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A49635	The last letters, to the London-merchants and faithful ministers concerning the further proceedings of the conversion and restauration of the Jews with most strange and wonderful miracles performed by the holy captain general of the wandring Israelites, a prophecie touching the downfall of Babylon in 66, and the time of the Gospel to be preach'd throughout the whole world, the number of their great armies, a description of their persons, habits, and weapons, the routing of the King of Arabia, and killing many thousand Turks, and the fearful dream of the Turkish Emperour, worthy of observation by all good Christians.	Serrurier, Petrus.	1665 (1665)	Wing L489; ESTC R5552	3,276	9

The Last LETTERS To the London-Merchants AND Faithful Ministers CONCERNING The further Proceedings of the Conversion and Restauration of the Jews With most strange and wonderful Miracles performed by the Holy Captain-General of the Wa●d●ing-Israelites A Prophecie touching the Downfall of Babylon in 66 and the time of the Gosp●l to be Preach'd throughout the whole World The Number of their Great Armies A Des●ription of their Persons Habits and We●pons the routing of the King of A●abia and killing many thousand Tu●ks And the fearful Dream of the Turkish Emperour worthy of Observation by all good Christians Imprinted for G. Cotton 1665. The last Let●ers from Dr. Serarias and the City of Jerusalem concerning the further Proceedings of the Jews in order to their Conversion SIR YOurs I have received and was glad of that Return of Your Love In part of Retalianation I shall communicate the further Proceedings and Ratlings of the House of Israel For since my last We have had several Expresses not onely from Jerusalem but Tun●●●… also That this Year no Carrivan is to go to Mecha by reason the City is besie●ed by the Israelite● who appear in great Numbers and are said to be sent by the Ten Tribes to be the Fore-runners From Jerusalem we have received very good News and likewise many of our Christian Mercha t s have received the like from Alexandria The Particulars of which is that the Bashaw or Alexandria with the King of Arabia made use of a Carravan that is an Army of Sixty Thousand Men and marched toward Mecha and being within one days Iourney of the Citie sent out a Troop to take notice how things were which Troop having seen this People lying in Tents about the Citie and hearing that they profest themselves to be Israelites reported this to the Bashaw who for all that resolved to march on with his Forces and coming within sight of the City discovered an innumerable Multitude of People coming out of their Tents Whereupon the Turks advanced up against them gave fire discharged several Volleys of round shot but after a little fighting a pannick fear took them and terror seized on them making them cry out Who is able to fight with these People seeing our Arrows and Shot return back upon our selves So the Turks leaving off fighting returned Home and the Israelites unto their Tents without pursuing them This Affront caused the Bashaw and King of the Moors thorow out all Egypt and Arabia to impose on the Iews in all their Dominions a new Tax five times greater then it was before And the Bashaw the better to inform himself what this People were sent ten Iews to them who found them to be Israelites and that they spake Hebrew saying they were sent before to remain at Meka till the rest of their Brethren came for that the time was now come that they should return unto their own Land of their Fore-Fathers which others had usurped and taken from them Another Letter saith that the Commander of Meka sent 4 Troops to oppose them but not one returned and that divers Caravans and great Bodies have bin wholly defeated by the said Israelites and that twelve thousand Turks coming from a City called Metai near Meka were also routed and eight thousand slain upon the Place their own Swords and Muskets turning against themselves Of the ten Iews that were sent sir remained with their Brethren and but 4 returned to the Turks As for the great Prophet in North. Skilton Doctor Collonest hath bin at his House in a Town called Long-Ditch where he heard these things out of his own Mouth That in the Year 1661. he meditated on the Scriptures speaking of the Latter Times as Math. 2● Esay 24. Jer. 50. Ezek. 28. Dan. 7. It hapned that he being awake in his Bed near Morning he heard a distinct Voice telling him that Babylon was to fall in 66. and that at Midnight even as it hapned to Beltshazer and that Her Fall would cause such a Terror and Consternation to fall upon Men that from that time until 70 there would be a stand in Divine Worship and many Iudgments would fall on divers Cities and Towns whereof some would suddenly be swallowed up and Long-Ditch ruined and few escape yet notwithstanding he hath no freedom to return But in the Year 71. there will be some Meetings again though no Communion held all that time onely a beginning of Practise But in 72 there will be a full Communion and Restitution of the Apostolical Worship And then will the Gospel be preached throughout the whole World This is the substance of a Letter sent to Doctor Homes From Saley in Barbary August 16. 1665. Worthy Sir THE Tidings of the 15. of July concerning the March of our Brethren the Ten Tribes of Israel i● now from several places confirmed to Us all Things being so full of wonder that for s●●e few days we cou●d scarcely b●lieve or give credit to it from the City of Sus otherwise called Sama-Crew But now We have certain Information that they are on the side of the Desart and move from several places to the said Desart Go●h of Morocco being not ar from Cape de Ver but more within th● Land And they appear daily more and more in great Multitudes having suddenly and unep●ctedly manifested themselves covering a vast Tract of Ground and consisting of about eight thousand Companies or Troops each of which containing from one hundred to a thousand Men. They who went thither to see and enquire who they were found them to be Strangers and an unknown People whose Language they understood not onely some few of their Commanders speak Hebrew Their Arms are Swords Bows Arrow● and L●nces each Man being well armed therewith but no Guns at all They have for their Chief Leader or Captain a Holy M●n who understandeth all Languages and marcheth before them doing Miracles These with several of their Actions were all related to me by a Convert Rabby who has been discoursing amongst them and hath affirmed it by an Oath upon the Book of the Law But in Confirmation of all which here are now arrived several Gentlemen of good repute and Credit who relate passing by the Places above-mentioned That they understood the same Things which the Rabby and others who had seen them before had related and many Things more amongst the rest that this unknown People were come from the Mountainous Countreys in the Wilderness and were advanced as far as Mecha●as There is a certain Jew in the City of Sus who hath testified and declared that he hath seen the People called Israelites and going amongst them discoursed with many of their Commanders in He●rew but understood not the Language of the great Multitude yet withall heard of other Jews that several of them spake the Holy Tongue and that whosoever goeth to contend with this People in Battel are presently vanquished and slain They have already possest themselves of several Places and Cities putting all the Inhabitants to the Sword the Jews onely excepted They are a People of a middle stature their Bodies comely their Complexions fair This Party saw no Woman amongst them nor any other Ar●● besides those above-mentioned their Horses are many their Attire blew and their Tents black From the aforesaid City of Sus the whole Host of them might be plainly and distinctly viewed the whole Week and might see their Fire● and Smoak ascending but on the Sabbath neither of both could be discerned throughout the whole Camp or Host Several of them being got up on a very high Sand the Mountain where they are employed to dig is very deep in the said Sand where they expect to find a Brays Tamber that is a Trumpet with the which they are to sound 2 times and then all Nations are to be gathered into one Universal Church Their Leader is of an extraordinary discerning Spirit and as soon as he sees a man he knows his Mind and what is in his Heart It 's said that coming to a great River not Foordable he consulted the passage and the whole Army went to Prayers imploring the most High that as he was pleased to divide the Waters of the Red Sea for their Ancestors and as the great Messias was born of a Virgin so He would now shew some Sign thereof to them to evince them of the Truth by working of a Miracle and 't is said that as soon as they had ended prayer the Waters divided and the whole Army marched over Great Signs now of a Conversion and many signal Signs in the Heavens and on ●●e Earth to teach Us the great Work of Redemption A Meteor like a Cob-Web as if a Spider had spun it fell in Norway which covered the Fields and killed the Corn they were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in length and as much in breadth In Franconi● fell Hail-stones of a pound and a half weight And in B●rd●s 〈…〉 to be seen on a Mount a huge Stone which 8 horses were not able to stir this Stone lay deep in a Ditch and came up of it self out of the ground and bare it self ●0 Cubits in height This seems as strange to some as the Great Turks Dream did to himself which was That a Jew had taken the Crown from his Hevd Which possibly m●y be accomplished in THE END