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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

of the preaching of the Gospel which began at Ierusalem and from thence was spread over all the world Which the same Isay foresawe when talking of the Messiah he sayth In that daie shall five cities in the Land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan c. In that daie shall the alter of the Lord be in the middest of the Land of Egypt and a piller by the border thereof unto the Lord. And the Egyptians shall knowe the Lord in that daie and doe sacrifice and oblation and shall vow● vowes c. which could not be verified of the Law of Moses for by that Law the Egyptians could haue nether alter nor sacrifice but it was fulfilled upon the cōming of Christ when the Egyptians were made Christians Also in another place and the yles shall waite for his Law The same was likewise foretold by God in Malachie where he sayth to the Iewes and of the Iewish sacrifices I haue no pleasure in you neyther will I receiue an offring at your hands for from the rising of the sunne unt●ll the going downe of the same my name i● great among the Gentiles and in everie place incense shal be offer●d 〈◊〉 my name and a pure offering for my name is great among the Gentiles s●●th the Lord of Hosts Wherein we see first a reprobation of the Iewish Sacrifices consequently of the Law of Moses which dependeth principally thereupon Secondly that among the Gentiles there should be a pure maner of Sacrifice more gratefull unto God then the other not limited eyther in respect of tyme or place as the Mosaicall Law sacrifice was For so sayth God in Ezechiel I gaue them statutes which were not good and judgments wherein they shall not liue that is not good to continue perpetually nor shall they live in thē any longer but til the time by me appoynted Of which tyme he determineth more particularly by Ieremie in these words Behold the dayes come sayth the Lord that I will mak a newe covenant with the house of Israel and Iudah not according to that covenant which I made with their Fathers c. where you see a new covenant or Testament promised different from the old whereupon I conclude the old Law of Moses by the Messiah must be changed into a new The tyme of his manyfestation with all other circumstances NOw for the tyme of his manyfestation with all other circumstances of his birth lyfe death resurrection ascension and those things also that fell out afterwards if we shall consider how particulraly precisely they were all foretold by the Prophets and how long before some hundreths some thousands of yeares before they fell out as also how exactly they were all fulfilled in the person of our blessed Saviour all directed like so many lynes to one center we shall as it were in a mirrour see and behold both the truth of Christian religion setled vpon a most firme unmovable center as also the vanitie of all other religiōs whatsoever especially this most vain expectatiō of the Iewes to this day of their Messiah yet for to come as vaine and fond altogither as was that opinion of one of the Phylosophers which the word center hath put me in mynd of that the earth forsooth did move and the heavens stand still how far they are degenerate not onely from all true light vnderstāding in heavenly matters but also even from cōmon sense and reason it selfe in things of that nature tending therevnto And first for the tyme. Daniell who lived in the first Monarchie foretold that there should be three monarchies more the last the greatest of all to witt the Romane Empire and then the eternall King or Messiah should come his 〈◊〉 are these In the dayes of these Kings shal the God of heaven set vp a kingdome which shall never be destroyed Dan. 2.44 And just according to this tyme was the Messiah born namely in the dayes of Augustus Caesar Luk. 2. as both we Christians account and the Iewes acknowledge even in those halcyon dayes of peace when the temple gates of Ianus were commannded to be shut and vpon that very day when Augustus commaunded that no man should call him Lord was this Prince of peace borne Therefore to him agreeth this circumstance of tyme very fitly most vainly therefore doe the Iewes after this tyme expect for another Secondly Iacob who lived many yeares before prophesied of this tyme very precisely as already hath bene aleadged that the Mes●iah whom he there calleth Shilo should come at that tyme when the scepter or goverment regall was departed from the house of Iudah which was in the dayes of Herod and never till then who first vsurped that government his father in law King Hircanus with all his of●pring of the blood royall of Iuda togither with the Sanhedrim put to death The genealogies of the Kings and Princes burned A new pedegrie for himselfe divised In a word all authority regall whatsoever belonging to that tribe at that tyme quite extinguished And just according to this tyme was our Saviour borne namely in the dayes of Herod Math. 2.1 Therefore to him agreeth this circūstance of tyme very fitly most vainely therefore doe the Iewes after this tyme expect any longer Thirdly God himselfe saith by his Prophet Hagga● that the Messiah whome he there calleth the de●ired of all nations shall come in the tyme of the second temple which was then but new built farr inferior in statelynes and glory to the former built by Solomon which the old men in the book of Ezra testify by their weeping when they sawe this second temple and remembred the glory of the first The words of the Lord by his Prophet Haggai are these Speake vnto Zerubbabel who is left amonge you that sa●e this hous● in her first glory and how doe you see it now is it not in your eies in comparison of it as nothing yet now be of good cheere ô Zerubbubel for thus saith the Lord of hosts yet a litle while and I wil shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the drie land And I will move all nations and the desire of all nations shal come and I will fill this house with glory saith the Lord of hostes The glory of this last house shal be greater their the first c. which must needs be vnderstood of the coming of the Messiah to wit his personall presence in this second temple in whom is the fulnes of glory therefore could he and none other fill it with glory being himselfe indeed the King of glory Lifte vp your heads ô yee gates and be yee lift vp yee everlasting dores and the King of glory shall come in So doth Mallachie prophesy in these words The Lord whom yee seeke shall speedily come to his temple even the m●ssenger of the covenant whom yee desire behold he shall come sayth the Lord of hosts c.

And so indeed he did for Christ Iesus came into the world during this second temple and did himselfe likewise foretell the destruction thereof which came to passe even in that age Therefore to him agreeth this circumstance of tyme very fitly most vainly therefore doe the Iewes after this tyme 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 weekes for so many yeeres to be multiplied by seauen that is to say weekes of yeares as they must needs be understood was to come just according to the tyme before mentioned his words are these Seventie weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thyne holy citie knowe therefore and understand that from the going forth of the Command●ment to bring againe the people and to build Ierusalem unto Messiah the Prince shall be seauen weeks and threescore and two week● And after threescore and two weeks shall the Messiah be slayne and not for hims●lf And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the citie and sanctuarie and he shall confirme the covenant with many for one week in the middest of the weeke he shall c●use the sacrifice and oblation to cease Which Hebdomades or weeks of yeeres whether we account from the first yeere of Cyrus who first determined the Iewes reduction or from the second of Darius who confirmed and put the same in execution or from the twentieth yere of Darius for that he then made a new Edict in the favour of Nehemias and sent him into Iury everie way they will ende in the raigne of Herod and Augustus under whom Christ was borne or in the raigne of Tyberius under whom he suffered And by no interpretation can it be avoyded but that this tyme is now out aboue one thousand and fiue hundreth yeeres Beside● this being a cleare prophecie of the Messiah howsoever somewhat more intricate and obscure in respect of the yeeres wherein the Prophet alludeth to the captivitie of Babylon as some thinke must needs be interpreted according to the former prophecies also of the Messiah And so doth the Prophet expound himself in the former words namely that theMessiah should be slaine before the destruction of the citie and Sanctuarie Yet is there one weeke more to make up the number of seauentie in the midst of which weeke the Messiah should be slayne which came to passe accordingly for in the middest of that weeke that is about three yeeres and an half after his baptisme Christ Iesus the true Messiah was slayne and not for himself for Pilat could find no fault in him I find no fault in the man I finde no cause of death in him I am innocent of the blood of this Iust man look ye to it Not for himself but for us was he wounded as sayth the Prophet Isai He was wounded for our transgressions Therefore to him doth this circumstance of tyme beare witnes and consequently the Iewes after these tymes by God himself appointed for the Messiah expecting yet for an other beside● the vanitie of this their expectation they make God himself a lyer yea and all their Forefathers Abraham Isaack and Iacob all the holy Prophets whose children they hold themselues to be who all of them sawe these dayes and prophecied of them Abraham rejoyced to see my day sayth our Saviour and he sawe it and was glad All these make they Lyers with themselues whereby they shewe themselues rather to be the children of the Divil who is the father of lyes then of Abraham who is the father of the faithfull onely For so did that vile serpent at the first euen dare to giue God himself the lye as it is in Genesis God ●ayth there to Adam In the day that thou eatest of such a tree thou shalt dye the death No sayth the Divil it is not so ye shall not dye as all So doe these Imps of Sathan generation of vipers as Iohn the Baptist in his time called them euen just after the same maner For sayth God by his prophets at such a tyme will I sende the Messiah into the world and by such and such markes ye shall knowe him no sayth this froward generation it is not so he hath not yet sent him he is not yet come we acknowledge no such marks as that he shall be poor and of no reputation in this world put to death We look for a magnificent prince we will none of such a base fellowe as this Iesus to reigne over us a false Prophet a deceiver and so forth with whatsoever els their malicious harts can imagine their blasphemous tongues being set on fire of hel are ready to utter to his disgrace But let them looke into that parable of our Saviour there they shall find him another maner of persō thē they imagine I will repeat it unto them Moreover those mine enemies who would not that I should raigne over them bring them hither and stay them before me God of his mercie giue them repentance in tyme of their heynous and high blasphemies that they may mourne for him whom they haue pierced everie familie and tribe apart Repent for the kingdome of heauen is at hand And think not to say with your selues we haue Abraham to our Father for I say unto you that God is able of these stones to rayse up children unto Abraham Now is the axe put to the roote of the tree The last trumpet will blowe and then it wil be to late when ye shall heare that shrill voyce ringing in your eares arise ye deade and come to judgment that voyce will awake you out of all your dreames and make you arise whether ye will or no when ye shall see the sonne of man come in his glorie euen your long looked for Messiah like a magnificent prince indeed but litle to the comfort of those that remayne obstinate Awake therefore to your salvation that ye be not awakened hereafter to your condemnation Awake thou that sleepest stand up from the dead and Christ shall giue thee light shake of all your ydle dreames and foolish fantasies of your imaginarie Messiah fitter for children then men of discretion consider with your selues at length how long ye haue overslept your selues how manie ages are now past and gone since both by computation of Scriptures as aforesayd as also by the observation of your owne Doctors and Teachers your Messiah was to come and yet you see him not no nor any likelyhood at all of his comming more then at the first yea rather all evidenc●s and probabilities to the contrarie that may be looke into your Talmud and there ye shall see plainly if you be not blynd there also as you are in the Scriptures the vanitie of vanities of this your expectation for so it is indeede It is often repeated in your Talmud that one Elias left this tradition that the

plaine confession that Iesus was he of whom a prophet sayd divers ages before He shall consume all the Gods of the earth and everie man shall worship him from his place euen all the yles of the Heathen This confessed also the wicked spirits themselues when at Christs appearing in Iewrie they came and did their homage to him and besought him not to afflict or torment them before the time nor command them presently to returne to hell but rather to permit them some litle time of entertainement in the sea or mountaines or among heards of swine or the like which conf●ssion they made openly before all men and declared the same afterwards by their deeds For presently upon Christ his death upon the preaching of his name Gospel throughout the world the oracle in all places ceased whereof the Poets themselues beare witnes Cessant Oracula Delphis Whereupon Plutarch that lived within one hundreth yeeres after Christ made a speciall Treatise to sifte out the causes why the oracles of the Gods as they deemed them were ceased in his time And after much turning and winding manie waies at length resolved upon two principall points or causes thereof The first for that in his tyme there was more store of wisemen then before whose answers might stand in steede of Oracles and the other for that perhaps the Spirits accustumed to yeelde Oracles were by length of tyme growen old and dead Both which reasons in the common-sence of all men must needs be false by Plutarch himself cannot stand with probabilitie For first in his books which he wrote of the liues of auncient famous men he confesseth that in such kind of wisdome as he most esteemed they had not their equals among their posteritie Secondly in his Treatise of Phylosophie he passeth it for a ground that Spirits can not dye or waxe old And therefore of necessitie there must be some other cause yeelded of the ceasing of these Oracles which can not be but the presence and commandement of some higher power according to that saying of S. Iohn for to this end and purpose appeared the sonne of God to wit that he might destroy the works of the divel Neyther did Iesus this alone in his owne person but gaue also powre and authoritie to his disciples and followers to doe the like according to that their commission in the Gospel Then called he the twelue Disciples together and gaue them powre and authoritie over all divils c. And not only to these twelue did he giue this absolute powre and authoritie over uncleane Spirits but to the rest likewise as may appeare in the next chapter following upon the returne of their commission And the seauentie returned with joy saying Lord euen the Divils are subdued to us through thy name And he sayd unto them I sawe Sathan like lightning fall downe from heaven and so renueth their commission saying Behold I giue unto you powre to tread on Serpents scorpions and over all the power of the enemie that is to say the Divil neverthelesse sayth he in this rejoyce not that the spirits are subdued unto you but rather rejoyce because your names are are written in heauen And this authoritie over the spirits infernall given by Iesus to his Disciples in the primitive Church extended it selfe so far that not onely theire words and commaundements but even theire ver●e presence did shut the mouthes and drive into feare the miserable spirits as both Lactantius and others doe witnesse whence it proceeded that in all sacrifices conjurations and other mysteries of the gentiles there was brought in that phraise recorded by scoffing Lucian exeant Christia●i let Christians depart for that while they were present nothing could be well accomplished And that professed enemie of Christianitie Porphyrie who of all other most earnestly endeavoured to empugne vs Christians to hold vp the honour of his enfeebled Idols yet discoursing of the great plague that reigned most furiously in the citie of Messina in Cicilie where he dwelt yeeldeth this reason why Aesculapius the God of physick much adored in that place was not able to help them in that extremitie It is no merveile saith he if this citie so many yeares be vexed with the plague seeing that both Aesculapius and all other Gods be now departed from it by the comming of Christians for since that men have begun to worship this Iesus we could never obtaine any prophet by our Gods Thus much cōfessed this patrone of paganisme concerning the mayme that his Gods had received by the power and comming of our Lord Iesus Christ which albeit he spake with a malicious minde to bring Christians in hatred yet is the confession notable confirmeth that storie which Plutarch in his forenamed book doth report that in the latter yeares of the reigne of the Emperour Tiberius a strange voice and exceeding horrible clamor with hideous cries skryches and howlings were heard by many in the Graecian sea complayning that the great God Pan was now departed And this af●irmeth Plutarch that was a gentile to have been alleadged and approved before the Emperour Tyberius who merveyled greatly thereat and could not by all his diviners and southsayers whom he called to that consultation gather out any reasonable meaning of this wōderfull accident But we Christians comparing the time wherein it happened vnto the time of Christ his death and passion and finding the same fully to agree we may more then pabablie perswade our selves that by the death of their great God Pan which signifieth all was imported the vtter overthrow of all wicked spirits and Idols vpon earth according to that vision of our Lord saviour before mentioned I saw Sathan like lightning fall down frō heaven c. againe in an other place now is the judgment of this wo●ld now shall the Prince of this world be cast out even this great God Pan who in an other place is called the God of this world the Prince that ruleth in the ayre therefore may well be said by our Saviour to fal down frō heavē being before time worshiped in those Idols oracles and heathenish prophanations as a God in all the world and exalted as it were into the highest heavens But behold as Dagon that idol of the Philistims ●●ll flat on his face and that twice his head and hands dismembred before the arke of God in Ashdod so did Sathan this great God Pan the God of this world the Prince of the ayre c let me give the Divil his due yea rather more then his due as doth the ho●y scripture so did Sathan I say immediately vpon the comming of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ into this world and preaching of his Gospel the ark of his everlasting covenant fall flat one his face to the ground his head and hands dismembred according to that first promise and covenant to our first parents which was this that

Emperor by whose command the finall subversion of that Iewish nation was brought to passe this Phlegon I say though a Pagan yet upon consideration of these events and others that he sawe as the extreame persecution of Christians foretold by Christ and the like he pronounced that never any man foretold things so certainly to come or that so precisely were accomplished as were the predictions and prophecies of Iesus And now albeit these praedictions and prophecies concerning the punishment and reprobation of the Iewes fulfilled so evide●tly in the sight of all the world might be a sufficient demonstration of his divine prescience and foreknowledge in things to come yet were there also many other things besides foreshewed by him which fell out as exactly as these did which by no humane reason or learning could possibly be foreseene As for example the foretelling of his owne death resurrection and ascention with all their severall circumstances the maner time place and all other particulari●ies as precisely as if they had been al●eadie accomplished and that not onely to his owne Disciples but euen to the Scribes Pharisees who came of purpose to tempt him as he that shall but examine the quotations following which for brevirie sake I haue but onely zyphered and as it were pointed at in figures may easely perceiue First to his Disciples Matth. 16 21. chap. 17 9 22. chap. 20 17. chap. 26 1 11 31.45 Ioh. 13 33. chap. ●6 16. 13 3. 18 4. 14 2 28. Then to the Scribes and Pharisees Mat. 12 38. chap. 21 38. Luk. 13 31. Ioh. 2 18. chap. 3. 12. chap. 7 33. chap. 8. 21 28. chap. 12 31. Also how his Disciples should be scattered and forsake him Ioh. 16 32. Of Peters denyal Mat. 26 34. And by what maner of death he should glorifie God Ioh. 21 18. How Iudas one of his owne Disciples should betray him Ioh. 6 64 70. chap. 13 10 26. chap. 17 12. Mat. 26 21 46. Of the sending of the holy Ghost Ioh. 7 38. chap. 14 16 26. chap. 15 26. chap. 16 7. Luk. 24 49. Of his Disciples myracles which they should work in his name Mark 16 17. Luk. 10 18. Iohn 14 12. The cruell persecution that should arise to the professors of his name in all places Mat. 10 16. chap. 24 9. Ioh. 16.1 The buylding of his Church notwithstanding in despite of the Divel and all oppositions upon a rock with this sure word of promise never to fayle that the gates of hell shall not overcome it Mat. 16 18. And again I am with you alwaies euen to the end of the world Mat. 28 20 The signes tokens that should goe before the end of the world as first the false Christs and false Prophets that should arise here and there with the Church yea and in the church that abhomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet to be set in the holy place Matth. 24 5 11.15 23. Meaning and so I thinke would the Holy Ghost haue all men to understand it when he addeth this parenthesis Let him that readeth consider it euen that Arch-Antichrist now sitting in that holy place or church for so it was in tymes past whose fayth was once so famous in all the world Rom. 1 8. Warres and rumours of Warres pestilence famine and earthquakes Mat. 24 6. Persecution as before Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall k●ll you and ye shall be hated of all nations for my names sake Mat. 24 9. So were Christians in the Primitiue Church under the Roman Emperors those cruell Caesars and so haue been of latter tymes also under the tyrannie of this Arch-antichristian Caesar that abomination of desolation now sitting in the selfe same place druncken with the blood of the Saincts and with the blood of the martyrs of Iesus whose destruction sleepeth not Come I will shewe thee the damnation of the great whore c. Finally the preaching of the Gospel to all nations Mat. 24 14. and the uniting and gathering together both of Iew and Gentile into one fold under one shepheard euen that great shepheard of our soules that there may be one sheepfold and one shepheard Ioh. 10 16. This is one of the last signes foretold by our Saviour but in part remayneth to be accomplished and what hindereth Euen that abomination of Desolation before spoken of which hath been a stumbling block to all nations hetherto both Turks and Iewes for comming to Christianitie which the Lord in due time will remoue For Babylon shall fall as it is in the Revelation it is fallen it is fallen Babylon that great citie In part it is fallen alreadie and what hindereth but that dayly and hourely we may expect the finall desolation thereof Dayly and hourely I say for with such celeritie violence when it shall please God to put in their hearts whom it may concerne to fulfill his wil Rev. 17.17 shall this sentence be executed In one day shall her plagues come upō her death ●orrowe and famine and she shall be burnt with fire c. In one houre she shall be made desolate Rejoyce over her thou heauen and ye Holy Apostles and Prophets for God hath giuen your judgment on her And a mightie Angel tooke up a stone like a great milstone and cast it into the sea saying with such violence shall that great citie Babylon be throwne downe And here I might cast up together in like maner making but one totall summe of all the prophecies of all those Holy Apostles and Disciples of our Lord and Saviour both as touching divers particulars whereof they prophecied in those tymes fulfilled most exactly as also touching the generall state of the Church successiuely in all ages euen to the end of the world and of the ende of the world it self First for the particulars I will but point at them as before One of those Holy Prophets prophecied of a generall dearth to fal● out in those tymes which happened accordingly under Cla●dius Caesar Act. 11.27 also of Pauls imprisonment Act. 21 10. Paul in his sayling towards Rome foretelleth the Centurion and the rest of the tempestuous weather to ensue Act. 27.10 Of their shipwrack but yet with safetie of their liues ve● 22. and precisely the place where they should be cast a shore to wit upon a certaine Iland vers 26. In one of his Epistles he prophecieth of his owne death 2 Tim. 4.6 So doth also Peter 2 Pet. 1.14 Secondly for the future state of the Church in these last daies with the comming of Antichrist into the world all his damned crue those hellish furies see how precisely these Holy Apostles and Prophets foretell of these times th●s● pers●ous times and how liuely they set him out in his colours with all his additions as well becommeth such an infernall King the angel of the bottomlesse p●tte whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon in Greeke Apollyon that Antichrist