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A85467	Charls Stuart and Oliver Cromvvel united, or, Glad tidings of peace to all Christendom, to the Jews and heathen, conversion, to the Church of Rome, certain downfall: the Irish not to be transplanted. / Extraordinarily declared by God almighty to the publisher, Walter Gostelow.	Gostelo, Walter.	1655 (1655)	Wing G1318; Thomason E1503_3; ESTC R22601	98,622	320

flatter you you have counted gain godliness not godliness great gain you will reap what you have sowed amend your lives if you would be happy the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand to your comfort or destruction Rich men hardly enter into Heaven covetuous and unmercifull men not at all I beg of God for your amendments although you have necessitated me to beg of the World mony to Print this Book which I will repay God willing Yet I believe some that commoded me rather thought it given than lent so visibly poor hath violent men and these ill times made me I have lost by hundreds thousands despoiled of all but what makes a continual feast it is not for faithfull servants and good subjects to lie down in Beds of Roses when their Saviour stands Crowned with Thorns and their King falls shorter by the Head we must suffer with them before we can Raign with them happiness is for him that overcometh and the Crown of Glorie is given to such as fear God and Honour the King Of which blest number though I cannot presume you are yet I hope this Rabby and good Jews I next direct too will shortly be For Mannasseth BEN-ISRAEL at AMSTERDAM Most Learned Rabby SIR your Book intituled the Hope of Israel Dedicated to the Supream Court of England a Parliament came not to my hand untill this was near ready for the Press Certainly Sir you have been of Gods goodness guided aright to make your addresses to this Church and Nation you observe well we have continued to pray for your conversion duty binds us to it to treat your persons otherwayes than well we should not to assist what possible we can a people so anciently the beloved Sons of God and most honourable off-spring of Faithfull and blessed Abraham is and ought to be all our devoirs Sir I read your so excellent and profitable resolution to carry on the Famous and Learned History of Josephus And also further observe your desire that if any thing offer to men in the Christian world fit for your purpose your request is they would be pleased to acquaint you with it Sir In this Book you will finde things very highly considerable God having been pleased to communicate it to the World in his own way by Prophesie your Brethren expect a deliverance restauration not far off because all the Prophesies amongst your own are fulfilled Sir It is my firm belief that in our Kings Raign CHARLS STUART Charls the Second and under his government you will have deliverance Peace and Protection the ground for my so believing this book will inform you I have therefore given you it with all its circumstancies at full that thereby you may have the clearer satisfaction that it is not delusion About the 18 th year of my age I was in several of your Synagogues my eldest Brother a Studient and fellow of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford there with me to observe accomplish himself for the good of others He Sir having conversed with divers of your Rabbies did after tell me what they so believed as not to be moved from That for a people so beloved of God and to whom the promises of the Almighty were so peculiarly good so many so frequently afforded and made known as to the Jews they were your Rabbies could not be perswaded that Shilo or the Messiah could be come into the World and they not know of it to whom say they he was promised as a King to deliver restore and govern them in this World take heed Sir the love of this world deceives a world thus to bound the Almighty and herein to place your happiness demonstrates your misapprehend of him what was Prophesied by your own of him David tells you as well as others his Kingdom was not of this World he came to his own which were your selves but ye refused him he after turned to us the Gentiles who indeed injoy him that you yet hope for I wonder Sir you see not this clearly fulfilled and proved to you in your own Prophets as also in that so excellent piece of History you are carrying on Josephus was not Jerusalem destroyed and made a heap of stones all which our Saviour long foretold it should be so and that Generation should not pass untill all were fulfilled as in the 22 of Luke and the 32 verse referring to the destruction of Jerusalem that it was fulfilled Josephus his story confirmeth and the continuance of that verdict is yet evident The other Prophesie which evidently argues Christs Divinity by its success also is what your self and your own Rabbies cannot but see and hear fulfilled concerning the Woman that spent the Oyntment on our Saviour for which he told that it should never be forgotten but with the Gospel be Preached to all ages as in Matthew the 26. and the 13. your self Sir living in the Christian World cannot but see read and hear this fulfilled the Fathers of our Church Protestant Religion have published to the World the fulfill of your allowed Prophesies and shewed it you clear as the Sun Sir have you ever lain so long under Gods displeasure as since you have shut your eyes against so great and clear a truth That God will in mercy gather you from the corners parts of the World is my belief as well as yours that many of you are in America I may not doubt neither do I allow for other than true the relation given to your self and others at Amsterdam in the year 1644. by Antony Montezinus I now onely advise and especialy commend to your reading the New Testament you have it with you in languages very many of you now sufficiently understand God hath put us of this Church and Nation to give it you in more languages hasting to you Sir that will acquaint you with truer and better things to Salvation than the story of the Saba●…ic●l River whose great stones you say rest upon your Sabboth onely but all other dayes continue to be carried about in motion Sir to the frequent reading of that New Testament the best Book in the whole World be pleased to joyn your often prayers beseeching the Almighties guidance in all things for the better understanding of it thus continuing in well doing reading and praying you are sure to be taught of God and know you will that what the Prophet Isaiah Prophesieth in his 28 Chapter and 16 vers Behold I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone a tried stone a precious corner stone a sure foundation he that believeth shall not make haste Now Sir would you and all yours as new born Babes desire the sincere Milk of the word that ye may grow thereby you would suddenly know that this corner stone and sure foundation is Christ our Lord already come To whom coming as unto a living stone disallowed indeed of men but chosen of God and precious would you I say but come thus fitly prepared ye also

you you would never confess your selves guilty but God sees it and forgives it too with him there is mercie if you confess and forsake your sins making all possible amends and for the time to come all your dayes walk before him in a holy obedience to this end he in mercie hath sent me to you that you might truely repent and live My next observe is the Church of Rome shall fall a Church you see she is so I ever believed her to be once a pure one in whose Churches often both in France and Spain many a good instructive Sermon to amendment of life I have heard and truely in their Churches also I have often performed I hope acceptable Devotions beseeching God that when the people came into those Churches to pray and to learn that they might go forth do and practise for the time to come better things to which end I believe our pious Fore-fathers built them pray and beseech we should for the people there assembled that God then would be pleased to hear in Heaven also send thither to officiate such Pastors and Teachers as might be most agreeable to his holy Word so more to Gods glorie and the peoples good that the people might not longer be deluded by those jugling villains which make merchandize of the Kingdom of heaven and hold the people in sinfull ignorance turning almost all their practises and miscalled Devotions into finenesses crafty frauds to inrich themselves by just one with our late temporizers are those Jesuits such a stall do they both make of the Pulpit from thence teaching damnable Doctrines contrary to the word of God calling evil good and good evil one of whose Tenents is the depose of Kings yea killing them too if they rule not according to their fancies is 't not pity the Kings of the Earth should allow either of you residence in any of their Territories fire brands you are whose damnable Tenents are so declared contrary to the King of Heavens in this I couple you together Rebels both Jesuits and Sectaries I would I could exempt the Presbyterian the froward and worst are not guiltless our late King was in the right when he advised our now Soveraign his Son not to have a prejudice against the Protestant Religion in regard of the ill measure dealt to him his Father assure your Majesty he doth it was by such done who were no true Sons of that Church the Church of England abhord as the Church of God should do all such damnable practices and wicked Tenents See here again my King was not your glorified Father a light of Heaven shining in a dark place as in the midst of a wicked and froward generation to keep your feet judgment in the way of Gods Commandments Behold now the goodness of God in letting the world see that the Protestant Religion taught no such corrupt Doctrine neither were the major part of the people of England so ill principled I have heard and from a good hand also that the reformed Churches of France did upon that Act of cuting off the King assembled their Doctors and Pastors who declared and Printed to the World as a Gentleman of Rochel of good account assured me that the word of God warranted so such damnable proceedings in Subjects and for their Reformed Church of France as the true Church of England they neither taught nor allowed any such Doctrine of Devils or practises of wicked men Behold I say how God hath freed this his Church from that asperse and this our Nation from that dishonour the lesser and inconfiderable number never yet included the greater and the wiser it was well observed by Mounsiour Causabon a learned and Honourable Father of the Church of France by King James he was invited hither and rests Honourably interred in West-minster Abby That it was the violence of the Church of Rome not our choice that hath excluded us because we could not love her errors she hath ejected our persons These are those wicked ones that had rather rend the Church than want their wills who can be content to sacrifice truth peace millions of souls Kings and all to their own ambition and covetuousness one of which sins alone is the root of all evil what is it then with the rest of their rabbel but I may not aggravate where God hath pardoned if we repent and bring forth better fruits This also was prophesied that their seditions and madness would at once be the scandal of the true Church of God and give advantages to the false which is the Church of Rome know you not that I speak truth Well down they must both fellow-workers of iniquity Sectaries and Church of Rome a Church you see she is call'd though adulterous and Idolatrous we read the Lord calls the people of Israel so guilty yet his people and you my people Israel when at the same time he sends his Prophets to let them know that for these very sins his punishments were hastening to come upon them yea to lay them waste and cast them out of the land as those rebellious Israelies his people so that of Rome a Church Thus we allow the greatest robber to be a true man though a notorious Thief much the better this keeps him not from the gallows to which a true man comes not but to look on and be premonished by so sad a spectacle here me thinks we might be reconciled take now the best of all sides something good in all hold it fast put that together and you have the onely true Church against which you see the gates of Hell shall never prevail and because of the strength and yet power of that Church of Rome we cannot take away the Hay and stubble and mistempered morter her Babel-builders have raised her to this height with that her confusion as her fall may be the greater the Lord himself comes to do the work down they must and this Church of Rome shall fall he hath said it But see the loving kindness of the Lord extended to the Sons of men and to that Church also in that he tells them not onely of her fall but whither they shall repair for safety even under his wings into his Church and to the Obedience of his King CHARLS STUART by the Lord now declared Defender of the Faith Here 's a visibility and Church the Gates of Hell shall never prevail against also a rule given and a sword put into the hands of the General of all his Forces Oliver Cromwell by name against whose rule and sword never shall any prosper that riseth up or is drawn first proved in Gods word for the defence of his Church now also by this his Prophesie and immediate dictate from Heaven Well what is to be done forthwith turn to this so mercifull Lord your God withall your hearts proclaim a fast and keep it truely and let us know when you do it that we may pray together God would be pleased to

what I have heard amongst the wicked rabble there of new opinionests if you will transplant any in Ireland transplant these and your Anabaptists and when they have brought these wicked ones to a true belief let them then as the Eunuchs be rebaptized amongst the Heathen send them also continue them not here to make rents in Church government for they would conform to neither had they force they told me the Lord was now coming to take the power out of wicked Governors hands and to put it into theirs and truely that power I expected would have been exercised on me for the sword-men stept up close to me when Doctor Lamb could reason no more you are mistaken in them if you think them meek they are furious and not wise I will not call them fools although their own words are they desire to live and not sin against conscience and then all cannot but be well with them you have heard how their consciences stands affected Doth not this clearly shew you that what our so late but ever blessed and wise King CHARLS Prophesied is now come to pass and fulfilled in your eyes Your disordering and tearing up by the roots the Power and Government of the Church that being laid wast contemned would bring in all sorts of wicked Athiesm Villeny and such practises speak can any of you continue to be mad will you as formerly go on what blinde for ever adding sin to sin untill your measure is made full if you will do so be sure you shall be removed cease to do evil learn to do well about it presently that this scandal may not stick upon the Professors of the Protestant Religion least they say of us as they do of the Spaniard in America that it cannot be Heaven where such bad men are so come not to their Religion but my belief is that blest America and those people will shortly have a better Religion before their eyes than that of Rome and a better people also to cohabite with than the Spaniard I know what God is doing he is fitting the Jews and Heathen to come into the Protestant Religion and I believe many of them there in America the Church of Rome shall fall To the rest of the Prophesie the two Letters promised they are now made three the first to our King the second to Oliver Cromwel the third occasioned by a Book not untill this was almost ready for the Press then through Gods blessing come to my hand and view written by Manasseth Ben-Israel the Book intituled the Hope of Israel to that Author is my third in those next ensuing Letters is the rest of the Prophesie in some things spoken to I would not swell this to a Volume which I intended for every mans pocket heart I would gladly leave the Reader with good appetite that he might not do other than be in love with the precepts and mercies of the Lord and his Prophets also which never were compared to the flat dull and tiresom empty babblings of the Priests of Baal or the Idiots of these times both unsent of God My second Letter to our Soveraign C. REX Most worthy Doctor SIR Mine of the tenth present I hope is received by you it was directed to Mounsieur Renier Bazine Merchant residing in Rue de Mavise Parroles PARIS my charge to him that forthwith he carry it to you Sir or my Soveraign and deliver it to none else which since I understand is done Sir This is to describe to you the two Ladies Frances the Elder and Elizabeth Boyl the 2 d. daughter to the Earle and Countess of Cork chosen by the Almighty Wife for our Soveraign Lord the King the the Elder Sir is lamed by a fall taken at Nurse so that she goes not but with the deepest halting that is imaginable hardly without leading she is very vertuous and some 18 years of age For the Lady Elizabeth Sir she hath the most loveliest face ever eies beheld the most of Majesty in it nothing but loveliness in every part of it Excellency throughout her hair is brown her eyes black her mouth little her teeth the best her complexion as that of the Canticles brown but most lovely and comely as ever eyes beheld her body the perfection of workman-ship none did I ever see so made as to resemble it she is aged about thirteen she dances well she speaks very good French she delights in reading serving of her God and obeying her Parents the Chaplain in that house is Doctor Mollines Son to him of the Church of France a wise and good man and of the Church of England a true Son also Sir You may not doubt the indowments of her Soul and minde whom God hath set apart to be so blest as to be our Soveraigns Queen and his delight for she cannot be other all that see her admire her outward perfections and deportments and for charity and humility two good adorns she is already eminent as a Queen Elizabeth Sir Let me be believed in a word she is a Queen of Queens and an Angel on Earth and this is my rejoycing that the Lord hath in mercie given such a Lady to my King that will go hand in hand with him in all paths of vertue and godliness that she is as well a Nursing Mother to the House of God as his most blessed Majesty by God appointed and so commanded to be a Nursing Father to us and all his now happy people Sir I spake truth to you and all of the Lords doing for our King whom as his Queen God Almighty ever bless and let their rejoycings in his good will and commands be not deferr'd to the joy of our hearts admiration and obedience of the World Let us pray God save my King CHARLS the Second and his most delightfull Queen Elizabeth both the Servants of the ever living God O my King fail not I beseech you of the most sincere performance of your Devotions by fasting and prayer every Friday and let there be no looking back nor return to any sins whatsoever let not any of a bad life that will not be reformed eat one bit of your bread or receive a favour from you more than prayers for his or their amendment and punishment where it is not conformed unto be you Sir I beseech you frequent in Devotion and receiving of the most blessed Communion of the body and bloud of our Lord to which you are to come alwayes well prepared that you eat not to condemnation O my King do you truely forgive and so pray for the very worst of your Fathers Mothers and your own Enemies God will do you right who ever lost by referring all to his Almighty power times and goodness Thus shall your Fathers Counsel be followed his ever blessed memory unparaleld good example live in you to the joy of Angels and good men Sir God is turning for you and to his own glory the hearts of all or most