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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

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Prince of Peace born Therefore to him agreeth this circumstance of time very fitly most vainly therefore do the Jews after this time expect another Secondly Jacob who lived many yeares before prophesied of this time very precisely as already hath been alledged that the Messiah whom he there called Shiloh should come at that time when the Scepter or Government Regal was departed from the house of Judah which was in the days of Herod and never till then who first usurped that government his Father-in-Law King Hircanus with all his off-spring of the blood Royal of Judah together with the Sanhedrim put to death The Genealogies of the Kings and Princes burned A new pedegree for himselfe devised In a word all authority regal whatsoever belonging to that Tribe at that time quite extinguished And just according to this time was our Saviour born namely in the days of Herod Mat. 2.1 Therefore to him agreeth this circumstance of time very fitly most vainly therefore do the Jews after this time expect any longer Thirdly God himselfe saith by his Prophet Haggai that the Messiah whom he there calleth The desired of all Nations shall come in the time of the second Temple which was then but new built far inferiour in stateliness and glory to the former built by Solomon which the old men in the book of Ezra testifie by their weeping when they saw this second Temple and remembred the glory of the first The words of the Lord by his Prophet Haggai are these Speak unto Zerubbabel who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory and how do you see it now it is not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing yet now be of good cheer O Zerubbabel for thus saith the Lord of Hosts yet a little while and I will shake the Heavens and the Earth and the Sea and the dry Land And I will move all Nations and the desire of all Nations shal come and I wil fil this house with glory saith the Lord of Hosts The glory of this last house shal be greater then the first c. which must needs be understood of the comming of the Messiah to wit his personal presence in this second Temple in whom is the fulness of glory and therefore could he and none other fil it with glory being himself indeed the King of glory Lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shal come in So doth Malachy prophesie in these words The Lord whom ye seek shal speedily come to his Temple even the Messenger of the Covenant whom ye desire behold he shal come saith the Lord of Hosts c. And so indeed he did for Christ Jesus came into the world during this second Temple and did himself likewise foretel the destruction thereof which came to pass even in that age Therefore to him agreeth this Circumstance of time very fitly most vainly therefore do the Jews after this time to wit the destruction of the second Temple expect any further Fourthly the Messiah by the true computation of Daniels Prophesie accounting his Hebdomades or Weeks for so many years to be multiplyed by seven that is to say Weeks of Years as they must needs be understood was to come just according to the time before mentioned his words are these Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thine holy City know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the Commandement to bring again the people and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah the Prince shal be seven weeks and threescore and two weeks And after threescore and two weeks shal the Messiah be slain and not for himself And the people of the Prince that shal come shal destroy the City and Sanctuary and he shal confirm the Covenant with many for one week and in the midst of the week he shal cause the sacrifice and oblations to cease Which Hebdomades or weeks of years whether we account from the first year of Cyrus who first determined the Jews reduction or from the second of Darius who confirmed and put the same in execution or from the twentieth year of Darius for that he then made a new Edict in the favour of Nehemias and sent him into Jury every way they will end in the reign of Herod and Augustus under whom Christ was born or in the reign of Tiberius under whom he suffered And by no interpretation can it be avoided but that this time is now our above one thousand five hundred years Besides this being a clear prophesie of the Messiah howsoever somewhat more intricate and obscure in respect of the years wherein the Prophet alludeth to the Captivity of Babylon as some think must needs be interpreted according to the former prophesies also of the Messiah And so doth the Prophet expound himself in the former words namely That the Messiah should be slain before the destruction of the City and Sanctuary Yet is there one week more to make up the number of seventy in the midst of which week the Messiah should be slain which came to pass accordingly for in the midst of that week that is about three years and an half after his baptisme Christ Jesus the true Messiah was slain and not for himself for Pilate could find no fault in him I finde no fault in the man I find no cause of death in him I am innocent of the blood of this just man look ye to it Not for himself but for us was he wounded as saith the Prophet Isaiah He was wounded for our transgressions Therefore to him doth this circumstance of time bear witness and consequently the Jews after these times by God himself appointed for the Messiah expecting yet for another besides the vanity of this their expectation they make God himself a lyar yea and all their forefathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob and all the holy Prophets whose Children they hold themselves to be who all of them saw these days and prophesied of them Abraham rejoyced to see my day saith our Saviour and he saw it and was glad All these make they Lyars with themselves whereby they shew themselves rather to be the Children of the Devil who is the Father of lyes then of Abraham who is the Father of the Faithful only For so did that vile Serpent at the first even dare to give God himself the lye as it is in Genesis God saith there to Adam In the day that thou eatest of such a tree thou shalt dye the death No saith the Devil it is not so ye shall not dye at all So do these Imps of Satan Generation of Vipers as John the Baptist in his time called them even just after the same manner For saith God by his Prophets at such a time will I send the Messiah into the world and by such and such marks ye shall know him no saith this froward Generation it is not
not cast thee away but they have cast me away that I should not reign over them c. And as before under the Judges so now under the Kings still as they sinned and multiplyed their transgressions so did the Lord inflict and multiply upon them his judgements one plague after another til at length they were carried captives into Babylon After which long captivity yet restored again upon their repentance the time was not long but they fell again to their old byas and forgate the Lord their God which had done so great things for them yea rather now worse then ever persecuting the Prophets from time to time whom God raised up amongst them and killing them one after another even till the coming of the Messiah and him also they crucified Whereupon ensued this last and final desolation as the full measure of their sine deserved and as themselves desired saying His blood be upon us and upon our children which hath continued now almost these sixteen hundred yeers the longest captivity and greatest misery that ever hapned to any people and so shall continue till they as did their forefathers turn to the Lord by true and hearty repentance cry unto the Lord in their trouble and then will the Lord deliver them out of their distress according to the former examples and not before And this is the state and condition of the Jews at this day the miserable state I say with the cause and the remedy which God grant they may make use of Amen AN ALLARUM TO THE JEWS Or the MESSIAH already come FIrst for the promises and prophesies of old as touching the coming of a Messiah whom we cal CHRIST both they and we agree both of us reading dayly in our Churches and Synagogues teaching and holding for canonical the very selfe same Scriptures even the Law and the Prophets In so much that the Gentile is often times enforced to marvail when he seeth a people so extreamly bent one against another as the Jewes are against Christians and yet do stand so peremptorily in defence of those very principles which are the proper causes of their disagreement But in the Interpretation and Application thereof ariseth all the Controversie they understanding and applying all things literally and carnally to their long looked for Messiah yet for to come We after a Spiritual manner understanding all those promises and prophesies to be most truely and real● fulfilled in the person of our blesse● Messiah already come they expecting a temporal King to rule and conquer in this world we acknowledging a spiritual King whose Kingdom is not of this world as himselfe did many times protest while he was in the world My kingdom is not of this world To begin with Adam and so forward Gods promise to Adam THe first promise as touching the Messiah is this made to Adam after his ●all for the restoring of mankind to wit that the seed of the Woman should break the Serpents head that is to say one of her seed to be born in time should conquer the Devil Death and Sin as the ancient Jews understand this place which being a spiritual conquest and against a spiritual enemy the Devil he I mean the Messiah must needs be a spiritual and consequently not a temporal King as the Jewes imagine Gods promise to Abraham THe second to Abraham Isaac and Jacob often repeated To Abraham Gen. 12.3 In thee shall all the Families of the earth be blessed To Isaac Gen. 26.4 In thy seed shall all the Nations of the earth be blessed To Jacob Gen. 28 14. In thee and in thy seed shall all the Families of the earth be blessed Therefore the Gentiles as well as the Jewes the blessing is general without exception all the Families of the earth all Nations no Prerogative of the Jew no exception of the Gentile as touching the Messiah I mean the benefit of this so general and great a blessing though otherwise much every way as the Apostle reasoneth to the Romans Whereupon I infer as before that the Messsiah must be a spiritual and not a temporal King otherwise it had been but a very small benediction to Abraham or others after him who never saw their Messiah actually if he must have been only a temporal King and much less blessing had been to us Gentiles if this Messiah of the Jews must have been a worldly and temporal Monarch to destroy and subdue all those Nations formerly blessed and blessed shall they be to the servitude of Jury as the latter Teachers do imagine The Prophesie of Jacob THe third which confirmeth the former is the prophesie of Jacob at his death Gen. 49.10 the rod or scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a Lawgiver from between his feet till Shiloh come and the People or Nations shall be gathered unto him Which the Chalde Paraphrase as also Onkelos both of singular authority among the Jews do interpret thus Until Christ or the Messiah come which is the hope and expectation of all Nations as well Gentiles as Jews the government shall not cease in the House or Tribe of Juda. Whence I infer the same conclusion as before that if the Messiah must be the hope and expectation as well of the Gentiles as of the Jews then can he not be a temporal King to destroy the Gentiles as the latter Jews would have it but a spiritual King as before hath been declared Secondly if the temporal Kingdom of the house of Juda whereof the Messiah must com shal cease and be destroyed at his comming and not before that being a certain sign of the time of his manifestation how then can the Jews expect yet a temporal King for their Messiah the Scepter already departed and gone their Kingdom and Priesthood defaced their City and Temple destroyed themselves scattered amongst all Nations and so have continued almost this sixteen hundred years yea such a fatal and final desolation by Gods just judgement brought upon that woful Nation and that not many years after the death and passion of our Saviour Jesus Christ according to his prophesie in his life time as may fully settle our faith in this point The Prophesie of Moses THe fourth is that of Moses to the people of Israel The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet like unto me from among you even of thy brethren unto him ye shall hearken c. and in the verses following I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren like unto thee saith God to Moses and will put my words into his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him and whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name I will require it of him Which words cannot be understood of any other Prophet that ever lived after Moses amongst the Jews but only of the Messiah as appeareth most plainly in another place in Deutrenomy where it is said
There arose not a Prophet in Israel like unto Moses whom the Lord knew face to face in all the miracles and wonders which the Lord sent him to do c. no such Prophet except the Messiah ever after to be expected but the Messiah he it is that must match and overmatch Moses every way he must be a man as Moses was in respect of our infirmities even according as the people of Israel themselves desired the Lord in Horeb saying Let me hear the voice of the Lord God no more nor see this great fire any more that I dye not And the Lord said unto Moses they have well spoken I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren like unto thee c. He must be a Law-giver as Moses was but of a far more perfect Law as hereafter shal appear he must be such a one whom the Lord hath known face to face as he did Moses but of a far more divine nature For as it is in Isaiah Who shall declare his age Lastly he must be approved to the world by miracles signs and wonders as Moses was which the Lord shall send him to do as he did Moses But no such Prophet hath ever yet appeared in the world nor ever shall who hath so fitly answered this type so perfectly observed the Law of Moses which Moses himself could not do giving us instead therof a far more excellent Law as was prophesied long before that he should And finally so miraculously approved himselfe to the world to be sent from God by signs and wonders done both by himself and his Apostles as hereafter shall appear except this Christ which we profess therefore he alone is the true Messiah and no other to be expected The Prophesie of David THe fift is the Prophesie of David a type also of the Messiah who for that he was a holy man a man after Gods own heart out of whose linage the Messiah was to come had this Mystery most manifestly revealed unto him for the assurance whereof as of a great mystery even that of Christ and his Church God bindeth himselfe by an Oath saying I have made a Covenant with my chosen I have sworn unto David my servant thy seed will I establish for ever and set up thy Throne from generation to generation Selah Which words although the lattter Jews will apply to King Solomon and so in some sort they may for that he also was a type of the Messiah yet properly these words I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever so often repeated cannot be verified of Solomon whose earthly Kingdom was rent and torn in pieces streight after his death by Jer●boam and not long after as it were extinguished but they must needs be understood of an eternal King and Kingdom as must also those other words of God in the Psalms Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee ask of me and I will give thee the Heathen for thine inheritance and the ends of the earth for thy possession Thou shalt crush them with a rod of Iron and break them in pieces like a Potters Vessel which prophesie was never fulfilled in Solomon nor in any other temporal King in Jury after him And much lesse this that followeth They shal fear thee as long as the Sun and Moon endureth from Generation to Generation In his days shall the righteous flourish and aboundance of peace so long as the Moon endureth His dominion also shall be from Sea to Sea and from the River unto the ends of the Earth They that dwell in the Wilderness shall kneel before him and his enemies shall slick the dust The Kings of Tharshish and of the Isles shall bring presents the Kings of Sheba and Seba shall bring gifts yea all Kings shall worship him all Nations shall serve him His Name shall be for ever his Name shall endure as long as the Sun all Nations shall be blessed in him and shall bless him And blessed be the Lord God even the God of Israel which only doth wondrous things And blessed be his glorious Name for ever and let all the Earth be filled with his glory Amen Amen And so he endeth as it were in a trance ravished beyond measure with the sweet and Heavenly contemplation of this spiritual and everlasting Kingdom of the Messiah for to him and to no other can all these Circumstances and Hyperbolical speeches of David rapt with the Spirit of Prophesie properly and primarily appertain though literally the Jews understand them of Solomon as they do many other places in like case applying them only to the type never looking to the substance whereof those types and fitures were but shadows and semblances God of his mercy in his good time take away the vaile from their hearts that at length they may see the true Solomon in all his royalty not any longer to grope at noon days winking with their eyes against the clear Sun like their fore-Fathers as it is in Isaiah a most fearful judgement of God laid upon that Nation of old objected to them many times and oft both by Christ and his Apostles but in vain Go and say unto this people ye shall hear indeed but shall not understand ye shall plainly see and not perceive make the heart of this people fat make their ears heavy and shut their eyes least they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and convert And be healed Whereupon ensueth even upon this winking and wilful obstinasie a most severe denunciation of final desolation Lord how long saith the Prophet and he answered Untill the Cities be wasted without inhabitant the houses without a man and the Land be utterly desolate c. But yet a tenth reserved to return a holy seed remainig in due time to be converted This judgment and desolation hath been a long time upon them they feel it and groan under the burthen of it as their forefathers did in Egypt under Pharaoh and yet winking shut their eys and will not see it I mean acknowledge the true cause of these so great judgements revealed from Heaven upon them even the contempt of Gods holy Prophets sent unto them from time to time but especially of the Messiah whose blood lyeth heavily upon them even to this day as their forefathers desired His blood be upon vs and on our Children which all the world seeth is come to pass yea they themselves feel it yet winking with their eye they will not see it But there is a tenth to return c. The rest which will not this Messiah to reign over them let them look into that Parable in the Gospel there shall they find a far more fearful destruction denounced then the former The first being but for a time but a type of the other but a beginning of woes the other eternal for ever and ever The first he pronounceth with tears
it is fallen already and what hindreth but that daylie and hourly we may expect the final desolation thereof Daylie and hourly I say for with such celerity and violence when it shall please God to put in their hearts whom it may concern to fulfil his Will Rev. 17.17 shall this sentence be executed In one day shal her plagues come upon her death and sorrow and famine and she shall be burnt with fire c. In one hour she shall be made desolate Rejoyce over her thou heaven and ye holy Apostles and Prophets for God hath given your judgement on her And a mighty Angel took up a stone like a great Milstone and cast it into the Sea saying with such violence shall that great City Babylon be thrown down And here I might cast up together in like manner making but one total sum of all the Prophesies of all those holy Apostles and Disciples of our Lord and Saviour both as touching divers particulars whereof they prophesied in those times fulfilled most exactly as also touching the general state of the Church successively in all ages even to the end of the world and of the end of the world it self First for the particulars I will but point at them as before One of those holy Prophets prophesied of a general dearth to fall out in those times which hapned accordingly under Claudius Caesar Act. 11.27 Also of Pauls Imprisonment Acts 21.10 Paul in his sayling towards Rome foretelleth the Centurion and the rest of the tempestuous weather to ensue Acts 27.10 Of their shipwrack but yet with safety of their lives vers. 22. and precisely the place where they should be cast ashore to wit upon a certain Island vers. 26. In one of his Epistles he prophesieth of his own death 2 Tim. 4.6 So doth also Peter 2 Pet. 1.14 Secondly for the future state of the Church in these last days with the coming of Antichrist into the world and all his damned crew those hellish Furies See how precisely these holy Apostles and Prophets foretel of these times these perillous times and how lively they set him out in his colours with all his additions as well becometh such an infernal King the Angel of the bottomless pit whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon in Greek Apollyon That Antichrist that man of sin the son perdition that wicked one c. with all other adjuncts and circumstances so lively described as if he had been then already come for even in these days as the Apostle speaketh did this mysterie of iniquity begin to work See then I say 2 Thes. 2. 1 Tim. 3. 2 Tim. 4. 2 Pet. 2. 1 Joh. 2.18 chap. 4.1 2 Joh. v. 7. yea the whole Revelation is nothing else but a continued prophesie of all such things as should happen to the Church militant even from the Apostles times to the end of the world All which prophesies we see accomplished except before excepted the final destruction of Babylon and the calling of the Jews whereof both our Saviour himself as also Paul hath prophesied Rom. 11. both which we daylie expect and then as it is in the Revelation Come Lord Jesus Of which second coming or general doom with the manner of it and all other circumstances we have also sundry prophesies both of Christ and his Apostles which here I will joyn in one as proceeding all from one and the same Spirit for here all prophesies must come to a full period nil ultra I will only quote them as formerly Matth. 16.27 chap. 19.28 chap. 20.1 chap. 24. chap. 25. chap. 26.64 John 5.25 c. 1 Cor. 85. 1 Thes. 4.14 chap. 5.1 Jam. 5.8 1 Pet. 4.7 2 Pet. 3. Jude v. 6. 14 Rev. 21. where you shall see a new heaven and a new earth c. New Jerusalem descending from God out of heaven prepared as a Bride trimmed for her Husband Thus have I brought you at length as after a long and tedious passage by Sea to see land and as it were the Sea-mark whereunto after so many variable winds and so often tacking to and again we have directed our course even from the first Prophesie made to Adam in Paradise Gen. 3.15 to the very last period of all Prophesies in the Revelation shut up in the second Adam Jesus Christ who is the first and the last Alpha and Omega the beginning and the ending in whom all Prophesies kiss each other and have their consummation These are the words saith he which I spake unto you while I was yet with you That all must be fulfilled which are written of me in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and in the Psalms c. Thus it is written and thus it behoved Christ to suffer and to rise again from the dead the third day and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his Name among all Nations beginning at Jerusalem I say from this Jerusalem which now lyeth desolate I have brought you to the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven as a Bride adorned for her Husband from an earthly to a heavenly Paradise and there I leave you A Collection DEMONSTRATIVE OR Sum of the former Proofs THe Messiah must be a spiritual King to conquer the Divel ●eath and Sin b●th by Scripture as also by the Interpretation of the ancient Jews themselves upon that place of Genesis He shall break thine head Therefore not a Temporal King as the latter Jews imagine The Messiah must be King over the Gentiles as well as the Jews both by Scripture as also by their own Writers Therefore not a Temporal King to reign ●ver the● only much less to subdue the Gentiles to the servitude of Jewry as some of them imagine The Messiah must be both God and Man the Son of God the Word of God incarnate The second person in Trin●ty both by the Scriptures as also by their own Writers Therefore no such earthly Monarch as they expect The Messiah at his coming being to be both King of Jew and Gentile must change the Law of Moses to wit the Ceremonial and Provincial proper to the Jews only and instead thereof give a general Law to both absolute and p●rfect to serve for all persons times and places to endure even to the end of the world th●refore no such Temporal Monarch● to be expe●●ed as they look after For one and the same conclusion followeth upon all the premises beating upon ●heir main gro●nd to wit a temporal or Earthly Kingdom which bei●g once shaken the rest falleth to the ground All Prophesies whatsoever with every particular circumstance foretold by the Prophets of the Messiah were both substantially and circumstantially fulfilled in the person of our blessed Saviour both as touching his Birth Life Doctrine Miracles Death Resurrection Ascension and other effects afterwards of his Divine Power in sending of the holy Ghost and the miraculous encrease of his Church c. Therefore was he indeed the Messiah no other