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A32350	The blessed Jew of Marocco: or, A Blackmoor made white. being a demonstration of the true Messias out of the law and prophets / by Rabbi Samuel, a Iew turned Christian ; written first in the Arabick, after translated into Latin, and now Englished ; to which are annexed a diatriba of the Jews sins and their miserie all over the world, annotations to the book ... with other things for profit in knowledge and undertanding, by Tho. Calvert ...	Samuel, Marochitanus.; Calvert, Thomas, 1606-1679.	1648 (1648)	Wing S545; ESTC R8621	114,898	246

thus though they did fully transgresse the Law worshipt Idols and slew the Prophets yet drunk they not of such a Cup of Indignation and Judgement as we their Children CHAP. XV. The Jews blindnesse and incredulity about Christ was foretold by the Prophets THis O Master dives me deep under the waters of fear that our not beleeving in that Righteous One hath caused that to be fulfilled and to fall upon us which the Lord spoke by the mouth of Esay The vision shall bee as the words of a Booke that is sealed which shall be given to one that is learned to a Reader saying read this I pray thee and hee saith I cannot for it is sealed And the Book is delivered to him that is not learned saying Read this I pray thee and he saith I am not learned What greater and closer sealing up of the Book can there be found O Master than this wherewith the Lord hath sealed and fast closed up our blinde hearts and we have now been a thousand years and more as miserable Truants in learning this one lesson of the comming of this Righteous One propounded to us in the Prophets and yet we know it not nor have taken it out This is it which blows the Prophets Trumpet with that threatning blast Ierusalem shall be desolate and their holy house shall fall down He further said Our Countrey is desolate and their holy house shall fall down He further said Our Countrey is desolate our Cities burnt with fire and Zion is left as a Cottage in a vineyard This this is the evill O Master which has now the age of a thousand years and more on the back of it According to this Esay further saith O Lord God I will exalt thee for thou hast made a Citie an heap an house to be confusion a defenced Citie to be a ruine for ever He shall break the people in pieces like the breaking of the Potters Vessell which shall be broken so as there shall not be found a sheard to take fire from the hearth or to take water withall out of the pit Daniels words are also fulfilled that after the Messias is cut off there shall follow a perpetuall desolation in which desolation we now are and have been cast deep into this flood of miseries a thousand years and more Esay goes on to spinne the thred of our wo Solitarinesse shall be left in the midst of the City or desolation and their Land shall hisse with a perpetuall hissing After him Jeremie saith Call ye them reprobate silver for the Lord hath rejected them Esay again Walk you in the light of your own fire and in the flames sparks which you have kindled In these flames we as miserable Salamanders have now lain a thousand years more Amos comes with like threats The house of Israel shall fall and none shall raise her up To me verily O Master it seems we are falne indeed and ruine is come on us since the comming of that Righteous One yea God hath brought it on us seeing since that time no Prophet has risen amongst us neither shall there be any as is foretold and prophesied of us for we remain still in our incredulitie we maintain an obstinate negative of that Righteous One and do not beleeve in him Hosea therefore saith When the woman conceived and bare a daughter God said call her name Loruhamah without mercy for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel And if thus it be that the Lord hath quite cast us off and will have no mercy on us as we have felt by the miserable experience of a thousand years and upward to what end or what profit is it for us to retain our old Ordinances the Law Sabbath and Circumcision Esay saith Bring forth the blinde people as the true glorious God hath now brought us forth of our Land and made us strangers to it more than a thousand years Besides all this he saith The old errour is gone away what can we pick out of this O Master what is the old thing but our Law which is gone away from us yea we have lost King Sacrifice Incense Altars Was there any worse thing in the whole predicament of calamity that could have befaln us What prey or bootie of hope have we for our winged expectations to flie after Do we not see wo unto us that wee see it that the Lord hath scattered and disperst us thorow the four quarters of the world as Moses Jeremie and other Prophets foretold us Yet for all God we are thine and to this God we have our recourse in every event CHAP. XVI He shews the Jews reprobation for perfidiousnesse and the Gentiles election by faith MY soul is not free from this fretting fear O Master that whereas you and I betwixt our selves can boldly say and affirme that we are the sons of Jacob and Israel that for all this God may have fulfill'd that which he spoke by Esay God shall slay thee O Israel and call his servants by another name I quake to think that we should be of those servants on whom that name shall be imposed as Moses writes in Deuteronomie The Nations shall be the Head and the unbeleeving people the Tail as we now are and have been the hindmost the very Tail of all the World for 1000 years and more Of these Nations Jeremie speaks The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of God as the waters that cover the Seas Salomon hath of them this O Lord God when a stranger which is not of thy people Israel shall come to thy holy house and call upon thy blessed Name then hear thou O Lord my God that all the earth may learn to fear thy Name as doth thy people Israel What have wee O Master wee proud beggars of the Jews that we can boast in Why should we contemne and hold the Gentiles in scorn seeing Salomon the Prophet hath joyned them as partners with us in the fear of God and in his holy House And peradventure God hath shut us out of his House as unworthy ones and hath given our room to them as more worthy as Moses hath spoken of them Thus saith the Lord God the whole earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. After him David All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord and all the kindreds of the Nation or a thousand generations shall worship before thee Of them spoke Esay O holy house of David thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee The Gentiles shall come to thy light and Kings to the brightnesse of thy rising Lift up thine eyes round about thee and see all they gather themselves together they come to thee thy sons shall come from frare The sons of strangers shall build up thy walls and their Kings shall minister unto thee And who I pray O Master are

in that holy Volume notwithstanding as is already said the punishment of so great sinnes laid upon them no longer then seventy years But now O Master that wrath which at this present punishes us is a sentence without a period neither in all the Prophets is there any end of it promised If we would thus shift it off and say That the wrath in which we are now deep plunged is a continuance of that wrath which brought the seventy years misery upon us seeing that served to satisfie for the forementioned sins of our Fathers in so doing we should go about to charge God with a Ive which be farre from us to attempt knowing that the true and glorious God did by his prophets stint that Captivitie within that number of years Whereupon such an answer would prove a nullitie a meer evasion and excuse not fit to be propounded before those who have any intellectuals Further if we shall go on to say That God in that transmigration made a division of mercy and justice had pitie on one part of our Jewish generation shewed no pitie to the other part and those on whom he had mercy he brought backe to re-edifie the Temple as saith the Prophet Jeremie and if we shall say that we are that unhappy remnant to which he shewed no mercy then will the Christians say to us That because God shewed mercy to them that worshipt Idols and slew the Prophets therefore he should have mercy on us also that have not so sinned Besides when our Fathers sinned the punishment of Divine Revenge kept within the bounds of certain years wherefore then is it that we who have not so sinned have a punishment without bounds and limits It is a long and undated punishment in which we lie fast bound it is now a thousand years old and yet neither in the Law or Prophets can we finde an end of it or spie any grave wherein it shall be buried Wherefore O Master laying these grounds that God hath punished our Fathers for Idolatry and Prophet-killing and in the Scripture their sinne and punishment are both recorded seeing God uses not to punish the same sin twice then the seventy years captivity must be the punishment of the foregoing sins Again it not being usuall with God to lay on an universall Rod but where there hath been an universall sin it must needs follow that after that captivity we have generally committed some greater sin before God than either their Idolatry or Prophet-slaughter weighing and proportioning their 70 years punishment and no more with our thousand years captivity and more who are still a wretched dispersion thorow the the four quarters of the world Yet what ever falls out we are Gods people and belong to him Now because no excuse can evade what I have said answer me directly to it CHAP. II. He proves they are thus dispersed for some grievous sin in which they are and argues against observation of their Law SUppose O Master that wee are in some great sinn yet now I request thou wouldest certifie me in this if after God scattered us out of Jerusalem and sent us into this long and lasting captivity for that sin why do we of our own authority and proper motion of our own will without any speciall mandate from God observe some Legall Rites and do not keep Circumcision the Sabbath and other Ceremonies that we hold according to the Law of Moses We know that from the time in which Titus destroyed the holy Citie and by combustions turned our Temple and Libraries into ashes dispersing us in that Captivitie that ever since Sacrifices Oblations and whole burnt-Offerings have quite ceased God not making promise to us by any Prophet in any Prophecie or by any certain revelation that we should any more return to our forsaken Ierusalem to be in our former state nor giving us any precept ●o keep and hold our former Observances Hence it seems by due consequence to follow ●hat these foresaid observances which we keep we received them not of God but of them that were under the wrath of God Yea thus ●ur Adversaries the Christians shall justly ●ay unto us Like as you observe Circumcisi●n and the Sabbath and do read in your Sy●agogues the Books of Moses without any ●ommand from God why do you not as well in like manner take up again your sacrificing and make to your selves a Priest a King a Prince why use you not holy Unctions and Incense why build you not Altars and keep your Ceremonies and many other things contained in the Law as well as Sabbath and Circumcision and many other things which by your own Traditions and Will-worship not commanded of God you do retain Thus both wayes is the Lord offended by you These aforesaid Rites if you observe them contrary to the Will of God or if you say it is Gods Will and his good pleasure that you should do them which is more than you can manifest why omit you those aforesaid Rites which you may use as well as these Let it be granted that the Kings of the people to whom you are subject do not permit you yet seeing they permit you to retain Circumcision your Books Synagogues and other things they would suffer you in many other things as well as these To these Arguments O my Master a sufficient answer is farre to seek amongst us yet in all events we belong to God CHAP. III. All the Iews observance of the Law is unacceptable to God for the sinne in which they are WEE have found O Master what the Lord speaks by the mouth of his Prophet Zacharie concerning that first short captivitie These things saith the Lord God to the Priests and people of the Land when you fasted and mourned in the sixt and seventh moneth the whole time of your seventy yeers you understood that you fasted and mourned to me but I would not have any such fast from you Our Translation hath it otherwise but I purpose to set out in writing the authorities which Rabbi Samuel brings as they are in the Arabick not as we finde them in our Bibles In the forementioned words O Master the Lord intimates that while we Jews were in that seventy years Captivitie we were without his Law because in the Law we neither had nor have any Fast as we have other observances yea in like manner we were without Circumcision and Sabbath and doubtlesse all these things are nothing worth whiles Gods wrath abides upon his people That first wrath of God was short extending to 70 years onely but this in which we now are is a thousand years long and upward and none of the Prophets let us see and end of it This causes my fear O Master that as the Lord cast our Fathers into that short Bondage and Captivity without any Legall Observances their Fastings and all other Rites being abhorred of the Lord till the set time of their punishment was expired so in