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A89453	The hope of Israel: written by Menasseh ben Israel, a Hebrew divine, and philosopher. Newly extant, and printed in Amsterdam, and dedicated by the author to the High Court, the Parliament of England, and to the Councell of State. Translated into English, and published by authority. In this treatise is shewed the place wherein the ten tribes at this present are, proved partly by the strange relation of one Anthony Montezinus, a Jew, of what befell him as he travelled over the Mountaines Cordillære, with divers other particulars about the restoration of the Jewes, and the time when.; Miḳṿeh Yiśraʼel. English	Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657.; Wall, Moses.	1650 (1650)	Wing M375; Thomason E1350_3; ESTC R18014	43,634	105

THE HOPE of ISRAEL Written By MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL an Hebrew Divine and Philosopher Newly extant and Printed in Amsterdam and Dedicated by the Author to the High Court the Parliament of England and to the Councell of State Translated into English and published by Authority In this Treatise is shewed the place wherein the ten Tribes at this present are proved partly by the strange relation of one Antony Montezinus a Jew of what befell him as he travelled over the Mountaines Cordillaere with divers other particulars about the restoratiòn of the Jewes and the time when Printed at London by R. I. for Hannah Allen at the Crown in Popes-head Alley 1650. To the Parliament the Supream Court of England and to the right Honourable the Councell of State Menasseh Ben Israell prayes God to give health and all Happinesse IT is not one cause alone most renowned Fathers which useth to move those who desire by their Meditations to benefit Mankind and to make them come forth in publique to dedicate their Books to great Men for some and those the most are incited by Covetousnesse that they may get money by so doing or some peice of plate of Gold or Silver sometimes also that they may obtaine their votes and suffrages to get some place for themselves or their friends But some are moved thereto by meere and pure friendship that so they may publickly testifie that love and affection which they beare them whose names they prefixe to their Books let the one and the other please themselves according as they delight in the reason of the Dedication whether it be good or bad for my part I best like them who doe it upon this ground that they may not commend themselves or theirs but what is for publick good As for me most renowned Fathers in my dedicating this Discourse to you I can truly affirme that I am induced to it upon no other ground then this that I may gaine your favour and good will to our Nation now scattered almost all over the earth neither thinke that I doe this as if I were ignorant how much you have hitherto favoured our Nation for it is made knowne to me and to others of our Nation by them who are so happy as neare at hand to observe your apprehensions that ye doe vouchsafe to help us not only by your prayers yea this hath compelled me to speak to ye publickly and to give ye thanks for that your charitable affection towards us and not such thankes which come only from the tongue but as are conceived by a gratefull minde Give me leave therefore most renowned Fathers to supplicate ye that ye would still favour our good and farther love us Truly we men doe draw so much the nearer to Divine nature when by how much we increase by so much we cherish and defend the small and weake ones and with how much diligence doe you performe this most renowned Fathers who though ye seeme to be arrived to the highest top of felicity yet ye doe not only not despise inferiour men but ye so wish well to them that ye seeme sensible of their calamity ye knowing how acceptable to God ye are by so doing who loves to doe good to them who doe good And truly it is from hence that of late ye have done so great things valiantly and by an unusuall attempt and things much to be observed among the Nations The whole world stands amazed at these things and the eyes of all are turned upon ye that they may see whither all these things do tend which the great Governour of all things seems to bring upon the world by so great changes so famously remarkable of so many Nations and so all those things which God is pleased to have fore-told by the Prophets doe and shall obtaine their accomplishment All which things of necessity must be fulfilled that so Israel at last being brought back to his owne place peace which is promised under the Messiah may be restored to the world concord which is the only Mother of all good things These things I handle more largely in this Treatise which I dedicate to ye most renowned Fathers ye cannot be ignorant that it is not only not unprofitable but very usefull for States and States-men to fore-see the issue which yet is ever in Gods hand of humane Counsels that so they may observe and understand from Divine truth the events of things to come which God hath determined by his Spirit in his holy Prophets I know that this my labour will not be unacceptable to ye how meane soever it be which I trust ye will cheerfully receive because that ye love our Nation and as part of it the Author of this Discourse But I entreat you be certain that I pour out continuall prayers to God for your happinesse Farewell most renowned Fathers and flourish most prosperously Menasseh Ben Israel MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL to the courteous Reader THere are as many mindes as men about the originall of the people of America and of the first inhabitants of the new World and of the West-Indies for how many men soever they were or are they came of those two Adam and Eve and consequently of Noah after the Floud But that new World doth seeme wholly separated from the old therefore it must be that some did passe thither out of one at least of the three parts of the World sc Europe Asia and Africa but the doubt is what people were those and out of what place they went Truly the truth of that must be gathered partly out of the ancient Histories and partly from conjectures as their Habit their Language their Manners which yet doe vary according to mens dispositions so that it is hard to finde out the certainty Almost all who have viewed those Countries with great diligence have been of different judgements Some would have the praise of finding out America to be due to the Carthaginians others to the Phenicians or the Canaanites others to the Indians or people of China others to them of Norway others to the inhabitants of the Atlantick Islands others to the Tartarians others to the ten Tribes Indeed every one grounds his opinion not upon probable arguments but high conjectures as will appeare farther by this Booke But I having curiously examined what ever hath hitherto been writ upon this Subject doe finde no opinion more probable nor agreeable to reason than that of our Montezinus who saith that the first inhabitants of America were the ten Tribes of the Israelites whom the Tartarians conquered and drove away who after that as God would have it hid themselves behind the Mountaines Cordillerae I also shew that as they were not driven out at once from their Country so also they were scattered into divers Provinces sc into America into Tartary into China into Media to the Sabbaticall River and into Aethiopia I prove that the ten Tribes never returned to the second Temple that they yet keep the

called Antonius Montezinus came into this City Amsterdam and related to the Sieur Menassih ben Israel and other Cheisetaines of the Portugall Nation Inhabitants of the same City these things which follow That it was two years and an halfe since that the going from the Port Honda in the West-Indies to the Papian jurisdiction he conducted some Mules of a certain Indian whose name was Franciscus Castellanus into the Province of Qulty and that there was one in company with him and other Indians whose name was Franciscus who was called by all Cazicus That it happened that as they went over the Mountaines Cordillerae a great tempest arose which threw the loaden Mules to the ground The Indians being afflicted by the sore tempest every one began to count his losses yet confessing that all that and more grievous punishments were but just in regard of their many sins But Franciscus bad them take it patiently for that they should shortly injoy rest The others answered that they were unworthy of it yea that the notorius cruelty used by the Spaniards towards them was sent of God because they had so ill treated his holy people who were of all others the most innocent Now then they determined to stay all night upon the top of the Mountaine And Montezinus took out of a Box some Bread and Cheese and Junkets and gave them to Franciscus upbraiding him that he had spoken disgracefully of the Spaniards who answered that he had not told one halfe of the miseries and calamities inflicted by a cruell and inhumane people but they should not goe unrevenged looking for help from an unknowne people After this Conference Montezinus went to Carthagena a City of the Indians where he being examined was put in prison and while he prayed to God such words fell from him Blessed be the name of the Lord that hath not made me an Idolater a Barbarian a Black-a-Moore or an Indian but as he named Indian he was angry with himself and said The Hebrews are Indians then he comming to himself againe confessed that he doted and added Can the Hebrews be Indians which he also repeated a second and a third time and he thought that it was not by chance that he had so much mistaken himselfe He thinking farther of what he had heard from the Indian and hoping that he should finde out the whole truth therefore as soone as he was let out of Prison he sought out Franciscus beleeving that he would repeat to him again what he had spoken he therefore being set at liberty through Gods mercy went to the Port Honda and according to his desire found him who said He remembred all that be had spoken when he was upon the Mountaine whom Montezinus asked that he would take a Journey with him offering him all courtesies giving him three Peices of Eight that he might buy himselfe necessaries Now when they were got out of the City Montezinus confessed himselfe to be an Hebrew of the Tribe of Levi and that the Lord was his Gods and he told the Indian that all other gods were but mockeries the Indian being amazed asked him the name of his Parents who answered Abraham Isaac and Jacob but said he have you no other Father who answered yes his Fathers name was Ludovicus Montezinus but he not being yet satisfied I am glad saith he to heare you tell this for I was in doubt to beleeve you while you seemed ignorant of your Parents Montezinus swearing that he spoke the truth the Indian asked him if he were not the Son of Israel and thereupon began a long discourse who when he knew that he was so he desired him to prosecute what he had begun and added that he should more fully explaine himselfe for that formerly he had left things so doubtfull that he did not seeme at all assured of any thing After that both had sate down together and refreshed themselves the Indian thus began If you have minde to follow me your Leader you shall know what ever you desire to know only let me tell you this whatsoever the journy is you must foot it and you must eate nothing but parched Mayz and you must omit nothing that I tell you Montezinus answered that he would doe all The next day being Munday Cazicus came againe and bid him throw away what he had in his Knapsack to put on shooes made of linnen packthred and to follow him with his staffe whereupon Montezinus leaving his Cloake and his Sword and other things which he had about him they began the journey the Indian carrying upon his back three measures of Mayz two ropes one of which was full of knots to climbe up the Mountaine with an booked sork the other was loose for to passe over Marshes and Rivers with a little Axe and shooes made of linnen pack-thread They being thus accoutred travelled the whole week unto the Sabbath Day on which day they testing the day after they went on till Tuesday on which day about eight a clock in the morning they came to a River as bigge as Duerus then the Indian said Here you shall see your Brethren and making a sign with the sine linnen of Xylus which they had about them instead of a Girdle thereupon on the other side of the River they saw a great smoke and immediatly after such another signe made as they had made before a little after that three men with a woman in a little Boat came to them which being come near the woman went ashore the rest staying in the Boat who talking a good while with the Indian in a Language which Montezinus understood not she returned to the Boat and told to the three men what she had learned of the Indian who alwayes eying him came presently out of the Boat and embraced Montezinus the woman after their example doing the like after which one of them went back to the Boat and when the Indian bowed down to the feet of the other two and of the woman they embraced him courteously and talked a good while with him After that the Indian bid Montezinus to be of good courage and not to look that they should come a second time to him till he had sully learned the things which were told him at the first time Then those two men comming on each side of Montezinus they spoke in Hebrew the fourth Verse of Deut. 6. Semah Israel adonai Elohenu adonai chad that is Heare O Israel the Lord our God is one God Then the Indian Interpreter being asked how it was in Spanish they spoke what followes to Montezinus making a short pause between every particular 1 Our Fathers are Abraham Isaac Jacob and Israel and they signified these foure by the three fingers lifted up then they joyned Reuben adding another finger to the former three 2 We will bestow severall places on them who have a minde to live with us 3 Joseph dwels in the midst of the Sea they making a signe by two fingers