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A87160	A vindication of the Holy Scriptures. Or the manifestation of Jesus Christ the true Messiah already come. Being the Christians antidote against the poysons of Judaisme and atheisme of this present age. Proved out of sacred scripture, ancient historians, and Jewish Rabbins. / By that learned, and late eminent divine, John Harrison.	Harrison, John, of the Inner Temple.	1656 (1656)	Wing H896; Thomason E1685_1; ESTC R209168	62,938	174

45.6 Thy Throne O God is for ever and ever c. Wherefore God even thy God hath annoynted thee with the oyl of gladness above thy fellows Which cannot be applyed to Solomon but as a type of the Messiah Howsoever the name JEHOVAH which is of such reverence among the Jewes that they dare not pronounce it but in place thereof read Adonai that I am sure they will never grant to belong to any creature Then what say they to that of Jer. 23.6 where the Messiah is called in plain terms Jehovah And this is the name whereby they shal cal him Jehovah our righteousnesse So likewise Chap. 33.16 over again is he called by the same name Jehovah our rightousness And so do the ancient Jews themselves expound this place namely Rabbi Abba who asketh the question what the Messiah shal be called and answereth out of this place he shall be called the Eternal Jehovah The like doth Misdrasch upon the first verse of the 20. Psalm And Rabbi Moyses Hadersan upon Gen. 41 expounding that of Zephany 3 9. concludeth thus In this place Jehovah signifieth nothing else but the Messiah And so did one of the Jews at unawares acknowledge to me alledging that place out of the Psalmes The Lord doth build up Jerusalem c. that their Messiah at his comming should build a new City and Sanctuary much more glorious then the former So did he also interpret that place of Hag. 2.10 of a third Temple Whereupon I inferred seeing in those words he alledged The Lord doth build up Jerusalem the Hebrew word is Jehovah therefore by his own intepretation the Messiah must be Jehovah which he could not well shift off but said that Adonai for Jehovah they dare not name must there be understood which point of the Godhead of the Messiah the most ancient Jews did ever acknowledge proving by sundry places of Scripture not onely that he should be the Son of God but also the word of God incarnate First that he should be the Son of God they prove out of Gen. 49.10 The Scepter shal not depart c. til Shiloh come Which Rabbi Kimhi proveth to signifie his Son that is the Son of God Oat of Isaiah where he is called ' The bud of the Lord Out of the Psalms where it is said Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee And a little after ' Kiss the Son least he be angry and ye perish blessed are all they that trust in him Which last words cannot be understood of the Son of any man for it is written Cursed be the man that trusteth in man Jer. 17.5 Secondly that he shall be the Word of God they prove out of Isaiah as also out of Hosea where it is said I will save them by the Lord their God Ionathan translateth it thus I will save them by the Word of their God So where it is sayd The Lord sayd to my Lord sit at my right hand c. The Lord said to his Word sit at my right hand Also where it is sayd He sent his Word and healed them Rabbi Isaack Arama upon Gen. 47. expoundeth it to be meant of the Messiah that shall be Gods Word So likewise that of Iob I shall see God in my flesh c. Rabbi Simeon upon Gen. 10. gathereth thereupon that the Word of God shall take flesh womans womb Another out of these words Jehovah our God is one Jehovah proveth the blessed Trinity saying by the first Iehovah is signified God the Father by the next which is Elohim God the Son and by the other Johovah God the Holy Ghost proceeeding of them both to all which is added the word one to signifie that these three are indivisible but this secret saith he shall not be revealed until the coming of the Messiah These are the words of Rabbi Ibda reported by Rabbi Simeon in a Treatise called Zoar of great authority among the Jews where also they said Rabbi Simeon interpreteth those words of Isaiah Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Hosts in this manner Isaiah by repeating three times Holy saith he doth signifie as much as if he had said Holy Father Holy Son and Holy Spirit which three Holies do make but one Lord God of Hosts which mystery of the blessed Trinity Rabbi Hacadosch gathereth out of the very letters of JEHOVAH upon those words of Jeremy before recited the two natures of the Messiah both Divine and Humane his two filiations the one whereby he must be the Son of God the other whereby he must be the Son of Man concluding thereupon that in him there shall be two Distinct Natures and yet shall they make but one Christ which is the same that we Christians hold Philo that learned Jew shall end this first consideration touching the Nature and Person of the Messiah as himself writeth in his Book De Exulibus By tradition we have it saith he that we must expect the death of an high Priest which Priest shall be the very Word of God void of all sin whose Father shall be God and this Word shal be the Fathers wisdom by which all things in this world were created c. Therefore the Messiah must be both God and Man both by the Scriptures as also by their own Writers they cannot deny it That the Messiah must change the Law of Moses AS the Messiah must be both God and Man even the natural and onely begotten Son of God and the very Word of God incarnate void of all sin able to satisfie the wrath of his Father and to fulfil the Law of Moses for us which Moses himself could not do nor any other after him It was a burthensome law to the Children of Israel A yoak which neither they nor their forefathers were able to bear so having once in his own person most exactly accomplished the same here on earth together with all Rites Ceremonies Prophesies Types Figures and Circumstances of his comming clearly fulfilled in him and by him It was necessary I say the substance being once come those shadows and ceremonies should cease and be abolished I mean the ceremonial Law totally for as touching the moral Law or the Commendments he saith I came not to destroy the Law or the Prophets but to fulfil them only thus far hath he abolished that too he hath taken away the curse of it hanging it on his Crosse even the hand writing that was against us together with himselfe crucified This ceremonial Law of Moses I say consisting of such a multitude of Ceremonies Figures Types Sacrifices c. all of them for the most part pointing at the Messiah to come for by those outward signs and services appointed by God to his people they were still put in mind of his Covenant and assured of his promise that the Messiah should come Moreover it being proper and peculiar to one only Nation in all the world namely Jury the exercise thereof permitted but in

knew no surer way of publishing their Laws and procuring authority to the same then to write them with their own hands and in their life time to establish their promulgation So Lycurgus Solon and others among the Grecians Numa to the Romans Mahomet to the Sarasins But Jesus to shew his Divine power in directing the Pen and Stile of the Evangelists would not leave any thing written by himself but passed from this world in simplicity and silence without any other shew or osten●ation of his own doings Meaning notwithstanding afterwards to his glory and the edification of his Church here on earth by four irrefragable witnesses or remembrancers the four Evangelists every word should be established and recorded as may appear by that place where he saith These things have I spoken unto you being present with you but the Comforter which is the holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my name he shall bring all things to your remembrance which I have told you Whereupon I infer that the Evangelists and Apostolical writers were all of them guided and directed by one and the same spirit even the spirit of God for the registring of all things either said or done by our Saviour so far forth as seemed best to his Divine will and pleasure to be registred and recorded for the benefit and edification of his Church For there were many other things which Jesus did as John the Evangelist testifieth which are not written that is to say which the holy Spirit of God thought needless to faith and salvation but saith he These things are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that in believing ye might have life through his name Now for these Evangelists four in number which some have resembled to the four Beasts in Ezekiel the first and last are Apostles that wrote as they had seen the two middle are Disciples who registred things as they had understood by conference with the Apostles The first Gospel was written by an Apostle to give light to the rest and the last also by an Apostle to give authority and confirmation to the former The first was written in the Hebrew Tongue for that all those miracles which Jesus wrought were done in that Country He was not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel to the end that either the whole Nation might believe them or the obstinate impugne them which yet never any of their Rabbins took in hand to do The other three were written in the most famous and populous language of all Nations at that time to wit the Greek Tongue They wrote their stories in divers Countries far distant one from another and yet agreed they all most exactly in one and the same narration as is to be seen though diversly related yet in truth and substance all one one sometimes supplying what another hath not according to the discretion of one and the same spirit wherewith they were all guided and directed like those four Beasts in Ezek. 1.12 Every one went streight forward whither their spirit led them they returned not They wrote in divers times one after another and yet the latter did neither correct nor reprehend any thing in the former as Heathen writers use to do They published their writings when infinite were alive that knew the facts and of them no small number who desired by all means to impugne them They set down in most of their narrations the time the day the hour the place the village the house the persons with all other circumstances which the mo they are in number the more easie to be refuted if they were not true Neither did they write of things done in far Countries or places remote but in the same Country where they were born in Towns and Cities that were publikely known in Jerusalem it self in Bethania and Bethsaida Vilages hard by Jerusalem in the Suburbs and Hills about the City in such a street at such a gate at such a porch of the Temple at such a Fish-pool publike places familiarly known to every one for these things were not done in a corner as saith the Apostle All which circumstances duly considered never yet impugned methinks should perswade any man of reason to become a Christian as Agrippa in that very place acknowledgeth to Paul saying almost thou perswadest me to be a Christian They published their writings in their life time They altered not their writings afterwards as other Authors are wont in their latter editions nor ever corrected they one jot of that which they had first set down And that which never hapned in any other writings in the world besides nor ever Monarch was able to bring to pass for credit of his Edicts they gave their lives for defence and justifying of that which they had written Their manner of writing is sincere and simple as becommeth so divine a History without all art or Rethorical amplifications as Historians use They flatter none no not Jesus himself whom they most adore nor in confessing him to be their God do they conceal his infirmities of flesh in that he was man as his hunger and thirst his being weary how he wept his passions of fear and the like Nay these Evangelists were so sincere and religious in their narrations as they noted especially the imperfections of themselves and of such others as they principally respected Matthew nameth himself Matthew the Publican Mark Peters Disciple recordeth how S. Peter thrise denyed his Lord and Master and so of the rest These mens writings were published for canonical and received for undoubted truth by all that lived in the very same age and were privie to every particular circumstance therein contained They were copied abroad into infinite mens hands and so conserved with all care and reverence as holy and divine Scripture They were read in Churches throughout all Countries and Nations expounded preached and taught by all Pastors and Commentaries made upon them by holy Fathers from time to time So that no doubt can be made at all either of the authority of them as originally and immediately proceeding from the holy Ghost or of the certainty but that we have the very same incorrupt as the Authors left them for that it was impossible for any enemy to corrupt so many Copies over the world without discovery and resistance And thus much for the credit and authority of our Evangelists The confession of Martyrs NOw for the Martyrs or witnesses appointed by God for the sealing and delivery of this Doctrine of the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to all the world they were first and principally his own Apostles and Disciples Now ye are witnesses of these things who both heard his Doctrine and saw his Miracles as S. John testifieth That which we have heard which we have seen with our eyes c. That I say which we have seen and

to be expected The Messiah by Daniels Prophesie was to appear immediately upon the establishment of the Roman Empire for saith he In the days of these Kings shall the God of heaven set up a Kingdom which shall not be destroyed Dan. 2.44 which must needs be understood of the Kingdom of Christ or the Messiah And in these days was our Saviour born even in the days of Augustus Caesar Therefore in him is the circumstance of time verified The Messiah by Jacobs Prophesie was to appear immediately when the Rod or ●cepter was departed from the house of Judah Then appeared that Star of Jacob our Lord and Saviour Ergo The Messiah by the Prophesie of Haggai as also by their own Thalmud was to come during the second Temple Then came our Lord and Saviour Ergo And consequently the Jews after this time to wit the destruction of the second Temple in vain expect another The Messiah by the true account and calculation of Daniel's Hebdomades or weeks of years was to come just according to the times before mentioned So did our Saviour as is aforesaid therefore to him doth this circumstance of time bear witness And consequently the Jews after these times by God himself appointed for the Messiah or rather one and the same time for there is no other difference but only in adjuncts and circumstances expecting yet for another besides their vain expectation make God himself a Lyar The Messiah by the Scriptures was to be born of the Tribe of Judah of the house of David So was our Saviour Therefore he alone the legitimate and true born Messiah by Birth-right as I may say as also by Prescription after so long time of peaceable possession no other to be expected The Messiah by the Scripture as also by their own Rabbins was to be born of a Virgin so was our Saviour Ergo All other particulars foretold of the Messiah see them fulfilled as followeth to wit Prophesies   fulfilled Mich. ● 2 That the place of his Birth should be Bethlehem Luke 2.4 Jer. 31.15 That at his Birth all the Infants thereabouts should be slain Mat. 2.16 Psal. 72.10 That Kings or great Personages should come and adore him and offer gold and other gifts unto him Mat. 2.1 Mal. 3.1 That he should be presented in the Temple of Jerusalem for the greater glory of that second Temple Luk. 2.22 Hos. 11.1 That he should flee into Egypt and be called thence again Mat. 2.13 Num. 24.17 That a Star should appear at his Birth to notifie his coming into the world Mat. 2.9 Mal. 3.1 4.5 Isa. 40.3 That John Baptist who came in the power and spirit of Eliah and therefore was called Eliah Luke 1.17 Matth. 11.10.14 should be the Messenger to go before him and to prepare the way and to cry in the Desert Mat. 3.1 Isa. 42.2 That he should begin his own Preaching with all humility quietness and clemency of Spirit Mat. 5.1 Isa. 53. That he should be poor abject and of no reputation in this world Luk. 2.7 Isa. 35.5 That he should do strange Miracles and heal all Diseases Mat. 4.23 Isa. 53.12 Dan. 9.26 That he should die and be slain for the sins of his people Mat. 27. Psal. 55.13 That he should be betrayed by one of his own Familiars Mat 26.47 Zac. 11.12 That he should be sold for thirty pieces of silver Mat. 26.15 Zac. 11.13 That with those thirty pieces there should be bought afterwards a field of Potsheards Mat. 27. ● Zac. 9.9 That he should ride into Jerusalem upon an Ass Mat. 27. Isa. 50.6 That the Jews should beat and buffet his face and defile the same with spitting Mat. 26.67 Isa. 53.5 That they should whip rend and tear his body before they put him to death Mat. 26.27 Isa. 53.12 That he should be put to death among Thieves and Malefactors Luk. 23.33 Isa. 53.7 That he should be silent before his enemies as a sheep before his shearer Mat. 27.14 Isa. 53.12 That he should pray for his enemies and persecutors Luk. 23.34 Psal. 22.18 69.21 That they should give him vinegar to drink divide his apparel and cast lots for his upper garment Mat. 27.34 Psal. 22.16 Zac. 12.10 That the manner of his death should be crucifying that is nayling of his hands and his feet to the Cross Joh. 19.18 Zac. 12.10 That his side should be pierced and that they should look upon him whom they had so pierced Joh. 19.34.37 Exo. 12.46 That not a Bone of him should be broken figured in the Passover by that spotless Lamb without blemish a type thereof and therefore is he called in the New Testament The Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world The Lamb slain from the beginning of the world Joh. 19.36 Psal. 16.9 Hos. 6.2 That he should rise again from death the third day Mat. 28.1 Psal 68.18 110.1 That he should ascend into heaven and there sit at the right hand of his Father tryumphantly for ever Luke 24.51 Act. 7.55 56. All these particulars foretold of the Messiah see I say and examine how exactly they were all fulfilled in our Saviour and therewithal consider those things which fell out afterwards as effects of his Divine power to wit the sending of the holy Ghost immediately after his Ascension with the miraculous encrease of his Church even in the midst of persecution The severe punishment of all his enemies especially that of the Jewish Nation The subjection of the Divel with all his Infernal power under his Apostles and Disciples feet together with the ceasing of Oracles And finally the fulfilling of all his Prophesies with those likewise of his Apostles and Disciples most exactly I say all these with the former put together and well considered may settle the heart of any Christian man against all Judaism Paganism yea and Atheism too in the most undoubted Truth of his profession to wit the Christian Religion with this full and final perswasion wherewith I will knit up all That there is no other Name under heaven given to the sons of men whereby to be saved but the name of Jesus Christ And therefore to Him be the honour of our Salvation ascribed and to no other To Him I say with the Father and the Spirit even that blessed Trinity Elohim be all Honour and glory now and evermore Amen Amen FINIS Table of the Contents of the several matters of this Book OF the Promises and Prophesies of old 1 Gods promise to Adam 3 Gods promise to Abraham 3 The Prophesie of Jacob 5 The Prophesie of Moses 6 The Prophesie of David 9 The Prophesie of Jeremy 15 The Prophesie of Ezekiel 15 The Prophesie of Isaiah 16 That the Messiah must be both God and man 18 That the Messiah must change the Law of Moses 26 The time of his Manifestation with all other circumstances 33 Of his Linage or Pedegree 56 Of his Birth with the Circumstances thereof 57 Of his Preaching and Doctrine 71 Of his