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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87160	A vindication of the Holy Scriptures. Or the manifestation of Jesus Christ the true Messiah already come. Being the Christians antidote against the poysons of Judaisme and atheisme of this present age. Proved out of sacred scripture, ancient historians, and Jewish Rabbins. / By that learned, and late eminent divine, John Harrison.	Harrison, John, of the Inner Temple.	1656 (1656)	Wing H896; Thomason E1685_1; ESTC R209168	62,938	174

not cast thee away but they have cast me away that I should not reign over them c. And as before under the Judges so now under the Kings still as they sinned and multiplyed their transgressions so did the Lord inflict and multiply upon them his judgements one plague after another til at length they were carried captives into Babylon After which long captivity yet restored again upon their repentance the time was not long but they fell again to their old byas and forgate the Lord their God which had done so great things for them yea rather now worse then ever persecuting the Prophets from time to time whom God raised up amongst them and killing them one after another even till the coming of the Messiah and him also they crucified Whereupon ensued this last and final desolation as the full measure of their sine deserved and as themselves desired saying His blood be upon us and upon our children which hath continued now almost these sixteen hundred yeers the longest captivity and greatest misery that ever hapned to any people and so shall continue till they as did their forefathers turn to the Lord by true and hearty repentance cry unto the Lord in their trouble and then will the Lord deliver them out of their distress according to the former examples and not before And this is the state and condition of the Jews at this day the miserable state I say with the cause and the remedy which God grant they may make use of Amen AN ALLARUM TO THE JEWS Or the MESSIAH already come FIrst for the promises and prophesies of old as touching the coming of a Messiah whom we cal CHRIST both they and we agree both of us reading dayly in our Churches and Synagogues teaching and holding for canonical the very selfe same Scriptures even the Law and the Prophets In so much that the Gentile is often times enforced to marvail when he seeth a people so extreamly bent one against another as the Jewes are against Christians and yet do stand so peremptorily in defence of those very principles which are the proper causes of their disagreement But in the Interpretation and Application thereof ariseth all the Controversie they understanding and applying all things literally and carnally to their long looked for Messiah yet for to come We after a Spiritual manner understanding all those promises and prophesies to be most truely and real● fulfilled in the person of our blesse● Messiah already come they expecting a temporal King to rule and conquer in this world we acknowledging a spiritual King whose Kingdom is not of this world as himselfe did many times protest while he was in the world My kingdom is not of this world To begin with Adam and so forward Gods promise to Adam THe first promise as touching the Messiah is this made to Adam after his ●all for the restoring of mankind to wit that the seed of the Woman should break the Serpents head that is to say one of her seed to be born in time should conquer the Devil Death and Sin as the ancient Jews understand this place which being a spiritual conquest and against a spiritual enemy the Devil he I mean the Messiah must needs be a spiritual and consequently not a temporal King as the Jewes imagine Gods promise to Abraham THe second to Abraham Isaac and Jacob often repeated To Abraham Gen. 12.3 In thee shall all the Families of the earth be blessed To Isaac Gen. 26.4 In thy seed shall all the Nations of the earth be blessed To Jacob Gen. 28 14. In thee and in thy seed shall all the Families of the earth be blessed Therefore the Gentiles as well as the Jewes the blessing is general without exception all the Families of the earth all Nations no Prerogative of the Jew no exception of the Gentile as touching the Messiah I mean the benefit of this so general and great a blessing though otherwise much every way as the Apostle reasoneth to the Romans Whereupon I infer as before that the Messsiah must be a spiritual and not a temporal King otherwise it had been but a very small benediction to Abraham or others after him who never saw their Messiah actually if he must have been only a temporal King and much less blessing had been to us Gentiles if this Messiah of the Jews must have been a worldly and temporal Monarch to destroy and subdue all those Nations formerly blessed and blessed shall they be to the servitude of Jury as the latter Teachers do imagine The Prophesie of Jacob THe third which confirmeth the former is the prophesie of Jacob at his death Gen. 49.10 the rod or scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a Lawgiver from between his feet till Shiloh come and the People or Nations shall be gathered unto him Which the Chalde Paraphrase as also Onkelos both of singular authority among the Jews do interpret thus Until Christ or the Messiah come which is the hope and expectation of all Nations as well Gentiles as Jews the government shall not cease in the House or Tribe of Juda. Whence I infer the same conclusion as before that if the Messiah must be the hope and expectation as well of the Gentiles as of the Jews then can he not be a temporal King to destroy the Gentiles as the latter Jews would have it but a spiritual King as before hath been declared Secondly if the temporal Kingdom of the house of Juda whereof the Messiah must com shal cease and be destroyed at his comming and not before that being a certain sign of the time of his manifestation how then can the Jews expect yet a temporal King for their Messiah the Scepter already departed and gone their Kingdom and Priesthood defaced their City and Temple destroyed themselves scattered amongst all Nations and so have continued almost this sixteen hundred years yea such a fatal and final desolation by Gods just judgement brought upon that woful Nation and that not many years after the death and passion of our Saviour Jesus Christ according to his prophesie in his life time as may fully settle our faith in this point The Prophesie of Moses THe fourth is that of Moses to the people of Israel The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet like unto me from among you even of thy brethren unto him ye shall hearken c. and in the verses following I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren like unto thee saith God to Moses and will put my words into his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him and whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name I will require it of him Which words cannot be understood of any other Prophet that ever lived after Moses amongst the Jews but only of the Messiah as appeareth most plainly in another place in Deutrenomy where it is said