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A32350	The blessed Jew of Marocco: or, A Blackmoor made white. being a demonstration of the true Messias out of the law and prophets / by Rabbi Samuel, a Iew turned Christian ; written first in the Arabick, after translated into Latin, and now Englished ; to which are annexed a diatriba of the Jews sins and their miserie all over the world, annotations to the book ... with other things for profit in knowledge and undertanding, by Tho. Calvert ...	Samuel, Marochitanus.; Calvert, Thomas, 1606-1679.	1648 (1648)	Wing S545; ESTC R8621	114,898	246

out Apostasie is it that God stretches out our miserie to such a length of dayes and hath brought upon us this Captivitie whiles wee in vaine expect another Saviour besides that Just One which nothing avails nor is any thing to the purpose Herein we have a signe with plenary evidence that this generall captivity is laid upon us for some generall sinne which all of us have had our hands in which sinne while it abides and sticks with us unrepented of fierce wrath must needs abide upon our Nation and we remain hopelesse Yet we look for some other Saviour But oh the idlenesse and inanitie of our expectations how little do they profit us Suppose we go about to affirm that ours is not a generall Captivitie and that in some part of the world we have a King and Prince over us we shall quickly be proved worthy to be reproved for lyars convict by our owne Law for if we Jewes should have a King and Prince over us in any part of the world go to then let us see what he is he must be descended of some one Tribe if of any it should be of the Tribe of Judah Of Judahs Tribe it cannot be God having definitively determined against it that there should be no King of Judah out of that Tribe for ever Whence Jeremie the Prophet saith The sinne of Judah is writ with a Penne of Iron and the Point of a Diamond it is graven upon the Table of their heart That which is written with such a Pen as Iron in such a Book as an Adamantine stone how can we look that it should ever be expunged It shall never bee blotted out seeing the strong and glorious God hath thus spoken by the mouth of the Prophet Esay The Lord the Lord of Hosts taketh away from Jerusalem and Judah the Judge and the Prophet and the Prince Likewise the Prophet Hosea saith of us The Children of Israel shall abide without a King without a Prince without a sacrifice without an Image without an Ephod without Teraphim We know well O Master that from the beginning of the world God had alwayes some Saints of great account and holy before him Towards the beginning of the world the lives of men are reckoned up with many figures and extended to many yeers as M●thusalem Enoch and the rest yet none of these ever came to be Millenaries either reaching to or above a thousand years Yet we have large reckoning amongst our selves finding our Messias or Christ promised to us to out-strip that unattained number We please our selves with saying that our Messias was born in Babylon in the seventie yeers Captivitie which by computation will arise to an higher number of years for by this at this day he must be a thousand and fiftie yeares old This Fable and Fallacie for it is no Prophecie though we know not how with any weapons of reason to defend yet with bold assertions we averre it for a truth in our Synagogues when we are none but Jews together and not a stranger among us But you may hear the publique doctrine of the Christians saying otherwise Of Zion it shall be said this and that Man was born in her and the most High shall establish her In these words he names Mary the Ladie under the name of the Citie and saith a man was born in her He saith that man emphatically was born in her he doth not say this or that Israelite Whereby he gives light to us to understand that the Son of Marie never was in the Loyns of any man In the second Book of Samuel and the seventh Chapter God manifestly declares this when he saith to David When thy dayes be fulfilled and thou shalt sleep with thy Fathers I will set up thy Seed after thee which shall proceed out of thy Bowels and I will be his Father and he shall be my Sonne It was never among possibilities O Master that ●ny should come out of the Bowels of his Father therefore to this end is it here set down ●o expresly to shew that Christ was not to ●e conceived in woman after the ordinary ●ay of other men by any Seed which should ●roceed from the Loyns of man as the rest ●f men do descending from David or others ●o the same effect God speaks by David ●rom the Womb before the morning have I be●otten thee As if the great and glorious God ●●ould say From the wombe that is of his ●wn will he begot his Christ the operation ●f the Holy Ghost effecting it without the ●eed of man not after the common regular ●urse of humane generations This is that doctrine of veritie of the Christians faith ●hich is hid as a mysterie from us and our ●ow apprehensions will not give it entrance ●●d beliefe For our infidelitie in this point 〈◊〉 all this falne on us that we groan under ●his is the gate that lets in our miserie Af●●r the same manner doth David set forth Christ to be borne The Lord hath sworne in ●uth unto David Of the fruit of thy Body will ●set upon thy Throne Notwithstanding all ●is we belong to God CHAP. XXVII He concludes with alledging some sayings of the Saracens touching Iesus and Marie his Mother VErily O Master though the Christian do not fight against us with swords taken out of the Saracens Scaberds and wha● the Alcoran and the expositions thereof hav● for their defence which they neglect to doe knowing our faith feeds not upon Saracen Chaffe neither do they themselves give any credit to it yet they might finde something which might much weary and weaken us an● fortifie themselves by the allegation of the Sarazens Doctrine concerning Jesus and Mar●● his blessed Mother It is the generall voice 〈◊〉 all the Saracens that Jesus was the Messia● whom the foregoing Prophet foretold should come and as touching his Genealogie and 〈◊〉 degree they preferre him before their own God Mahomet They stick not to confesse● that the Parents of Mahomet were Idolaters an● wicked ones and at the best blazon the● Arms but among the Children of Hagar th●● Bond-maid from whom they sprung Yet willingly they grant that the Messias by a dire●● Line draws his Pedegree from Isaac who●● Sonne he was to the Prophets and just men and so he descends to the blessed Marie his Virgin mother In the Alcoran this testimonie of the Family of Adamar is found touching Marie The Angel Gabriel said to Marie O Marie God hath chosen thee and taught thee grace and hath in his choice preferred thee before all other women of all ages and hath placed thee as a new medium or meane dividing betwixt earthly men and the Angels of God in the Paradise of delights Moreover all the Saracens speak-it for a truth That Christ or the Messias had power from God to work Miracles to heale every disease and infirmitie to cast out Devils raise the dead to know the secrets of all hearts yea they

and for the veritie of Scripture testifying it why do wee doubt of the ascent of this Righteous One both in his Body and Soul the witnesse of Scripture confirming this more than the testimony of holinesse confirms it for the other And may not this be one reason because the Prophets set him out strugling and fighting in a harder Warre of miseries than others and acquainted with an harder bondage and soret service of the World than others Furthermore this without any exemplification thou knowest well enough that Methusalem and Henoch those righteous men and Elias the Prophet were assumed by God in their bodies to Heaven and translated out of this World As for Moses it is a thing out of the reach of all question and doubt that he now is in Heaven both in body and soul as is said in Deuteronomie Go up into the Mount this night and he went up into the Mount and died there and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day What doth this signifie that his Sepulchre is unknowne upon earth seeing he was a Prophet in greatnesse and holinesse surpassing others but that thereby we should understand that God hath raised him up and assumed him in bodie and soul as he did other righteous men and elevated him to that place where they are now Neither need we puzzle our Brains with marvelling how it can stand with reason that grosse and ponderous bodies should ride and be born upward on the light and subtill Element of Aire this we need not question if we do but call to minde how it pleased the Almightie Power to work the like in the Israelites egresse out of Aegypt where the Water an Element in ●aritie and thinnesse like unto the Aire did bear their heavy bodies without sinking And when the Lord gave a sign of an accepting welcome to a Sacrifice the Fire though an Element lighter then the rest descended from heaven and returning up again to heaven carryed with it aloft the bodies of the sacrificed Beasts and Bullocks offered to God As for this Righteous One Moses Elias and other Prophets prophesied of his elevation From the premisses I collect that we ●eing credulous and ready to beleeve the corporall ascent of the aforenamed Saints there is no reason remains why we should let incredulitie lurk in us and suspend our beliefe about the elevation of this Righteous One into Heaven when Scripture and Prophets do testifie it And that of the foresaid Saints is ●ade so manifest to exclude all doubts for ●ood purpose First that the hearts of men 〈◊〉 the end of the world might be turned to God Secondly that other righteous men ●ight have good hope of their own ascent being incouraged by these examples But our Nation are lockt up under many doubts concerning Christ by the Key of his secret and occult comming at first into the world it being an unusuall and unwonted way Of this the Prophet saith He is a man and who shall know him Esay saith A Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son Where it is to be noted that there is no mention but deep silence of any Father of his according to the Flesh Elsewhere he saith VVe esteemed him not And Jeremie hath The Lord shall create a new thing upon earth a woman shall compasse a man Micah also saith Therefore the Lord will give them up till the time that shee which travelleth hath brought forth In these words is to be observed the Prophet has not a syllables mention of 〈◊〉 the Husband of her that brings forth it being the Nativitie of that Righteous One who onely was born out of the wonted path and common carnall course of men who come by man as the active and woman as the passive principle of Generation But this knows no carnall Father as Esay's mouth foretold it Give ear O ye house of Iacob the Lord shall give you a signe A Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son All these other holy men spoken of were born of man and woman carnally conceived in sinne yea and they themselve● were sinners Moses himself though holier than the Prophets his Parents yet he sinned and his own mouth publishes his own sinne but of this Just One it is said in Esay he never sinned nor was there a lie found in his mouth God by the mouth of Iob hath proclaimed there are blemishes in all the Saints Behold he putteth no trust in his saints And Ieremie joyns with that judgement The hearts of men are wicked CHAP. XIV Of the Iews blindnesse who neither beleeve nor understand that Christ is come WHat Esay from the Lord hath said O Master I shake with fear lest it be our lot to have it fulfilled in us Blindnesse is fallen upon Israel till the fulnesse of the Gentiles become in And again he saith Hearing they shall hear and shall not understand seeing they shall see and not perceive because the heart of this people is waxen fat And in the same Chapter Make the heart of this people blinde and stop their ears least they should learn and be converted to me and I should heal them Esay then said How long O Lord and he answered Vntill the Cities be wasted and the house bee left without an inhabitant You have Daniel also saying Shut up and seal up or wrap up the Prophecie Jeremie follows with his testimonie The sinne of Judah is written with a Pen of Iron and the Point of a Diamond it is graven on the table of their heart Esay likewise in his first Chapter saith The Oxe knowes his owner and the Asse his Masters Cribb but my people doth not understand Jeremie to that purpose The Stork the Crane and the Swallow know the time of their comming but my people know not me All these speeches O Master are Gods Arrows shot at us and do shew our condi●ion because we had eyes lockt and bolted up that we could not discern the first comming of that righteous Lord. Of us do the Lords words in Esay mean when he saith Bring forth or cast far off the blinde people that have eyes and the deaf people that have ears Behold they are all gathered together or rather Let all the Nations be gathered together These words carry no other meaning but this that the Prophet saith The Lord hath rejected us because we knew not soon enough the time of that Righteous Ones comming and in stead of u● he hath gathered the Gentiles to him by faith This is it which made that admiration break out of Davids lips The right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to passe Yet for all this we belong to the Lord though thus sore in an haplesse estate and deepe depressing Captivitie wherein as in a labyrinth we are and can finde no end or out-gate though a thousand years we have runne with wearied foot-steps in this amazing Maze of miserie neither did ever our Fathers smart