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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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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
went to Lorain and perswaded him to go back again and went to both sides brought them together and made them good Friends again Then the people seeing the great work that he had done cryed him up to be the man of God in so much that at last the French King and his Council became Jealous of him and they joyned themselves with his Enemy and most unnaturally for he was their near Kinsman and most ungratfully in regard he had saved them they forced him to go out of France as he was forced to go out of England and that is in God's Book of Remembrace the French shall be called to account for it one day Again when King Charles went to Scotland and all his Nobles there were Enemies one to the other he presently by his loving Wisdom made them all good friends to the admiration of the people So that I may surely say there is not such another Peace-maker in the World and yet Manasseth Ben-Israel think this King shall not rise again I am sorry to see the hardness of his Heart But beloved take you notice of what I say for a sign to you if King Charles Steeward King of England do not come into his Throne within this five years without one drop of blood spilt in the cause believe nothing of what I say in this Book but afterward some of those that took upon them to judge the Old King this Kings Father most cruelly murthered him and yet will not repent and come unto the King for mercy most die for it the King shall not save them for Law and Justice shall take place where mercy is refused Now there is no people under Heaven that boast and stand so much upon their Sword as these States-people of England do yet God will order it so for King Charles his sake that their Sword which they glory in shall fall out of their hands and they shall not know how nor which way they lost it and God will put it into the hand of King Charles so that all the world will wonder at the strangness of his Salvation and they shall glorifie God on his behalf when they see such an excellent thing done that no age can paralel And when right is done to the King and Church and to the Kings Friends and Servants though it be done with much favour to the Enemies there will be many discontented persons that will plot and strive to maintain the States false interest to their own Ruin and Destruction Besides the proud State of Holand though they be now sufficiently beaten and spoiled by the English State will then for their own ends make show as if they would help them and presently before the King is much setled in his Throne they will pick a Quarrel with him but the harmless and Wise King being inclinable thereunto will make Peace with them upon any terms and agree Notwithstanding the False Envious Persidions Covetous Holander being proud is not quiet but reprocheth the King with foul Language because of his former afflictions by which God Refined and fitted him for future glory and takes all occasion and advantage to do what mischief they can to the King and his Subjects And though God in that time send the Plague among them for it so that they dye by thousands at a time yet they will not forbear but still go on in their malice against the King that God might utterly destroy them and the English Enemies that go to them by the Sword Plague and Famine and blot out their Names from being a State under Heaven for so God will fight against all the Enemies of King Charles and proud Holand shall be made the first Object of Gods wrath against them that fight against King Charles and despise him but do you depart from Holand betimes Therefore blessed and happy shall those Kings and people be that shall take their Power and Authority from King Charles and live under his protection for all his proud Enemies that shall despise him and refuse to submit unto him shall be destroyed because God with King Charles will do a new work upon the Earth and bring all the world unto himself under one Head and for this cause God chose King Charles and Refined him in the Furnace of affliction as the Prophet saith Esai 48. 10. Esai 51. 16. About the same time the Turk will come and fight against the Emperour of Germany and he shall prevail for a time but afterward the Emperour shall beat him sadly then shall you arise and under the Baner of King Charles with an Army of a hundred forty and four thousand twelve thousand of every Tribe go to your one Land and possess it for ever and ever and you shall believe in Jesus Christ who is your everlasting King as your Rabbins say in their Talmuds If you can but understand them aright for they say that Jesus Christ whom they truly call Messiah the Son of David shall be your everlasting King when ye come to your own Land as ye have them cited in the 26. Sect of the foresaid Book called The Hope of Israel thus But which way that Redemption shall be no man can tell but onely so far as we may gather out of the Prophets That at that time the Ten Tribes shall come to Ierusalem under the leading of a Prince whom some Rabbins in the Talmud and in some places of of the Caldy Pharaphrase do call Messiah the Son of Ioseph and elsewhere Messiah the Son of Ephraim who being slain in the last war of Gog and Magog shall shew himself to be Messiah the Son of David Who shall be as Ezekiel and Hosea say the everlasting Prince of all the twelve Tribes Our Wismen do in many places especially in the Babilonish Talmud in tract. fuca C. 5. make mention of Messiah the Son of Ephraim where they say that he shall dye in the last War of Gog and Magog and they so expound that of Zech. 12. 10. And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his onely Son They add also that the four Captains of whom the said Prophet speaketh of chap. 6. 1. are Messiah the Son of David Messiah the Son of Ioseph the Prophet Elias and the high Priest which four are those Dignities which shall shew their power in that blessed Age Observe that sometime they call Messiah the Son of Ephraim sometime of Ioseph for he shall come out of the Tribe of Ephraim and shall be Captain of all the Ten Tribe who give their Name to Ephraim because that their first King Ieroboam was of that Tribe not without cause do they call him the Son of Ioseph for he was the true Type of the house of Israel in his imprisonment and future happiness add to this that he was so long hid from his Brethren that they knew him not as in like manner the Ten Tribes are at this day who are