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A02727	The Messiah already come. Or Profes [sic] of Christianitie both out of the Scriptures, and auncient rabbins, to convince the Iewes, of their palpable, and more then miserable blindnesse (if more may be) for their long, vaine, and endlesse expectation of their Messiah (as they dreame) yet for to come. Written in Barbarie, in the yeare 1610, and for that cause directed to the dispersed Iewes of that countrie, and in them to all others now groaning under the heavy yoake of this their long and intollerable captivitie, which yet one day shall have an end ...	Harrison, John, fl. 1610-1638.	1619 (1619)	STC 12858; ESTC S116532	67,755	80

it is sayd I will saue them by the Lord their God Ionathan translateth it thus I will saue thē by the Word of their God So where it is sayd The Lord sayd to my Lord sit at my right hand c. The Lord sayd to his Word sit at my right hand Also where it is sayd He sent his Word and healed them Rabbi Isaack Arama upon Gen. 47. expoundeth it to be meante of the Messiah that shall be Gods Word So likewise that of Iob I shall see God in my flesh c. Rabbi Simeon upon Gen. 10. gathereth therupon that the Word of God shall take flesh in a womans wombe Another out of these words Iehovah our God is one Iehovah proveth the blessed Trinitie saying by the first Iehovah is signified God the Father by the next which is Elohim God the sonne and by the other Iehova God the Holy Ghost proceeding of them both to all which is added the word one to signifie that these three are indivisible but this secret sayth he shall not be reve●led untill the coming of the Messiah These are the words of Rabbi Ibda reported by Rabbi Simeon in a Treatise called Zoar of great authoritie among the Iewes where also the sayd Rabbi Simeon interpreteth those words of Isay Holy holy holy Lord God of Hosts in this maner Esay by repeating three tymes Holy sayth he doth signifie as much as if he had sayd Holy Father holy Sonne and holy Spirit which three Holies doe make but one Lord God of Hosts which mysterie of the blessed Trinitie Rabbi Hacadosch gathereth out of the verie letters of IEHOVAH upon those words of Ieremie before recited the two natures of the Messiah both divine and humane his two filiations the one whereby he must be the sonne of God the other whereby he must be the sonne of man concluding thereupon that in him there shall be two distinct natures and yet shall they make but one Christ which is the same that we Christians hold Philo that learned Iewe shall ende this first consideration touching the nature and person of the Messiah as himself writeth in his Book De Exulibus By tradition we haue it sayth he that we must expect the death of an high Priest which Priest shall be the verie Word of God voyde of all sinne whose Father shall be God and this Word shall be the Fath●rs wisdome by which all things in this World were created c. Th●refore the Messiah must be both God and man both by the Scriptures as also by their owne writers they cannot deny it That the Messiah must change the Law of Moses AS the Messiah must be both God and man euen the naturall and onely begotten Sonne of God and the verie Word of God incarnate voyde of all sinne able to satisfie the wrath of his Father and to fulfill the Law of Moses for us which Moses himself could not doe nor any other after him It was a burdensome Lawe to the children of Israel A yoake which neither they nor their forefathers were able to beare so having once in his owne person most exactly accomplished the same here on earth together with all rites ceremonies prophecies types figures and circumstances of his comming clearely fulfilled in him and by him It was necessarie I say the substance being once come those shadowes and ceremonies should cease and be abolished I meane the ceremoniall Law totally for as touching the morall Law or the Commandements he sayth I came not to destroy the Law or the Prophets but to fulfill them onely thus farre hath he abolished that too he hath taken away the curse of it hanging it on his crosse euen the handwriting that was against us together with himself crucified This ceremoniall Law of Moses I say consisting of such a multitude of ceremonies figures types sacrifices c. all of them for the most part pointing at the Messiah to come for by those outward signes and services appointed by God to his people they were still put in mind of his covenant and assured of his promise that the Messiah should come Moreover it being proper and peculier to one onely nation in all the world namely Iurie the exercise thereof permitted but in one onely place of that countrie namely Ierusalem whither everie man wa● bound to repaire three tymes everie yeere to wit at the Pasqua Pentecost and the feast of Tabernacles there no where else to offer sacrifice I say this Lawe of Moses being altogether ceremoniall and peculier to that nation it was necessarie at the comming of the Messiah the same should be abolished and a more generall and perfect Law giuen and established a Law that should be cōmon to all men serue for all countries tymes places and persons otherwise how could the Gentiles be made pertakers of the covenant aswell as the Iewes how could all these nations so farre distant from Ierusalem repaire thrice everie yeere thither how should everie woman dwelling in the East or West Indies repaire thither for her purification after everie childbirth as by the Law of Moses she was commanded Levit. 12. Therefore it is manifest that this Law of Moses was giuen to continue but for a tyme euen till the comming of the Messiah and then another to come in place to continue till the worlds ende This signifyed Moses to the people after he had delivered the former Law to them saying The Lord thy God will rayse up unto thee a Prophet like unto me from among you euen of thy brethren unto him thou shalt hearken As if he had sayd yee shall heare me till he come who must be a Lawgiver as my self but of a farre more absolute and perfect Law and therefore more to be reverenced and obeyed And then he addeth in the person of God himself this thundering sentence against all misbelievers Whosoever will not hearken unto my Word which he shall speak in my name I will require it of him Which words cannot be verefied in any other Prophet after Moses untill Christ for that of those Prophets there arose none in Israel like unto Moses Deut. 34.10 They had no authoritie to be Law givers as Moses had but were all bound to the observation of his Law till Christ should come whom Moses here calleth a Prophet like unto himself that is a Lawmaker exhorting all men to heare and obey him Hereunto the Prophets subscribe none of them all presuming to take upon them that priviledge to be like unto him A prophet like unto Moses they must let that alone to the Messiah whose office it is to change the Law of Moses giuen upon mount Sinay in stead thereof to promulgate a new Law to beginne at Sion as sayth the Prophet Isay The Law shall goe forth of Sion and the Word of the Lord from Ierusalem Which cannot be understood of Moses Law published eight hundreth yeeres before this prophecie and that from Sinai not from Sion but

albeit she were dead aboue two thousand yeeres before they were slayne aboue one thousand and fiue hundreth before Ieremie wrote this prophecie Among which Infants Herod also for more assurance slewe an infant of his owne for that he was descended by the mothers side of the line of Iuda Which crueltie comming to Augustus his eares he sayd he had rather be H●rods swine then his sonne for that he being a Iewe was prohibited by his religion to kill his swine though not ashamed to kill his sonne Sixtly his flying into Aegypt herevpon as also to fulfill that prophecie out of Aegypt have I called my sonne which I say inlargeth further saying Behould the Lord rideth vpon a light cloud which is his flesh or humanity and shall come into Aegipt and all the Idols of Aegipt shall tremble at his presence which later pointe Eusebius sheweth was fulfilled most evidently in the sight of all the world for that no nation came to christian religion with so great celerity and fervour as did the Aegyptians who threwe downe theire Idols before any other nation And as they had beene the first in Idolatrie to other countries so were they the first by Christ his cōming vnto them that afterwards gave exāple of true returne vnto their creator It followeth in Isay I will deliver the Egiptians into the hands of cruel Lords these were the Roman Lords and Princes Pompei Caesar Antonie c. a mightie King shall raigne over thē c. this must needs be Augustus the Emperor who after the death of Cleopatra the last of the blood of the Ptolimies tooke possession of all Egypt and subjected it as a province to the Romaine empire But after these temporall afflictions threatned against Egypt behold a most Euangelical promise of deliverance In that day shall fiue cities of the land of Egypt speake the language of Canaan c. In that day shall the altar of the Lord be in the middest of the Land of Egypt c. They shall crye unto the Lord because of their oppressors and he shall send them a Saviour and a great man and shall deliver them c. The Lord of Hosts shall blesse them saying Blessed be my people of Egypt c. This blessing I say the Egyptians obteyned by our Saviours being in Egypt whom here the Prophet calleth by his owne name Iesus a Saviour a great-man Finally the comming of Iohn Baptist his forerunner or Messenger as was propheci●d Behold I will send my Messenger and be shall prepare the way before me and the Lord whom ye seeke shall speed●ly come to his temple And againe I will send you Eliah the Prophet that is to say Iohn the Baptist in the spirit and power of Eliah as an angell from heauen expoundeth it appearing to Zacharias his father in the temple sent to foretell him both of his birth as also by what name he should call him euen Iohn saying thou shalt call his name Iohn he shal be great in the sight of the Lord c. he shall goe before him in the power and spirit of Eliah And therefore our Saviour in plaine termes he calleth him Eliah Mat. 11 14. And if you wilt receiue it this is that Eliah which was to come he that hath ears to heare let him heare And as our Sauiour gaue him his due before a multitude then assembled calling him Eliah So did this Eliah also giue our Saviour his due in acknowledging him for the Messiah not assuming unto himself that honour offered unto him by the Iewes but refusing it absolutely and laying it upon Iesus our Saviour the true owner Then this is the recorde of Iohn when the Iewes sent Priests and Levites from Ierusalem to aske him who art thou and he confessed and denyed not and sayd plainly I am not the Christ I am not the Messiah I baptise you with water but there is one among you whom ye knowe not he it is that commeth after me which is preferred before me whose shoe l●tchet I am not worthie to unlose These things were done in Bethabara beyond Iordan where Iohn did baptise The next day Iohn seeth Iesus c●mming to him and sayth behold the Lambe of God which taketh away the sinne of the world This is he of whom I sayd after me cōmeth a man that is preferred before me for he was before me and I knew him not but bec●us● he should be declared to Israel therefore am I come baptizing with water So Iohn bare record saying I sawe the spirit come downe from heauen l●k● a doue abiding upon him And I knewe him not but he that sent me to baptise with water he sayd unto me upon whom thou shalt see the spirit come downe and stay still upon him that is he which baptiseth with the Holy Ghost And I sawe and bare record that this is the sonne of God According as it is in the other three Euangelists more at large expressed how that Iesus when he was baptised came strait out of the water and loe the heauens were opened unto him And Iohn sawe the spirit of God discending l●ke a doue and lighting upon him And loe a voyce came from heaven saying This is my beloved sonne in whom I am well pleased The next d●y Iohn stood againe and two of his disciples and he beheld Iesus w●lking by and sayd Behold the Lambe of God and the two disciples heard him speak and followed Iesus All this was done at Bethabara beyond Iordan in the sight and hearing of a number of people there present as three of our Euangelists doe report which they would never haue presumed to haue done had not the matter beene most evident and without all compasse of denyall or contradiction And truely no one thing in all this storie of Iesus life doth more establish the certaintie of his being the true Messiah then that Iohn the Baptist whose wisedome learning vertue and rare sanctitie is confess●d and recorded by the writings of all our adversaries should refuse the honour of the Messiah offered unto himself and lay it upon Iesus and also should direct those disciples that depended upon him to the onely following and imbracing of Iesus doctrine which is most evidently proved that he did for that somany followers and Disciples as himselfe had not one appeared ever after that was not a Christian. These circūstances I say of the birth cōming of the Messiah into this world so lōg before foretold by the Prophets fulfilled so exactly in the person of our blessed Lord Saviour wel considered I may at length conclude Heaven and earth concurring men and Angels with all other creatures applauding therevnto yea God himselfe from heaven pronouncing it this is my beloved sonne in whome I am well pleased That therefore as sure as God is God and cannot lye nor give testimony to any vntruth so sure is Iesus Christ the sonne of God the true Messiah and

his divine power they were also foretold by the Prophets to wit the sending of the Holy Ghost that comforter from on high with the sodayne strange and myraculous increase of his Church throughout the world even against all worldly power and policie by the onely power and ministerie of his worde confirmed with signes and wonders that followed wrought by his Apostles Disciples and other his faithfull servants and witnesses in the primitive Church then the which there can be no greater argument in the world of the truth of Christian Religion if we consider how all other religions in the world have growne and been maynteined by force of armes fyre and sword this onely by the preaching of Christ crucified in all na●ions hath increased multiplyed shall doe more more to the end of the world this must increase all others decrease how so ever the Turks have possessed the greatest part of the world at this day yet our Saviours prophecie in the end shal be found true this gospel of the kingdō shal be preached throughout the whol world for a witnesunto al natiōs Now for the first increase of it how smal a number were there gathered together after the ascention at Ierusalem from whēce they were to march even the twelue Apostles no great armie Godwat to cōquer the world as it is in that place The law shall goe forth frō Ziō the word of God frō Ierusalē There was the Rendevous there they staid there they rested there they cōtinued in prayer and fasting till such time as Christ af●er his ascension according to his promise sent them the comforter even the holy Ghost induing them with power frō on high arming thē at all points for so great a work When and where being gathered togither all with one accord in one place sodenly there came a sound from heaven as of a mighty wind and filled all the house where they sate And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like fyre and it sate upon each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as there is mentioned And with these fiery cloven tongues these 12. silly soules without any other meanes men money or munitiō in a very short time conquered a great part of the world In so much that at one sermon of S. Peter at the same time there were added to the Church three thowsand soules And so multiplied successively from time to time and from place to place spreading it selfe from one country to another and from one nation to an other and so at length into all nations there is neyther speach nor language where their voice is not heard their line is gone forth through all the earth and their words into the ends of the world as we see it is come to passe this day Of which cōming of the Holy Ghost in the time of the Messiah Ioel prophesied saying And it shal be in the last dayes that I wil power out my spirit vpon all flesh c. and on my servants and on my handmaids I will powre out my spirit c. It filled all the howse where they sate it sate upon each of them and they were all filled with the holy Ghost Here is a deluge of Gods grace powred upon the world immediately upon the ascension of our Lord and Saviour First vpon his Apostles and disciples of those times in greater measure as the first fruites of his spirit by the which they wrought miracles spake all manner of languages healed all maner of diseases cast out Divils raysed the dead and lastly sealed the same with their blood Poore fishermen and such like of no reputation in the world without learning without credite without meanes as before yet by this meanes conquered the world to the subjection of their maister Christ that stone cast aside of the builders but now become the heade stone of the corner this is the Lordes doing and it is marvelous in our eyes The sinceritie of the Evangelistes NOw for the Evangelists or writers of the Gospell that is to say the registers of his birth life doctrine and death it is to be noted that our Saviour being God tooke a different way from the custome of man in delivering vnto us his lawes precepts For that men who have been lawmakers vnto the world knew no surer way of publishing their lawes and procuring authoritie to the same than to write them with their owns handes and in their life time to establish their promulgation So Lycurgus Solon and others among the Grecians Numa to the Romans Mahomet to the Sarasins But Iesus to shew this divine power in directing the pen and stile of his Evangelists would not leave any thing written by himselfe but passed from this world in simplicity and silence without any further shewe or ostentation of his owne doings Meaning notwithstanding afterwards to his glorie and the aedification of his Church here on earth by foure irrefragable witnesses or remembrancers the four Evāgelists every word should be established recorded As may appear by that place where he saith These things have I spoken vnto you being present with you but the Comforter which is the holy Ghost whom the Father wil send in my name he shal bring all things to your remembrance which I haue told you Wherevpon I inferre that the Evangelists and Apostolicall writers were all of them guided and directed by one and the same spirit even the spirite of God for the registring of all things eyther sayd or donne by our Saviour so farre forth as seemed best to his divine will and pleasure to be registred and recorded for the benefite and edification of his Church For there were many other things which Iesus did as Io. the Evāgelist testifieth which are not written that is to say which the holy spirit of God thought needlesse to faith and salvation but saith he these things are written that ye might beleeve that Iesus is the Christ the sonne of God and that in beleeving ye might have life through his name Now for these Evāgelists foure in nomber which some have resēbled to the foure beasts in Ezek the first last are Apostles that wrote as they had seen the two middle at disciples who registred things as they had ūderstood by cōferēce with the Apostles The first gospel was written by an Apostle to give light to the rest and the last also by an Apostle to give authoritie and confirmation to the former The first was written in the Hebrew tongue for that all those myracles which Iesus wrought were doone in that countrie he was not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel to the end that eyther the whole nation might beleeve them or the obstinate impugne them which yet never any of theire Rabbines tooke in hand to doe The other three were written in the most famous

Temple of Ierusalem for the greater glorie of that second temple That he should flee into Egypt and be called thence againe That a starre should appeare at his birth to notifie his comming into the world That Iohn Baptist who came in the spirit and power of Eliah and therefore was called Eliah Luk. 1 17. Mat. 11 10 14. should be the messenger to goe before him and to prepare the way to crye in the desert That he should beginne his owne preaching with all humilitie quietnes clemencie of spirit That he should be poor abject and of no reputation in this world That he should doe strange miracles and heale all diseases That he should dye and be slayne for the sinnes of his people That he should be betrayed by one of his owne familiars That he should be sold for thirtie pieces of silver That with those thirtie pieces there should be bought afterwards a field of ●o●sheards That he should ride into Ierusalem upon an asse That the Iewes should beat and buffet his face and defile the same with spitting That they should whippe rent and teare his bodie before they put him to death That he should be put to death among theeues and mal●factors That he should be silent before his enemies as a sheep before his shearer That he should pray for his enemies and persecutors That they should giue him vineger to drinke divide his apparel and cast lots for his upper garment That the maner of his death should be crucifying that is nayling of his hands and his feete to the crosse That his side should be pearced and that they should looke upon him whom they had so pearced That not a bone of him should be broken figured in the Passeover by that spotles lambe without blemish a type thereof and therefore is he called in the newe Testament the Lambe of God that taketh away the sinnes of the world the Lambe slayne from the beginning of the world That he should rise againe from death the third day That he should ascend into heauen and there sitte at the right hand of his Father triumphantly for ever All these particulars foretold of the Messiah see I say and examine how exactly they were all fulfilled in our Saviour And there withall consider those things which fell out afterwards as effects of his divine power To wit the sending of the Holy Ghost immediately after his ascension with the miraculous increasse of his Church even in the middest of persecution The severe punishmēt of all his enemies especially that of the Iewish nation The subjection of the Devil with all his infernall power vnder his Apostles and Disciples feete togea●her with the ceasing of oracles And finally the fulfilling of all his Prophecies with those likewise of his Apostles and Disciples most exactly I say all these with the former put togeather and well considered may s●ttle the hart of any Christian man against all Induisme Paganisme yea and Atheisme too in the most undoubted truth of his profession to wit the Christian religion with this full and finall perswasion wherewith I will knit up all that there is no other name under heaven given so the sonnes of men whereby to be saved but the name of Iesus Christ. And therefore to him be the honour of our Salvation ascrib●d and to no other To him I s●● with the Father and the Spirite even t●at bessed Trinitie 〈…〉 glorie now and evermore Amen Amen To the forlorne and distressed Ievves in Barbarie And in them to all others now groaning under the heavie yoak of captivitie in what natiō soever scattered dispersed throughout the vvorld Grace mercy and peace be multiplied in Christ Iesus the true Messiah BEing imployed not long since into Barbarie the land of your capt●vitie where at this present you live in great bondage slav●ri● so have done this long time as doe also the rest of your brethren and nation elsewhere dispersed throughout the world groaning under the yoak of their cruell taskmaisters as did your forefathers in the Land of Egypt foure hundred and thirtie yeres this captivitie of yours having continued now almost foure tymes 400 yeeres the last and greatest of all than the which was never heard nor read of greater of any people from the creation of the world to this day nor shall be the King at that time of my arr●vall vpon his expedition towards Fez I appointed to stay at Saphia till his returne back from those warrs where I remained in the lower castle almost six monthes solitary and in suspense expecting the doubtfull event thereof Wh●ther resorted to me often to accompany me and for my better instruction in the Hebrue whereof I had a litle tast before one of the cheife Rabbins of that your synagogue Rabbi Shimeon a man of grave and sober cariage and pleasant otherwise of whose company I was very glad Now and then among other matters arguing and reasoning of the Messiah as ye say yet to come but as we say c are able to prove by invincible arguments and demonstrations both out of your owne Lawe Rabbines al●eadie come which gaue me occasion having little els to doe and not knowing how to passe that tedious time better ●o gather togither all those arguments and reasons I had read or for the present could conceive of my self drawne both out of the sacred scripture and other bookes as touching that controversie Wher● by I might be the more able over and besides the matter of imployment busynes I came about to maintayne that Religion prof●ss●d in my countrie and the undoubted faith whereof his Maiestie the King of Great Britayne as others his predecessors have donne professeth himselfe a cheife defender according to that his most iust tytle defender of the faith And afterwards when the King sent for me to Morocus being lodged amongst you by his appointment in the Iudaria in one of your principall Houses where I staid before I could get my despatch from the King three Monthes and a halfe where also I grewe familiarly acquainted with divers of your nation and was presented at sundrie times especially at your mariages and solemne feasts with divers of your dainties which I tooke very kindly and ever since have studied what Christian dainties I might send you backe againe in recompence or rather duties in steed of those dainties Seeing also in the meane time which I could not choose but see with much pity and compassion the great and grievous oppression vnder which you grone taxations vexations exactions grammings as you call them even with torments rather than fayle drubbings so many hundreth blowes at once as my selfe have both seen and heard with that base servile and most contemptible state and condition otherwise above any other