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B20667 The case of the Jews is altered, and their synagogue shut to all evil-walkers, or, A vindication of the Jewes from the false imputations laid upon them in a scurrilous pamphlet intituled, The case of the Jews stated, or, The Jews synagogue opened. / by Joseph Copley ... Copley, Joseph. 1656 (1656) Wing C6084 3,883 8

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they live and for the honour safty and increase of the power of the Prince under whose protection they are as may more largly appear in a Declaration set forth lately by that learned Jewish Doctor Menasseh ben Israel which might have stopt this Fellows mouth and prevented his ugly mishap'd abortive unlick'd Cub from creeping into the view of the world if his bruitish Sire had not been wholly made up of folly and impudence Whereas he mentions lascivious Motto's as he calls them placed in the houses of the Jews it is utterly false or should any lewd persons of them and it seem his acquaintance was only of that sort if he knew any Jews at all set up any such Ribauldry in their rooms the graver sort who do frequently visit the houses of the rest would tear it down and for my own particular I have been in the houses of many Jews but never saw any such thing the only Ornaments they use for their walls are Pictures representing Bible-Histories Suppose he had seen some such Motto's in the houses of some idely disposed person amongst the Jews is it not a madness in him to chargethe whole nation with it some of all nations and religions are bad must therefore all the men in the world be so if men did not consider the time when his paper came out they would think Mid-summer Moon did operate in this Fellow's Pate In the rear of all he brings up that of the Apostle Paul in 1 Cor. cap. ult v. 22. If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Marinatha But he should have remembred that the Apostle speaketh here neither of nor to the Jews but concerning such as Alexander and Hymeneus Simon Magus and his Followers who were apostatized Christians for Paul doth elsewhere expound himself and affirm That the Church hath no power to punish by Excommunication or Anathematization such as alwayes were out of the pale but such only as having been once within the pale have departed out of it To this all the Fathers and Doctors of the primitive Church assent for none can have due voc●tion to punish but those to whom the offender oweth subjection In this respect the renowned Republik of Venice together with all the most learned Civilians of Christendome have judged it unfit that the secular Magistrate should take any notice of any ecclesiastical censures denounced against such as never were subject to the Church as may be seen more fully in the History of the Inquisition compiled by that able States-man and judicious Lawyer Paul Serveta an Italian Frier Thus gentle Reader have I vindicated the honorable Nation of the Jews from the fowl aspersions of a black-mouth'd slanderer which if I have done with some sharpness it is but what his folly hath merited In the mean time I hope no ingenious Person will think a rod ill bestowed upon a Fools back but if ever he display his folly again upon the same subject as I look he will for a fool will be never the wiser though brayed in a morter instead of a Rod I will send him A rope with which the silly elf Shall make a noose and hang himself I could have inlarged in sh●wing the many commodities the Jews would bring to this Commonwealth their adherency formerly to the Parliament of England and their great affection to the present Government and particularly to his Highness the Lord Protector whose Patronage they do more desire than that of any other Prince in Christendome but that it hath been done already sufficiently by an abler Pen I mean that of Menass●h ben Israel the Hebrew Doctor Therefore I shall conclude beseeching Almighty God to give to all those that are right in heart the fruition of those good things promised under the reign of the Prince of peace whose coming is dayly expected and hope to be at hand by many good Christians O that the Salvation of Israel were come out of Sion when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people Jacob shall rejoyce and Israel shall be glad Psal 14.7 FINIS