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A39795	Israel redux, or, The restauration of Israel, exhibited in two short treatises the first contains an essay upon some probable grounds, that the present Tartars near the Caspian Sea, are the posterity of the ten tribes of Israel / by Giles Fletcher ; the second, a dissertation concerning their ancient and successive state, with some Scripture evidences of their future conversion, and establishment in their own land / by S.L.	Fletcher, Giles, 1549?-1611. Tartars, or, Ten tribes.; Lee, Samuel, 1625-1691.	1677 (1677)	Wing F1333; Wing L898; ESTC R2002	48,660	138

commixt with other people and partly forced by the violence of the Medians who expelled them thence being but strangers and thrust upon them by the Assyrians shall appear plainly by that which followeth A Second Reason is From the names and appellations of their Cities and greater Towns which are scituated upon the East and North-East side of the Bachualensky or Caspian Sea These Tartar Cities which yet are extant have many of them the same names as had those ancient Towns and Cities which were inhabited by the Israelites while they enjoyed their own Country Their Metropolis or chief City though now deformed with many Ruins is Samarchian which hath many Monuments of that Nation as they report who have been there where the great Tamerlain who led about in a Golden Chain the Turkish Emperor called Bajazet had his Seat and place of residence And how little differing is Samarchian from Samaria the chief City of these Israelites and their Seat and Chamber of their Kings onely differing in termination a thing usual in proper names of Men or Citys when they are pronounced in divers languages For what differs the name of Londres as it is termined by the French from this of London or the Town of Antwerp from that of Anverse or Edenborough from Edenburgum The same difference may be observed in the proper names of men and women both in the front and first sylable and termination of the name For what consonance hath Maria or Mariamne with that Miriam of the Hebrews or the English James with the Scottish Jamy with the French Jaimes or the Latine Jacob and yet these names are all one They have besides the Mount Tabor a great Town and well fenced with a strong Fort scituate upon a high Hill nothing differing in sorm or name from the Mount Tabor of the Israelites so often mentioned in the Scriptures They have a City called Jericho seated upon the River Ardoce near the Caspian upon the North and North-East They have Corazen the great and the less whereof the less was surprised not long agoe and taken from them upon whose Country the Tartar People sometimes encroach and he on theirs This univocation of Tartar Cities with those of Israel concurring with the former reason from the Place or Country whither they were sometime transplanted by the Assyrians syrians doth plainly shew that the Israelitish People have been there and given the names unto these Cities as the manner is in all places for the remembrance of their Countrys and dwelling places from whence they came or of the Planters or first Founders of the Colonies as of Galatia by the Gaules and the Tyre of Africk from that of Phanice the like is used in New Colonies as Nova Francia Nova Hispanica Nova Britannica St. Domingo Carthagena and other like These Tartar Cities are inhabited by so many as are sufficient to defend them from the Hostility of the Persians and other Borderers But the greater part which are commonly called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Scythian Shepherds do seldome come within any City or standing houses unless it be in Winter-time but abde in Tents or walking houses which the Latine writers call Veij which are built and carried upon wheels like Carts and Waggons Their manner is in Summer-time when grass is grown and fit for Pasturage with their herds and flocks to march Northward and North-West from the South-East parts where they continue all the Winter not all together but in their Hoords and several Armies under the conduct and directions of their Morsoyes and Divoi-Morsoyes which are their Princes and Vicegerents under the great Cham their Emperor and graze along by the way as they go until they come to the next stage or resting place where they plant their Veij or Waggon-houses and so make a form of a great City with many Streets there continuing till their Cattle have grazed up all Thus they proceed by small Stages till they arrive at the farthest point towards the North and then return towards the South and South-East parts another way where their Cattel have fresh Pasturage And so retiring by short Journeys by the end of Summer they arrive again into the South-East Countrys near the Caspian in a more mild and temperate Climate where they continue all the Winter within their Cities or Cart-houses set together in form and fashion of a Town as before was said My Third Reason is from the distinction of their Tribes which by the Tartar are called Hoords which being united in one Government and communicable in all things else yet may not unite nor mixe together by inter-marriage but keep apart and avoid confusion of Kinreds except it be for defence or publick benefit of the whole they unite themselves and joyn together as one People And this division of the Nation into Tribes and without commixtion of their Kinreds which was no where else used by any Nation save the Israelites is still observed and continued among the Tartars most religiously A Fourth Reason is from the number of their Tribes which are 10 in all neither more nor less as were the Israelites Their names are these 1. The Chrime-Tartars which most infesteth the Russe Borders for which respect the chief leaders of this Tribe whom they call Morsoyes or Divoi-Morsoyes receive their pension from the Russe not to invade or hurt their Country 2. The Second is the Cheremissim 3. The Third is the Morduit-Tartar 4. The Fourth is the Nagay whereof the one is the warlikest People the other is the cruellest and most laborious of all the rest The Fifth is the Sebair whence the Siberes or Siberians who dwell by the River Obba derive their Pedigree and are therefore reckoned and annumbred to this Tribe 6. The sixth is the Mecrite-Hoord 7. The seventh is the Shalcan 8. The eighth is the Chercassey the most civil Tartar of all the rest of a comely person and much affected to be like the Lachish or Polonian in his habit gesture and whole behaviour by means whereof some number of them have of late received the Christian faith 9. The ninth is the Cassach 10. The tenth and last is crlled Turkestan which imports as muck as Herdman Tartar by an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because this Hoord is the greatest Herd-master and Cattlebreeder above all the rest from whom the Turks had their begining as saith the Russe And that this is true besides the report of the Russe People and other Borderers who have best cause to know their Pedigree it is the opinion of all the Historians who lived about the time when the Turkish Nation invaded the upper Asia and began to grow a great and mighty Monarchy Among the rest it shall not be idle nor impertinent to report here what Leanicus Chalcocondilos the Athenian briefly writes in the beginning of his Story touching the Origine of the Turks It is thought said he that the Turkish Nation derive their Pedigree from

West of Hemedan I deem to be the ancient Lycus The City Calicala in North Lat. 41. in Alfraganus is called Hisan or Hisan Cala at this day and the same with Asan by Tigris in Ortelius and the inhabitant Kalaeus or as some Calichla Pliny treating of these Countrys mentions the people Classitae per quos Lycus ex Armenia fertur whom Bochart in his Phaleg corrects by Chalachitae and cites the Talmud explaining Halak by Helvan or Hulvan lying South of Hemedan The River Lycus is at this time called Zab and is mentioned by the Nubian Geographer and of old Zaba and Diava by Amianus which signifies a Wolf whence this portion of Assyria was called Adiabene Thus much for the first place called Halah into which Israel was carried by the command nf the Assyrian Conqueror The Second place is styled Habor Chabor in Hebrew we may observe in Ptolomy a Mountain a River and a City all of this name The Mountain Chaboras called Choatras in the Palatine Copy is that which divides Assyria from Media toward the North-West The River Chabor rises out of the Mountain Massius or Mash in the North of Mesopotamia and is the same which in our Translation of Ezechiel is turned Chebar by the Nubian Alchabur by Strabo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and by Amiamus Aboras At this day Giulap The City Chabura is set by Ptolemy near the influxe of that River into Euphrates so that stands in a triangle between both Rivers which Amiamus an Eye-witness calls munimentum tutissimum fabre politum cujus maenia Abora Euphrates ambiunt flumina velut spatium insulare fingentes Quod Diocletianus exiguum adhuc suspectum muris turribusque circumdedit celsis c. A very strong Fortress and well built whose Walls are washt by the Rivers Aboras and Euphrates making as it were an Island which being of old but little and dangerous Dioclesian compassed with high Walls and Towers The Romans called it Corcusium in the notices of the Easterne Empire Circaesium and is the same with the City Charchemish in Scripture whither Pharaoh-Necoh King of Aegypt went up to Battel By the Nubian Cquerquisia and now commonly Karkasa and had its name saith Golius from setting forth Horses to a race So that here we evidently discover another place with the Territories adjoyning whither the Tribes of Israel were carried Captive The Third place is Hara which the learned Bochart would have to be Aria but let 's not mistake him for I find this Aria to be the same with Algebal Har signifies a Mountainous Tract as well as Gebal and lyes on the North of Assyria near Media which is evident by some of the Cities of Algebal to wit Hamedan and Dainur lying near the places in Halah before mentioned But the Aria of Ptolomy lies East of Parthia far hence to the South-East of the Caspian Sea which appears plainly by Amianus wherefore I judge this Aria or Gobal to be the true place and not that of Ptolomy on the North whereof runs the River Araxes now called Aras rising out of the Mountain Paryardes or Ararat of Armenia with which agrees that Judicious Traveller Olearius describing the rise of Aras from the Mountains of Ararat in the South of which River lies the little Province Arsea now likely Arzerum and Arsareth in the Apochryphal Book of Esdras Vleg-Beg in the Region of Aran places the three Cities of Mochan Bardach and Sencarah which seem to be Mekar Berdah and Tzenkan of Olearius though a little North of Vleg-Beggs Mokan and is joyned to Media Atropatia or Aderbeitzan whence it appears that our Aria here enquired is no other then the Province of Iran scituate between the Rivers Araxes and Cyrus now called Aras and Kur from which the City Ervan lies not far off and this Country of Iran I take to be the true Hara under our present inquisition whither the Israelites were carried Captive and extends it self upon the North of Assyria and was part of ancient Media and near the Caspian Sea Fourthly Our next search must be after Gozan and the River of Gozan Although as yet I observe no River of that name yet find both a City and a Territory called Gauzanites The Region Gauzanites Ptolomy places in the North-East of Mesopotamia with the City Gizana near the Springs of the River Chaboras at the foot of the Mountain Masius and not far West from Calacine in the Lat. 37. 15. and besides that he places another City called Gauzanea in Media Antropatea or Tropatene in the Latitude of 40 d. 15 min near the River Cyrus or Kir in Scripture whither the inhabitants of Damascus were carried Captive The Learned Bochart asserts the City Ganzania to lye in the midway between the Mountain Chaboras and the Caspian Sea and between the 2 streams of the River Cyrus and conceives that probably it gave the ancient name of Gozan both to the River and Country before the days of Cyrus and this I take to be the Scripture place as being a City of the Medes and near to the forementioned places whither these Tribes were carried though I shall not need to contend about that other in the North of Mesopotamia the latter it may be having been a Colony from the former By what name it s called at this day I cannot determine unless it be the City of Zenken on the River Cyrus not far from the Caspian Sea and not much West of Schamaky a noble and great City of Modern Persia This same place seems to be mentioned by Strabo by the name of Gaza and placed in Media Atropatia It s true I find in Ptolomy a Gauzania and a Gazaca two distinct Cities in Media but that hinders not our acquiescing in the former knowing that Ptolomy is somewhat confused in the delineation of the Rivers Araxes and Cyrus and the Cities adjacent Pliny puts Guza the City of Media Atropatene at 450 miles distance from Artaxata and very probable is the same with Gazaca an eminent City of Media in Amianus and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Constantin Porphyrogenneta who makes it a City of Chaldia so termed from the Chaldeans of whom they fetcht their Origine which may be no other then Colthene with its City Gisma upon Araxes in Ptolomy To travel any further with the Ancient or Moderns would but tire us since we have found out the Gozan of Scripture to lye in Media and near the Caspian Sea But before we unharness it were not amiss to mention the Sabbatical River too much laught at by some If they did but compare the Sambathiah in Seder Olam with the River Sabbatius in Ortelius the River Zabatus in Xenophon l. 2. Cyri. Zaba of Cedrenus and Niceph callist which is the Lycus of Ptol. and Zab. major and minor above said The City Zombis in Amian and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

in Stephanus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and likely ist he same with the Candis in Ptolomy upon the River Cyrus which Amimus affirms to have its name from Cyrus the Great the old name being abolisht which with other Cities he places in terris Syromedorum in the Country of the Syrians of Media This may insinnuate that the estimated Fable of Ezra concerning the Israelites travelling from their first seat to some remoter places as Arsareth is nothing but a small remove to some more distant Cities North of Armenia and near the Caspian Sea where Ptolomy places the City Arsarata in Lat. 43. 30. on the River Araxis and possibly is the ancient name of the Modern City Arzerum or near it mentioned by Golius out of Abulfeda and very likely is no other then Ariarsathea in the Authentical Collations From all the foresaid disquisition we may collect 1. That I hope with submission to the Learned that the true place is discovered where these 10 Tribes were first seated and from whence they did further Colonize and spread and scatter about in various dispersions by the Caspian Sea and at length grew so numerous that part of the Regions of Media received the denomination of Syro-Media partly from the Tribes of Israel and partly from the Syrians of Damascus who were captivated into the Country of Kir not Cyrene as some have imagined but by the banks of the River Cyrus To confirm this assertion Ptolomy that great Astronomer and Geographer of Pelusium in Aegypt says that this Syro-Media did extend it self 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 on the South of Media all along the Borders of Persia Nay Amimanus expresly determines Ecbatana the true Achmetha in Ezra in the very Country of the Syro-Medians 2. We may infer that these ten Tribes were at first placed in the Northern Frontires of the Assyrian Empire towards part of Armenia and Media which were then under the Kings of the Medes ever since the starting up of that Kingdom at the fall of Sardanapalus and the rising of Arbaces But let thus much serve in answer to the first Query whither the 10 Tribes were carried The 2d Question moved was where these ten Tribes may probably yet seem to reside at this day In answer to this Query I shall endeavour to shew from their first deportation by a chain or link of times from age to age how we may discern as by a lamp of successive Writers where to scituate their present residence As to the first place of their fixation by the Conquering Assyrian where should they be found but where God himself says they were so far forth as we have light from the Holy Scriptures of truth But the Sacred Scripture directly asserts that at the time of the penning of that portion in the book of Kings that they were in those Cities of the Medes to this day and that the Samaritans were placed in theit room to this day where also mention is made of their continuation to the 4th Generation The Author also of the book of Chronicles declares the Israelites to reside in those seats of their Captivity to the day of his writing Now whoever wrote that book or annexed the additions to it for it seems to be composed by parcels at the dictate of the Spirit of God plainly recites the tenth Generation after the time of the Captivity of Judah and yet had asserted the duration of Israel in the state of Captivity so that they returned not when Judah came back again but were still in their captivated station at the additionals to that book yea even to the tenth Generation The Series whereof stands thus Zorobabel 1 Hananiah v. 21. 2 Pelathiah and Jesaiah 3 Rephaiah v. 21. 4 Arnan 5 Obadiah 6 Shecaniah 7 Shemajah 8 Neariah 9 Elioenaj 10 Hodajah c. v. 25. The Septuagint the vulgar translation the Syriak and Arabick v. 21 read Et filius ejus and his Son as if they had found it in the Hebrew text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So that if we place Zorobabel at the building of the 2d Temple according to the learned Vsher A. M. 3485. and give to each Generation but 30 year apeice that is in the whole 300 and add them to the year 3485 they produce the year of the world 3785. Untill which time at the least by the testimony of Scripture the Israelites were still in a state of Captivity and dispersion Though Lavater be of Opinion that these 10 Generations contain the progression of a linage to the very time of our blessed Lords Incarnation which at present I shall leave in bivio and undiscussed But I may not pass over an Objection made to that expression there to this day which arises from the same phrase applied to the Ark although it were taken away at the Captivity of Judah To which it may be answered that the text about the Ark must be considered with analogy to other places Now the History of the Kings and Chronicles does by clear consequence assert the Ark to be carried away in that it affirms that all the Vessels of the House of God great and small and the Treasures of the House of God were taken away and that all the Vessels of Gold in the Temple which Solomon had made called the goodly Vessels of the House of the Lord were carried away together with Jeconiah at his Captivity wherefore Lavater sticks not to expound those general and comprehensive expressions of the Ark Tables and Candlesticks as well as of all the inferiour Vtensils and implements So that though the Ark may be said to have bin in the Temple to the day when the former part of that book was written yet the last Chapter determines its removal among the other costly and glorious Ornaments of the first Temple But as to the ten Tribes the sacred Author of that History having declared them to have continued in Media at the time of his writing of that Chapter neither Ezra or whoever might finish up that Chronicle does in least measure intimate the alteration of their estates but leaves them there without any notice of their reversion but having asserted them to be carried thither and to have persisted in their tragical state to the day of the exaration or penning of those books even to the tenth Generation which whether it concern a Genealogie of persons reaching to the Incarnation of our Lord though we cannot certainly determine yet however ever for some hundreds of years after their deportacion In the next place we read of their remaining still in Captivity in the days of Josephus who wrote under the Reign of Vespasian and his testimony if worthy of any credit ought to pass for currant as to matters of his own Nation Historically considered in his own time In his books then of the Wars of the Jews which were written before his antiquities we read a speech made by King Agrippa to

great had prayed the God of Israel to shut up the ten Tribes within the Caspian Mountains they met together among the Streights and precipices and made the place unpassable This Learned and Pious Author died Anno. 1349. The last to be now mentioned is Dr. Giles Fletcher who being Agent for Q. Elizabeth in Moschovy which borders upon the North-West of Media endeavoured in an enquiry after the ten Tribes of Israel and upon search into that point wrote that little Tract preceding this dissertation wherein he gives in a fairer and more probable account that the Tartarians about Samarchand on the East side of the Caspian Sea may be in part the Progeny of the Israelites carried away by Salmanasser out of the Land of Canaan I leave it to the judgment of the candid and pious reader I shall mention but a few things and so come to an end The first is to reconcile that worthy Author to the Opinion of some that the ten Tribes might be found out partly among the Alani as well other barbarous Nations near the Caspian For if Amimanus Marcellinus be consulted who was in the Army of Julian he tells us that the Albani and Massagetae so called of old were the same people which were in his time called the Alans near the Caspian Lakes But I insist not upon that were we to make a strict and compleat enquiry we might follow the counsel of Eustathius upon Dionysius determining the Cholchi to be a Colony of the Aegyptians possibly from Casluchim he argues from the same hair Crisp and Woolly the same customes as Circumcision and Linnen-garments and the same Language It were expedient to use the method of Caesar Tacitus and others to consider not only the Towns of the same denomination but their Religion in some depraved reliques their Language in its primitive words their habits and customes and the general Tradition among themselves and neighbours if we would determine any thing clearly and satisfactorily about the Origine of Nations I know that Isidorus Characenus in his Greek Geography when he comes to Bactriana mentions 3 Cities there sc Gadar and Sephri and Phra which may seem to be like to some names of Israels Land as Gedor and Sephor and Ophra But this without other circumstances is to indulge fancy I know Ortelius in his Charts is very liberal in this point and paints out to us the Hoord of the Danites and Napthalites and some Cities as Corason and Tabor and Sherachiek for Jericho and the like but I fear this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to serve a conceit by allusions of names or else to speak softly I could wish he had enlarged upon some attending reasons of more weight Our forecited Benjamin asserts that there were in his time almost 50000 Israelites in the City Hemdan in North Persia and that Mordecai and Ester lye buried near a Synagogue in that City but I leave him for better instruction to the ruler of that Synagogue But as to the City that many Jews might be scatterd up and down thereabouts it s not utterly incredible it was of old a principal City in Media and is called Vrbs Medena by Trogus and by Isidor of Sevil. It s often mentioned by the Nubian Author in the 6. part of the fourteenth Climate c. It s termed Medino in the plats of Ortelius Hamedan in Vleg-Beg and set in the 35 gr and 10. min. of North Latitude It s put down by Alfergamus and Golius upon him 5 days jorney West of Kom in Parthia I have little more to observe at present in this subject but what the ingenious Olearius acquainrs us about the Circassian Tartars whom the worthy Dr. Fleteher makes one of the ten Hoords of the Israelitish Tribes that they live in and about Terki whence the Turks name is probably deduced by the Caspian Sea 1. That the Brother raises up seed to the deceased Brother 2. That they are circumcised 3. That they offer sacrifice on the day of Elias 4. That they offer a He-goat in Sacrifice at the death of friends 5. Marcus Paulus the Venetian in his first Book of his oriental travels acquaints us that the Tartarians give liberty to the surviving Brother to marry the Wife of the deceased Brother and that they receive no portions of their Wives but assign a dowry both to them and their Mothers And further 6. It s mentioned by Olearius that there is a City called Samara North of Astracan near those Coasts Which things do in some measure savour of the forementioned Opinion about the Israelites that some confused and intermixed remains are lodged upon the West as well as the East side of the Caspian But thus much as to the dissipation of the ten Tribes in Media and among the Mountainous tracts of Caucasus leaving the fuller certainty to further discoveries of Merchants and Travellers and the labours of such who please to wade amidst the conjectures of the learned Pro and Con as Breerwood in his enquiries Nicolas Fuller in his Miscellanies Shickard in his Tarich or Kings of Persia Morney in his discourse of the truth of the Christian Religion Hornbeck against the Jews The Author of the Turkish History Lazius and other writers of the Persian and Moschovy Nations composed into 2 Volumnes who have inlarged about plantations and deductions of Colonies As for the 2 Tribes which were scattered by Titus Hadrian and others of the Romans being not my design I shall onely remember that they are well known in most parts of the World scarce a territory in Europe but affords many In some parts of Africa very plenteously In Asia there are great multitudes yea and in America they are trading up and down in several quarters but that the ten Tribes by the Streights of Anian or any other imagined passage should have conveyed themselves as to their maine body into America is a far-fetcht Notion embraced by Manasseh Ben Israel c. rejected by Acosta de Laet Hornius c. But leaving that to conflict I proceed to the third Question 3. Question whether the ten Tribes shall return out of their dispersion To which I reply that I am fully perswaded that the reduction of the ten Tribes from their great and ancient dispersion to their own Land is a Scripture truth though not yet accomplished in evidence whereto I shall give in several arguments from the sacred records 1. Arg. 1 They are prophecied to return out of their dispersion after the manifestation of the Messiah The Psalmist having sung the ascension of Christ then treats of his wounding the head of his enemies and bringing his people again from Bashan and again from the depths of the Sea i. e. as in the days of old The Prophet Isaiah having spoken of Christs coming forth of the Stem of Jesse declares that when the Gentiles shall have been converted then the Lord

he is pleased to tell them that after he had appointed them three Cities of refuge on the East of Jordan and again three more to be stated on the West of Jordan in the Land whither they were a going that when the Lord should enlarge their Coast to give them all the Land whereof he had sworn to their Fathers that they should add three Cities more that is nine in all because of the Largeness and amplitude of their Territory and it is observed that the Lord is never in Scripture said to sware but that thing was accomplished which as yet is not fulfilled to this very day If then they of the South did never yet possess Edom nor they of the Plain the Fields of Ephraim nor Benjamin the Country of Gilead It rests a Prophecy as yet unfulfilled to this day To understand the literal sence of this Prophecy We must call to mind that the Tribe of Judahs Country was divided into three parts Negeb or the South toward Arad and Amalek Sephela or the Plain toward the Philistines and the Mountains from Jerusalem to Hebron According to this division a difficult Scripture may be cleared wherein Abraham is said to ascend from Egypt into the South but all the Land of Canaan lay North-East from Egypt but he went into this Country or third division of Judah called Negeb or the South Land and so likewise that of the Psalmist where the Churches Captivity is said to be returned as the Streams in the South i. e. as Davids Family was returned to him by the Streams of Bezor in Negeb the Southern barren Desert of Judah toward Edom. But I proceed to a 6th 6. Arg. 6 They are to return to such a State of Grandeur and Magnificence that the Nations and their Kings shall come with Presents to Jerusalem and shall admire the beauty of their rising The Gentiles shall come to their light and Kings shall adore their brightness They shall suck the Milk of the Gentiles and the Breasts of Kings In which sense we are to understand that place that Kings shall be Nursing-Fathers and Queens Nursing-Mothers to New Jerusalem in bringing all the forces of the Gentiles to serve the Lord in Zion I will gather all Nations says the Lord and all tongues and they shall come and see my glory Tarshish Pul and Lud Tubal and Javan c. And they shall bring your Brethren for an Offering to the Lord out of all Nations when the Lord shall create new Heavens and a new Earth to remain before him To which Prophecies the Holy Spirit points quasi indice digite in that great glorious Scheme of the New-Jerusalem drawn by the Pen of holy John when the Nations of them that are saved shall walk in the light of it and the Kings of the Earth shall bring their glory and their honour into it To which may be annexed what Haggai and Zechary predict of the glorious time after the Second Temple they Prophecy after the Restitution of Judah from the first or Babylonian Captivity that there shall be more glorious times for Israel then ever they had under the First Temple and under their ancient Kings David and Solomon they are to see under the Messiah who was to be the glory of the Second Temple happier times then ever they had before But alas the Restauration granted by the Persian Princes was mixed with much tribulation and afterward with great Persecution under the Graecian or Antiochian Princes and at last those 2 Tribes underwent a fatal extermination by the Romans But after these times of great sorrow and misery the Lord promises so great a commotion of the Nations as never was before and such as shall end in the great glory of Israel For then the very Thrones of Nations shall be shaken in peices not only the Riders but their very Chariots shall be overthrown and the Horses also destroyed and this shall be performed by Civil Wars and mutual dissentions among themselves every one shall fall by the hand of his Brother there shall be great tumults and every ones hand shall be against his Neighbour In that day the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be seven-fold as the light of seven days when the Lord shall bind up the Breach of his People and heal the stroke of their wound 7. Arg. 7 They are to return as at the first when Israel came out of Egypt that is all the Twelve Tribes are to be raised out of their various Dispersions from all Quarters of the Earth and inhabit their Ancient Land together They shall feed in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of Old according to the days of their coming out of the Land of Egypt will the Lord shew unto them marvelous things when the Nations shall rejoyce with his People because he will avenge the bloud of his Servants and render Vengeance to their adversaries and will be merciful to his Land and to his People which words spake Moses in the Ears of all the Congregation of Israel Which holy Paul applys to the Conversion of the Gentiles and Israel together in the latter day when God will cause not only the Captivity of Judah but the Captivity of Israel also as distinct from Judah to return and will build them as at the first and cause the Captivity of the Land to return as at the first and there shall never want a man to sit upon the Throne of the House of Israel when the whole House of Israel shall be raised up again and which is most remarkable against some Objectors about Israels being mixt with Judah that the Lord appoints two Sticks for a sign in the hand of the Prophet One stick or Rod or Scepter for Judah and some portions of Israel their Companions and another Stick for Joseph or Ephraim and all the house of Israel his Companions and they are to be joyned into one stick For saith the Lord 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 Kingdomes any more at all and my Servant David shall be their Prince for ever and I will set my Sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore In those days Jerusalem shall be built upon her own heap i. e. in the ancient place of its Rubbish and ruins whereas now a great part of the City is removed Westward by Hadrian and compassed in Mount Golgatha and excludes the Castle of Zion but then the City shall be listed up out of her