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A87160	A vindication of the Holy Scriptures. Or the manifestation of Jesus Christ the true Messiah already come. Being the Christians antidote against the poysons of Judaisme and atheisme of this present age. Proved out of sacred scripture, ancient historians, and Jewish Rabbins. / By that learned, and late eminent divine, John Harrison.	Harrison, John, of the Inner Temple.	1656 (1656)	Wing H896; Thomason E1685_1; ESTC R209168	62,938	174

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 fellow as this Jesus to reign over us a false Prophet a deceiver and so forth with whatsoever else their malicious hearts can imagine their blasphemous tongues being set on fire of hell are ready to utter to his disgrace But let them look into that Parable of our Saviour and there they shall find him another manner of person then they imagin I will repeat it unto them Moreover those mine enemies who would not that I should reign over them bring them hither and slay them before me God of his mercy give them repentance in time of their heinous and high blasphemies that they may mourn for him whom they have pierced every Family and Tribe apart Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand And think not to say with your selves We have Abraham to our Father for I say unto you that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham Now is the Ax put to the root of the Tree The last Trumpet will blow and then it will be too late when ye shall hear that shril voice ringing in your ears arise ye dead and come to judgment that voice wil awake you out of all your dreams and mate you arise whether you will or no when ye shal see the Son of man come in his glory even your long looked for Messiah like a magnificent Prince indeed but little to the comfort of those that remain 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 shal give thee light shake off all your idle dreams and foolish fantasies of our imaginary Messiah fitter for Children then Men of discretion consider with your selves at length how long you have overslept your selves how many ages are now past and gone since both by computation of Scriptures as aforesaid as also by the observation of your own 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 evidences and probabilities to the contrary that may be look into your Talmud and there you shal see plainly if you be not blind there also as you are in the Scriptures the vanity of vanities of this your expectation for so it is indeed It is often repeated in your Talmud that one Elias left this Tradition that the world should endure six thousand years that is two thousand before the Law two thousand under the Law and two thousand after that under the Messiah Which last two thousand years by all computation could not begin much from the birth of Jesus And your Rabbins long since complained in that their Talmud that there seem-to them in those days seven hundred and odd years past since the Messiah by the Scripture should have appeared therefore they do marvaile why God so long deferreth me same much more then may ye marvail upon whom the ends of the world are come Another observation Cabalistical they have upon those words of Isa. 9 7. The encrease of his Government and Peace shall have no end where the Hebrew word is Lemarbeh signifying to encrease or multiply ad multiplicandum In which word because they find mem to be shut which is not usual in the middle of a word they gather many secrets and and among other that seeing mem signifieth 600 years so long it should be from that time of Isaiah until the time of the Messiah which accompt of theirs falleth our so just that if you reckon the years from Acha● King of Judah in whose time Isaiah spake these words until the time of Herod under whom Christ was born you shal finde the number to fail in little or nothing A much like observation hath Rabby Moses ben Maimon in his Epistle to his Country men the Jews in Africa concerning the time of the Messiah which he thinketh to be past according to the Scriptures above a thousand years he lived about the year or Christ one thousand one hundred and forty but that God deferreth his manifestation for their sins since which time hath passed almost 500. years more and yet ye hear nothing of his comming Consider this ye Jews of Barbary for to you partly seemeth this Epistle to be written Wil you then stay stil and say stil after so many hundred years past and gone that for your sins God referreth yet his comming putting it off from one five hundred years to another and so in infinitum it is all one as if you say that for your sins God hath broken his promise now 1 thousand and six hundred years and consequently it may be for your sins the Messiah will never come this must be your last refuge you may as wel say the one as the other But howsoever you make your selves sinful yea out of measure sinful yet let God be just and righteous in his promise as it is Written make not him a lyar as you have done hitherto To this purpose also appertaineth the Narration of one Elias as Rabby Josua reporteth it in the Talmud that the Messiah was to be born indeed according to the Scriptures before the destruction of the second Temple for that Isaiah saith of the Synagogue before she travailed she brought forth and before her paine came she was delivered of a man child 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 sins doth hide himself in the Seas and other Desarts till we be worthy of his comming Which is as much in effect as if he had said the one as probable as the other that perhaps for our sins and unworthiness the Messiah may not come at all but return to Heaven back again from whence he came And why I pray have you not stayed as wel in Heaven all this while rather then in the Seas and Desarts for so many years to no purpose I am perswaded if Balaams Ass were alive again and did hear these and such like your idle fantasies and dreams touching your Messiah the very Ass would reprove you to your faces and make you ashamed of them whereof though I have read somewhat in divers Authors yet could I hardly beleeve any such absurdities to be delivered much less defended by any reasonable creatures till I had heard something my self I urged that place of Genesis to one of them to wit that the Scepter should not depart from Judah till Shiloh 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 inhabit Moreover that some of the Moores forsooth had brought them word of a People or Nation of the Jewes inhabiting in a far Country he could not tell me the place where but first there is a River to be passed two Trees growing on either side directly one against another which two trees every saturday and no day else do of their own accord bow one towards another making as it were a bridg for men to go over Now the Jews by reason that day is their Sabbath may not attempt to pass over it But the Messiah at his comming shal bring them altogether into the Land of promise they know not how rebuild the City and Sanctuary in a trice much more glorious then ever it was before To which purpose he alledged that place out of the Psalms The Lord doth build up Jerusalem and gather together the dispersed of Israel So likewise interpreting that of Haggai the glory of this last house shal be greater then the first of this third imaginary Temple So literally applying that of Isaiah that in those days the Wolfe should dwell with the Lamb the Leopard lie with the Kid the Calf and the Lyon and the fat beasts together and a little child to lead them c. That these things should thus come to pass litterally according to the very Hebrew Characters This is all the knowledge they have in the Scriptures the bare Hebrew letters and no more Yet can they not speak one word of the true spiritual language of Canaan but in stead of Shiboleth like those Ephraimites they pronounce Siboleth no interpretation spiritual of the Celestial Canaan the Heavenly Jerusalem of the spiritual Temple of the mystical body of the Messiah that is to say his Church no relish at all of the spirit of God or any spiritual 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 vainly puft up with the foolish pride of this their high pedigree that they think verily and will speak it confidently I have heard it from them that none of them unless for very heinous offences as Perjury or such like shall be judged after this life or be in danger of hell fire they only to have their punishment in this world and not else As though hell fire were only prepared for us Gentiles and Heaven only for the Jews which unless they repent they shall finde quite contrary if the words of our Saviour be found true which hitherto they have found but too true to their wo as I noted before I say unto you that many shall come from the East and from the West and shal sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven and the Children of the Kingdom shall be cast out into utter darkness there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth Where are now the Jews with their lofty pedigree Even as Esau sold to Jacob his birth-right for a mess of pottage so have the Jews to us Gentiles their birthright to the Kingdom of Heaven for a mess of idle dreams and fantasies they imagin to themselves Towers and Castles in the air Crowns and Kingdoms in expectance even in this world another Paradice here on earth But in the end they shall find themselves to have been all this while in a fools Paradice and as it were in a dream which when one awaketh vanisheth and so I leave them to their dreams and profound sleep till it shal please God of his mercy to awake them Thus then it is manifest both by Scripture Tradition and Observation of the Jews themselves that about the time before mentioned to wit in the days of Augustus Cesar the new Roman Emperor and of Herod the usurper King of Jury who was the first that took away the Scepter from Judah even in the time of the second Temple the true Messiah was to be born And hence it was that the whole nation of the Jews remained so accent at this time more then ever before or since in expecting the Messiah Whereupon so soon as ever they heard of John Baptist in the Desart The Jews sent Priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask if he were the Messiah And in another place it is said ' As the people waited and all men mused in their hearts of John if he were the Messiah John answered and said unto them c. So that you see in those days the whole people of the Jews waited for his comming all men mused upon their Messiah So did also John himselfe being in prison sent two of his Disciples to Jesus demanding Art thou he that shall come or shall we look for another and again at the feast of the Dedication they came flocking to him from all parts they came round about him as it is in that place saying How long dost thou hold us in suspense if thou be that Christ tell us plainly All which importeth the great expectation wherein the people remained in those days of which fame expectation and greedy desire of the people divers deceivers took occasion to call themselves the Messiah Judas Galilaeus Judas the Son of Hezechias Atonges a Shepherd Theudas and Egyptus all notable deceivers But above all one Barcozham who as the Talmud affirmeth for thirty years together was received for the Messiah by the Rabbins themselves till at last they slew him because he was not able to deliver them from the Romans Which facility in the people when Herod saw he caused one Nicholaus Damascenus to devise a pedigree for him from the ancient Kings of Juda and so he as well as the rest took upon him the title of the Messiah whom divers carnal Jews that expected the Messiah to be a magnificent King as Herod was would seem to beleeve and publish abroad whereupon they are thought to be called Herodians in the Gospel who came to tempt Christ But all these deceivers are vanished and gone their memorial is perished with them whereunto our Saviour seemeth to allude where he saith All that ever came before me are theeves and robbers but the sheep did not hear them I say all these false Messiahs with their followers they are vanished and gone onely Jesus Christ and his Religion contrary to all other Religions in the world without either sword spear or shield against all world strength and policy hath increased and multiplied and shall do to the end of the world as Gamaliel long ago prophesied to the Jews wilfully bent put all in vain even in the very first infancy thereof to have destroyed it His words are these ' And now I say unto you refrain your selves from these men and let them alone for if this councel or this

unto his party Whosoever will come and be my servant if he be a Footman I will make him a Horseman if he be an Horseman I will make him ride with Coaches if he be a Farmer I will make him a Gentleman if he possess a Cottage I will give him a Village if he have a Village I will give him a City if he be Lord of a City I will make him Prince of a Region or Country and as for gold I will pour it forth unto them by heaps and weight and not by number This was the Proclamation of Cyrus the great King of Persia to his followers very glorious as we see in pomp of words and to the eye of flesh and blood Let us now compare herewith the proclamation of our Cyrus Jesus Christ to his Disciples and Followers the entrance and preface whereof was this Repent c. And then it followeth instead of whosoever will come and be my servant if he be a Footman I wil make him a Horseman If any man wil follow me saith Christ let him forsake himself and take up his cross and follow me not on horseback as the Pope doth with all his proud Cardinals Bishops in his pontificalibus I have seen servants on horses and Princes walking as servants on the ground So did an Emperour bare-footed to his Holiness But what would Solomon have said if he had seen a Prince hold his stirrop and yet forsooth will this proud Prelate be Servus servorum a follower of Christ and Peter's Successor Insteed of possessing lands and Lordships gold and treasures he saith Possess not gold nor silver nor money in your purses nor a scrip for the journey neither two coats neither shoes nor so much as a staff in your hands Insteed of these preferments and pleasures of the world saith Christ contrary to Cyrus In this world ye shall have affliction yea which is more ' Ye shall be delivered up to the Councels and to the Synagogues ye shall be beaten and brought before Rulers and Kings for my sake ye shall be hated of all men for my names sake ye shall be betrayed also of your Parents brethren kinsmen and friends And which is most of all Ye shall be put to death for whosoever will save his life shall lose it Finally If any man come to me and hate not his Father and Mother and Wife and Children and Brethren and Sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be my Disciple And whosoever beareth not his cross and cometh after me he cannot be my Disciple For which of you minding to build a Tower sitteth not down before and counteth the cost c. So likewise whosoever he be of you that forsaketh nor all that he hath he cannot be my Disciple This was the Proclamation and Edict of Christ to his followers This was the entertainment proposed by Jesus to such as would come and serve under his colours with express 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 sword fire and tribulation Think 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 won thereby to follow him even upon the first call they left all and followed him and by them to all others afterwards I say by this Doctrine so cross and opposite to mans nature inclination and sensual appetite he gained more hearts unto him within the space of forty yeers then ever did Monarch in the world possess loving subjects by whatsoever temporal allurements they did or might propose which argueth the omnipotent puissance of him that contrary to mans reason in so short a time could bring to pass 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 despite and indignities were done unto him by the Jews it was also foretold by the Prophets and so expounded by their own Rabbins as also by our Saviour himself Behold we go up to Jerusalem and all things shall be fulfilled to the Son of man that are written by the Prophet c. He made his entrance into the Citie upon an Ass in all humility as was prophesied the Messiah should do Rejoyce greatly O daughter Zion shout for joy c. Fulfilled even at the same time when the people spread their garments in the way cut down branches from the Trees and strewed them in the way crying Hosanna to the Son of David c. He was betrayed by his own Disciple as David in divers places had foretold under a type of those his secret enemies in the days of Saul as also himself prophesied beforehand saying He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish he shall betray me Being apprehended he was most barbarously entreated by the Jews according to that of Isai I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to the nippers I hid not my face from shame and spitting After all this inhumane dealing he was nailed to the cross hand and foot according to that of David They pierced my hands and my feet I may tell all my bones they beheld and looked upon me they parted my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture And in another place They gave me gall in my meat and in my thirst they gave me vineger to drink He was crucified between two malefactors or evil doers one on the right hand the other on the left according to that of Isaiah He was counted with the Transgressors yea Barrabas a murderer in the esteem of the Jews preferred before Jesus and quit by a common consent and cry away with him and deliver unto us Barrabas crucifie him crucifie him He prayed for his enemies and persecutors Father forgive them for they know not what they do according to that of Isaiah He bare the sin of many and prayed for the trespassers Not a bone of him was broken according to that Law of the Passover a lively type thereof To conclude that Christ should die for the sins of the world it was a received opinion of the Jews in all ages both prefigured and foretold throughout all the Scripture prefigured by the sacrifice of Isaac the lifting up of the brazen Serpent and by all other sacrifices in the Law Foretold not only by the Scriptures before mentioned but also by Daniel in most plain terms After threescore and two weeks shall the Messiah be slain c. acknowledged also by Caiphas himself high Priest even the self same year that Christ suffered his words are these to the Pharisees taxing their great

right hand of God David saith Thou art gone up on high thou hast led captivity captive and received gifts for men c. And in another place The Lord said to my Lord Sit thou at my right hand c. which is the place alledged by our Saviour wherewith he put the Jews to silence both as touching the Deity and the Humanity of the Messiah for saith he If David call him Lord how is he then his Son Where we may see David acknowledgeth him his Lord and consequently his God even the Son of God sitting at the right hand of God for the present as touching his Divinity afterwards to be accomplished also in his Humanity which David believed as verily should come to pass and foresaw by the eye of Faith as did Thomas when it was come to pass putting his hand into his side and crying My Lord and my God so saith David here my Lord The Lord said unto my Lord c. I say this article of our Faith as touching his Ascension it followeth necessarily to be concluded upon his Resurrection it needeth no other proof For that whosoever seeth and acknowledgeth that Jesus being dead could raise himself to life again will easily believe also that he was able to ascend up to heaven at his pleasure And hereof we have also all his Apostles and Disciples for witnesses eye witnesses in whose presence and sight he ascended as it is in that place They looked stedfastly towards heaven as he went and in witness thereof gave up their lives and sealed the same with their blood Therefore I conclude upon all these premisses so necessarily following and depending one upon another to wit his birth life doctrine actions death resurrection ascension seeing nothing hath hapned in the same which was not foretold by the Prophets of God nor any thing foretold by the same Prophets concerning the Messiah which was not fulfilled most exactly in the person of our Saviour We may most certainly assure our selves that as God is truth and therefore can neither foretel an untruth nor yeild testimony to the same so it cannot be but that these things which have been shewed to be so manifestly fore prophesied and so evidently accomplished in the person of this our blessed Lord and Saviour must needs I say assure us Christians that he was indeed the true Messiah and quite confound the Jews in their vain imagination and expectation of another The sending of the holy Ghost with the first Plantation and wonderful increase of the Church NOw for those things that followed after his Ascension as arguments and effects of 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 sudden strange and miraculous increase of his Church throughout the world even against all worldly power and policy by the only power and ministry of his word confirmed with signs and wonders that followed wrought by his Apostles Disciples and other his faithful 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 grown and been maintained by force of Arms Fire and Sword this only by the preaching of Christ crucified in all Nations hath encreased and multiplyed and shal do more and more to the end of the world this must increase all others decrease howsoever the Turks have possessed the greatest part of the world at this day yet our Saviours prophesie in the end shall be found true this Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached throughout the whole world for a witness unto all Nations Now for the first increase of it How small a number were there gathered together after the ascension at Jerusalem from whence they were to march even the twelve Apostles no great army God wot to conquer the world as it is in that place The Law shall go forth from Zion and the Word of God from Jerusalem There was the Rendevous there they stayed there they rested there they continued in prayer and fasting till such time as Christ after his ascension according to his promise sent them the Comforter even the holy Ghost enduing them with power from on high and arming them at all points for so great a work When and where being gathered together all with one accord in one place suddenly 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 fire 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 twelve silly souls without any means men money or munition in a very short time conquered a great part of the world insomuch that at one Sermon of S. Peter at the same time there were added to the Church three thousand souls and so multiplyed successively from time to time and from place to place spreading it self from one Country to another and from one Nation to another and so at length into all Nations There is neither Speech 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 pass this day Of which coming of the holy Ghost in the time of the Messiah Joel prophesied saying And it shall be in the last days that I will pour out my spirit c. and on my servants and on my handmaids I will pour out my spirit c. It filled all the house where they sate and it sate upon each of them and they were all filled with the holy Ghost Here is a deluge of Gods grace poured upon the world immediately upon the ascension of our Lord and Saviour First upon his Apostles and Disciples of those times in greater measure as the first fruits of his spirit by the which they wrought miracles spake all manner of languages healed all manner of diseases cast out Divels raised the dead and lastly sealed the same with their blood Poor Fishermen and such like of no reputation in the world without learning without credit without means as before yet by this means conquered the world to the subjection of their master Christ that stone cast aside of the Builders but now become the head-stone of the corner this the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes The sincerity of the Evangelists NOw for the Evangelists or writers of the Gospel that is to say the registers of his Birth Life Doctrine and Death It is to be noted that our Saviour being God took a different way from the custome of man in delivering unto us his Laws and Precepts For that men who have been law-makers unto the world