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A02727	The Messiah already come. Or Profes [sic] of Christianitie both out of the Scriptures, and auncient rabbins, to convince the Iewes, of their palpable, and more then miserable blindnesse (if more may be) for their long, vaine, and endlesse expectation of their Messiah (as they dreame) yet for to come. Written in Barbarie, in the yeare 1610, and for that cause directed to the dispersed Iewes of that countrie, and in them to all others now groaning under the heavy yoake of this their long and intollerable captivitie, which yet one day shall have an end ...	Harrison, John, fl. 1610-1638.	1619 (1619)	STC 12858; ESTC S116532	67,755	80

And so indeed he did for Christ Iesus came into the world during this second temple and did himselfe likewise foretell the destruction thereof which came to passe even in that age Therefore to him agreeth this circumstance of tyme very fitly most vainly therefore doe the Iewes after this tyme to wit the destruction of the second temple expect any further Fourthly the Messiah by the true computation of Daniels prophesie accounting his Hebdomades or weekes for so many yeeres to be multiplied by seauen that is to say weekes of yeares as they must needs be understood was to come just according to the tyme before mentioned his words are these Seventie weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thyne holy citie knowe therefore and understand that from the going forth of the Command●ment to bring againe the people and to build Ierusalem unto Messiah the Prince shall be seauen weeks and threescore and two week● And after threescore and two weeks shall the Messiah be slayne and not for hims●lf And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the citie and sanctuarie and he shall confirme the covenant with many for one week in the middest of the weeke he shall c●use the sacrifice and oblation to cease Which Hebdomades or weeks of yeeres whether we account from the first yeere of Cyrus who first determined the Iewes reduction or from the second of Darius who confirmed and put the same in execution or from the twentieth yere of Darius for that he then made a new Edict in the favour of Nehemias and sent him into Iury everie way they will ende in the raigne of Herod and Augustus under whom Christ was borne or in the raigne of Tyberius under whom he suffered And by no interpretation can it be avoyded but that this tyme is now out aboue one thousand and fiue hundreth yeeres Beside● this being a cleare prophecie of the Messiah howsoever somewhat more intricate and obscure in respect of the yeeres wherein the Prophet alludeth to the captivitie of Babylon as some thinke must needs be interpreted according to the former prophecies also of the Messiah And so doth the Prophet expound himself in the former words namely that theMessiah should be slaine before the destruction of the citie and Sanctuarie Yet is there one weeke more to make up the number of seauentie in the midst of which weeke the Messiah should be slayne which came to passe accordingly for in the middest of that weeke that is about three yeeres and an half after his baptisme Christ Iesus the true Messiah was slayne and not for himself for Pilat could find no fault in him I find no fault in the man I finde no cause of death in him I am innocent of the blood of this Iust man look ye to it Not for himself but for us was he wounded as sayth the Prophet Isai He was wounded for our transgressions Therefore to him doth this circumstance of tyme beare witnes and consequently the Iewes after these tymes by God himself appointed for the Messiah expecting yet for an other beside● the vanitie of this their expectation they make God himself a lyer yea and all their Forefathers Abraham Isaack and Iacob all the holy Prophets whose children they hold themselues to be who all of them sawe these dayes and prophecied of them Abraham rejoyced to see my day sayth our Saviour and he sawe it and was glad All these make they Lyers with themselues whereby they shewe themselues rather to be the children of the Divil who is the father of lyes then of Abraham who is the father of the faithfull onely For so did that vile serpent at the first euen dare to giue God himself the lye as it is in Genesis God ●ayth there to Adam In the day that thou eatest of such a tree thou shalt dye the death No sayth the Divil it is not so ye shall not dye as all So doe these Imps of Sathan generation of vipers as Iohn the Baptist in his time called them euen just after the same maner For sayth God by his prophets at such a tyme will I sende the Messiah into the world and by such and such markes ye shall knowe him no sayth this froward generation it is not so he hath not yet sent him he is not yet come we acknowledge no such marks as that he shall be poor and of no reputation in this world put to death We look for a magnificent prince we will none of such a base fellowe as this Iesus to reigne over us a false Prophet a deceiver and so forth with whatsoever els their malicious harts can imagine their blasphemous tongues being set on fire of hel are ready to utter to his disgrace But let them looke into that parable of our Saviour there they shall find him another maner of persō thē they imagine I will repeat it unto them Moreover those mine enemies who would not that I should raigne over them bring them hither and stay them before me God of his mercie giue them repentance in tyme of their heynous and high blasphemies that they may mourne for him whom they haue pierced everie familie and tribe apart Repent for the kingdome of heauen is at hand And think not to say with your selues we haue Abraham to our Father for I say unto you that God is able of these stones to rayse up children unto Abraham Now is the axe put to the roote of the tree The last trumpet will blowe and then it wil be to late when ye shall heare that shrill voyce ringing in your eares arise ye deade and come to judgment that voyce will awake you out of all your dreames and make you arise whether ye will or no when ye shall see the sonne of man come in his glorie euen your long looked for Messiah like a magnificent prince indeed but litle to the comfort of those that remayne obstinate Awake therefore to your salvation that ye be not awakened hereafter to your condemnation Awake thou that sleepest stand up from the dead and Christ shall giue thee light shake of all your ydle dreames and foolish fantasies of your imaginarie Messiah fitter for children then men of discretion consider with your selues at length how long ye haue overslept your selues how manie ages are now past and gone since both by computation of Scriptures as aforesayd as also by the observation of your owne Doctors and Teachers your Messiah was to come and yet you see him not no nor any likelyhood at all of his comming more then at the first yea rather all evidenc●s and probabilities to the contrarie that may be looke into your Talmud and there ye shall see plainly if you be not blynd there also as you are in the Scriptures the vanitie of vanities of this your expectation for so it is indeede It is often repeated in your Talmud that one Elias left this tradition that the

world should endure six thousand yeares that is two thousand before the lawe two thousand under the lawe two thousand after that vnder the Messiah Which last two thousand yeares by all computation could not begin much from the birth of Iesus And your Rabbins long since complayned in that their Talmud that there seemed to them in those dayes seaven hundreth and odde yeares past since the Messiah by the Scriptur● should have appeared and therefore they doe marveyle why 〈◊〉 so longe deferreth the same much more then may ye marvel vpon whome the ends of the world are come An other observation cabalisticall they have vpon those words of Isa. 9 7 The increase of his goverment and peace shall have no end where the Hebrew word is lemarbeh signifying to increase or multiply ad multiplicandum In which worde because they finde mem to be shut which is not vsual in the middle of a word they gather many secrets and amonge other that seeing mem signifieth 600 yeares so longe it should be from that time of Isai vntil the time of the Messiah which accompt of theirs falleth out so just that if you reckō the yeares frō Achas King of Iuda in whose time Isay spake these words vntil the time of Herod vnder whom Christ was born ye shall find the nūber to fail in litle or nothing A much like observation hath Rabby Moses ben Maimon in his Epistle to his countrymen the Iewes in Africa concerning the time of the Messiah which he thinketh to be past according to the Scriptures above a thousand yeares he lived about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundreth forty but that God deferreth his manifestation for theire sinnes since which time hath passed almost 500. yeares more and yet yee heare nothing of his cōming Consider this yee Iewes of Barbary for to you partly seemeth this Epistle to be written Will you then stay still and say stil after so many hundreth yeares past and gone that for your sinnes God deferreth yet his cōminge putting it of from one five hundreth yeares to another so in infinitum it is all one as if you say that for your sinnes God hath broken his promise nowe a thousande and six hundreth yeares and consequently it may be for your sinnes the Messiah will never come this must be your last refuge you may aswell say the one as the other But howsoever you make your selves sinfull yea out of measure sinful yet let God be iust and righteous in his promise as it is written make not him a lyer as you have done hitherto To this purpose also apperteyneth the narration of one Elias as Rabby Iosua reporteth it in the Thalmud that the Messiah was to be borne indeed according to the scriptures before the destruction of the second temple for that I say saith of the synagogue before she traveled she brought forth and before her paine came she was delivered of a man childe that is saith he before the Synagogue was afflicted and made desolate by the Romans she brought forth the Messiah But yet saith he this Messiah for our sinnes doth hide himself in the seas and other defarts till we be worthy of his comming Which is asmuch in effect as if he had said the one as probable as the other that perhaps for our sinnes and vnworthines the Messiah may not come at all but returne to heaven backe againe from whence he came And why I pray you not have stayed aswell in heaven all this while rather then in the seas and desarts for so many yeres to no purpose I am parswaded if Balaams Asse were aliue againe and did heare these and such like your idle fantasies dreames touching your Messiah the very asse woulde reprove you to your faces and make you ashamed of them wherof though I have read somewhat in divers authors yet coulde I hardly beleeve any such absurdities to be delivered much lesse defended by any reasonable creatures till I had heard some thinge my self I urged that place of Genesis to one of them to witte that the Scepter should not depart from Iuda till Shilo came that is the Messiah which being so long since departed and gone I asked what reason they had as yet to expect for a Messiah he answered the Scepter was not departed they had their sheckes that is to say chief men of their tribes in all parts where they inhabite Moreover that some of the Moores forsooth had brought them word of a people or nation of the Iewes inhabiting in a farre countrie he could not tell me the place where but first there is a river to be passed two trees growing on eyther side directly one against another which two trees everie saturday and no day els doe of their owne accord bowe one towards another making as it were a bridge for men to goe ●ver Now the Iewes by reason that day is their Sabath may not attempt to passe over it But the Messiah at his comming shall bring them al●ogether into the land of promise they knowe not how rebuyld the citie and sanctuarie in a trice much more glorious then ever it was before To which purpose he alledged that place out of the Psalmes The Lord doth buyld up Ierusalem gather tog●ther the dispers●d of Israel So likewise interpreting that of Hag. the glorie of this last house shal be greater then the first of this third imaginarie temple So literally applying that of Isai that in those dayes the wolf should dwell with the Lambe the leoparde lye with the kidde the calf and the lyon the fa●te beasts together and a litle childe to leade them c. That these things should thus come to passe literally according to the verie Hebrewe characters This is all the knowledge they haue in the Scriptures the bare Hebrew letters and no more Yet can they not speake one word of the true spirituall language of Canaan but in steede of Shiboleth like those Ephraimites they pronounce Siboleth no interpretation spirituall of the celestial Canaan the heauenly Ierusalem of the spirituall temple of the mysticall bodie of the Messiah that is to say his Church no relish at all of the Spirit of God or any spirituall worship amongst them And yet forsooth they will be the people of God alone and who but they the children of Abraham and of the promise and none but they yea they are so vaynly puft up with the foolish pride of this their high pedegree that they thinke verely and will speake it confidently I haue heard it from them that none of them unlesse for verie heynous offences as perjurie or such like shall be judged after this life or be in daunger of hell fire they onely to haue their punishment in this world and not els As though hell fire were onely prepared for us gentiles and heauen onely for the Iewes which unlesse they repent they shall find quite contrarie if the words of our

buyld a tower sitteth not downe before and counteth the cost c. So likewise whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath he cannot be my disciple This was the proclamation and Edict of Christ to his followers This was the entertaynement proposed by Iesus to such as would come and serue under his colours with expresse protestation that himself was sent into the world not to bring peace rest and ease to flesh and blood but rather to be the cause of sworde fire and tribulation Thinke not that I am come to send peace into the earth I came not to send peace but the sword And yet with these cold offers presented to the world first by himself to his Apostles and disciples wonne thereby to follow him euen upon the first call they left all and followed him and by them to all others afterwards Isay by this doctrine so crosse and opposite to mans nature inclination and sensuall appetite he gayned moe harts unto him within the space of fortie yeeres then ever did monarch in the world possesse loving subjects by whatsoever temporall alurements they did or might propose which argueth the omnipotent puisance of him that contrarie to mans reason in so shorte a tyme could bringe to passe so miraculous a conquest were there no other argument in the world of the truth of Christian Religion this were sufficient His death and passion FOr his death and passion with all the disgrace dispite and indignities were done unto him by the Iewes it was also foretold by the Prophets and so expounded by their owne Rabbins as also by our Sauiour himself behold we goe up to Ierusalem and all things shall be fulfilled to the Sonne of man that are written by the Prophets c. He made his entrance into the citie upon an a●●e in all humilitie as was prophecied the Messiah should doe Rejoyce greatly o daughter Zion shoute for joye c. Fulfilled euen at the same tyme when the people spread their garments in the way cutte downe branches from the trees and strowed them in the way crying Hosanna to the Sonne of David c. He was betrayed by his owne disciple as David in divers places had foretold under a type of those his secret enemies in the dayes of Saul as also himself prophecied before hand saying He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish he shall betraye me Being apprehended he was most barbarously entreated by the Iewes according to that of Isay I gaue my back to the smyters my checkes to the nippers I hidde not my face from shame and spi●ting After all this inhumane dealing he was nayled to the crosse hand and foote according to that of David they pearced my hands and my feete I may tell all my bones they beheld and looked upon me they parted my garments among them and cast his upon my vesture And in another place they gaue me gal in my meate and in my thirst they gaue me vineger to drinke He was crucified betweene two malefactors or evildoers one on the right hand the other on the left according to that of Isay He was counted with the transgressors yea Barabas a murtherer in the esteeme of the Ie●es preferred before Iesus and quitte by a common cons●nt and crye aw●y with him deliver unto us Barabas crucifie him crucifie him He prayed for his enemies and persecutors Father forgiue them for they knowe not what they doe according to that of Isay He bare the sinne of many and prayed for the trespassers Not a bone of him was broken according to that Law of the Passeover a liuely type thereof To conclude that Christ should dye for the sinnes of the world it was a received opinion of the Iewes in all ages both prefigured and fore●old throughout all the Scripture prefigured by the sacrifice of Isaack the lifting up of the brasen serpent and by all other sacrifices in the Law Foretold not onely by the Scriptures before mentioned but also by Daniel in most plaine tearmes after threescore and two weeks shall the Messiah be slayne c. acknowledged also by Cayphas himself Highpriest euen the selfe same yeere that Christ ●uffered his words are these to the Pharisees taxing their great blindnes in this point and in them the whole nation of the Iewes to this day Ye perceiue nothing at all noryet doe you consider that it is expedient for us that one man dye for the people and that the whole nation perish not c. But he that will read the whole storie of Christ crucified with the particulars described many hundreth yeeres before the same fell out let him turne to Isay and acknowledge him foran Euangelist who to signifie the straungnes of the case beginneth first with a preface who will beleeue our report c. All which narration Rabbi Ionathan the author of the Chaldie Paraphrase applyeth to the murther of the Messiah by the Iewes whereunto agree Rabbi Simeon Rabbi Hadersan and others proving further out of Dan. 9. ver 27. That after the Messiah shall haue proached half seauen yeeres he shall be slayne which disagreeth litle or nothing frō the account of us Christians Also in their Talmud it is set●e downe for a principle and the sentence pronounced before hand peremptorily in playne termes that the Messiah at his comming shall be put to death So then I may conclude upon all these particulars of Christ his Death Passion foretold by the Prophets prefigured in the ●awe and so oxpounded and acknowledged by the Iewes themselues the auncient Rabbins before mentioned and finally so exactly fulfilled in our Lord and Saviour as by the quotations in the margent may appeare together with the milde maner of his death praying for his enemies Father forgiue them and meekely recommending his soule into the Hands of God Father into thy hands I commend my spirit with other straunge accidents and circumstances that miraculous eclipse of the sunne at that verie instant from the sixt to the ninth houre there was darknes over all the Land the vaile of the temple rent in twaine from the toppe to the bottome and the earth did quake and the stones were cloven and the graues did open themselues and manie bodies of the Saincts which slept arose c. Isay upon all these particularities and circumstances I hope I may conclude as it is in that place with the Centurion and those that were with him watching Iesus who when they sawe the earthquake and the things that were done they feared greatly saaying truly it is was the sonne of God And all the people that came together to that sight beholding the things which were done smote their brests and returned So may I conclude Truly this was the sonne of God truly this is the Messiah and let all the people of the Iewes come together againe to this sight and

his divine power they were also foretold by the Prophets to wit the sending of the Holy Ghost that comforter from on high with the sodayne strange and myraculous increase of his Church throughout the world even against all worldly power and policie by the onely power and ministerie of his worde confirmed with signes and wonders that followed wrought by his Apostles Disciples and other his faithfull servants and witnesses in the primitive Church then the which there can be no greater argument in the world of the truth of Christian Religion if we consider how all other religions in the world have growne and been maynteined by force of armes fyre and sword this onely by the preaching of Christ crucified in all na●ions hath increased multiplyed shall doe more more to the end of the world this must increase all others decrease how so ever the Turks have possessed the greatest part of the world at this day yet our Saviours prophecie in the end shal be found true this gospel of the kingdō shal be preached throughout the whol world for a witnesunto al natiōs Now for the first increase of it how smal a number were there gathered together after the ascention at Ierusalem from whēce they were to march even the twelue Apostles no great armie Godwat to cōquer the world as it is in that place The law shall goe forth frō Ziō the word of God frō Ierusalē There was the Rendevous there they staid there they rested there they cōtinued in prayer and fasting till such time as Christ af●er his ascension according to his promise sent them the comforter even the holy Ghost induing them with power frō on high arming thē at all points for so great a work When and where being gathered togither all with one accord in one place sodenly there came a sound from heaven as of a mighty wind and filled all the house where they sate And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like fyre and it sate upon each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as there is mentioned And with these fiery cloven tongues these 12. silly soules without any other meanes men money or munitiō in a very short time conquered a great part of the world In so much that at one sermon of S. Peter at the same time there were added to the Church three thowsand soules And so multiplied successively from time to time and from place to place spreading it selfe from one country to another and from one nation to an other and so at length into all nations there is neyther speach nor language where their voice is not heard their line is gone forth through all the earth and their words into the ends of the world as we see it is come to passe this day Of which cōming of the Holy Ghost in the time of the Messiah Ioel prophesied saying And it shal be in the last dayes that I wil power out my spirit vpon all flesh c. and on my servants and on my handmaids I will powre out my spirit c. It filled all the howse where they sate it sate upon each of them and they were all filled with the holy Ghost Here is a deluge of Gods grace powred upon the world immediately upon the ascension of our Lord and Saviour First vpon his Apostles and disciples of those times in greater measure as the first fruites of his spirit by the which they wrought miracles spake all manner of languages healed all maner of diseases cast out Divils raysed the dead and lastly sealed the same with their blood Poore fishermen and such like of no reputation in the world without learning without credite without meanes as before yet by this meanes conquered the world to the subjection of their maister Christ that stone cast aside of the builders but now become the heade stone of the corner this is the Lordes doing and it is marvelous in our eyes The sinceritie of the Evangelistes NOw for the Evangelists or writers of the Gospell that is to say the registers of his birth life doctrine and death it is to be noted that our Saviour being God tooke a different way from the custome of man in delivering vnto us his lawes precepts For that men who have been lawmakers vnto the world knew no surer way of publishing their lawes and procuring authoritie to the same than to write them with their owns handes and in their life time to establish their promulgation So Lycurgus Solon and others among the Grecians Numa to the Romans Mahomet to the Sarasins But Iesus to shew this divine power in directing the pen and stile of his Evangelists would not leave any thing written by himselfe but passed from this world in simplicity and silence without any further shewe or ostentation of his owne doings Meaning notwithstanding afterwards to his glorie and the aedification of his Church here on earth by foure irrefragable witnesses or remembrancers the four Evāgelists every word should be established recorded As may appear by that place where he saith These things have I spoken vnto you being present with you but the Comforter which is the holy Ghost whom the Father wil send in my name he shal bring all things to your remembrance which I haue told you Wherevpon I inferre that the Evangelists and Apostolicall writers were all of them guided and directed by one and the same spirit even the spirite of God for the registring of all things eyther sayd or donne by our Saviour so farre forth as seemed best to his divine will and pleasure to be registred and recorded for the benefite and edification of his Church For there were many other things which Iesus did as Io. the Evāgelist testifieth which are not written that is to say which the holy spirit of God thought needlesse to faith and salvation but saith he these things are written that ye might beleeve that Iesus is the Christ the sonne of God and that in beleeving ye might have life through his name Now for these Evāgelists foure in nomber which some have resēbled to the foure beasts in Ezek the first last are Apostles that wrote as they had seen the two middle at disciples who registred things as they had ūderstood by cōferēce with the Apostles The first gospel was written by an Apostle to give light to the rest and the last also by an Apostle to give authoritie and confirmation to the former The first was written in the Hebrew tongue for that all those myracles which Iesus wrought were doone in that countrie he was not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel to the end that eyther the whole nation might beleeve them or the obstinate impugne them which yet never any of theire Rabbines tooke in hand to doe The other three were written in the most famous