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A39795	Israel redux, or, The restauration of Israel, exhibited in two short treatises the first contains an essay upon some probable grounds, that the present Tartars near the Caspian Sea, are the posterity of the ten tribes of Israel / by Giles Fletcher ; the second, a dissertation concerning their ancient and successive state, with some Scripture evidences of their future conversion, and establishment in their own land / by S.L.	Fletcher, Giles, 1549?-1611. Tartars, or, Ten tribes.; Lee, Samuel, 1625-1691.	1677 (1677)	Wing F1333; Wing L898; ESTC R2002	48,660	138

and therefore those Tribes were never yet restored to their glorious State but remains still to be effected in the latter day Who these People are that shall come like Stormes upon the Mountains of Israel I shall not here stand to discuss but rest with the general apprehension of many learned that they denote the Turks who came Originally from between the Euxine and Caspian Seas conjoyned with Mesech who were planted at first by the Montes Moschici in Cappadocia and Tubal or the Tubareni in the adjacent Coasts Some think the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Strabo l. 11. p. 523. placed in North of Media to be these People Ortel They had their name from Terk and Tork that signifies a Shepherd those Countries being used to Pasturage and wafting up and down like the Nomades in Carts and Waggons with their Cattel and are most likely the Turcoe in Pliny and Mela and have left a notable remain of their Name in the City Terki so called at this day on the West side of the Caspian Give leave also to represent one Text of Scripture about Gogs ruine in the latter days mentioned in Balaam's Prophecy according to the Samaritan Copy of the Pentateuch where speaking of the latter times of the World He saith in our versions Israels King shall be higher then Agag and his Kingdomes shall be exalted The Samaritan reads it and so the Seventy He shall be exalted above Gog. Not to argue about the Authentickness of that Lection at present let it suffice that according to that ancient reading Israel is to be exalted above the Kingdoms of Gog in the latter days that is above the Turk as we apprehend by consideration of Ezekiel who acquaints us that the Lord had spoken of old concerning Gog and his ruine by his Prophets in former times But as yet the Turk is in great Splendor though we hope his Crescent is a waining and tending to his fatal Eclipse and Period as might be further evidenced by the finishing of the second Wo-Trumpet in the Revelations at the rising of the Witnesses 4. Arg. 4 The Tribes of Israel are to rule over their Babylonian Enemies and all their ancient Oppressors They never returned as yet to enjoy a Kingdom sui juris but after the return of Judah from Babylon were as a Province inserted into another Empire of the Persians the Ptolomies the Syrians or the Romans c. Therefore the promised State of an absolute or glorious Kingdome to rule over their enemies was never yet fulfilled and remains to be accomplished When God shall raise up Judah and Ephraim and the Sons of Zion against the Sons of Greece or Javan Who are the Sons of Javan but the people that live under Gog and Magog and who is the present Possessor of Greece but the Turkish Gog And who is the Assyrian in the Land of Judah but the Ottoman Family Who holds part of the Ancient Assyria and all the Land of Canaan under his Damaseen Scymiter at this day But Israel is to Captivate those in the latter day that had led them Captives in former times Now this hath never been fulfilled to this moment and therefore rests under the veracity of God to accomplish to his Ancient People They shall possess them in the Land of the Lord for Servants and Hand-Maids and they shall take them Captive whose Captives they were and shall rule over their Oppressors The Nation and Kingdom that will not serve Israel shall perish yea those Nations shall be utterly wasted The Sons of them that have afflicted Israel shall come bending to them and all that despised them shall bow themselves down at the soles of his feet In like manner the Lord threatens the Tyrians that sold his People to the Grecians that God will sell their Children to Judah and they shall sell them as Captives to the Sabeans in Arabia Who are the Tyrians at this day but the Turk who rules longè lateque all round the Phaenician Shores Further the Lord commands all Nations in the latter day to come up to Jerusalem and keep the Feast of Tabernacles The Feast of Israels Deliverance from the House of Bondage and the Feast of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Incarnation of our Lord of his Tabernacling in our Nature upon Earth i. e. to Worship the great Messiah and Lord of our Redemption And if any of all the Families of the Earth shall not obey this Command the Lord will smite them with Famine if they come not up to Worship King David the Lord of Hosts at Jerusalem in the latter day This glorious Deliverance of Israel shall not dawn till the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled So long saith our Lord shall Jerusalem be trodden under foot or as the Apostle Paul expresses 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Fulness of the Gentiles be come in i. e. the fulness of time or the full time of the Gentiles Dominion in the World Now 't is frequent in Scripture Phrase to set forth the End of a Nation its Glory its Power and Prosperity and its Dominion by the time or times of such a Land or Nation its fixed period predetermined and foreappointed of God as you may observe Isai. 13. 22. Jer. 27. 7. and 50. 27 31. Ezek. 7. 7 12 and 22. 3. and 30. 3. 5. Arg. 5 They are to possess a far larger Country then ever they did since they were a People In that day the Lord shall beat off from the Chanel of the River unto the Stream of Egypt i. e. drive their enemies from the River Euphrates to Sihor or the little Stream at the entrance into Egypt and the Dominion of David the second shall be from the River Euphrates to the Ends of the Earth i. e. to the Sea Shore He shall have Dominion from Sea to Sea and from the River unto the Ends of the Earth I will set saith the Lord his hand in the Sea and his right hand in the Rivers i. e. His Power and Dominion Israel must enjoy whatever was contained in that ample Charter given to Abraham as may be more fully expressed in the sequel of this Tract They rise not up to the Dignity of the Promise who cut them short of that large possession granted to their Fathers of old from Euphrates to the entring in of Egypt though they tell us that David and Solomon possessed the Promised Country by Garrisons yet let them remind that those Princes held also by the same tenure of tribute Edom Moab and Ammon and the Children of the East When some further add that Israel fell short of the Promise by Sin that 's not cogent for so they might have fallen short of all and the Lord acquaints them that he chose them them not to be his People for their greatness or worth and therefore brought them into Canaan at the first but to get himself a glorious Name Nay

hence discern to what Genealogy they are to be referred who wipe off the Apostolical Characters from this Man of Sin and expunge the ancient and modern Expositions of Daniel and the Revelations unless conformable to Alcasar and Grotius by whose leave the Glory of the Church must coextend with the horrible darkness of Popery and the rising of the light of the Gospel in Luther's days must tend to a coincidency with the rise of Antichrist in their supposed latter times Apage ineptias quis quilias away with those trifles since the Church of Christ hath already past far the greater time of her exile-estate in the Wilderness under Antichristian Tyranny and is very near the time of her glorious return to the splendor and Dignity prophecied by the Holy Penmen as might be evident by several Scripture-Characters were it the present business which is to treat of the Return of the ten Tribes and the glorious estate of whole Israel shortly to be introduced upon the Stage of the World which leads me to a sober and submissive inquiry into the fourth and last particular Question 4. Concerning the time of the Return of Israel As to this point I shall desire to proceed with all tenderness modesty and sobriety both in respect unto the Judicious in preceding Ages as likewise to the obscurity of Prophetical Scriptures and also as to carnal Mockers that cry out like them in Peter Where is the Poomise of his Coming This is certain these glorious times shall come the Prophesy will not lye and likewise that upon the long duration of Antichrist and his waining withering State ever since the days of Luther and likewise to the stop that seems to be put by Providence to the furious progress of the Ottoman Power who seems not likely to pass much beyond the bounds of the Eastern Empire but rather of late years is declining and because of the years of the Gentile World drawing on toward their consummation that these blessed times are not far off Let it suffice to give in some general notes and reflections on what Scripture hath hinted for exercise of industry and meditation 1. The first more general note of the time may be gathered from the destruction of the Turk who by some learned Expositors is thought to be signified by the second Wo-Trumpet But this 2d Trumpet expires as to its Warlike Alarums by and by upon the resurrection of the Witnesses Now the Turkish Empire is one great remora or stop to the Jews and all Israels inhabitation in their ancient Territorys and seems upon good and probable grounds to be the Gog and Magog in Ezekiel who is to be destroyed upon the Mountains of Israel If then we can but moderately state the finishing of the 2d Trumpet we may in some latitude attain the times of Israels Return whereof in the third Note 2. The second general note may be taken from the time of the pouring out of the 6th Vial upon Euphrates i. e. upon the Turkish Assyrian whose frontire Cities ly upon that River that the way of the Kings of the East may be prepared i. e. the ten Tartarian Princes who are the race of the ten Tribes of Israel near the Caspian Sea as the learned Dr. Fletcher in his preceding Treatise hath endeavoured to clear Now could we evidently state the time of the commencement of the Vials the duration of each as to the time of their pouring out we might arrive to some evidence in this point Thus far I humbly conceive that none of the Vials are yet poured out nor will be till the Resurrection of the Witnesses is past and seem to be contained under the 3d Wo-Trumpet For the 7 Angels with the 7 last Plagues come not out of the Temple till it be opened and the Ark of the Testimony seen in the manifestation of pure Worship in Europe But the Temple is not opened till after the resurrection of the Witnesses and the third Wo sounding in the World when the Witnesses shall be risen and the Kingdoms of the World begin more visibly to become the Kingdoms of Christ and the Nations begin to fume with anger at he approach of the Wrath of God then may we expect the effusion of the Vials in their distinct order The third note is more precise and express and may be collected from the time of the duration of the second Wo in its greatest terror and splendor For the 200000 Euphratean Horse men are prepared for an hour a day a month and a year which if it be calculated from the grandeur of the Ottoman Family forcing their inroads upon the Grecian Empire Anno 1300 and so forwards this computation hands us to the year 1691 or there abouts Or if we should calculate the 2300 years of the Palmoni from the taking away the daily Sacrifice by Nebuchadnezzar at the destruction of the first Temple unto the renovation of pure Worship in the latter days this consideration will lead us to the year of our Lord 1712 or thereabouts as I have mentioned in a little Tract of the Vision of the Myrtle Grove in Zechary 4. But the most apposite and proper time which concerns Israel more especially when Daniel shall stand in his lot at the end of the days is that computation of the beloved Prophet who lays the radix the root or Epocha of the numeration of his 1290 years from the taking away the daily Sacrifice and that at the end of those times his People shall be delivered But if you take it from Nebuchadnezzar's or Antiochus or Titus or Julian the times as to all those roots will be expired and no deliverance accomplished and therefore we must take another more auspicious and genuine foundation for the decurrency of this number and moreover since the same Prophet mentions the time times and the half in the seventh verse which is frequently affixed both by Daniel and John for the duration of the last head of the fourth Monarchy I humbly conceive that his 1290 years do conjointly initiate with John's 1260 insomuch that they seem to point at this that 30 years after the consummation of the power of the Papal Empire for he may prolong his life some time after his power 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to do any great Exploits shall be finisht I say 30 years after we may expect the dry bones in Ezekiel to begin to come together and by degrees through many straits and distresses in the deflux of several years at length attain their promised glory and happiness for at first they may come up from the several Corners of the Earth toward their own Land cum animo sacrificandi with thoughts of building the Temple and restoring their Old Worship which never will be for God hath abolished all that pedagogy in the suffering of Christ but they may come with great expectation of a temporal glory under the Messiah and when they are at

Israel Redux OR THE Restauration of ISRAEL Exhibited in Two short Treatises The First contains an Essay upon some probable grounds that the present Tartars near the Caspian Sea are the Posterity of the ten Tribes of Israel By Giles Fletcher LL. D. The Second a dissertation concerning their ancient and successive state with some Scripture Evidences of their future Conversion and Establishment in their own Land By S. L. Isa 11. 11. The Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his People c v. 12. and shall assemble the Out-casts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four Corners of the Earth Jer. 33. 7. I will cause the Captivity of Judah and the Captivity of Israel to return and I will build them as at the first LONDON Printed by S. Streater for John Hancock at the three Bibles in Popes-head Alley in Cornhill 1677. THE PREFACE OR EPISTLE TO THE READER Pious Reader HAving obtained this Manuscript of Dr Fletcher's from his Grand-son Mr. Phineas Fletcher a Worthy Citizen of London together with his kind leave to pass it into Publick Light give me I pray the liberty of a line or two to acquaint thee that this Author was a faithful Agent for Q. Elizabeth of Famous Memory at the Pallace of the great Czar of Moschovy and hath given us some fruits of his inquisitive travels in a Book of the State Affairs and customs of that large Dominion Having also collected some Observations about the Tartars Confining upon those Territories near the Caspian Sea composed this ensuing Tract endeavouring by some probabilities to evince that they may be the Posterity of the 10 Tribes of Israel antiently carried Captives by Salmanasser into the Northern Mountainous Crags of Assyria and Media or at least that they are at this day mixed among those Barbarous Nations ingeniously leaving the full determination to farther and future inquiries of Merchants and Travellers to be discuss'd and argu'd among the Learned I shall not be bold to interpose any private conceptions any further then that it seems to yield the best satisfaction in this point that I ever yet had the opportunity to peruse and therefore recommend to sober and candid persons a modest and kind resentment of so modest and grave an Author and till they can light their Candle at a brighter Lamp be thankfully content to follow his Lanthorne among the Caspian Streights and the rigid Tops of Schythian Caucasus or else without noise to lye down in their home-sleepy Cavernes till the Righteousness of Zion shine forth as brightness and the salvation thereof as a Lamp that burneth Not doubting but when the Israelites have finish'd their appointed times of dispersion in that and other Lands of their further and remoter wandrings and intermixtures that they shall as certainly return to as ever they went out of their Ancient Land For the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it To which purpose I have connexed a Dissertation about their first Exile State and their continuance in those and some of the Adjaceut Regions in suceeding Ages The certainty of their return in Gods due time after the destruction of Antichrist to a very glorious estate both Spiritual and Temporal to adore our blessed Lord the Crucified Messiah the King of Kings and Lord of Lords when the Tribes of that Land shall look upon him whom they have pierced and mourn as for an onely Son and be in bitternss as for a First-born when the Lord shall make them an eternal excellency the joy of many Generations when that people shall all be righteous and shall inherit their Land for ever The Lord will hasten it in his time Let us pray for Israel as once that Church did for us We have a Sister and she hath no breasts For alas they were cut off by the barbarous Heathen that she may prove an Amazon or like the Schythian Queen Tomyris succesful against all her enemies If Zion be a wall rebuilt again let us build upon her a Palace of Silver If a Door let 's enclose her with Boards of Cedar Make hast O Beloved Saviour unto both the Flocks of thy Companions of Israel and the Nations and be like a Roe or a young Hart upon the Mountains of Spices So prays a humble and hearty wel-wisher to the brightness of Israels Rising Samuel Lee. August 7. 1667. THE TARTARS OR Ten Tribes By Giles Fletcher LL. D. That the Tartars are the Ten Tribes who were carried Captives and transplanted by the ASSYRIANS WHAT is become of those Ten Tribes who were subdued and carried Captives by the Assyrians and whether they live and hold together as a People apart or by themselves or are confused with other Nations and where they are is often questioned by Divines but not resolved solved for ought I know with any reasonable probability That they have lost their name and the distinction of their Tribes is more then probable for that no Nation of the World are called Israel and so divided by their Tribes at this day as anciently they were called Neither was there cause why the distinction of their Tribes should be continued seeing that the end for which this people are dispersed by God himself is fully passed and accomplished long a goe For that men might know where to look for that blessed Seed it pleased God to Elect one Nation of all the World and out of that Nation one tribe or kindred and out of that Tribe one house or family whereof the Messias should be born teaching in the Flesh who being now come there is no cause why the distinction of their Tribes should still continue Onely the Jews or Tribe of Judah retain their name but are so commixed with that of Benjamin as that they are and long have been ed by one name so that neither the Benjamites nor the Jews can tell of whether Tribe they came But that these Israelitish ten Tribes are somewhere extant and by Gods Providence as a People kept intirely and inconfused with other Nations is plain by this For that they were not quite destroyed no nor dispeopled but onely captived and transplanted by the Assyrians and because all Israel whereby is meant the whole Nation shall be called to the acknowledgment of Jesus Christ to be the Messias so long expected and yet refused by that People when he came Which General Calling cannot be true except those Tribes be still continuing and somewhere extant in the World to be conjoyned and re-united into one Nation as once they were As for those other 2 Tribes to wit of Judah and the other of Benjamin which for their notable infidelity and contempt of Gods Son are made a spectacle to the World and plagued by God with this so horrible a desolation and dispersion through the World It is well known both where they are and how they live not distinguisht by their Tribes nor yet united

will set his hand again the secondtime to recover the remnant of his people and that not of Judah onely for Ephraim i. e. The ten Tribes must be restored and the Out-casts of Israel and the two Kingdoms shall envy one another no more and this ascension must be as when Israel came up out of the Land of Aegypt i. e. when all the 12 Tribes came out of that ancient bondage But not to transcribe any more I desire to refer the studious in these Prophecies to Scriptures of the like Analogy as Isai 49. 6. and 60. 21. Jer. 30. 3. and 33. 15. and 50. 19. Ezek. 37. 21. Hos 2. 19. and 3. 5. Joel 3. 1. 10. Amos 9. 11. 14. explained by Acts 15. 16 Zech. 10. 10. which Scriptures manifestly exhibit this truth that the return of Israel is to be performed after our blessed Lords Incarnation and after the great Conversion of the Gentiles is accomplished but the Tribes of Israel never returned out of their various dispersions since the manifestation of our blessed Saviour and therefore that promise to the seed of Abraham remains yet to be fulfilled Wherefore whatever parcels of those Tribes might come up out of Media at the return of Judah from the Babylonian Captivity doth no ways arise to the dignity and lustre of those prohecies which are connext with the glorious days of the Messiah 2. Arg. 2 These Tribes are to return with a conversion to the Messiah and his Law To this point the Prophet Hosea speakes expresly as to the Children of Israel in general that after their rejection for their spiritual whoredome they shall become the Sons of the living God and that the Children of Juda and Israel shall be gathered together and appoint themselves one head and shall come up out of the Land i. e. of their dispersion This return is further accomplished in the 3 Chapter that after they have bin many days without a King or Prince or sacrifice c which was not verified upon all the Tribes till the Incarnation of our Lord Then shall they return after those days of the intermission of government and seek the Lord their God and David their King and fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days This is the day spoken of by the Prophet Zephany when the Lord will forme to his People i. e. of Israel a pure language that they may all call upon the name of the Lord to serve him with one consent from beyond the Rivers of Ethiopia or Cush not that Ethiopia South of Aegypt but the Easterne Cush which was compassed by the River Gihon or Gyndes a branch of Euphrates which ran down upon the East side of Arabia where the people of Cush or Cushim did anciently inhabit which is as much as to say the people which were scattered beyond Euphrates and its branches in Persia and Media shall return to their own Land and be converted when God will save her that halted that is In point of Worship between God and Baal and gather her that was driven out i. e. by the Assyrians and bring them again to their own Land and get them a name and a Praise among all the People of the Earth This shall be performed In that day when God will rise up to the Prey assemble the Kingdomes and pour out his indignation even all his fierce anger and all the Earth shall be devoured with the fire of his Jealousie and God will undo all that have afflicted his People This Famous Day shines sorth yet more clearly by the illuminated Pen of the Prophet Zechary when God will save the Tents of Judah first that the glory of the House of David and of the Inhabitants of Jerusalem i. e. of all the Tribes as they were under David at Jerusalem in one united Kingdome may not magnifie themselves against Judah It is his special grace to save the Jews in the first place before the ten Tribes be fully returned In that day God will pour out upon the House of David c. i. e. the whole Kingdom of David the Spirit of Grace and Supplication and they shall look upon him whom they have pierced and mourn and be in Bitterness as for the First-Born and as for Josiah at Hadadrimmon or Maximianopolis in Jerom a little Town near Megiddo in the Valley of Jezreel where that godly Prince was slain That we may be further assured of the right application of these and the like Prophecies the Spirit of God is a most clear witness by the Mouth of Holy Paul applying two Texts of Isaiah to this purpose One That Gods great design by all the afflictions of his Israel is to purge iniquity and take away their sin Then In that day he will gather the Children of Israel One by One i. e. Every one to a man out of their Captivity from Assyria and they shall worship the Lord in the Holy Mountain at Jerusalem The other more especially that The Redeemer shall come to Zion and to them that turn from transgression in Jacob Now saith Paul this is the Mystery both as to the matter and time that though blindnēss or hardness of heart is happened in part to Israel yet that shall endure no longer then till the Fulness of the Gentiles shall come in that is till their full time be accomplished so long to continue as the utter desolation shall last Then all Israel shall be saved Then this Veil shall be taken away and their hearts turned to the Lord. The First Fruits of Israel were reaped in the Apostles days but the full Harvest the Joyful Day of their full and compleat Conversion shall not be till the days of the Gentiles be come to a period then the Messiah will gather into one the Children of God that were scattered abroad Let us then re-assume the Argument and conclude That since the Return of Israel is to be attended with a glorious Conversion to the Gospel And since it hath never yet been accomplished from the time of their Dispersion or the setting out of those Splendid Prophecies that it still remains to be fulfilled to the joy of Israel and the comfort of all the Church both Jews and Gentiles to be united in one Flock under one Shepherd and to the honour of Divine Mercy which in the latter days will shine out from the second Mount Paran when God will ride upon his Horses and Chariots of Salvation For so I understand both that verse and the whole third Chapter of Habakkuk in the future tense as a Prophecy of the glorious times of the latter day as yet remaining to be accomplished 3. The Tribes of Israel are to return into their own Land at or about the time of the Destruction of Gog and Magog in Ezekiel But the Ruine and Extirpation of those Nations signified by Gog c. as yet rests under the conduct of Providence to be fulfilled

ruins and inhabited in the same place When God shall bring again the Captivity both of Israel and Judah into the Land which he gave to their Fathers and they shall possess it when they shall serve the the Lord their God and David their King whom he will raise up to them And this is over and over prophecied to Jacob that he shall return not only Judah but all the Seed of Jacob and they shall fear no more and that the Lord will disanul the Ordinances of Heaven before they shall cease from being a Nation before him for ever even the two Families which the Lord hath Chosen the Seed of Jacob he will break first his Covenant with Day and Night and reject his Ordinances both of Heaven and Earth He will heal their back sliding and love them freely for his anger is turned away from them where that holy Prophet treats through that whole Chapter of the excellent State of Ephraim or the ten Tribes in the latter day 8. Arg. 8 The last Argument to prove that the ten Tribes have not attained their promised Felicity to this day but rests under divine good pleasure to be accomplished is this That if those Scriptures are to be construed in reference to a deliverance mixt with Judah by the Indulgence of the Persian Princes of old then must they never have been brought under any farther yoke of Captivity or misery of dispersion which all that were mixt with Judah did undergo by the fatal stroke of the Romans But the Holy Scriptures do promise that when they are reduced to their own Land they shall never remove more Not to insist upon that place in the Lamentations that they shall no more be carried into Captivity since that Text refers unto Judah and Edom sc that Edom shall never more have any influence upon Judah in aiding the Babylonian against him which their sin is sorely threatned by several of the Holy Prophets But there be several Scriptures more pregnant and clear Thou shalt no more be termed forsaken neither shall thy Land be any more termed desolate They shall not sorrow any more at all The City shall be no more plucked up nor thrown down any more for ever Strangers shall no more serve themselves of Jacob. They shall no more be a prey to the Heathen neither shall they bear the shame of the Heathen any more The Lord will cause the men of Israel to walk upon their Mountains and they shall no more bereave Israel of his men by the sword of battel and they shall dwell in the Land that he gave unto Jacob his Servant wherein their fathers have dwelt they and their Childrens Children for ever God will so fully and amply reduce them out of their several scatterings and dispersions that they shall leave none behind them and Judah shall dwell for ever and Jerusalem from Generation to Generation The Lord will bring again the Captivity of his People Israel and they shall build the wast Cities and inhabit them they shall plant Vineyards and they not their enemies shall drink the Wine they shall make Gardens and eat the fruit of them and they shall no more be pulled up out of their Land which the Lord hath given them The King of Israel even the Lord shall reign in the midst of them and they shall see evil no more The wicked insulting enemy shall no more pass through them but shall be utterly cut off The Lord will smite all the People that have fought against Jerusalem with this sore plague Their flesh shall continue away while they stand upon their feet and their eyes shall consume away-in their holes and their tongues shall consume away in their mouth and there shall be no more the Canaanite in the House of the Lord. I might yet further encrease the number of Scripture Arguments and Evidences to demonstrate this assertion that Israel and Judah shall be one Kingdom in the latter days in their Ancient Land and the Territories thereof greatly magnified and augmented that they shall be a holy and spiritual People honoring worshiping and reverencing the Messiah our blessed Lord Jesus their King and ours That Land of Canaan as theirs by right of donation from God was taken away for their rebellion against him But when they shall return to their obedience what should hinder but that they should inherit their ancient patrimony before any other Nation in the World it is their right if God pardon them and command them to return who shall detain their possessions Furthermore that the Church of God united into one body both of Israel and the Gentiles shall enjoy surpassing peace plenty and prosperity in the beauty of Evangelical Ordinances for a long succession of years even till the time of the Son of Mans coming to Judgment But I shall wave any more enlargement at present upon this Subject humbly advising persons to take heed of applying these and other Ancient Prophecies to the solution of the Babylonian Captivity and thereby to contract and narrow the exuberant and resplendent Mercies of God to Israel and Judah since the Apostles both Paul and Peter in the Acts and in the Epistles apply those Texts to the times of the Messiah concerning glorious things spoken of Zion the City of God which were never yet accomplished either before or since the Incarnation of our blessed Lord to this very day Neither do I see how any rational man can make any proper and genuine sense of the Prophets nor deduce any consequencies from them but such as tend to confirm what we have treated on in several arguments to prove and demonstrate that there is a great glory coming on for the Church to enjoy in the latter day I shall for a Coronis to the foresaid deductions present some Srciptures of the Old and New Testament in their orderly series reflecting strongly upon this Truth which would require some Interpretation and then might lye fair for application to this point of the Restitution of Israel and the wonderful splendor of the Church in the close of times in all places where the four Monorchies have obtained from India to the Atlantick Ocean and how far further the Church shall bear sway among the Heathen from Pole to Pole is not for us distinctly to amplifie till holy Scripture doth enable us by future manifestations of some dark places together with admirable Providences commenting by event Restitution of ISRAEL Numb 24. 7 17. Deut. 32. 43. Psal 68. 22. 69. 32 33. 110. 2 3. Song 8. 10. Isai 2. 2. 9. 7. 11. 11. 14. 2. 30. 21 22. 33. 9 17 20. Isai 41. 15. 43. 1 c. 49. 16 17. 51. 1 2 3. 65. 17 c. 66. 12 c. Jer. 3. 17 18. 30. 3. 33. 6. 50. 19. Ezek. 16. 61. 20. 34. 37. 21. Ezek. 39. 21 29. 40. to the end 48. Dan. 12 13. Joel 2. 28

that on the South-East East and North-East parts of the Lake were the Countries of Ammon and Moab the Children of Lot Now it is expressed that the Lord will return the Captivity of Ammon and Moab in the latter days but they shall be subject to Israel and under their Dominion They shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab and the Children of Ammon shall obey them and God will give the Territories of those Countries to his People for Daughters i. e. for lesser Citys but not by their Covenant i. e. to an equal glory and eminency And further by Zephany that the Remnant of his People i. e. which shall return out of Captivity shall possess them As for Sodom the Prophet Ezekiel foretels that it shall be healed in the latter days by the River that shall come sorth of the House of the Lord wherewith agrees the Prophet Joel when he foretels those Sanctuary-waters to run through the Vally of Shittim i. e. the Vally of Jordan and Sodom which was near to Abel-Shittim in the Plains of Moab one of the last Stations of the Children of Israel when of old they were entring into Canaan Of those living waters i. e Sanctuary-Ordinances does the Prophet Zechary also treat when he prophecies that part of them shall run to the former or Eastern Sea i. e. the Sea of Sodom when Fishers shall stand upon the Brink of it from Engedi to Englaim i. e. both on the West-side in Judah and at Agalla on the East side in Moab to fish for Men with the Nets of the Gospel though some South remnants towards Edom shall remain marshy and miry and given to Salt and not be healed for the Inhabitants of Edom the Prophets every where testify shall never return Though Egypt and Assyria shall be blessed in the latter day together with Israel yet Edom for his old hatred shall never rise to be a People more but their Land put in Subjection to Israel One Objection yet remains among some Obj. 5 That all the Scriptures about the return of Israel are to be interpreted of the true and spiritual Israel the Church of God and if they have any relation to natural Israel we are to conceivei it of such as are scatterd and mixt among the Nations and there in those stations and places they may have some conversion to Christ but not as a distinct people in order to reversion to their Old Land Asserenti incumbit probatio Ans They assert a point contrary to the general consent of the Primitive Saints and Churches and the confessions of the Reformed Countries and therefore they should be tender of being overpositive It s good to be very modest in a case when persons dissent from the Body of the Church of Christ in all Ages since 't is far more probable that the Spirit of God doth influence and guide the whole Flock of Martyrs Confessors and holy Teachers rather than some few here and there in points opposite to the general sense of Gods holy People that have opposed the false Antichristian Synagogue in their Generations I might therefore refer to the ancient and modern writings on this Subject and intreat them to consider the 8 arguments which I have urged from Scripture But I shall add a few reflections more upon this point and draw toward an end 1. These promises about Israels Restoration cannot be genuinely interpreted of a spiritual Israel among the Nations since there is a manifest distinction between Israel and the Nations in many of those promises which are before cited and applied so by the Apostle 2. Because the Spirit of God seems to speak of and assign some special comfort and joy to natural Israel under their devastations and dispersions as to a distinct and particular Nation which in due time is to be recalled out of those plunges and miseries Now what special comfort can arise as to Israel distinct from other Nations if such Promises are to be understood of a spiritual and mystical Israel as that in Isaiah Blessed be Egypt and Israel and Assyria my People And again Rejoyce O Nations with my People c. 3. Because the glory of that Nation is expresly declared to be super-eminent and transcendent above all other Nations both for spiritual and temporal felicity and that all Nations shall come up that is by Embassadors and Messengers bringing Presents to them The Kings of the Nations shall bring in their glory thither and shall walk in the same spiritual light as the Prophet Isaiah and Zechary and others distinctly mention it 4. Those sweet and ample Promises are sometimes mentioned as distinctly applicable to that Nation which pierced him Whereas 't is said that under Gospel days there is no priviledge asserted to the Jews more than to the Gentiles We must understand as to the Doctrine of Faith and Eternal Salvation they are all one in Christ Jesus Nor ought any to deem that any of their old Typical Sacrifices and Services shall be introduced into Gods Worship at their Restitution for they are all finally abrogated and the Veil of the Temple rent in twain So that those last splendid Chapters in Ezekiel do only set forth Gospel and Evangelical Ordinances under the ancient Figures 5. These great Promises are in several places set down with a contradistinction to their release from their first Captivity as when the Lord says I will bring my People again from Bashan and again from the depths of the Sea and that he will set his hand again the second time to deliver his People c. Now if the first Captivity were literal and the first release from Babylon was literal then there is a second release to be fulfilled in the like tenor 6. It may be argued also from the distinctness of the times of Israels Redemption besides the time of the restoration of the Gentiles from their spiritual Captivity under Antichrist and under the Turk which may appear more clearly from what I hope to speak as to the distinct time of Israels Deliverance before the close of this Tract 7. We may infer this National Restitution of Israel from those Texts which mention many distinct places of their scatterings as in Elam or Persia in Assyria Javan and the Islands c. from whence as from all Quarters of the Earth they shall be reduced to their own Land Now it seems very incongruous to assign a mystical denomination to those Countries and Cities of their various dispersions Such strange and wonderful scatterings as they verify the ancient Prophecies so have they happened to no other Nation under the whole Heaven that we can evidence wherefore from all these considerations it seems very proper that there is some great and special glory both in spiritual and temporal concernments which shall accrue to National Israel in the latter days beyond the glory of their Ancestors Wherefore some have made this as unto

the Jews a notable mark since they are by divine Providence kept distinct from all other Nations in the midst of their dispersions This Nation shall not pass away but is preserved under some notable design of God for their good and welfare in the latter day for though their strange and admirable disjoyntings and dismembrings ly incumbent as a present curse npon them yet shall it in the end be turned into a glorious blessing At which time when the Lord shall have formed his work upon Zion and delivered the Gentile Churches into their glorious liberty and restored Israel to their own Land to worship our blessed Lord according to his Gospel Institutions in Emanuel's Land then will the times of blessedness shine forth in their radiant lustre prophesied of by holy Doniel the man of desires and those 1000 years felicity to the Church treated of by the beloved Disciple Of these blessed times the Primitive Church had great and illustrious knowledge as being near to the Apostolical times and information Let me give in some evidences before I finish this Paragraph In the first place Justin Martyr in his Dialogue with Trypho the Jew is signally to be remembred as being so very express in this point of the glorious liberty of the Church for a 1000 years in the latter days that he reckons them among the Atheists and wicked Hereticks of his time who denied it For although Justin's Text be corruptly read in our common Editions yet 't is evident by the question of Trypho and the whole following series of Justin's reply that the aforesaid words are verily the genuine mind of that Author since in the following lines he calls them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christians in all things Orthodox who in his days did assert it To prove it he cites the Prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah and especially the last in these words For as the days of the Tree of Life so shall be the days of my People as he reads the 22 verse and thus glosses upon it We understand that the thousand years are designed by those expressions in a secret Mystery for whereas it was said to Adam In the day that thou eatest of the Tree thou shalt dye we know that he did not fulfil a 1000 years and then cites both Peter and John for the same purpose But besides that Primitive Martyr Jerom also though he frequently and testily enough inveigh against it yet in several places manifests that it was the general notion of those early and purer times In his Comment on the 19th of Jeremy mentioning this Kingdom declares himself thus Quae licet non sequamur tamen damnare non possumus quia multi Ecclesiasticorum virorum Martytyres ista dixerunt Which things saith he though we receive not yet we cannot condemn because many Church-men and Martyrs have declared it Again on the 28th of Isaiah glancing at the same persons breaks forth into these words Quorum nequaquam sententia reprobanda est dummodo spiritualiter haec complenda non carnaliter noverimus whose judgment is in no wise to be rejected so be it we acknowledge those things to be fulfilled spiritually and not carnally But in no place doth he more copiously mention that I remember the maintainers of this truth than in his Preface to the 65th of Isaiah where he acquaints us that among the Latin Fathers Tertullian Victorinus Lactantius and among the Graecians that I may pass by others says Jerom Irenaeus Bishop of Lyons were of this apprehension Against whom Dionysius Bishop of Alexandria wrote sharply but Apollinarius answered him in two Volumns Quem says our Bethlemite non solum suae sectae homines sed nostrorum in hac parte duntaxat plurima sequitur multitudo whom not only persons of his own way but a great multitude also of ours do follow only in this particular And therefore presages great opposition to himself in respect to his followiug notes upon the 65 and 66 Chapters of Isaiah Since as he speaks a little before multorum veterum Opinionibus contraire videbimur we shall seem to contradict the sentiments of many of the Ancients I might produce other Citations from his Comments on Hos 1 and 2. and Micah 2 c. but forbear to enlarge Let us hear what Austin speaks to it in his Book of the City of God Quae Opinio esset utcunque tolerabilis si aliquae deliciae spiritales in illo Sabbato affuturae sanctis per domini praesentiam crederentur Nam etiam nos hoc opinati sumus aliquando which apprehension says he however might be tolerable did they believe any spiritual joys to attend the Saints from the Presence of the Lord in that Sabath for even our selves have sometimes bin of this perswasion But good Austin might have reflected upon many Scriptures and several of the Ancients holding out a greater measure of holiness as well as external selicity to be the portion of those happy times of the Church By these Citations and others that might be produced we may clearly perceive that multitudes of holy and learned Persons in Asia Europe and Africa entertained this Doctrine for Scripture truth in the Apostolical and purer Age of the Church But as the Man of Sin did gradually ascend the Chair of Infallible Iniquity So among other blessed truths this also containing an illustrious Branch of Christ's Kingly Office was daily neglected slighted oppressed and almost extinguished by the smoaky fumes of the Bottomless Pit yea at last they came to that heigth that Pope Leo the 10th in the 19th Session of his Lateran Council Decreed That none should presume among other things to preach of or assert the coming of Antichrist lest that grand Imposture should be more discovered But his own Canon Law hath lighted such a Torch to reveal and detect him to the World that all the Lungs of Europe are not able to blow out and 't is exprest thus Siquis c. per seditionem vel presumptionem aut quolibet ingenio electus c. perpetuo Anathemate c. abjiciatur sicut Antichristus Invasor Destructor totius Christianitatis c. If any man be chosen Pope by sedition presumption or any other artifice let him be cast away as Antichrist an Invader and Destroyer of all Christianity by a perpetual Curse And again Siquis pecunia vel gratia humana vel populari seu militari tumultu sine concordi c. electione c. Cardinalium c. non Apostolicus sed Apostaticus habeatur If any be chosen by mony Simony or favour of men or by Popular or Military Tumult without the concording Election of the Cardinals c. let him not be esteemed Apostolical but Apostatical Let then the whole World judge by their own Decrees what they are that sit in the Roman Chair but Antichristian Enemies to the Church who have bin the great opposers and oppugners of this Truth Yea we may