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

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

Americans accesse to Christ out of Philip. 2. 10. At the name of Iesus every knee shall bow of things in heaven things on earth and things under the earth i. e. Heavenly things Saints already converted earthly such of the knowne world as the Apostles were then labouring to Gospellize under the earth that is the Americans which are as under us and as Antipodes to us and live as it were under beneath in the lower parts of the world for it is not like hee should speake of the corporally dead their bodies not being under but rather in the earth inferi infernus doe not alwaies meane Hell and the place of the damned but the regions as under us sometimes that be opposite to us as that Epistle said to be brought by a winde from the upper to the nether world had those words first Superi inferis salutem wee above the earth wish health to them under it and thus the captive Indians told the English Planters Wee therefore seeke your destruction because wee heare you are a people come under the world to take our world from us Others finde their conversion praefigured in that threat Mat. 25. 30. Cast the unprofitable servant into utter darknesse those tenebrae exteriores outward darknesses are regiones exterae the outer and forraigne nations in the judgement of Remigiu●… and some conceive the same to be fore-signified by the Prophet Obadiah ver 20. The captivity of Ierusalem shall possesse the Cities of the South i. e. of America so situate or the dry cities that Countrey being much under the Torrid Zone Acosta confidently applyeth thus this text as some others doe that of Esa. 66. 19. Fredericus Lumnius in his booke De vicinitate extremi judicii findes or makes divers other Scriptures look this way upon that ground three sorts of people should be in the Church of Christ at severall times Jewes formerly Christians now and these Indians afterwards he citeth Hilary thus understanding that parable of the talents the possessor of five is the Jew hee that had two talents is the Gentile then knowne hee that received one a people all carnall and stupid and according to this triple time of the Church and order of believers hee expoundeth other Scriptures Zach. 13. 8. Mat. 13. 3. and the three Watches Luk. 12. 38. and craving pardon of his rashnesse or rather fidei nescientis mensuram suam of his faith not knowing its owne measure hee further allegorizeth the former parable The Jewes had one Talent the ancient and present Christians two Law and Gospell and the servant to whom five Talents were given by which hee gained other five is the Indian and American nation last in time converted and called after others into the vineyard but it shall be more abundant in obeying the Gospell more fervent in charity more zealous of good workes and therefore Malvenda will have those to be the dry Cities before mentioned out of Obad. ver 20. Because they shall so much thirst after the Gospell for that younger sister of the foure saith one of her friends in this England is now growne marriageable and daily hopes to get Christ to her husband by the preaching of the Gospel Comines said of the English that they were much addicted to and taken with Prophecies and predictions I believe that is incident to all Nations Some even among these have foretold of the mutation of their rites and religion as hath bin mentioned and in reference to their Gospelizing a divine and propheticall Poet hath printed his thoughts hereof in severall particulars Religion stands on tiptoe in our land Ready to passe to the American strand When height of malice and prodigious lusts Impudent sinning witchcrafts and distrusts The markes of future bane shall fill our cup Vnto the brim and make our measure up When Sein shall swallow Tiber and the Thames By letting in them both pollute her streames When Italy of us shall have her will And all her Calendar of sins fulfill Whereby one may foretell what sins next yeer Shall both in France and England domineer Then shall Religion to America flee They have their times of Gospell even as wee My God thou dost prepare for them a way By carrying first from them their gold away For gold and grace did never yet agree Religion alwaies sides with poverty Wee thinke wee rob them but we thinke amisse Wee are more poore and they more rich by this Thou wilt revenge their quarrell making grace To pay our debts and leave our ancient place To goe to them while that which now their Nation But lends to us shall be our desolation c. Here is a sad prognosticke for this England but a joyfull calculation for America longing thirsting America and if such be their ripenesse and desire wee should also make haste to satisfie them The harvest there is great and the Regions are already white thereto the laborours indeed are few t is more then time that the Lord of the harvest were more earnestly intreated to send to thrust forth labourers into this Harvest they that have gone into those parts have not all had a care of this the harvest of soules It was indeed the profession of Villagagno and the purpose surely of Peter Richiers and Will. Charter Pastors and others from Geneva Anno one thousand five hundred fifty six to publish the Gospel there and they were very serious therein yea and Lerius one of them believes they had bin successefull also if that Apostate Governour had not become a most cruell persecutor of the Reformed Religion in that strange land where he most barbarously mutthered three of those his owne Countrey men and the aforesaid Lerius piously took care that their Martyrdom should be commemorated by Io. Crispin in his History and though these were not so happy in that holy attempt others have not been will not be discouraged in such a worke a worke worthy of the choicest diligence of those that professe the glorious Gospel in sincerity who have had also many and manifold experiments of divine favour in their severall preservations directions and accommodations and because their friends with praise to God and thanks to them for what is done and declared already desire to know more of those their pious and blessed endeavours Let me adde a third consideration Wishes of furtherance and direction in such great and gracious employments which shall be I hope and pray as a spurre to more able advisers to bring in every one somewhat or other towards the erecting of a Tabernacle for our God in America CHAP. III. Directions towards the conversion of the Natives SOme give violent counsell here presuming they find it in that parable Luk. 14. 23. compell them to come in but judicious Austin calls this Amoris non timoris tractum not a force of feare but of love producing the example of a sheepe following the shepherd holding a green