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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

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

and popular language of all nations at that time to wit the Greek tōgue They wrote their stories in divers countries farre distant one from another and yet agreed they all most exactly in one and the same narration as is to be seene though diversly related yet in truth and substance all one one sometymes supplying vvhat another hath not according to the discretion of one and the same spirit vvherevvith they vvere all guyded and directed like those four beasts in Ezech. 1.12 Everie one went streight forward whither their spirit ledde them they returned not They vvrote in divers times one after another and yet the later did neyther correct nor reprehend any thing in the former as heathen vvriters use to doe They published their vvritings vvhen infinite vvere aliue that knevve the facts and of them no small number vvho desired by all meanes to impugne them They set dovvne in most of their narrations the tyme the daye the hour the place the village the house the persons vvith all other circumstances vvhich the moe they are in number the more easie to be refuted if they were not true Neyther did they write of things donne in farre Countries or places remote but in the same Countrie where they were borne in townes and cities that were publiquely knowne in Ierusalem it self in Bethania and Bethsaida villages hard by Ierusalem in the Suburbs and hills about the citie in such a street at such a gate in such a porch of the temple at such a fishpoole publique places familiarly knowne to everie one for these things were not done in a corner as sayth the Apostle All which circumstances duly considered never yet impugned me thinks should perswade any man of reason to become a Christian as Agrippa in that verie place acknowledgeth to Paul saying almost thou perswadest me to become a Christian. They published their writings in their life time They altered not their writings af●erwards as other Authors are wont in their latter Editions nor ever corrected they one jote of that which they had first s●t downe And that which never happened in any other writings in the world besides nor ever monarch was able to bring to passe for credite of his Edicts they gaue their liues for defence and justifying of that which they had written Their maner of writing is sincere simple as becommeth so divine a Historie without all art or Rhethoricall amplifications as Historians use They flatter none no not Iesus himself whom they most adore nor in confessing him to be their God doe they conceale his infirmities of flesh in that he was man as his hunger and thirst his being werie how he wept his passions of feare and the like Nay these Evangelists were so sincere and religious in their narrations as they noted especially the imperfections of themselues and of such others as they principally respected Mathew nameth himself Mathew the Publican Mark Peters Disciple recordeth how S. Peter thrise denyed his Lord and Master and so of the rest These mens writings were published for canonicall and received for undoubted truth by all that lived in the verie same age and were privie to everie particular circumstance therein conteyned They were copied abroad into infinite mens hands and so conserved with all care and reverence as holy and divine Scripture They were read in Churches throughout all Countries and nations expounded preached and taught by all Pastors and Commentaries made upon them by holy Fathers from tyme to tyme. So that no doubt can be made at all eyther of the Authoritie of them as originally and immediately proceeding from the Holy Ghost or of the certaintie but that we haue the verie same incorrupt as the Authors left them for that it was impossible for any enemie to corrupt so manie copies over the world without discoverie and resistance And thus much for the credite and authoritie of our Evangelists The confession of Martyrs NOw for the Martyrs or witnesses appoynted by God for the sealing deliverie of this doctrine of the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ to all the world they were first and principally his owne Apostes and Disciples Now ye are witnesses of these things Who both heard his doctrine and sawe his myracles as S. Iohn testifieth that which wee haue heard which we haue seene with our eyes c. That I say which we haue seene and heard declare we unto you And S. Peter For we followed no deceiueable fables when we opened unto you the power and comming of our Lord Iesus Christ but with our eyes we sawe his majestie This doctrine I say of the glorious Gospel of our Lord and Saviour whereof they were so fully perswaded they did not onely professe it with their mouthes yea euen before Kings and were not ashamed as God sayth to Paul as thou hast testified of me in Ierusalem so must thou beare witnes also at Rome thou must be brought before Caesar but in witnes thereof they gaue up their liues and by their deaths sealed and delivered to the world the truth of that which in their liues they professed they haue sealed that God is true These are witnesses worthy to be beleeved these are Martyres Next to these are all those holy Disciples of theirs all those holy confessors of the Primitiue Church put to death with most exquisite torments under those cruell Roman tyrants during those tenne famous persecutions upon record called the ten persecutions Catexochen in respect of the rage furie and crueltie thereof and all against poore harmeles and innocent Christians dayly to●ne in pieces butchered by those wolues as sheep appointed for the slaughter whereof our Saviour long before had forewarned his Disciples Behold I s●nd you as lambes among wolues c. persecuted euen to the death for the Word of God and for the testimonie which they m●inteined In vvhich extreame most incredible sufferings of Christians three points are vvorthie of great consideration The first vvhat infinite multitudes of all estates conditions sexes qualities and age did suffer dayly for testimonie of this truth The second what intollerable and unaccustumed torments not heard of in the world before were devised by tyrants for afflicting this kind of people Thirdly and lastly what invincible courage and unspeakable alacritie these Christians shewed in bearing out these afflictions and torments which the enemies themselues could not attribute but to some divine powre and supernaturall assistance The subjection of Spirits ANother consideration followeth of his divine powre omnipotencie declared and exercised upon the spirits infernall which in those dayes spake in the oracles and till that time had possessed and deluded all nations Heare the complaint of one of them Hei mihi congemiscite hei mihi hei mihi oraculorum defecit me claritas Woe unto me lament ye with me woe woe to me for that the honour of oracles hath now forsaken me Which woefull complaint is nothing els but a

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