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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89670	An apology for the honorable nation of the Jevvs, and all the sons of Israel· Written by Edward Nicholas, Gent.	Nicholas, Edward.; Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657, attributed name.	1649 (1649)	Wing N1081; Thomason E544_16; ESTC R203014	9,175	15

AN APOLOGY FOR THE HONORABLE NATION OF THE JEWS And all the SONS of ISRAEL Written by Edward Nicholas Gent. Isaiah 14.1 For Jehovah will have compassion of Jacob and will yet chuse Israel and cause them to rest in their own land and the stranger shall joyn himself unto them and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. Deut. 23.39 Happy art thou O Israel who is like unto thee O people saved by Jehovah c. Jer. 30.7 Alas for that day is great so that none is like it it is even the time of Jacobs trouble but he shall be delivered from it Jer. 31.14 15 16 17. Thus saith Jehovah A voyce was heard in Ramah lamentation and bitter weeping Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted because they were not Thus saith Jehovah Refrain thy voyce from weeping and thine eyes from tears c. London Printed by John Field 1648. AN APOLOGY For the Honorable Nation OF THE JEWS THat our Nation of England hath already suffered much affliction and that we yet labor under many burthens fears and doubtings what will be the sequel is a thing so clear that lamentable experience doth abundantly testifie Those that are in authority in this kingdom and we all may make the application that the crying sins of our Nation do call for vengeance which we have just cause to expect unless we meet God by repentance and satisfaction of the oppressed To undertake to speak of the many gross and loud crying sins we lie under the guilt of were to lessen them they are so many 't were better to be silent then to use few words in rehearsing them that are so odious to God least we seem to extenuate them I shall confine my self to two The oppression of the poor And the persecution of the Saints of God As for the first I hope that the multitude of affairs wherein we are involved have interupted partly good and pious intentions The sufferings of many of the faithful friends of the Parliament have been great and must needs vent themselves by some complaints and the rather seeing our good God hath forgiven Ten thousand Talents as by their great if not miraculous successes appears yet every cruel servant takes his brother by the throat for small matters and exacting the utmost usury which in quiet and peaceable times is contrary to the Law as I humbly conceive by some Statute appears not allowing the freedom to walk on the Lords-day and to joyn themselves with such Congregations of Gods people for the refreshment of their souls amidst their sufferings in the outward man as they desire to do But the sin principally intended here is The strict and cruel Laws now in force against the most honorable Nation of the world the Nation of the Jews a people chosen by God as appears by the many and large expressions of his favor to them stiling them His Gems his first-born a precious people above all peoples of the earth a kingdom of priests an holy people unto himself And further saith they are his own servants and should not be in bondage to any being onely to serve six years and the seventh to go out free and in the year of Jubile every man was to return to his inheritance But above all that priviledge of theirs the benefit whereof hath an influence on all the faithful and redounds to their happiness That in thee and thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed So strong an obligation are we bound in to them through Gods mercy And now let all the faithful servants of God take to their considerations how great indurings that honorable Nation hath suffered what bloody slaughters have been made of them in London in the North countrey of England and divers other parts of this kingdom and how they have been proscribed and banisht this kingdom and denyed that commerce allowed to all others even to barbarous Infidels so that the transcendency of this sin is not to be paralleld in regard they being so honorably stiled and owned by God himself in rejecting them we highly incense the Majesty of Jehovah whereas we ought rather to honor them whom God honoreth and to have a grateful remembrance of those people of God by whom he hath conveyed to his people so great blessings and incomparable priviledges to comfort the afflicted and not to take the opportunity when God was angry with them to help forward the affliction In their next place if we would but follow the politicians rule that aym onely at their own ends and gains proh dolor that may prove and will certainly be an advantage to us divers ways and on the contrary most dangerous to this kingdom for that the protection of all men is in Gods people whose blessings are continually showred down on a Land for their sakes of whom are these a part that we have thus abandoned It was a notable observation of a reverend and godly learned Preacher before this Parliament on this Text Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm Psal 105.15 That the good or evil usage of Gods people is the greatest State-interest in the world how great cause have we then to lay this to our hearts the godly can best judge Furthermore besides the judgements of God which our Forefathers have felt by bloody Wars and other miseries we at this time have experience of many calamities and now the years of recompence are approaching which we have cause to believe when we read of the many comminations of God against the spoilers and oppressors of his people the Jews as Jer. 30.16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured and all thine adversaries every one of them shall go into captivity and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey and Isa 33.1 and 34.1 to 8. and 41.11 Behold all that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded they shall be as nothing and they that strive with thee shall perish and so to the end and 49.25 Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee and I will save thy children And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh and they shall be drunken with their own blood as with sweet wine and all flesh shall know that I am thy Savior and Redeemer the mighty one of Jacob and Jer. 25.31 and Isa 51.22 23. and 60.14 and 61.3 4. 'T is Objected The great guilt that lies on the Jews for crucifying Christ and that therefore and for refusing the Gospel they are rejected of God so unworthy of favor assistance and compassion herein desired In Answer though this be imputed to the whole Nation yet it is apparent in the Gospel that that action was done by the Elders chief Priests and Scribes his Doctrine reproving their Hypocrifie and

laziness and pride that they wrought a faction against him and not that the whole Nation were guilty for the people ere-while brought him into the city crying Hosanna And it s said when Jesus was condemned by Pilate and the chief Priests and Elders that they perswaded the people to refuse Jesus and to choose Barrabas 't is probable that they are so well versd in their own business of so high a nature that they can say more for themselves It is too great an undertaking for me and will require a larger Tract to clear the matter against all Objections which may be done by men of more learning then I profess to have the regal Government of the Jews being long before ended what God in his secret will and judgement intended in the scattering of the Jews I presume not to understand or to guess at my purpose is onely to prove That God yet owns them for his people and though cast off for a time yet their certain future reduction is promised as Paul in Rom. 11.24 25 26. For if thou wast cut out of the olive-tree which was wilde by nature and wast grafted contrary to nature in a right olive-tree how much more shall they that are by nature be grafted in their own olive-tree For I would not brethren that ye should be ignorant of this secret lest ye should be arrogant in your selves that partly obstinacy is come to Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in And so all Israel shall be saved as it is written Isa 59. and 27.9 and Jer. 31.33 34. Heb. 8. and 10. I have next to offer to your considerations the many promises made by God by the mouthes of his Prophets for the reduction of them into their own countrey still owning them for his own people a countrey I say lawfully theirs by the donation of God himself and a propriety that no Prince under Heaven can plead the like the promises also setting forth the restauration of the pure worship of God the restitution of all things to their primitive Estate That the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea Isa 11.49 60. 61. to the end of the Prophesie besides many more places in this and other Prophets some whereof do more plainly extend to the advantage of the Gentiles as Isa 56.6 And the strangers that cleave unto the Lord to serve him and to love the name of Jehovah to be his servants every one that keepeth the Sabbath from poluting it and takes hold on my Covenant Even them will I bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all peoples And consequently for us the faithful as well as for the Jews Now weighing well with our selves both these threats and promises were it not a strange negligence I conceive it a madness in us to forego so great priviledges as by those honorable people of the Jews may accrew unto us and as great wilfulness to lay our selves open to those judgements threatned I leave to the judgement of all men that are any thing affected in this matter or that tender the glory of God their own good charity towards that the people of God We have great and important cause to take heed lest we of this Kingdom of England putting from us and abandoning these people of God we separate not our selves from Gods favor and protection this being a greater aggravation of the sin for that it is now more known It is not tollerable even amongst Moral men if we go no further to adde affliction to the afflicted as we do in continuing Laws in force against them it stands not with a generous spirit to triumph over a man helpless and in misery much more hateful is it in men that profess themselves the servants of god but rather that we endeavor to comfort them and if it were possible to give them satisfaction for the innocent blood of theirs shed in this Kingdom and to restore them to commerce amongst us It is objected That many of these prophesies have respect to the seventy years Captivity and their release from Babylon and of Gods vengeance on the Enemies of the people of God of those times In Answer Although many prophesies do so yet the places abovementioned and many moe do abundantly prove the reduction of all the house of Israel the ten Tribes never yet returned into their own Land and the great joy that is promised them in those yet future blessed times as Hosea 3. they are esteemed by God as the spouse to the husband and in the last Verse Afterwards shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord and David their King and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days And Ezek. 36. the Prophet is directed to the whole house of Israel as appears more plainly in the 10 Verse And I will multiply the men upon you speaking of the mountains of Israel all along before even all the house of Israel wholly and the Cities shall be inhabited c. And a much more luculent place is the 37 Chapter of Ezek. where mention is made of the return of all the Tribes of Israel the Prophet being commanded to take a piece of wood and to write upon that to Judah and the children of Israel his companions and then to take another piece of wood and write upon that to Joseph the tree of Ephraim and all the house of Israel his companions and joyn them one to another into one stick and they shall become one stick in thine hand And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee saying Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these say unto them Thus saith Jehovah God Behold I will take the stick of Joseph which is in the hand of Ephraim and the Tribes of Israel his fellows and will put them with him even with the stick of Judah and make them one stick and they shall be one in mine hand And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes And say unto them Thus saith Jehovah God Behold I will take the children of Israel from among the Heathen whither they be gone and will gather them on every side and bring them into their own Land And I will make them one Nation in the Land upon the mountains of Israel and one King shall be King to them all And they shall be no more two Nations neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols c. These words are an explanation of the parable of the dry bones in the beginning of the Chapter whereby part of my purpose is sufficiently proved that their restauration and inhabitation of their countrey here on Earth is yet to