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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
slavery and misery since they crusified the Lord Jesus Christ and it will never be otherwayes with them until they confess him to be the Son of God and the onely saviour of the world Then shall the Jews have the Glory among all Nations as it is written Zech. 10. 23. ten men out of all Languages of the Nations shall take hold of him that is a Jew saying we will go with you for we have heard that God is with you 7. You may know King Charles Steeward to be your Messiah by this also we have a Maxime in our English Law that saith The King of England never erreth nor never dieth Which if our English Lawyers that affirm it did but understand what they say and whereof they affirm or did apprehend the meaning of the first Authors of the said Maxime they might know that such a Perogative as not to sin or to die is a Perogative that belongs to Christ only Therefore it followeth that our Ancestors did believe that Jesus Christ lived in the English King and that he would appear in him as now he doth appear in the person of King Charles Steeward for your Conversion and Deliverance 8. And this also to me is a strong evidence that Christ did appear in the said King the same day that the King suffered it being the 30 of Ianuary 1648. was by the providence of God and appointed of the Church of England in the Callender the relation of Christ's Sufferings appointed to be Read as yet you that doubt may see it is so set down whereby God did by the said providence assure us that the same Tragedy which once was acted at Ierusalem by the Jews on the Body of Jesus was now Re-acted at London on the body of his Servant Charles So that in like manner the Son of God here suffered afresh and was put to an open shame by his Enemies Heb. 6. 6. and this it was before the King suffered that morning Ian. 30. Doctor Iudgson Bishop of London Read Morning Prayer to him and the Chapters appointed for that day Morning the first being the seventh of Exodus which is very remarkable also for as in Egypt on that day the Lord pronounced Moses to be a God to Pharaoh So on this day in England by the same word the Lord pronounced Charles a God to stand against all the hard hearted Pharaohs in the World because he was like Moses in faithfulness and meekness Numb. 12. 3. 7. yea and in slowness of speech too for the King had his stamering Exod. 4. 10. The second Chapter was Math. 27. and it is the Relation of Christs Sufferings the King thought that the Bishop read it of purpose whereupon the King asked him why he read that same Chapter said he because it is the same that is appointed for this morning and when the King found it so in the Calender he was overjoyed with it because by that he saw that he should be like his Saviour raised again to Life and Glory Immortal 9. I say it is needful for you to read the Testament of Jesus Christ for therein you shall finde your Messiah most perfectly set forth where sometimes he is called the Comforter the Spirit of Truth the holy Ghost the Deliverer the more sure Word Iohn 14. 16 17 26. Iohn 16. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. Math. 12. 31 32. Rom. 11. 25 26. 2 Pet. 1. 19. and sometimes the Lord the Lamb or the like Titles 1 Corin. 4. 5. Revel. 14. 1. And aboundance more places I could shew you in the New Testament that sets him sorth which now I omit for brevity sake Besides you shall finde there that you Jews are to have the preheminence with him for there are a hundred forty and four thousand Jews sealed for him twelve thousand of every Tribe Revel. 7. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. and see that the same number of Jews stand up with him upon Mount Sion to war against the wicked and to overcome them Revel. 14. 1. Revel. 17. 14. and in Revel. 12. you may see the Birth of your Messiah who shall Rule all Nations with a Rod of Iron and see how the Wicked persecutes his Mother and would fain devour the Child but he is taken into the Throne of God so that he is out of the wicked Dragons reach some silly Zealots will tell you that this Child is Jesus Christ but you may say No for Jesus Christ himself saith Revel. 2. 27 28. That he will give this power over Nations to some other faithful persons now manitfested to be Charles Steeward and thahe will give him the morning Star and to what end should Jesus give him the morning Star but to testifie at his Birth that Charles Steeward is the chosen of God who shall Rule all Nations with a Rod of Iron and Jesus calls him his Son who shall Inherit all things Revel. 21. 7. as it is Written Psal. 2. 7. 8. 9. saying to him Ask of me and I shall give thee the Heathen for thine Inheritance and the uttermost parts of the Earth for thy possession Thou shalt break them with a Rod of Iron thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potters Vessel Now this promise of Ruling over Nations and of having the morning Star was obtained by the first Charles for the condition on which the promise are grounded is this Revel. 2. 26 27 28. He that overcometh and keepeth my works to the end to him will I give Power over the Nations And he shall Rule them with a Rod of Iron as the Vessels of a Potter shall they be broken to shivers even as I received of my Father And I will give him the Morning Star And King Charles the first is he that overcame all the Enemies of Gods Truth who by his death kept up Gods True VVorship and sealed it with his blood and so obtained the promise for himself and his Seed for ever 10. And though the present King Charles Steeward be thus dignified yet do not you think that ever he will acknowledge himself to be your Messiah for his Humility and Zeal for the Lord Jesus shall be such that he will not take upon him such a Title as to be called the Messiah For as Iohn the Baptist was so humble that he would not acknowledge himself to be Eliah Iohn 1. 14. Though Jesus Christ saith that he was the very Eliah Math. 11. 14. So in like manner King Charles will be so humble as not to acknowledge himself to be your Messiah though you see it now manifested that he is your Messiah asye call him yet our VVisemen and Prophets that foresaw him and did prophesie of him durst not call him the Messiah least thereby they should offend God but they called him by several other names as sometimes the Lyon of the North Or the Great King of the North Psal. 48. 1 2. The dead King risen or the like names and under such names will he go and do