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A02727	The Messiah already come. Or Profes [sic] of Christianitie both out of the Scriptures, and auncient rabbins, to convince the Iewes, of their palpable, and more then miserable blindnesse (if more may be) for their long, vaine, and endlesse expectation of their Messiah (as they dreame) yet for to come. Written in Barbarie, in the yeare 1610, and for that cause directed to the dispersed Iewes of that countrie, and in them to all others now groaning under the heavy yoake of this their long and intollerable captivitie, which yet one day shall have an end ...	Harrison, John, fl. 1610-1638.	1619 (1619)	STC 12858; ESTC S116532	67,755	80

buyld a tower sitteth not downe before and counteth the cost c. So likewise whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath he cannot be my disciple This was the proclamation and Edict of Christ to his followers This was the entertaynement proposed by Iesus to such as would come and serue under his colours with expresse protestation that himself was sent into the world not to bring peace rest and ease to flesh and blood but rather to be the cause of sworde fire and tribulation Thinke not that I am come to send peace into the earth I came not to send peace but the sword And yet with these cold offers presented to the world first by himself to his Apostles and disciples wonne thereby to follow him euen upon the first call they left all and followed him and by them to all others afterwards Isay by this doctrine so crosse and opposite to mans nature inclination and sensuall appetite he gayned moe harts unto him within the space of fortie yeeres then ever did monarch in the world possesse loving subjects by whatsoever temporall alurements they did or might propose which argueth the omnipotent puisance of him that contrarie to mans reason in so shorte a tyme could bringe to passe so miraculous a conquest were there no other argument in the world of the truth of Christian Religion this were sufficient His death and passion FOr his death and passion with all the disgrace dispite and indignities were done unto him by the Iewes it was also foretold by the Prophets and so expounded by their owne Rabbins as also by our Sauiour himself behold we goe up to Ierusalem and all things shall be fulfilled to the Sonne of man that are written by the Prophets c. He made his entrance into the citie upon an a●●e in all humilitie as was prophecied the Messiah should doe Rejoyce greatly o daughter Zion shoute for joye c. Fulfilled euen at the same tyme when the people spread their garments in the way cutte downe branches from the trees and strowed them in the way crying Hosanna to the Sonne of David c. He was betrayed by his owne disciple as David in divers places had foretold under a type of those his secret enemies in the dayes of Saul as also himself prophecied before hand saying He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish he shall betraye me Being apprehended he was most barbarously entreated by the Iewes according to that of Isay I gaue my back to the smyters my checkes to the nippers I hidde not my face from shame and spi●ting After all this inhumane dealing he was nayled to the crosse hand and foote according to that of David they pearced my hands and my feete I may tell all my bones they beheld and looked upon me they parted my garments among them and cast his upon my vesture And in another place they gaue me gal in my meate and in my thirst they gaue me vineger to drinke He was crucified betweene two malefactors or evildoers one on the right hand the other on the left according to that of Isay He was counted with the transgressors yea Barabas a murtherer in the esteeme of the Ie●es preferred before Iesus and quitte by a common cons●nt and crye aw●y with him deliver unto us Barabas crucifie him crucifie him He prayed for his enemies and persecutors Father forgiue them for they knowe not what they doe according to that of Isay He bare the sinne of many and prayed for the trespassers Not a bone of him was broken according to that Law of the Passeover a liuely type thereof To conclude that Christ should dye for the sinnes of the world it was a received opinion of the Iewes in all ages both prefigured and fore●old throughout all the Scripture prefigured by the sacrifice of Isaack the lifting up of the brasen serpent and by all other sacrifices in the Law Foretold not onely by the Scriptures before mentioned but also by Daniel in most plaine tearmes after threescore and two weeks shall the Messiah be slayne c. acknowledged also by Cayphas himself Highpriest euen the selfe same yeere that Christ ●uffered his words are these to the Pharisees taxing their great blindnes in this point and in them the whole nation of the Iewes to this day Ye perceiue nothing at all noryet doe you consider that it is expedient for us that one man dye for the people and that the whole nation perish not c. But he that will read the whole storie of Christ crucified with the particulars described many hundreth yeeres before the same fell out let him turne to Isay and acknowledge him foran Euangelist who to signifie the straungnes of the case beginneth first with a preface who will beleeue our report c. All which narration Rabbi Ionathan the author of the Chaldie Paraphrase applyeth to the murther of the Messiah by the Iewes whereunto agree Rabbi Simeon Rabbi Hadersan and others proving further out of Dan. 9. ver 27. That after the Messiah shall haue proached half seauen yeeres he shall be slayne which disagreeth litle or nothing frō the account of us Christians Also in their Talmud it is set●e downe for a principle and the sentence pronounced before hand peremptorily in playne termes that the Messiah at his comming shall be put to death So then I may conclude upon all these particulars of Christ his Death Passion foretold by the Prophets prefigured in the ●awe and so oxpounded and acknowledged by the Iewes themselues the auncient Rabbins before mentioned and finally so exactly fulfilled in our Lord and Saviour as by the quotations in the margent may appeare together with the milde maner of his death praying for his enemies Father forgiue them and meekely recommending his soule into the Hands of God Father into thy hands I commend my spirit with other straunge accidents and circumstances that miraculous eclipse of the sunne at that verie instant from the sixt to the ninth houre there was darknes over all the Land the vaile of the temple rent in twaine from the toppe to the bottome and the earth did quake and the stones were cloven and the graues did open themselues and manie bodies of the Saincts which slept arose c. Isay upon all these particularities and circumstances I hope I may conclude as it is in that place with the Centurion and those that were with him watching Iesus who when they sawe the earthquake and the things that were done they feared greatly saaying truly it is was the sonne of God And all the people that came together to that sight beholding the things which were done smote their brests and returned So may I conclude Truly this was the sonne of God truly this is the Messiah and let all the people of the Iewes come together againe to this sight and

heare the mourning of the prisoner and deliver the children appointed unto death that they may decl●re the name of the Lord in Sion and his praise in Ierusal●m For God will saue Sion and bui●d the cities of Iuda that men may dwell there and haue it in poss●ssion the seed as of his servants shall i●●erit it and they tha●●●ue his name sh●ll ●w●l● ther●in Surely the Lord wil● not sayle his p●ople neyther will he fo●sake his inheritance He hath alway remembred his covenant and promise that he made to a thou●and generations Thou wilt thinke upon thy congregation which thou hast possessed of old on the rodde of thine inheritance which thou hast redeemed and on mount Sion wherein thou hast dwelt Yea when the Lord turneth againe the captivitie of hi● people which will be when they turne unto him by hartie repentance not before when they cryed to the Lord in their trouble he delivered them out of their distresse then will he make euen their verie enimies to become their friends giue them grace favour in the sight of all those kings and princes under whom now they liue and groane in most miserable slaverie and bondage as in their former captivities may be observed He sawe when th●y were in affliction and heard their crye He remēbred his covenant towards them and repented according to the multitude of his mercies and gaue them favour in the sight of all them that led them captiues for the hearts of Kings are in the hands of the Lord as the rivers of waters he turneth them which way soever it pleas●th him So the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus King of Persia after that their seauentie yeeres captivitie in Babylon as also Darius and others to write in their behalf sundrie most favourable edicts for their returne into their owne countrie again with large liberalitie for the rea●difying of the temple of God in Ierusalem for the Lord had made them glad and turned the heart of the King of Asshur unto them to incourage them in the work of the house of God euen the God of Israel Therefore Ezra blesseth the Lord ●or all these extraordinarie favours saying Blessed be the Lord God of our Fathers which so hath put in the Kings heart to beautifie the house of the Lord that is in Ierusalem c. Yea rather then fayle of his promised deliverance to his people when they crye unto him in their distresse he will rebuke euen kings for their sakes As he did Pharaoh king of Aegypt in the dayes of old with this peremptorie commaund by the hand of Moses over and over Let my people goe that they may serue me or if thou wilt not c. inflicting upon them one plague after another till at length they were forced to driue them away as it is in that place Rise up get you out from among my people and goe serue the Lord as ye haue sayd And the Egyptia●s did force the people because they would send them out of the Land in hast for they sayd we dye all giving them favour in the meane tyme in the sight of the Egyptians also Moses was verie great in the Land of Egypt in the si●●t ●f Pharoahs servants and in the sight of the people Behold I haue made thee Ph●raohs God sayth the Lord so he brought out Israel from among them for his mercie endureth for evrr with a mightie hand and out stretched arme c. after four hundreth and thirtie yeeres captivitie in Aegypt And when the four hundreth and thirtie yeeres were expyred euen the self same day departed all the hosts of the Lord out of the Land of Aegypt And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud to lead them the way and by night in a pillar of fire to giue them light He divided the sea in two parts made Israel to passe through the mids of it and overthrewe Pharaoh and his host in the red sea for his mercie indureth for ever So leading them through the wildernes feeding them fortie yeeres with Manna frō heauen till at length he brought them safe sound as it were upon egles wings maugre all difficulties and oppositions of enimies what soever euen to the promised Land of Canaan the lot of their inheritance Where they continued in peace and prosperitie so long as they served him kept his commandements but when once they sinned against him or rather as often as they sinned for it was not once but often forgat the Lord their God which brought them out of the Land of Aegypt out of the house of bondage then he suffered their enemies to prevayle against them tyrannize over them sometymes one and sometimes another till at length they were caried captiues to Babylon Yet ever as the burdē of that psalm is whē they cryed to the Lord in their trouble he delivered them out of their distresse raysing up from tyme to tyme Iudges as he did Moses and Ioshua at the first which delivered them out of the hands of their oppressors Othoni●l who delivered thē out of the hands of the King of Arā as it is in that place where it is said that the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the Lord forgat the Lord their God served Baalim therfore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel he sold thē into the hand o● Chushan-rishathaim king of Aram whō they served eight yeeres But when they cryed unto the Lord the Lord stirred them up a Saviour euen Othoniel c. So the land had rest fortie yeeres Ehud who delivered thē out of the hand of Eglon king of Moab Then the childrē of Israel ●gain cōmitted wickednes in the sight of the Lord the Lord strengthned Eglon king of Moab c. So they served Eglon king of Moab 18 yeeres But whē they cryed unto the Lord the Lord stirred thē up a Saviour Ehud the sonne of Gera c. So the land had rest 80 yeres And after him was Shamgar the sonne of Anath which slew of the Philistims 600 men with an oxe goad he also delivered Israel Deborah Barack who delivered thē out of the hand of Iabin king of Canaan And the children of Israel began again to do wickedly in the sight of the Lord the Lord sold thē into the hand of Iabin king of Canaan whose chief Captain was Sisera Then the children of Israel cryed to the Lord c. And at that time Deborah a Prophetesse judged Israel then she sent called Barak c. And the Lord destroyed Sisera all his charets c. And the land had rest 40 yeares Gedeon who delivered them out of the hands of the Midianites Afterward the children of Israel committed wickednes in the sight of the Lord the Lord gaue them into

Saviour be found true which hitherto they haue found but to true to their woe as I noted before I say unto you that many shall come from the east and from the west and shall sitte downe with Abraham and Isaack and Iaakob in the kingdome of heauen and the children of the kingdome shall be cast out into utter darknes there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth Where are now the Iewes with their loftie pedegree Euen as Esau sould to Iaakob his birthrigh for a messe of pottage so haue the Iewes to us Gentiles their birthright to the kingdome of heauen for a messe of idle dreames add fantasies they imagine to themselues towres castles in the aire crownes kingdomes in expectance euen in this world another paradice here on earth But in the end they shall find themselues to haue been all this while in a fooles paradice and as it were in a dreame which when one awaketh vanisheth and so I leaue them to their dreames and profound sleep till it shall please God of his mercie to awake them Thus then it is manifest both by Scripture tradition and observation of the Iewes themselues that about the tyme before mentioned to witte in the dayes of Augustus Caesar the newe Roman Emperor and of Herod the vsurper King of Iury who was the first that tooke away the scepter from Iuda euen in the tyme of the seconde Temple the true Messiah was to be borne And hence it ●as that the whole nation of the Iewes remayned so attente at this tyme more then ever before or since in expecting the M●ssiah Wherevpon so soone as ever they hearde of Iohn Baptist in the desart the Iewes sent Preists Levites from Ierusalem to ask if he were the Messiah and in another place it is saide as the people wayted all men mused in their harts of Iohn if he were the Messiah Iohn answered saide vnto them c. So that you see in those dayes the whole people of the Iewes wayted for his comming all men mused vppon their Messiah So did also Iohn himselfe being in prison send two of his Disciples to Iesus demanding art thou he that shall come or shall we looke for an other and againe at the feast of the dedication they came flocking to him from all parts they came round about him as it is in that place saying how longe dost thou holde vs in suspence if thou be that Christ tell vs plainly All which importeth the greate expectation wherein the people remayned in those dayes of which fame expectation greedy desire of the people divers deceivers tooke occasion to call themselves the Messiah Iudas Galilaeus Iudas the sonne of Hezechias Atonges a Shepharde Theudas and Egiptus all notable deceivers But aboue all one Barcozbam who as the Talmud affirmeth for thirty yeares together was received for the Messiah by the Rabbins themselves til at last they flew him because he was not able to deliver them from the Romains Which facility in the people when Herod sawe he caused one Nicolaus Damascenus to devise a pedegree for him from the Ancient Kings of Iuda and so he as well as the rest tooke vppon him the tytle of the Messiah whom divers carnall Iewes that expected the Messiah to be a magnificient King as Herod was would s●em to beleeve and publish abroade wherevpon they are thought to be called Herodians in the Gospell who came to tempte Christ But all these deceivers are vanished and gone their memoriall is perished with them wherevnto our Saviour seemeth to allude where he saith All that ever came before me are theeves robbers but the sheepe did not heare them I say all these false Messiahs with their followers they are vanished and gone onely Iesus Christ and his religion contrarie to all other religions in the worlde without either sworde speare or shield against all worldly strength and pollicy hath increased and multiplied and shall doe to the end of the world as Gamaliel longe agoe prophecied to the Iewes wilfully bent but all in vaine even in the verie first infancie therof to have destroyed it His words are these And now I say vnto you r●fraine your selves from these men and let them alone for if this councell or this worke be of men it will c●me to naught but if it be of God yee cannot distroy it least ye● be found even fighters against God Wherefore to conclude at length this maine pointe of the tim● of Christs appearing which cut●eth the very ●hroat of the Iewes vaine expectation seeing at or about that time there concurred so many signes and arguments together as 1. the establishment of the Romane Empire newly erected for then by Daniels prophesie was the G●d of Heaven to set vp his Kingdome 2. The departure of the rod or scepter from the howse of Iuda 3. The destruction of the seconde Temple foretolde by our Saviour and cōming to passe accordingly even in that age 4. The just calculation of Daniels hebdomades or weekes of yeares 5. The observation of Rabbines 6. The publike fame and expectation of all the Iewes together with the palpable experience of more then sixteene hundreth yeares past since Iesus appeared wherein we see the Iewish people in vaine doe e●p●ct an other Messiah they being dispersed over all the worlde without Temple Sacrifice Prophet or any other pledge at all of Gods favoure which never happened to them till after the death of our Saviour for that in all other their banishmentes captivities and afflictions they had some prophesie consolation or promise lefte vnto them for theire comforte but nowe they wander vp and downe God having set a marke vpon them as he did vpon Cain as a people forlorne and abandoned both of God and men His linage or pedegree Secondly the Messiah by the scripture was to be borne of the tribe of Iuda and to descend lineally from the house of David There shall come a rod forth ●f the flocke of Ishai c. So did our Saviour as appeareth by his genealogie set downe by his evangelists Math. 1. Luk. 3. as also by the Thalmud it selfe which sayth that I●sus of Nazareth crucifyed was of the blood royal from Zerubbabell of the h●use of David confi●med by the going vp of Ioseph and Marie his mother to Bethelem to be taxed which was the city of David who was borne ther● as also it is manifest for that the Scribes and the Phar●sies ●●o objected many matters of much lesse importaunce against him as that he was a carpenters sonne c. yet never obj●cted they against him that he was not of the house of David which could they haue proved would quickly haue ended the whole controversie His birth with the circumstances thereof THirdly the Messiah by the Scripture was to be borne of a virgin so sayth Isay. Behold a virgin shall conceiue and bring forth a sonne the Hebrewe is He emphatioum the

natiō or people under which you live not onely in Barbary but in al other parts of the world besides as a fatal effect of that heavie curse laid on you by your own forefathers long agoe vpon the death of Christ when Pilate the judge washed his hands saying I am innocent of the blood of this iust man looke yee to it they cried with one consent his blood be vpon vs on our children As also of that prophesie of our Saviour in his life time when he wept over Ierusalem saying ô if thou haddest even knowne at the least in this thy day those things which belong to thy peace but now are they hid frō thine eyes c. And more particularly to his Disciples he renueth it over againe when yee shall see Ierusalem besieged with soldiers then know yee that her desolation is at hand For these be the dayes of venga●ce to fulfill all things that are written For there shall be great distresse in this land and wrath over this people And they shall fall one the cadge of the sword and shall be lead captive into all nations c. Which heavie curse of your owne forefathers and prophisie of his how truely they have been fulfilled both the one the other all the world seeth and yee your selves feele the effect as before The Lord in mercie take away the vayle from your hearts that at length ye may know those things which belōg to your peace which now are hid frō your eyes for why will ye dye ô ye house of Israel These considerations I say and reasons with some others have moved me and partly in recompence of those your definaes and dainties wherof I tasted so often while I was amongst you to send you here a smal banket of such dainties as Christendome can afford wishing you would but tast some part of mine as I did of yours being indeed Sabbath dayes dainties tast I say and see how sweet the Lord is And the rather doe I invite you to this banket yea rather provoke you therevnto even to your owne salvation which through your fall is come to us Gentiles to provoke you as it is that place for that now the time of your redemtion draweth neare with ours much nearer now thē whē we beleeved foretold also both by Christ and his Apostles as was your desolation and shall one day as surely and certainely come to passe the one as the other For God that hath promised is of power to performe it he will doe it he is able to graffe you in againe into your owne olive tree Verely I tell you saith our Saviour to the Pharisies ye shall not see me vntill the time come that yee shall say blessed is he that commeth in the name of the Lord. Therefore such a time shall cōe with out all doubt whearein ye shall so say that is to say most willingly obey the Heavenly calling without any more resisting the Holy Ghost as did your forefathers Also in an other place and Ierusalem shall be troden vnder foote of the Gentiles vntill the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled So long and no longer there is the period And Paul the Apostle in a most fervent manner both prayeth and prophesieth to this effect brethren my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved Then prophecieth at large in the chapter following and that most divinely as of their fall so of their generall call in due time with many arguments and reasons to that purpose Which praier and prophesie of his proceeding from a divine instinct and revelation no doubt shall one day take effect For it can not be but that the word of God should take effect For it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth to the Iew first and also to the Grecian To the Iew first thereis the promise there is the priviledge Lift up your heades now therefore ó ye Iewes sonnes of Abraham children of the promise to whom pertayneth the adoption and the glorie and the covenants and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises of whom are the f●thers and of whom concerning the flesh Christ came I say lift up your heads and listen to the heavenly call of Christ and his Apostle Paul for your redemtion draweth nere This is the generation of them that seeke him of them that s●eke thy face Iaacob Silah Lift up your heads ye gates be ye li●t up ye everlasting doores and the King of glorie shall come in And let us Christians also upon whom the ends of the World are come lift up our heads and knowe remembring that parable of the figtree when w● s●e these things beginne to come to passe that the kingdome of God is near eue● at the doores Verely I say unto you this generation shall not passe till all these things be donne Heauen and earth shall p●sse away but my Words shall not passe away They are the words of our Saviour And now bretheren to returne to Paul I commend you to God and to the word of his grace which is able to buyld you up and to giue you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified Be favourable unto Sion for thy good pleasure build the walls of Ierusalem Then shalt thou accept the sacrifice of righteousnes euen the burn●offring and oblation then shall they offer calues upon thyne altar Oh giue salvation unto Israel out of Sion when God turneth the captivitie of his people then shall Iaakob rejoice and Israel shall be glad When the Lord brought againe the captivitie of Sion we were like them that dreame then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with joye then sayd they among the Heathen The Lord hath d●ne great things for them The Lord hath done great things for us wherof we rej●ice O Lord bring againe our captivitie at the rivers in the south Saue us O Lord our God and gather us from among the Heathen that we may praise thyne holy name and glorie in thy praise Comfort us according to the dayes that thou hast afflicted us according to the yeeres that we ha●e seene e●el Thou wilt arise and haue mercie upon Sion for the time to haue mercie thereon for the appointed time is come For thy servants delight in the stones thereof and h●ue pitie on the dust thereof Then the He●then shall ●eare the name of the Lord and all the kings of the earth thy glorie when the Lord shall buyld up Si●n and shall appeare in his glorie and shall turne unto the prayer of the desolate not dispis● then p●ayer This shall be written for the generation to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord for he hath looked downe from the height of his sanctuarie out of the heaven did the Lord behold the earth th●t he might