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A32350	The blessed Jew of Marocco: or, A Blackmoor made white. being a demonstration of the true Messias out of the law and prophets / by Rabbi Samuel, a Iew turned Christian ; written first in the Arabick, after translated into Latin, and now Englished ; to which are annexed a diatriba of the Jews sins and their miserie all over the world, annotations to the book ... with other things for profit in knowledge and undertanding, by Tho. Calvert ...	Samuel, Marochitanus.; Calvert, Thomas, 1606-1679.	1648 (1648)	Wing S545; ESTC R8621	114,898	246

calls it the Well of salvation spoken of by Esay the Prophet Nay further behold this Jew turned perfect Christian for he confesses the summary of the Gospell the chief sentence of it to be very true which is this This without all doubt saith he is to be held that none are saved but those that beleeve Christs first comming and those that beleeve not there is no ground for them to hope for salvation at his second comming This is the maine matter of faith in the New Testament so that this Jew confesses like Peter Thou art Christ the Son of the living God And I see no reason but it may bee said to him as to Peter Blessed art thou Samuel the Israelite for flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee but my Father which is in Heaven He affirms the very same that is affirmed in the Gospell He that beleeveth on the Sonne hath everlasting life and he that beleeveth not the Sonne shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him In the tenth Chapter we have some places brought in to prove the second comming of Christ which will not bear it and yet divers of our Christian Expositours have taken leave to be mistaken as well as this Jew or rather worse and so much the worse because they crie out of all which will not sing to their Violl when they themselves are out of tune Cramer undertaking the clearing of Prophecies concerning Christ finding fault with those that do not make Zach. 14. 3 4 5 c. to be meant of Christs Ascension and the cleaving of the Mount of Olives c. to be meant of the Apostles sending out to the Gentiles he names among the rest our Marochian in this place applying Zachary to the second comming of Christ Surely it is not meant of Christs second comming but as Calvin hath it of an illustrious presence and manifestation of God in his power and might evident to all that Jerusalem shall not be in a shady Valley but shall be conspicuous and open to a glorious view for all Nations to see it and admire it It is true Samuel is mistaken and so is Cramer too for because there is mention of the Mount of Olives it doth not follow that therefore Christs Ascension must be pointed at But the Lutherans Cramer Hunnius and others plow deep furrows upon Calvins backe because he will not swear to their Interpretations Our Christian Moore makes use of the third of Malachie too to prove Christs second comming But who may abide the day of his comming Divers of ours are also to be blamed for this that wheresoever in Scripture they meet with a terrible day of the Lord they presently apply it to the day of Judgement yet he sees little that sees not this to be meant of Christs first comming whose preaching and pure doctrine of Gospell was terrible to prophane ones and Hypocrites Scribes and Pharisees Besides it signifies the misery sorrow and captivitie which should befall the Jews in and after the comming of Christ not by Christs fault but by their impietie and infidelitie rejecting Christ so as his comming proves terrible to them In the end of the 11 chapter he hath two excellent things concerning Christ wherein he speaks Christianisme most Christianly and brushes himself clean of the least Jewish moat 1. He concludes it from Scripture that Christ and Christ alone is the True and Righteous One All men best of men were sinners but Christ was sinnlesse And in this he preferrs him before Moses and all other holy Ones which no Jew will do just as Christ is preferred in Hebr. 3. 2. He makes disobedience and infidelitie in Christ the damning sin This he proves as the Authour to the Hebrews proves it compare his words and those of Hebr. 10. 28 29. and you shall see such an agreement as if he had proposed those words and that Text to be followed He that despised Moses Law dyed without mercy under two or three witnesses He has it like to that If they were worthy of death who beleeved not Moses who was two degrees behinde Christ he was but a temporary Saviour and hee was a sinner Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy c. how much more saith our Samuel are they worthy of this Iudicatorie of fire who beleeve not nay who blaspheme this Christ who is a Righteous One and who saves eternally O that this lightsom beam of truth had pierced the hearts and breasts of all the dark-spirited Jews O that all of them saw with Samuels eyes The Lord perswade these Israelites to dwell in the Tents of Samuel and to come and see CHAP. XII THe Ascension of Christ he proves and beleeves which no stone-hearted Jew will by any means admit into thoughts of probability for they are so farre from beleeving his glorious Ascent into Heaven that they make his Descent into Hell their chief and unquestioned Article with the most horrible blasphemy affirming that our Christ is tormented in Hell in boyling and scalding Zoah Dung because he rejected and despised the Traditions and Doctrines of their holy Elders and Chachamims Yea they make him a false Prophet and to be a prophane wretch as Esau And in the most secret Books and Papers kept among the Jews which they will not let every eye see but such as are rightly Jewish that is stiffe enemies of Jesus this they teach and write That the soul of Esau entred into the body of Christ and so he was just such a wretch as Esau or Edom. And this may perhaps be one main reason why they call all Christians Edomites as thinking wee follow and put our trust in Christ who is as Edom with them He applyes the 24 Psalm to the Ascension of Christ which divers Christian Expositours by Prophesie will have pointed at and by allegory allude to This Author makes some ask the question Who is this King of glory And he sets the Angels to answer the question The Lord of Hosts he is the King of glory This way Ierome goes making a Dialogue betwixt Angels and Devils Who is the King of glory say the Devils The good Angels answer The Lord of Hosts mighty in Battell he is the King of glory This Jew it seems had studyed not onely the Christians Gospell but Christian Interpretours and Expositours of the Bible And though this be no strong proof of Christs Ascension but rather Davids Song about the building and setting up the Temple and the glorious gates thereof for the Lord of Hosts to come enter and dwell in it yet the Jew shews us how willing he is to admit the doctrine of Christs Ascension and to follow Christian Doctors This Jew though he sometimes uses the Scriptures with meanings and applications scarce genuine yet in his application of the 63 chapter of Esay vers 1. to the exaltation and

my shepherd The same Prophet hath They shall in that day look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his onely begotten sonne I fear O Master this is that Just One of whom Habakkuk speaks He had hornes coming out of his hand and there was the hiding of his power And the Gospell of the Christians where the death of JESUS is related agrees with this where it is said When they came to JESUS they found him dead and they pierced him with a spear O Master I fear this is that Righteous One of whom Habakkuk speaks Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people with thine Anointed or with thy CHRIST CHAP. VIII How the dispersion of the Jews according to Daniel came to passe after the death of Iesus FEar hath seazed on my spirit O Master about those words of the Prophet Esay who that righteous One should be that is without sin and who that righteous One is that in the Prophet Amos is said to be sold for silver as is above testified that for their fourth sin hee will not bring them back into the Land of Promise any more It seems O Master the Prophecie of Daniel in his ninth Chapter is fulfilled where he saith After threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off but not for himself and the people of the Prince that shall come shall destroy the Citie and the Sanctuary and they shall condemn it and the Sacrifice shall cease and the perpetuall destruction shall have its consummation All doubting set apart O Master this destruction and perpetuall desolation is nothing else but our long lasting Captivitie which is now a thousand years standing And very full of mark is it that the Prophets words have a Candle of plain indigitation and pointing it out saying This perpetuall Desola●●on shall be after that Messiah is cut off Just so comes in our Desolation assoon as Jesus was put to death neither did God threaten us this everlasting destruction till after Christs death But suppose we would fain prove that before Christs death the Deluge of our desolation had drowned us this the Christians with their answer will easily take away saying That which is but for seventy years is not perpetuall but before Christs death the desolation had but a seventy years perpetuity and after those years were worne out wee were carryed backe into our own land of Promise and were highly both favoured and honoured of God Verily Master my eyes fail me nor can I spie any evasion whereby we can either slip out or slip off that Prophesie seeing it is proved that 72 weeks and a year above which are 433 years are compleat from the re-edifying of the Temple at that term of time was Jesus cut off by our Fathers after came Prince Titus and the Romanes and they dealt with us according to the tenure of that Prophesie Now at this day we lie under the waves of a thousand years misery and more neverthelesse though we be under the wrath of God yet still we fixe our hopes on him What if we argue thus for our selves That our Messiah will come though he be not yet come and when he comes he will re-estate and re-possesse us of our Land of Promise then shall our Citie rise out of her ruines and be re-edified God will bestow both favour and honour upon us in our Land and this desolation shall not be perpetuall To this allegation the Christians will answer that this Assertion must bring from us this confession that then the Messiah is yet to be cut off that Titus and the Romanes are still to come and these things performed that there is a worse desolation will ensue it that has more degrees of misery in it than this in which we have continued a thousand years Wo is me O master for us our excuses and evasions are addle and want all consonancy to truth CHAP. IX That there are two Advents or commings of Christ MUch am I possest with fear O Master that Christ the Messiah is already come and hath fulfilled his first Advent because in Scripture we finde a double comming of his This first comming of Christ is described by the Prophets to be in great poverty and humility the second in glory and Majestie Of both these commings of Christ I will propound what occurs in Sacred Writ Of the first comming by Zacharies mouth God speaks thus Rejoyce greatly O daughter of Zion behold thy King commeth unto thee poore and riding on an Asse In this first comming Esay sets him out as a man despised Daniel as one cut off or slain Zachary and Amos as one that was sold And these things were even after this manner fulfilled in Christ as I have in this little Booke declared and will further declare We did not esteem him that is we knew him not as saith the Prophet Esay yea we despised him and prevailed against him But his glory and Majestie shall be manifest enough in his second comming when flaming fire shall go before him and shall burn and lick up his enemies that are round about him as God by the mouth of the Prophets David and Esay hath spoken I fear O Master that Christ will judge us with fire unto death because we have slain all the Prophets who spoke of him to us God himselfe so testifies against us by the mouth of his Prophet Elias Thus did we slay that Just One for whose death we lie thus bound under the Lords endlesse wrath Notwithstanding all this still we are Gods people CHAP. X. Of the first comming of Christ I Fear O Master God describes two commings of Christ by the mouth of the Prophet Esay saying Arise arise put on strength O Arme of the Lord. In that he saith twice Arise arise he saith surely of purpose to denote Christs double comming In the fiftieth and through the whole Bodie of the 53. chapter he particularly and perspicuously makes a Declaration of the first comming of Christ so farr as concerns his Passion and extreame dejection to the lowest ebbe of misery especially when he saith He hath no form or comelinesse and when we see him there is no beautie that we should desire him His first comming is set our in that of Esay To us a Childe is born presently upon that his second comming is subjoyned in which he calls him A mighty God who shall sit upon the Throne of David to order and stablish it for ever Zachary with his Propheticall Pencill effigiates him in form of a poor one riding upon an Asse and what else by any deduction can we draw hence but that the Prophet by it understands the first appearance of Christ in marvellous debasement and humilitie and his second that is in Power and Majestie according to Daniels description I considered and beheld in a Vision of the night and one like

Esay 11. 3. That is he shall judge by smelling who is innocent and who is guiltie Let us see therefore whether thou beest able to judge by smelling and when they saw his smelling was without this judgement they slew him This will scarce agree with so great a slaughter of Barcozbi and all his people by Adrians Forces But certain it is many Jews were now sacrificed to the Romans furie by their sword that the Lord might thorowly execute his wrath upon them This false Christ they say his reign and rule was some thirty years and a half and some make it foretold in those words of Daniel paraphrasing them thus Now when they shall fall that is the Israelites in the destruction of the Temple under Titus they shall be holpen with a little help in the Kingdom of Bitter which remained to the 52 year after the destruction of the Temple and many Israelites shall joyne with them in Bitter but with flatteries c. Of this Barcozbi all our writers make mention that speak of those times and say he tormented Christians whiles he had power with all kinde of punishments and put many to death if they would not deny and blaspheme Christ He is called by Eusebius Barchochebas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He is called by Hierome in his Catalogue of Church Doctors that were Writers of Books in the life of one Agrippa surnamed Castor Chocibus and in that Book made Greek by Sophronius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 others call him Cuziba but under all these names is meant this sonn of a lie Barcozbi who named himself the son of a starre if he were it was like the bitter Starr Absynthites or Wormwood that in the Citie Bitter brought such sore destruction upon his Countreymen And yet Rabbi Lipman the most blasphemous of all Jewish Doctors was not ashamed to write that this Bencozbi was one of the lawfull and right Princes of Israel and of the familie of David and his reason is because when he said I am the Messias the Rabbins never asked him Art thou of the Family of David He judges they took it for granted that he was so But this may well beseem the lying lip of Lipman who hath writ a Book called Nitzachon or his book of victory and triumph over the Gospell of Christ in which the blasphemous Spider will needs finde lies falshoods and vain things and poysonous untruths to make Christ and our Religion ridiculous Some learned Christians have answered blasphemous Hebrew aud his Nitzachon as Munster in his Annotations to the Hebrew Gospell of Matthew Postellus follows Munster and we shall shortly see with us the learned Constantine L'Emperour fully confuting this Nitzachon so as to make such blaspheming Jewes leave all their cursed croaking and coaxation and make them as mute as the Seriphian Froggs and give no croaking sounds at all Of Rabbi Akiba they write that his Companions some nine were taken with him when Gozbi perisht and they were put to cruell deaths for Akiba if we durst beleeve them was put to death by an Iron Comb with which his flesh was torn off his body And thus farr we have gone to shew the Tragedy of Bencochab and Jewish dotage In the Reign of Theodosius the second came Moses of Crete to act his part of a false Saviour giving out he was sent from Heaven and was a second Moses he would lead al the Jews that followed him thorow the sea to the Continent dry-shod For a year together he perswaded them in their Cities and Townes to leave all their riches and follow him he would carry them to the promised Land At an appointed day to passe the Sea great multitudes of men women and Children repaire to him whom he brings to an high Promontory hanging over the Sea he bidds them cast themselves down which multitudes did and perisht being dasht in pieces on the Rock or drowned in the Sea Many were saved that were about to cast themselves down by some Christian Merchants and Fishers that disswaded them from so madd and murderous an Act and who helpt to draw many out of the Sea and saved them from drowning The Jews seeing the great Delusion thought to lay hands upon the Impostor but their false Moses as if he had been a true Devill was gone and vanisht they knew not whether nor how This was an occasion to bring many Jews to embrace the Christian faith and to leave the way of Judaism subject to such dangerous and costly deceits Of another false Prophet Moses Mamonides makes mention who arose in the Southern parts and told the people he was the fore-runner of the Messias and that in those parts he should shortly appear and he invited them Come ye with me and let us goe meet the Messias for he hath sent me unto you that I may prepare the way before him After a year he was taken they that did cleave to him fled away and an Arabian King that took him asking him why he did this and he answering I did it by command from God he further demanded What Miracle or wondrous thing canst thou do to confirme this He replyed My Lord the King cut off my head and after that I will rise again and live as I did before The King said Thou canst not do a greater thing then this bring but this to passe and then I and all the world shall beleeve thy sayings are true and good and that our Ancestors have inherited vanity and lies which profited them not His head by the Kings appointment was cut off but he never yet was as good as his word to appear alive again though some Jews are so devoid of judgement as to expect his reviving and look for his appearing There was Rex Thaborius one called the King of Thabor that would needs be a Messias whom Charles the fift caused to be burnt Maimonides reckons up four more obscure false Christs that did arise among the Jews in Spain and France and brought misery upon themselves aud the Jews Among these Impostors was David El-David or David Elroi in the Citie Omadia subject to the King of Persia he had some Power by Praestigiation and Magique whereby he did work great Signes and marvellous things and gathered people to make warre with all Nations Some said this great power of his was from the speciall vertue of God in him and as he called himself so they counted him the Messias as he said to the King of Persia I am the Messias and God hath sent me to deliver the Children of Israel The King cast him in Prison and said If thou canst deliver thy self I shall know thereby whether thou be the Christ or no if thou dost not deliver thy self I will put thee to death because thou art a fool But the Jugler got from Bonds and though the King sent Horsmen and

Scripture Behold darknesse shall cover the earth and grosse darknesse the people but the Lord shall arise upon thee and his glory shall be seen upon thee Esay 60. 2. In which he plainly confesses no marvell if the Jews stumble because they shall be left in a thick spirituall Myst of blindnesse Blindnesse in part is happened to Israel untill the fulnesse of the Gentiles be come in They frame their faith into an imagination of two Messiahs that shall come the one the sonne of Ioseph the other the sonne of David His glorie is like the firstling of a Bullock Deu. 33. 17. that is the sonne of Ioseph Zach. 9. 9. He is lowly riding upon an Asse and upon a Colt the Foal of an Asse this is their Messias the sonne of David Both these they will needs finde in the 32 of Esay Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters that send forth thither the feet of the Oxe and the Asse These two are both but one Iesus Christ for he was the sonne of Ioseph that was betrothed to his Mother his son not by the flesh but by education and bringing up Besides he was the son of David by the glorious Virgin his Mother who by the flesh descended from the Seed of David Messias the son of Ioseph being dead Messias the son of David they beleeve shall raise him again Their Messias shall make them great Feasts and Marry a Wife Kings daughters shall be among his honourable women on his right hand shall stand his Queen in Gold of Ophir The Kings of the world will think themselves highly honoured if any of them could get the Messias to marry their daughter He shall beget Children and see his childrens children and after he shall die as other men but his children shall rule and reign over Israel And whiles they are thus under their Messias the Christians shall do all their works drudgery without any wages Earth shall bring forth fruits for them presently after they are sown all kinde of pleasure peace shal they have c. Thus they grow up from dotage to dotage and wander without end in the framing to themselves a carnall Saviour and a sensuall salvation Let the 11 Chapter of the Gemara of the Sanhedrin be perused and there is enough from the Jews to stop the mouthes of the Jews concerning the expectation of any other Messiah besides Iesus Christ My intentions are not a f●ll confutation of them but onely the confirmation of Samuels Arguments CHAP. XXVII HE pleads against the Jews that they through incredulity and obstinacy will not receive Christ by the testimony of Saracens and Mahumetans concerning him Whence we note that Christs bitterest and blasphemousest enemies are the Jews his own Countreymen and Brethren after the flesh Venit ad suos sues eum non receperunt as the Waldenses in their Writings have it They are pertinacious and st●ffe-hearted nothing will convince them Sabbatius a Jew was baptized and made a Christian Minister he yet afterwards did secretly abide in his Jewish infidelitie When any of their Zealots are put to death for some pranks against Christ and Gospell as blasphemy or perfidiousnesse yet if their Writers mention it their evill deaths are commonly set out with this phrase He was slain propter sanctificationem Dei for the sanctifying of God as they say of R. Mordechai at Norenberge R. Ganz relating how five thousand Jews were put to death he saith they were burnt in fire propter sanctificationem Dei neque stultitiam vel peccatum tribuerunt Deo nor charged they God with sin or folly that is They did not renounce their Judaisme R. Amnon publikely sanctified the Lord by his death So Rabbi Abraham sanctificavit seipsum propter nomen proprium seu Dei A Christian disputing with Jews at Rome when by Scripture he clearly convinced them yet they remitted nothing of their pertinacie nay one of them answered Although thou shouldest shew it to me as clear as the Noone-dayes light that Christ is the Messias yet I am resolved of one thing I will not beleeve it It is reported at Coleine there was a Jew as was thought converted to the Christian Faith initiated by Baptism growing up to many years a little before his death he rejected with execration the Christian Religion and professed his Jewish mis-belief which it was judged he had abandoned Hereupon dying they made this Embleme be infixed on his Tomb a Mouse is represented pursuing a Catt with this Inscription Quando mus felem capiet Iudaeus etiam conversus manebit Christianus VVhen a Mouse shall catch a Cat then a Jew converted to be a Christian will remain a firme Christian By which it is in a manner concluded that it is amongst incredibles to think that any Jew will heartily convert and turn to Christ Yet God has a time and a power and a way to raise up these stones and make them children to Abraham Vsquequo Domine O for the time when the Jews shall be seene mourning over Jesus whom they have pierced The last thing is induction of Alcoran Testimonies concerning Christ some have done it besides this man as Dionysius à Rickel It was the good intent of the Jew to shame his Countreymen any way out of their infidelity and might be provoked by the very Turks to think and speak better of Christ But here is the Poyson if they write one syllable of truth concerning Christ they line it with so many Lies as makes it abominable This is one of their sentences concerning Christ The Word of God and his Spirit entred into Mary the sister of Moses and Aaron and she without Seed did bring forth Iesus Christ who was a Prophet and servant of God Mark what non-Divinity is here not speaking as the Gospell speaks The Word of God and Spirit entred into Mary Mark what non-sense and non-reason is here that Mary the Mother of Christ was the same with Miriam the sister of Moses and Aaron whereas that Miriam lived thousand● of years before Mary Christs Mother was born I could alledge some good sayings of theirs concerning Christ but that the Devill is to be rebuked speak he never so well They say Jesus the son of Mary shall descend from Heaven to earth in the day of the Resurrection and shall judge the world in it with just judgement Again Iesus shall slay men and shall bring forth Gog and Magog and they shall die but Iesus shall remain alive and they that partake of his faith What ever they say of Christ it matters not for though they make him great yet they put him but as a Servingman to Mahomet whom they alwayes exalt higher It is verily beleeved they say by many wise and learned Heads even in Arabia and followed with reasons to prove it that the first Author of the Alcoran was not man but the