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A39795	Israel redux, or, The restauration of Israel, exhibited in two short treatises the first contains an essay upon some probable grounds, that the present Tartars near the Caspian Sea, are the posterity of the ten tribes of Israel / by Giles Fletcher ; the second, a dissertation concerning their ancient and successive state, with some Scripture evidences of their future conversion, and establishment in their own land / by S.L.	Fletcher, Giles, 1549?-1611. Tartars, or, Ten tribes.; Lee, Samuel, 1625-1691.	1677 (1677)	Wing F1333; Wing L898; ESTC R2002	48,660	138

the height of their expectation they shall be most miserably torn Jerusalem taken the Houses rifled the Women ravisht and half carried out for a new Captivity then will the Lord set his feet upon the Mount of Olives for their deliverance Then a Saviour shall come upon Mount Zion to judge the Mount of Esau i. e. the opposite enemy and the Kingdom shall be the Lords But to repair to the connexed Epocha of 1290 to initiate and begin 1260 we must infer that since all the forenamed roots of numeration are past without deliverance either to Gentile Churches in Europe or to Israel that we are to spring another rise and that is from the taking away of the Gospel-Sacrifice of pure Worship by a new Babilonian Monarch by a second Antiochus by the grand Antichrist who setting in the Temple of God as God hath introduced most horrible pollutions and defilements in the Evangelical Worship Now this Prince of Sin arose gradually together with the ten Kings from the year 410 when Rome was taken by Alaricus and continued increasing and waxing in his grandeur and power till that was taken away which hindred his revelation in the World which was the Roman Empire But the Roman Empire drew its last gasp and was finally and totally extirpated in the year 476 Thus divine Providence doth usually perform its mighty works gradually by distinct intervals of progress which leads us to a consideration of a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or compass of years contained within the latitude of 66 from the year 410 to 476 in which year Augustulus was deposed So then if ye add the 1260 years we arise to 1736. About which I am verily persuaded that the great Mystery of the ruine of Antichrist will be amply manifest and visible upon the face of the earth and forasmuch as the ten last Caesars were rather Caesarculi some appointed from the East and some rising out of their mutual combustions and that the Roman Territory was exceedingly diminisht cut short in Italy by the Goths We may indeed look upon the Roman Empire as good as ruined at the death of Valentinian the third in the year 455 which by connection of the 1260 brings us to 1715 about which times the pre-consideration of the ruine of the Roman Empire conducts to the expectation of great devastations and confusions in the Papal The fuller indagation of these periods belonging to another paper I return to Israel and Daniel's computation of their times by adding 30 years more to these 1260 there with making up his 1290. So that if the 1260 do finish about 1700 or 1715 or at utmost in 1736 then 30 years after their expiration and the great conflicts with the Papal powers in the West will begin the stirs and commotiabout the Jews aud Israel in the East if then to 1736 we add 30 more they reach to 1766 the times of Israels gatherings from their dispersions and conflicts for their Country with the Nations and powers that may detain and obstruct them which times of distress and perplexity are determined to last 45 years longer which answers in some measure to the Typical remembrance of the time from their ancient coming out of Egypt till they were almost quietly settled in most parts of the Land of Canaan If then we conjoyne these 45 years more to 1766 it produces 1811 for those times of happiness to Israel for blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to 1335 days to the consumption and destruction of their enemies But how far further the finishing of the remainders of that Assyrian War when 7 Shepherds and eight principal men alluding to the King of Persia and his 7 great Princes or Counsellers of State shall be raised up for the defence of Israel how far I say those times may extend and how long it shall be to utter abolition of the Papal remnants after the 1260 days of his power are expired that is how long the Vials shall be pouring out upon him his Throne and all his Adherents in the West and upon the jurisdiction of his City when the three parts only shall remain of his 10 Principalities or how long it shall be to the utter ruine of the Turk in the East and the deliverance of the Graecian Churches and the subduing of all other powers that shall assemble and withstand the design of God in erecting the Kingdom of the Stone cut out from the Mountains of Gods Decrees without hands of humane aid or power I say how far those times of the victorious success of the Church may be amplified and extended is beyond man to dictate and determine Neither do I yet clearly see by what texts of Scripture we can distinctly proceed to chain or connex the 1000 years glory of the Church in a compleat golden link with any former expiring currents of Prophecy unless it be to the end of Daniel's 1335 or the end of the Vials and some other latent numbers not yet apparent to us in the surface of Scripture neither may we be so bold as to build upon that notion of the house of Elias mentioned by that Learned Earl of Mirandula and others for the continuation of the World in its state of misery and bondage for 6000 years according to the six days of Creation It was a current Notion in the Primitive times among the Christians applying that of Peter One day with the Lord is as a thousand years as if so be it did pre-signifie the duration of the World as I have before touched out of Justin Martyr and that the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the resurrection of the World to a Sabbath of rest and glory and felicity doth reflect upon the seventh day wherein the Lord rested from his labours and was refreshed and then the eigth day from the Creation for the resurrection of our Lord should presignify the Saints rising to glory and being for ever with the Lord in Heaven Let these hints suffice at present not willing to expatiate in gratifying our curiosity with conjectures that perhaps may not prove clearly scriptural Let 's study with the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be wise to sobriety and not surmise beyond what 's written Leaving the punctual particularitys of the timeing of Prophecies with the issues of Providence unto the Father in whose holy hands the signatures of all times are written Let 's be very thankful that our blessed Saviour hath so far indulged his Church as to signify by his servant John the duration of Antichrist their last and principal enemy to be 1260 years and that we may collect from evident Scripture proof that these years are well nigh expired 'T is a wonderful mercy let 's be highly thankful for this discovery and rejoice in Zion's approaching glory The Conclusion It s now high time to fix a period to this inquisition and conclude with a serious reply to such as may demand Cui bono

into one Polity or Community amongst themselves but diffused though not confused and dispersed in small numbers here and there deprived of all save their name which they retain and that rather for a reproach than for an honor and estimation in those places where they live that they may be known by other Nations to be that People whom God hath punisht and rejected for that sin in so rejecting the Son of God but will receive and call again for his own mercy and promise sake A thing exemplary to the World as well of the rigour and severity of Gods Justice which he would have observed and marked by all but especially by the Christian States wherein they live least for the like infidelity and contempt they procure unto themselves the like Judgment and also of that his infinite mercy in preserving that People from commixture and confusion with other Natious that the truth and certainty of his Word may so be known when they shall be called to the publick knowledge and profession of Jesus Christ as by his Apostle he hath foretold and will perform in due time But these other Tribes whereof we speak which were not massacred nor extirped but transplanted by the Assyrians where now they are and how they have lived ever since and whether they be a several People or else commixed with other Nations is no where mentioned either in Heathen or Sacred Story for ought I know yet is it not hard to find them out if we enquire and seek for them where it is likely that they are to be found and truly the likeliest place to find them in is it not in or near those Colonies where they were planted at the first And what I pray you if we should seek them among the Tartars who are esteemed to be the most vile and barbarous Nation of all the World you will say perhaps a thing unworthy and unbeseeming that great mercy of God which he vouchsafed to that People when they were yet his own peculiar an holy Nation elected by God out of all the Nations in the World as if it could not stand with that most holy and perfect Justice so to abase a wicked People and so rebellious against their God as were these Israelites though he cast them down from the highest Heaven to the lowest Center of dishonour even ad Tartaros whereby you know in the Poets phrase is meant the place of the damned souls and Hell it self in resemblance as may be thought of like disorder and confusion of both the places As for the conjecture of some Divines that they are the People called Alani it is not only an improbable but a very absurd and gross Opinion These Alani as all men know being a People not of Asia but of Europe by their other name called Triballi and this passage and expedition through one Country into another which was to be made through so many great Nations both of the upper and lower Asia being impossible at least unlikely to be passed over by all Stories which since have written in every Age. Onely I hear the same affirmed by that Learned French-man Philip Morney Lord of Plessey whom I name for honour's sake as for his Learning and Nobilitie thrice Renowned but not confirmed by any reason save that which he draws from the Notation of the word for that Tartar in the Syrian Tongue signifies Remnants or Remainders But that the Tartars are the Israelites who were transported into Media and the other 2 adjoyning Countries you shall hear such reasons as I observed when I remained among the Russes their next Neighbours some years ago which if they be not demonstrative yet to me seem so probable as that I my self am now perswaded and fully settled in that Opinion that they are the natural and true Off-spring and Posterity of those Israelites My First Reason is From the Place the place whither they were transported by the Assyrians and there planted as is the manner of great Conquerors when they aspire unto a great Monarchy to abate the spirits of such a People as may be dangerous to their States and likely otherwise to make revolt as were the Israelites who could not endure a firm Prince to break their strength by dividing them into many parts The Place I say where they were transplanted were the Cities and Parts of Media then a Province and in subjection to the Assyrians where they placed the greatest number as by the Story may be gathered the rest in Harak and by the River Haborus whereof the one is part of Chaldaran The other a River of Mesopotamia with a Town adjoyning of the same name The Country of Media as it is described by Cosmographers but more especially by our Merchants and other Travellers who have been there lyeth about the Caspian Seas which the Russe calls the Bachualensky and by taking away the first syllable for shortness sake wherewith the Sclavone and the Russe tongues are much delighted Chualensky-More All which Country lying upon the North-east or Northern fide of the Caspian and Chualensky to the Hibernian and Northern Sea which contains in it a large Territory by the description of Cosmographers and the report of such as have been there is now possessed and inhabited by the Tartars and by the consent of all Stories which since have written of the Assyrian and Persian Monarchy have so continued since Cyrus's time who after he had obtained the Monarchy did first invade those Schythian Shepherds or Tartar people 200 years or thereabouts ter the Israeelites deportation who were grown by that time into a great and mighty people For we may not think neither is it likely that the Assyrians who were the Monarchs of all the East would place a conquered and captive People in the fairest Cities of all Media and pleasantest places of that Country which lye on the South and South-west part of the Bachualensky or Caspian Sea which by the report of all stories and Travellers who have been there is one of the sweetest and fertilest Countrys of all the World and best replenished with all things necessary and delightful but in the remote and barren places of that Country which were beyond the Caspian Sea upon the North and North-East Parts where these Tartar People have had their dwelling and habitations ever since As for those other 2 Colonies of the Israelites which were placed in Harak and Habore they bordered both upon the Medians So that all these Tribes might easily meet and joyn together when opportunity serves their turns which happened unto them not long after when all these Provinces of Media Chaldaran and Mesopotamia with their Governous Merodack Baladan and Dejoces by a desertion fell away from the Assyrians in the 10th year of Esar-haddon And that these Tribes did not long after reunite themselves and joyn together in one Nation as they were before being induced partly by their own desires as disdaining ever to live

in Stephanus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and likely ist he same with the Candis in Ptolomy upon the River Cyrus which Amimus affirms to have its name from Cyrus the Great the old name being abolisht which with other Cities he places in terris Syromedorum in the Country of the Syrians of Media This may insinnuate that the estimated Fable of Ezra concerning the Israelites travelling from their first seat to some remoter places as Arsareth is nothing but a small remove to some more distant Cities North of Armenia and near the Caspian Sea where Ptolomy places the City Arsarata in Lat. 43. 30. on the River Araxis and possibly is the ancient name of the Modern City Arzerum or near it mentioned by Golius out of Abulfeda and very likely is no other then Ariarsathea in the Authentical Collations From all the foresaid disquisition we may collect 1. That I hope with submission to the Learned that the true place is discovered where these 10 Tribes were first seated and from whence they did further Colonize and spread and scatter about in various dispersions by the Caspian Sea and at length grew so numerous that part of the Regions of Media received the denomination of Syro-Media partly from the Tribes of Israel and partly from the Syrians of Damascus who were captivated into the Country of Kir not Cyrene as some have imagined but by the banks of the River Cyrus To confirm this assertion Ptolomy that great Astronomer and Geographer of Pelusium in Aegypt says that this Syro-Media did extend it self 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 on the South of Media all along the Borders of Persia Nay Amimanus expresly determines Ecbatana the true Achmetha in Ezra in the very Country of the Syro-Medians 2. We may infer that these ten Tribes were at first placed in the Northern Frontires of the Assyrian Empire towards part of Armenia and Media which were then under the Kings of the Medes ever since the starting up of that Kingdom at the fall of Sardanapalus and the rising of Arbaces But let thus much serve in answer to the first Query whither the 10 Tribes were carried The 2d Question moved was where these ten Tribes may probably yet seem to reside at this day In answer to this Query I shall endeavour to shew from their first deportation by a chain or link of times from age to age how we may discern as by a lamp of successive Writers where to scituate their present residence As to the first place of their fixation by the Conquering Assyrian where should they be found but where God himself says they were so far forth as we have light from the Holy Scriptures of truth But the Sacred Scripture directly asserts that at the time of the penning of that portion in the book of Kings that they were in those Cities of the Medes to this day and that the Samaritans were placed in theit room to this day where also mention is made of their continuation to the 4th Generation The Author also of the book of Chronicles declares the Israelites to reside in those seats of their Captivity to the day of his writing Now whoever wrote that book or annexed the additions to it for it seems to be composed by parcels at the dictate of the Spirit of God plainly recites the tenth Generation after the time of the Captivity of Judah and yet had asserted the duration of Israel in the state of Captivity so that they returned not when Judah came back again but were still in their captivated station at the additionals to that book yea even to the tenth Generation The Series whereof stands thus Zorobabel 1 Hananiah v. 21. 2 Pelathiah and Jesaiah 3 Rephaiah v. 21. 4 Arnan 5 Obadiah 6 Shecaniah 7 Shemajah 8 Neariah 9 Elioenaj 10 Hodajah c. v. 25. The Septuagint the vulgar translation the Syriak and Arabick v. 21 read Et filius ejus and his Son as if they had found it in the Hebrew text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So that if we place Zorobabel at the building of the 2d Temple according to the learned Vsher A. M. 3485. and give to each Generation but 30 year apeice that is in the whole 300 and add them to the year 3485 they produce the year of the world 3785. Untill which time at the least by the testimony of Scripture the Israelites were still in a state of Captivity and dispersion Though Lavater be of Opinion that these 10 Generations contain the progression of a linage to the very time of our blessed Lords Incarnation which at present I shall leave in bivio and undiscussed But I may not pass over an Objection made to that expression there to this day which arises from the same phrase applied to the Ark although it were taken away at the Captivity of Judah To which it may be answered that the text about the Ark must be considered with analogy to other places Now the History of the Kings and Chronicles does by clear consequence assert the Ark to be carried away in that it affirms that all the Vessels of the House of God great and small and the Treasures of the House of God were taken away and that all the Vessels of Gold in the Temple which Solomon had made called the goodly Vessels of the House of the Lord were carried away together with Jeconiah at his Captivity wherefore Lavater sticks not to expound those general and comprehensive expressions of the Ark Tables and Candlesticks as well as of all the inferiour Vtensils and implements So that though the Ark may be said to have bin in the Temple to the day when the former part of that book was written yet the last Chapter determines its removal among the other costly and glorious Ornaments of the first Temple But as to the ten Tribes the sacred Author of that History having declared them to have continued in Media at the time of his writing of that Chapter neither Ezra or whoever might finish up that Chronicle does in least measure intimate the alteration of their estates but leaves them there without any notice of their reversion but having asserted them to be carried thither and to have persisted in their tragical state to the day of the exaration or penning of those books even to the tenth Generation which whether it concern a Genealogie of persons reaching to the Incarnation of our Lord though we cannot certainly determine yet however ever for some hundreds of years after their deportacion In the next place we read of their remaining still in Captivity in the days of Josephus who wrote under the Reign of Vespasian and his testimony if worthy of any credit ought to pass for currant as to matters of his own Nation Historically considered in his own time In his books then of the Wars of the Jews which were written before his antiquities we read a speech made by King Agrippa to

and therefore those Tribes were never yet restored to their glorious State but remains still to be effected in the latter day Who these People are that shall come like Stormes upon the Mountains of Israel I shall not here stand to discuss but rest with the general apprehension of many learned that they denote the Turks who came Originally from between the Euxine and Caspian Seas conjoyned with Mesech who were planted at first by the Montes Moschici in Cappadocia and Tubal or the Tubareni in the adjacent Coasts Some think the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Strabo l. 11. p. 523. placed in North of Media to be these People Ortel They had their name from Terk and Tork that signifies a Shepherd those Countries being used to Pasturage and wafting up and down like the Nomades in Carts and Waggons with their Cattel and are most likely the Turcoe in Pliny and Mela and have left a notable remain of their Name in the City Terki so called at this day on the West side of the Caspian Give leave also to represent one Text of Scripture about Gogs ruine in the latter days mentioned in Balaam's Prophecy according to the Samaritan Copy of the Pentateuch where speaking of the latter times of the World He saith in our versions Israels King shall be higher then Agag and his Kingdomes shall be exalted The Samaritan reads it and so the Seventy He shall be exalted above Gog. Not to argue about the Authentickness of that Lection at present let it suffice that according to that ancient reading Israel is to be exalted above the Kingdoms of Gog in the latter days that is above the Turk as we apprehend by consideration of Ezekiel who acquaints us that the Lord had spoken of old concerning Gog and his ruine by his Prophets in former times But as yet the Turk is in great Splendor though we hope his Crescent is a waining and tending to his fatal Eclipse and Period as might be further evidenced by the finishing of the second Wo-Trumpet in the Revelations at the rising of the Witnesses 4. Arg. 4 The Tribes of Israel are to rule over their Babylonian Enemies and all their ancient Oppressors They never returned as yet to enjoy a Kingdom sui juris but after the return of Judah from Babylon were as a Province inserted into another Empire of the Persians the Ptolomies the Syrians or the Romans c. Therefore the promised State of an absolute or glorious Kingdome to rule over their enemies was never yet fulfilled and remains to be accomplished When God shall raise up Judah and Ephraim and the Sons of Zion against the Sons of Greece or Javan Who are the Sons of Javan but the people that live under Gog and Magog and who is the present Possessor of Greece but the Turkish Gog And who is the Assyrian in the Land of Judah but the Ottoman Family Who holds part of the Ancient Assyria and all the Land of Canaan under his Damaseen Scymiter at this day But Israel is to Captivate those in the latter day that had led them Captives in former times Now this hath never been fulfilled to this moment and therefore rests under the veracity of God to accomplish to his Ancient People They shall possess them in the Land of the Lord for Servants and Hand-Maids and they shall take them Captive whose Captives they were and shall rule over their Oppressors The Nation and Kingdom that will not serve Israel shall perish yea those Nations shall be utterly wasted The Sons of them that have afflicted Israel shall come bending to them and all that despised them shall bow themselves down at the soles of his feet In like manner the Lord threatens the Tyrians that sold his People to the Grecians that God will sell their Children to Judah and they shall sell them as Captives to the Sabeans in Arabia Who are the Tyrians at this day but the Turk who rules longè lateque all round the Phaenician Shores Further the Lord commands all Nations in the latter day to come up to Jerusalem and keep the Feast of Tabernacles The Feast of Israels Deliverance from the House of Bondage and the Feast of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Incarnation of our Lord of his Tabernacling in our Nature upon Earth i. e. to Worship the great Messiah and Lord of our Redemption And if any of all the Families of the Earth shall not obey this Command the Lord will smite them with Famine if they come not up to Worship King David the Lord of Hosts at Jerusalem in the latter day This glorious Deliverance of Israel shall not dawn till the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled So long saith our Lord shall Jerusalem be trodden under foot or as the Apostle Paul expresses 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Fulness of the Gentiles be come in i. e. the fulness of time or the full time of the Gentiles Dominion in the World Now 't is frequent in Scripture Phrase to set forth the End of a Nation its Glory its Power and Prosperity and its Dominion by the time or times of such a Land or Nation its fixed period predetermined and foreappointed of God as you may observe Isai. 13. 22. Jer. 27. 7. and 50. 27 31. Ezek. 7. 7 12 and 22. 3. and 30. 3. 5. Arg. 5 They are to possess a far larger Country then ever they did since they were a People In that day the Lord shall beat off from the Chanel of the River unto the Stream of Egypt i. e. drive their enemies from the River Euphrates to Sihor or the little Stream at the entrance into Egypt and the Dominion of David the second shall be from the River Euphrates to the Ends of the Earth i. e. to the Sea Shore He shall have Dominion from Sea to Sea and from the River unto the Ends of the Earth I will set saith the Lord his hand in the Sea and his right hand in the Rivers i. e. His Power and Dominion Israel must enjoy whatever was contained in that ample Charter given to Abraham as may be more fully expressed in the sequel of this Tract They rise not up to the Dignity of the Promise who cut them short of that large possession granted to their Fathers of old from Euphrates to the entring in of Egypt though they tell us that David and Solomon possessed the Promised Country by Garrisons yet let them remind that those Princes held also by the same tenure of tribute Edom Moab and Ammon and the Children of the East When some further add that Israel fell short of the Promise by Sin that 's not cogent for so they might have fallen short of all and the Lord acquaints them that he chose them them not to be his People for their greatness or worth and therefore brought them into Canaan at the first but to get himself a glorious Name Nay