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Light for the Ievvs, or, The means to convert them in answer to a book of theirs called The hope of Israel, vvritten and printed by Manasseth Ben-Israel, chief agent for the Jews here, 1650.
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Evans, Arise, b. 1607.
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Captain and Deliverer who will bring you to present happiness if you follow him 2. I say those Jews who would come into England without his command come against God and their Messiah appointed of God for them and therefore if they come they shall in a short time be spoiled and destroyed 3. I that tell you these things am a man that have had the Spirit of Prophesie this twenty four years and I have declared above twenty two years agone all the Judgements that came since upon this Nation as thousands of English can witness it And that then I was a Prisoner three years upon that account And you may see more of this in my Book called A voice from Heaven and my Book called the Eccho to the Voice from Heaven 4. I tell you that King Charles Steeward by descent as his Star did manifest is the first Born of Iaphet the Elder Son of Noah Gene. 10. 21. And therefore the said King Charles by right is Heir to all the World And God will give him and his Seed-Royal in due Season the preheminence of it And all the Jews shall be converted unto Jesus in him Iohn 6. 56. and be an eminent people under him and his Seed-Royal in places of preferment and in your own Land Flourish Thus much I see from the Holy Scriptures and Visions But you will say How can King Charles be the said Messiah seeing our Wisemen say that he must be the Son of Ioseph and come of the Tribe of Ephraim and that he must die in the last War of Gog and Magog and afterward rise again for to enjoy the dignity of a Vice Roy as Ioseph was in Egypt 1. I answer that the two Messiahs are signified in them Shem and Iaphet because they were to come out of their Loyns Jesus of Shem and of Abraham and David Charles of Iapeht and by adoption in Jesus Of Abraham and Ephraim or by imputation and not by a carnal Generation because Iaphet the Elder was to come first into the Tent of Shem and so to be exalted by that voluntary Act of condescending and giving the honour to his Brother Shem according to the will of his Father Therefore the saying of Noah to his sons Gen. 10. 25 26 27. is the Ground-work of all that is spoken concerning the Messiah and from that Ground did all the Prophets Prophesie of the Messiahs yet there was ground given to Noah for his saying to his Sons From the Beginning Cain should have had condescended to Abel for God ordained it then that the Elder in love and respect should serve the Younger for God had respect to Abel and Cain should have had respect unto him for that cause and not to have hated him and slain him for it 2. I say King Charles is called the Son of Ioseph not that he cometh out of his Loyns but because he is like unto him for as Ioseph was beloved of his Father above all his Bretheren in so much that he made him a Coat of Honour as Kings Children had 2 Sam. 13. 18. It being of divers colours like a Kings Parliament Robe for which cause he was hated of his Bretheren and because of his faithfulness to his Father and his Visions they hated him yet more and sold him away to the Ishmalits Gen. 37. So in like-manner because King Charles the first was beloved of God his Father and honoured above all his Scots Bretheren they hated him and because of his Wisdom Faithfulness and Visions of God they hated him yet more and sold him away to the English Parliament Marchants And as Ioseph was long in affliction before he was exalted Gen. 39. Gen. 40. So King Charles suffered much for a long time being imprisoned and at last slain and he shall be likewise exalted by his Resurrection in the King Charles his Son both in person and power as he saith in the conclusion of his last speech to his Son in his book Let my Memory with my Name ever live in you for the King believed that God would raise him up again in his Son And as Ioseph being a Stranger in Egypt yet was he exalted above all the Egyptians except Pharaoh there King who adopted him and gave him that power Gen. 41. So King Charles being a Stranger by Nation and not a Jew shall be exalted above all the Jews except Jesus the King who doth adopte him and give him that power In these things King Charles is like Ioseph and therefore by an Allegory he may be called his Son Thus he is also an Eprathite I have all wayes found that England in Scripture is signified to us by Mount Ephraim and more perticularly in Dan. 11. 45. is called the glorious holy Mountain between the Seas And that the Prophesie of Hosea which speaks much of Ephraim is very much fulfilled among us now for England feeded one Winde and followeth after the East Winde which hath blasted the glory of our Church and Kingdom and made it desolate Hosea 12. 1. For following the Winde-breath and lyes of Sectuaries coming from New England Holand and other places East from us hath spoiled the glory of our Nation And much more I could shew to prove that England in Scripture is signified by Mount Ephraim and specially is that Ephratah spoken of by David Ps. 132. 5. 6. and by Micah 5. 2. From whence your Messiah comes for the present King Charles Steeward is an English man born but an Ephrathite born in Mount Ephraim by Scripture account And I finde that there was in the Country of Israel two sorts of Ephrathies First the Seed of Levi born in the Land of Ephraim were called Ephrathites 1 Sam. 1. 1. Secondly they that were of the Seed of Caleb by his Wife Ephratah 1 Chorn. 2. 19 24 50. were called Ephrathites Ruth 1. 2. And these last Ephrathites did much signifie the English for Ephratah who was joyn'd to Caleb of the Tribe of Iuda was an obscure woman whose kindred is not known which woman signifies a strange Land that should bring forth light to Israel which woman is first called Ephrah that is a Mother 1 Chron. 2. 19. and then after that is called Epratah 1 Chorn. 2. 24. 50. 1 Chron. 4. 4. that is Mother of many Nations as Abraham was first called Abram that is a Father and then afterwards called Abraham that is a Father of many Nations Gen. 17. 5. yet it is more then probable that this woman called Ephratah was a Gentile because the place from whence her Name is derived Gen. 35. 16. 19. was called Ephrah by the Ancient Inhabitance of the Land of Canaan I mean some Holy Ones such as Melchizedek and the like else the Name Ephratah had not been of such esteem in Israel as we see David and Micah laies it for a Ground-work and as David enquiring for the Habitation of the Mighty God of Iacob which God of Iacob signifieth the second Messiah by your term or the third person
went to Lorain and perswaded him to go back again and went to both sides brought them together and made them good Friends again Then the people seeing the great work that he had done cryed him up to be the man of God in so much that at last the French King and his Council became Jealous of him and they joyned themselves with his Enemy and most unnaturally for he was their near Kinsman and most ungratfully in regard he had saved them they forced him to go out of France as he was forced to go out of England and that is in God's Book of Remembrace the French shall be called to account for it one day Again when King Charles went to Scotland and all his Nobles there were Enemies one to the other he presently by his loving Wisdom made them all good friends to the admiration of the people So that I may surely say there is not such another Peace-maker in the World and yet Manasseth Ben-Israel think this King shall not rise again I am sorry to see the hardness of his Heart But beloved take you notice of what I say for a sign to you if King Charles Steeward King of England do not come into his Throne within this five years without one drop of blood spilt in the cause believe nothing of what I say in this Book but afterward some of those that took upon them to judge the Old King this Kings Father most cruelly murthered him and yet will not repent and come unto the King for mercy most die for it the King shall not save them for Law and Justice shall take place where mercy is refused Now there is no people under Heaven that boast and stand so much upon their Sword as these States-people of England do yet God will order it so for King Charles his sake that their Sword which they glory in shall fall out of their hands and they shall not know how nor which way they lost it and God will put it into the hand of King Charles so that all the world will wonder at the strangness of his Salvation and they shall glorifie God on his behalf when they see such an excellent thing done that no age can paralel And when right is done to the King and Church and to the Kings Friends and Servants though it be done with much favour to the Enemies there will be many discontented persons that will plot and strive to maintain the States false interest to their own Ruin and Destruction Besides the proud State of Holand though they be now sufficiently beaten and spoiled by the English State will then for their own ends make show as if they would help them and presently before the King is much setled in his Throne they will pick a Quarrel with him but the harmless and Wise King being inclinable thereunto will make Peace with them upon any terms and agree Notwithstanding the False Envious Persidions Covetous Holander being proud is not quiet but reprocheth the King with foul Language because of his former afflictions by which God Refined and fitted him for future glory and takes all occasion and advantage to do what mischief they can to the King and his Subjects And though God in that time send the Plague among them for it so that they dye by thousands at a time yet they will not forbear but still go on in their malice against the King that God might utterly destroy them and the English Enemies that go to them by the Sword Plague and Famine and blot out their Names from being a State under Heaven for so God will fight against all the Enemies of King Charles and proud Holand shall be made the first Object of Gods wrath against them that fight against King Charles and despise him but do you depart from Holand betimes Therefore blessed and happy shall those Kings and people be that shall take their Power and Authority from King Charles and live under his protection for all his proud Enemies that shall despise him and refuse to submit unto him shall be destroyed because God with King Charles will do a new work upon the Earth and bring all the world unto himself under one Head and for this cause God chose King Charles and Refined him in the Furnace of affliction as the Prophet saith Esai 48. 10. Esai 51. 16. About the same time the Turk will come and fight against the Emperour of Germany and he shall prevail for a time but afterward the Emperour shall beat him sadly then shall you arise and under the Baner of King Charles with an Army of a hundred forty and four thousand twelve thousand of every Tribe go to your one Land and possess it for ever and ever and you shall believe in Jesus Christ who is your everlasting King as your Rabbins say in their Talmuds If you can but understand them aright for they say that Jesus Christ whom they truly call Messiah the Son of David shall be your everlasting King when ye come to your own Land as ye have them cited in the 26. Sect of the foresaid Book called The Hope of Israel thus But which way that Redemption shall be no man can tell but onely so far as we may gather out of the Prophets That at that time the Ten Tribes shall come to Ierusalem under the leading of a Prince whom some Rabbins in the Talmud and in some places of of the Caldy Pharaphrase do call Messiah the Son of Ioseph and elsewhere Messiah the Son of Ephraim who being slain in the last war of Gog and Magog shall shew himself to be Messiah the Son of David Who shall be as Ezekiel and Hosea say the everlasting Prince of all the twelve Tribes Our Wismen do in many places especially in the Babilonish Talmud in tract. fuca C. 5. make mention of Messiah the Son of Ephraim where they say that he shall dye in the last War of Gog and Magog and they so expound that of Zech. 12. 10. And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his onely Son They add also that the four Captains of whom the said Prophet speaketh of chap. 6. 1. are Messiah the Son of David Messiah the Son of Ioseph the Prophet Elias and the high Priest which four are those Dignities which shall shew their power in that blessed Age Observe that sometime they call Messiah the Son of Ephraim sometime of Ioseph for he shall come out of the Tribe of Ephraim and shall be Captain of all the Ten Tribe who give their Name to Ephraim because that their first King Ieroboam was of that Tribe not without cause do they call him the Son of Ioseph for he was the true Type of the house of Israel in his imprisonment and future happiness add to this that he was so long hid from his Brethren that they knew him not as in like manner the Ten Tribes are at this day who are