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A62471	Digitus dei: nevv discoveryes with sure arguments to prove that the Jews (a Nation) or people lost in the world for the space of near 200 years, inhabite now in America; how they came thither; their manners, customs, rites and ceremonies; the unparallel'd cruelty of the Spaniard to them; and that the Americans are of that race. Manifested by reason and scripture, which foretell the calling of the Jewes; and the restitution of them into their own land, and the bringing back of the ten tribes from all the ends and corners of the earth, and that great battell to be fought. With the removall of some contrary reasonings, and an earnest desire for effectuall endeavours to make them Christians. Whereunto is added an epistolicall discourse of Mr John Dury, with the history of Ant: Monterinos, attested by Manasseh Ben Israell, a chief rabby. By Tho: Thorowgood, B:D.	Thorowgood, Thomas, d. ca. 1669.; Dury, John, 1596-1680.; Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657.	1652 (1652)	Wing T1066; ESTC R219280	112,228	182

and confusion in all affaires as well of Religious as of civill concernment nor is it possible to be free from the disorders and distempers which make the life of mankinde uncomfortable in this kind and full of vexation till God hath removed those that fall away from their owne stedfastnesse out of the earth which will not come to passe till hee hath filled the earth with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea till hee hath brought us all that are stedfast unto true principles and that walke by rules unto the unity of the faith and knowledge of the sonne of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ which things because they are clearely promised wee may expect shall come to passe but till then we shall be carried differently about with severall winds of doctrine and ensnared in 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 owne life 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 drift of your spirit whereby I perceive you have been led these many yeares in some of your studies for it is very evident to me that you have sought after a matter which to most men will seem incredible rediculous and extravagant and to tell you the truth before I had read your discourse and seriously weighed matters when I thought upon your theme that the Americans should be of the seed of Israell it seemed to me some what strange and unlikely to have any truth in it but afterward when I had weighed your deduction of the matter and lookt seriously upon Gods hand in bringing into those parts of the World where the Americans are so many religious professors zealous for the advancement of his glory and who are possessed with a beliefe from the Scriptures that all the Tribes of Israell shall be called to the knowledge of Jesus Christ before the the end of the world and when I had recollected and laid together some other scattered and confused thoughts which at several times I have received partly from the places of Scripture which foretell the calling of the Jewes and their restitution to their owne land together with the bringing back of the ten Tribes from all the ends and corners of the earth partly from some relations which I had heard a few yeeres agoe concerning the ten Tribes which the Jewes here in Europe had given out and partly from the observations of Gods way which he seemes to make by all these changes and the dissolution of the States and Empires of the world towards some great worke and extraordinary revolution which may shortly come to passe all which things when I had called to mind and represented unto my selfe I was so far from derogating any thing from that which you have conjectured concerning the American Indians that I beganne to stand amazed at the appearances of the probabilities which so many waies offered themselves unto me to make out and confirme the effect of that which you have said And then I begun also upon another account to wonder at the strangenesse of Gods conduct over your spirit that he should have set you a worke twelve or more yeeres agoe after the search of such a matter by historicall observations whereof then so few and almost no footsteps at all were extant to be traced and whereof now of a suddaine the world is like to be filled with such evidences that it wil be an astonishment to all that shall heare of it and lay it to heart and that all who have any ingenuity will be constrained to confesse that indeed there is a God who ruleth in the earth and that he hath ordered the affaires of the Nations by an universal providence to bring to passe his own counsels and that the things which hee hath revealed by his word should in the latter times be accomplished for to my apprehension this will be the great benefit of these discoveries namely that the mouths of Atheists will be stopped and convicted of irrationality and foolishnesse For when it shall appear to all men undeniably that the transmigration of Nations and the affaires of this world have not been carried hitherto by meere chance or by the craftinesse of humane counsels or by force but by the wisdome of a Supreame conduct who hath ordered all things from the beginning towards an end which hath been foreknown and to a designe foretold I say when this shall appeare and that in the midst of all these changes and confusions there is a conduct over-ruling the force of man and disappointing the councels of the crafty then the eyes of all men will be upon the Lord and God alone will bee exalted in righteousnesse and the Holy one of Israell in judgement For seeing it is evident that the ten Tribes of Israell have been as it were lost in the world neare about the space of two thuusand yeeres if now they should againe appeare upon the stage first as it were in another world by themselves and then afterward speedily come from thence hither to the land of their ancient inheritance where they shall be joyned to their brethren the Jews which is clearly foretold by the Prophets shall come to passe if I say those things should now begin to come to passe what can all the world say otherwise but that the Lords counsell doth stand and that he hath fulfilled the words spoken by his Servants the Prophets concerning Israel that although all the sinfull kingdoms of the Nations shall be destroyed from off the face of the earth yet that the house of Iacob shall not be utterly destroyed but shall be corrected in measure for loe I will command saith God by the Prophet and I will sift the house of Israell among all Nations like as corne is sifted in the sieve yet shall not the least graine fall upon the earth These Prophecies must needs be fulfilled if there be a God in heaven who hath foretold them and when he shall make this his word good unto Israell he will thereby make it undeniably apparent that it was he himselfe and none other who did foretell it and that it is also none but hee who brings the worke about beyond all humane appearances according as he did foretell it and by all this he will shew to all the world that which he oft-times repeates by the Prophet Isaiah that he alone is the Saviour and that there is none besides him Isa. 45. 5 6 15. till the end The destruction then of the spirituall Babylon by the restauration of Israel shall make out this to all the earth that God alone is the Lord over all and the Saviour of the people that put their trust in his name Now the appearances which offer themselves unto me that these Prophecies are towards their accomplishment are many which now I shall not insist upon perhaps God will direct me to declare them in due season more fully then now I can intend but I shall onely mention that which I find to be a confirmation of your conjecture leaving it

hee had often dedicated them in his prayers to that service of the Lord desiring no better preferment for them than to be fitted for that worke hee endeavours therefore with that smal meanes he hath to traine them up in learning and God will I doubt not raise up some liberall hearts and hands to assist him therein This summer hee was making another journey but in regard of some quarrells among the Indians the Church was doubtfull at first of his going which when the Nashaway Sachim heard he took twenty men armed after their manner and was his guard with many other neerer Indians so much do they hunger after instruction this was a long journey into the wildernesse of sixty miles it proved very wet and tedious so that hee was not dry three or foure daies together night nor day but the Lord upheld him and his company in strength and health One of the Indians would needs know of Mr Elliot the reason why they that pray to God love the Indians so doing more than their owne Brethren and when the rest of them said they all found it so in their hearts this gave him occasion to discourse to them of the unity of the spirit They propounded questions If a man know Gods word but believe it not and yet teach others is that good teaching and if others believe that teaching is that good believing And when Mr. Elliot asked them How they could tell when a man knoweth Gods word and doth not believe it they answered When he doth not in his practise answerable to that he knoweth If I teach on the Sabbath that which you taught us and forget something is that a sin What should I pray for at night what at morning and what on the Sabbath day What is true repentance and how shall I know when it is true How must I waite on God When I pray for a soft heart why is it still hard Can one be saved by reading the booke of the creature When such die as never heard of Christ whither do they go VVhat is the meaning of the name Hebrews why doth God say he is the God of the Hebrews If one purpose to pray and die before that time wither goeth his soule Doth God know who shall repent and believe and who not why then did God use so much meanes with Pharaoh VVhat meanes that Blessed are they that mourne VVhat meaneth lifting up hands to God VVhat anger is good and what is bad If a child die before he sin whither goeth his soule If one that prayes to God sin like him that prayes not is not he worse And while they discoursed of this and about hating of wicked persons one of them said they must love the man and doe him good but hate his sin c. For I will not forestall but prepare the publication of those other remarkeable occurrences and now ex pede Herculem when this little of those many matters worthy of observation is seen together none will call it a day of small things Zach. 4. 10. Shall we call this a day of small things Shall not those poore Natives in New England rise up in judgement against Old England and condemne it they at once or twice preaching of the Law and Gospel repent and weepe and pray and heare and most earnestly enquire after God but wee when the Sunshine of truth hath been so long cleare among us degenerate into those very sinnes which they abandon and detest and with indignation say get ye hence Es. 30. 22. They willingly forsake their Powawing and inchantments but the devill is broke loose among us and many desire commerce with those that have familiarity with him The Indians set a mulct upon those women that tie not up their haire that goe with naked breasts what would they say what would they doe if that sex were as immodest as some in this Nation bepainted bedaubed debauched not more with spots in their faces then stains in their glory if Christianity be to them any honour The Indians weare their haire comely as the English and punish those that doe otherwise there be among us that would account it piacular it should be said of them that in the least they looke Rome-wards yet like those locusts having the faces of men they have haire as the hair of women Rev. 9. 8. grace is pleased to borrow that from nature if a man have long haire it is a shame to him 1 Cor. 11. 14. Those Natives surely will rise up in judgement with the men of this generation and condemne them they pray in their families morning and evening and upon other occasions they sanctifie the sabbath wee have those among us that scoffe and scorne these practises of piety and call the practisers thereof Duty-mongers The Indians desire publique meetings and delight in the places where God is worship'd and his word is taught but there be those in this England that make it a great piece of religion to divide and separate though God himselfe would not have us forsake the assembling of our selves together as the manner of some is Hebr. 10. 25. The Indians asked Mr. Elliot if any teach us good things should wee not love him as a father or a brother but t is now among some esteemed a signe of grace and a badge of holinesse to despise their teachers as if that Scripture of truth were never againe to be fulfilled They mocked the Messengers of God and despised his words and misused his Prophets untill the wrath of the Lord arose against his peaple till there was no remedy 1 Chron. 36. 16. But many other be the sad symptomes of our Englands defection and danger and our God hath made himself many waies marvelous in New-England Wee cannot call it a day of small things Or if at first it was like a little cloud arising out of the sea as a mans hand 1 King 18. 44. certainely it carried with it a a sound of abundance of raine ver 41. even that raine that commeth downe from heaven and returneth not thither but watereth the earth and maketh it bring forth and bud that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater Gods word hath not returned unto him void it hath accomplished that which he pleased and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I send it Es. 55. 10 11. Now the blessing of the God of Iacob be upon them and their endeavours even the blessing of Iacob upon Ioseph the God Almighty help them and blesse them with blessings of heaven above blessings of the deep that lieth under Gen. 49. 25 26. That God by their meanes may say to the North give up and to the South keepe not backe bring my sonnes from farre and my daughters from the ends of the earth Esa. 43. 6. so from the uttermost parts shall we hear songs songs of praise even glory to the righteous 24. 16. and not onely glory to the Lord our righteousnesse