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A32350	The blessed Jew of Marocco: or, A Blackmoor made white. being a demonstration of the true Messias out of the law and prophets / by Rabbi Samuel, a Iew turned Christian ; written first in the Arabick, after translated into Latin, and now Englished ; to which are annexed a diatriba of the Jews sins and their miserie all over the world, annotations to the book ... with other things for profit in knowledge and undertanding, by Tho. Calvert ...	Samuel, Marochitanus.; Calvert, Thomas, 1606-1679.	1648 (1648)	Wing S545; ESTC R8621	114,898	246

them with Stories for this as that R. Eleeser being sick his Disciples visiting him said to him O master teach us the wayes of life that we may obtain the life of the world to come The sick Doctor answered thus Be admonished to honour your fellow-schollers and draw back your children from the studie of the Bible and place them betwixt the Knees of the wise masters Aegroti somnia We leave these dotages and pray they may recover their right senses which will lead them to these three Rules 1. To the Law and to the Testimonie c. 2. In vain do they worship me teaching for Doctrines the Traditions of men 3. Search the Scriptures for in them you think you have eternall life Yet would I not have any build upon this those bold and blinde out-cries Away with the Rabbins and all Hebrew writings it is lost labour and learning to studie them there is nothing sound all is fabulous and vain in them of no use for a Divine Give that Head some Hellebore to purge folly It is as if one should say What should a man do sowing Seed for there are much Straw Chaffe and Weeds that grow up with it But a wise Husbandman will say I get much good Corne and therefore I will bestow some labour for the Cornes sake to thresh and winnow it and rid ●it of straw chaffe and Weeds Though there be much Chaffe in the Hebrew Doctors yet there is much good grain and fruit of profitable use and why may we not as husbandmen learn to thresh and winnow them and read them with a fanne For that kinde of learning the lesse I know ●it the more I admire it and wish time and leasure to recover what former years have lost ●icking the glasse without when I cannot come to the precious liquor within I judge in the want of it one piece of a compleate Divine is awanting Now we are subject to despise it because Hebrew and Jewish learning requires more studie and judgement then looking upon some common Latine and English Authors an easie kinde of studie and almost vulgarly attainable Good account may be given of this by some reasons that will make it appear to be that which should bee above the contempt of ignorance 1. In other Authors Schoolmen Commentators Jesuites we use to read and studie in which there is Chaffe enough yet there we use to separate the precious from the vile with an hic magister non tenetur 2. Of all tongues and learning it will challenge superiority as being more near neighbour to the Divinitie of the Old Testament therefore it is called lingua sancta the sacred and holy Language as being used by God He was no Pamphlet nor triviall Doctor that said A Divine was nothing else but a Gramarian of the Word of God the Bible being the Grammer of Divinity 3. There are many sound and rare Writings of great use among the Rabbins among which especially the great Moses Maimonides carries the palme having freed himself from many Jewish dotages fables and Traditions The Heroes of learning Scaliger Casauben and others will tell us his Booke of More Nevochim or Doctor perplexorum is as good as the weight in Gold and is exceeding necessary for Christian Divines 4. There are divers places both in Old and New Testament cannot bee well understood unlesse wee borrow Candle-light from the Hebrew Doctors as Exod. 6. 3. Ruth 4. 7. Esay 1. 29. Esay 12. 13. Ier. 16. 7. Ezek. 8. 14. Ezek. 9. 4. Matth. 5. 22. Matth. 21. 9. Matth. 23. 7 8. Matth 26. 23. Mark 7. 11. Rom. 5. 7. Iohn 7. 37. Iohn 3. 29. 2 Tim. 3. 8. Revel 3. 4. and an hundred more in which a man shall stray stumble unlesse he use their help Ask Ainsworth Selden Weemse whether they borrow not much light from them 5. It is confessed in Jewish matters Rites Customes Sacrifices Syrian gods we get best helps from them and why may we not rather chuse to have them at first hand then to take them at a second or rather a tenth hand Water in the very Spring is better had then to bee glad of it after it runne thorow ten Chanels It is better to see with our owne eyes then to have our Spectacles hang at other mens Girdles We may to good purpose make use of that Jewish saying Let my soule be among the Collectors of Almes rather than among the Distributors of them Or as Valla I had rather be a Bee that flies farre to gather matter for Honey then a Pismire that gathers but from the next Corn field 6. Were it not a rare thing lastly to be so skilled in the Jews Tongue and Writings that one might be able to lay before them their owne vainest Fables and confute them out of their own Books and Doctors as many have done This would put the Jew to a stand and admiration and to crie out with a friend of theirs Proprijs calamis configimur What a glory was it to those two Christian Divines Mercer and Vatablus that when they were Professors at Paris the very Jews did admire them for their great skill in the Hebrew and being so perfectly ready and read in all their Writings Thus I have endeavoured to shew that Jewish questions and vanities being avoided their learning is of much use in Divinitie whatsoever is said by some The Crow cries one thing and the Owl another Every Chapter also ends with this Attamen Dei sumus Yet we belong to God in all estates we Jews are Gods peculiar people There is a truth in it they were Gods people by Covenant at first and they shall bee called home to the Covenant of Grace at last when they shall looke upon Christ whom they have pierced but for the present state of them standing out against God and hating Jesus Christ God calls them Loammi Not my people As concerning the Gospell they are enemies but as concerning Election they are beloved for the Fathers sake CHAP. II. IN the second Chapter the Jew reasons the case inquiring why they observe some Legalities as Circumcision Sabbath and others but omit Sacrificing Altars Unction and Incense He happily guesses that they retain these Legall Rites now as received not from God but from their Fathers that were under Gods wrath 2. That God has given them no precept now to use them for indeed the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple the place of their worship the taking away of their Kingdome and Priesthood is argument enough to tell them God hath abolished their Legall observances and delights no more in them nor in that kinde of Government By this he rightly acknowledges all their Jewish service is against the heart of God and his command and is will worship not Gods will-worship but mans will-worship 3. He takes away a reason that might be given by some