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A88880 Israels condition and cause pleaded; or some arguments for the Jews admission into England. Objections answered, cautions added, with a vindication of Mr. Peters from those foul and unjust aspersions cast upon him by W. Prynn, Esq;. D. L. 1656 (1656) Wing L9; Thomason E1677_2; ESTC R202696 42,532 117

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towards them much less is there any Rule to hate them oppress them expell them our Countrie or our Commerce neither hath God our Father and theirs our Saviour Iesus Christ our and their precious Redeemer nor the Holy Ghost the spirit of love and truth nor yet the word of God in any one plain text line or expression in any part of it none of these we say and that justly and truly hath allowed us to rail at them or revile them with approbrious and unsavory and unchristian language much less to exclude them all even civil societies for though God in his justice did threaten to scatter them into all Nations yet he doth not say they shall be cast out of all Nations an have no being amongst men and to speak truth they are to be scattered amongst all people for if they should not be amongst all Nations how should God and he intends it gather them out of all Nations a generall collection implies a generall casting and if so why not some into England as well as other Countries why we less charitable then all or most of other Nations we have the word of God powerfully preached amongst us and therein we are commanded not to vex the stranger to be barborous to strangers not to hide our selves from our own flesh and surely we cannot but remember the heavy sentence denounced by our Saviour against such as did denie to entertain strangers I was saies he a stranger and ye took me not IN therefore go ye cursed c. The Reasons inducing this treatise are not popular applause or gains but first to do service to God and the Church to stop the mouths and pens of the gain-●ayers to satisfie the scrupulous and to speak a word in season in the behalf of that Nation it being lately controverted but by none yet clearly decided concerning this peoples admission into England three things for this purpose are insisted on and handled 1. Seven Reasons and Arguments positive for the Jews admission 2. Answers to the seeming objections against their coming IN. 3. A short and succinct Apology or defence of H. P. against the tedious unjust and unreasonable unconscionable and uncharitable slander and reviling of a pragmatical Lawyer whose tongue and pen are against every one Princes Priests Magistrates Souldiers not excepted ex pede Herculem you may know the man by his Rosemary and Bayes and by his flower on the wall but to let him alone to be brougt in the Reer we come to our main intendment for the Jews admission into England and that first The first of these they never heard the second of these they never had the third of these they never found 1. In hopes of their conversion and that in three respects first by the power and purity of preaching secondly by our upright dealing in Contracts and Bargains with them thirdly by our civil and gentle comportment and love towards them in our markets and meetings 1. Arg. Hopes of their conversion 'T was the saying of our Saviour to Saint Peter when thou art converted convert thy Brethren which how effectually he performed is plainly to be seen in that of the Acts c. 2. where he did not only convince but also convert 3000. souls at one Sermon Conversion of a sinner to God as it is the greatest happiness of him so it hath as large a reward tyed to it such shall shine sayes Daniel c. 12. as the stars in the firmament shal cover sayes Iames a multitude of sins shall save himself others too sayes the Apostle St. Paul David makes it an Augmentation of Gods glory that sinners shall be converted to thee Psal 51. our Saviour sayes there is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth Luke 16. Now as it is the greatest happiness to effect it and as it is so well rewarded so certainly should all indeavour it 1. To himself 2. To others and though it hath been somtimes immediately wrought by God and his holy spirit by signes and wonders yet who will deny but that Gods word powerfully and purely preached is the usuall and ordinary way and means to beget faith and to work repentance unto salvation now to speak truth In most if not in all parts where the Iews reside the Kings and Princes and People are either without Gods word or else use not to have it preach'd purely purely I say for first the Turks Persians and Heathens have it not then secondly other Countries are wholly Popish and superstitious their Churches and houses and high-waies stored with Images Crucifixes of all sorts and sizes all which the Iews abhorre and t is feared that the Papists doctrine and discipline is so full of scandall and offence to the Jews that thereby they have forborn to embrace the Gospel which as used in Countries full of Popery seems so full of Idolatry forbidden in the Law of Moses and so have to this day rendred the precious Gospel as the savour of death which otherwise might have been the savour of life unto them and as the Apostle Saint Paul saies to the Greeks it seems foolishness and to the Iews a stumbling block and a rock of offence so that through those Popish traditions and superstitions and idolatry the Word of God is made of none effect and therefore as 't is wondred at that so few Jews in so man● Countries and in so many years have been Converted to Christianity 't is plainly known 't is because they are where the Word of God is not preached as it ought to be A heavy burden for such as stand guilty hereof the more is the pity the Pope and King of Spain stand deep in this particular And to speake home to the purpose what was England and Scotland many years ago and till of late but Dens and Cages of unclean Birds of Romes hatching and breeding were not our Kings and Rulers Arch-bishops and Bishops and all the Clergie Nobility and Commons bred up in Popery were not our Temples and Cloisters and Houses and Cities and High-waies stuffed with Saints and Saints Relicks with Crosse of silver and gold the work of mens hands and what marvell was it if the Iews who then lived amongst us were unconverted and so were hated by the blin●e superstitious Clergie as obstinate and obdurate VVhat hopes were then to see the Iews converte when the very teachers and guides of the people were so blind that true and pure and undefiled Religion as St. Iames cals it was almost lost and gone One Wickliff in one age one Tindall in another in all England a John Hus and Jerome of Prague in all Germany and after them a Luther and Melancthon a Calvin and Beza with some few others in all France and Switzerland and these in their severall generations by the Popish Clerg hated persecuted burned and butchered In Henry the Eights reign but one Omen what should after be accomplished by that name One Lord Cromwell who indeavoured and did unkennel and