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A46991	A collection of the works of that holy man and profound divine, Thomas Iackson ... containing his comments upon the Apostles Creed, &c. : with the life of the author and an index annexed.; Selections. 1653	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.; Oley, Barnabas, 1602-1686.; Vaughan, Edmund.	1653 (1653)	Wing J88; Wing J91; ESTC R10327	823,194	586

this noble Historiographer hath said of this Event Id malum Divinum potius quam Humanum fuit this was a Calamity more then Humane in which the Finger of God was Evidently seen And as it was a Type of the last Day so may it and the like following confirm the truth of Sodoms Destruction Nor did God speak onely once in this Language to the Roman to omit other wonderful works of God in these times to be recounted in their proper place The like fearful Earthquakes with other Prodigious Concomitants fell out in Trajans time at Antioch But the harms not terminate within her Territories or the Cities about her herewith destroyed For abundance of Souldiers and multitudes of other people did repair from all quarters to the Emperour Wintering there some in Embassages some for Suits some upon other Businesses some to see Plays and Pageants Whence the dammage as this Author saith did redound to all that were Subject to the Roman Empire This out of question was the Lords doing That all the world might Hear and Fear his Wondrous Works and wondering enquire after the true Causes and meaning of them Thus Antioch as well as Edom and Babylon is overtaken with the Psalmists curse for Rejoycing in the Day of Jerusalem Besides ●he Massacres of the Jews there committed when Titus came unto that City ●he Inhabitants after their Insinuating Gratulations petitioned with all Humility and Policy that the Reliques of this People for whom there was no place left in their own land might be Extirpate thence comprising the Christians no doubt under this Name 6 Many particulars then known are not registred by such Heathen writers ●…s now are extant many Signs of those Times not regarded by any Heathen all which might witnesse the Truth of our Saviours Predictions and ex●…ound their meaning were they as well known to us as to the Faithful then ●…ving whose Meditations it seems were so wholly taken up with these Contemplations that they had no leisure to leave their Comments in writing ●…o Posterity That dreadful Wo directed against the women of Hierusalem with child and giving suck did take these Antiochians at the rebound Women in such cases could not die but a double death and yet how many such ●…re slain none can tell Of an infinite company of all sorts starved by their ●…se imprisonment in houses whose foundations were sunk the roof remaining Onely one woman was found alive which had sustained her self and her child by her milk Another child found in the like concavity alive sucking his deceased mothers Duggs In fine saith the Author there was no kind of violent Disaster which did not at this time befal men For the Earthquakes being caused by the Divine Power mens Wits were not their own nor knew they what Medicine to seek for these Miss-haps Such as were on the House-tops had no List to descend to fetch any thing out such as were in the Field had no Mind to return back to fetch their clothes Trajan himself was drawn out at a window by no Mortal Creature as this writer thinks so astonished with this disastrous Sight that for many dayes after the Earthquake had ceased he durst not come into any House See Dion l. 68. 7 Neither of these strange Signs of the Son of Man fell out in any corner of the world but the one in the Chief the other in the Second City of the Empire at that time the Emperours Court so that the whole Worlds Representative as we may so speak was in Danger and all men at least men of all sorts at their Wits End by their terrors all mankind had publick warning to prepare themselves against That terrible and dreadful Day These being such Types of it as the First Destruction of the Holy City and Temple by Nebuchadnezzar was of the Second by Titus so as that which is truly said of the one may in an higher degree be truly avouched of the other 8 Of these times again was that of the Prophet meant I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophecy And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth Bloud and Fire and Pillars of Smoak the Sun shall be turned into darkness and the Moon into Bloud before the great and terrible Day of the Lord come But whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved If we rightly observe the Prophets Method in this place it will both Justifie and Illustrate the former Interpretations of Jeremy and our Saviours Prophecy First he speaks none can deny of Christs coming in the Flesh and Effusion of the Holy Ghost upon all people I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh By The Spirit the Gospel was to be communicated to all Nations and thus as the Evangelist witnesseth at the first descending of the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles there were resident at Hierusalem men that feared God of every Nation under heaven and all these at their Baptism received the gift of the Holy Ghost whereby they might manifest the Power and Vertue of the Gospel unto the Countries where they lived If we compare the generality of Saint Lukes speech in that fifth verse with our Saviours Mat. 24. 14. And this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached throughout the whole world for a witnesse unto all Nations and then shall the End come We cannot doubt but our Saviours prophecy was verified before the Destruction of Hierusalem which was the End he meant should come But why should the Prophet Joel immediately after his description of the time of Grace adde in the second place I will shew wonders in the Heavens and in the Earth bloud and fire and pillars of smoak Doth he call the people of God again unto Mount Sinai to fire blackness darkness and tempest unto the sound of Trumpets the voice of words which they that once had heard should not desire to hear any more No but he would have the world understand That after the Gospel was once proclaimed throughout It the Lord would shew himself as terrible a Judge to all such as did not embrace the Glad Tidings thereof as he had done before to the Israelites at the promulgation of the Law Both that fearful sight in Mount Sinai and those other Prodigious Appariti in Italy and Syria were Types and representations of That Dreadful Day The former was seen and testified by the Israelites onely because the Law was onely revealed to them the horrors of the later are registred by Heathen Writers known and felt by the principal Nations of the World and from them diffused to all others as Earthquakes which begin at the Centre leave their Effects upon the whole Surface of the Earth because the Gospel was at that time communicate to all the inhabited or frequented Parts of the World Those Prodigious Signs then which the Prophet Joel describes and the Heathen witnesse to

eat of their fruit yea even the gold and coyn with other riches which they were permitted to transport were reserved to many of their owners evil The Sea which gave their forefathers passage from Egypt did swallow up a great number of those wealthiest Jews at their departure out of this Land And howsoever both his Fact that exposed them to danger was most Impious and his speeches Scurtilous in turning them off to pray to Moses when he might have saved them yet if we consider the concurse of circumstances and opportunitie tempting him otherwise ill disposed unto this fact his profane jesting at their miserable death was a sensible document of the Almighties rejoycing to destroy them and bring them to naught 10 During this time of their abode here which was two hundred and odde years their general persecutions throughout Germany that have come unto my reading were not so rife as in the ages following In the year 128● in which they had been generally imprisoned throughout this land they had stabbed a child throughout his whole body with needles at Munchen in Bavere taking his bloud in a bason to use it as the suspition was then in sacrifice for stanching that issue of bloud wherewith this people Christians know why is continually pestered These butchers were detected by the Drover an old Hagge taken in the very manner while she was stealing a second for the same purpose The body of the former being found out by her directions the fresh print of infinit wounds filled with gore imploring vengeance as it were with so many watry and blubber● eyes did so enrage the multitude that they could not expect the Judges sentence but fall immediately upon these Jews notwithstanding the Princes servants and their chief Magistrates earnest endeavours to appease the tumult conveying as many Jews as they could into their Synagogue which the people burning with fury set on fire and with it burned an hundred and eighty Jews 11 Yet this was but as a little flash in the fire-pan to that general fury which the people of this and other Countries of Germany did discharge upon this cursed seed about ten years after The Alarum to this Bloudy Fact was a Rumour true or false by Gods disposition a means to bring destruction upon them whom he rejoyced to destroy as soon condemned by the multitude as accused for stealing away the consecrated Hoast as they term it and amongst other indignities for braying it in a Mortar until it bled again One Rindeflaish of what spirit God knows by profession a Husband-man whether one of the raisers of this rumour or only taking opportunity upon it blazed abroad by others proclaims that he was sent from heaven to destroy the Jews wheresoever scattered upon the face of the earth and with that conjuring acclamation As many as bare any love to Christ or wished the safety and welfare of Christendom let them follow him gets so many followers that through eight or nine Cities named by mine Author and many others omitted they rob spoil and kill these Jews now become as obstinate and stubborn as the others were violent For after they had gathered their goods and house-hold stuff together lest the Christians should be any better by it or they themselves by Christians that would have enforced them to Baptism the men with their Wives and Children cast themselves into the fire and so perish with their ill gotten goods The Signs of the time with which in particular we are not acquainted did fully perswade both Priest and People that all was done by Gods special appointment and Aventinus himself saith Iram divinam fuisse necesse est because the Emperour most desirous to revenge their wrongs was enforced to give place to this perswasion and dissemble his grief The magistrates of Regineburgh the ancient Metropolis of Bevere with much ado perswaded their people to forbear execution of their wrath and expect more certain warrants from heaven for their proceedings 12 Not many years after this their general calamity throughout Bevere and old France they and the Lepers conspire to poyson the Fountain throughout the French Kingdom and are both made away on heaps by th●… people dying for the most part by the contrary element without any con●… viction or arraignment which forty of them imprisoned at Vitrie in Camp●… nie did wisely prevent by killing themselves all in one Gaol So cunnin●… ly doth the Almighty plot their overthrow ever since he became their en●…my that it is oft times hard to say Whether mans purposes for their goo●… or evil bring greater plagues upon them Not fifteen years before t●… time Philip the Fair had apprehended all the Jews throughout his domin●ons in one day robbed them of their goods and rid his land of them About ten years after this their banishment by publick Edict not five years before the late mentioned persecution Lewes the tenth son to this Philip intending their good revokes his Fathers Edict for their perpetual banishment and brought them back again into France where these malefactors were by the appointment of God to suffer just punishment for their villanies there committed by their Fathers and them and their bodies serving for fuel to the flame prepared by God to purge the air which their blaspemous mouthes had polluted 13 The like plagues but far more general from like provocation did befal them about the year 1337. and the times ensuing till 1348. They hoped Christian religion should have died in the wars between the Emperour and the Pope the state of Christendom they saw deeply endangered in these civil broyles and they according to their Jewish Policy seek to thrust it over head and ears in Bloud poysoning the Fountains throughout Germany offering like violence to the Sacraments as they had done before and by this just provocation were so dealt withall by one Hartmannus and his complices as they had been used some forty years ago by Rindeslaish The rehearsal of all particular outrages committed against them during the time of the Pope and Emperours variance would take up more room in this Discourse then all the rest hitherto reckoned Most memorable is that of the Jews inhabiting Wormes who persecuted by the people implore the Bishops intercession for their safetie the conditions of their peace procured by him were to be washed from their sins and having respite given to deliberate upon the point they pollute themselves with their own bloud without returning any further answer to the Bishop that had interceded for them 14 This and the like Barbarous impiety committed by others of this cursed race at Vitrie almost forty at York above an hundred years before cannot be ascribed to the Revolutions of the Heavens or successive Reign of some unruly Stars all of them were from His Will in whom there is no shadow of change In these last Massacres as in the former the Magistrates in many places had

mindes willing enough to save them but durst not venture their bodily presence for their rescue Albeit the manner of the Christians proceeding against them be usually such as none but Jews would justifie yet this is an evident Argument that the Lord of lords and King of kings hath ordained them to suffer wrong whom the greatest powers in such civil States as Germany France and England are cannot right For although the Palsgrave with some others inclining unto them had taken their protection upon them in these last Persecutions yet even this pity whether true or pretended did cause their further wrongs by grievous exactions for maintaining the war begun in their defence So strangely doth the wisdom of God bring that to passe which his servant Moses had foretold Deut. 28. 29. Thou shalt not prosper in thy wayes thou shalt never but be oppressed with wrong and be polled evermore and no man shall succour thee Even ●…r it self by their distempered appetites is turned into Sorrow Though all Christian Kings and States should conspire together for their weal yet as I said before they will conceive mischief and bring forth their own destruction by ●…ing out into such shameful Acts as deserve grievous punishment in sight of God and man So in the year 1410. they go about their wonted practise of crucifying a Christian childe in contumely of our Saviour Christ but their intent being known before they had opportunity of acting it the Marquesse of Misna and Land-grave of Turing find room enough for their coyn in their cossers but leave none for them stript naked of all they had within any part of their dominions Or if they do sometimes that which in it self is good they do it with such malicious mindes that God gives them but the reward of wickednesse So in the year 1421. for furnishing the poor Christians of Bohemia with money munition against their Antichristian persecutors they were generally imprisoned throughout Bevere quite bereft of all their money and coyn and lastly banished all the dominions belonging to Frederick Duke of that Province Nor doth their in bred spight to Christians or their plagues due thereunto wear out in that age For in the year 1497. they were burnt at Stenneberge in the Province of Stargardia for their wonted violence and indignities offered to the blessed Eucharist 15 Thus much of their estate in England France and Germany until the year 1500. Of their estate in Germany since if God permit elsewhere because it yields matter of distinct observation from the former Now briefly to acquaint the Reader with so much of their affairs in Spain as may testifie some other parts of Moses his prophecie in the forementioned place In the year 1482. the measure of their iniquitie was grown so full that this land could not bear it and they themselves become so abominable to Ferdinand and Isabel his Queen that none of this seed must stay within their dominions unlesse they will become Christians as sundrie of larger possessions amongst them in outward Profession did the rest were scattered thence into other Countries most into Portugal welcome for their money to sojourn there a certain time after which as many as were found in Portugal were there to remain as slaves unto the King such as would were to be transported at his cost and charges The King himself unlesse Orosius be partial for him was careful to perform his promise to secure them of peace during their abode and of safe passage at the time appointed But the Marriners having once gotten them aboard did make their ships as so many prisons or houses of torture to wrest wealth out of their hands lengthning the time by circular and unnecessarie turnings back and forth until the Jews had quite spent all their provision afterwards enforced to buy their food and other necessaries of the Marriners at what rate they pleased And not content with spoil of their goods they abuse the bodies of their wives and daughters to their lust not pleasant enough unlesse sauced with other contumelies and indignities practized upon their Fathers and Husbands Finally by these marriners too much thinking that their passengers were Jews and might be used accordingly they forget that they themselves were Christians and stain that sacred profession with all manner of base villany and impietie Partly through this delay in shipping over the first company partly through the abuses done unto them so shameful that the fame thereof was brought unto their fellows ears by the wind which served the Marriners back to Portugal the later sort remaining in expectation of safe passage either could not or would not be transported at the day appointed and so by their staying become captives to John then King of Portugal But Emanuel his successour not long after sets them free using all other fair means to bring them unto Christ until Ferdinand and Isabel his confederates solicit these ill-thriving plants ejection out of Portugal as unfit to settle in any Christian soil After long debatement with his counsellers for their exile or stay the fresh examples of their expulsion by so many other Christian Kings and Princes did move Emanuel to their imitation So that either they must avoid his dominions by a certain day or else remain there either free-men in Christ or slaves and Captives unto him as many of them did against their wils not able to provide themselves of shipping having but one port at last allowed them for their passage whereas at the first promulgation of the Kings Edict against them they had choice of three The greatnesse of their number best appearing by their confluence about the day appointed for their passage moved the good King with compassion to see so many thousand souls should desperately run the wayes of death and seeing no hope of diseasoning the old and withered stocks fit fewel for everlasting flames he was the more desirous to recover some of their young and tender grafts by watering them with the water of grace and for this purpose gives strict commandment that all their children under fourteen years of age should be taken from their Jewish parents and trained up in the School of Christ This sodain and unexpected divorce though intended in compassion of the children brought greater miserie on the Parents then if their own flesh had been torn from their bones There a man so his heart would have served him might have seen silly infants haled from their mothers breasts more willing to embrace death then part with them And yet for pittie lest their hands by holding fast might prove their childrens racks suffering them to be drawn out of their tender Embracements with far more grief and sorrow of heart then they had been brought out of the womb Fathers enclasping their sons and daughters willing to die in their arms had these beat off as hoopes from vessels which they environ from their childrens bodies and either broken or benummed with blowes A

Ariadna's thread as now it is thought to guide us through the Labyrinth of errors Such was S. Peters love to truth that he would have so fastned it to all faithful hearts as none should ever have failed to follow it in following which he could not erre Doubtlesse had any such conceit lodged in his breast this discourse had drawn it out his usual form of exhortation had been too mild his ordinary stile too low This doctrine had been proclaimed to all the world with Anathema's as loud and terrible as the Canons of any Papistical Councel report 2 But he followed no such deceitful Fables when he opened unto them the power and coming of Christ whose Majesty as he had seen with his own eyes so would he have others to see him too But by what light By Scriptures What Scriptures Peter feed my sheep Nay but by the Light of Prophesie That is a Light indeed in it self but unto private spirits it is no better saith Valentian then a light put under a bushel unlesse the visible Church do hold it out Where did the visible Church keep residence in those dayes In S. Peter I trow How chances it then he saith not fix your eyes on mine that have seen the glory of the Lord and the Prophets light shal shine unto you If by his commendation and proposal it were to shine he had said better thus Ye do well in that you give heed unto me as to your only infallible teacher that must confirm you in the truth of Prophetical Writings and cause them shine in your hearts but now he saith 2 Pet 1. 19. Ye do well in that ye take beed unto the Prophets as unto a light that shineth in a dark place until the day-star arise in your hearts This light of Prophets illuminated the eyes of Peters faith albeit with his bodily eyes he had seen Christs glory For speaking comparatively of that testimony which he had heard in the Mount he adds We have also a surer word of the Prophets That the Lord hath been glorified in the Mount his Auditors were to take upon his Credit and Authority nor could he make them to see this particular as he himself had done but that Christ Jesus whom he saw glorified in the Mount was the Lord of Glory he had 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a surer testimony then his bodily sense the light of Prophets This then was the commendations of his flock that they looked upon it which shined as wel unto them as him to all without respect of persons that take heed unto it able to bring them not to acknowledg Peters infallibility but to the day-star it self whole light would further ascertain them even of the truth the Prophets and the Apostles taught For Christ is in a peculiar manner the first and the last in the edifice of faith the lowest and the highest stone in the corner refused by the master builders or visible pillars of the Jewish Church their faith was not grounded up on the Prophets whose words they knew not and not knowing them they knew not him but unto such as raise their faith by this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the true square and line Chist is both the Fundamental Rock which supporteth and the chief corner stone that binds the whole house of God and preserves it from clefts and ruptures 3 But lest his followers might look amisse upon this prophetical light rightly esteemed in the general S. Peter thought it necessary to advertise them not to content themselves with every interpretation or accustomary acknowledgment of their truth grounded on others relations reports or skill in expounding them or multitude of voices that way swaying This had been as if a man that hath eyes of his own should believe there was a Moon or stars because a great many of his honest neighbours had told him so A thousand witnesses in such a case as this were but private testimonies in respect of that distinct knowledge which every one may have that list That the Lord should preserve light in Coshen when darknesse had covered the whole face of Egypt besides seems unto me lesse strange but more sensibly true then before whilest I consider how in this age wherein the light of his countenance hath so clearly shined throughout those parts of Europe whence the Gospel came to us Ingolstade should still sit in darknesse environed with the shadow of death That her great professor Valentian born I take it within these fourscore years should grope at noon day as if he had been brought forth in the very midnight of Popery or died welnigh three hundred years ago Scarce Scotus himself not Ockam questionlesse though shut up in a prison where no light of any expositor had ever come could have made a more dunstical collection of the Apostles words then he hath done Saint Peter meant one of these Three First that there can be no certain or probable way of expounding Scriptures by our proper wit or industry or Secondly that one or other place of Scripture cannot be rightly expounded by human wit or industry but so compared they rightly may or Thirdly that the Scriptures cannot certainly and infallibly be expounded every where without the sentence of some other common infallible authority which in this respect is to be held as judge of faith in the Church The Apostle he infers did not mean the first or second ergo the third So as the force and wisdom of the Apostolical admonition is this No man by his private industry or study howsoever imploied either he thought not of the holy Ghosts direction or assistance or did not except it no not by any search of Scripture it self can certainly and infallibly understand the doctrine of Scriptures in controversies of which S. Peter in that place speaks not one word but it is necessary he learn this of some other publick authority in the church by which the Holy Ghost speaks publickly and teacheth all His reason follows more dunsticall then the collection it self For the Apostle straight subjoyns As the holy men of God did speak in Scriptures not by human authority but divine so likewise cannot the Scriptures be possibly understood by any human or private industry of this or that man but by some other authority likewise divine by which the holy spirit which is the Author of Scriptures may be likewise the most certain interpreter of Scriptures 4 Had another read thus much unto me and bid me read the Author or his works wherein it was found I should presently have named either Erasmus Moriae Encomium Frishlins Priscianus Vapulans or some such like Comedian disposed in merriment to pen some old Dunces part Cannot the Sun of righteousnesse infuse his heavenly influence by the immediate operation of his spirit or doth his influence want force without conjunction with this blazing Comet or falling star Was it not the authority of this spirit which made S. Peter himself to