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A39795	Israel redux, or, The restauration of Israel, exhibited in two short treatises the first contains an essay upon some probable grounds, that the present Tartars near the Caspian Sea, are the posterity of the ten tribes of Israel / by Giles Fletcher ; the second, a dissertation concerning their ancient and successive state, with some Scripture evidences of their future conversion, and establishment in their own land / by S.L.	Fletcher, Giles, 1549?-1611. Tartars, or, Ten tribes.; Lee, Samuel, 1625-1691.	1677 (1677)	Wing F1333; Wing L898; ESTC R2002	48,660	138

the Jews a notable mark since they are by divine Providence kept distinct from all other Nations in the midst of their dispersions This Nation shall not pass away but is preserved under some notable design of God for their good and welfare in the latter day for though their strange and admirable disjoyntings and dismembrings ly incumbent as a present curse npon them yet shall it in the end be turned into a glorious blessing At which time when the Lord shall have formed his work upon Zion and delivered the Gentile Churches into their glorious liberty and restored Israel to their own Land to worship our blessed Lord according to his Gospel Institutions in Emanuel's Land then will the times of blessedness shine forth in their radiant lustre prophesied of by holy Doniel the man of desires and those 1000 years felicity to the Church treated of by the beloved Disciple Of these blessed times the Primitive Church had great and illustrious knowledge as being near to the Apostolical times and information Let me give in some evidences before I finish this Paragraph In the first place Justin Martyr in his Dialogue with Trypho the Jew is signally to be remembred as being so very express in this point of the glorious liberty of the Church for a 1000 years in the latter days that he reckons them among the Atheists and wicked Hereticks of his time who denied it For although Justin's Text be corruptly read in our common Editions yet 't is evident by the question of Trypho and the whole following series of Justin's reply that the aforesaid words are verily the genuine mind of that Author since in the following lines he calls them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christians in all things Orthodox who in his days did assert it To prove it he cites the Prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah and especially the last in these words For as the days of the Tree of Life so shall be the days of my People as he reads the 22 verse and thus glosses upon it We understand that the thousand years are designed by those expressions in a secret Mystery for whereas it was said to Adam In the day that thou eatest of the Tree thou shalt dye we know that he did not fulfil a 1000 years and then cites both Peter and John for the same purpose But besides that Primitive Martyr Jerom also though he frequently and testily enough inveigh against it yet in several places manifests that it was the general notion of those early and purer times In his Comment on the 19th of Jeremy mentioning this Kingdom declares himself thus Quae licet non sequamur tamen damnare non possumus quia multi Ecclesiasticorum virorum Martytyres ista dixerunt Which things saith he though we receive not yet we cannot condemn because many Church-men and Martyrs have declared it Again on the 28th of Isaiah glancing at the same persons breaks forth into these words Quorum nequaquam sententia reprobanda est dummodo spiritualiter haec complenda non carnaliter noverimus whose judgment is in no wise to be rejected so be it we acknowledge those things to be fulfilled spiritually and not carnally But in no place doth he more copiously mention that I remember the maintainers of this truth than in his Preface to the 65th of Isaiah where he acquaints us that among the Latin Fathers Tertullian Victorinus Lactantius and among the Graecians that I may pass by others says Jerom Irenaeus Bishop of Lyons were of this apprehension Against whom Dionysius Bishop of Alexandria wrote sharply but Apollinarius answered him in two Volumns Quem says our Bethlemite non solum suae sectae homines sed nostrorum in hac parte duntaxat plurima sequitur multitudo whom not only persons of his own way but a great multitude also of ours do follow only in this particular And therefore presages great opposition to himself in respect to his followiug notes upon the 65 and 66 Chapters of Isaiah Since as he speaks a little before multorum veterum Opinionibus contraire videbimur we shall seem to contradict the sentiments of many of the Ancients I might produce other Citations from his Comments on Hos 1 and 2. and Micah 2 c. but forbear to enlarge Let us hear what Austin speaks to it in his Book of the City of God Quae Opinio esset utcunque tolerabilis si aliquae deliciae spiritales in illo Sabbato affuturae sanctis per domini praesentiam crederentur Nam etiam nos hoc opinati sumus aliquando which apprehension says he however might be tolerable did they believe any spiritual joys to attend the Saints from the Presence of the Lord in that Sabath for even our selves have sometimes bin of this perswasion But good Austin might have reflected upon many Scriptures and several of the Ancients holding out a greater measure of holiness as well as external selicity to be the portion of those happy times of the Church By these Citations and others that might be produced we may clearly perceive that multitudes of holy and learned Persons in Asia Europe and Africa entertained this Doctrine for Scripture truth in the Apostolical and purer Age of the Church But as the Man of Sin did gradually ascend the Chair of Infallible Iniquity So among other blessed truths this also containing an illustrious Branch of Christ's Kingly Office was daily neglected slighted oppressed and almost extinguished by the smoaky fumes of the Bottomless Pit yea at last they came to that heigth that Pope Leo the 10th in the 19th Session of his Lateran Council Decreed That none should presume among other things to preach of or assert the coming of Antichrist lest that grand Imposture should be more discovered But his own Canon Law hath lighted such a Torch to reveal and detect him to the World that all the Lungs of Europe are not able to blow out and 't is exprest thus Siquis c. per seditionem vel presumptionem aut quolibet ingenio electus c. perpetuo Anathemate c. abjiciatur sicut Antichristus Invasor Destructor totius Christianitatis c. If any man be chosen Pope by sedition presumption or any other artifice let him be cast away as Antichrist an Invader and Destroyer of all Christianity by a perpetual Curse And again Siquis pecunia vel gratia humana vel populari seu militari tumultu sine concordi c. electione c. Cardinalium c. non Apostolicus sed Apostaticus habeatur If any be chosen by mony Simony or favour of men or by Popular or Military Tumult without the concording Election of the Cardinals c. let him not be esteemed Apostolical but Apostatical Let then the whole World judge by their own Decrees what they are that sit in the Roman Chair but Antichristian Enemies to the Church who have bin the great opposers and oppugners of this Truth Yea we may

in Stephanus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and likely ist he same with the Candis in Ptolomy upon the River Cyrus which Amimus affirms to have its name from Cyrus the Great the old name being abolisht which with other Cities he places in terris Syromedorum in the Country of the Syrians of Media This may insinnuate that the estimated Fable of Ezra concerning the Israelites travelling from their first seat to some remoter places as Arsareth is nothing but a small remove to some more distant Cities North of Armenia and near the Caspian Sea where Ptolomy places the City Arsarata in Lat. 43. 30. on the River Araxis and possibly is the ancient name of the Modern City Arzerum or near it mentioned by Golius out of Abulfeda and very likely is no other then Ariarsathea in the Authentical Collations From all the foresaid disquisition we may collect 1. That I hope with submission to the Learned that the true place is discovered where these 10 Tribes were first seated and from whence they did further Colonize and spread and scatter about in various dispersions by the Caspian Sea and at length grew so numerous that part of the Regions of Media received the denomination of Syro-Media partly from the Tribes of Israel and partly from the Syrians of Damascus who were captivated into the Country of Kir not Cyrene as some have imagined but by the banks of the River Cyrus To confirm this assertion Ptolomy that great Astronomer and Geographer of Pelusium in Aegypt says that this Syro-Media did extend it self 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 on the South of Media all along the Borders of Persia Nay Amimanus expresly determines Ecbatana the true Achmetha in Ezra in the very Country of the Syro-Medians 2. We may infer that these ten Tribes were at first placed in the Northern Frontires of the Assyrian Empire towards part of Armenia and Media which were then under the Kings of the Medes ever since the starting up of that Kingdom at the fall of Sardanapalus and the rising of Arbaces But let thus much serve in answer to the first Query whither the 10 Tribes were carried The 2d Question moved was where these ten Tribes may probably yet seem to reside at this day In answer to this Query I shall endeavour to shew from their first deportation by a chain or link of times from age to age how we may discern as by a lamp of successive Writers where to scituate their present residence As to the first place of their fixation by the Conquering Assyrian where should they be found but where God himself says they were so far forth as we have light from the Holy Scriptures of truth But the Sacred Scripture directly asserts that at the time of the penning of that portion in the book of Kings that they were in those Cities of the Medes to this day and that the Samaritans were placed in theit room to this day where also mention is made of their continuation to the 4th Generation The Author also of the book of Chronicles declares the Israelites to reside in those seats of their Captivity to the day of his writing Now whoever wrote that book or annexed the additions to it for it seems to be composed by parcels at the dictate of the Spirit of God plainly recites the tenth Generation after the time of the Captivity of Judah and yet had asserted the duration of Israel in the state of Captivity so that they returned not when Judah came back again but were still in their captivated station at the additionals to that book yea even to the tenth Generation The Series whereof stands thus Zorobabel 1 Hananiah v. 21. 2 Pelathiah and Jesaiah 3 Rephaiah v. 21. 4 Arnan 5 Obadiah 6 Shecaniah 7 Shemajah 8 Neariah 9 Elioenaj 10 Hodajah c. v. 25. The Septuagint the vulgar translation the Syriak and Arabick v. 21 read Et filius ejus and his Son as if they had found it in the Hebrew text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So that if we place Zorobabel at the building of the 2d Temple according to the learned Vsher A. M. 3485. and give to each Generation but 30 year apeice that is in the whole 300 and add them to the year 3485 they produce the year of the world 3785. Untill which time at the least by the testimony of Scripture the Israelites were still in a state of Captivity and dispersion Though Lavater be of Opinion that these 10 Generations contain the progression of a linage to the very time of our blessed Lords Incarnation which at present I shall leave in bivio and undiscussed But I may not pass over an Objection made to that expression there to this day which arises from the same phrase applied to the Ark although it were taken away at the Captivity of Judah To which it may be answered that the text about the Ark must be considered with analogy to other places Now the History of the Kings and Chronicles does by clear consequence assert the Ark to be carried away in that it affirms that all the Vessels of the House of God great and small and the Treasures of the House of God were taken away and that all the Vessels of Gold in the Temple which Solomon had made called the goodly Vessels of the House of the Lord were carried away together with Jeconiah at his Captivity wherefore Lavater sticks not to expound those general and comprehensive expressions of the Ark Tables and Candlesticks as well as of all the inferiour Vtensils and implements So that though the Ark may be said to have bin in the Temple to the day when the former part of that book was written yet the last Chapter determines its removal among the other costly and glorious Ornaments of the first Temple But as to the ten Tribes the sacred Author of that History having declared them to have continued in Media at the time of his writing of that Chapter neither Ezra or whoever might finish up that Chronicle does in least measure intimate the alteration of their estates but leaves them there without any notice of their reversion but having asserted them to be carried thither and to have persisted in their tragical state to the day of the exaration or penning of those books even to the tenth Generation which whether it concern a Genealogie of persons reaching to the Incarnation of our Lord though we cannot certainly determine yet however ever for some hundreds of years after their deportacion In the next place we read of their remaining still in Captivity in the days of Josephus who wrote under the Reign of Vespasian and his testimony if worthy of any credit ought to pass for currant as to matters of his own Nation Historically considered in his own time In his books then of the Wars of the Jews which were written before his antiquities we read a speech made by King Agrippa to

ruins and inhabited in the same place When God shall bring again the Captivity both of Israel and Judah into the Land which he gave to their Fathers and they shall possess it when they shall serve the the Lord their God and David their King whom he will raise up to them And this is over and over prophecied to Jacob that he shall return not only Judah but all the Seed of Jacob and they shall fear no more and that the Lord will disanul the Ordinances of Heaven before they shall cease from being a Nation before him for ever even the two Families which the Lord hath Chosen the Seed of Jacob he will break first his Covenant with Day and Night and reject his Ordinances both of Heaven and Earth He will heal their back sliding and love them freely for his anger is turned away from them where that holy Prophet treats through that whole Chapter of the excellent State of Ephraim or the ten Tribes in the latter day 8. Arg. 8 The last Argument to prove that the ten Tribes have not attained their promised Felicity to this day but rests under divine good pleasure to be accomplished is this That if those Scriptures are to be construed in reference to a deliverance mixt with Judah by the Indulgence of the Persian Princes of old then must they never have been brought under any farther yoke of Captivity or misery of dispersion which all that were mixt with Judah did undergo by the fatal stroke of the Romans But the Holy Scriptures do promise that when they are reduced to their own Land they shall never remove more Not to insist upon that place in the Lamentations that they shall no more be carried into Captivity since that Text refers unto Judah and Edom sc that Edom shall never more have any influence upon Judah in aiding the Babylonian against him which their sin is sorely threatned by several of the Holy Prophets But there be several Scriptures more pregnant and clear Thou shalt no more be termed forsaken neither shall thy Land be any more termed desolate They shall not sorrow any more at all The City shall be no more plucked up nor thrown down any more for ever Strangers shall no more serve themselves of Jacob. They shall no more be a prey to the Heathen neither shall they bear the shame of the Heathen any more The Lord will cause the men of Israel to walk upon their Mountains and they shall no more bereave Israel of his men by the sword of battel and they shall dwell in the Land that he gave unto Jacob his Servant wherein their fathers have dwelt they and their Childrens Children for ever God will so fully and amply reduce them out of their several scatterings and dispersions that they shall leave none behind them and Judah shall dwell for ever and Jerusalem from Generation to Generation The Lord will bring again the Captivity of his People Israel and they shall build the wast Cities and inhabit them they shall plant Vineyards and they not their enemies shall drink the Wine they shall make Gardens and eat the fruit of them and they shall no more be pulled up out of their Land which the Lord hath given them The King of Israel even the Lord shall reign in the midst of them and they shall see evil no more The wicked insulting enemy shall no more pass through them but shall be utterly cut off The Lord will smite all the People that have fought against Jerusalem with this sore plague Their flesh shall continue away while they stand upon their feet and their eyes shall consume away-in their holes and their tongues shall consume away in their mouth and there shall be no more the Canaanite in the House of the Lord. I might yet further encrease the number of Scripture Arguments and Evidences to demonstrate this assertion that Israel and Judah shall be one Kingdom in the latter days in their Ancient Land and the Territories thereof greatly magnified and augmented that they shall be a holy and spiritual People honoring worshiping and reverencing the Messiah our blessed Lord Jesus their King and ours That Land of Canaan as theirs by right of donation from God was taken away for their rebellion against him But when they shall return to their obedience what should hinder but that they should inherit their ancient patrimony before any other Nation in the World it is their right if God pardon them and command them to return who shall detain their possessions Furthermore that the Church of God united into one body both of Israel and the Gentiles shall enjoy surpassing peace plenty and prosperity in the beauty of Evangelical Ordinances for a long succession of years even till the time of the Son of Mans coming to Judgment But I shall wave any more enlargement at present upon this Subject humbly advising persons to take heed of applying these and other Ancient Prophecies to the solution of the Babylonian Captivity and thereby to contract and narrow the exuberant and resplendent Mercies of God to Israel and Judah since the Apostles both Paul and Peter in the Acts and in the Epistles apply those Texts to the times of the Messiah concerning glorious things spoken of Zion the City of God which were never yet accomplished either before or since the Incarnation of our blessed Lord to this very day Neither do I see how any rational man can make any proper and genuine sense of the Prophets nor deduce any consequencies from them but such as tend to confirm what we have treated on in several arguments to prove and demonstrate that there is a great glory coming on for the Church to enjoy in the latter day I shall for a Coronis to the foresaid deductions present some Srciptures of the Old and New Testament in their orderly series reflecting strongly upon this Truth which would require some Interpretation and then might lye fair for application to this point of the Restitution of Israel and the wonderful splendor of the Church in the close of times in all places where the four Monorchies have obtained from India to the Atlantick Ocean and how far further the Church shall bear sway among the Heathen from Pole to Pole is not for us distinctly to amplifie till holy Scripture doth enable us by future manifestations of some dark places together with admirable Providences commenting by event Restitution of ISRAEL Numb 24. 7 17. Deut. 32. 43. Psal 68. 22. 69. 32 33. 110. 2 3. Song 8. 10. Isai 2. 2. 9. 7. 11. 11. 14. 2. 30. 21 22. 33. 9 17 20. Isai 41. 15. 43. 1 c. 49. 16 17. 51. 1 2 3. 65. 17 c. 66. 12 c. Jer. 3. 17 18. 30. 3. 33. 6. 50. 19. Ezek. 16. 61. 20. 34. 37. 21. Ezek. 39. 21 29. 40. to the end 48. Dan. 12 13. Joel 2. 28