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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78519	A true and exact relation of the strange finding out of Moses his tombe, in a valley neere unto Mount Nebo in Palestina. With divers remarkable occurrences that happened thereupon, and the severall judgements of many learned men concerning the same. / Communicated by a person of quality residing at Constantinople, to a person of honour here in England, and by him permitted to be published, for the satisfaction of the ingenious.	Chaloner, Thomas, 1595-1661.; Geōrgarinēs, Iōsēph, 17th cent.	1656 (1656)	Wing C1805; Thomason 1660[3]; ESTC R209017	12,663	43

Jesuits were used at Constantinople and of the great question that did arise there by men of all Religions what was become of the body of Moses WHen newes came of these transactions to the port of the Grand Signior the Jesuits were much condemned by all sorts of Religions But the Jews took occasion hereupon to invey bitterly against the Christians above all measure affirming they were the most treacherous thieves that ever lived in the world Having whilest the Souldiers slept stoln out of the Sepulchre the body of Christ and thereby made the second error worse then the first That Alonso de Albuquerque vice-Roy of Goa had a design to have defaced the Sepulchre of Mahomet at Medina Talnabi and to have thrown his body into the red Sea but was prevented by death The like design had Ferdinando the Great Duke of Tuscanie to have forced the Sepulchre of Christ from Jerusalem and to have placed it in his Chappel of Saint Lorenzo at Florence but he dyed ere he could effect it And now this late plot of the Jesuits in attempting to steale away the body of Moses howsoever miraculously prevented yet it argued the Christians to be a people not fit to be admitted into the Turkish Empire The vulgar being much incensed by these and the like clamours the French Embassador was necessitated to obscure himself for diverse dayes in the house of the Emperours Embassadour The French Consul of Rama shipped himselfe in the Bolane appointed to attend the design and sailed to Marselles his Native country The Padre Guardiano at Jerusalem and his convent were in great trouble by Ram-dam the Sanzjacke untill Ibrahim the Ianizarie had cleared them by the oath of a Muselman that they had no hand in the businesse The Druses were condemned to the Galleys for 120. yeares The Gentlemen and Merchants for great summes of money obtained so much favour as to be perpetually banished the Turkes dominions The Jesuits were sent to the seven Towers there to be put to some cruell death their colledge to be rased and their order never to return into Turkey again The great question then was amongst the learned of all Religions at Constantinople what was become of the body of Moses Some Dry-vines said it was there where it pleased God which satisfied the question as little as if they had said nothing Some Arabs Philosophers said it was evapored in fumo but the Greeks argued out of Aristotle that it was impossible in nature to reduce the whole earthy part of any mans body to nothing nay they went so farre as though they acknowledged that God had created all things of nothing yet whether he could reduce all things to nothing againe they humbly submitted to better judgements They holding that as Creation was a worke of perfection so destruction a worke of imperfection whereof the Deity was not capable The Jewes laughed at this dispute and demonstrated out of Rabbi David Kimche and out of Rabbi Salomon Ben Jack that some thousands of yeares agoe the Angels who were placed Guardians of Moses Sepulchre were furiously assaulted by a Devil named Asmandeus and his wicked Angels insomuch as Moses body was taken from that place and carried God knowes whither whereupon being asked by the Christians which side got the victory they answered they could not tell And being farther demanded why then did they labour so much to be Guardians of the place where his body was supposed to lye they answered for the same reasons which mov'd the Christians to be Guardians of the Sepulchre of Christ wherein it was against their faith to believe that his body had at the present any residence Against this the Christians of the Latin Church alledged the nineth verse of St. Jude's Ep. whose words are Yet Michael the Angel when contending with the Divel he disputed with the Divel about the body of Moses durst not bring against him a railing accusation but said the Lord rebuke thee Out of which and the twelfth of the Revelation verse the seventh And there was warres in heaven Michael and his Angels fought against the Dragon and the Dragon fought and his Angels and prevailed not They did conclude that the Divel did not carry away the body of Moses but that the Angels of God had still the tuition thereof yet where they did not know But the Grecian Armenian Coptie Abissine Jacobin Georgian Maronite and Nestorian Christians did wholly oppose this Allegation with whom joyned many Lutherans residing at Constantinople denying rhe Epistle of St. Jude to be Canonicall but more especially venting their spleenes against the Revelation of S. John saying that it was none of his full of obscurity void of reason and the title forged that the Author of it was Cerinthus the Heretick and neither of them were allowed to be Canonicall untill the Council of Carthage which was wholly subservient to the Papacy three or four hundred yeares after Christ being both of them before that time not onely disputed against but wholly gainsaid These differences did no wayes clear but rather obscure the question in as much as the Mufty to try all parties desired to know the opinions of the Protestant Divines viz. the Dutch and the English But the Dutch whether to save charges or that they though it needlesse and perhaps dangerous maintained no Divines amongst them the English excused themselves as a point they had not at all studied nor ever found in their books and therefore referred themselves to the Assembly of Divines in England The question rested not so for Nazuffe coming to Constantinople to be invested in his new government of Sues brought with him a book written by one Jeconius Ben-Gad a learned Rabbi dwelling at Saphetta which is an University of the Jewes wherein he did maintaine that this Tombe was not the Tombe of Moses who delivered Israel but of another Moses very famous for his piety who lived according to the Jewes computation many hundred yeares after him To make good his assertion he maintained it to be most unbeseeming the wisdome of God to hide the body of Moses and yet to write his name upon his Sepulchre besides the Inscription being witten in Hebrew characters argued it to be of a farre later date for it is well known to the learned that the Jewes Samaritans and Canaanites had anciently no other Character but the Phoenician untill the Jewes used the Hebrew Character which was invented by Esdras after the Captivity And for the late miraculous opening of an entrance into this valley no formerly known that proceeded from the ignorance of the Goat-herds and the Maronite Patriarch who being Christians do little understand the Topography of the Land of Promise But the learned Jewes know this to be an ancient valley called formerly Hamagiddo of farre greater extent than at this present and that not foure hundred yeares past it was almost wholly devoured by an Earthquake That there was no body found in the Sepulchre was no wonder seeing the Christians upon their conquest of the Holy Land by Godfrey of Bulloigne left no Tombe or Monument of the dead unsearched for treasure commonly making havock and Sacriledge of the dead bones leaving empty Sepulchres That they had attempted the breaking up of Davids Tomb upon great confidence of finding therein an inestimable treasure but were miraculously prevented by fire which issued out of it Nay their unsatiated covetousnesse was such as they would not have spared the holy Sepulchre as they call it of their Saviour Christ had they not conceived that by reason of his poverty there could nothing of value be buried with him for the strange fastning of the upper stone to the nether as hath formerly beene expressed it will appeare to be no miracle when it shall be remembred how usuall it was anciently amongst the Jewes so to do and the Sepulchres of the Kings of Judea yet remaining neere Jerusalem to this day testifie as much As for the odoriferousness of the place it will be no wonder when the sweet-smelling Gummes and Aromatick Spices of wonderfull price wherewith anciently they did intombe their dead shall be called to minde Neither could it in the last place savour of any thing but of infinite impiety to conceive that the arm of the great God of Israel should in these last times be so weakened as he could not defend the body of his servant from an Earthquake or keep from vulgar eyes his unscrutable secrets This book though written after the Jewish manner with much bitternesse against the Christians did give exceeding satisfaction So it is thought this business hath received its full period FINIS