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A62471	Digitus dei: nevv discoveryes with sure arguments to prove that the Jews (a Nation) or people lost in the world for the space of near 200 years, inhabite now in America; how they came thither; their manners, customs, rites and ceremonies; the unparallel'd cruelty of the Spaniard to them; and that the Americans are of that race. Manifested by reason and scripture, which foretell the calling of the Jewes; and the restitution of them into their own land, and the bringing back of the ten tribes from all the ends and corners of the earth, and that great battell to be fought. With the removall of some contrary reasonings, and an earnest desire for effectuall endeavours to make them Christians. Whereunto is added an epistolicall discourse of Mr John Dury, with the history of Ant: Monterinos, attested by Manasseh Ben Israell, a chief rabby. By Tho: Thorowgood, B:D.	Thorowgood, Thomas, d. ca. 1669.; Dury, John, 1596-1680.; Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657.	1652 (1652)	Wing T1066; ESTC R219280	112,228	182

the salt sea ver 3. Between Thera and Therasia an Island suddenly appeared saith Eusebius and the sea perhaps hath broken into some places and of one made a double Island all Ages and Nations tell of the water and the Earth how they gain one from the other and thus some have conjectured that our Brittaine since the floud was one Continent with France for the distance between them at Callis and Dover is but small about twenty foure miles and the cliffes on both sides are like each other for length and matter equally chalk and flinty as if art or suddaine violence had made an even separation Thence Hollinshead writes confidently because Lions and wild Bulls were formerly in this Island that it was not cut from the maine by the great deluge of Noah but long after for none would replenish a Countrey with such creatures for pastime and delight And if these be no more but conjectures that America was once united to the other world or but a little divided from it time and the sea two insatiable devourers have made the gap wider But the question is not in what age before or since the Incarnation of our Lord the Jewes tooke their long journey and planted there but how the way was passable for them Malvenda speakes confidently that they might come into Tartary and by the deserts into Grotland on which side America is open and Mr Brerewood assures us that the North part of Asia is possessed by Tartars and if it be not one Continent with America as some suppose yet doubtlesse they are divided by a very narrow channell because there be abundance of Beares Lions Tigers and Wolves in the Land which surely men would not transport to their owne danger and detriment those greater beasts indeed are of strength to swimme over Sea many miles and this is generally observed of Beares and Herrera saith the inhabitants of the West Indies came thither by land for those Provinces touch upon the Continent of Asia Africa and Europe though it be not yet fully discovered how and where the two worlds be conjoyned or if any sea doe passe between them they are straites so narrow that beasts might easily swimme and men get over even with small vessells Our Countrey-man Nich. Fuller gives in his suitable verdit for the facile passing into Columbina so he calls it from the famous first discoverer saying from other places they might find severall Islands not farre distant each from other and a narrow cut at last through which passengers might easily be conveyed and Acosta tells that about Florida the land runs out very large towards the North and as they say joynes with the Scythique or German Sea and after some other such mentionings he concludes confidently there is no reason or experience that doth contradict my conceit that all the parts of the Earth be united and joyned in some place or other o●… at least approach very neere together and that is his conclusive sentence It is an indubitable thing that the one world is continued and joyned with the other CHAP. III Answer to Question 2. How such a remnant should enpeople so great a part of the world THE whole Countrey of Jewry whence wee would have it probable that the Americans came is not above one hundred and sixty miles long from Dan to Beersheba and the breadth is but sixty miles from Ioppa to Iordan in St. Ieromes account who knew it so well and how some few Colonies as it were removing from thence should multiply into such numbers that so large a Countrey should be filled by them is a scruple that hath troubled some considering men America in the latitude of it is is foure thousand miles and Bishop Casa's hath said already that the Spaniards in his time had forraged and spoyled Countries longer then all Europe and a great part of Asia it seemes incredible therefore that the Incommers who were but few in comparison as a little flocke of Kids should so marvelously spread into all the Westerne World for the Americans before that Spanish devastation filled all the Countrey But this will not seeme so difficult if former examples be taken into consideration some have made speciall observation of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such as had many children t is much that Acosta writes of one of the Inguas or Kings of Peru that hee had above three hundred sonnes and grandchildren t is more that Philo Iud●…us tells of Noah the Patriarke who lived hee saith to see twenty foure thousand proceeding from him all males for women were not numbred We use to say Rome was not built in one day and indeed Eutropius speaking of the Empire of that City saith at first none was lesse but in its increment it exceeded all others by many degrees so that he who reades the story thereof reads not the acts of one people but of all Nations saith Florus yea and Seneca looking on Rome in its minority and her immense magnitude afterward is amazed thereat this one people saith he how many Colonies did it send into all Provinces he writes of numerous encreases from other Cities also as Athens and Miletus but it will be nearer to our purpose to observe how small the number of Israell was at his first discent into Egypt how short a time they tarried there what cruell waies were taken to stop their encrease and yet how much and how marvelously they multiplied and then it will not be strange that a farre greater number in a longer time should or might grow into such vast multitudes And for the first t is most certaine all the soules of the house of Iacob which came into Egypt were seventy Gen. 46. 27. T is true also though not to all so manifest that the time of their abode in Egypt was about two hundred and fifteen yeers and not more at first appearance indeed it seems to be otherwise because wee read Exod. 12. 40. The sojourning of the children of Israell who dwelt in Egypt was foure hundred and thirty yeeres but the Septuagints addition is here remarkable 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They dwelt in Egypt and in the Land of Canaan they and their Fathers foure hundred and thirty yeeres and this is one of those thirteen mutations that the seventy Interpreters made when at King Ptolomes appointment they translated the Scripture into Greeke which they said was done rightly by them for Israell was indeed in Egypt but two hundred and ten yeeres which collection they make from the numerall letters of that speech of Iacob Gen. 42. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and there be many impressions in the Scripture evidencing that their abode in Egypt was according to this computation Saint Paul first taught this high point of Chronology where and how the account must begin namely at the time when the promise was made to Abraham for the Law was foure

places making Images and groves upon every high hill and under every green tree and made their sonnes and daughters to passe through the fire using witchcraft and enchantment c. 2 King 17. 8 9. This was their religion and wisdome while they were in their own Countrey and they were no better in the land of their captivity for it may be they had not there the books of the Law nor any Prophets among them because t is said againe and againe They left the commandments of their God And if it seeme unlikely that the Jewes being in America should lose the Bible the Law and ceremonies then let the Prophesie of Hosea be remembred where t is foretold that the children of Israel shall remaine many daies without a King and without a Prince and without a Sacrifice and without an Ephod and without a Teraphim Hose 3. 4. Yea and before that time there was a lamentable defection of religion in Israell While they were in their owne land for a long season they were without the true God and without a reading Priest and without Law 2 Chron. 15. 3. yea and as Chrysostome affirmes that the Book of Deuteronomy had been lost along time among Christians and was lately recovered from dust and rubbish a little before his daies so t is most certaine that in Iosiahs reigne Hilkiah the Priest found the Booke of the Law in the House of the Lord which when the King heard read unto him hee was astonisht as at a new and strange thing and rent his clothes 2 King 22. 8. c. and this was the Booke of the law of the Lord given by Moses 2 Chro. 34. 14. which was then little knowne or regarded among them ver 24 25. c. But thirdly the stupor and dulnesse of Israell was even admirable when our Saviour came into the world for they give no credit to their owne Prophets read in their Synagogues every Sabbath the Shepherds publish what they received from the Angells concerning Christ Luk. 2. 17. Simeon proclaimes glorious things of Jesus and they will not heare ver 25. Wise men came from the East to Ierusalem enquiring and discoursing but still they apprehend not yea they shut their eyes against all the marvailes that Christ performed among them such as would have convinced not onely Tyre and Sidon but even Sodome and Gomorrha the heavenly Sermons of the Sonne of God wrought upon stones harlots publicans and sinners but those Jewes remaine inflexible against all and at his death they still continue feared and stupified the veile of the Temple is rent the earth did quake the stones were cloven asu nder and the graves did open but their hearts are shut up still yea and at his resurrection there was a great earthquake the Angel of the Lord comes downe from heaven his countenance is like lightning for fear of him the keepers become as dead men Christ riseth againe in glory and the watch shew the High Priests all these things they are hereupon convinced but they will not be convinced for they take counsell together and with mony hire the souldiers to say the disciples stole away his body while they slept if it be therefore well considered of what dark darkned condition the Israelites were in these times how many yeeres have passed since what meanes they have had to increase their rudenesse and incivility and irreligion no way commerce or means left to reclaime them it will not seem so strange if they be wholly barbarous seeing also the vengeance of God lies hard and heavy upon them for their injustice done to his Sonne nam crucifixerunt salvatorem suum fecerunt damnatorem suum saith St. Austin they crucified their Saviour and made him their enemy and avenger It is no marvaile then supposing the Americans to be Jewes that there be so few mentionings of Judaicall rites and righteousnesse among them it may be and is a wonderfull thing rather that any footstep or similitude of Judaisme should remaine after so many ages of great iniquity with most just divine displeasure therupon and no possibility yet discerned how they should recover but manifest necessities almost of praecipitation into further ignorance grossenesse and impiety the losse of which their customes and ceremonies in so great a measure in time may prove advantagious towards their conversion seeing they cannot be obstinate maintainers of Mosaicall Ordinances the love and liking whereof and adhesion to them was ever a prevailing obstacle to the knowing Jewes and that is a consideration tending directly to the last part and particular and will helpe I trust to encourage us who are already desirous not to civilize onely the Americanes but even to Gospellize and make them Christian. Part Third Humble desires to all for hearty endeavours in all to acquaint the Natives with Christianity CHAP. I. To the Planters and touching the cause of their removall hence THis discourse will be directed to the English planted there and our selves at home concerning the former three or foure things may be minded 1. Cause of their removall 2. Hope of the Natives conversion 3. Directions to it 4. Cautions and some other additions Deep considerations without doubt and mature were in those that hence transplanted themselves into that other part of the world but quo jure by what right and title they could settle in a forraigne land was surely none of their last enquiries Io. Bodin reckons five reasons why Colonies may be planted in other Regions 1. Expulsion from their own native Countrey 2. Increase of inhabitants upon a land 3. Want of necessaries at home and unseasonable times 4. Desire to preserve and enlarge their owne territories 5. Favour to prisoners and captives The ampliation of the Kingdome of Christ was expected here as a motive in vaine but I finde it elsewhere among our Novangles and it shall be mentioned in due place for those are causes why men goe out of their owne land but for the jus and right of setling in another they say nothing When the Bishop De las Casas had set forth his tract of the Spanish cruelties committed in the Indies some guilty persons he supposeth suborned Doctor Sepulveda the Emperours Historian to undertake their patronage which he did in an elegant and rhetoricall discourse endeavouring to prove that the Spanish wars against the Indians were just and lawfull and that they were bound to submit unto the Spaniards as Ideots to the more prudent but he could not obtaine leave to print a booke so irrationall and unchristian Their more plausible plea is that Columbus was first employed by them to discover some of those parts but the same offer was before tendred to this our Nation and the King thereof yea and the English were as early in that very designe as the Portingales for our Chronicles shew that Sebastian Gabat or Cabot borne at Bristol was employed by King Henry the seventh and he with some London Merchants

foretold and as a thing easily to bee taken notice of Iosephus in that last siege tells but of one Woman eating her childe and 't is like there was no other because the whole City was astonish'd at the newes and the seditious themselves did abhorre it yea and when the Romans heard thereof in their Campe it exceeded credit at first and their Generall comforted himselfe against that most inhumane and hideous fact by remembring he had often proffered them peace and they had as often wilfully refused it but that Prophet foretells an infelicity without parallel both de praeterito and de futuro I will doe in thee that I never did before neither will I ever doe the like Verse 9. And it should be a publick and notorious calamity for in the midst of thee the Fathers should eate their Sonnes and their Sons their Fathers Ver. 10. Words implying yea expressing more than wee can read was done either when the Chaldees or Romans begirt their City And the glosse of St. Ierome strengthens this conjecture When the Fathers saith he did eate the Sonnes or the Sonnes their Fathers is not related in any History and yet it was to be done openly in the midst of them and as it were in the sight of the Sunne But if the Jewes bee planted in that Westerne World we shall soone find the accomplishment of that Prophecie from Heaven for there be Caniballs and Man-eaters in great multitudes some whose trade is Homo cupium Homo capium hungring and hunting after Mans flesh and devouring it whose greedy bellies have buried Millions of them these Carybes are scattered all the Countrey over the Ma●…hacks are such and so neare they are or were to some of our Planters that finding an Englishman they eate one part of him after another before his face while he was yet alive If it be said they eate none but strangers or enemies not Fathers their Sonnes à contra Peter Martyr removes that scruple by affirming if they want the flesh of Foes and Forraigners they eate then one another even their owne kinred allies as he writes that added the Centons to Solinus If it be objected those Caniballs are of a different Nature and Nation from the rest Peter Martyr answers that also supposing all the Inhabitants to bee of one stock because they use all one and the same kind of Bread every where called Maiiz and their Cymbae Uni-ligneae their Canoes and Boats are in all places alike and as those Western Nations generally call their Boats Canoes and their Bread Maiiz so their common word for wine is Chichia for swords Macanas for Kings Caciques And if the Americans bee Jewish the Spaniards have yet in another sense fulfilled that Prediction of Ezekiel for their owne Bishop Bartholomeus de las Casas writes how they tooke Indians 10000 sometimes 20000 abroad with them in their Forragings and gave them no manner of food to sustaine them but the Flesh of other Indians taken in Warre and so Christian-Spaniards set up a shambles of mans flesh in their Army children were slaine and roasted men were killed for their hands and feet sakes for those they esteemed the onely delicate parts this was most hideous and most barbarous inhumanity the Tidings whereof was soone carryed through the Land and overwhelmed the Inhabitants with Horror and Astonishment CHAP VII Fifth Conjecture THE people that have not yet received the Gospell of Jesus Christ are Jewes but the Americans have not yet been gospelized and here three things come to consideration 1. All other nations at first received the Gospell 2. The Jewes before the end of the world shall be converted 3. These Indians have not yet heard of Christ. 1. As the Scripture foreseeing that God would justifie the Gentiles through faith preached before the Gospell unto Abraham saying in thee shall all the Gentiles be blessed Gal. 3. 8. Gen. 12. 2 3. 18. 8. In like manner the glorious Gospell was soon conveyed to them soon after the comming of Christ even before the death of the Apostles holy David spake of this promulgation when he said Psal. 19. 1. The Heavens i. e. the Apostles did declare the glory of God c. For the fourth Their line is gone out into all Lands and their words into the end of the world is applied by Saint Paul to this very purpose Rom. 10. 18. It was the command of their Master Goe teach all Nations c. Mat. 28. 19. and preach the Gospell to every creature Mar. 16. 15. and they gave hereto most willing obedience which we must have believed though it had not bin so exactly recorded in undoubted ecclesiasticall Histories There we read often that they divided the world into 12 parts every Apostle accepting that which fell to his lot but first they compiled the Creed called therefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Collation saith Cassian who was Chrysostomes Scholar because that which was at large expressed in the severall volumes of the Bible was by them briefly contracted into that forme and to this he applieth that of the Apostle Rom. 9. 28. a short worke we read it now but of old it was rendred verbum abbreviatum a short word a short rule to which all of them were to conforme their doctrine and the fifteenth of Iuly was afterwards and is still celebrated by some Christians in memory of their thus going to Gospellize the world and it is called Festum divisionis Apostolorum yea and the place is yet shewed to Travellers at this day where they are said to assemble upon this occasion Very many ancient writers historicall and others agreeing with Vigilius in this Authenticum symbolum quod Apostoli tradiderunt and a little before he blameth some for venting such doctrines as were neither delivered by the Prophets nor had the authentique authority of the Apostles Creed and yet suppose it dubious whether that Symboll be indeed of Apostolicall constitution and that they did not so divide the world to further their worke which is so confidently avouched by the ancient together with the Countries where each of them had their portion yet we are sufficiently assured such was their commission which they pursued with exactnesse and successe so that in their life time by their diligence the whole earth was enlightned Thus Saint Paul tell his Romans 1. 8. Their faith was published through the whole world the same is said to the Collossians also 1. 6. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is used in neither place lest curiosity should restraine it to the Roman World but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the former expression and the latter is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the whole and every part of the world and is it not considerable as the injunction was preach the Gospell to every creature as was before remembred from Saint Marke 16. 5. So Saint Paul avoweth that in his

adventured three or foure ships into those New-found lands Anno one thousand foure hundred ninety eight and it cannot be doubted but they had made some former sufficient experiments before that their so confident engagement Thence t is affirmed by others that the English were there before Columbus and about the yeere one thousand five hundred and two three of those Natives were brought unto the King they were cloathed in beasts skinnes did eate raw flesh spake a language none could understand two of those men were seen at the Court at Westminster two yeeres after cloathed like Englishmen But wee of this Nation have yet a more ancient claime three hundred yeeres before Columbus in the time of Henry the second Anno Dom. one thousand one hundred and seventy when Madoc ap Owen Gwineth did not onely discover the Countrey but ●…lanted in some part of Mexico and left Monuments of the Brittish language and other usages taken notice of by the Spaniands since their arrivall thither Mr. Herbert in his travailes doth not onely remember this but sheweth it to have bin mentioned by many worthy men of late and ancient times as Cynwic ap Greut Meredith ap Rhice Gul. Owen Lloyd Powell Hackluit Davis Broughton And Purchas l. 4. c. 13. p. 807. But yet more particularly Dr Donne allowes that as a justifiable reason of mens removall from one place to another publique benefit Interest Reipublicae ut re sua quis bene utatur every one must use his private for the common good and if a State may take order that every man improve what he hath for the benefit of the Nation where he lives then interest mundo all mankinde may every where as farre as it is able advance the good of mankinde in generall which not being done by the Natives there others are bound at least have liberty to interpose their endeavours especially when by divine providence one land swells with inhabitants and another is disempeopled by mutuall broiles infectious diseases or the cruelty of Invaders all which have helped to sweepe away the Americans while the English in the meane time did multiply in such manner and measure as they could scarcely dwell one by another and because man is commanded more than once to bring forth multiply and fill the earth Gen. 1. 28. 9. 1. he may well therefore and justly looke abroad and if he finde convenient and quiet habitation he may call the name of that land Rehoboth because the Lord hath made him roome Gen. 22. 26. That is also a lawfull cause of setling in other lands when a right therein is acquired by purchase as Abraham bought of Ephron the field of Machpelah Gen. 22. 17. And thus Paspehai one of the Indian Kings sold unto the English in Virginia land to inhabit and inherit and when Mr Williams of late called upon our Planters in New England to be humbled for making use of the Kings Patents for removing hence and residing there he is well answered among other things that they had those lands from the Natives by way of purchase and free consent Againe the Territories of strangers may be possessed upon the donation and fore-gift of the naturall Inhabitants as Abimelech said to Abraham behold the land is before thee dwell where it pleaseth thee Gen. 20. 15. and Pharaoh said to Ioseph in the land of Goshen let thy father and brethren dwell Gen. 47. 5 6. So in Virginia King Powhatan desired the English to come from Iames Town a place unwholsome and take possession of another whole Kingdome which he gave them thus the surviving Indians were glad of the comming of the English to preserve them from the oppression of the next borderers and surely divine providence making way the care of emprovement the purchase from the Natives their invitation and gift some or all these may satisfie the most scrupulous in their undertaking or else what will such our inquisitors say to maintaine the right of their owne inheritances The English invaded the Britons the ancient inhabitants of this Island and crowded them into the nooke of Wales themselves in the meane time taking possession of the fat of this Land by what right or by what wrong I dispute not saith Crantzius but such in those daies were the frequent emigrations of people to seeke out new habitations To these that other expression of the eloquent Deane may be added accepistis potestatem you have your Commissions your Patents your Charters your Seale from that soveraigne power upon whose acts any private subject in civill matters may rely and though our forenamed Country-man seemeth to slight the Pattent of New-England as containing matter of falsehood and injustice that imputation also is sufficiently removed by Mr Cotton in that his answer before mentioned And yet further the desire and endeavour to plant Christianity there will fortifie the former reasons and sufficiently vindicate the transplantation of people this seales the great seale saith that Doctor authorizeth authority and justifies justice it selfe and Christians may have learned this from our deare Master Christ who coasted the Countrey and crossed the seas saith Chrysologus not to satisfie humane curiosity but to promote mans salvation not to see diversities of ●…ces but to seeke and finde and save lost mankinde And if such be the aime of our Nation there we may with more comfort expect and enjoy the externalls of the Indians when wee pay them our spiritualls for their temporalls an easie and yet most glorious exchange the salvation of the salvages to the hope of the one the like sound of the other may give encouragement but that is the next consideration CHAP. II. Hope of the Natives conversion SAint Paul enforced himselfe to preach the Gospell where Christ was not yet named Rom. 15. 20. such is the condition of that forlorne Nation a good subject to worke upon and if so good an end be propounded the successe by divine blessing will be answerable and though the Countrey hath been knowne more than a Century of yeeres to Christians yet those that came first among them minded nothing lesse than to make them such Benzo relates abundantly how the Spaniards laid the foundation of their endeavours in bloud their Fryers and religious persons at first instigating them thereto That Christian King indeed gave them leave to subdue the Caniballs but they destinate all the Nations to bitter bondage proceeding therein with so much rigour and severity that the Dominicans are constrained at length to complaine thereof to the Pope Paul the third imploring from him a Bull for the reinfranchisement of the Indians which they obtained and brought into ●…aine and presented it to Charles the fifth who made them free to the griefe and losse of some of the Grandees whose wealth and grandour consisted most in slaves they were most prodigiously libidinous also contracting upon themselves most foule and pernicious diseases