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B03903	An information, concerning the present state of the Jewish nation in Europe and Judea. Wherein the footsteps of Providence preparing a way for their conversion to Christ, and for their deliverance from captivity, are discovered.	Jessey, Henry, 1603-1663.	1658 (1658)	Wing J692C; Interim Tract Supplement Guide 482.b.3[11]; ESTC R24655	16,492	30

them cause to consider the Truth of the Gospel without prejudice I say from all these Circumstances we may gather this Conclusion that the Lord doth prepare a way for them to be converted unto Christianity which is yet more evident by some other Circumstances wherewith some of us are acquainted Namely that some of those afflicted Jews at Jerusalem begin now to confess That their Fore-fathers did wickedly in putting Jesus of Nazareth to death and that he was a just man and that the Spirit of the Messiah was in him and that for putting him and others to death they ought to repent seeing they cannot attribute this great wrath which is gone forth against them to any other cause so remarkable as to this sin ☜ Now if these Confessions begin to be made among some of the chief of them as some of us know that they are it is a clear token that God is preparing and fitting them for Mercy by the acknowledgement of their sin and repentance for putting Christ to death and if once their hearts begin to be moved with remorse for this sin no doubt they will obtain pardon We are also certainly informed that the New Testament in Hebrew of the translation of Munster being far different from the Hebrew phrase which is used in Scripture is taken along to be brought to Judea ☜ that it may be put in Scripture phrase and so sent back again to Amsterdam to be printed and if once they begin to read the new Testament as a true History in their own Hebrew Dialect there can be no greater preparation for their conversion then this will be and we know that God is now setting this very thing a foot among them Whence we may conclude that he is fitting them for Mercy by the means of their approaching to the knowledge of Jesus Christ and nothing will approach them so effectually to that knowledge next unto the Spirit of Grace and Supplication to be poured out upon them as first The Communication of the New Testament in their Tongue by some of their own Rabbi's unto them 2. as the Unity of Christians holding forth unto them with one consent the main substance of Christianity which brings Salvation unto all And 3. as the opening unto them the Bowels of our Charity in these opportunities of their distress and perplexty that they may find some relief by these three means All which God is now setting a work toward them the work may be carried on with success till the Lord come into his Temple In expectation whereof all whose hearts are touched with compassion to them in their bleeding condition and have longing desires for their deliverance are exhorted to testifie the same by their prayers and by the opening of their heart and hand liberally towards them And how blessed shall they be that shall have a hand in helping to make Jerusalem a Glory in the whole Earth Psal 122.6 PRay for the Peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper that love thee Psal 41.1 2. Blessed is he that considereth the poor the Lord will deliver him in the time of trouble the Lord will preserve him and keep him alive and he shall be blessed upon the Earth and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his Enemies 2 Cor. 8.9 You know the Grace of our Lord Iesus Christ that though he was rich yet for your sakes he became poor that ye through his poverty might be rich 2 Cor. 9.6 7. He which soweth sparingly shall reap sparingly and he which soweth bountifully shall reap bountifully Every man as be purposeth in his heart not grudingly or of necessity for God loveth a cheerfull Giver FINIS An Appendix to the foregoing Information received from Beyond-Seas since it was Printed to be added in the former pages that are there shewed in the Margen THE state of the Jews at Jerusalem hath been many hundred years of late such To pag. 4. l. 17. as that they ever lived of the supply and Contributions from their brethren abroad because the place doth yield but little occasion for them to maintain themselves and besides those that betake themselves thither are either Old men or Women only to do penitency and lay down their bones near the Sepulchers of their fore-fathers or of younger men that for respect to the holiness of the place as supposing God to be nearer there and that all prayers must needs ascend that way into heaven come thither there to ply devotion and penitency for the sins of themselves and the whole Nation and therefore cannot attend any trading but all their time is taken up with praying reading and hearing Sermons as also with fastings and watchings and the like penitential Exercises which intent and endeavours their Brethren abroad amongst the Nations well knowing and with all desiring to keep as it were possession or at least a footing in Jerusalem and to shew their holiness till a full restitution come have been ever willing to uphold them in it and to that purpose wherever any Synagogues of Jews are on every Sabbath-day a Collection is made for the poor at Jerusalem and what so is gathered they are to send thither every year Therefore the Jews of Poland c. By the Turks and especially their debts made for want of supply amongst the Citizens being rigorously exacted Pag. 5. l. 6. they were haled into prison c. An Instance hereof is this Pa. 8. l. 14. that in the year 5399. from the Creation which is now nineteen years ago there was a great drought in Jerusalem which had put all Inhabitants to prayers the Necessity being extream but the worst of all was this that an apostated Jew going out to the Turks perswaded unto the then Bassa the Lord Mahomet Bassa that the sole cause that the heaven were shut up were the Jews by reason of their disobedience unto God whereupon an Edict was put forth commanding all Jews great and small young and old to be cast out of the Town presently Whereupon some eight of their Eldest were sent up to the said Bassa which Eldest with great Expences bestowed partly on the Bassa and partly on his Consellours had much to do to crave only three dayes delay If perhaps within that time the Lord should accept of their prayers and penitency If not and that the Lord gave no Rain he might do with him what he pleased This being so stated it was proclaimed throughout the City that if within three dayes no rain came all the Jews should be expelled and their goods made prize to the Turks and whosoever should be found remaining was to be killed Hence arose a dolefull lamentation amongst the Jews a continual fasting for those three nights and dayes was put upon all except Babes and Women with Child or in Child-bed who were bound only to one day and night So they prayed and humbled themselves all that while with great Cries and Weepings so that the voyce of it was heard throughout the City

and seeing our Saviour doth promise that for the Elects sake the days of tribulation shall be shortned Mat. 24.22 therefore we may conceive that it will not be long before they shall be restored and with them the Nations be quieted for this cause taking more particular notice of their present condition to observe how Providence doth sit them for their deliverance and prepare a way to bring to pass we shall consider first in what state they are now at Jerusalem where their deliverance will be wrought 1. and first begun according to that of Mica 4 8. O Tower of the flock the strong hold of the daughter of Sion unto thee shall it come even the first dominion the Kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem 2. Secondly How the way is a preparing to bring their deliverance to pass Concerning the first viz. Their Distress THE State of the Jews at Jerusalem of late was such that they could not live and subsist there without some yearly supply and contribution from their Brethren abroad because the place doth yield them little or no trading whereby to maintain themselves but their love to the place doth oblige them to remain there although with great poverty and want And their Brethren abroad among the Nations have been willing to uphold them there at Jerusalem that the place should not be left destitute of some considerable number of their Nation to keep as it were possession or at least a footing in it and to shew their hopes till a full restitution come Therefore the Jews of Poland of Lithuania of Prussia and Russia where great multitudes of that Nation were seated were wont in former time to send to the German Jews dwelling at Jerusalem yearly about 30000 imperiall Dollars which will amount if we mistake not to 6563 pounds sterling or thereabouts yearly by which means they subsisted in some tolerable manner and paid to the grand Signior of their taxes but since the desolation brought by war upon Poland and the other parts whence that supply was sent unto them they have been in great extremity of want insomuch that in the year one thousand six hundred to death and the taxes laid upon them by the Turks being rigorously exacted they were haled into prison their Synagogues were shut up their Rabbi's and Elders beaten and cruelly used So that to find relief because none came from Poland Lithuania and other parts of Europe by the late war and none could be had in those parts form their own by reason of the general Pressures which the Turks without Mercy laid upon them all they send two of their chief Rabbi's to their Brethren in Europe to acquaint them with their state and to desire some help from them The chief of the Rabbi's was called Nathan Saphira son to the high Lord Ruben David Tavel a man of great learning and skill in their Cabala and of a very pious holy and humble disposition who comming with his companion from Jerusalem upon this errand and finding at Amsterdam little relief from the Portugal Jews became accidentally acquainted with some of our Christian friends who pittied their Condition and were of their own accord moved to procure some relief unto them among their other Christian friends and the whole sum which they then received from the Dutch Jews in Europe amounted to six thousand Ryx-dollars which we conceive to be about one thousand three hundred thirteen pounds five shillings and the Contributions which the Christians in Holland gave them amounted to three hundred ninety Ducats which if we mistake not is one hundred seventy five pounds ten shillings With this money they went away and it availed them only to discharge the Interests of their capital debts and to make some presents to their great ones that further time might be granted unto them and the three hundred ninety Ducats relieved some of their private wants This relief was made over unto them in the year one thousand six hundred fifty six and having received it they have written a letter of Acknowledgment end Thanks dated at Jerusalem the 22 of April 1657. wherein the Continuance of their lamentable condition is represented to be this that for the payment of the capital debt which in two years space they have bound themselves over unto the Bassa who rules over Jerusalem and engaged their Lives Court School Wives and Children to him and in the mean time they hunger and thirst and go from house to house for a bit of bread unto their Italian and Portugal Brethren that dwell at Jerusalem who are in little better case then these German Jews because the Italians and Portugals from abroad help them with something nor durst they go to any other to beg besides their own Nation or their Proselytes which was a great aggravation of their distress when their own either cannot or will not assist them as in the case of Rabbi Nathan Saphira it fell out for the Portugal Jewes at Amsterdam not so assisting him because they alledged that the Portugal and Spanish Jews at Jerusalem at Hebron and Zephit and other places in Judaea did depend upon them and were supplyed by them yet nevertheless having heard that the Christians had assisted Rabbi Nathan and his Companion with a Contribution and suspecting that they had made their application to crave that assistance from the Christians they were intending to have disgraced him in their Synagogues till they were otherwise informed and having understood that the supply came not by any application of the Rabbi to the Christians but by the free offering of the Christians to help him without his craving of it which could not be taken ill if the Rabbi only received what was freely offered they did acquiesce this is to be noted to shew the greatness of their strait when by the Principles of their Religion they were bound up from seeking any relief but only from their own people although no relief could be had by any of them so that they were obliged rather to starve then to crave help from strangers either Christians Mahumetans or Heathens when they were in want although now of late they of Jerusalem have desired relief of such as pitty them although they be Christians This was a hard case and therefore required the greater Compassion but yet the more hard because so few were inclined to have compassion upon them From all which it is to be concluded that as their Case is more hard then ordinary so their deliverance must come by a way which is extraordinary for all other Nations when they are distressed by any enemy they have some Neighbour people to flie to as friends but these have none at all therefore they must look up to God alone for their deliverance Concerning the second viz. The preparing of a way for their Deliverance BY their deliverance we understand first The enlightning of their mind to acknowledge the true Messiah Jesus Christ Secondly Their freedom from the