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Even lero'sh pina, The Jevv turned Christian, or, The corner-stone wherein is an assertion of Christ being the true Messiah / by John Jacob, formerly a Jew, but now turned a Christian.
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Jacob, John, 17th cent.
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1679
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Wing J98; ESTC R5620
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〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE JEVV TURNED CHRISTIAN OR THE Corner-Stone WHEREIN IS An assertion of Christ being the true MESSIAH By JOHN JACOB formerly a Jew but now turned a Christian LONDON Printed by A. M. and R. R. for Tho. Cockerill at the Three Legs in the Poultry over against the Stocks-Market 1678 9◠Imprimatur Ex aedibus Lambethanis Nov. 16 1678. Geo. Thorp R mo in C. P. D. D no. Gulielmo Archiep. Cant. a sacris domesticis To His most Excellent and Sacred Majesty CHARLES the second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To the Most Reverend Father in God William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace Primate and Metropolitan of all England And to the Right Reverend Fathers in God the Bishops the Reverend the Deans and Doctors in Divinity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 IN all humility I present this Book to your Majesty and to you Most Reverend Right Reverend Archbishop Bishops Deans and Doctors of the Church of England 'T is no wonder I joyn your Illustrious Majesty with persons spiritual because as well the Head must not be separated from the Members as the Nourishers of the Church from them who are the Light of the World and the builders of Jerusalem I beseech therefore your Most Sacred Majesty to accept of this present as Cyrus did of a little cold water from his Subject And you spiritual Lords as a testimony of my true Conversion Your Most Illustrious Majesty and of the rest Most Humble Client and Servant John Jacob a converted Jew A Polander 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE JEVV TURNED CHRISTIAN OR THE Corner-Stone LET Epicure exalt his sensuality and others set up as an Idol some kind of vain and perishing felicity for their chiefest good yet mans principal good is God not only because he is the only good yea goodness it self but because the Soul can have no full satisfaction in any thing besides Him who is the end of all things For of him and through him and to him are all things Rom. 11.36 The Lord hath made all things for himself yea even the wicked for the day of evil saith Solomon Prov. 16.4 If all things then especially Man into whom he implanted his own image if the wicked then to be sure him that hath put on the new man which is renewed in knowledg after the image of him that created him Col. 3.10 if for himself then one may safely conclude there can be no quietness in the Soul which naturally aimeth after its good until it cometh to rest in Him who is the chiefest portion of David So that all the pleasure of this world yea of all other things besides God are contained in that short but weighty periphrase of Solomon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vanity of vanities Eccl. 1.1 and are to be compared to the Mule of Absolom who after he had carried his Master a long time up and down the world in pleasure and riches goeth under the thick Oak-boughs of everlasting peril and having hanged him goeth his ways 2 Sam. 18.9 Whatsoever is created must either vanish or be polished and brought to a better perfection by an outward cause and for that reason it cannot satisfie the desires of the Soul which is one of the most perfect creatures that God ever formed and so a co-heir of that same felicity with Angels yea the Soul being immortal cannot hint at any thing which is subject to mortality or at least cannot be brought to that same nothing from whence it had its off-spring but by the power of the Everlasting Let then this be a true and un-overthrown principle That God is the chiefest good of a man and that for this reason it is the duty of every one to acquaint himself with God and to be at peace that thereby good may come unto him Job 22.21 But as in all other things so likewise in coming near unto God and to the enjoyment of those riches which are in him there is some means for which every one ought to search Before Adam had fallen and brought all his Children into a praemunire and the guilt of that same transgression he committed he needed no other but his own righteousness to get by that the enjoyment of his Maker being it is sin only that makes a separation betwixt us and God and brings upon us its reward which is death according to Gods proclamation In the day thou eatest thereof 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thou shalt dye with death Gen. 2.17 But after his fall and the entrance into a Covenant it was and it is impossible for any one to arrive to the enjoyment of the Almighty by his own righteousness being we are by nature viz. corrupted enemies of God and turn our back to his Commandments and callings upon us So that here instead of natural and concreated perfection must succeed Grace attended by the promise grounded upon the blessed seed of which the Almighty speaks Gen. 3.15 I will put enmity between thee and the woman between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel The Almighty God having from eternity foreseen the fall of Adam decreed out of his infinite mercy to succour him and his posterity by the death and satisfaction of his own Son whom he hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood c. Rom. 3.25 26. And for that same reason immediately after the fall of Adam he doth not only promise him a Saviour but likewise declareth by an institution of a sacrifice and by the words of Gen. 3.8 22 And the Lord God said behold the man is become as one of us to know good and evil The first offering we read of in the Scriptures is the offering of Abel Gen. 4.4 Who offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain by Faith Heb. 11.4 Now Faith presupposeth a promise and a commandment because it cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God Rom. 10.17 But we find no express commandment given to Abel for to offer Sacrifices therefore we must either yield to the Papists a free service to be admitted of or else make the aforesaid words of the Apostle to be true and find out an institution of sacrificing before ever Abel had offered made by God himself whose doings are a rule of our faith and obedience So then methinks I may find the first institution of it Gen. 1.21 Vnto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them Those skins could not be of any torn Sheep by the cruelty of the wild Beasts by reason vanity had not yet over-swayed the World nor skins of Cattel kill'd for the use of Adam because he was bound to eat only of the Herbs Gen. 1.29 So that I may probably conclude they were the skins of such Cattel as were kill'd by the Commandment of God for sacrificing that so the