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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

THE MESSIAH ALREADY COME OR PROFES OF CHRISTIANITIE BOTH OVT 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 heauy yoake of this their long and intollerable captivitie which yet one day shall have an end as all other states and conditions in the World they have their periods even when the fulnesse of the Gentiles is come in and when that vayle shall be taken away from their hearts as is prophecied Brethren my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved Rom. 10.1 For I would not Brethren that ye should be ignorant of this secret that partly obstinacie is come to Israel untill the fulnesse of the Gentiles be come in and so all Israel shall be saved as it is written c. Rom. 11.25 And Ierusalem shall be troden under foot of the Gentiles untill the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled Luk. 21.24 Even to this day when Moses is read the vayle is laid over their hearts neverthelesse when their heart shall be turned to the Lord the vayle shall be taken away 2 Cor. 3 15. Verely I say unto you ye shall not see me untill the time come that ye shall say Blessed is he that commeth in the name of the Lord. Luk. 13.35 How beautifull are the feete of them which bring glad tidings of peace and bring glad tidings of good things Rom. 10.15 AMSTERDAM Imprinted by Giles Thorp Anno M. DC XIX TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE FREDERICK KING OF BOHEMIA c. And TO HIS ROYALL SONNE the most hopefull yong Prince FREDERICK HENRY Most High and mightie Prince THis Treatise was published seven yeares agoe and Printed in the Low-Countries not long after the death of that noble Prince Henry my master And for that and some other reasons Dedicated to those high and honourable personages as by the Epistle following may appeare The same reasons have moued me to revise it and publish it a new vnder the Protection also of your Maiestie and Royall Issue that most hopefull yong Prince cujus e●go etiam nomine ipso recreor in whom the name of Prince Henry is now revived again to Gods Glory So likewise the name of Queene Elizabeth by your Majesties most happy inauguration King of Bohemia which two names are yet pretious and ever will be in the hearts of the English Nation and other Nations likewise The other reason for that the Iewes also whom this argument chiefly concerneth many of them remaine in your Maiesties Dominions whereof in time your Maiestie or Royall Issue as may be hoped raised vp of God for that very purpose may be a happy instrument as of the finall desolation of that Mysterie of Iniquitie Babylon so consequently of the finishing of that Mysterie of Godlinesse even the conversion of the Iewish Nation the very period of all Prophecies And then as Iohn concludeth his Revelation come Lord Iesu. He which testifieth these things saith surely I come quickly Amen Even so come Lord Iesu. Amen Amen Your Maties most humble devoted seruant IOHN HARRISON TO THE HIGH AND Mighty Lords the States Generall of the vnited Prouinces of the Low-Countries Also TO THE HIGH AND Mighty Prince Maurice Prince of Orange c. And To his noble Brother Prince Henrie All happinesse FOR two reasons I haue made bold to present unto your high and honourable considerations this Treatise following The one more particular in respect of that intyre amitie and correspondence which was betwixt my deare Master deceased Prince Henrie of famous memorie and your Exce●lencie and whole State whom he much honoured and thereof gaue sundry testimonies both publique and private whereof my selfe hauing the honour to be one of his Seruants neere unto him and by reason of my attendance much in his presence was oftentimes an eare-witnesse And that your princely Brother alter idem an other Henry cujus ego nomine ipso recreor even for my Masters sake that gone is and for that affection he sh●wed towards his Highnesse both in Life and Death who was much conversant with him before his sickn●sse and in his sicknesse came diu●rs times to visite his Highnesse and to condole with us in our heavinesse can also I make no doubt witnesse sufficiently whose hearts or rather but one heart and soule as it is in that place seemed to be knit together like the soule of David and Ionathan by a mu●uall symp●thie as in name so in nature and correspondence of disposition which had not untimely death prevented some further covenant like that of David and Ionathan might perhaps in time haue beene concluded wor●●●e such heroicall spirits An other reason is for that the persons whom this Argument chiefly concerneth to wit the Iewes many of them remaine in your Countrie and haue their habitation in peace and safetie not in that slaverie as in other Nations accounted of in the basest maner that may be in the number of dogs rather then of Men. Which though it haue fal●en upon them by the just judgement of God yea and by their owne judgement upon themselues so much the more just his blood be upon us and upon our children yet are they children of the Promise and beloved for the fathers sake as Paul pleadeth for them in divers places alledging both their prerogatives and priviledges aboue the Gentiles What is then the preferment of the Iew saith he much euery maner of way For to them apperteineth 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 Fathers and of whom concerning the flesh Christ came c. And in that respect we Gentiles ought not so proudly and tyrannously to insult over them as many doe especially Christians of all others should not adde affliction to affliction but rather pitie and bewaile their induration as Paul doth in the place before cited expecting with patience their conversion in due time as the Lord hath promised for if God himselfe loue them being his enemies for they are beloved as I said before for the Fathers sake as he loved us before our conversion when we were his enemies he loved us so the Apostle testifieth why should we Christians hate and abhorre them who are so highly in Gods account even the beloved of the Lord and hold them in such disgrace and contempt as we doe as in my sma●l observation and experience I am able to testifie both by that I have seene and heard which rather exasperateth them against our profession then otherwise Which harshnesse and uncharitablenesse of ours together with the Idolatrie and superstition of the Church of Rome

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