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A94301	Ievves in America, or, Probabilities that the Americans are of that race. With the removall of some contrary reasonings, and earnest desires for effectuall endeavours to make them Christian. / Proposed by Tho: Thorovvgood, B.D. one of the Assembly of Divines.	Thorowgood, Thomas, d. ca. 1669.	1650 (1650)	Wing T1067; Thomason E600_1; ESTC R206387	111,535	185

our owne ignorance by the cunning craftinesse of men who lie in waite to deceive for the unstable are either wickedly set to worke changes upon those that are setled for ends of their owne or weakely carried up and downe through the uncertaine apprehensions of things differently represented unto them sometimes one way and sometimes another so that between the motions of mens spirits subtilly unstable tending to unsettle others and weakely stable susceptible of any unsettlement from others all our changes and disorderly carriages both in divine and humane affaires doe arise when either those that have no principles of truth to walke by study lies to puzzle those that pretend to walke by rules or those that have true principles vary from one another in their degrees of understanding and in their manner of applying the same to advance knowledge and to make discoveries of Gods manifestation of himselfe for as these motions meet with one another in opposite courses and men led thereby stand by one another in disproportionat frames or justle one another out of their places for contrary ends so all our confusions and revolutions of Churches and States and therein of scientificall straines and of practicall undertakings arise differently in the world here then is a threefold diversity in acting the changeable and moveable disposition of the one sort is made to try the stability of the other two and those that are setled in an ordinary way are tryers to those that are led forth to something that is extraordinary and those that upon allowed principles do rationally bring forth something more then ordinary try the ingenuity of the other two how farre they love truth for it selfe So that each of these puts his neighbour to the triall of his property and constraines him to manifest the nature of his way how farre it is or is not from God And although every thing which is beyond the ordinary straine is liable to be censured and contradicted by men of ordinary apprehensions who condemne for the most part as extravagant and ridiculous whatsoever is not levell with their capacities yet I am inclined to believe that there is alwaies something of God in all men that are led forth by extraordinary motions namely when their spirits doe not reject the common true principles and yet are raised above them to apprehend conclusions and inferences which are not common and when their affections are regularly constant to their workes and their undertakings pursued with sobriety in the feare of God then I conceive that God hath put upon them a speciall stampe and character of his vertue by which he doth fit them for some designe and service whereunto he hath raised them I have observed this in very many men of publike spirits most commonly they have bin laught at by others for going out of the common road-way of acting whether to make good some opinions which others never dreamt of or to doe some businesse which others have thought impossibilities to be effected I say I have observed that when they have been led forth with modesty without selfe conceitednesse and vanity and when they have prosecuted their enterprises with remarkable perseverance that God hath made them one way or other remarkably instrumentall and usefull towards their generation for the advancement of his worke which is the reformation of this world and the restauration of all things by the kingdom of Iesus Christ whereunto all extraordinary gifts and the unusuall leadings forth of mens spirits are preparatives I could instance in severall men which I have known and doe know abroad and at home of severall professions whose studies and endeavours have been lookt upon as whimsies and extravagancies by the road-way-men of that profession and yet I am perswaded that they are led and acted by that Spirit which leadeth the children of God in all truth and because other men otherwise rationall and observant who though not altogether destitute of the spirit yet are not raised above the ordinary pitch do not know the drift of the spirit of these therefore these are lookt upon by them as men of odde conceits I have seen some of the great Rabbies of our times heretofore much scandalized at the proposals and undertakings of Mr Comenius but it hath pleased God to assist him so with grace and support him with constancy in his way notwithstanding many trialls and temptations that he hath been able during his ownelife to see the usefulnesse of some of his endeavours whereof a more full account will be given to the world very shortly I could speake of others whose attempts though not so apparantly successefull during their life yet no lesse usefull in their kind and which in due time will prove the grounds of great advantages and discoveries unto posterity although in the generation where their lot is fallen to live they have not been believed nor received Gods way to dispence grace is not according to outward appearances and for this cause the multitude doth not entertaine the instruments thereof with due esteem nor the meanes by which it is offered to the world with respect because they come in a homely dresse and without the affectation of any shew neverthelesse wisdom at all times is justified by her children and there take notice of her paths and trace the counsell of God therein for they can see that Gods waies and counsels reach from end to end and that he comprehends in his aime both that which is past and that which is present and that which is to come in future ages so that in the conclusion of all he will make it appeare that the unusuall motions of his servants which the world have disesteemed and counted foolishnesse have been the extraordinary worke of his Spirit in them whereby he doth convince the world of sinne of righteousnesse of judgement of sinne because the testimony which they bore to the truth was not received of righteousnesse because they who served their generation faithfully with the righteous use of their talent in the midst of scorners are justly taken away from an unthankfull generation and the evill day to rest from their labours that their workes may follow them and of judgement because the selfe conceited pride and partiality of the wise and prudent of this world shall be judged and condemned by the worke of his spirit when he shall bring all the effects thereof together to make out his compleate designe against the world and by the conjunction of the seemingly scattered parts which his servants have acted upon their stages produce the new frame of a perfect Scene the catastrophe whereof shall make up a building fit for the kingdom of his Son I am fallen upon these thoughts and acquaint you thus with them partly to support mine owne spirit against the contradictions which I meet withall in the way wherein God hath set me for the constant prosecution of peace and truth without partiality amongst my brethren partly to apologize for the

command of our Mohanes these are their Sorcerers wee went as Souldiers towards those parts where thou hast seen thy Brethren to wage warre with them and of all those that entred there not one came backe againe alive wee made a great Armie and entring into his lands all fell downe dead so that not one escaped at last wee raised another Army for the making of which the Countrey was dispeopled wholly so that none but old men women and children remained therein which came to an end as the former had done which those who remained alive and were not gone to that warre perceiving said that the Mohanes had deceived them and were the cause of the death of their Fathers for which they deserved to be put to death having then killed many of them those that remained alive did intreat them to hearken to them and they would discover to them all the truth of that which they knew which having gotten leave declared that which followeth The God of these sonnes of Israel is the true God all that is written in his stories is true they shall be Lords of all the world in the latter end a people shall come hither which will bring many things to you and when the land shall be well provided these sonnes of Israel shall goe out of their habitations and shall become Lords of all the earth as it was theirs before if you will be happy joyne your selves to them The Indian having made an end to relate the prediction of the Mohanes followed on his discourse after this manner My Fathers were Caciques and there are yet four of them These 5 Caciques then having heard what the Mohanes had foretold as if they had been some of the Sages of the Hebrewes came and tooke their habitation neere that place to see if they could get acquaintance with some of thy Brethren They satisfied their desire after a long time by the intercession of an Indian woman because thy Brethren would never speake to our Fathers and he of us that went into their Lands did fall downe dead and none of thy Brethren did passe over to us we therefore made a League with them by the meanes of that woman under these conditions First that five men sonnes to five Caciques or their successors should come to visit them every seventy Moones and that none should come with them Secondly that the man to whom the secret was to be declared should be three hundred Moones old and that nothing of this should be revealed to him in a place inhabited but only in the open field and when it should be revealed that it should be in the company of all the Caciques thus then said the Indian wee keepe this secreet amongst us for the great reward which wee hope for the innumerable services which wee have done to thy Brethren Wee cannot go to see them but from seventy to seventy Moones if no new thing fall out there hath not been any in my time except thy arrivall which they have so much desired and waited for I finde no more but three new things according to my reckoning the first the arrivall of the Spaniards in these Countries the second that Ships arrived in the South sea and the third is thy arrivall Of all three they have greatly rejoyced for they say that the Prophecies do come to passe Moreover the said Monterinos declared that afterward hee came to Honda where the said Indian did bring to him three Indian young men not telling him their names till hee told him that hee might speake freely with them seeing they were his companions whith whom hee was in league and that the other namely the fift was old and for that cause was not able to come The three Indians did imbrace him affectionately and asked him of what Nation hee was to whom hee answered that hee was of the Hebrew Nation of the Tribe of Levi and then they imbraced him the second time and said to him Thou shalt see us one day and shalt not know us wee are thy Brethren by a speciall favour which God hath shewed us and having saluted him they went away the Indian Francis bid him also farewell and that hee went to speak with his Brethren in the company of the other Caciques As concerning this Countrey wee have all the Indians at our command and when wee shall have made an end of these cruell Spaniards wee shall goe and draw you out of the slavery wherein you are if it please God which he will permit because his word cannot faile Finis Laus Deo I Manasseh Ben Israel underwritten beare w●tnesse that this present paper hath been coppied with the whole truth of the originall and that the Author Monterinos is a vertous man and separate from all manner of worldly interests and that hee swore in my presence that all that which he declared was a truth MANASSEH BEN ISRAEL J. DVRY Received this at London 27 of Novem. 1649. The Reader is entreated with his pen to amend these mistakes of the Presse IN the Epistle Dedicatory remove the note at the bottome of the Margin in the third page of b to the second line of the next page Page 5. line 12. read Comestor p. 16. l. 19. r. and uneasie p. 18. l. 3. r. è contra p. 21. 1. Witekind in the margent p. 21. l. 16. r. they were p. 22. l. 23. r. Maternus p. 24. l. 19. r. records indeed p. 32. l. last r. thou p. 49. l. 28. r. Israel was p. 50. l. 8. adde should so farre and so suddenly degenerate p. 6. l. 32. r. converting p. 76. l. 31. r. for our the. p. 80. l. 20. r. your charity p. 93. l. 13. r. Leitourgy and l. 15. r. pray that p. 93. l. 15. r. holy Spirit Our books tell us p. 107. l. 30. r. too late p. 118. l. 11. r. hujus p. 113. p. 126. l. 4. r. 16 c. p. 136. l. 12. r. their lands D. Laert. p. 381. D. Heins in 2. Jo. Hesych φ Io. Maj. Hist Scot. l. 4. c. 9. Sixt. Sen. Bib. S. l. 2. R. p. 97. Wollet Comp. Theol. p. 197. Part. 1. T. 1. Ep. p. 105. lib. 5. c. 8. Nehem 3. 5. 2 Sam. 20 19. Phil. 2. 21. 1 Cor. 13. last Act. 2. 1. Psa 19. 4. Revel 6. 2. Esa 49. 6. De excid Brit. In Bal. Cent. p. 23. Hist l. 1. c. 8. p. 25. Rev. 13. 3. C. 5. 123. Not. in Bed Hist p. 257. Par● 3. Esa 43. 19. K. Theodoric Theodob●rt Clotharius Qu. Brunechild of France and to Aldibert and Aldiberga of England Concil p. 71. Holinsh Chro. part 1. p. 15. Kent Mercia West-Saxons Northumberland East-Angles East-Saxons South-Saxons Deut. 12 8. 2 Pet. 1. 19. 2 Cor. 11. 14. Psal 46. 3. Psal 27. 3. 〈◊〉 8. 12. Act. 7. 56. Tertull. 2 Cor. 5. 7. Job 14. 14. 1 Joh. 2. 18. Heb. 10. 37. Mat. 3. 12. Psal 1. 5. 1 Cor. 4. 5. 2 Thes 2. 17. 3. 3. Heb. 13. 17. Tim. 4.