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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87478	The resurrection of dead bones, or, The conversion of the Jewes. In a treatise, wherein are clearly demonstrated the places where, and manner how the ten supposed lost Tribes of Israel do at this day subsist. With a description of the future glorious estate of the Twelve, at the incomparable union of Judah and Ephraim; which must shortly be in reference to its compleating the whole mysterie of mans redemption, and real establishing of the kingdom of Jesus Christ, after the Jews conversion. / Written by J.J. Philo-Judæus.	J. J.	1655 (1655)	Wing J19; Thomason E1501_1; ESTC R208651	64,571	139

practice and lives without God in the world if knowing of God as he pretends yet notwithstanding does not study to glorifie him as God but in his works does deny him But in Zech. 12.10 In that day I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Ierusalem the spirit of prayer and supplication and they shall look on him whom they have pierced and mourn over him c. In that day that is when Ierusalem shall be a cup of trembling to all the Nations round about and shall be like a torch of fire in a sheaf Now it is well known unto most men who are at all skilfull in the Scriptures that they never were as yet a terror unto any people since they were led away captive by Nebuzaradan into Chaldaea But ever since that time they have been tributaries unto one or other or else by the good providence of God it may be they have had rest for a time as they have in some places at this day But it was and is an unquiet and doubtful rest and at this time they are in bondage with their children under people and nations which neither they nor their fathers have known and therefore this time is still for to come But secondly God will pour out upon them the spirit of prayer and this will be as miraculous in their eyes as it was amongst those in the Acts which had not so much as heard of the Holy Ghost but yet it shall be so powerfull a spirit that when the Lord hath breathed it on their souls it will make all rough places plain and the parched ground shall then bring forth pleasant fruit Indeed so long as the heart is rocky and stubborn the aquaduct or conduit-pipe thereof will be stopped whereby grace should be conveighed to the souls of poor sinners but when the word of the Lord which is sharper then a two-edged sword shall beat upon this same that is harder then the neather milstone it doth presently change its nature milstone it doth presently change its nature even contrary to nature like unto Moses his causing of water to proceed out of the barren rock This is part of those effects which the terrible voice of a holy God produceth in an unholy people so as to think the time past of formality too too much for to spend so vainly And now all old things will be done away and all things will become new in their hearts and this will be the initial of the Hebrews regeneration I am perswaded that those which live to see these days of Israels glorious defence will cry out and that with the same amazement as the Jewes said of Paul Was not this he so Were not these they which did so hate Christ and now they do preach Christ and as the primitive Christians were exceeding joy-full to hear that the Gentiles had received the Gospel and were baptized even so I doubt not but all good Christians will rejoice to hear and to see what great salvation Israel hath obtained But thirdly another sweet effect of this good spirit of God is by causing them to look upon him whom they and we have pierced And though they shall do this with an eye of faith yet intimating as if they now beheld their King and their daily expected Jesus suspending on the Cross and their fathers nailing of him and themselves piercing and thrusting his sides through with the spears of sin And here is faith going out from them before repentance for they are perswaded and doe believe that which they now deny and then they begin to look up Christward with teares in their eyes resipiscentiam agentes and mourn over him with a bitter weeping and mourning like unto the mourning of Hadradrimmon every family apart It will be more then a tear-shedding lamentation yea rather it will be a heart-affecting and an-inexpressible sorrow too unconceivable for any but those who have tasted how gracious the Lord is It will be as I conceive that same sorrow which the holy Apostle deemed unlawful to be repented of because it is only a quick passage out of a barren Kedar into a fruitful Canaan No man can come to the Manziel of Goa before he pass the dangerous shoals of Quiloa And then they shall turn to the Lord with their whole heart and then God will make good that promise I will and you shall and none shall then dare to disquiet Israel any more But the true worship of God in Christ will be established amongst them and then they shall be called the faithful and chosen people the true worshippers of the Father in spirit and in truth And in Jer. 31. what sweet expressions do we find concerning their future estate as in the 9 verse saith the Lord With weeping and with supplications will I lead them in the wilderness God did not thus lead them nay they were then for the most part so far from entreating the Lord for any mercy as that they did demand for this thing and that vanity and that in a murmuring manner so that the Lord did make a great slaughter amongst them for their many prevarications wherewith they provok'd the eys of his jealosie to anger against them And the Lord promiseth further that he will cause them to walk in a streight way wherein they shall not stumble Indeed formerly so long as they did or as any man doth walk loftily and proudly they were and any man is more apt to fall and stumble then he which with the Publican useth to look low and carry his heart humble before the Lord but it shall be otherwise Now God having promised to be their guide and that in a streight way surely there needs not the least distrust for Israel to have concerning their Elohim and Adonai and this is great matter of hope and comfort to Israel that when as in the dayes of old God calling them the fewest in number amongst all the Nations did yet love them above all Nations with a peculiar distinct love So though they themselves doe at this present day conceive that there is no people so scarce the Aramaspi except yet God doth still own them and doth acknowledge Ephraim to be his first-born and therefore he promiseth to be a Father to him But 2. I shall clear it a little by shewing you the consent of the Fathers in believing of this truth And first Augustine writeth Quomodo adhuc mors christi apud Judaeos maledicta est sed proculdubio Deus illuminabit oculos eorum salvos fierent in die salutis That is that although the death of Christ unto this day is held accursed amongst the Jews yet doubtless in the fulness of time God will open their eyes and bring them home to himself even then when he shall take away their sins and put his law in their inward parts then and not till then is their hour of salvation 2. John Chrysostome saith in his book which he wrote against

find or bring that back which in mans capacity was lost Now Bernard writing of Gods omniscience saith Scrutari hoc temeritas credere verô pietas c. And therefore it follows that the Lord having found this scattered and lost sheep of Israel he will in the next place take it up and bring it home in his arms and that with great glory to his holy name like the Prodigal that was loft but is now found that was dead but is now alive which is the great cause of much joy amongst the Angels in heaven It had been better for us if our predecessors had not driven them out of England doubtless the Lord will not leave punishing of us untill we do leave remembring of their faults freely to forgive them and to forget even by receiving of them again to inhabit amongst us For is it not the Proverb Humanum est errare But perhaps some may say Let them come where they will they grow richer then you can do although you taxe them highly For this I do confess that I find one place where it is said in Ezek. 11.18 how that let Israel sojourn where they will being thither dispersed by the providence of God and notwithstanding the Lord was exceeding wroth with them yet he promiseth for to be a little sanctuary to them but it is not here meant of an Italian fabrick built of wood and stone only made for to shelter manslayers from the vertue and righteousness of the law of God which is that he that sheds mans blood by man shall his blood be shed But it is in short that their God will be a covert to them and a hiding place for them until his indignation be overpast He will provide either an outward Hester to help them in time of trouble or else his own arm will save them And so the Father saith well At favor in magno saepe dolore later So that if God had no more mercy nor respect to them then man I do believe where they would be driven away by reason of that present incredulity and God-mistrusting thoughts which are in the hearts of English Protestants I wonder what is become of our Publike Faith whereby our Nation did once submit unto the providence and various dispensations that happened-amongst us Now I say that if we are the people of God and if we do love God surely all things yea even the increase of Jewish riches will work together for our good But were our Saviour upon earth again here preaching amongst us certainly he would call us a faithless generation for our actions as concerning this do testifie that we live in most flavish fear of the worlds inconstancie and mutability and are so perplexed at any outward cross far more then the degenerate Turks are at this day By this we may see for all the specious and glossie pretence of Christians now adayes the paucity of Job-like or Micah-like spirits that will trust God with their lives as well as their estates This is now a great sign of an hypocrite when he dares trust in God no longer then he is showring down earthly blessings on his head but if the Lord do but hide himself in a cloud a while presently he distrusts God and it is in vain to serve him c. But 3 saith the Lord I will strengthen that which was sick Truly was ever any people sicker is any sorrow like unto their sorrow The whole head was sick and the heart also waxed feeble The remembrance of former dayes is enough even to deject them into an utter estate of mourning and lamentation What we that once at whose making mention of the Nations trembled and shook and now to be servile and subject to the proud and scoffing wills of uncircumcised infidels Oh this is that which strikes deep into their affections She that was great among the Nations and Princess among the people is now become tributary Ah poor Israel that now where-ever thou art thou beholdest not any of the sons of men to smile there is none that will appear to comfort thee And therefore with thy Countryman Jeremiah we may cry out Vnto whom shall we liken thee But be of good cheer this is testified of thee that he which did wound thee will also cure thee He only is able to bind the broken-hearted and he will strengthen the feeble knees But for England I shall say nothing but hard-hearted for I cannot otherwise call her when although our Saviour speaking of the good downright Samaritan which being only for our example in this case left this precept behind him saying Do ye likewise As if so be he should have said You that think to have a share in my glory you will in your converse and in your comerce whilst you are in this world often meet with many of my poor sick despised ountrymen and therefore be sure that you let no opportunity slip but doe as this man did as soon as you see them have compassion on them And as God shall shew men mercy in the day of blackness even so let Christians shew mercy to the poor ignorant Jews I am sure there never was more need then now even when they are ready to despair their habitation is become desolate so that she is called by the Prophet but as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers and that all men know to be but very disconsolate But in Amos 9.9 Thus saith the Lord for lo I will sift the house of Israel with a sive but the least grain shall not be lost God will not cast away the very poor of his flock It may be they shall have anguish of soul for a time in all nations and be tossed and shaken to and fro as sometimes it would trouble any Christian heart but to know of their troubles how that on a sudden you shall have by the instigation of some malicious spirits a decree come forth by one Prince or other that within 2 or 3 days time all Hebrews shal be banished such a town or place and then oh miserable what wringing of hands what sighs and sobs will come from these poor creatures what supplicating of Princes giving all to the very clothes of their backs that they may have but a poor village to shelter them in As now the King of Poland will have them prohibited from coming or dweling any longer in Vkrain The Lord knows how ill gotten these riches are meerly for no other end then to extort mony or goods from them which although many times they scarce have yet if not they must expect banishment And next unto this will I adjoin that hellish sarcasm of a German Christian who some years ago boasted That as the Heathens did act their tragedies in the Theatre with Christians and beasts so the Nobles in some parts of Germany made up their sports and pastimes by the abusing some Jews or other And thus let men brag over them and use them as they will yet their

great misery Then will Zion use this proverb again How is the mighty man fallen and the strong man become feeble Those which spoiled us but were not spoiled but now our Emanuel will render them the deserts of their actions even their cruel and bloody persecution of us Oh that men would not be so wittingly guilty as knowing and seeing the Lord is for them dare notwithstanding resist and obstruct them in their way to happiness Doth not the Lord say that although a woman possibly may forget her sucking child yet he will not forget them Now this motherly remembrance here spoken of extends it self further then a bare memory because it is commonly spoken of an inveterate malicious spirit never to forget his enemy but this is of a contrary nature so as to remember with tears and affections with bowels yearning and ready to forgive what is past and to renew yea many times doth increase the original love And so the Jewes God saith are engraven on the palms of his his hands whereby we do note that God is always to them a present help in time of trouble they are fastened as a nail in a sure place and as concerning their election they cannot be moved But by the way I must give this caution That no man from what I have already written should suppose the Jewes to be even now converted and that because as the good Prophet Moses knowing what great miracles there had been wrought before them said Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive and eyes to see and eares to hear unto this day Which miracles as Moses then thought to have been sufficient to perswade them to obedience so now it may be some think that all those strange miracles which were done by our Saviour and have for many years together since been done by his Apostles in the eyes of the Jewes might have been motives extraordinary to produce faith in him who came to save them But as Moses well said then so I may safely say now that for all those wonders that they have seen yet God hath not given them a heart to perceive And I will shew you the chief reason of this present hardness it is as yet because God hath not through his son Jesus Christ convinced the Jewes of their righteousness for I conceive that God hath convinced most of them of sin already But when our Saviours words begin to take effect that is when he comes He will convince the world of righteousness then let any man conclude that their conversion is even at the door Now for to unfold what I find nowhere revealed I must use the Fathers excuse Nemo obligatur ad impossibilia So that the manner of our Saviours convincing Israel of their righteousness we dare not meddle But we that have tasted of Gods mercy and goodness can declare and that with admiration after what an easie and sweet manner of arguing God by his spirit hath convinced us of the foolishness and vanity that is in our own righteousness and then secondly presented us us with the loveliness of the righteousness of Christ and thereby doth enable dark souls to see the necessity that there is of putting on or in being clothed with his righteousness for that without it there can be no hopes of salvation Now this being as I suppose by my own experience the way which God useth towards us I will humbly submit to the will of God in his way to us unknown of dealing with the Jews but shall only beg to hasten it But 2. that I may not be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or as it it used beyond my business I am now about to prove the calling of the ten Tribes In Deut. 28. it is said that if they would not obey the voice of the Lord they should be cast forth into all the kingdoms of the earth and amongst a people which neither they nor their fathers knew Now to unfold this you will all grant that they did forsake and resist the voice of their Saviour and then I prove that this Scripture was not fulfilled in their captivity under the Chaldeans because that Country was well known unto them and to their predecessors And therefore notwithstanding a book of the improbability hereof already put forth I do believe with some Jews in Portugal that many of their brethren are in that part of America called Cochinchino and my reason is this because that except this place of the West world none could be exempted from the knowledge of their Fathers whenas in Solomons dayes people of all Nations that is known nations were made known unto him either by converse or by way of commerce both by sea and land Now this place doubtless is not as yet known unto the Jews no nor the Christians but since Columbus time And then the Lord threatens them further that instead of worshipping of him they should worship wood and stone a matter then the which nothing more rise amongst the Indians as also their Mosaical rites and customs in part still retained by that unknown people of their descent But this as being a matter in controversie I dare not as yet affirm however there are many of those people sweet Christians as I have often understood by godly people that have been there as also by some Le●ters of that worthy man in the Gospel Mr. Elliet a man more to be commended then many in Old England to whom God hath given gifts and graces who will rather turn dumb dogs as the Scripture cals them or else will creep into houses being ashamed of publike light or else like our painted Ladies for fear will not endure a fiery trial left men should see their shame And so by that meanes they draw many after them silly people to follow their pernicious devices although it conduce to the destruction of them both I say this many now adays will do before they will go either to the East or West Indies to preach Christ either unto Jewes or Barbarians mightily forgetting or at least smothering that wofull pronunciation spoken of by the Apostle for the neglect of Gospel-dispensation But to the main matter In Zeph. 3.10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants even the daughter of my dispersed shall bring mine offering Now out of this and from the next Scripture which I shall cite I dare undertake if need require to make good both my propositions although I doe lay aside all those other proofs which I either have or shall put down for the same intent But being that I shall use many other I will only run over these two Scriptures and first From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia that is all such places beyond them or rather on this side that vast river Bracina and also the river of Abagni both of them springing forth out of that great downfal of waters the Lake Colvez from whose top to Gibralters Strait is computed above 1700 miles English So that