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A46991	A collection of the works of that holy man and profound divine, Thomas Iackson ... containing his comments upon the Apostles Creed, &c. : with the life of the author and an index annexed.; Selections. 1653	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.; Oley, Barnabas, 1602-1686.; Vaughan, Edmund.	1653 (1653)	Wing J88; Wing J91; ESTC R10327	823,194	586

Nor doth the excesse of glory ascribed unto the new Testament in respect of the old argue greater authority in Christian then was in ordinary legal governours whether temporal or spiritual much lesse doth in infer greater authority in any Christ only excepted then Moses had 2 If we take Christs Church as consisting both of Priests and people it is a congregation far more royal and glorious then the Synagogue so taken was If we compare our High Priest or mediator of the new Covenant with theirs the Apostles comparison is fittest Consider the Apostle High Priest of 〈◊〉 profession Christ Jesus who was faithful to him that hath appointed him even as Moses was in all his house For this man is counted worthy of more glory then Moses in as much as he which hath builded the house hath more honour then the house Now Moses verily was faithful in all his house as a servant for a witnesse of the things which should be spoken after but Christ i● as the Son over 〈◊〉 own house whose house we are If severally we sort our people or Ministers with theirs as the Apostles successors with Aarons the preheminence both wayes is ours Notwithstanding this excesse of our Ministers glory whether ordinary or extraordinary compared with the like of theirs is not so great as the preeminences of Christs flock above the people of the Synagogue Yet must all excesse in spiritual graces which the ordinary hearers of the Gospel have of the ordinary hearers of the law be subducted from that prerogative which we that are Christs messengers have in respect of Aarons successors ere we can take a right account of our own authority over our flock committed to us in comparison of theirs over the ancient people Computatis computandis our soveraignty wil prove lesse not greater 〈◊〉 our adversaries confusedly reckon without their hoste Their pretended glosses that all such places of Scripture as make for the authority of Moses chair conclude à fortiori for S. Peters because the New Testament is more glorious then the old are as if a man should argue thus The ancient Roman and modern German are States far more noble then the Turkish or Moscovi●ish therefore the Roman Consuls had more absolute authority over the people or the present Emperour over the Princes and States of Germany then the Turk hath over his Bashaw● or the Moscovit over his Vassals 3 The glory of a common-weal or praise of government consists in the ingenuity or civil liberty not in the slavery or servile condition of the governed or in their voluntary obsequiousnesse to wholesome laws proportioned to common good not in their absolute subjection to the omnipotent wil of an unruly Tyrant subject to no law but the law of sin Our Saviours authority over his Disciples was more soveraign then is befitting any to usurp or challenge over his fellow servants his kingdom more glorious after his resurrection then before yet a little before his suffering he saith to his Disciples Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you Hence for th●… I you not servants for the servant knoweth not what his master ●oth but I have called you friends for all things that I have heard of my Father have I made known to you It is the very conceit of the base degenerate dissolute sottish later heathen Roman more delighted in such gaudy shews as his luxurious Emperours made happily once or twice in their whole raign then in the valor and vertue of his victorious free-born Ancestors that to this day swims in the Jesuites brain and makes him dream the royaltie of Christian Priest-hood or glory of the Gospel should consist wholly or chiefly in the magnificent pomp of one visible high Priest or Oecumenical Bishop for garnishing of whose Court the whole Body of Christ besides must be content to spend their lives goods or substances and as his occasion shall require to pawn their very souls as younglings wil be at any cost or pains they can devise to deck up a Lord of the Parish a victor in a Grammer school or as merry fellows wil be ready to spend more then their incomes wil defray to have a gallant Lord of misrule of their own making 4 But they demand Wherein doth the Pope aspire above the pitch of Moses throne He desires but to be reputed an infallible teacher and was not Moses such yet not such after the same manner He approved himself perpetually infallible because alwayes found most faithful in all affairs belonging to God but had it been possible for him to have worshipped the golden Cal● to have eaten the offerings of the dead or to have joyned himself to Baal-Peor The Levites and such as clave unto the Lord in these Apostasies would have sought Gods will at more sanctified lips then his at least for that time were If then we consider him not as he might have been but as indeed he proved the peoples obedience unto him was de facto perpetual and compleat yet but conditionally perpetual but conditionally compleat or perpetually compleat upon their sight and undoubted experience of his extraordinary familiarity with God of his intire fidelity in all his service The Pope would be proclaimed so absolutely infallible by irrevocable patent or inheritance as no breach of Gods commandments no touch of disloyaltie to Christ in actions might breed a forfeiture of his estate or estrange Christian consciences from yielding obedience to him every way as compleat and absolute as that which the people of God performed unto Moses or Christians do yet unto their Saviour Whence though we admit Moses infallibility and his to be the same yet the difference between the absolutenesse of their authority or the tenour or holds of the same infallibility would be such as is betwen a Tenant at wil or one that enjoyes a fair estate perhaps all his life time yet only by continuance of his Lords good liking of his faithful service and a Freeholder that cannot by any act of fellony murther treason or the like forfeit his interest in as large possessions 5 Again albeit the authority gotten or manner of holding it were the same yet the manner of getting it in Moses and the Pope is not alike The one profers no miracle for the purchase no sign from heaven no admirable skil in expounding Gods word his calling he professeth to be but ordinary and in this respect say his followers he was to succeed Saint Peter Moses not such nor so affected his miracles were many and great the signs and tokens of his especial favour with God almost infinite his calling extraordinarily extraordinary otherwise that obedience the people performed to him had been no lesse then desperate Idolatry as the challenge of the like without like proof and evidence of such favour with God is no better then blasphemy or Apostasie Hence saith S. Austin the people of Israel did believe Moses laws were from God after

voice was heard through Portugal surpassing that in Ramah nothing but mourning and weeping and lamentation many a Leah blearing her eyes with weeping for her children and would not be comforted Men and women filling the heavens with more hideous outcries then the Egyptians did at their Fore-fathers departure out of Egypt when the Firstborn of every Family throughout the land was slain at midnight But these were bereft at once of all their loving children in the open Sun Many of them not able either to rescue or dispatch their own bowels become mad with the sight that their eyes had seen and killed themselves Others having better opportunitie account it a part of their happinesse to be able to prevent their childrens washing in the sacred Font by drowning them in draw-wels and ditches In both these calamities at the two fore-mentioned transportations we may see those Prophecies of Moses exactly fulfilled Deut. 28. 30. Thou shalt betroth a wife and another man shall lie with her And again verse 32. Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people and thine eyes shall fail at the sight every day and there shall be no power in thy hand Many Moors professing Mahumetism were transported from Portugal the same time but had no such violence offered them what was the reason God would have a manifest distinction between this and other people The Barbarous Moors had some power in their hands the Portugals abstain from like usage of them lest the report coming to the African Mahumetans ears might have moved them to avenge their wrongs upon poor Christians living amongst them But these Jews no where had any Nation none to avenge their grievous wrong which the Lord God of their Forefathers had ordained they should suffer at all times in all places wheresoever they have come without redresse 16 Nor do their Fates change with their Name or Profession For what violence was ever offered to any of this race like to that which these late converts Christned Hebrews but still Jews in misfortunes suffered in Lisbon in the year 1506. Two thousand massacred in three dayes space many not suffered to die of deadly wounds were dragged by their mangled limbs into the market place where the bodies of the living and slain with others half alive half dead were burnt together on heaps The Spectacle was so horrible that it quite astonied the rest of this miserable progenie at other times as desperately set to suffer as Monks furiously to inflict any torture Parents durst not mourn for children nor children sigh for their parents though each haled in others sight to the place of torments lest these significations of their grief and sorrow might bewray them to be of the tormented kinred with whom the least suspicion of alliance was sufficient to make them inherit like plagues ere the breath was out of their predecessors bodies Osorius description of these distressed souls perplexitie shewed in their gesture and cariage during this Massacre may serve albeit he meant nothing lesse as a Paraphrase upon the last words of Moses often-mentioned Prophecie There that is in the utmost parts of the earth the Lord shall give thee a trembling heart and a sorrowful mind and thy life shall hang before thee The disposition of the Divine Providence in affording opportunitie to this licentious out-rage was much what like to that described before in Lin. A great part of these Tragical Actors were German and French mariners which had repaired to Lisbon for other traffick but returned home unpunished burdened with the spoil of these Hebrews goods but more heavily laden with guilt of their bloud albeit their souls were not so deeply died therewith as the Lisbon Monks who had instigated them and others to this Butchery inflamed themselves with this furious zeal only by an unseasonable speech of one poor Hebrew apprehended by the other as derogatorie to our Saviour For whilest the others by long gazing upon the picture of his wounded side through a glasse took the reflex of light thence cast upon their dazled eyes for a Miracle the silly Hebrew whether openly to contradict or unawares uttering to some by-standers what he thought bewrayed his incredulitie How a piece of drie wood should work Miracles 17 Whilest I read so many Christned souls thus Butchered like Beasts for ones denial of divine Honour to a livelesse Image I could not but pause with my self and now I must commend it to the Christian Readers consideration whether that part of Moses prophecie and there thou shalt serve other Gods which thou hast not known nor thy Fathers Wood and Stone may not be understood of the convert Jews throughout the Popes Dominions thus oft times urged to commit Idolatrie with stocks and stones upon more Tyrannical terms if they gainsay then their Forefathers were either by the Assyrian Caldaean Egyptian Roman or any whosoever had led them Captive out of their land If the Monkish Apologizer reply There is a great difference between the Heathen Idol and their Image worship I grant the Idolatrie is of a divers kind and so it seems Moses meant when he threatned this people that after their final transplantation by Adrian and their scattering through Spain and these Western Countries They should serve such Gods as their Fathers had not known For this peoples Forefathers before Moses time and after had known the Heathen gods too well If the Romanist yet rejoyn that in worshipping Christs Image they worship Christ I will not deny but he may think so for so the Jews thought they honoured Moses because they honoured the Letter of his Law But to omit other reasons this and other like outragious Facts committed upon as light occasions shall convince their nice School-distinctions of foul errour and turn their lies with such violence into their throat that as Saint Augustin interprets the Psalmist of these Jews It shall even break their teeth in their mouthes For if the zeal these Monks of Lisbon bare unto this Image had been directed unto Christ they had in some good measure been transformed into the similitude of His gentle meek and merciful disposition It was Wbod-worship doubtlesse which had made them so mad and furious It was their continual adoring of stones which had turned their hearts of flesh into hearts more full of fire then the flint and harder then the hardest Adamant But of the effects of Monkish pitie towards Christ or the Crucifix as also of the Jesuites doctrine concerning Image-worship elsewhere if God permit Thus much of these Jews estate from time to time may suffice for our intended purpose to be further collected in the Chapter following CAP. XXX General collections out of the particular Histories before mentioned the strange dispositions of the Jews and Gods Judgements upon them all Testifying the Truth of Divine Oracles 1 I Cannot but approve Crantzius his judgement of these Jews That they are a perfidious and wicked people worthy to be