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A62471	Digitus dei: nevv discoveryes with sure arguments to prove that the Jews (a Nation) or people lost in the world for the space of near 200 years, inhabite now in America; how they came thither; their manners, customs, rites and ceremonies; the unparallel'd cruelty of the Spaniard to them; and that the Americans are of that race. Manifested by reason and scripture, which foretell the calling of the Jewes; and the restitution of them into their own land, and the bringing back of the ten tribes from all the ends and corners of the earth, and that great battell to be fought. With the removall of some contrary reasonings, and an earnest desire for effectuall endeavours to make them Christians. Whereunto is added an epistolicall discourse of Mr John Dury, with the history of Ant: Monterinos, attested by Manasseh Ben Israell, a chief rabby. By Tho: Thorowgood, B:D.	Thorowgood, Thomas, d. ca. 1669.; Dury, John, 1596-1680.; Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657.	1652 (1652)	Wing T1066; ESTC R219280	112,228	182

oppressed and spoyled evermore ver 29. thou shalt betroth a wife and another shall lie with her ver 30. you shall be left few in number though yee were as starres for multitude c. ver 62. And these Americans were made by the Spaniards every where and every way miserable without any helpe or reliefe Barthol las Casas upon fourty two yeeres sight of their suffering sympathized so much with them that he represented the same to King Philip in hope to obtaine for them some favour and mercy but he little prevailed One of them boasted of his care to leave as many Indian women as he could with child that in their sale he might put them off to his better profit from Lucaios to Hispaniola about seventy miles dead carkases were cast so abundantly into the sea that they needed no other direction thither and wee know it for truth saith hee that Countreys longer than all Europe and a great part of Asia by horrid cruelties were destroyed and more than twenty Millions of the Natives yea in Hispaniola alone scarce one hundred and fifty of two millions were left alive In another place hee professeth their tyranny was so cruell and detestable that in fourty six yeeres space they caused he verily believed more than fifty millions of them to pay their last debt to nature for I speak saith hee the truth and what I saw they dealt with the poore Indians not as with beasts hoc enim peroptarem but as if they had bin the most abject dung of the earth and is this the way saith Benzo to convert Infidels Such kindnesse they shewed to other places also Cuba Iamaica Portu ricco c. It was said against Israell Cursed shall thy basket be and thy store ver 17. the fruit of thy land the encrease of thy cattle ver 18. all shall be devoured by enemies and other Nations c. ver 30 c. For very much is said of their suffering in riches and honour c. And the Spanish Christians that brake into America shewed themselves so covetous of their treasure that the Natives with wonder said surely gold is the Spaniards God they broiled noble Indians on gridirons to extort from them their hidden wealth giving no respect at all to their Caciques or Kings Memorable in many respects is the History of Attabaliba the great King of Peru who being conquered and captivated by Francis Pizarro redeemed his liberty by the promise of so many golden and silver vessels as should fill the roome where they were so high as one could reach with his hand and they were to take none away till he had brought in the whole summe expecting thereupon according to covenant his freedome and honour he dispatched his officers and servants with great care and diligence and did faithfully performe his bargaine in bringing that vast heape of treasure together but they resolve neverthelesse most impiously to murder him though with many arguments and tears he pleaded for his life desiring sometime to be sent unto Caesar then expostulating with them for their perfidiousnesse and falsehood but neither words nor weeping nor their owne inward guilt could mollifie those hard hearts they sentence him to death by a rope and the cruell execution followed but Benzo observed a miraculous hand of vengeance from heaven upon all that gave consent thereto so that as Suetonius records of Caesars stobbers Nullus eorum suamorte defunctus est every one of them found that consultation and contrivance fatall Almager is hanged Didacus his sonne is slaine by Vacca de Castro the Indians kill Iohn Pizarro at C●…sco who fell upon Fryar Vincent also of the green valley and slew him with clubs in the Isle Puna Ferdinandus Pizarro was sent into Spain where he consumed his daies in a prison Gonsallus Pizarro was taken by Gasca and hewen in pieces and Francis Pizarro that was the President and gave judgement died an evill death also being slaine by his owne Countrey men in that strange land so just was God in avenging so perfidious a regicide and King-murder so ominous was their presumption against the honourable vile swine-herds sentencing so great a King to so foule a death those are his words in whom and his interpreter he that please may read further those murderers were base in birth and life and they instance in despicable particulars It were endlesse to mention all the parallels that the Spaniards have drawne upon the poore Indians according to the threats of God upon the sinning Jewes Deut. 28. 43 The stranger that is within the●… shall get up above thee very high and thox shalt come downe very low 48. Thou shalt serve thine enemy in hunger and thirst and nakednesse and in want of all things and he shall put a yoake of iron upon thy necke till he have destroyed thee 59. The Lord will make thy plagues wonderfull c. 61. And every plague which is not written in this Law will the Lord bring upon thee untill thou be destroyed Their Kings and Caciques were no more regarded by them than the meanest they enthralled all the Natives in most woefull servitude and captivity their sufferings have bin most wonderfull such as the Book of the Law hath not registred nor any other record they spared no age nor sex not women with childe they laid wagers who could digge deepest into the bodies of men at one blow or with most dexterity cut off their heads they tooke infants from their mothers breasts and dash'd their innocent heads against the rockes they cast others into the rivers with scorne making themselves merry at the manner of their falling into the water they set up severall gallowses and hung upon them thirteen Indians in honour they said of Christ and his twelve Apostles And yet further the same Bishop mervailes at the abominable blindnesse and blasphemy of his Countrymen impropriating their bloudy crimes unto God himselfe giving him thanks in their prosperous tyrannies like those thieves and Tyrants he sayth spoken of by the Prophet Zachary 11. 5. They kill and hold themselves not guilty and they that sell them say Blessed be the Lord for I am rich And now if all these parallels will not amount to a probability one thing more shall be added which is the dispersion of the Jewes t is said The Lord shall scatter thee among all people from one end of the earth even to the other c. Deut. 28. 64. The whole remnant of thee I will scatter into all winds Ezek. 5. 10 12 14. Zach. 2. 6. I have spread you as the foure winds of heaven Now if it be considered how punctuall and faithfull God is in performing his promises and threats mentioned in the Scripture of truth wee shall have cause to looke for the Jewes in America one great very great part of the earth Esay had said 1. 8. The daughter of Syon shall be left as a lodge in a garden

Sheepfold Io. 10. 16. It is true our owne Countrey in many respects stands in need of helpe wee are fallen into the last and worst times the old age of the world full of dangerous and sinnefull diseases Iniquity is encreased and if ever if to any people the saying of that Torrent of Tullian eloquence so Ierome calls Lactantius be applicable it is to poore England that is not onely in the gall of bitternesse but in the very dregs of error and ungodlinesse Ideo mala omnia rebus humanis ingravescunt quia Deus hujus mundi effector ac gubernator derelictus est quia susceptaesunt contra quam fas est impiae religiones postremo quia ne coli quidem vel à paucis Deus sinitur But O my soule if thou be wise be wise for thy selfe Pro. 9. 12. and give mee leave to say to you as Moses to his Israell Onely take heed to your selves and keepe your soules diligently Deut. 4. 9. make your calling and election sure 2 Pet. 1. 10. and because you are the children of faithfull Abraham command your children and families that they walke in the waies of the Lord Gen. 18. 9. and let who will serve themselves follow lying vanities and set up their owne lusts let every one of us say and do as Ioshua I and my house will serve the Lord Iosh. 24. 15. And not onely serve the Lord with and in our housholds but in furthering the common good of others and t is considerable God is pleased to owne publique interests though in civill things with the name of his owne inheritance But this is the sinne this is the misery of these times All seek their owne not the things of Iesus Christ. Even regulated charity may beginne at home it may not it must not end there it is the onely grace that is sowne on earth it growes up to heaven and continues there it goes with us thither and there abides to all eternity and t is therefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 greater then faith and hope not from continuance onely but its extensivenesse it delights to be communicative it reacheth an hand of helpe one way or other to every one that needs though at never so great a distance after the cloven tongues as of fire h●…warmed the affections of the holy Apostles they had so much love to soules that they forgat their fathers house discipled all Nations and preached the Gospel to every creature Their line went through all the earth and their words to the ends of the world that former known world the same spirit hath warmed the hearts of our Countreymen and they are busie at the same worke in the other the new-found world For behold a white horse and he that sate on him had a bow and a Crown was given unto him and hee went forth conquering and to conquer so the Lord Christ shall be light to that world also and Gods salvation to the ends of the earth Britain hath woon the Gospel-glory from all other Countries not onely imbracing it with the formost as old Gildas testifieth but it was the first of all the Provinces that established Christianity by a law saith Sabellicus our Lucius was the first Christian King that Annales make mention of and venerable Bede out of Eutropius declareth that Constantine the first Christian Emperour was created to that dignity in this Island Sozom. l. 9. c. 11. saith that so were Marcus Gratian also But Constantine brought further honour to the Nation Religion For the 〈◊〉 Bede and Ponticus Virunnius affirme expresly that Constantine was born in Britaine after this ingemuit orbis videns se totum Romanum All the world wondred after the Beast groaned under the Papall servitude and our K. Henry the eight was the first of all the Princes who brake that yoke of Antichrist but neerer yet to our purpose The Inhabitants of the first England so Verstegan calls that part of Germany whence our Ancestors came hither with the Saxons and Iutes derive their Christianity from Iewry Ad nos doctrina de terra Iudaeorum per sanctos Apostolos qui docebant gentes pervenit as that great linguist learned and laborious Mr Wheelocke hath observed and translated out of the old Saxon Homilies t is but just therefore lege talionis that we repay what we borrowed and endeavour their conversion who first acquainted us with the eternall Gospell and if it be probable that providence honoured this Nation with the prime discovery of that New World as is intimated hereafter it is true without all controversie that from this second England God hath so disposed the hearts of many in the third New England that they have done more in these last few yeares towards their conversion then hath been effected by all other Nations and people that have planted there since they were first known to the habitable world as if that Prophesie were now in its fulfilling Behold I will doe a new thing now it shall spring forth shall ye not know it I will even make a way in the Wildernes and rivers in the desart c. When our Ancestors lay also in darkenesse and the shadow of death Gregory wrote divers Epistles to severall Noblemen and Bishops yea and to some Kings and Queenes of France and England these Sir H. Spelman that famous Antiquary your noble Countreyman and of alliance to divers of you calls epistolas Britannicas which are also mentioned afterwards in these he gives God thankes for their forwardnesse to further the worke of grace and desires earnestly the continuance of their bountifull and exemplary encouragement of such as were zealously employed in that Soule-worke and that is one of the two businesses entended in the following discourse which begs your assistance in your Spheres and cordiall concurrence to promote a designe of so much glory to the Lord of glory This is no new notion or motion all the royall Charters required the Gospellizing of the Natives and in the beginning of this Parliament there was an Ordinance of Lords and Commons appointing a Committee of both and their worke was among other things to advance the true Protestant Religion in America and to spread the Gospell among the Natives there and since very lately there is an Act for the promoting and propagating the Gospell of Iesus Christ in New-England I wish prosperity to all the Plantations but those of New-England deserve from hence more then ordinary favour because as by an Edict at Winchester about eighth hundred yeeres since King Ecbert commanded this Country should be called Angles-land so these your Countreymen of their owne accord and alone were and are ambitious to retain the name of their owne Nation besides this England had once an Heptarchate and then your Countrey was the chiefe of that Kingdome called Anglia Orientalis and these are the neerest of all the seven

here three things shall be touched upon 1. The Jewes were a very sinfull people 2. The Indians were and are transcendent sufferers 3. In that way 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 litterally as was threatned to the Jewes 1. The Jewes were grand offenders Galatinus mentions fon●…e of their enormous transgressions with their ensuing vengeances 1. The selling of Ioseph into Egypt where themselves were kept afterwa●…d in an iron furnace and dwelt a long time in an house of bondage 2. Their first rejection of the Messiah typified in David 2 Sam. 20. 1. which was punished by the Assyrians 3. The sacrificing of their owne children to Idols and murthering the Prophets that deterred them from such abominations he calls their third great offence for which the Babylonian captivity fell upon them 4. Their fatall and most grievous crime was the denyall of the Holy one and the just with desire that a murtherer should be given them Act. 3. 14. and this brought upon them first the tyranny of the Roman conquest and then all those hideous and horrid tribulations that presse and oppresse them to this day 2. The Natives of America have endured the extremities of most unspeakable miseries They are a Nation saith Lerius cursed and forsaken of God and the men of Spaine to their other cruelties added that most abominable reproach these Barbarians are dogs unworthy of Christendome t is too true they were so used by them as if they had bin such or worse they did so weare them up with labour that they became weary of their lives the poore creatures chusing rather to die any kind of death than to live under such bloody Masters and Monsters they scared the Indians into woods where the men and women hanged themselves together and wanting instruments sometimes for such selfe execution they helped one another to knit their long locks about the branches of trees and so cast themselves downe headlong their owne haires being their halters and thus many thousands of them ended their daies with most lamentable yellings and out-cries their intestine violences and injuries among themselves were woefull by rapine warre and sacrificings of one another many thousands of them have been immolated in one day at Mexico but their sufferings by the spaniards exceed not onely all relation but beliefe and surely the savages could not have outstripped the Spaniards in barbarous savagenesses if those Infidells had gotten the upper hand of these Christians a very prudent Cacique saith Benzo that was neere an hundred yeeres old reported freely that when he was young a very strange disease invaded those countrys the sick commonly vomited many filthy wormes such a wasting plague he said followed this calamity that we feared none of us could survive it and a little before your comming we of Iucatana had two cruell battailes with the Mexicans in which above one hundred and fifty thousand were slaine but these were all light and easie vexations in respect of those terrible examples of intollerable insolence avarice and cruelty exercised by your selves upon us thus he we read when the Prophet of God soretold Hazael the evill hee should bring upon Israel Hazael said Is thy servant a dog that he should doe this 2 King 8. 13. But the Spaniards did more evill things to the Indians and shewed themselves with shame to be worse than dogs witnesse that bloody Bezerill though not so bloody as his Master Didacus Salasar who set that his Mastiffe upon an old woman employed by himselfe as hē feigned with letters to the Governour who seeing the cruell curre by his more cruell Masters setting on with open mouth comming upon her falls to the ground bespeaking him in her language sir dog sir dog I carry these letters to the Governour holding up to his view the seale be not angry with me sir dog the Mastiffe as becalmed by that begging posture and language abates his fiercenesse liftes up his leg and besprinkles the woman as dogs use to doe at the wall the Spaniards that knew well his curstnesse at other times saw this with astonishment and were ashamed to hurt the woman that so cruell a dog had spared 3. The Indian sufferings have runne so parallel with those threats Deut. 28. as if they had been principally intended therein also Was Israel offending to be calamitous in all places towne and field at home and abroad c. The poore Indians for their gold and labour were by the Spaniards hunted out of all places corners and Islands as if the end of their discovery had been indeed to make a full end and a totall devastation of the American Nations Against the sinning Jewes it was said Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body c. vers 18. The pestilence shall cleave unto thee c. The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption c. ver 21 22 35 29. Strange diseases have destroyed the Natives as the histories of those countries doe relate their cruell task-masters the Spaniards did so much overburthen them with load and labour that the cohabitation of man and wife did cease seven thousand infants of Cuba did perish in three moneths space their mothers worne out with toyling had no milk to give them The Lord said He would smite Israel with blindnesse madnesse and astonishment of heart and thou shalt grope at noone day as the blind gropeth in darknesse c. ver 28 29. And woefull indeed is the veile of ignorance that is come over the Natives they imagined the Island Hispaniola to be a living creature eating and digesting like a monster that vast sea den or hollow place which they call Guacca-jarima is the voider of its excrements a fancy like that antique fable of the Demogorgon lying in the wombe of the world whose breath causeth the flux and reflux of the sea the darke part of the Moone they take to be a man throwne thither and tormented for incest with his owne sister whose eclipse they guesse to be caused by the Sunnes anger those responsalls of the aires reverberation which we call eccho they suppose to be soules wandring thereabouts How were those poore creatures astonish'd when they saw themselves torne by Spanish dogs whose Masters would borrow quarters of Indians men and women for their hounds and as commonly expose them to such a kind of death and buriall as if men and women had bin made for dogs meate how were they affrighted when the feare of Spanish cruelties provoked fathers mothers children to hang themselves together that Bishop knew of two hundred and more so perishing by the tyranny of one Spaniard No marvaile therefore if when the Fryer told Hathuey the Cacique of heavens happinesse and the torments of hell and hee understanding upon enquiry that the Spaniards dying went to heaven because they were Christians let my lot saith he fall in hell rather than with that most cruell people God said of the Jewes They should be