not in unbelief v. 23. 9. Yet here is a Prophecy that the Jews shall be eminently replanted v. 24. and not for ever left in general unbelief 10. It was but blindness in part that happened to those some till the fulness of the Gentiles came in Which must either mean till the Empire of the Roman World fell into the Christians hands Or else till all the Gentiles were converted that ever shall be This last cannot be the meaning for then it would not be till the end of the World therefore it must be the former which is long fulfilled v. 25. 11. So all Israel were saved that is 1. All the Israel of God the believing Children of Abraham for all are not Israel that are of Israel gathered into one Catholick Body 2. And so many of Natural Israel as to make not only one of the two Witnesses and Olive Trees but also a formed National honoured Church-Society 12. When to drive away the Gospel to the Gentiles some were left in unbelief The Elect part were they that were beloved for their Father Abrahams sake much more for Christs sake v. 28. 13. As it was from them that the Gentiles had the Gospel so it was from the Gentiles mercy that the restored Body of the Jews obtained mercy being by the Christian Emperors and Princes restored and honoured v. 29 30. 14. God left the Rulers and many others in unbelief that he might recover not each single person but a Political Body and Power to the Nation as he did v. 32. As Alexander Severus gave the Infidel Jews power to chuse them a Governour of their own under him the Christian Emperors did for the Christian Jews much more 15. Thus is Gods Goodness and Severity glorified And what word in that Chapter proper to the Jews is not fulfilled § 4. As to the Texts that mention the Restitution of all things the Creatures groaning to be delivered from the bondage of corruption drinking the fruit of the Vine new and such like what word is in all this that respecteth the Jews more than the Gentiles or that may not be performed in the New World unlimited to Jews or to a Thousand years § 5. The same I say of the Lords Prayer Let thy Kingdom come c. which long made me hope for better days on this same Earth But this saith nothing more of the Jews than of the Heathens And who can here find any limitation of this Kingdom to a Thousand years All the Word that tells us what to pray for doth not tell us what in this World we shall obtain I doubt not but we may pray for Jews and all men but that proveth not all shall be converted and saved We may have hope of many Individual Jews when we have no promise of a National further Restitution of the many more than of any others Chap. VIII Reasons for the Negative humbly offered to Tryal § 1. I. THat which is done already according to Promise we must not take for undone or expect to be done again But the Calling of the Jews is done already according to Promise Ergo c. I hinted this oft before I will not shun repetition where the cause requireth it 1. It is granted that the Catholick Church is called The New Jerusalem so far as it is short of the other World But the Catholick Church and therein the Jewish Nation was more gloriously set up by the Christian Empire than the Millenaries can reasonably expect or plead for 1. What are a few Rabble Jews such as are among us to the great rich victorious Roman Empire the greatest that ever was on Earth which turned Christian in the Regent part and shortly in the commonest Profession What an Empire would the Jews of England Spain Portugal Turky c. make 2. Constantinople was then called not only New-Rome but New-Sion And how greatly did it excel Jerusalem in spaciousness riches power and glory 3. How small and barren a spot was Judea like our Wales in comparison of the Roman Christian Empire in Europe Asia and Africa Like the Isle of Man to England 4. How great a Protection had the Jews under Constantine and following Emperours above what they had even after their Restoration from Captivity from Zorobabel and the Maccabees to the end of their Policy 5. What could they now desire for their return more than they then had What greater liberty or encouragement or help An excess of Honour was put on their Countrey and on all that would come into the Christian Church 6. What better Plantation of Religion can be expected in Judea than was when the Emperours built them Temples and devout people travelled thither and dwelt there and bought them Bibles and built them Religious Houses and set over them Pastors and Bishops and A. Bishops and a Patriarch one of the five in the Empire And their National Church honourably united to the Catholick What outward honour can they expect more All Protestants note it as the wicked Superstition of the Popes that they were so set on the honouring of Jerusalem and Judea called The Holy Land that they forced Emperours and Kings of France and England c. at vast charges to go fight for it to the loss of 100000 men § 2. Obj. But Judea was not all planted with Jews but with a mixt people Ans 1. And must all that now possess it be robbed of their Habitations and Estates to make room for our Jews 2. There were no Jews restrained from going thither that desired it And would you have them forced or sent thither with a Pass 3. Those that would not go thither had better encouragement where they dwelt § 3. Obj. But it was not the main Body of the Nation that was converted and restored Ans 1. I have given great probability that it was the far greatest part so many of the Rebels had been before destroyed 2. There was no Heathen Nation where the greater number presently turned Christians till Power and Interest prevailed with them Even till the days of Alaricus and Theodorick thousands were Heathens in Christian Rome And holy Chrysostom in his days in the glory of Constantinople reckoned but of a hundred thousand Christians besides Separatists and Hereticks the rest being Heathens and Jews shall we therefore say that such were no National Churches that is Christian Kingdoms § 4. Obj. But while their Governours were set over them by others and not chosen by themselves they could not be called Jewish National Churches Ans 1. Their Pastors were chosen by themselves whatever the Souldiers and Magistrates were The Inhabitant Christians Jews and Gentiles chose them 2. Their submission and consent might make them Churches of Jews 3. But I confess they were not nor ever must be Churches of Jews separate from the Gentiles or otherwise than as parts of the Catholick United Church It seems you take not the Jews for converted till they become separated from the Catholick Church and claim their
your words expresly say that his Kingdom then beginneth and that this Apostle mentioneth none till then And in your Late Great Revolution Epist in the end you say His Monarchy shall then 1697 begin its Succession though the Glorious Investiture shall not be till Seventy five years after Can any but a Prophet that is inspired to Expound you tell what you mean by abundance such passages What is the difference between the Beginning of the Succession and the Glorious Investiture What is the Succession Doth it begin the Thousand years or not Doth the Succession begin Seventy five years before the Investiture Is not the Investiture Christs Glorious Appearance Your Writings make it plain that you are a good Man of deep thoughts faln into a fond esteem of your new unripe Conceptions and rapt up thereby into a diseased Conceitedness and how you will be able to bear it when providence and experience have confuted you in 1697 I know not But I am the more bold to foretel your failing by my perswasion that your Exposition of the Revelation which you take for granted is a meer mistake from the Beginning almost to the End And wonder not that no body writeth to confute you For Men love not to trouble themselves with Convincing every single Man of his Errours And the Reasons why I do attempt it is because by the Seduction of some of my Friends and the general Inclination of the Antinomian Anabaptist and Separating Party to this conceit of the Thousand years Kingdom and by the Midnight Cry published by Mr. R. M. and preached by Mr. J. M. Men of very great Piety whom I highly value as any Conformists I know I understand that your Opinion that formerly was tolerable as confined to a few conceited good Men is now becoming a great Article of their Faith and Religion Especially since I see that in all your professed extraordinary Humility you brand all that dissent from you as Semi-Sadducees of the Apostacy and earnestly Challenge and provoke all Pastors and Doctors to answer you and maintain though you Conform that Gods Word knoweth not a Clergy Chap. III. Of the other Sect of the Millenaries that place the Thousand years Reign before the Conflagration § 1. THis was the Elder Sect But Dr. More and Mr. Beverley and Dr. Cressoner and other late Writers being more searching did perceive that this way would not hold nor by it could they countenance their Doctrine from Rev. 20. the only Text that mentioneth a Thousand years Reign misunderstood § 2. They agree that 1. There will be a Thousand years Reign on Earth 2. That the Jews shall be called and make a glorious part of this Kingdom 3. That the Ten Tribes now lost shall be found and be part of the Kingdom 4. That Turk and Pope shall fall before this 5. That at last Gog and Magog shall gather in War against this New Jerusalem 6. That fire from Heaven shall consume these Enemies § 3. But they agree not 1. Of the state of the Church with Christ above all this time 2. Nor whether there be one or two New Jerusalems one above and one below 3. Nor whether Christ shall Reign on Earth visibly in his Humane Nature or only by a holy Magistracy and Ministry 4. Nor whether all or most of the Jews shall go dwell at the Old Jerusalem or Judea or stay in the several Countries where they live 5. Nor how far the Princes and Nations among whom they live shall be converted with them 6. Nor by what means the Jews shall be converted 7. Nor how long it will be in doing 8. Nor how the Princes under whom they live will dismiss or use them 9. Nor how they shall after all become a Laodicea and fuel fit for the Conflagration 10. Nor whether that fire that burneth the Earth and Heaven and that which burneth Gog and Magog make one or two Conflagrations 11. Nor how far Christs Kingdom ceaseth at the end of the Thousand years § 4. As to both Sects I know no more that I have further to do for their full confutation but I. To give a better Paraphrase of the Revelation than their feigned suppositions contain And that I have done in a Book not yet Printed II. To prove that the Ten Tribes were but part of them carried away by Salmanasser and that they were in Cyrus Dominions and had leave as well as the Two Tribes to return if they were willing And that Galilee and other parts of Israel as much owned Christ as the Two Tribes at least And the Twelve Tribes made up the Converts that were the Rudiments of the Christian Churches And that it was to the Twelve that James Peter and Paul to the Hebrews wrote And it was the Twelve that the 144000 Rev. 7. were sealed out of so expresly distinguished from the innumerable Gentile Christians as may confute the Expositors that make them to signifie the Gentile Ministry III. To prove that at the Fall of the Pagan Empire the Fulness of the Gentiles came in as meant Rom. 11. and all Israel saved That near three Millions of the Jews that were cursed Infidels being killed and ruined by Titus Trajan and Adrian out of a Countrey not so big as half England and the Christians escaping the Christian part remained the main Body of the Nation And marrying with Gentile Christians and forsaking Moses Law lost the name of Jews which remained only with the Off-spring of the scattered Infidels That Constantine made Judea one of the most famous National-Provincial Churches in the World for Honours Temples Monasteries and Bishops no Jews being forbidden there to dwell And that God hath promised no further Conversion of the cursed remnant of the Infidel Jews than of any other Infidel Nations And therefore all Christians should not in ignorance of all this corrupt their Prayers and Sermons and Religion with fathering on God such Promises of the Jews Conversion as he never made lest they be found guilty of adding to his Word and taking his Name in vain and scandalous depraving the Christian Faith Nor should they by ignorance unthankfully deny the performance of Gods Promises of the Fall of the Pagan Empire and Babylon and so much of the Fifth Monarchy and New Jerusalem and Conversion of the Jews as certain History puts us past doubt is already past The performance of this to avoid prolixity I shall but briefly give you as followeth Chap. IV. That the Ten Tribes of Israel will never be found and called if they never were so heretofore § 1. THose that are for a Jewish Monarchy or their general Conversion commonly hold that the Ten Tribes carried away by Salmanasser are lost and never yet restored Whether this be true we shall see anon But if it were true it would follow that they never will be found and called and consequently that they will be no part of the Converted Jews § 2. The proof is evident Because the Accident supposeth
that had been Tributary or Subject to the Pagan Empire so quickly followed the success of Constantine and the Christian Arms and turned against the Pagan Idolatry it is utterly incredible that multitudes of the Infidel Jews did not the same No one Nation turned all at once And no one National Church under Heaven were all that I say not the most sincerely holy Christians The visible Church still consisted mostly of temporizing Men that came in to Christianity for worldly Interest over-awed by Christian Power Till it came to this the Christians were a persecuted party and no National Church And the unbelieving Jews were not like to be so free from the Love of the Flesh and VVorld as not to do as others did Christ Riding victoriously on the VVhite Horse and Conquering his Enemies brought the Nations to Submission after he had by the Word and Martyrdom purified to himself a holy Generation As all the Revelation fully telleth us Therefore if Judea was not made a National Church no other Nation was made such Zonaras saith that many hired by Money turned Christians Two Hundred Thousand turned Christians for fear in their Troubles at Toledo in Spain whither they were long before sent And Forty Fryars were sent to instruct them After that Ferrerius converted many Read but the Chronological Tables of my worthy Friend Mr. Fr. Tallents and you shall find how they were hated hunted and destroyed in Spain France and almost all Christians Nations except Rome and how many turned seeming Christians for fear Chap VII Whether there be any Jerusalem Monarchy of Jews or any further Conversion of them more than of other Men promised by God § 1. I know of no such Promise in Gods Word but I find it in many Books of Men and I hear of it in the Prayers and Sermons of many Men so good and of so good repute that divers of my Friends disswade me from so much as giving my Reasons against it lest I lose my Reputation with such Men and lest I occasion a Division by contradicting them And is it come to that Must our Concord be held on such humane loose and unsound terms Is this savouring the things of God or of Men If it be proved an Errour taking Gods Name in vain polluting Sacred Worship and adding to the Word of God must we by silence promote a Concord in it I only humbly propose the Reasons of my dissent to the tryal of wiser Men. § 2. 1. It belongeth to the Affirmers to produce their proofs But I can find no Text cited by them that to a sober search hath any such proof 1. As to the many Texts of the Prophets of the uniting of Judah and Israel under David their King and the Jews repossessing their own Land and the Subjection of their Enemies and the Neighbour Nations to them and the great Slaughters of Gog and Magog in their Land c. 1. Let the Grandeur of Prophetical stile he allowed for and this compared with the Prophecies against Babylon Tyre Sion Moab Edom c. 2. Read the whole Text and you will find most express passages that cannot be applyed to any such time and use as this in question but plainly speak of their return from Captivity and their following state It would too much swell my Book to try and vindicate all the particular Texts Mr. James Calvert having already done it in his Naphthali yet unanswered 3. Confound not the Immediate Sense of the Prophesie with the remote and set not one against the other the several parts and degrees that make up the whole Many Prophesies in the Psalms are spoken immediately of David but as he was a Type of Christ in whom they were though remotely yet chiefly fulfilled The Prophesies of the honour of the Jews and their Restoration had divers degrees of fulfilling 1. They were primarily fulfilled in the return from Captivity and the Power that followed under Zorubbabel and the Maccabees 2. They were further fulfilled by the Coming of the Messiah of the Seed of Abraham and David in whom all the Nations of the Earth are blessed 3. They were further fulfilled at Christs Resurrection Ascension and Effusion of the Holy Ghost and the many Thousands of them Converted And their spreading the Gospel over the Gentile World 4. It was yet more fulfilled when Dominion was given to Christians and the fulness of the Gentiles brought in all Israel and settled a National Church in Judea and put all their Enemies in subjection to the Catholick Church of Jewish and Gentile Christians reconciled in one Body the partition Wall being broken down 5. It will be yet more fulfilled in the New Heaven and Earth under the Gospel there is neither Circumcision not Uncircumcision but Christ is All and in All How much more in the New World He that would promise to redeem Christians from Turkish Captivity and restore them to their own Land and prosper and honour them there if they will obey him must not be thought to confound the several benefits and degrees of this Promise He that will lead you into an upper Chamber includeth every step of the Stairs that you ascend and the promise of helping you up the first step includeth not the last but tendeth to it and if you obey will lead you further 4. Read the Book of the Maccabees and other History that you may not be ignorant of what is already done For instance How the great Ruine of Gog and Magog so Hyperbolically set out was fulfilled on the Syrian and Graecian Armies of which see the Assembly Mens Annotations § 3. II. Their next seeming proof is from Rom. 11. of which I have proved how much is fulfilled already besides which I find no more there promised than to all the Church in the New World 1. God cast not away the fore-known Elect v. 1 2 to 11. 2. Through their Fall and Infidelity persecuting the Christians from among them the Gospel came to the Gentiles v. 12. 3. It was but some of the Branches that were broken off v. 17. 4. As the casting away of them was the converting and reconciling of the Pagan World so their receiving was as a Resurrection of life from the dead v. 15. 5. The Converted Gentiles were but grafted in among them and partakers with them and not without them of the fatness of the Olive v. 17. 6. Not the Root but the some Branches that were broken off was that we might be grafted in v. 19. It was chiefly the Priests and Rulers and the self-cursed Rabble that followed them and yet some Priests and Pharisees were converted 7. If they continue not in Gods Goodness the Gentiles also shall be broken off v. 22. So much of conditionality is in the Promise And yet there is more Scripture to expect that the Gentiles shall not be broken off than that there shall be any more National Conversion of the Jews 8. The promise of restoring the broken Branches is If they continue
long Christ will be Judging us And some That it is only the Beginning and the End of the Thousand years that the Judgment will take up and the rest will be in other Government Some think that Execution on Men and Devils will be but that Thousand years which some decry Some think that the first Resurrection is from an Aereal Vehicle or Body into an Ethereal and others that it is from earthly dust to a heavenly body by transmutation of Elements And others that it is to be a Paradise body like Adams before he sinned Other differences seem almost reconciled to some by the bare name of a Thousand years Reign XXVI It is a far more glorious Christian Monarchy which Christ by Constantine set up than most of the Millenaries give any probability of 1. It was a Deliverance from the cruellest Persecution 2. And from the Dragons most potent Empire 3. A Deliverance of all Christians as well as of Jews 4. Without confinement to the narrow Land of Israel 5. A setting up of a National-Provincial Church in Judea 6. With the great Charges of promoting it by New Churches Monasteries Bibles Bishops What could he do more The knowledge of what hath been done long ago would have prevented many mens expectation of the same XXVII If it prove that their Millennial Doctrine and the Calling of the Jews prove a meer mistake it will not be so small as should suspend our detection of it Because it is an adding to Gods Word and fathering on him many untruths and so a taking of his name in vain and a corrupting of his Worship while we preach write and pray for that which we ought not further than we must pray for the Conversion of all sorts of men and a turning of mens Zeal to promote untruths and corrupt mens minds XXVIII We find it so easie to possess men with a fervent Zeal for the Millenary Opinion and so hard to make them zealous in holy Love to God and Man and in a heavenly conversation as may make us suspicious that both sorts of Zeal have not the same original I am not willing to name some tremendous Instances of men nearly known to me hereabout XXIX Our worthy Brother that hath more Learnedly opened that Cause than any else that ever I read by moderation hath brought the difference into so narrow a compass in his Diatriba de signo filii hominis that except 1. The Calling of the Jews 2. And the Extending of the Day of Judgment to a Thousand years and that the general Resurrection and Judgment of the wicked shall begin after the Thousand years are expired there remaineth to great and weighty disagreement of such with the Judgment of the Churches XXX Seeing we ascribe to Christs Kingdom so much more than they that we oppose why should they be thought to extol his Kingdom more than we 1. Is not Eternity longer than a Thousand years 2. And Heaven a more glorious state than the Air 3. And a New Earth inhabited only by the righteous better than one that is Laodicean or that hath such Enemies of Saints as Gog and Magog 4. And this New Earth either everlasting or of undetermined time better than one but of a Thousand years duration which is but with the Lord as One day and about a sixth part as durable as this corrupted World that is under sin and curse Is this Doctrine or the other more honourable to Christ and more comfortable to Believers and more evident in the Word of God Chap. II. An unwilling Answer to Mr. Tho. Beverleys Twelve Principles and his Catechism of the Millennium necessitated by his many provocations of many Ministers and me by name and his Challenge of all the Doctors and Pastors of the Church and his Censure of the Denyers of that Millenary Reign as SEMISADDUCES OF THE APOSTASIE § 1. Reverend and truly beloved Brother I Take it for no wonder that great and many disagreements in matters of Religion are among us while in Professions of less Mystery Law Policy Physicks Medicine c. there are so many that so many men so many minds hath so long been a Proverb And in such tolerable cases as much endanger not Church and Souls few men are more for mutual forbearance and charitable construction than I am Therefore the Millennial Opinion I have never been a censorious opposer of while men kept up Peace and Charity with it But the case lately is altered and is made a matter of necessary Zeal as part of the Creed and the Lords Prayer if not essential to the Gospel and Christianity And very many of the Antinomian and Separating Opinion that least understand it lay much of their Religion on it And the just honour of many Conformists of the most peaceable Principles otherwise promoteth it such as Mr. Jos Mede Dr. H. More Dr. Cressoner your self Mr. M. Author of the Midnight Cry Mr. R. M. the Publisher most pious men both and many others And we must not now be suffered to be silent but must answer your provocations or be grosly guilty of the evil that will follow your success § 2. The Millenary Opinion was indeed early received by some followers of Papias But the universal opposition of the Christian Church that hath exploded it ever since tells us that it was a singular Opinion And is he a humble man that now calleth the Christian Church for sixteen hundred years and all those Learned and Holy Divines of England and other Reformed Churches that differ from your conceit by the name of SEMI-SADDVCES OF THE APOSTASIE Bear with my freedom Is it humility that so loudly challengeth all the Pastors and Doctors of the Churches to answer you Have you answered all them or so much as one Cluverus alone or James Calvert whom you promised me to answer Was it humility that cast a Glove for an Answer to two or three trifling Fallacies about the Pagan Babylon when I had given you an Answer to them long before and you modestly sent it back without a Confutation I have had long by me as a Learner some humble Queries to you and no Bookseller will Print them because they say men look on you as diseased with prophesying Self conceit and will not read a Confutation Your Leader Dr. More saith That the Papists not answering my Books against them is because they despise them as unworthy of an answer May not your case be much the same Men have greater matters to mind than to trouble themselves with you and me or answering our Challenges § 3. But I come to your Chain of Principles And 1. It 's a half and fallacious description of Christs Kingdom to say it is his As the Son of Man There be millions of Sons of Men that have no such Kingdom It is his Kingdom as God-man the Redeemer and Recovering Mediator This Kingdom is to him as the Eternal Word and the Son of Man in one person of a Redeemer And because you
old peculiarity Of which more anon § 5. II. The Doctrine of the Jews Conversion as inferring a Policy or Monarchy of Jews as such is a contradiction and therefore impossible Is there any room then for any further dispute of it When there are no Jews there cannot possibly be any Kingdom or Common-wealth of Jews But were the self-cursed Progeny converted they would be no Jews immediately in a Religious sense nor within sixty or eighty years in a natural sense 1. A Converted Jew joyneth himself to the Catholick Church and knoweth that this is his advancement above the old separate state of Peculiarity and knoweth that Moses Law and Policy is ended and that if he turn to that Law he falls from Grace and if he be Jewishly Circumcised Christ shall profit him nothing Therefore he is no more a Jew in Religion 2. And being a Catholick Christian he will marry with Gentile Catholicks and not confine Marriage to those of his own Nation to keep up the separation And so within a short time there would be no Natural Jews For instance If A marry B a Gentile Christian their Children will be but half Jews If their Children marry Gentile Christians their Children will be but a quarter Jews And if those marry Gentile Christians their Children will be but an eighth part of Jewish Race that is no Jews at all Thus it is faln out with the Progeny of all their converted Ancestors I have since I was twenty four years Old lived in the house with the Mother of the Grandmother of the Grandfather of some now living And if I have seen between 24 and 76 so many Generations in how short a time would Converted Jews be no Jews § 6. III. And the desire of such a Jewish Conversion State and Kingdom or Church as should continue them in a Jewish Line and Peculiarity distinct from the Catholick mixed Church is a wickedness and contrary to the very nature of Christianity and the Kingdom and Design of Christ For Christ came to take down the Partition Wall Middle Wall and make of two one new man even both one no longer two Here is neither Greek nor Jew Circumcision nor Uncircumcision Barbarian Scythian Bond or Free but Christ is All and in All of whom the whole Family in Heaven and Earth is named and will have all to grow up to one perfect man Eph. 2. 3. 4. Col. 3. Will Christ now turn against his own uniting Design and Kingdom and set up Moses again and his Policy § 7. Obj. But we do not hold that he shall set up Moses Ceremonial Law or Worship Answ Nor if you are Christians should you say that he will turn again the one United Body into two and by restoring the carnal Peculiarity to set up again the Wall of Separation § 8. Obj. But if English French Spaniards c. may be still distinct why may not Jews and Gentiles Ans Because One is but accidentally and mutably from the difference of Countreys and Habitation and of Language and Trading and Government which Christ came not to unite But the other is on pretence of a Religious Trust on a Divine Gift of Peculiarity setting them up above the rest of the Church which Christ came to take down and tendeth to Church Divisions § 9. IV. So hardly were the first Converted Jews taken off their conceit of Peculiarity and acknowledging Catholick Equality of the Gentiles and such doleful Heresies and Breaches were made by this Pride that it is not safe tempting them to it again § 10. V. It seemeth a Carnal Imputation of the most Holy God as if he made under the Gospel so great an account of one sort of People by their peculiar Birth-priviledge above all the rest of the World When Paul tells us that All Believers are Abrahams Children and that he is not a Jew that is one outwardly nor that Circumcision which is of the flesh And the Jews are so far from being of any better nature or desert than other men that the Infidel part have ever since their self-cursing and obdurateness in unbelief been found in all Nations to be the most covetous treacherous and sottish sort of People Much unprepared for so great a change § 11. VI. Either All the Off-spring of the Jews shall be partakers of this pretended Priviledge and Monarchy or only the Off-spring of those that continued Infidels till the change But neither of these can be true 1. The Off-spring of all that have been converted for fourteen hundred years after Christ cannot possibly now be made any parts of a Jewish Monarchy or State Because they are all unknown and are now no Jews And so that it is impossible 2. And to advance only the present profligate Generation to a separate Monarchy excluding all the Off-spring of the Converts of all former Ages looks so strangely that the affirmers had need to bring good proof of it considering the difference of quality and number that the least and worst part shall be chiefly advanced § 12. VII Either in this Jewish advancement all the rest of the Godly through the World shall be as much advanced or the Jews alone If all the Godly they being I hope a Thousand to one Jew why should it be called a Jewish Jerusalem or Monarchy Then sure this New Jerusalem must be setled in all Kingdoms where the Godly dwell And shall they every where be Lords If it be only for the Jews can any but a Jew believe it That the Off-spring of the scattered cursed sottish Enemies of Christ shall be so much preferred before all the Godly through the World § 13. VIII Either all the Nations of Heathens Mahometans Papists and Ungodly-Ones shall be Converted with the Jews or not If yea it will be a New and Happy World indeed A Blessed Change will be made on Kings and Parliaments and Lords and Rich Men and Poor And there will be as many Miracles as Men when all those shall be made wise and holy that we cannot now with twenty years preaching prevail with to be Men and to cease malignity and bestial Lusts Sure God will not Burn such a Blessed World and bury so many Millions of Miracles in the Flames But if it be only the Jews that are miraculously Converted it must be a Miracle that must cause the malignant Princes and People Heathens Mahometans Greeks Papists and Carnal Protestants either to become Subjects to these poor Jews where they dwell or to help or permit their Transportation to Jerusalem and then to be subject to them there If this must be their Fate why do we not acquaint our selves with those few cursed Enemies of Christ that live in London in Wapping or elsewhere near us and honour them and beg their favour against the time of their Reign Oliver Cromwell appointed a Solemn dispute before him whether the Jews for Money should have a Toleration and when that good Man Dr. Tho. Goodwin and some other godly