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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04456	Vindiciæ Judæorum, or A letter in answer to certain questions propounded by a noble and learned gentleman, touching the reproaches cast on the nation of the Jevves; wherein all objections are candidly, and yet fully cleared. By Rabbi Menasseh Ben Israel a divine and a physician.	Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657.	1656 (1656)	Wing M381; Thomason E.880[1]; Interim Tract Supplement Guide 482.b.3[7]	31,719	45

any good man believe that against his holy law a Iew in a strange countrey especially should make himself guilty of so execrable a fact 4. Admit that it were lawfull which God forbid why should they eat the bloud And supposing they should eat the bloud why should they eat it on the Passeover Here at this feast every confection ought to be so pure as not to admit of any leaven or any thing that may fermentate which certainly bloud doth 5. If the Iewes did repute and hold this action which is never to be named without an epethite of horrour necessary they would not expose themselves to so eminent a danger to so cruell and more deserved punishment unlesse they were moved to it by some divine precept or at least some constitution of their wise men Now we challenge all those men who entertain this dreadfull opinion of us as obliged in point of justice to cite the place of Scripture or of the Rabbins where any such precept or doctrine is delivered And untill they do so we will assume so much liberty as to conclude it to be no better then a malicious slander 6. If a man to save his life may break the Sabbath and transgresse many of the other commands of the law as hath been determined in the Talmud as also confirmed by R. Moses of Egypt in the fifth Chapter of his treatise of the fundamentalls of the law yet three are excepted which are idolatry murther and adultery life not being to be purchased at so dear a rate as the committing of these heinous sins an innocent death being infinitely to be preserred before it Wherefore if the killing of a Christian as they object were a divine precept and institution which far be it from me to conceive it were certainly to be null'd and rendred void since a man cannot perform it without indangering his own life and not onely so but the life of the whole congregation of an entire people and yet more since it is directly a violation of one of these thtee precepts Thou shalt do no murder● which is intended universally of all men as we have said before 7. The Lord blessed forever by his prophet Ieremiah Chap. 29.7 gives it in command to the captive Israelites that were dispersed among the heathens that they should continually pray for and endeavour the peace welfare and prosperity of the city wherein they dwelt and the inhabitants thereof This the Iewes have alwayes done and continue to this day in all their Synagogues with a particular blessing of the Prince or Magistrate under whose protection they live And this the Right Honourable my Lord St. Iohn can testifie who when he was Embassadour to the Lords the States of the united Provinces was pleased to honour our Synagogue at Amsterdam with his presence where our nation entertained him with musick and all expressions of joy and gladnesse and also pronounced a blessing not onely upon his honour then present but upon the whole Common-wealth of England for that they were a people in league and amity and because we conceived some hopes that they would manifest towards us what we ever bare towards them viz. all love and affection But to return again to our argument if we are bound to study endeavour and sollicite the good and flourishing estate of the city where we live and the inhabitants thereof how shall we then murder their children who are the greatest good and the most flourishing blessing that this life doth indulge to them 8. The children of Israel are naturally mercifull and full of compassion This was acknowledged by their enemies Kings 1.20 31. when Benhadad King of Assyria was discomfited in the battel and fled away he became a petitioner for his life to King Ahab who had conquered him for he understood that the Kings of the house of Israel were mercifull Kings and his own experience confirmed it when for a little affection that he pretended in a complement he obtained again his life and fortunes from which ●he event of the warre had disentitled him And when the Gibeonites made that cruell request to David that seven of Sauls sons who were innocent should be delivered unto them the pro●het saies now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel Sam. ● 21 2. as if he had said in this cruelty the piety of the Isra●lites is not so much set forth as the tyranny and implacable rage ●f the Gentiles the Gibeonites Which being so and experience withall declares it viz. the fidelity which our nation hath inviolably preserved towards their superiours then most certainly i● is wholly incompatible and inconsistent with the murdering o● their children 9. There are some Christians that use to insult against the Iewes as Christian homicides that will venter to give a reason of thes● pretended murtherous practises As if the accusation were the● most infallibly true if they can find any semblance of a reason why it might be so As they say that this is practised by them in hatred and detestation of Jesus of Nazareth And that therefore they steal Christian Children buffeting them in the same manne● that he was buffetted thereby to rub up and revive the memory of the aforesaid death And likewise they imagine that the Iewes secretly steal away crosses crucifixes and such like graven images which Papists privately and carefully retein in their houses and every day the Iewes mainly strike and buffet shamefully spitting on them with such like ceremonies of despight and al● this in hatred of Jesus But I admire what they really think when they object such things as these laying them to our charge Fo● surely we cannot believe that a people otherwise of sufficient prudence and judgement can perswade themselves into an opinion that the Iewes should commit such practises unlesse they could conceive they did them in honour and obedience to the God whom they worship And what kind of obedience is this they perform to God blessed for ever when they directly sin against that speciall command Thou shalt not kill Besides this cannot be committed without the imminent and manifest perill o● their lives and fortunes and the necessary exposing themselves to a just revenge Moreover it is an Anathema to a Iew to have any graven images in his house or any thing of an idol which any o● the nations figuratively worship Deut. 7.26 10. Matthew Paris p. 532. writes how that in the year 1240 the Iewes circumcised a Christian child at Norwich and gave him the name Iurnin and reserved him to be crucified for which cause many of them were most cruelly put to death The truth of thi● story will evidently appear upon the consideration of its citcumstances He was first circumcised and this perfectly constitute● him a Iew. Now for a Iew to embrace a Christian in his armes and foster him in his bosome is a testimony of great love and affection But if it was intended that shortly after this child should be crucified to