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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89670	An apology for the honorable nation of the Jevvs, and all the sons of Israel· Written by Edward Nicholas, Gent.	Nicholas, Edward.; Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657, attributed name.	1649 (1649)	Wing N1081; Thomason E544_16; ESTC R203014	9,175	15

AN APOLOGY FOR THE HONORABLE NATION OF THE JEWS And all the SONS of ISRAEL Written by Edward Nicholas Gent. Isaiah 14.1 For Jehovah will have compassion of Jacob and will yet chuse Israel and cause them to rest in their own land and the stranger shall joyn himself unto them and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. Deut. 23.39 Happy art thou O Israel who is like unto thee O people saved by Jehovah c. Jer. 30.7 Alas for that day is great so that none is like it it is even the time of Jacobs trouble but he shall be delivered from it Jer. 31.14 15 16 17. Thus saith Jehovah A voyce was heard in Ramah lamentation and bitter weeping Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted because they were not Thus saith Jehovah Refrain thy voyce from weeping and thine eyes from tears c. London Printed by John Field 1648. AN APOLOGY For the Honorable Nation OF THE JEWS THat our Nation of England hath already suffered much affliction and that we yet labor under many burthens fears and doubtings what will be the sequel is a thing so clear that lamentable experience doth abundantly testifie Those that are in authority in this kingdom and we all may make the application that the crying sins of our Nation do call for vengeance which we have just cause to expect unless we meet God by repentance and satisfaction of the oppressed To undertake to speak of the many gross and loud crying sins we lie under the guilt of were to lessen them they are so many 't were better to be silent then to use few words in rehearsing them that are so odious to God least we seem to extenuate them I shall confine my self to two The oppression of the poor And the persecution of the Saints of God As for the first I hope that the multitude of affairs wherein we are involved have interupted partly good and pious intentions The sufferings of many of the faithful friends of the Parliament have been great and must needs vent themselves by some complaints and the rather seeing our good God hath forgiven Ten thousand Talents as by their great if not miraculous successes appears yet every cruel servant takes his brother by the throat for small matters and exacting the utmost usury which in quiet and peaceable times is contrary to the Law as I humbly conceive by some Statute appears not allowing the freedom to walk on the Lords-day and to joyn themselves with such Congregations of Gods people for the refreshment of their souls amidst their sufferings in the outward man as they desire to do But the sin principally intended here is The strict and cruel Laws now in force against the most honorable Nation of the world the Nation of the Jews a people chosen by God as appears by the many and large expressions of his favor to them stiling them His Gems his first-born a precious people above all peoples of the earth a kingdom of priests an holy people unto himself And further saith they are his own servants and should not be in bondage to any being onely to serve six years and the seventh to go out free and in the year of Jubile every man was to return to his inheritance But above all that priviledge of theirs the benefit whereof hath an influence on all the faithful and redounds to their happiness That in thee and thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed So strong an obligation are we bound in to them through Gods mercy And now let all the faithful servants of God take to their considerations how great indurings that honorable Nation hath suffered what bloody slaughters have been made of them in London in the North countrey of England and divers other parts of this kingdom and how they have been proscribed and banisht this kingdom and denyed that commerce allowed to all others even to barbarous Infidels so that the transcendency of this sin is not to be paralleld in regard they being so honorably stiled and owned by God himself in rejecting them we highly incense the Majesty of Jehovah whereas we ought rather to honor them whom God honoreth and to have a grateful remembrance of those people of God by whom he hath conveyed to his people so great blessings and incomparable priviledges to comfort the afflicted and not to take the opportunity when God was angry with them to help forward the affliction In their next place if we would but follow the politicians rule that aym onely at their own ends and gains proh dolor that may prove and will certainly be an advantage to us divers ways and on the contrary most dangerous to this kingdom for that the protection of all men is in Gods people whose blessings are continually showred down on a Land for their sakes of whom are these a part that we have thus abandoned It was a notable observation of a reverend and godly learned Preacher before this Parliament on this Text Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm Psal 105.15 That the good or evil usage of Gods people is the greatest State-interest in the world how great cause have we then to lay this to our hearts the godly can best judge Furthermore besides the judgements of God which our Forefathers have felt by bloody Wars and other miseries we at this time have experience of many calamities and now the years of recompence are approaching which we have cause to believe when we read of the many comminations of God against the spoilers and oppressors of his people the Jews as Jer. 30.16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured and all thine adversaries every one of them shall go into captivity and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey and Isa 33.1 and 34.1 to 8. and 41.11 Behold all that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded they shall be as nothing and they that strive with thee shall perish and so to the end and 49.25 Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee and I will save thy children And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh and they shall be drunken with their own blood as with sweet wine and all flesh shall know that I am thy Savior and Redeemer the mighty one of Jacob and Jer. 25.31 and Isa 51.22 23. and 60.14 and 61.3 4. 'T is Objected The great guilt that lies on the Jews for crucifying Christ and that therefore and for refusing the Gospel they are rejected of God so unworthy of favor assistance and compassion herein desired In Answer though this be imputed to the whole Nation yet it is apparent in the Gospel that that action was done by the Elders chief Priests and Scribes his Doctrine reproving their Hypocrifie and