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A32350	The blessed Jew of Marocco: or, A Blackmoor made white. being a demonstration of the true Messias out of the law and prophets / by Rabbi Samuel, a Iew turned Christian ; written first in the Arabick, after translated into Latin, and now Englished ; to which are annexed a diatriba of the Jews sins and their miserie all over the world, annotations to the book ... with other things for profit in knowledge and undertanding, by Tho. Calvert ...	Samuel, Marochitanus.; Calvert, Thomas, 1606-1679.	1648 (1648)	Wing S545; ESTC R8621	114,898	246

was to pay a summ of money that they might have leave once a year to goe thither and bewail the subversion of the Temple in the very day of the year when it was done which Hierome mentions who lived there At this day saith he the perfidious Iews are forbidden to enter Ierusalem except it be to weep and lament the subversion of their Temple for which also they are forced to pay money As in times past they bought the blood of Christ so are they now fain to buy their own tears and may not be suffered to weep of free-cost See how miserably they are used at Alexandria and in other places in Spain France Bohemia Italie and their captivity in England and that by the Pen of one of their own Chronologers or Rabbins and we may conclude with a question to the Jew O wretches is not this some payment of that Bond which you sealed when you said His Blood be upon us c you desired a murderer do's not the Lord give you murderers enough It will be long ere your blood will ever bee shed sufficiently for the Blood of Christ Under the Emperor Domitian it seems the Jews by Romans were forced to beg for their living dwelling in the Grove of Egerin Martiall exceedingly mocks them from their Circumcision others altogether disgrace them calling them foetentes Iudaeos The stinking Iews or Breath-stinking Iews Every one exercised his witt to lay some folly or vanitie to the Jews charge Because they used to look up to Heaven praying they slandered them for worshipping the Clouds as their onely God and because they thought them very Asses they would make the world beleeve that they worshipt Asses and an Asses Head of Gold and that they withall adored a Swine which the Doctor of wantonnesse Petronius gives out concerning them Plutark and Tacitus so forget their gravitie that they fall also to these childish Nuts and Cherrie-stones of the playing Poets and put upon this Poets jest the face of Historians sober earnest as if it were a very truth that they worshipped such false and foule and foolish gods as a Swine and an Asse and afterwards they put the Asse upon Christians as if it were their Deitie whereupon they were called Asinarii as both Minutius in Octavio and Tertullian in Apologet cap. 16. stand upon defence against such an offensive absurditie About Swine the Jews were grievously abused for they are so farre from worshipping Swine that it is a mavelvellous unholy and unclean thing to touch and eat them insomuch as their choice have beene to die rather then to eate Swines flesh as will appeare by the booke of Maccabees Why should they worship that which they will not name accounting it so unclean that they being to name a Swine in their speech they avoid the word and call it rem aliam another thing that is a Swine or a Hogg It is a miserie to bee forced to see or meddle with that thing which we do hate and abhorre yet this people were even tormented in this kinde for the Tyrants would needs force them to eat of Swine Adrian the Emperour called Jerusalem Aelia and in that gate of the City that leads towards Bethlehem set up in Marble the figure of a Swine an abomination to that nation I would not charge the Jews falsly but I think they are often charged with things that Truth gives no warrant for Marcellinus calls them foetentes Iudaeos the stinking Iews some will aver it that all Jews yeeld a stinke and filthy savour to them that converse with them and that they judge this cannot be helped better then by the drinking of the blood of Christians One Iohn Matthias Tiberinus a Phisitian that lived at Trent● writeth that in the Citie Trent Anno 1475. the Jewes Crucified a Boy there called Simon of twenty moneths old being taken they confessed that one cause was to drink his blood for remedie of their disease I leave it to the learned to judge and determine by writers or Travellers whether this be true or no either that they have a monthly Flux of Blood or a continuall mal-odoriferous breath Tacitus has a fling at the Jews and Hierusalem and writes of their Captains Hierosolymus and Judas what poor and lying things they take up from which Hierosolymus Hierusalem he saith was named Florus must needs throw one stone at them in Pompeyes Wars he saw illud grande impiae gentis arcanum patens sub aureo Coelo this must be the holy Temple As for the Poets they are often calling them recutitos verpos as doth Martiall sometimes for incredible things they affix it to a Jews Faith credat Judaeus apella Though this I suppose is not apella that is impellis a skinlesse or circumcjsed Jew but apella or Apellas or Apelles was the name of some Jew well known at Rome Horaces Commentators forget their Grammer and Criticks when they make it an appellative against all Rules as one may judge Tullie and Suetonius both have their girds at the Jews being made the subject of the whole worlds scommes or scornings Seneca had his jeere for them though in it he lift up his mouth and Pen against Heaven as grave and morall as he was he jeered the fourth Commandement of the morall Laws when he said the Jews keeping weekly a Sabbath every seventh day they did sacrifice to sloth and idlenesse the seventh part of their whole life and age which they let unprofitably slip away Plutarch also is too bold with the Sabbath of the Iews making it a day dedicated to Bacchus who was called Sabazius as if the Iews worshipped that drunken god that day and not JEHOVA who is the holy and onely God I confesse their feasting and much eating and drinking that day together with the name Sabbath might lend occasion to the Heathens to slander it for a day of Bacchanals At this very day the Turks do bear worse affection to Jews than to Christians though they be circumcised as they are that if a Jew would turn Turk he must first turne Christian before they will admit him to be a Turk And among the Turks it is a word of reproach and an usuall protestation when they are falsly accused of any crime to acquit themselves they give out in this manner If this be true then God grant I may die a Iew which is a kinde of high execration with them At Zant whence we have the Oyle called Zant Oyle the Christians that do sojourn there on good Friday throw stones at the Jews who live there so as they dare not come out of their houses all that day and yet abide scarce safely in their houses for they throw stones at their windows and doors Hereupon on Thursday at noon the Jews begin to keepe within doors and continue within not daring stirre out till Saturday about

the faith of Christ and betake themselves to some honest Calling and work with their hands which was so acceptable an Act to the people that they gave the fifteenth part of their goods to the King and they were all thrust out of the Kingdom to the number of some seventeen thousand or as some say ●0000 and 500. And thus was this wretched Chaffe swept out of England and the Kingdom hath since been ridd of them that openly professe that un-Israelitish way In the reign of Henry the third a Iew fell into a Jakes at Tewkesbury in England to whom it being offered to draw him out it being Saturday the Iews Sabbath he refused lest he should pollute the holinesse of the day The thing comming to the chiefe Lord of the Countrey he commanded they should let him lie the next day too for the honour of the Lords Day the Christians Sabbath lest he should prophane it so by abiding in it that day also he perished I have heard or read these Verses on it but I remember not well where because I finde them not in the Historians relating it The Iews Verse bringing him in speaking is thus Sabbata sancta colo de Stercore surgere nolo I honour holy Sabbaths rest I will not rise from my foul nest The Christian Magistrates Verse answers him thus Sabbata nostra quidem Salomon celebrabit ibidem O Salomon because you are wise And for the Sabbath so precise Lest from your holy Rule you swerve You shall our Sabbath too observe The like was the lot of a Iew at Meidenburg in Germany that sat two dayes together in so uncomfortable a place the one day for the honour of their Sabbath the other for the Christians pleasure to give honour to ours And now Reader behold and see if under the whole Heaven has been done to any people like as to this people If it be not as the Lord said All people are made the Head and they are the Tail where ever they come scorned pressed oppressed punished murdered Iudge whether it were not a happinesse to our blessed Iew to have his lot fall among the Christians and to be baptized in Christs Blood rather than to be baptized as the Iews in their own cursed Blood By this traversing of Histories and Times I have laboured to confirm the truth of his demonstrations that their sin is the highest because the wrath of God presses them the hardest that this sinne is the slaying of Christ that there will be no end of their misery till they take hold of the skirt of a Christian and look upon Christ whom they have pierced This will helpe to illucidate his complaints in his Book and give us some knowledge of the Iews state without God without Christ without peace without honour in the world The Book is all Scriptures almost that they cannot deny but incur the guilt of Blasphemers resisting the Old Testament which they make the ground of their Faith If they will stand out still and maintain the proverb there are five things exceed in stubbornnesse and pertinaciousnesse the Dogge among beasts the Cock among birds the Goat among Cattle the Prickthorn among Plants and the Jew among men as one of their own Doctors sets them forth not onely R. Samuel but their own Prophets shall rise in judgment against them and say We would have healed them but they would not be healed they were convinced yet they shut their eyes and made grosse their hearts and would not be converted If by these Relations and Collections I shall not satisfie all yet it will please and profit some at least the lesse learned Reader may meet with something he knew not before and for the Scholler I know he that knows the least will despise it the most I have pleased and profited my self and have endeavoured to profit others by seeking up these things if I can but fetch up a Christian sigh for the Iews sorrow and bring men to pray Thou O Lord remainest for ever thy throne from generation to generation wherefore dost thou forget the Jew for ever and forsake them so long time Turn thou unto them O Lord and they shall be turned renew their dayes as of old I have attained to what I aimed at The Lord soften our hearts to pitie them his own heart to have mercy on them and their hearts that they may plough with R. Samuels Heifer and be inlightned with the saving light of Christ Jesus our common Saviour I know there is a time appointed by God for their return to him and kissing the onely begotten Sonn of the Father and yet we may be guilty of not doing all we may to bring them in or of doing something which helps more and more to harden them and keep them out They should not want our pity they should not want our prayers For our unmercifulnesse to them helps more to harden them and our prayers for them would minde the Lord of his Covenant and us of our dutie Some things there are among Christians which we should amend lest by maintaining such things we make the Jew more and more to abhorre the Christians way as the painting of God and setting him out in Pictures and Sculptures by some image do's exceedingly alienate both Jews and Turks from us as they have sometimes confessed and the Idolatry of some corrupt Christians as they of the Romish faith doth much keep them back who hate all kinds of Idolatry though they themselves do in some sort adore and worship the Book of the Law Especially take we heed of calling into question the Godhead of Jesus Christ that is to be blasphemously Jewish and to harden them in their desperate blindenesse By Arrianism and the licentiousnesse is taken among us that way we do worse than Crucifie the manhood of Christ in Crucifying the Godhead of Christ and thereby may sooner perswade the Jews we are comming to them then to induce them to come unto us For the Godhead of Christ we must hold it firme and maintain it or else we are a laughing stock to the Jews and the greatest Soul-fools that are in the world As he flatteringly called Lewis the thirteenth of France Dexrum Messiae Brachium so we may more truly call the faith of Christs Godhead Dextrum Evangelii Brachium The right Arm of the Gospell They may alledge other false causes and take scandals that were never given them as the Doctrine of Trinity c. But let us beware lest a wo be to us because of offences in unholy wayes and works given to them by us by which the name and truth of the Gospell of Christ shall be blasphemed Let our conversation within winne them that are without that they may come to thinke there are divine and rare examples of vertues in the followers of the Christian Faith as sometimes that cursed root Iulian Parabates was forced to commend the Iews and

Lord of Hosts mighty in battell is the Prince of Glory Certain and plain it is O Master that this righteous Lord of Hosts had no battell but in his first comming for in his last comming who shall dare fight with him for when he shall sit on his Seat of judgement and a fire round about him shall flame and burn up his enemies and shall purifie the righteous by fire as it were silver and all this in his last comming then none shall fight against him no place shall there be for any to resist him by battell Of the exaltation of this Righteous One the Prophet Esay speaks Who is that that commeth from Edom with garments dyed red from Bozrah this that is glorious in his apparell And the righteous One thus makes answer I that speak righteousnesse a Defender to salvation mighty to save The Angels then say unto him Why are thy garments red like him that treadeth the Wine-fat He answers them again I have trodden the Winepresse alone and there was not a man with me See here O Master how properly Esay speaks yea I fear the answer of this righteous one much toucheth us and none but us when he saith I have trod them in mine anger and their blood is sprinkled upon my garments and I have stained all my raiment For the day of vengeance is in my heart and the yeer of retribution is come O where have we any hopes in that Righteous One when we see that he complaines of us to the Angels in Heaven and makes knowne to them that he trod the Winepresse alone Whom as it that he trod in his wrath but us who after the Battell in his first comming hath thrown us down and we lie prostrate and trampled under foot now a thousand yeers and still there is a black day of vengeance waits for us in his last comming and a year of retribution is in his heart I would to God O Master when we with murderous hands slew the Prophet Esay wee had laid hands upon this Prophecie also and quite blotted out this fair authoritie out of his Booke that no eye might ever have beheld or read it against us And you may observe that which David cals a Battell The Lord of Hosts mighty in Battell Esay calls a Wineptesse Alas for us O Master we drink that new sweet Wine of which Iacob the Patriarch and Prophet speaks in the Book of the Generation of the Creatures that is Children of Judah He washed his cloathes in the blood of the Grape as it is falne out in us at the first comming of the Messiah that is We washed our garments in his Blood But what shall we wretches do in his last comming when all men shall stand before this man comming to judgement and a furious fire shall be ready to devour them round about him against whom he shall pronounce sentence Then is the time of Battell ceast he shall be no more then trod in the Winepresse then shall there be neither place nor time for repentance all refuge shall then fail onely Justice shall remain that as he was unjustly judged when they found no sinn in him so he shall justly judge all sinners For God saith in the Prophesie of Salomon If the righteous receive judgement where shall be the wicked and the sinner If the righteous scarcely be saved what shall then become of the ungodly CHAP. XIII He more strongly proves the corporall Ascension of Christ FEar as a Furie haunts me O Master and possesses me with this that those Testimonies recited by me out of the Prophets are all as points drawn from the Circumference and meeting all in that Just One as their Center viz. That he was sold for silver as the Prophet Amos avouches That he trod the Winepresse as Esay averrs That he was in battell with our Fathers as David affirms That he was caught as in a Net by our sins as Jeremie alledges That he was wounded in his hands as Zacharie asserts That upon his Vesture they cast Lotts as David assents That he ascended into Heaven as the same Prophet and others with an unanimous testimonie give up Which is not compatible nor can it stand with meer God considered in his Divine Essence and nature for the Deitie has neither Resurrection Exaltation Descension or Session properly Out of what hath been said this must issue with a necessary consequence That this Righteous one is already come to whom all the foresaid things very aptly agree and are fitly accommodated to his corporeall and humane nature which he assumed Now because O Master I know how hardly this enters into thy beliefe as a most improbable paradox that a man should bodily ascend into Heaven ponder these authorities and examples which we meet with in Scripture which underprop and confirm this truth In the first place I rank the Prophet David who saith God hath ascended on high he hath led captivitie captive and given gifts to men Again he speaketh of his Ascension Sing unto God and glorifie his name make way for him that ascendeth from the Western parts the Lord is his name Again David speaks of him in that Psalm which thou hast in thine heart Sing praises to God that ascends above the heaven of heavens to the East After him the Prophet Amos in like manner saith It is the Lord that hath built his Seat on high Of him again the Prophet David God is gone up with a shout the Lord with the sound of a Trumpet Likewise the Prophet Aser in his second Chapter saith I saw a man descending from the midst or heart of the Sea and he came up to heaven But because we want that Prophecie I omit to write many other things which that Prophet hath concerning this And yet wee have that Prophet but he knew not then that he who is Aggaeus in Latine is the same with Aser in the Arabick tongue Moses in his Song saith I lift up my hand to Heaven So Esay Awake or Arise arise O Arm of the Lord. Hannah the Mother of Samuel sings The Lord shall give strength unto his King and exalt the Horn of his Anointed David again The Lord ascended upon the wings of the winde These authorities have I met with in Scripture serving to prove the corporeall Ascension of Christ into heaven Many more there are to this purpose as thou O Master very well knowest Now will I annex some examples out of our Law to follow these Authorities being a thing so convenient for the establishing our belief in the point of Christs bodily ascent into Heaven This in the first place must be taken into consideration that the true and glorious God hath assumed and translated to himself out of the earth many holy men among our forefathers as the Law and Prophets will witnesse and if we doubt not of the ascent of these induced to beleeve it for the sanctitie of the men