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A30785	The Jewish synagogue, or, An historical narration of the state of the Jewes at this day dispersed over the face of the whole earth ... / translated out of the learned Buxtorfius ... by A.B., Mr. A. of Q. Col. in Oxford.	Buxtorf, Johann, 1599-1664.; A. B., Mr. A. of Q. Col. in Oxford.	1657 (1657)	Wing B6347; ESTC R23867	293,718	328

consequence that he is not to be worshipped for this is due to God alone as the fifth Article affirmeth and God is only a Searcher of the hearts and so was not Christ as in the 11. Article In the same manner the 6 7 8 9. Articles are placed in a diametrical opposition to the Doctrine of Christ and the whole Gospel intimating that Christ was no true Prophet nor Teacher sent from Heaven because his Doctrine was not delivered unto him out of Gods own mouth as it was to Moses and that therefore our Saviour spake many things against the Law in his sayings to the People yea was not afraid to alter many parcels thereof which ought to have remained unchangeable Furthermore if it be true that man for the integrity of his life and tracing the way of Gods Commandements as also for his owne good deeds can merit life eternal and on the contrary for his evil works and ungodliness becOms the Heir of everlasting torments in what respect I pray thee doth the passion and death of Christ any whit availe us The wheele of time hath not travised many minutes since a certaine Jew did not blush to affirm to my face that he needed not any to satisfie for his sin that it is meet every Fox should give his own skin to the Currier to be pulled off and to suffer his own hairs to be plucked out at his pleasure The tenth Article therefore whereby we professe Christ to be our Redeemer is contrary to this assertion Besides this Rambam the rest of the Jewish Nation who had any knowledge of letters in all their Books and Writings have no other scope but to make the faith of a Christian the object of suspicion and contempt Amongst whom Rabbi Joseph Alba a Spaniard challengeth the first place who writ a little Book in the yeare of Christ 1425. entituled Sepher ikkarim in which he stoutly maintains the Jewish Creed for Orthodox and sends out at randome the fiery darts of a fiery disputation against that of the Christians His Arguments are grounded upon the main Principles of the Jewish belief First upon the unity of God Essence and hence he denies the Trinity as also the Godhead of Christ Secondly upon the Law of Moses which was delivered from heaven unto him by God himself with his own mouth whence he rejects the Doctrine of Christ and the New Testament consequently intimating that Christ was a false Prophet and not the Messias hence the main of the strife and Controversies between us and the lews lieth in these two points to wit that of the Trinity and this concerning Christs person Thirdly he establisheth his Positions upon the eternal reward of good works and the endlesse punishment of evil hence despising the death and passion of our Saviour which he underwent for the sins of mankind Of the same grain is that obscene and abominable Book entituled Nitzachon written by Rabbi Sipman whose lines are such that without all doubt he committed this Book to writing in the year of Christ 1459. as it was delivered unto him from the Devils own mouth This piece he composed to falsifie the four Evangelists out of which Sebastian Munster my Predecessour and Professour of the holy tongue in this University transcribed many parcels and confuted them in his Commentary upon Saint Matthews Gospel When therefore the hard hearted and hoodwinckt Jews did with might and main indeavour to denie the faith of Christians and to brand it with falshood they shipwrackt upon the Rocks of Superstition and that in such a measure that they utterly did disanull their faith in God neither have they any knowledge to believe aright although they proudly boast of a firm and perfect faith towards God the Creatour of heaven and earth who is one in Essence from Eternity and without end yet such a faith can never be g●aced with the Title of the true belief when as they know not God in whom so audaciously they pretend a confidence after that manner as he hath manifested himself in his word Now the Scriptures of Moses and the Prophets declare unto us the same God that the New Testament propounds though more darkly shewing that there is a Trinity in uniTy And an unity in Trinity to wit God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost yet the Jews hot without great scandal denying this Attribute to the Creat●ur of heaven and earth it necessarily follows that they place no belief in the true God but rather by a stupid ignorance of him and his Essence become the very emblemes of Idolatry In that they affirm that whatsoever Moses or any other of the Prophets commit to writing was altogether orthodox and that their Text is neither to be augmented or diminished that Moses was a great and famous Prophet is an established truth yet we doubt not but their understanding was subject to a monstrous depravation in this their assertion For first of all they do not onely not believe what is written in Moses and the Prophets to be true but also do prefer the Expositions of their wise men and Rabbines upon the Law and other parcels of holy Writ before Moses and the Prophets yea they esteem more of the word of a Rabbine than of Moses furthermore they account the Traditions Statues and Ordinances not as additions to the Law but for the very Law it self which Moses received from the mouth of God and taught unto others yet did not put it in writing lest the Gentiles learning it also might put it in execution for without this Declaration Moses his Law can neither be understood nor performed as we shall more at large hereafter manifest That they perswade themselves that the Law was given with this condition that nothing of it should at any time be changed they grossely mistake the Ceremoniall Law signified Christ to come which whenby his incarnation he had fulfilled shortly after the holy Temple must kisse the ground and embrace the dust the City Jerusalem and the holy things are utterly destroyed the Jews banished their own Land and dispersed among the Gentiles that at last they might understand the time already come wherein there should be but one Shepherd and one Sheepfold and that seeing the Gentiles were entered into Communion with them in belief in God the Omnipotent Creatour of heaven and earth that they were also made partakers of the treasures of the Divine word and first delivered to the Jews Likewise their error is inexcusable in making Moses the greatest Prophet thence striving to annihilate the worth of our Saviour as one who is not worthy to loose the latchet of his Shooe but blasphemously terming him a lying Doctor Experience doth convince that in this thing many of the Jewes have the lie cast in their teeth by their own convicting conscience They believe aright that in Moses and other Prophets the Messias was promised but herein their understanding is miserably perverted that they yielding to

out a place for his ingresse with an Hatchet he is forced to stand up to the chin in the water so long as an Egge may be made hard rosted In Summer time he is compelled to sit naked in an heap of Pismires where although he be so naked that he hath not the least rag upon him yet are his ears and nostrils stopped his penance ended he washeth himself with cold water If the season be neither hot nor cold in which he is to suffer punishment then they appoint him a certain time of fasting for the space whereof he must not eat unlesse it be very late at night at what time they give him some small portion of bread and water and this they practise until the time come when he may either stand in cold water or sit amongst an heap of Pismires It is written in Medrasch that the first man Adam stood in the water up to the nostrils an hundred and thirty years before he begot Seth for eating of the forbidden fruit If the punishment seem to be lesse then the offence requires then they compel him in the Summer time to run through the middle of a thick swarm of Bees which may lance and sting his body until the bulk thereof by reason of the anguish swell again And so soon as he is cured of the said malady he must again run through the foresaid swarm of Bees and that more then once according to his desert If he have often committed fornication and adultery then for many years he must continually suffer the said punishment Such a Fast is sometimes enjoyned such an offender that for the space of three years he must fast night and day not eating any thing unless it be at supper when his daintiest fare must be bread and water onely this qualification is annexed that he may chuse whether he will perform the forementioned injunction or otherwise fast three whole dayes in every one of the three years not tasting the least morsel of bread or drop of water As Queen Esther did in her great and extream necessity and commanded the Jews to practise the same If any go in unto a woman at unfitting time he is enjoyned to fast forty dayes and every day to have his back twice or thrice soundly lashed with a lethern whip and thirty nine stripes to be given him He must not eat any flesh or hot meats drink no wine unlesse it be upon the Sabbath day If any kiss or embrace a woman being in her monethly flowers he must undergo the same punishment A Robber is adjudged to a three years exile as also that wandering through every City where any Jews do sojourn he should with a loud voice proclaim Rotzeach Ani I am a Robber and expose himself to the lash He must not eat flesh nor drink wine He must not cut his hair or beard nor put on any clean line● or change of garments It is not lawful for him to wash his hands every moneth once he is bound to cover his head and to binde the arm wherewith he acted the murther thereunto with an Iron Chain and so to deplore the offence committed in the sight of the Iews Some have this punishment inflicted upon them that if they sleep one night they should watch the next and so become vagabonds upon the face of the earth as Cain was Others are compelled to wear plaits of Iron upon their naked skin Others forced to prostrate themselves before the door of the Synagogue that every incommer may tread upon If any Jew accuse another and bring him before a Christian Magistrate or divulge his wickednesse and evil actions then is he called a traytor Others inflict some grievous punishment upon him and from thenceforth esteem him as a man of no account and reckoning CHAP. XXXV Touching the burial of the Jews and how they are bewailed and lamented of their living Friends and Kinsfolks WHen any Jew is visited with sickness then the learned Rabbines come diligently to visit and comfort him which they esteem as a good and precious work If any be sick unto death he sends for his nearest Kinsfolks and other of the learned crew If the sick person be rich then in the first place they barter with him about his temporal estate if poor they spare their labour They seriously exhort him to a constant perseverance in their faith First of all catechising him whether he believes the Messias is yet for to come He is also bound to make a confession of his sins upon his death-bed the form whereof is this I confesse before thee my Lord and God the God of my fathers the Lord of all creatures that health and sicknesse are in thy hand I pray and beseech thee to restore me to my former health and being mindful of me to hear my prayer as thou heardest the prayer of King Hezekiah when he was sick But if my appointed time be come then let this my death be the remission of all my sins which I have committed either out of ignorance or wantonness since the day that I was born Grant that I may have a part in paradise and in that world to come that is reserved for the just Grant that I may know the way of life everlasting Satisfie me with the joy of the excelling countenance by thy right hand for ever more Blessed be thou O God who hearest my prayer Their final comfort is that temporal death a debt to corrupt nature may be a reconciliation for all their sins and that God is bound to remit their sins because they undergoe this death Alass who can but perceive what peace such poor comfort can afford to a loaden conscience When he is giving up the Ghost then all the by-standers whether kinsfolke or strangers rent their garments yet this they doe in the skirts thereof where the rent being but a hands breadth can doe no great hurt they deplore and lament the man departed seven dayes after the example of Joseph who mourned for his father for the same space and for the renting of their garments they produce that Scripture Jacob rent his garmants and put sackcloth upon his loines and lamented his son many dayes As soon as he is dead they cast forth all the water in the house into the streets cover his face that from thenceforth none may behold it Then they take his thumbe and by wresting of it into the palme of his hand make it to represent the name Schaddai which is so great a terrour to the devil that he dare not approach the dead corps They binde his thumb with the threads and stringes of his own coat which otherwise would not remain crooked For it is ordinary for a dead man alwayes to stretch out his hands and fingers thereby signifying that he hath left the world and that there is nothing in it which he can now lay challenge unto as on the contrary the little infants at their birth have their hands