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A84114	A brief compendium of the vain hopes of the Jews messias. The ignorant fables of their Rabbies, and the confuting of the Jewish religion, Written by Eleazar Bargishai a born Jew, for the upholding of Christianity.	Eliazar Bar-Isajah.	1652 (1652)	Wing E332A; Thomason E674_33; ESTC R207207	9,634	23

A BRIEF COMPENDIUM of the vain Hopes of the Iews Messias The Ignorant Fables of their Rabbies AND The Confuting of the Jewish Religion Written by ELEAZAR BARGISHAI a born Jew for the upholding of Christianity LONDON Printed in the Year 1652. TO THE Religious and right Faithfull Christian Reader Gentle and Right Christian Reader AFter that I was brought up in the Jewish belief till I was Twenty four years of age and instructed therein walking after the footpathes of my forefathers not having any motive or illumination to belong unto such Honour as to be a Member of Christs body Yet know that through the mercy and merit of Christ my only Saviour and Redeemer after these times I received miraculously as it were in a moment another knowledge of the holy Trinity which God wrought in me a born unworthy superstitious Jew through the assistance of his holy Spirit and gave me a brighter light of understanding and brought me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is out of the darkness of Aegypt opening mine eyes curing me of my Leprosie and blind-born heart bringing me to the true Christian Faith of the true and only Sonne of God which the Prophets call Messias whom I with my illuminated eyes already since short time having received that light from the holy Scripture by the hand of Faith do acknowledge to be our Redeemer the promised Seed of the woman who hath bruised the Serpents head through whom all Nations shall be saved whoso rightly beleeve on him And many shall marvell to hear in what manner the Jews hoping for their Messias according to their Rabbies carnall expounding of the old Testament after their superstitious and unbeleeving hearts insomuch that it may seem more easie and possible to turn an hard iron or stone in an instant into water as soon as a Jews heart unto Christian Religion for and in respect of such their Rabbies fabuling Wherein gentle Reader you shall understand more largely and plainly the Occasion of this my Conversion who am a born Jew and who drunk their superstition from out my mothers brest and from my Childhood untill my Manly years have been instructed in their Synagogues and strengthened in their Talmuth books which are by them in use and have been much exercised especially in Jewish Questions out of those said Talmuths against forreign Rabbies and what such like they in their dreams expound and learn Therefore I departed from such fraternity and embraced the true Spouse of Christ the right Bridegroom with publike confession of her only saving Faith by the grace of Jesus Christ through the holy Baptism regenerate being cleansed and purified from the debt of Inheritance and the sins of unbelief in the precious bloud of the immaculate Lamb promised from the beginning Likewise to make a full and publike expression of my enjoying the right Christian Faith I arrived here in England not out of any doubt that I have therein being throughly confirmed in that Faith by the true knowledge and manifestation of the old and new Testament much rejoycing to have received the Christian Faith which heretofore few or no Jews have done whereof many Christians have much debate and questions therefore but my desire is that so long as Almighty God grants me life to serve him as a right true Christian ought to do Likewise Christian Reader you shall understand how the Jews dishonour the holy and pure birth of Christ in a cursed Book called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say The Story of the hanged which they privately print that the Christian Princes and Potentates should take no notice thereof But the everlasting Sonne of God and Prince of all Princes seeing the injury and vices done unto him punished them according to their deserts for they bringing such cursed books in Poland to the light and to be made publike many of that cursed and viperous Nation were killed exiled and destroyed after the saying of Moses Deut. 28.15 And it shall come to passe if thou wilt not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God to observe to do all his Commandements and his Statutes which I command thee this day that all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee The Lord shall smite thee with madness and blindness and astonishment of heart And thou shalt grope at noon dayes as the blind gropeth in darkness and thou shalt not prosper in thy wayes and thou shalt be onely oppressed and spoiled evermore and no man shall save thee As more plainly in the same Chapter is prophesied Moreover I will plainly declare and make notorious unto all Christians as well to the learned as the unlearned that they may both see hear and understand how these poor Jews do expound the holy Scripture Prophets and Testaments in their Talmuds Fables Dreams Dialogues and such like foolery even as wicked carnall men or a lewd drunken woman who seeketh not after that which is pure or the truth but do visibly more and more bring the curse of God upon them as Esay witnesseth in his sixth Chapter and through Gods Ordinance prophesied to them saying Ye hear indeed but understand not and ye see indeed but perceive not make the hearts of these people fat and make their ears heavy and shut their eyes lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and convert and be healed I am well assured that my Conversion and declaring of their unjust dealings and fooleries shall please them as well as a staff or the grass doth the dogg but they shall know that I do it for no other end but that truth may victorize against all such blasphemous people and Nations not that I will in any wise compare them unto their ancient Parents and right seed of Abraham for assuredly they were elect and the Children of God I hope that through this my writing Christ shall cure them of their blindness open their ears and soften their hard-hearted hearts with this my writing And I do not only speak unto them but also pray them that they will do so much as inquire and seek into the holy Scripture which they have altogether rejected and they will find it will appear if they seek they shall finde and if they knock it shall be opened unto them and verily they shall see and finde that my Instructions and Exhortations are most true but with this condition they must set aside their dreamings invented humane Talmuths together with the method of their Rabbies expounding then may they be brought out of the captive and dark Aegypt into the right way and bright shining light of Christ our right and undoubted Messias and belong unto the truth and be transfigured even as I have already been enlightned through the assistance of the holy Spirit thanks and praise be to God therefore Then shall they all perceive and understand and our joy shall be compleat for the time is now at hand but not as they hope

for And although many learned Christians have written unto them of the true Messias yet I am in hope that such Jews and their children as have formerly known me will more look upon this my writing and be converted unto Christ forasmuch as they know I was not one of the least of their Rabbins amongst them and therefore have not through ignorance or blindness imbraced the true Religion and Christian Faith untill I had right and well searched and enquired into the holy Scripture and so found my portion and the due belonging thereto And to yee beleeving brethren and Christians shall I communicate certifie and declare of the Jews naturall enmity against all Christians in Cursing all Kings Princes Potentates and all Christians whatsoever as also their Kingdoms and Countries and especially departed and converted Jews which are regenerate unto the Christian faith through the holy Baptism and what manner they use in that cursed Ceremony shall be expressed in this Treatise though I hold it unnecessary to write much thereof because I suppose that more learned Christians have the knowledge thereof already Yet I hope that all true beleeving Christians will accept of this small and short Book expressing and revealing the wickedness of the Jews and hope you will excuse my weakness and unfit understanding and knowledge in the English tongue whereby I am not able to express by word of mouth to any one what I shall here set forth being things of great concernment as of the stupid hearts and natures of the Jews and of the falling of bloud from Heaven four times every year in the Jews houses and at what time of the year it falleth shall be here declared humbly desiring all those who shall read this my little and first Christian work to take it in good part as from a beginning scholar and young Christian The Jews hoping for their Messias and the manner of his coming according to the foolish Opinion of their Rabbies THe Jews have a Book called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in the 106. page is expressed that they shall have two Messiasses the first shall be called Messias Ben Joseph and the other Messias Ben David the first shall be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is interpreted a Warrior or brave Captain But they themselves know not in what manner he their Messias shall come or rule or reign many of the Jews writing thereof but none agreeing one with another so that their blindness still remaineth and from time to time they become more blind falling from one Scripture to another and after much running and enquiring of their Rabbies concerning the same they can obtain no knowledge or understanding thereof in their hardned and astonished hearts according to the saying of the Prophet Zechariah Chap. 12. And they shall look on me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his only sonne and shall be in bitterness for him as one that is in bitterness for his first-born which speech is spoken of Christ and no other as hereafter I shall cleerly shew and set forth But they interpret this saying of the Prophet in another manner in their foolish Talmuth in the Book 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chap. 10. where they say that Messias Ben David the second in a battell against Gog and Magog shall be slain And as it is further written in their Talmuth when their Messiasses come together they shall make warre with the Christians and the Christians shall have a Captain called Gogmagog with whom their Messias shall joyn in battell and they write much of their Messias through their own evil nature and the spirit of the Devil which they call in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they write and speak that God shall say unto their apparent Messias the sonne of David Ask of me and I shall give thee but make no mention what God shall or will give unto him They reject the holy books of Psalms where God speaks through the mouth of the Kingly Prophet David in his second Psalm Thou art my Sonne this day have I begotten thee ask of me and I shall give thee the Heathen for thine Inheritance But say they when Messias Ben David is so slain Messias Ben Joseph shall come before the face of God saying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Omnipotent and Ruler of the World I desire nothing of thee but Everlasting life and the Lord God shall answer to him I will give thee such Everlasting life Here may every good upright and Pious Christian behold and perceive how this blind and heart-stopped people reject the holy Scriptures Prophets and Ministers through their Rabbies ignorant and unfit knowledge for they have no thought in the least of such a Messias as should redeem them from their sinnes and spirituall captivity but of a valiant Man who shall so valiantly fight with the Christians shall slay them and overcome them take their houses goods and Lands from them and give them unto the Jews for their Inheritance having no other thoughts in them but how they may rob the Christians of their goods Further they write in the before mentioned book 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fol. 96. That they shall be delivered in the Moneth of May through their Messias but Rabi Asua said and supposed that it shall come to passe in the Moneth of April for his Argument is That in this Moneth they have been alwayes delivered And when he shall appear writes Rabbi Solomon in his book Erat in the 4th Chapter that it shall be upon an Asse and properly upon such an Asse as Abraham the Patriarch rid on when he was to offer his sonne Isaak as it is to be seen Gen. 22. upon whose Asse they say Moses and Cipora his wife rid on likewise when they arrived into Aegypt and they think it can no otherwise be but that their Messias must come upon such an Asse Now my loving Jews I suppose surely that it shall be an old strong and great Dogg whom ye miserable filthy men must well bathe and anoint that his old bones may be nimble and strong otherwise at the battell and fight against the skilfull good and valiant Christians he must not conquer or be worth a pibble stone But they think That as it shall come to passe that their Messias shall appear upon such an old Asse it shall be solemnly represented after this manner First Elias the Prophet shall arrive and reveal unto them such a joyfull message and tyding that such an omnipotent and mighty one upon such an old Asse is ready to appear and in a moment with a Trumpet like an Herald or Marshall or otherwise with a great Horn shall he utter his voice which all Jews in all the corners of the world shall hear and be gathered together in one place Now I understand that their Elias shall become an Hunter which shall gather through the voice of his Horn all the Doggs that is to say the Jews of