Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	command_v	day_n	sabbath_n	10,415	5	9.9260	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56206	A short demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued barred remitter into England Comprising an exact chronological relation of their first admission into, their ill deportment, misdemeanors, condition, sufferings, oppressions, slaughters, plunders, by popular insurrections, and regal exactions in; and their total, final banishment by judgment and edict of Parliament, out of England, never to return again: collected out of the best historians and records. With a brief collection of such English laws, Scriptures, reasons as seem strongly to plead, and conclude against their readmission into England, especially at this season, and against the general calling of the Jewish nation. With an answer to the chief allegations for their introduction. / By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolnes-Inne.; Short demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued remitter into England. Part 1.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing P4079; ESTC R205682	263,888	373

Devil or the manifestly damned we are not to hope nor pray because there is no hope of them for death and a definitive sentence at once irrevocably intangle them Neither could this answer excuse the Minors for although they were not guilty yet the scandal did defame them The common people now hath withdrawn their hands that they doe not benefit them with their alms as heretofore and the Londoners devotion is grown cold towards the Minorites For procuring these condemned Jews life and liberty whose money it seemeth could even corrupt these very self-denying Popish Saints who had renounced the world in habit but not in heart All the Prelates of England in the year 1257. drew up certain Articles in writing concerning their liberties which they intended to present to the King and Nobles to be ratified by them in Parliament in due season wherein they complain Artic. 32 33. That when as the Iews are convicted before the Ecclesiastical Iudges for delinquency against an Ecclesiastical person or for Ecclesiastical things or for sacriledge or for laying violent hands upon a Clerk or for adultery with a Christian woman the conusans of the cause is hindered by the Kings prohibition because it alleageth that they have their proper Judge the Sheriff of the place and their proper delegated Iudges who may and ought to have conusance of these things And yet if they be convented by a Clergy-man or Lay-man before them for such things upon the denial thereof by the person alone by the simple assertion of another Iew and of one Christian without the administring of an Oath they purge themselves the proof of the prosecutor being utterly rejected Item If Communion be denied to them by the Church because they bear not their Table or sign or because they retain Christian Nurses against the Precepts of the Church or if they be excommunicated for some other excesses the Bailiffs or Officers of the King communicating with them command on the behalf of our Lord the King himself that they be not avoided by any and cause them to be admitted and received to Communion Against which grievances in derogation of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction the Bishops then thus provided And because in like manner the Office of the Prelates is hindred when as it happens a Iew offending against Ecclesiastical things and persons shall be convented for these things before them and for other things which appertain to their Ecclesiastical Court of meer right We provide that the Iew notwithstanding shall be compelled to aswer in these cases by the interdict of commerce contracts and Communion of the faithfull likewise the inhibiters hinderers and distrainers shall incurre the punishments of interdiction and excommunication In the year of Christ 1259. On the Feast of Christs Nativity a certain creature Elias a Jew of London whose Sirname was Bishop fearing danger and manifest damnation to himself fled to the laver of defence and salvation and was new-born in the Spirit for being cleansed with wholesom Baptism two others also accompanying him he was del●vered out of the lot of the Devil and saved from the revenge of the most wicked crime heretofore committed by h●m For it was said that in his house that poysonous drink was made which had proved mortal and perillous to many Nobles of England poysoned therewith by the Jews which even he himself as was reported well confessed But then he was a Devil but now throughly changed and a Christian and as the condition so the operation is changed As Mathew Paris Ironically writes of them A certain Iew in the year 1260. fell into a Privy at Teuxsbury but because it was then the Sabbath he would not suffer himself to be pulled out except on the following Lords day for the reverence of his Sabbath Wherefore Richard de Clare Earl of Glocester commanded him in reverence of the Lords Day to be kept there till Munday at which time he was found dead of the stink or hunger The Barons of England Anno 1262. robbed and slew the Jews in all places There were slain of them in London to the number of 700. the rest were spoiled and their Synagogues defaced The original occasion of which massacre was because one Jew had wounded a Christian man in London in Cole-church and would have enforced him to have paid more then two pence for the Usury of 20 s. for one week In the year 1264 in the Passion week the Jews that inhabited the City of London being detected of treason which they devised against the Barons and Citizens were slain almost all the whole number of them and great riches found in their houses which were taken and carried away by those that ransacked the same houses The dis-inherited Barons and Gentlemen in the Isle of Oxholm in the year 1266. took and sacked the City of Lincoln spoiled the Jews and slew many of them entred into their Synagogue and burnt the book of their Law with all their Charters and Obligations Anno 1275. the 3. of King Edward the 1. his reign the Statute De Iudaismo was made not in the 18 E. 1. as Sir Edward Cooke most grosly and confidently mistakes in his commentary thereon To clear which I desire the Reader to take notice that this Statute is not now extant on record all the Parliamentary Rolls before 5 E. 2. the first extant with sundry others since that time being utterly lost through the iniquity injury or carelesness of the times and some Pleas only in the Parliaments of King Edward the 1. extant in a Parchment Book in the Tower but no Acts nor Rolls of Parliament during his reign except such as are elsewhere extant on the backs of some clause Rolls or Patents or in the Red Book of the Exchequer as some few of them only are or in our Manuscript or printed Statutes This Statute de Iudaismo was first printed in French by Richard Totel in his Magna Charta Anno 1556. part 2. f 58 59. with this Title Statuta Ed. primi de Iudaismo with out mention of any year of his reign wherein it was made not extant in the Manuscript copies out of which he printed them and the first Statute of them is also printed in Iustice Rastall his Abridgement and Collection of Statutes Title Usury sect 2. without any date for which he renders this reason in his Elenchus Parliamentorum at the end of his Abridgement Tempus Ed. 1. Ceux Statutes auxi come semble fueront faits in temps E. 1. mais LA CERTAINTIE DES ANS JEO NE TROVE UNCORE for lack of skill in our Histories which too many Lawyers want He mentions 5. Statutes in his reign of this Nature whereof DE JUDAISMO De terris tenementis non amortisandis made in 3 E. 1. as Walsingham Hist Angl. p. 5. Ypodigma Neustriae p. 68. Holinshed Speed and others affirm and Henricus de Knyghton de Eventib. Angliae l. 3. c. 1. col 2462. and De

a thousand five hundred of the Iews destroyed at that time in York alone beside those slaughtered in other places so that this year which the Iews took to be their Iubile was to them a year of confusion Neither was this plague of theirs undeserved for every year commonly their custom was to get some Christian mans child from the Parents and on Good-Friday to crucifie him in despite of our Religion King Richard the first after his return out of the Holy Land in the year 1194. appointed Iustices Itinerant through all the Counties of England who amongst other Articles were to enquire Concerning the slayers of the Iews who they were that slew them and concerning the pawns and chattels and lands and debts and charters of the Iews that were slain and who had them and how much any one owed to them and what morgages they had and who held them and how much they were worth and who took the issues of them and what they were and that all the Morgages and Debts of the Iews who were slain should be taken into the Kings hands and that those who were present at the slaying of the Iews and had not made a fine or end with our Lord the King or his Iustices should be apprehended and not delivered unless it were by the King our Lord or his Iustices The self-same year King Richard appointed Justices Laws and Orders for preventing the frauds and regulating the contracts of the Jews both between themselves and between Christians and them thus recorded at large by Roger de Hoveden and briefly touched only by some others All the Debts Pawns Morgages Lands Houses Rents and Possessions of the Iews shall be registred The Jew who shall conceal any of these shall forfeit to the King his body and the concealment and likewise all his possessions and chattels neither shall it be lawfull to the Iew ever to recover the concealment Likewise 6 or 7 places shall be provided in which they shal make all their contracts and there shall be appointed two Lawyers that are Christians and two Lawyers who are Iews and two Legal Registers and before them and the Clerks of William of the Church of St. Maries and William of Chimilli shall their contracts be made Charters shall be made of their contracts by way of Indenture And one part of the Indenture shall remain with the Iew sealed with his seal to whom the money is lent and the other part shall remain in the common chest wherein there shall be 3 locks and keys whereof the 2 Christians shall keep one key and the 2 Iews another and the Clerks of William of St. Maries Church and William of Chimilli shall keep the third And moreover there shall be three seals to it and those who keep the seals shall put the seals thereto Moreover the Clerks of the said William and William shall keep a roll of the transcripts of all the Charters and as the Charters shall be altered so let the roll be likewise For every Charter there shall be 3 pence paid one moity thereof by the Iew and the other moity by him to whom the money is lent whereof the 2 writers shall have 2 pence and the keeper of the roll the third And from henceforth no contract shall be made with nor payment made to the Iews nor any alteration made of the Charters but before the said persons or the greater part of them if all of them cannot be present And the aforesaid 2 Christians shall have one roll of the Debts or receits of the payments which from henceforth are to be made to the Jews and the 2 Jews one and the keeper of the roll one Moreover every Iew shall swear upon his Roll that all his debts and pawns and rents and all his goods and possessions he shall cause to be enrolled and that he shall conceal nothing as is aforesaid And if he shall know that any one shall conceal any thing he shall secretly reveal it to the Iustices sent unto them and that they shall detect and shew unto them all falsifiers or forgers of Charters and clippers of moneys where or when they shall know them and likewise all false charters By these strict politick Laws the King and his Officers knew the particular wealth monies goods debts and real and personal estates of every Jew and in whose hands they were and so could seize and command them at their pleasure upon any real or pretended misdemeanors or complaints against them King Iohn who in the 1 and 2 years of his reign granted them large liberties and an high Priest for moneys in the year of our Lord 1210. commanded all the Jews of both sexes throughout Engl●nd to be apprehended and imprisoned and to be afflicted with most grievous torments that so they might satisfie the Kings pleasure with their money Some of them being grievously tortured gave all things which they had and promised more that they might by this means escape so many kinds of torments Amongst whom one Jew at Bristol punished with various torments when as he would neither redeem himself nor submit to any fine the King commanded his tormentors that they should every day pull out one of his grinding teeth until he should pay to the King ten thousand marks of silver And when at last for 7 days space they had pulled out 7 of his teeth with intollerable torment and now on the 8 day the tormentors had begun the like work again this Jew an over-flow provider for his profit gave him the aforesaid money that he might save the 8 tooth to himself the other 7 being pulled out who with much more wisdom and lesse pain might have done so before and have saved his 7 teeth having but 8 in all In the 17 year of King Iohn the 17 day of May the Barons coming to London brake into the houses of the Jews and searched their Coffers to stuff their own purses that had been long empty After which they applyed all diligence to repair the Gates and Walls of the City with the stones of the Jews broken houses In the year 1222. 7 H. 3. in a Council at Canterbury under Archbishop Stephen a certain Apostate Jew made of a Christian a Deacon and afterwards apostatizing was there judicially punisht whom Falco presently apprehending caused to be hanged as Matthew Paris writes but Bracton and others record that he was burned to ashes King Henry the 3. in the 11 year of his reign Anno Dom. 1226. granted the lands and houses of Benomye Matton a Jew in London escheated to him by a murder committed by this Jew to Semain and others as appears by his Chatter of that year King Henry the 3. Anno. 1230. wanting moneys constrained the Jews whether they would or would not to give him the third part of all their moveable goods and that with all expedition The Jews in the year of our Lord 1231. builded a Synagogue

suspected And some affirmed that the Lord had wrought miracles for the child And because it was found that the Iews at other times had perpetrated such wickedness and the holy bodies crucified had been solemnly received in the Church and likewise to have shined brightly with miracles although the prints of the 5 wounds appeared not in the hands and feet side of the said corps yet the Canons of St. Paul took it violently away and solemnly buried it in their Church not far from the great Altar The same year 1241. The Barons in Parliament ordered That there should be one Justice at the least appointed for the Jews by the nomination of the Parliament In the year of our Lord 1250. King Henry the 3d. burning with a covetous desire commanded money to be extorted from the Jews without all mercy so as they might seem to be altogether and irrecoverably impoverished exacting what monies soever they had in their chests Notwithstanding although they were miserable yet they were pittied by none because they were often proved and convicted to have been counterfeiters as well of monies as of seals And to passe by the monies of others we shall only mention one that their malice may the more appear to them There was a certain rich Jew having his abode and house at Berkamstede and Wallingford Abraham in name not in faith who was very dear to Earl Richard who had a very beautifull wife and faithful to him named Flora. This Jew that he might accumulate more disgrace to Christ caused the Image of the Virgin Mary decently carved and painted as the manner is holding her Sonne in her bosom This Image the Jew placed in his house of Office and which is a great shame and ignomy to expresse blaspheming the Image it self as if it had been the very Virgin her self threw his most filthy and not to be named excrements upon her days any nights and commanded his wife to do the like Which when his wife saw after some days she grieved at it by reason of the Sex and passing by secretly wiped off the filth from the face of the Image most filthily defiled Which when the Jew here husband had fully found out he therefore privily and impiously strangled the woman her self though his wife But when these wicked deeds were discovered and made apparent and proved by his conviction although other causes of death were not wanting he was thrust into the most loathsome Castle of the Tower of London Whence to get his freedom he most certainly promised That he would prove all the Jews of England to have been most w●cked Traitors And when as he was greatly accused almost by all the Jews of England and they endeavoured to put him to death Earl Richard interceded for him Whereupon the Jews grievously accusing him both of the clipping of money and other wickednesses offered Earl Richard a thousand marks if he would no● protect him which notwithstanding the Earl refused because he was called his Jew This Jew Abraham therefore gave the King 700 marks that he might be freed from perpetual imprisonment to which he was adjudged the Earl assisting him therein The King thereupon at the same time sent the Justices of the Jews throughout all England to search out all their mony both in Debts and Possessions and with them a certain most wicked and mercilesse Jew that he might wickedly and falsly accuse all the rest against the truth who verily reprehended the Christians pittying and weeping over the affliction of the Jews and called the Kings Bayliffs luke-warm and effeminate and gnashing with his teeth over every Jew affirmed with many great Oathes that they could give twice as much more to the King then what they had given although he most wickedly lyed against his own head This Jew that he might more effectually hurt the rest revealed all their secrets dayly to the Kings Christian Exactors In the mean time the King ceased not to scrape money together from all hands but principally from the Jews so tha● from one Jew alone born and living in York called Aaron because he was convicted of falsifying a Charter as was reported he extorted 14000 marks and 10000 marks of gold for the Queens use for a little times respite that he might not languish in prison All which sums being paid it was found that this Aaron had paid to the King since hi● return from foreign parts 30000 marks of silver and two hundred marks of gold to the Queen as the said Aaron upon the attestation of his honour and faith averred to Matthew Paris who records it Yet notwithstanding although the Jews might be pittied yet were they pittied by no man seeing they were corrupters and counterfeiters of the Kings money and of charters and manifestly and frequently proved condemned and reprobated as such King Henry Anno 1251. Decreed to destroy all the Jews in his Kingdom but some of his Counsellors disswaded him from it and that they should rather be left as Vagabonds like Cain that their misery by this means might be set before the eyes of men in all ages Whereupon the Kings mind was mitigated and his Decree abolished Notwithstanding he seriously prohibited them the eating of flesh in Lent and on Fridays Ph●lip Luuel Clerk called to the service of the King and deputed to the custody of the Jews Anno 1251. was grievously accused before the King his adversaries affirming that when he and Nicholas of St. Albans Clerk were sent towards the Northern parts to tax and squeeze the Jews he privily received most precious Vessels from a certain Jew that he might spare him in his Tallage to the King and that he likewise took secret gifts from others that he might spare them and that he opprest these Jews notwithstanding to the dammage of the King and the violation of his Faith Whereupon the King being very angry commanded Philip himself to be unworthily handled until he should satisfie him for this great transgression Philip hereupon a crafty and circumspect man humbly craved advice and assistance from the Lord John Mansel the Kings Prime Counsellor concerning his great tribulation because he had promoted him to the Kings service who effectually procured that he recovered the kings favor giving him a great summe of money for it a thousand marks as was reported Yet notwithstanding he was removed from his Office and not a little disgraced It seems the kings Officers could fleece the Jews in that age by secret Bribes and Gifts as well as himself by intollerable Exactions King Henry the III. to satisfie the Popes desire in taking a Voyage to the Holy Land Anno 1252. extorted from the Jews whatsoever those miserable wretches might seem to have not only by scraping or excoriating but even by unbowelling them Being also an Hydropical thirster after gold he so greedily sucked talents or Bullion or Jewels as well from Christians as Jews that a new Crassus might seem to be raised from

unconverted Jews are both Unbelievers Infidels Darkness Belialists and the very Synagogue of Satan as the Scripture resolves them Acts 14.1 Mar. 6.6 Rom. 11.20.23.32 Heb. 4.6.11 Iohn 1.5 Mat. 8.12 Rev. 2.9 1 Thess 2.14 15 16. Therefore we Christians ought not to be unequally yoaked or to have any fellowship communion agreement part or mixture with them much less to receive them into our land and bosoms from whence they were formerly spued out but to keep our selves separated from amongst them lest God reject us as he hath done them 4. 2 John 6.7 This is the commandement that ye have heard from the beginning that ye should walk in it For many deceivers are entred into the world Who confess not that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh This is a Deceiver and an Antichrist v. 10 11. Whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God he that abideth in the doctrine of Christ he hath both the Father and the Sonne If there come any unto you and bring not this Doctrine receive him not into your house neither bid him God speed for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds The Jews are these Deceivers and Antichrists who confess not but absolutely deny that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh they abide not in the Doctrin of Christ and if they come unto us they will not bring this Doctrine to us but the quite contrary Therefore we ought not to receive them into our Dominions or Houses nor bid or wish them Godspeed in returning to dwell amongst us And if any do the contrary they are and shall be partakers of their evil deeds 5. Tit. 1.10 11 13 14. For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers Especially they of the Circumcision whose mouthes must be stopped who subvert whole houses reaching things which they ought not for filthy lu●res sake Wherefore rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the fa●th Not giving heed to Iewish Fables and commandements of Men that turn from the Truth I● the circumcised Jews were such unruly Decei●ers ●educers and subverters of whole hou●es even in the Apostles own dayes and their Jewish fables then did turn so many from the truth to prevent which their mouthes were then to be stopped With what colour of Christianity piety conscience can we call them in amongst us now in these times of fearful and almost universal Apostacy from the truth and give them leave to set up their Synagogues and open their blasphemous mouthes here in England even when many orthodox Ministers mouths are quite stopped up in publick privat without hearing to the great Joy both of Iesuits and Iews even whiles their re-admission amongst us is in agitation when less dangerous seducers are freely permitted to ramble abroad in all places and have subverted whole houses parishes and almost Cities and Counties too to Gods dishonour and the danger of the peoples souls 6. 1 Thess 2.14 15 16. For ye also have suffered l●ke things of your Countrymen even as they have of the Iews who both killed the Lord Iesus and their own Prophets and have persecuted or chased out us and they please not God and are contrary to all men Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved to fill up their sins alway For the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost This Gospel character of the Jews expressing their transcendent malice to the Lord Jesus their own Prophets the very Apostles themselves the Gentiles with their contrariety to God and all other men and Gods wrath upon them for it to the uttermost administer plenty of invincible arguments against our receiving them in again amongst us lest they bring along with them the extremity of Gods wrath upon the whole English Nation who have enough thereof already and are likely to feel more of it if they really imitate or play the Jews and silence cast out their own Prophets Ministers Countrymen in these and other particulars 7. Acts 18.5 6 7. Paul was pressed in Spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed he shooke his rayment and said unto them your blood be upon your own heads I am clean from henceforth I will goe unto the Gentiles And he departed thence and entred into a certain mans house named Justus who worshipped God c. compared with Acts 13.44 to 52. The next Sabbath-day came almost the whole City together to hear the word of God but when the Jews saw the multitude they were filled with envy and spoke against those things that were spoken by Paul contradicting and blaspheming Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold and said it was necessary the word of God should first have been spoken unto you but because ye put it from you and judge your selves unworthy of everlasting life Loe we turn to the Gentiles For so hath the Lord commanded us c. And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the Region But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women and the chief men of the City and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them out of their coasts but they shook off the dust of their feet against them and came unto Iconium See the like Acts 17.5 to 16. c. 19.8 9 10. c. 28.25 to 31. This malitious carriage and persecution of the Jews even against the Apostles themselves their Doctrine and the Gentiles salvation and casting them maliciously out of their coasts with their Separation from them and turning themselves wholly to the Gentiles upon this account by Gods own command demonstrates what all Gods faithfull Ministers and we Christian Gentiles must expect from them now and that being formerly cast out of our Coasts by our Ancestors for their infidelity crucifying of Christ in his Members and such like misdemeanors and so being totally separated in cohabitation and communion from us we neither may nor ought now to resume them into our Land Bosoms or Communion again upon any pretences whatsoever The rather for that Martin Luther on Mich. 4.1.2 and Mr. Samuel Purchas in his Pilgrimage inform us That sooner than the Jews would endure that the Gentiles whom in their dayly prayers they curse and revile should have any part with them in their Messias and be accounted coheirs thereof they would cruc●fy ten Messiahs yea if it were ●ossible would do to death God himself with all the Angels and creatures else although they should therefore undergoe a thousand Hells 8. When God was bringing the Jews into the promised Land which he gave them to inherit he gave them these special commands Thou shalt driv● the Inhabitants of the land out before thee Thou shalt make no Covenant with them nor with their Gods they shall not dwell in thy land lest they make thee sin against me and it be a snare in the midst of thee Thou shalt make

and murderers Which St. Paul also confirms in the forecited observable Text of the 1. Thess 2.14 15 16. And can we then in point of piety or policy even in these distracted rebellious mutinous times entertain or bring in such a Nation People as this amongst us Or can our despised Ministry in this age when they can hardly convert keep any of their own English from seduction have any hopes of reclaiming or converting such a mutinous ever rebellious stiff-necked people who have thus abused murdered stoned their own Prophets in former times though immediatly sent unto them by God himself and will quickly teach the English to do the like who already imitate them in too many places 4. They were the greatest haters revilers persecuters blasphemers betrayers and the only murderers crucifiers of our Lord Jesus Christ himself and his Apostles whiles on earth as the Evangelists Acts and other Scriptures testifie And although Christ and his Apostles miraculously converted some thousands of them by their preaching and miracles to the faith of Christ Acts 2.41 c. 21.20 Yet the generality and body of the Nation continued still blind obstinate under the very most powerfull Ministry of the Prophets Apostles and Christ himself being then and ever since that time judicially and penally given up to a blind obdurate obstinate impenitent stupid heart and spirit a reprobate sense a cauterized conscience and divorced rejected reprobated broken off cast off by God himself proclaiming them to be no more his people to be reprobate silver because he hath rejected them to make way for the calling conversion salvation of the Gentiles whom he hath ingrafted called and taken into special Covenant in their stead as is evident by Acts 13.45 46 47. c. 19.9 c. 28.25 26 27 28. Isa 8.14 to 17. c. 10.22 23. c. 29.8 to 15. c. 65.2 3 9. c. 53. 1. Jer. 6.10 c. 7.29 c. 14. 19 Lam. 5.22 Hos 1.9.10 c. 4.6 Mat. 13.13 14 15. c. 21.24 to 46. c. 22.2 to 11. Mar. 4.12 Luk. 2.34 c. 8.10 c. John 9.39.41 c. 12.37 to 44. Rom. 9.24 to 33. c. 10.16.19.20 21. c. 11.5.7 c. 1 Thess 2.14 15 16. Heb. 10.26 to 31. compared together Which Texts conjoyned with Lu. 18.8 Mat. 24.9 to 15. Joh. 1.11 1 Tim. 4.1 2 3. 2 Tim. 1.3 to 10. c. 4.3 4. 2 Pet. 2.1.2 c. c. 3.3.1 John 2.18 Jude 18. in my judgement unanswerably refute that commonly received opinion of the calling and conversion of the whole Nation and Body of the Iews in these latter dayes to the faith of Christ and such glorious Gospel times in the last age of the world which some have over-confidently asserted and now insist on as the chiefest argument for calling in the Jews amongst us at this season as if they were able more effectually to perswade convert them then either their own Prophets or Christ himself and his Apostles and remove that veil of obstinate blindnesse and obduration which God hath laid upon their hearts and eyes to this very end that they might neither see hear nor understand nor be converted that he might heal them Acts 28.25 26 27 28. 5. God himself especially for their rejection of Jesus Christ and refusing him to be their King to rule and reign over them hath utterly extirpated and ejected the Jews out of their own promised land which himself bestowed on them for their peculiar inheritance and habitation and setled them in actual possession thereof by an out-stretched hand and power yea scattered dispersed them into other Nations like chaff before the wind without any fixed habitation according to the ancient comminations and curses long since denounced against and now fully executed upon them Deut. 28.63 64 65. c. Levit. 26.33.36 37 38 39. Deut. 4.27 c. 32 26. 1 Kings 14 15. Neh. 1.8 Psal 106.27 Jer. 9.16 17.24 c. 18.17 c. 49.32.36 Ezech. 5.2 to 13. c. 12.14 15. c. 20.23 c. 22.15 Daniel 12.7 Zach. 1.21 Ezech. 11.16 17. c. 6.8.17.21 which scattering is principally intended only amongst Heathen Nations where they should be totally deprived of all Gods Ordinances and means of salvation where they shall serve other Gods which neither they nor their Fathers have known even wood and stone as these texts expresly resolve and import Therefore to receive them into and settle them in our Christian Kingdom and Island whereunto they have no title nor colour of inheritance which God hath appointed to the English alone for their portion and therefore these Aliens may not invade or intrude themselves into it without the whole Natio●s general consent is in some sence to crosse these sacred Texts and neither convenient for us to grant nor for them to request being already over-stored with Native Englishmen 6. Since the Jews crucifixion of our Saviour Jesus Christ himself and their extirpation and dissipation for it they have oft times in sundry places ages in high contempt and despight of his person and passion maliciously acted it over and over again in representation not only by piercing his Images with swords and spears and by stabbing piercing boyling burning braying in a mortar and otherwise despighting the consecrated Sacramental bread representing his crucified bod● as the Historians in the Margin at large relate and likewise by crucifying a Ram at Easter as they did at Syracusa in the year 1113 but likewise by crucifying sundry Christian children on Good Fryday or near Easter on a Cro●se in a most barbarous manner in derision of our Saviours death and passion To pretermit those 7. or 8. forecited instances in England alone I shall instance in some forreign ones recorded by Historians About the year of our Lord 430. the Jews in their ●●b●ick Enterludes and Dances held on their Sabbath openly crucified a Christian child in contempt and derision of Christs death and passion at Inmestar in Syria first nailing him to a tree and lifting him up on high then deriding and laughing at him after that like mad men scourging him as long as any breath remained in his body whereupon there arose great contention between them and the Christians and by the Emperours command the Jews who had done this in jest were punished in earnest Anno 1172. they crucifyed in like manner another Christian child at Bloys in France and near the same time the Jews at Bray in France crowned a Christian man whom they accused for a Malefactor with thorns then led him publickly about the Town scourged him with many stripes and at last crucified him in contempt of Christ Not long after the Jews at Paris in France in like manner impiously crucified a Christian child called Richard and sundry others yearly Anno 1236. the Jews at the Monastery of Fulda killed many Christian children in a Mill piercing them with ponyards and squesing out their blood to mix and knead it with their unleavened bread in their Passeover as was generally reported