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Light for the Ievvs, or, The means to convert them in answer to a book of theirs called The hope of Israel, vvritten and printed by Manasseth Ben-Israel, chief agent for the Jews here, 1650.
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Evans, Arise, b. 1607.
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as we tearm it saith he Ps. 132. 6. Lo we have heard of it at Ephrata we found it in the Fields of the Wood Giving us to understand that this place of your Messiah's Birth was as hard to be found as it is for a stranger to finde a House that is in the midst of a great Wood Therefore if you ask our now English Ministers why the Prophet Micah 5. 2. calls it Bethelem Ephratah And the Evangelists coating the same Scripture Mathew 2. 6. calls it Bethelem in the Land of Iuda they cannot answer you but the Reason why the Evangelists doth not mention Ephratah is because that he understood these things in part that I now manifest unto you namely that there should come another great One for your deliverance out of some Country signified to Jesus Christ and his Apostles by that same woman called Ephratah And in this sence your Wisemen call your Messiah an Eprathite and not that he must come out of the Tribe of Ephraim Loynally as you suppose Ieroboam did 4. That this late War of England in which War King Charles the first died which War is not yet ended nor will not end in England is the last War of Gog and Magog may be easily proved for this Land as our English Chronicles report of old until the Btittains Conquered it was Gogmagogs Land As further in the great Hall of London called Guild-Hall you may see the very Picture of Gogmagog and Brittainus that slew him in there full stature set up for a memorial to show what Mighty men of strength stature were in those daies Thus you see how King Charles is the Son of Ioseph and an Eprathite how he died in the last War of Gog and Magog and how he is to rise again in his Son to be according to his Name a Steeward or a Vice Roy under Jesus as Ioseph was under Pharaoh all agreeable to what your Wisemen say of him for the seed of Gogmagog that remained in this Land rose up against their King sold him and slew him to fulfil the Scripture But he shall rise again according to it as abovesaid for your deliverance as Constantine the Great also born in this Land arose to deliver the Christians from the Tiranny of the Heathenish Roman Emperours 5. You may know King Charles Steeward to be the man that you look for or your Messiah as you call him by the Star that appeared at his birth 2 Pet. 1. 19. according to the promise of Iesus Revelat. 2. 26 27 28. For as there was a Star seen at the Birth of Jesus which Star directed the Wisemen of the East unto him and by which Star they knew him to be the King of the Jews Mat. 2. So the same Star appeared at the Birth of King Charles Revel. 2. 27. 28. as it is written Psam 50. 6. The Heavens shall declare his Righteousness for God is Iudge himself Selah He sendeth his Star to Justifie Charles And again Psalm 97. 6. The shall Heavens declare his Righteousness and all the people see his glory Very few saw the Star that appeared at the Birth of Jesus but thousands and my self for one saw the Star that appeared at the Birth of Charles and there was Verses made of it in Latine and presented to his Father the late King Charles as he went to Pauls Cross to give thanks for the Queens Deliverance Thus in English When to Pauls Cross the grateful King drew near A shining Star did in the Heavens appear Thou that consults with Divine Mysteries Tell me what this bright Comet signifies Now is there born a Valiant Prince ' i th' West That shall Eclipse the Kindomes of the East 6. You may know King Charles to be the Messiah you look for by the discription of his person in Scripture for saith the Spouse Cant. 5. 10. 11. My beloved is White and Ruddy the chiefest among ten thousand his head is as the most fine Gold that is Iesus his locks are bussie and black as a Raven that is Charles and for his Stature also Esdras saith That he is taller then all about him 2 Esdras 2. 42 43 44 45 46 47. and such a proper person King Charles is Your Fore-fathers refused Jesus because of the meaness of his Birth and Parentage though indeed Jesus is the most Excellent of all men But what can you say against King Charles the Servant of Jesus he is a King of the highest Birth being the Successor of above three hundred Kings who were his Fore-fathers in Scotland The Turk and all the Kings in the World for Antiquity are but younger Brothers in comparison of him for the first King of Scotland was Gathelus Fergus of the Seed of Iaphet the Successor of Melchizedek which Gathelus Fergus Married Scota the Daughter of Pharaoh that took Moses for her Son and when the Plagues was in Egypt fearing least those Countries because of their wickedness should have been destroyed as Sodam was Gathelus Fergus and Scota withal their people came away to Sea and brought with them from Bethel the very stone which was Iacobs Pillow there Gen. 28. 18 22 and the first place they landed at was Portugal thence they came to the North of Ireland and built a City calling it after the Kings Name Knockfergus and from thence they came to Scotland which they so Named from Scota the Queen And there they are though many times brought low as now they are yet an unconquered people to this day And of the stone of Iacob which they brought from Bethel in Canaan they made of it a Chair in which Chair of old they were wont to Crown their Kings but some hundred years agone the English got the said stone Chair from them and brought it to London which stone now is to be seen for a Monument in Westminster Abby I have seen it my self and there is a Prophesie of it runs thus The Scots shall have that Land as Native Ground If words fail not wheresoever this Stone is found And we have seen it partly so fulfilled for since King Iames came to England the Scots had England as their own Native Land And what beauty every way else can be desired but is to be found in this King for his Wisdom Godlyness and Valour there is none like him wherefore the Prophet Isaiah said of him to the Jews when by the spirit he saw his glory Isai. 33. 17. Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty they shall behold the Land that is very far off giving you to understand that the King was full of beauty yet that the Land of his Nativity even England was very far from Iuda as he saith again Isa. 30. 27. Behold the Name of the Lord cometh from far so here in also it is plain that your Messiah was not to be a Jew because no Jew now can descend of such a Noble Linage as King Charles came from for the Jews have been a cursed ever in
LIGHT For the JEVVS Or the Means to convert them in Answer to a Book o◠theirs called The Hope of Israel Written and Printed by Manasseth Ben-Israel Chief Agent for the Jews here 1650. Shewing the time of King Charles coming in his War with Holland and the Issue of it Also the Emperour Wars with the Turk and the Event of it given as 〈◊〉 Sign to the Jews to know when to stand up in their own Land and how to prevail Esai 60. 1. Ephes. 5. 14. Wherefore he saith Awake thou that sleepest and stand up from the dead and Christ shall give thee Light This Book was Written Eight years ago and delivered into the hands of Mr. John Androws a Person of Quality living in Castle-Yard and never published till now 1664. Printed for the Author LIGHT For the IEVVS Or the Means to convert them in Answer to a Book of theirs called The Hope of Israel VVritten and Printed by Manasseth Ben-Israel Chief Agent for the Jews here 1650. Shewing the time of King Charles coming in his Wars with Holland and the Isue of it also the Emperous Wars with the Turk and the Event of it given as a Sign to the Jews to know when to stand up in their own Land and how to prevail Esai 60. 1. Ephe. 5. 14. Wherefore he saith Awake thou that sleepest and stand up from 〈◊〉 dead and Christ shal give thee Light London Printed for the Author 1656. TO THE JEVVS NATION BEloved of God there is no true Christian but must needs acknowledge your Nation of old to be the People chosen of God in a singular manner and that from you we have received the Oracles of God and knowledge of our Salvation And since you have been under dissertion groping in the dark this 1650 we that have received the Light which ye refused because it was so determined of God I say we now knowing what you look for and how it is made manifest among us ought to lead you by the hand to the Light that shins upon us through this dark and tempestious Cloud of War and to bring you to your Messiah whom ye seek and desire to see though we own no Messiah but Jesus Christ The consideration of these things made me by the good hand and providence of God upon me to him be the Glory when I saw in what manner you described your Messiah to labour to bring you to him for at first when I saw that Learned Piece of your Famous Senator Manasseth Ben-Israel called The Hope of Israel an effectual door was opened unto me on your behalf that I could not but shew as 〈◊〉 in several Books who it was that you called your Messiah and because the more I looked into the matter the more and more Light God gave me to see the more certainty of his Truth in manifesting your Messiah beyond what my Tongue or Pen could express Therefore being not satisfied in what I had written I wrote this little book following and directed it to Manasseth Ben-Israel and when I had got it Translated into Latine and written fair I gave it him and after a short time the Interpreter that spake between us went unto him to know his thoughts upon it and he answered That the time wherein their Messiah should appear was come but that KingCharles Steeward was he that he could not believe for he could not believe that ever KingCharles should rise again and be restored to his Empire but said he Oliver Protector or the King of Swedland is more liker to do it then he and specially the King of France is the most likest to be our Messiah If he be a Gentile and be in this part of the World for he had as he said a great deal of confidence in the words of an Ancient French Author that declares much to that purpose Then said I to the Interpreter Manasseth Ben-Israel will not believe me yet tell him from me that the Glory of the Protector and King of Swedland will soon vanish away and concerning the King of France he is mistaken the French King is not the King of France but Deputy for the King of England is the King of France it being conquered near three hundred years ago by King Edward 3d. And moreover tell him that many which were well-wishers to King Charles then they were told of his coming to his 〈◊〉 shortly answered That they should 〈…〉 ve to see it were taken away by death for a reward of their unbelief as Mr. White Prisoner at the Fleet and others have observed it so he may die quickly also But I say he that lives five years to an end shall see King Charles Steeward flourish on his Throne to the amazement of all the World for God will bring him in without blood-shed But I had no answer to these last words Therefore finding Ben-Israel not to believe I left him and purposed speedily to direct this Book to you in general and put it out in Print with some Addition being perswaded that some of your Nation have the English Tongue that are able to Translate it into such a Language as all may understand it The main cause why Manasseth Ben-Israel cannot believe is because of the low Condition of King Charles and the great power of his Enemies at present What of all that doth not he himself say in the 26. Sect of his Book called The Hope of Israel That all your Wisemen which speaks of your Messiah say That he must be slain and then rise again to be your Captain and Deliverer But suppose King Charles be so low that he is a dead man for so he is by the Edicts of his Enemy Cannot God raise him again and certainly he will do it For we have many Ancient Propheticks saying which tells us that a dead King shall rise and do glorious things One is this When the dead King shall set on his Crown then shall the World turn upside down And London in Truth shall tremble that day expecting the words the dead King shall say But he shall treat them well that it be a wonder and shall settle Truth Peace and good order Anothers this When the dead King sets on his Throne Grace shall grow to them that walks in his way then all men shall enjoy the main Resurrection specially men of Religion namely all men that have been true but false men will run away to hide themselves being not able to abide the presence of him that sits on the Throne And doubtless all this is spoken of King Charles Steeward for he consists all of Wisdom and Love When he was in France the people rose against the French King and his Mother that they were forced to flee for that Nation thought to do as England did and destroy the French King for they made great provision for War and had hired the Duke of Lorain to come with a great Army to help them but King Charles saved them by his Wisdom for he