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A50462	A conference betwixt a Protestant and a Jevv, or, A second letter from a merchant in London to his correspondent in Amsterdam.	Mayo, Richard, 1631?-1695.; Jacob, John, 17th cent.	1678 (1678)	Wing M1523; ESTC R7786	36,017	42

give a far better account of the use and end of all the Mosaical Rites Institutions and Sacrifices than the most learned Rabbins that you have or that your Church ever had and having unvail'd and abolish'd the old he hath superinduc'd new Ordinances and Institutions such as are more easie and intelligible and better suited to the adult state of his Church and people and in this he hath shewed himself a Prophet like unto Moses yea a greater Prophet than he And with this agrees the testimony of the ancient Jews The Author of Sopher Ikkarim thus writes In all that space of time wherein the Prophets follow'd Moses until the ceasing of Prophecy there was none like unto him but hereafter shall arise a Prophet even the Messiah who shall be like him yea a greater Prophet than Moses was Now to close my discourse upon this head let me shew you how the commination contain'd in this Prophecy is fallen upon your people and Nation God doth here threaten that he will require it of him or them who shall not hearken to the words of this Prophet There is evidently a Meiosis in the words that is there is more implyed than is exprest the meaning is that he will utterly destroy or reject such for their disobedience How sadly is this fulfilled in the event Your Fathers who for despising and disobeying the former Prophets were only for a season corrected and chasten'd and after a while delivered again out of their greatest miseries they and their Children for their disobedience to this Prophet are utterly cut off and exterminated so severely hath God required this at their hands R. J. Pray Sir go on Mr. B. I shall add but one description more of the promised Messiah he is in the 5th place described by his great sufferings which he was to undergo in the days of his flesh The Jews as I said before they expected a conquering and not a suffering Messiah nothing could be more contrary to their expectation than a Messiah that should live in a low and mean condition subject to all the miseries of this life and at last to death it self therefore this note or description of him is more fully asserted than all the rest this was more than implied in that first promise or Prophecy where the Lord says that the seed of the serpent shall bruise his heel 'T is worthy of our observation that all the particularities of Christs later sufferings even those that seemed to be most casual were foreknown of God and foretold in his word As now for instance his being betrayed by one of his friends familiars and followers of this David spake as a Type of Christ Psal 41.9 Mine own familiar friend in whom I trusted which did eat of my bread hath lift up his heel against me See further in Psal 55. Again the selling of him for Thirty pieces of silver which was the goodly price he was prized at and the use that this money should afterwards be put to even to make a purchase of a potter this was spoken of by Zachariah chap. 11.12 13 Again the flight of his followers and their forsaking of him was foretold by the same Prophet Zach. 13.7 Awake O sword against my shepherd and against the man that is my fellow saith the Lord of hosts smite the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered Again the severe and sordid usage he met with by being scourged buffeted and spit upon was also prophesied of Isa 50.6 there the Messiah is brought in speaking after this manner The Lord hath given me the tongue of the learned c. and then it follows I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to them that pluckt off the hair I hid not my face from shame and spitting Again his death was foretold by Daniel that it should be a violent death Dan. 9.26 After threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off but not for himself Again his being lifted up upon a Cross that was prefigured and foreteld by Moses when he lifted up the Serpent in the wilderness and by David when speaking in the person of Christ he says Psal 22.14 All my bones are out of joynt Again the piercing of his hands and feet that was spoken of in the same Psalm vers 16 They pierced my hands and my feet And Zachary speaks how the Jews in the last days shall look on him whom they have pierced That passage about their parting his Garments was predicted in the same Psalm vers 18 They parted my garments amongst them and cast lots upon my vesture In that Psalm also you will find a prediction of that cruel mocking and derision that he met withal vers 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn they shoot out the lip they shake the head saying he trusted in the Lord that he would deliver him let him deliver him seeing he delighted in him Yea that bitter cry that came from him upon the Cross is recorded in this Psalm vers 1 My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Yea their giving him Gall and Vinegar to drink that also is forespoken of Psal 69.21 They gave me also gall for meat and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink All these things were done not only to satisfie the lusts and wills of men but to fulfill the Scripture the Word of God There is one place in Isaiah Chap. 53 of that Prophecy that speaks more amply of this subject and indeed it seems rather to be a History than a Prophecy of Christs sufferings It begins with a description of his mean and low condition He shall grow up as a tender plant not as a tall and stately Cedar but as a shrub or tender plant ready to be cropt by every beast and to be trod under by every foot and as a root out of a dry ground this may respect the family of Joseph and Mary out of which he sprang and the low and contemptible condition thereof he was so unsuitable to the expectation of the Jews who lookt for a Messiah as I said before that should be a temporal Monarch shining in outward glory and ruling with visible power and greatness that when he came they hid their faces from him they despised and esteemed him not when they saw him he had no form or comliness for which they should desire him In the next place the Prophet describes his sufferings and afflictions and this he doth in great variety of expressions he speaks of him as a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief who bore our griefs carried our sorrows was smitten of God and afflicted who was wounded for our transgressions bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed all we like sheep have gone astray and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquities of us all He was oppressed and he was afflicted yet he opened not his mouth he is brought as a lamb to the

where used of him absolutely but here And the addition of the word Nagid the Prince or the supreme Ruler doth make it yet more evident for this word in sundry other places is peculiarly applied to the Messiah See in Isa 55.4 I have given him to wit the Christ to be Nagid a Leader or a Prince unto the people A Learned Critick hath well observed That these words Messiah Nagid that is Messiah the Prince are written in such Hebrew as must needs argue it a proper name and as is not to be found again in all the Bible To which may be added The person here spoken of is not only called Messiah and Messiah the Prince but he is also called the most Holy or the Holy of Holies the most holy place in the Tabernacle and Temple was so called but that can't be here intended The holy place in the 2d Temple was never anointed for it was not lawful for them to make the holy Oyl And besides that was burnt with fire and utterly destroyed about the expiration of these weeks It is therefore the Person that the holy place tipifies that is here spoken of The name of the Type is given to the Antitype he is the most holy that was anointed that is he was made a Messiah And a great Rabbi of your own doth thus expound it This Holy of Holies is the Messiah who is anointed or sanctified from amongst the sons of David And for a further confirmation of this do but consider what work is here assigned to be done by this person and you must conclude it is the Messiah that is here intended Who but he could finish or take away transgression and make an end of sin and make reconciliation for iniquity and bring in everlasting righteousness and seal up Vision and Prophecy and confirm the Covenant with many and cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease If these works could be wrought by any other than the Messiah we had more reason to desire him than the Messiah himself R. J. I confess you have urged good Reasons why the Messiah promised to our Fathers should be spoken of by Daniel the Prophet yet you must give me leave to tell you that our learned men are of opinion that all this is spoken of Cyrus the Persian Emperor and that he is Messiah the Prince and History tells us how he was slain or cut off As for the true Messiah we read in the Law that he abideth for ever And we are confirmed the more in this opinion because in Isaiah the Prophet he is called the Lords Messiah If you please you may consult the place in the beginning of that which you call Chap. 45. of that Prophecy Mr. B. I am not ignorant that some of the modern Rabbies have interpreted Daniels Prophecy of Cyrus for some ages they have abhorred nothing more than that the true Messiah should be there intended for if once they yield to that then they must give up their cause and they have no cloak for their unbelief because as I shall shew by and by the time limited for the coming and cutting off the Messiah is long since expired This Prophesie therefore if it hath any truth in it must have had its accomplishment And it argues the deplorable case of the Jews and desperate shifts they are put to that they can find no more probable person than Cyrus to accommodate this Prophecy to I pray do but consider which of all those works the Messiah was to do can in any tolerable sense be applied to Cyrus Did he take away sin or bring in an everlasting righteousness or make reconciliation for iniquity or seal up Vision and Prophesie or confirm the Covenant with many or cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease Nay was there any such thing as sacrifice or oblation in his days for him to put an end to Nay was not he a means of reviving sacrifices and oblations in after times Again let it be considered that the limited time here spoken of doth begin from the going forth of the Commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem that is exprest in the Prophecy Now some learned men and good Chronologers are of opinion that the Commandment here spoken of did not commence or begin till many years after Cyrus his death This is evident that there were several Commandments and Decrees from the Persian Emperors about this matter The first was made by Cyrus in the first year of his Empire and some think this was not the Commandment spoken of in Daniel because it was only for the building of the Temple whereas that of Daniel was for the building of Jerusalem Besides it had little or no effect within the space of Three or Four years it came to nothing till anon after the death of Cyrus there came forth another Decree from Darius supposed to be Darius Hystaspes the 3d Emperor of the Persians for the building of the Temple Of this we read Ezra 6. and it seems to be a revival of the Decree of Cyrus the roll whereof upon search made was found at Achmet in the Province of the Medes Besides this Decree of Cyrus and Darius we read of another Decree or Commandment of Artaxerxes in Ezra 7 who is supposed to be he that was called Longimanus This was a more authentick Decree or Commandment than either of the former for it was made as 't is in Ezra 7.14 by the King and his Seven Councellors which was the highest legislative power amongst the Persians Here was not only a proclamation of liberty but a formal Commission and that from the King and his Council Authority is given to Ezra to erect a civil Government and a Magistracy amongst the people with power over the estates liberties and lives of men and this is likely to be the Commandment for the building of Jerusalem for it is not Walls and Houses so much as Rule and Government that makes or constitutes a City And if the going forth of the Commandment to restore and build Jerusalem which is the epocha of time now limited and determined be understood as it is by some of the first Decree or Commandment of Cyrus then he can't be Messiah the Prince at whose cutting off the time must determine He did not live long after that Commandment The Temple was not built nor was there any sacrifice or oblation therein during all his short reign The things here foretold were not accomplished till above Four hundred year after his death It 's true he is once called the anointed of the Lord because he was designed and employed by God in that special service of ruining the Babylonian Empire But doth it therefore follow that he is intended in this Prophecy when no one word or circumstance therein is applicable to him and when he was dead some hundreds of years before the determined time mentioned in the Prophet did expire You may as well say Saul or Zedekiah is intended seeing both of them are