in the year according to Daniel and Gabriel Daniel 9. And did not David say he would not suffer his Holy One to see corruption nor leave his soul in Hell he saw the travail of his soul and therefore was satisfied according to Isaiahs prophesie Therefore after you had killed him by a shameful death upon the Crosse and buried him did not he rise again and saw no corruption whom neither death bonds nor grave could contain nor hold though the Priests gave the Souldiers money to say that his Disciples stole him away by night who now remains in the Heavens at the right hand of God until the restitution of all things who after his Resurrection was seen of many Brethren and many Witnesses who were the Witnesses of his Resurrection amongst your Fore-fathers and amongst whom your Fathers he wrought many Miracles and did many Wonders to the astonishment of the very Heathen and of many of your Fore-fathers yet their hearts being hardned and their eyes being blinded and could not nor would not neither see nor believe therefore did he pronounce the woes against you which is come upon you and he doth enlighten every man that cometh into the world and is that which checks you for sin and evil which if you believe in the Light you come to receive him that all the Prophets Moses and Gabriel spoke of who is the Prophet that is to be heard and King that Daniel prophesied of whose Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and Dominion an everlasting Dominion that hath no end who is the stone cut out of the Mountain and the seed without hands that dasheth all that is contrary to it and becomes a great Mountain for you are hewing and cutting and all other Heathen upon the earth and making Mountains with hands and so Nations or Kingdoms this stone without hands that is cut out of the Mountain without sword and spear breaks all to pieces and it becomes an everlasting Mountain and an everlasting Kingdom and Dominion whereby swords and spears are broken in plowshares and pruning hooks whereby that Nation shall not lift up sword against Nation neither shall they learn war any more Micha 4. And Ieremiah prophesied of your captivity seventy years and he said when you were brought into the Land and all Nations should be gathered to it in Ierusalem and when ye increased and multiplyed in the Land in those dayes saith the Lord they shall say no more the Ark of the Covenant of God for it shall come no more to be minded neither shall they remember it neither shall they visit it for that shall be done no more Jer. 3. And Ieremiah saith in the 31. Chapter Behold saith the Lord the day cometh that I will make a new Covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Iudah not according to the Covenant that I made with their Fathers when I took them out of the land of Egypt which Covenant they brake But this shall be my Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those dayes of their Captivity and return I will write my Law in their hearts and I will be their God and they shall be my people and they shall not teach every man his Neighbour and every man his Brother saying know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least to the greatest of them saith the Lord for I will forgive their iniquities and remember their sins no more Now this is the Messiah and this was promised and prophesied how after he should come into the Land which came into the Land of Jerusalem according to Ieremiah and Daniel and Gabriel and Ezekiel their words and prophesies And Jeremiah saith in the â—3 Chapter after they were carried away captive that they should be brought again into the land and the Lord promised that good thing he would cause his branch of Righteousnesse to grow unto David and he should execute judgement and Righteousnesse in the land and in those dayes Judah shall be saved and Ierusalem shall dwell safely and he should call and say here is the Lord our Righteousnesse Mark that calls Iudah and calls Ierusalem that makes them to dwell safely And thus saith the Lord David shall never want a man to sit upon the Throne upon the house of Israel neither shall the Priests and Levites want a man for me to offer up the burnt-offerings and the meat offerings and to do Sacrifice continually Now this was after their coming into the Land and after the Messiah was born and the branch of Righteousnesse sprung and he should sit upon the Throne of David and execute Judgment and Righteousnesse in the land then the Priests and Levites should have their men to offer meat-offerings and burnt-offerings and sacrifices continually and this was after Christ was come but when he was offered up and sacrificed up that one offering once for all who judge and executed judgment amongst you before he was offered up both among the Jews and at Jerusalem when he I say was offered up he caused those things the offerings to cease and fulfilled them according to Gabriels words and Daniels prophesie and ends the Priest-hood the Levitical Priest-hood who came not of the Tribe of Levi nor Aaron but of Iudah that Lion so in one week in the midst of the week he should cause the daily Sacrifice and Oblation to cease and so this was the Covenant prophesied of by Jeremiah and this was he that Moses prophesied of like unto him would God raise up a Prophet which the People should hear And Stephen witnessed him before the Council in the dayes of Herod whom your Fathers caused to be stoned to death And after this Covenant was come you should say no more the Ark of God nor mention it nor let it come into your minds this was after ye were come into the Land and Zachariahs Prophesies who prophesied of the destruction of Ierusalem who prophesied again that Ierusalem should be safely inhabited and they that fought against Ierusalem should come up to worship year by year and keep the feasts of Tabernacles and the Lord would smite the Heathen and Egyptians that came not unto Ierusalem that came not up to keep the feast of Tabernacles and the Pots in the Lords House should be like the Bowls before the Altar and every pot should be holy and all they that sacrificed should come and take of them after the people were come to worship at Ierusalem and the Mountain which was the place of worship when Christ said to the woman of Samaria the time was come and now is that neither at Ierusalem nor at this Mountain But they that worship the Father shall worship him in spirit and truth for such the Father seeketh to worship him Now this was before Christ was offered up that ends the Offerings Altars Sacrifices Feast of Tabernacles for the Lord should come my God and all his Saints and the Lord should be King over all the Earth
A Declaration to the IEWS For them to READ OVER IN WHICH They may see that the Messiah is come according to their own Prophets and Gabriel the Angel And according their own number of time and years out of Daniel 9. By George Fox LONDON Printed for John White at the backside of the old Exchange 1661. A Declaration to the Iews for them to Read over in which they may see that the Messiah is come according to their own Prophets and Gabriel the Angel And according to their own number of time and years out of Dan. 9. FRom the Building of the Temple at Jerusalem spoken of by Daniel in the ninth chapter was seven weeks or fourty nine years in which the Temple was built from the finishing of which there was sixty two weeks which is four hundred thirty and four years until the Baptisme of Christ And after the sixty two weeks There was one week in the which the Messiah should be slain but not for himself And the People of the Prince that should come should destroy the City and the Sanctuary that was builded and the end thereof should be with a floud and unto the end of the battel it should be destroyed with desolation and he shall confirm the Covenant with many for in one week in the midst of the week he shall cause the daily sacrifice to cease which Death was about three years and a half after Christ was baptized For sayes the Angel Gabriel in the last verse of that ninth chapter And in the midst of the week that is three days and an half he shall cause the Iews Sacrifice and the Oblation to cease c. which Sacrifice ends all other Sacrifices and the Covenant being confirmed with many of his Disciples they preached it up and down in the Synagogues and Temples and among the Heathen And Christ Preached of the destruction of the Temple after it was built which was builded unto him the Prince the Messiah he preached the destruction of the Temple that it should be thrown down and not one stone left upon another and it was thrown down according to his Prophecy by the Heathen And he said Jerusalem should be compassed about with armies and troden under foot and they scattered abroad over all Nations which thing came to passe according to his prophecy and never had ye a prophecy that you should be gathered again to outward Jerusalem and that your walls should be built again And now if you do believe Moses Jeremiah Samuel Isaiah Ezekiel Zechariah Daniel the rest of the Prophets and Gabriel that spake unto Daniel ye must believe that Christ is come in the flesh They prophecyed of him set the time and set the year that he should come which time and year is over and come and past according to the prophets Angels words as you may read what Gabriel said to Daniel who numbred the time of your captivity as Jeremiah and numbered the time of building of the Temple and numbred the time in which the Messias should come the Prince And now if Gabriel spake truth and Daniel and the Prophets spoke truth then you must believe that the Messias is come according to their words And whether or nay one did not come in that year according to Gabriel and Daniel and the Prophets that was called a Messiah and a Prince whether the City was not built and the people were not gathered before he came and after he was come whether such an one was not cut off according to the week and after your City destroyed and Temple and you scattered over all Nations according to the Messias Prophecy And whether or nay his Covenant was not confirmed with many that were his Disciples that preached up and down the one Offering after he was cut off And whether or nay God did not prepare him a Body according to Davids Prophecy to do his will which God accepted more than burnt-offerings and sacrifices oblations who put an end to them for the over-spreading of the abomination that made the desolation until your offerings were consumed and the place where you offered And whether or nay he did not come poor Riding upon an Asse the foal of an Asse according to Zechariahs Prophecy Zachariah the ninth chapter Riding into Jerusalem who should let the Prisoners out of the Pit where there was no water who should give the water to the thirsty and bread to the hungry And whether or nay you did not hide your faces from him he being a man of sorrow and acquainted with griefs according to Isaiahs prophesies Isa 53. And whether or no you did not stop your ears and blind your eyes that you heard not nor see not when he came and so you have lost the number of time And whether or no Davids prophesie is not fulfilled upon you who said let their eyes be blinded and their Table be made a snare and a trap and they bow down their backs alwayes as you have done under every Government That when he did come who was Davids son that David called Lord the King of Glory your gates were not set open to let him in but his place amongst you was a Manger And did not Malachi prophesie of him and was one of the last Prophets amongst you And did not Iohn come to prepare the way before him who baptized multitudes of the Jews who was the Son of Zachary who was put to death by Herod at the pleasing of his Daughters dancing he beheaded in prison on his birth-day And did not you persecute many of his Disciples and cast in prison for witnessing Christ the Messias the Prince among you who was come according to Moses and the Prophets Gabriel and Daniel Did not they often tell your Fathers that their eyes were blinded and their ears dull that they heard nor see not And did not the Messiah the Prince tell you in the dayes amongst your Fathers that your house should be left desolate so are not all your Temples Sanctuaries and chief places of Offerings have they not all been desolate and have been ever since And did not he say unto you that you should see his face no more until you said Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord therefore if your houses be left desolate there was never no promise of the Lord that they should be built again but happy is any of you who can say Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord who receive him receive the end of Offerings and Sacrifices And did not Moses say like unto him would God raise up a Prophet him should they hear in all things and he would raise up a Prophet of their Brethren And the Prophets and David witnesse that the Messias should come of the seed of David and Abraham according to the flesh And was not Joseph and Mary of the houshold of David and was not his name called Immanuel according to Isaiahs prophesie Isa 7.14 And born
And when Jerusalem was safe and Nations came up to it there was the Feast of Tabernacles to be kept but after Christ was offered up though those things were practised in the daies of his flesh while he was upon the Earth and did not cause them to cease until he was offered up and then he ended them And then he prophesied of the destruction of Ierusalem and the Walls and your scattering over all Nations and did not prophesie of your bringing back again to offer and to sacrifice and keep the feast of Tabernacles again at Ierusalem and did not say that your outward worship should be set up again at Ierusalem But the scattering was for the bringing in of the Gentiles according to the promise of God by his Prophets I will give him for a Covenant and a Light to the Gentiles and he shall be my Salvation to the ends of the Earth which many of the Gentiles now have received and believed the Covenant of Light promised to the Prophets though many of them do not live the life through whose lives and fruits the name of the Messiah is dishonoured and the unbelievers in him hardened through them that professe him in words and deny him in life Neverthelesse the Foundation of God and the New Covenant standeth sure and his promise agreeable to all his Prophets and Gabriels words as you may number Daniel the ninth your selves that in such a time the Messiah was to come And whether or no such an one was not born in the same year when all Jerusalem was in an uproar at his birth Herod gathered all the chief Priests together and demanded of them where Christ should be born and they said in Bethlehem of Judah for thus it is written by the Prophet So whether or no such an one did not come according to the Prophets words and suffered according to his words and his Garment parted and cast lots for according to the Prophets words and one of his own Disciples betrayed him for thirty pieces of Silver according to Davids words And as it is written blindnesse happened unto Israel until the fulnesse of the Gentiles be come in and so all Israel shall be saved as it is written the Deliverer shall come unto Zion and shall turn away ungodlinesse from Jacob and this is my Covenant with them when I shall take away their sins For that is it which blinds and that Light which is the Covenant is that which opens the eye in which the Jews and Gentiles is one So the Lord will save now through the Blood of his Covenant and the offering the Sacrifice Christ Jesus who destroyes the Devil the old lyar and the author of sin who hath imprisoned his people and brought them into the Pit where they have wanted the water And he the Covenant and Messiah brings the Prisoner out of the Pit and gives the water and returns the Prisoner of hope and renders double to him that hath prisoned and he is called the Saviour and he is Israels Saviour and the Gentiles Leader and Covenant yea the Salvation to the ends of the Earth whom the Isles wait for And the Prophet said Kings shall be nursing Fathers and Queens nursing Mothers Isa 49.23 and they shall worship with their faces downward and lick the dust of the Earth for the Lord had said he would lift up his hand to the Gentiles and Standard to the people and they should bring their sons the Jews in their arms and thy Daughters should be carried upon their shoulders the Gentiles the Gentiles that had carried them away Captive and the Lord would make them bring them back again that had scourged them and nurse them and carry the Jews with their faces downward and â—ick the dust and so you were brought again to your own land and did not Cyrus and Darius and others aid you and hath not the Lord lift up his Hand and his Standard to the Gentiles which many have received Isaiah was the son of Amos and prophecied about seven hundred seventy eight years before the Messiah was born And he prophesied of the Jews to be carried away Captive by the Heathen and how that the Gentiles should be nursing Fathers and Kings should stoop down and bend down and be made to carry them again and be Nurse to them and that the Jews should get a top of that which Captivated them and this was the carrying away from Jerusalem and the carrying again to Jerusalem Who also prophesied of the Messiah that should come amongst them to whom they should hide their faces amongst whom the Jews Isaiah was a Signe and a Wonder to both the Houses of Israel and Judah which was before they were carried away Captive who were degenerated from the Lord by their Idolatry their Sacrifices their Offerings and their Temples that he turned them from And said the most High dwelt not in Temples made with hands and he that offered Sacrifice was as if he blessed an Idol he prophesied in the daies of Hezekiah King of Judah Isa 37.1 2. 2 Kings 19. Jer. 1 2 3. Jeremiah prophesied in the daies of Josiah and in the daies of Amon Zedekiah Zachariah and Haggai prophesied in the second year of Darius five hundred ninteen years before Christ And Christ came not according to your minds in Pomp and Glory as the Kings of the Kingdoms of this World doth and did but he came meek poor and dispiseable and having no beauty to be desired and a man of sorrows and griefs from whom you hid your faces and crying away with him he should not reign over us you would have no King but Caesar and desired a murtherer and crucified him and when Pilate said to you behold your King and washed his hands from his Blood you cried let his Blood be upon us and our children who hath been and brought the misery upon your selves and your children and Davids words are come upon you who said let their Children be Vagabonds which hath so been to this day both from your God and your own Nation Friends in the 22. Psalm did not the saying of David come to passe by you upon Christ when he was upon the Crosse did not you say he trusted in the Lord let him deliver him Secondly did not you part his Garment and afterwards cast lots for his Vesture according to Davids prophesie when you put him to death Thirdly Did not you pierce his feet and hands when you nailed him to the Crosse according to Davids prophesie in the 22. Psalm did not you fulfill his saying Fourthly Did not you give him vineger and gall to drink when he was upon the Crosse according to Davids prophesie in the 69. Psalm and did not you stick in your outward things as a snare and gin and did not God pour forth his anger wrath and displeasure upon you according to the prophesie of David who called Christ Lord And the prophesie of Iacob to his Sons and to Judah who said the Scepter should not depart from Judah nor the Law-giver from between his feet until Shilo come and the people should be gathered unto him unto Shilo And is not the Law departed from Judah and the Goverment and Scepter where is his Rule if you say it is not departed And did not Shilo come according to Jacobs and Daniels prophesie And Gabriels words in the daies of Herod before the Scepter and the Law was departed from Iudah and so Shilo being come to him are the people gathered and gathering according to Jacobs prophecy and the Scepter is departed from Judah this 1660. years Whether did ever the Prophets say that you should be brought again into your own Land to your outward worship sacrifices and the rest of your Ceremonies after Jerusalem was destroyed and the Messiah offered up according to Daniel Gabriel and the rest of the Prophets Did not all the Prophets prophesie of the New Covenant to you before and in your Captivity and that your gathering should be unto him and that he should come when you were out of Captivity in your own Land Now if you can believe Moses Isaiah Ieremiah and Daniel Gabriel and Ezekiel their Prophesies you must believe that the Messiah is come and receive the New Covenant And the Lord said he would gather his people from the mouth of the shepherds and teach them himself and set one King over them which Teacher and King many do witnesse From a Lover of all Souls and of the whole Creation of God risen up for the Salvation of all men who seeks that THE END Pag. 3. l. 23. for dayes r. years ibid put out Iews