of London being informed by him of the whole Business has taken it into his care with that sincere and hearty Affection which becomes a Christian and so great a Magistrate and is contriving the most effectual means possible not only to do her right against her Oppressors but also to have her possessed of a fair Estate that belongs to her in Holland The hazard of losing which Estate together with both Liberty and Life she run with chearfulness that she might embrace the Christian Religion The particular account of so remarkable a Conversion and those things which happened upon it I hope will be no unacceptable entertainment to the Reader and therefore having gathered the Passages and Steps of it together upon very good Authority I now offer them to the World THE Conversion Persecution OF ELIZABETH VERBOON ELizabeth Verboon carries her Christen'd Name from the Baptismal Font and her Surname from her Husband Mr. Michael Verboon but her Name formerly was Eve Cohan Her Father was Abraham Cohan a Man of great Wealth and Credit not only among the Jews in Holland but among the Dutch So that as Michael Levi the Sollicitor for the Jews informed the Lord Mayor he was chief Governor of the Dutch Plantations in Brasile and was then believed worth 100000 l. Sterling but lost a great deal of it when the Portugueses beat the Dutch out of Brasile yet he said that to his knowledg he died worth 20000 l. or upward He died about ten Years agoe when this his Daughter was not twelve Years Old who has lived ever since under her Mothers care Her Name was Rebekah alias Elizabeth She was Daughter to one Pallacius who as this Convert had been told was sent Ambassador from the States and was one of the Professors in the University of Leyden Levi knew this better than she did and told the Lord Mayor that he was sent Ambassador both to the Emperor of Morocco and to the King of Poland what he professed in Leyden we do not yet know It may be supposed from his Negotiations that he was a Civilian He was a Jew in his heart but gave himself out for a Christian So that his Daughter and other Children as we are informed were all Baptized This Eve Cohan lived with her Mother at Delft where one Mr. Shol that teaches Musick being imployed to teach her used frequently to discourse with her of the Christian Religion and carried her sometimes to Church on pretence to hear the Organs play where she staid not only while the Psalms were singing but all the while both of the Sermon and Prayers And a New Testament being secretly conveyed to her she took great delight in reading in it She says That which first made Impression on her was that their Nation was now dispersed over the World no more under the Conduct of any Prophet Nor had they any of those visible Marks of the Favour and Protection of God which their Ancestors enjoyed in those Ages in which the Books of the Old Testament were written So that they seemed cast off by God and under these Curses threatned by Moses and the Prophets and yet they kept the Laws of Moses better than ever and were more careful than their Fathers had been to abstain from Idolatry When she read the Account of our Saviour's Passion she felt her self mightily affected with that