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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50461	A conference betwixt a papist and a Jew, or, A letter from a merchant in London, to his correspondent in Amsterdam	Mayo, Richard, 1631?-1695.; N. H.; Jacob, John, 17th cent.	1678 (1678)	Wing M1522; ESTC R10629	19,865	37

in the Church the Christian Faith being already not only sufficiently but abundantly confirmed by the Miracles the infallible Miracles of our Saviour and the Primitive Christians who shewed their Patent or Commission under this Broad-Seal of Heaven to the conviction and utter silencing of their most obstinate enemies both Jews and Gentiles You know that Moses confirmed the Law and the Ordinances thereof by Miracles first wrought in Egypt and afterwards on Mount Sinai and in the Wilderness but when your Fathers were convinced of Moses his Authority and were once setled in the Land of Canaan then those Miracles ceased So the Gospel and the Ordinances thereof were at first confirmed by the uncontrouled Miracles of our Saviour and the Primitive Christians as indeed it was meet that those who pretended a new Revelation from God should confirm it with a Divine attestation but since the Christian Religion is now diffused both far and near for the same reason all Miracles are at an end As men water Orchards at the first planting of them but when the Trees are well rooted they do so no more But amongst the Schismatical Papists Miracles are still pretended who care not what wrong they do to the Christian Religion or the common cause of Christianity so they encrease their own Party By means hereof they delude the more ignorant and credulous sort of people of whose souls their Priests make great merchandize In King Henry the Eighths time by the diligence of the Lord Cromwell one of the chief Ministers of State many of the abominable cheats and forgeries of the Papists in this kind were made manifest throughout this Nation which was one great cause of the Reformation that followed And it is no slight evidence of the verity and Divine Authority of the Scriptures of the New Testament that this was foretold therein some hundreds of years before it came to pass for so it is there recorded that there should be a great Defection or Apostasie in the Christian Church which also should be headed by the Bishop of Rome and though he be not named yet any one with half an eye may perceive he is intended never did Glove better fit a hand nor shoo a foot than the Character the Scripture gives of the Head of that Apostasie doth agree to the Romish Pope And concerning him it says expresly That his coming should be after the working of Satan with power and signs and lying wonders In the Greek it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with wonders of a lye an usual Hebraism as you understand to note the notorious falshood of his wonders And in another place it speaks of a Beast meaning the same person whom the world should wonder after and worship too and that for this Reason Because he doth great wonders in the sight of men This may fuffice for these lying Wonders with their impudent Authors But as for the Miracles of our Saviour and his immediate followers they are of another nature and wear upon themselves marks of infallibility they are recorded in the age and places when and where they were wrought they were done as this worthy person well observed not in a corner but in the face of the world before multitudes of witnesses and those persons of known credit and integrity Insomuch that your Ancestors the Jews that liv'd in those days and enquired diligently into these things did never once deny the matter of fact that such Miracles were indeed done but they said they were done by Diabolical assistance And others of them have said that Jesus had found out the right pronunciation of that ineffable name the nomen Tetragrammaton and that it was sewed in his thigh and that by the power thereof he did all his Miracles How ridiculous are such evasions It seems evident enough that many of the Pharisees and Rabbies themselves in those days lay under this conviction That Jesus came from God and was the Christ and profest too their faith in him though the most of them did it secretly for fear of the Jews Who had agreed that if any did confess that he was Christ they should be put out of the synagogue Josephus a man of great Learning who lived near those times and who was a Jew by Nation and Religion in the 18 Book of his Antiquities doth publish this passage to the world That in the time of Tiberius Caesar there was one Jesus a wise man if says he it be lawful to call him a man for he was the performer of divers miraculous works and the instructor of those who willingly entertained the truth This was Christ who being accused by the Princes of our Nation before Pilate and afterwards condemned to the Cross yet did not his followers forbear to love him for the ignominy of his Death for he appeared unto them the third day after as the Divine Prophet had before testified of the same and divers other wonderful things of him Let me desire you to use your reason Do but think with your self if the Miracles I am speaking of had been forged or feigned how easie a matter had it been for the Jews that lived in those times to have discovered and disproved the fraud and falshood thereof Put the case there should at this instant go abroad a report of one in London that did great Miracles and that very frequently that cured the blind the lame the deaf the dumb the diseased of all sorts that came or were brought to him with a word speaking that he cast out Devils and raised the dead and that his followers did the like and that frequently in all parts of the Land and that these things were done in the presence of thousands of throngs and multitudes of people I pray you judg if it were not the easiest matter in the world to disprove this if it were false and feigned and whether it were possible that whole Cities and Countreys should believe it and seal their belief thereof with their blood nay consider whether the easiness and certainty of disproving this report were not like to bring them all under the greatest scorn and contempt imaginable that should publish it You see the case is parallel and I need not stay to apply it 't is strange to observe that the Jews of those times whose hearts were ready to burst with envy and malice at the success of the Gospel never publickly objected the forging or feigning of those Miracles by which it was confirmed Yea 't is farther observable that the Heathens themselves and the great ones amongst them too did openly assent to the reality thereof We find it in true Records how Tiberius himself upon a Letter from Pilate concerning Jesus of the Miracles he wrought and of the manner of his Death and Resurrection did move in the Senate of Rome that he might be admitted amongst their gods and though they refused the motion because as some say it was not first moved by themselves or as others say because if