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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	duke_n	king_n	savoy_n	1,314	5	11.4006	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51733	Anglo-Judæus, or, The history of the Jews, whilst here in England relating their manners, carriage, and usage, from their admission by William the Conqueror, to their banishment : occasioned by a book, written to His Highness, the Lord Protector ... by Rabbi Menasses Ben Israel : to which is also subjoyned a particular answer / by W.H.	W. H.	1656 (1656)	Wing M373; ESTC R12585	34,739	58

them and Nobility of Extraction all which he attributes to the Jewish Nation Profit indeed is the thing that all Kingdoms and States much look after and with good reason for money is the comfort of peace and the sinews of war but such profit is onely desirable as is joyned with glory to God honor to the Magistrate and Countrey and the safety and prosperity of the subject Upon which grounds if I should grant him the application of profitableness to themselves ye● should I think it over-dear to be purchased with such essects as might accompany it God ought to be the beginning and the end and Religion the way of his Worship is principally to be regarded Now toleration of that which is contrary to it or a receiving of them which would endanger it which would not onely be a suffering of Superstition to be practised by oothers but be also an occasion to the Natives of this miscarriage is scarce to be warranted however there where as yet it is not admitted There be certain times and seasons which make that at one time dangerous which might at another be admitted with more security The truth is apt to have not onely fickleness weakness accompanying it but also great differences and dissentions although incorruptible in it self and many though not agreeing in all things yet may be contained within the verge of its necessaries and fundamentals Where the greatest power of Religion is there the Devil is the busiest sowing Tares amongst the Wheat and mixing the corn with his cockle This we must confess is the condition of our Countrey at present and I fear the Jews too well consider it By so much the more therefore as they may desire to come in doubtless in this respect the State hath as great to deny them Honor and Credit is the second thing by which a State ought to rule and according to which order and bound its profit It was a saying of that renowned Lord Burleigh 〈…〉 Lord Treasurer of England when about his Charge in the Revenue that nothing was sit for a Prince that was not also joyned with honor and that he did not like that the Treasury should fill like the Spleen when the whole body was worse for it Now what honor it would be to admit them who were once ●expelled before of whose worth * Judge Cook himself faith th●● Act De 〈…〉 made ●●●●onally to expell them and that the ●●●tee●th granted was pro ●xp●ls●●ne Judae●rum faithfulness and profitableness we have once experienced in our Ancestors I cannot determine But this second rule depends especially upon that which precedes and of this which follows I acknowledge that whilst they were here before much profit redounded to the Kings of England from them but in what way hath been declared not from their merchandizing upon which our adversary principally insists Our countrey is not so convenient for that way as others may be and if they should be here admitted again spread once more throughout the land thousands there would be which could not have opportunity to exercise that way through the inconveniences of their habitations They exercise themselves in that way of life which most suits with their profit and the commodiousness of the place wherein they live Usury was most practised by them here and is still in Italy and other parts where they have not such opportunity of trading But grant that the trade is now enlarged through the discovery of the ●ast Indies by sea and of America as it is enlarged so also more of our inhabitants follow that course then formerly being sufficient to satisfie for that business So that if the Jews be admitted to trade again our Merchants must needs be justled by them and what would redound to the State in Custom and Excise the Land being already sufficiently furnished would not compensate the damage of the subject If many should be suffered to trade this could not be avoided and if not then needs must they betake themselves their number encreasing to some other course of life which might prove no less dangerous they being * Perfida gen● agens quod solet 〈◊〉 in pera c. Crantzius Saxon. lib. 11. cap. 7. noted to be as sucking Leaches where ere they come in some way or other But if they should trade with other Countreys rather in way of Sale and Exportation less profit would the State receive from them He magnifies the skill his Countreymen have in all kinds of merchandize and that is occasioned as he confesses by the opportunity they have being every where dispersed to serve one another And would not this turn to their own advantage more then to the benefit of their entertainers Might they not hereby ingross the Trade wholly to themselves and serving one another cheat the Natives in their Traffick And what would the English be better for their trafficking with their Countreymens money who live in Spain for larger their banks vvould be more they vvould engross the trading And if the King of Spain savv it profitable for him he vvould so far dispense in the Inquisition as to give them no occasion of removing from or keeping this treasure out of his Dominions And vvhat though they have not a Countrey to repair to as other strangers and thereby as he alledges are not likely to take avvay their riches Can they not transport it as they do he tells us in Spain They shortly also expect vve see their Messias to come and restore them to the Countrey of their Ancestors and being aliens they vvould little love the Countrey and so do little for it tending by their good vvills to any great advantage If they be so well received and live so happily all over as he instanceth for illustration of this branch or profit vvhy then are they not content to keep them vvhere they are already It must needs be their ovvn good or ours vvhich they so much desire or for that they must have a Synagogue here also not vvilling but that every place should be blessed with their Religion This he intimates expresly that they might have leave here also to serve God Is it the soil or the air they desire their Religion should be seated in why not as well serve God where they are There 's something more then this in the business But by whom is it they are thus received and entertained he confesses the people hate them generally and must this be for nothing In a fixed and established State where factions do not bandy such as they are generally where they live scarce is any grievously hated but there is some notable cause for it And if the King of Denmark hath invited them into his Dominions or the Duke of Savoy or of Modina it is for some respect or other Perhaps they may be admitted for the same ends our Kings formerly so long retained them viz. for their own gain though much to the Subjects discommodity and