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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89453	The hope of Israel: written by Menasseh ben Israel, a Hebrew divine, and philosopher. Newly extant, and printed in Amsterdam, and dedicated by the author to the High Court, the Parliament of England, and to the Councell of State. Translated into English, and published by authority. In this treatise is shewed the place wherein the ten tribes at this present are, proved partly by the strange relation of one Anthony Montezinus, a Jew, of what befell him as he travelled over the Mountaines Cordillære, with divers other particulars about the restoration of the Jewes, and the time when.; Miḳṿeh Yiśraʼel. English	Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657.; Wall, Moses.	1650 (1650)	Wing M375; Thomason E1350_3; ESTC R18014	43,634	105

THE HOPE of ISRAEL Written By MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL an Hebrew Divine and Philosopher Newly extant and Printed in Amsterdam and Dedicated by the Author to the High Court the Parliament of England and to the Councell of State Translated into English and published by Authority In this Treatise is shewed the place wherein the ten Tribes at this present are proved partly by the strange relation of one Antony Montezinus a Jew of what befell him as he travelled over the Mountaines Cordillaere with divers other particulars about the restoratiòn of the Jewes and the time when Printed at London by R. I. for Hannah Allen at the Crown in Popes-head Alley 1650. To the Parliament the Supream Court of England and to the right Honourable the Councell of State Menasseh Ben Israell prayes God to give health and all Happinesse IT is not one cause alone most renowned Fathers which useth to move those who desire by their Meditations to benefit Mankind and to make them come forth in publique to dedicate their Books to great Men for some and those the most are incited by Covetousnesse that they may get money by so doing or some peice of plate of Gold or Silver sometimes also that they may obtaine their votes and suffrages to get some place for themselves or their friends But some are moved thereto by meere and pure friendship that so they may publickly testifie that love and affection which they beare them whose names they prefixe to their Books let the one and the other please themselves according as they delight in the reason of the Dedication whether it be good or bad for my part I best like them who doe it upon this ground that they may not commend themselves or theirs but what is for publick good As for me most renowned Fathers in my dedicating this Discourse to you I can truly affirme that I am induced to it upon no other ground then this that I may gaine your favour and good will to our Nation now scattered almost all over the earth neither thinke that I doe this as if I were ignorant how much you have hitherto favoured our Nation for it is made knowne to me and to others of our Nation by them who are so happy as neare at hand to observe your apprehensions that ye doe vouchsafe to help us not only by your prayers yea this hath compelled me to speak to ye publickly and to give ye thanks for that your charitable affection towards us and not such thankes which come only from the tongue but as are conceived by a gratefull minde Give me leave therefore most renowned Fathers to supplicate ye that ye would still favour our good and farther love us Truly we men doe draw so much the nearer to Divine nature when by how much we increase by so much we cherish and defend the small and weake ones and with how much diligence doe you performe this most renowned Fathers who though ye seeme to be arrived to the highest top of felicity yet ye doe not only not despise inferiour men but ye so wish well to them that ye seeme sensible of their calamity ye knowing how acceptable to God ye are by so doing who loves to doe good to them who doe good And truly it is from hence that of late ye have done so great things valiantly and by an unusuall attempt and things much to be observed among the Nations The whole world stands amazed at these things and the eyes of all are turned upon ye that they may see whither all these things do tend which the great Governour of all things seems to bring upon the world by so great changes so famously remarkable of so many Nations and so all those things which God is pleased to have fore-told by the Prophets doe and shall obtaine their accomplishment All which things of necessity must be fulfilled that so Israel at last being brought back to his owne place peace which is promised under the Messiah may be restored to the world concord which is the only Mother of all good things These things I handle more largely in this Treatise which I dedicate to ye most renowned Fathers ye cannot be ignorant that it is not only not unprofitable but very usefull for States and States-men to fore-see the issue which yet is ever in Gods hand of humane Counsels that so they may observe and understand from Divine truth the events of things to come which God hath determined by his Spirit in his holy Prophets I know that this my labour will not be unacceptable to ye how meane soever it be which I trust ye will cheerfully receive because that ye love our Nation and as part of it the Author of this Discourse But I entreat you be certain that I pour out continuall prayers to God for your happinesse Farewell most renowned Fathers and flourish most prosperously Menasseh Ben Israel MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL to the courteous Reader THere are as many mindes as men about the originall of the people of America and of the first inhabitants of the new World and of the West-Indies for how many men soever they were or are they came of those two Adam and Eve and consequently of Noah after the Floud But that new World doth seeme wholly separated from the old therefore it must be that some did passe thither out of one at least of the three parts of the World sc Europe Asia and Africa but the doubt is what people were those and out of what place they went Truly the truth of that must be gathered partly out of the ancient Histories and partly from conjectures as their Habit their Language their Manners which yet doe vary according to mens dispositions so that it is hard to finde out the certainty Almost all who have viewed those Countries with great diligence have been of different judgements Some would have the praise of finding out America to be due to the Carthaginians others to the Phenicians or the Canaanites others to the Indians or people of China others to them of Norway others to the inhabitants of the Atlantick Islands others to the Tartarians others to the ten Tribes Indeed every one grounds his opinion not upon probable arguments but high conjectures as will appeare farther by this Booke But I having curiously examined what ever hath hitherto been writ upon this Subject doe finde no opinion more probable nor agreeable to reason than that of our Montezinus who saith that the first inhabitants of America were the ten Tribes of the Israelites whom the Tartarians conquered and drove away who after that as God would have it hid themselves behind the Mountaines Cordillerae I also shew that as they were not driven out at once from their Country so also they were scattered into divers Provinces sc into America into Tartary into China into Media to the Sabbaticall River and into Aethiopia I prove that the ten Tribes never returned to the second Temple that they yet keep the