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A87160	A vindication of the Holy Scriptures. Or the manifestation of Jesus Christ the true Messiah already come. Being the Christians antidote against the poysons of Judaisme and atheisme of this present age. Proved out of sacred scripture, ancient historians, and Jewish Rabbins. / By that learned, and late eminent divine, John Harrison.	Harrison, John, of the Inner Temple.	1656 (1656)	Wing H896; Thomason E1685_1; ESTC R209168	62,938	174

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 prophesieth at large in the chapter following and that most divinely as of their fall so of their general call in due time with many arguments and reasons to that purpose Which Prayer and Prophesie of h●● proceeding from a Divine Instinct and Revelation no doubt shall one day take effect For it cannot 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 Jew first and also to the Grecian To the Jew first there is the promise there is the priviledge Lift up your heads now therefore O ye Jews sons of Abraham children of the promise to whom pertaineth the adoption and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the service of God and the promises of whom are the Fathers and of whom concerning the flesh Christ came I say lift up your heads and listen to the heavenly calls of Christ and his Apostle Paul For your Redemption draweth neer This is the generation of them that seek him of them that seek thy face Jacob Selah Lift up your heads ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in And let us Christians also upon whom the ends of the world are come lift up our heads and know remembring that parable of the Fig-tree when we see these things begin to come to pass that the Kingdom of God is near even at the doors Verily I say unto you This generation shal not pass till all these things be done Heaven and Earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away They are the words of our Saviour And now Brethren to return to Paul I commend you to God and to the word of his grace which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified Be favourable unto Zion for thy good pleasure build the walls of Jerusalem Then shalt thou accept the sacrifice of righteousness even the burnt Offering and Oblation then shall they offer Calves upon thine Altar O give salvation unto Israel out of Zion when God turneth the captivity of his people then shall Jacob rejoyce and Israel shal be glad When the Lord brought again the captivity of Zion we were like them that dream then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with joy Then said they among the Heathen The Lord hath done great things for them The Lord hath done great things for us whereof we rejoyce O Lord bring again our Captivity as the Rivers in the South Save us O Lord our God and gather us from among the heathen that we may praise thine holy Name and glory in thy praise Comfort us according to the days that thou hast afflicted us and according to the yeers that we have seen evil Thou wilt arise and have mercy upon Zion for the time to have mercy thereon for the appointed time is come For thy servants delight in the stones thereof and have pity on the dust thereof Then the Heathen shall fear the Name of the Lord and all the Kings of the Earth thy glory When the Lord shall build up Zion and shall appear in his glory and shall turn unto the Prayer of the desolate and not despise their prayer This shall be written for the generation to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord for he hath looked down from the height of his Sanctuary out of the heaven did the Lord behold the earth That he might hear the mourning of the Prisoner and deliver the children appointed unto death that they may declare the Name of the Lord in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem For God will save Zion and build the Cities of Judah that men may dwel there and have it in possession The seed also of his servants shall inherit it and they that love his Name shall dwell therein Surely the Lord will not fail his people neither will he forsake his Inheritance He hath alway remembred his Covenant and promise that he made to a thousand generations Thou wilt think upon thy Congregation which thou hast possessed of old and on the rod of thine Inheritance which thou hast redeemed and on mount Zion wherein thou hast dwelt Yea when the Lord turneth again the captivity of his people which will be when they turn unto him by hearty repentance not before when they cryed unto the Lord in their trouble he delivered them out of their distress then will he make even their very enemies to become their friends and give them grace and favour in the sight of all those Kings and Princes under whom they now live and groan in most miserable slavery and bondage as in their former captivities may be observed He saw when they were in affliction and heard their cry He remembred his Covenant towards them and repented according to the multitude of his mercies and gave them favour in the sight of all them that led them captive for the hearts of Kings are in the hands of the Lord as the Rivers of waters he turneth them which way soever it pleaseth him So the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus King of Persia after that their seventy yeers captivity in Babylon as also Darius and others to write in their behalf sundry most favourable Edicts for their return into their own Country again with large liberality for the re-edifying of the Temple of God in Jerusalem For the Lord had made them glad and turned the heart of the King of Asshur unto them to encourage them in the work of the house of God even the God of Israel Therefore Ezra blesseth the Lord for all these extraordinary 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 Jerusalem c. Yea rather then fail of his promised deliverance to his people when they cry unto him in their distress He will rebuke even Kings for their sakes As he did Pharaoh King of Aegypt in the days of old with this peremptory command by the hand of Moses over and over Let my people go that they may serve me or if thou wilt not c. inflicting upon them one plague after another till at length they were forced to drive them away as it is in that place Rise up get you out from among my people and go serve the Lord as ye have said And the Egyptians did force the people because they would send them out of the Land in hast for they said we die all giving them favour in the mean time in the sight of

blindness in this point and in them the whole Nation of the Jews to this day Ye perceive nothing at all nor yet do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man die for the people and that the whole Nation perish not c. But he that will read the whole story of Christ crucified with the particulars described many hundred yeers before the same fell out let him turn to Isaiah and acknowledge him for an Evangelist who to signifie the strangeness of the case beginneth first with a preface Who will believe our report c. All which narration Rabbi Jonathan the author of the Chaldy Paraphrase applyeth to the murder of the Messiah by the Jews whereunto agree Rabbi Simeon Rabbi Hadersan and others proving further out of Dan. 9.27 That after the Messiah shall have preached half seven yeers he shall be slain which disagreeth little or nothing from the account of us Christians Also in their Thalmud it is set down for a principle and the sentence pronounced beforehand peremptorily and in plain terms that the Messiah at his coming 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 Law and so expounded and acknowledged by the Jews themselves the ancient Rabbins before mentioned and finally so exactly fulfilled in our Lord and Saviour as by the quotations in the margent may appear together with the mild manner of his death praying for his enemies Father forgive them and meekly recommending his soul into the hands of God Father into thy hands I commend my spirit with other strange accidents and circumstances that miraculous eclipse of the Sun at that very instant from the sixt to the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land the vail of the Temple rent in twain from the top to the bottome and the earth did quake and the stones were cloven and the graves did open themselves and many bodies of the Saints which slept arose c. I say 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 Jesus who when they saw the earthquake and the things that were done they feared greatly saying Truly this was the Son of God And all the people that came together to that sight beholding the things which were done smote their breasts and returned So may I conclude Truly this was the Son of God truly this is the Messiah and let all the people of the Jews come together again to this sight and behold him whom they have pierced and smite their breasts pricked in their hearts like those Jews in the Acts and cry out Men and Brethren what shall we do and return to the Lord and be baptised every one in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins which God grant And the Lord pour upon them the spirit of grace and of compassion that in soul and spirit they may look upon him whom they have pierced and lament for him as it is in the Prophet every Tribe and Family apart His Resurrection FOr his Resurrection it was also foretold by the Prophets and prefigured in Jonas David saith in the person of the Messiah of whom he prophesied in divers places and was a type I have set the Lord always before me c. Wherefore mine heart is glad and my tongue rejoyceth my flesh also doth rest in hope for thou wilt not leave my soul in the grave nor suffer thine holy One to see corruption Also Hosea saith After two days will he revive us and in the third day he will raise us up Us in the plural number pointing as it should seem both at the Resurrection of our Saviour the third day as also the raising of a number of the Saints together with him at the same time prefigured in Jonas together with the time of his abode in the Sepulcher and foreshewed many times by our Saviour himself to his Disciples such and such things shall be done to the Son of man He shall be apprehended evil entreated mocked scourged put to death but the third day he shall rise again Also to the Jews demanding a sign he answered Destroy this Temple and in three days I will raise it up again And at another time An evil and adulterous generation seeketh a sign but no signe shall be given them save the signe of the prophet Jonas for as Jonas was three days and three nights in the Whales belly so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth Which Prophesie of his they full wel remembring and fearing the event immediately upon his burial they went to Pilate saying Sir we remember that Deceiver said while he was living within three days I will rise again Command therefore the Sepulcher to be made sure till the third day lest hit Disciples steal him away by night and say unto the people he is risen from the dead and so the last error be worse then the first All which was done according to their desire a strong watch appointed the Sepulcher sealed up all things made so sure by the Jews as might be for they had gotten from Pilate a special commission for that purpose to whom he was as forward to grant it as they to ask it and that in as large and ample manner as themselves knew or could devise All which notwithstanding after a most miraculous manner The Angel of the Lord descending from heaven with an earthquake and rolling back the stone from the Door of the Sepulcher the Keepers astonied and become as dead men Jesus our Saviour according to the former prophesies is risen again and hath appeared to his Apostles and Disciples his faithful witnesses a number of them at divers several times to whom he presented himself alive as S. Luke writeth by many infallible tokens being seen of them by the space of forty days and speaking of those things which appertain to the Kingdom of God howsoever the Jews suborned the Soldiers giving them largely to say His Disciples came by night and stole him away while they slept which saying is noised among the Jews to this day How probably the former circumstances considered let the world judge Therefore I will conclude this point also with that of Paul touching the Resurrection of our Lord and Saviour He hath declared himself mightily to be the Son of God by the Resurrection from the dead and consequently that Messiah promised before by the Prophets in the holy Scriptures as the same Apostle urgeth His Ascention FOr his Ascension it was also foretold by the Prophets and necessarily followeth upon his Resurrection to be believed to wit that having finished the work of our Redemption here one earth he ascended up into heaven and there sitteth at the

work be of men it will come to naught but if it be of God ye cannot destroy it lest ye be found even fighters against God Wherefore to conclude at length this main point of the time of Christs appearing which cutteth the very throat of the Jews vain expectation seeing at or about that time there concurred so many signs and arguments together as 1 the establishment of the Roman Empire newly erected for then by Daniels prophesie was the God of heaven to set up his Kingdom 2. The departure of the Rod or Scepter from the house of Juda. 3. The destruction of the second Temple foretold by our Saviour and comming to pass accordingly even in that age 4. The just calculation of Daniels Hebdomades or weeks of years 5. The observation of Rabbins 6. The publique fame and expectation of all the Jews together with the palpable experience of more then sixteen hundred years past since Jesus appeared wherein we see the Jewish people in vain do expect another Messiah they being dispersed over all the world without Temple Sacrifice Prophet or any other pledge at all of Gods favour which never happened to them till after the death of our Saviour for that in all other their banishments captivities and afflictions they had some prophesie consolation or promise left to them for their comfort but now they wander up and down God having set a mark upon them as he did upon Cain as a people forlorn and abandoned both of God and Men His Linage or Pedegre SEcondly the Messiah by the Scripture was to be born of the Tribe of Judah and to descend lineally from the house of David There shall come a rod out of the stock of Ishai c. So did our Saviour as appeareth by his Genealogy set down by his Evangelists Mat. 1. Luk. 3. as also by the Thalmud it self which saith That Jesus of Nazareth crucified was of the blood royal from Zerabbabel of the house of David confirmed by the going up of Joseph and Mary his Mother to Bethlehem to be taxed ' Which was the City of David who was born there as also it is manifest for that the Scribes and the Pharisees who objected many matters of much less importance against him as that he was a Carpenters Son c. yet never objected they against him that he was not of the house of David which could they have proved would quickly have ended the whole controversie His Birth with the Circumstances thereof THirdly the Messiah by the Scripture was to be born of a Virgin so saith Isaiah Behold a Virgin shal conceive and bring forth a son the Hebrew is He emphaticum the Virgin And Isaiah appointeth this to Achaz for a wonderful and strange sign from God therefore saith he The Lord himself will give you a sign behold which he could not have done in reason if the Hebrew word in that place had signified a young woman only as some latter Rabbins will affirm for that is no such sign nor strange thing but very common and ordinary for young women to conceive and bring forth Children and so did the elder Jews understand it as Rabbi Simeon noteth And Rabbi Moses Haddersan upon those words Truth shall bud forth of the Earth saith thus Here Rabbis Joden noteth that it is not said Truth shall be engendered but Truth shall bud forth to signifie that the Messiah who is meant by the word Truth shall not be begotten as other men are in carnal copulation To the same effect and after the same manner to be interpreted is that of Jeremy The Lord hath created a new thing in the Earth a Woman shall compass a Man And Rabbi Haccadosch proveth by Cabala out of many places of Scripture not only that the Mother of the Messiah must be a Virgin but also that her name shall be Mary Now the birth of Jesus Christ was thus c that is to say after this strange and extraordinary manner therefore must he needs be the true and undoubted Messiah The Messiah by the Scripture was to born at Bethlehem in Judea for so it is written by the Prophet And thou Bethlehem Ephrathah art little to be among the thousands of Judah yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that shall be the Ruler of Israel c. which place the chief Priests themselves quoted to that purpose to Herod demanding of them where Christ should be born and they answered him at Bethlehem in Judea for so it is written by the Prophet as before So also David after much restless study and industrious search to find out this mystery c. I will not enter into the Tabernacle of my house nor come upon my pallet or bed nor suffer mine eyes to sleep nor mine eyelids to slumber until I find out a place for the Lord c. At length the mystery being revealed unto him he doth as it were point to the very place in the words following Lo we heard of it at Ephratah which is Bethlehem Gen. 35.19 and found it in the fields of the Forrest Then addeth ' We will enter into his Tabernacle and worship before his footstoole foreshewing that divine worship there afterwards done to Jesus by those Magi or wise men who came from the East to worship him in that place even in the Cratch and before his footstoole Presenting unto him gifts of Gold Frankincense and mirrh as was also prophesied in another place that presents and gifts should be brought unto him from far countries and by great personages The Kings of Tarshish and of the Isles shal bring presents the Kings of Sheba and Seba shall bring gifts Cyprian saith it is an old tradition of the Church that those Magi or wise men were Kings or rather little Lords of particular places which is to be understood such little Kings as Josuah slew thirty in one battel howsoever it is manifest they were men of place and reputation in their countries neither are prophesies always so strictly and literally to be understood They brought with them a great treasure Gold Frankincense and Mirrh yea both Herod and all Jerusalem took notice of their comming They had private conference with the King as touching the star that appeared unto them leading them to that most bright morning star whereof Balaam long before prophesied saying I shall see him but not now I shall behold him but not neer there shal come a star of Jacob c. Jesus then being born at Bethlehem in Judea as was prophesied long before the Messiah should be and indeed it standeth with great reason that he that was to be the Son of David should also be born in the City of David the circumstances also of his birth duely considered both before and after first the Angels salutation to his Mother Mary foretelling that his name should be Jesus before ever he was conceived So Esdras prophesied in the person of God himselfe