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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

in worshipping of Images and such like tromperie I am perswaded haue beene two maine obstacles to their conversion hitherto as some of them in Barbarie objected to me saying the Christian Religion could not be the true Religion for that it alloweth the worshipping of images which is expresly against the Law Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen Image And if we say they crucified Christ and therefore we hate and abhorre them even to the third and fourth generation that is to say their posterity for ever so doe we daily by our crying sinnes euen crucifie againe the Lord Iesus they but once and unwittingly as Saint Peter testifieth we often and that both wittingly and willingly to our greater condemnation in respect of the fulnesse of knowledge we haue in the Messiah This is that fulnesse of the Gentiles already come in whereof the Apostle long since prophecied as in knowledge abounding so in sinne super-abounding and that generally through out all Nations Of whom I doubt much whether I may say as it was said in times past of the Amorites as touching their fulnesse it was not yet come for I am sure the fulnesse of the Gentiles as touching sinne is already come fulnesse of Bread and aboundance of Idlenesse as in Sodome yea fulnesse and loathsomnesse even of Manna it selfe as the children of Israel in the end waxed wearie of that heavenly foode so is it with us in respect of the foode of our soules Else what meaneth so many Sects and Schismes in our Church at this day Diseases arising from some bad humours and corruptions in the body as all diseases doe which therefore ought to be purged Surely the varietie of the one argueth a fulnesse and sacietie of the other We are fallen from the names of Christians given to the Primitiue Church to be baptized into new names Anabaptists Arminians id genus farinae Corne I may not call them but chaffe yea rather tares sprung up with the good Corne over-spreading and over-topping it too in many places but both must grow together till the harvest Yea our fulnesse and nicenesse is such as we can taste no maner of meat almost but what some curious cookes for the nonce provide for us every one must have a cooke for his owne palate We are fallen into that time fore-prophecied by the Apostle 2. Tim 4. For the time will come when they will not suffer wholesome Doctrine but having their eares itching shall after their owne lusts get them a heape of Teachers We are even wearie of Manna as the children of Israel were And therefore now that they haue fasted so long time and that fulnesse of the Gentiles come upon us it standeth both with the Lords justice and his mercie both to us and them to doe to them as he did to us at the first and to us as he did to them Behold therefore the bountifulnesse and the severitie of God toward them which have fallen severitie but toward thee bountifulnesse if thou continue in his bountifulnesse or else thou shalt also be cut off and they also if they abide not still in unbeliefe shall be graffed in for God is able to graffe them in againe Of which g●orious worke of the conversion of the Iewish Nation and finishing of that mysterie of godlinesse if you most h●gh and mightie Lords shall be the first beginners in your owne Countrie as you haue already playd your parts against the mysterie of Iniquitie both at home and abroad both by Sea and by Land as the chiefe bulwarks of Christian R●ligion at this day against the power of Antichrist and all his adhaer●nts whereof you have borne the brunt as Tully saith of the Scipioes they were propugnacula belli punici and therefore deserve the prize aboue all other Nations you shall not onely highly advance your honour in this World as you have done already both in those your martiall aff●ires and otherwise also by a generall eye of policie or rather so many Argus eyes watching over all estat●s to keepe them upright and in order especially those extraordi●ary and magnificent I may well call them so workes of Chari●ie towards the poore in those your state●y Ho●pitals and Guest-houses and such l●ke places of provision no crying for bread nor complayning in your Streetes but also in the World to come you shall a●vance your selues in honour and glory aboue the Heave●s where you shall shine like so many Starres in the ●irmament and as the Sunne in his strength for so it is said They that turne many to Righteousnesse shall shine as the Starres forever and ever And they that honour me saith the Lord I will honour then the which what greater incouragement And so humbly craving pardon for this my boldnesse being a Stranger or wherein otherwise I have erred I commit you according to your high and eminent Places Estates and orders which in my heart more I honour than eyther my tongue or Penne can worthily expresse not so well knowne vnto me to the Almighty To whose service I rest devoted IOHN HARRISON To the Reader I Must confesse Christian Reader that a great part of the proofes following together with the methode I have borrowed out of a Booke called the Christian Directorie or Resolution in English which I had with me in Barbarie none else of that argument but the Booke of Bookes which is the Bible And therefore least any one should accuse me hereafter of secret theft I doe ingeniously acknowledge before hand with the Poet Fateor me transtulisse But yet with many additions and alterations of my owne I have made it of right as it were my owne without any wrong to the Author And so I referre it to thy Christian censure THE MESSIAH ALREADIE COME First for the promises and prophecies of old as touching the coming of a Messiah whom we call CHRIST both they and we agree both of us reading dayly in our Churches Synagogues teaching holding for canonicall the verie self same Scriptures euen the Law and the Prophets In so much that the Gentile is oftentymes enforced to marvile whē he seeth a people so extreāly bent one against another as the Iewes are against Christians and yet doe stand so peremptorily in defence of those verie principles which are the proper causes of their disagreement But in the interpretation application thereof ariseth all the controversie they understanding and applying all things literally and carnally to their long looked for Messiah yet for to come we after a spirituall maner understanding all those promises and prophecies to be most truly and really fulfilled in the person of our blessed Mesiah alreadie come they expecting a temporall King to rule and conquer in this world we acknowledging a spirituall King whose kingdome is not of this world as himself did many tymes protest while he was in the world My kingdome is not of this World To beginne with Adam and so forward Gods

natiō or people under which you live not onely in Barbary but in al other parts of the world besides as a fatal effect of that heavie curse laid on you by your own forefathers long agoe vpon the death of Christ when Pilate the judge washed his hands saying I am innocent of the blood of this iust man looke yee to it they cried with one consent his blood be vpon vs on our children As also of that prophesie of our Saviour in his life time when he wept over Ierusalem saying ô if thou haddest even knowne at the least in this thy day those things which belong to thy peace but now are they hid frō thine eyes c. And more particularly to his Disciples he renueth it over againe when yee shall see Ierusalem besieged with soldiers then know yee that her desolation is at hand For these be the dayes of venga●ce to fulfill all things that are written For there shall be great distresse in this land and wrath over this people And they shall fall one the cadge of the sword and shall be lead captive into all nations c. Which heavie curse of your owne forefathers and prophisie of his how truely they have been fulfilled both the one the other all the world seeth and yee your selves feele the effect as before The Lord in mercie take away the vayle from your hearts that at length ye may know those things which belōg to your peace which now are hid frō your eyes for why will ye dye ô ye house of Israel These considerations I say and reasons with some others have moved me and partly in recompence of those your definaes and dainties wherof I tasted so often while I was amongst you to send you here a smal banket of such dainties as Christendome can afford wishing you would but tast some part of mine as I did of yours being indeed Sabbath dayes dainties tast I say and see how sweet the Lord is And the rather doe I invite you to this banket yea rather provoke you therevnto even to your owne salvation which through your fall is come to us Gentiles to provoke you as it is that place for that now the time of your redemtion draweth neare with ours much nearer now thē whē we beleeved foretold also both by Christ and his Apostles as was your desolation and shall one day as surely and certainely come to passe the one as the other For God that hath promised is of power to performe it he will doe it he is able to graffe you in againe into your owne olive tree Verely I tell you saith our Saviour to the Pharisies ye shall not see me vntill the time come that yee shall say blessed is he that commeth in the name of the Lord. Therefore such a time shall cōe with out all doubt whearein ye shall so say that is to say most willingly obey the Heavenly calling without any more resisting the Holy Ghost as did your forefathers Also in an other place and Ierusalem shall be troden vnder foote of the Gentiles vntill the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled So long and no longer there is the period And Paul the Apostle in a most fervent manner both prayeth and prophesieth to this effect brethren my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved Then prophecieth at large in the chapter following and that most divinely as of their fall so of their generall call in due time with many arguments and reasons to that purpose Which praier and prophesie of his proceeding from a divine instinct and revelation no doubt shall one day take effect For it can not be but that the word of God should take effect For it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth to the Iew first and also to the Grecian To the Iew first thereis the promise there is the priviledge Lift up your heades now therefore ó ye Iewes sonnes of Abraham children of the promise to whom pertayneth the adoption and the glorie and the covenants and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises of whom are the f●thers and of whom concerning the flesh Christ came I say lift up your heads and listen to the heavenly call of Christ and his Apostle Paul for your redemtion draweth nere This is the generation of them that seeke him of them that s●eke thy face Iaacob Silah Lift up your heads ye gates be ye li●t up ye everlasting doores and the King of glorie shall come in And let us Christians also upon whom the ends of the World are come lift up our heads and knowe remembring that parable of the figtree when w● s●e these things beginne to come to passe that the kingdome of God is near eue● at the doores Verely I say unto you this generation shall not passe till all these things be donne Heauen and earth shall p●sse away but my Words shall not passe away They are the words of our Saviour And now bretheren to returne to Paul I commend you to God and to the word of his grace which is able to buyld you up and to giue you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified Be favourable unto Sion for thy good pleasure build the walls of Ierusalem Then shalt thou accept the sacrifice of righteousnes euen the burn●offring and oblation then shall they offer calues upon thyne altar Oh giue salvation unto Israel out of Sion when God turneth the captivitie of his people then shall Iaakob rejoice and Israel shall be glad When the Lord brought againe the captivitie of Sion we were like them that dreame then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with joye then sayd they among the Heathen The Lord hath d●ne great things for them The Lord hath done great things for us wherof we rej●ice O Lord bring againe our captivitie at the rivers in the south Saue us O Lord our God and gather us from among the Heathen that we may praise thyne holy name and glorie in thy praise Comfort us according to the dayes that thou hast afflicted us according to the yeeres that we ha●e seene e●el Thou wilt arise and haue mercie upon Sion for the time to haue mercie thereon for the appointed time is come For thy servants delight in the stones thereof and h●ue pitie on the dust thereof Then the He●then shall ●eare the name of the Lord and all the kings of the earth thy glorie when the Lord shall buyld up Si●n and shall appeare in his glorie and shall turne unto the prayer of the desolate not dispis● then p●ayer This shall be written for the generation to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord for he hath looked downe from the height of his sanctuarie out of the heaven did the Lord behold the earth th●t he might

and popular language of all nations at that time to wit the Greek tōgue They wrote their stories in divers countries farre distant one from another and yet agreed they all most exactly in one and the same narration as is to be seene though diversly related yet in truth and substance all one one sometymes supplying vvhat another hath not according to the discretion of one and the same spirit vvherevvith they vvere all guyded and directed like those four beasts in Ezech. 1.12 Everie one went streight forward whither their spirit ledde them they returned not They vvrote in divers times one after another and yet the later did neyther correct nor reprehend any thing in the former as heathen vvriters use to doe They published their vvritings vvhen infinite vvere aliue that knevve the facts and of them no small number vvho desired by all meanes to impugne them They set dovvne in most of their narrations the tyme the daye the hour the place the village the house the persons vvith all other circumstances vvhich the moe they are in number the more easie to be refuted if they were not true Neyther did they write of things donne in farre Countries or places remote but in the same Countrie where they were borne in townes and cities that were publiquely knowne in Ierusalem it self in Bethania and Bethsaida villages hard by Ierusalem in the Suburbs and hills about the citie in such a street at such a gate in such a porch of the temple at such a fishpoole publique places familiarly knowne to everie one for these things were not done in a corner as sayth the Apostle All which circumstances duly considered never yet impugned me thinks should perswade any man of reason to become a Christian as Agrippa in that verie place acknowledgeth to Paul saying almost thou perswadest me to become a Christian. They published their writings in their life time They altered not their writings af●erwards as other Authors are wont in their latter Editions nor ever corrected they one jote of that which they had first s●t downe And that which never happened in any other writings in the world besides nor ever monarch was able to bring to passe for credite of his Edicts they gaue their liues for defence and justifying of that which they had written Their maner of writing is sincere simple as becommeth so divine a Historie without all art or Rhethoricall amplifications as Historians use They flatter none no not Iesus himself whom they most adore nor in confessing him to be their God doe they conceale his infirmities of flesh in that he was man as his hunger and thirst his being werie how he wept his passions of feare and the like Nay these Evangelists were so sincere and religious in their narrations as they noted especially the imperfections of themselues and of such others as they principally respected Mathew nameth himself Mathew the Publican Mark Peters Disciple recordeth how S. Peter thrise denyed his Lord and Master and so of the rest These mens writings were published for canonicall and received for undoubted truth by all that lived in the verie same age and were privie to everie particular circumstance therein conteyned They were copied abroad into infinite mens hands and so conserved with all care and reverence as holy and divine Scripture They were read in Churches throughout all Countries and nations expounded preached and taught by all Pastors and Commentaries made upon them by holy Fathers from tyme to tyme. So that no doubt can be made at all eyther of the Authoritie of them as originally and immediately proceeding from the Holy Ghost or of the certaintie but that we haue the verie same incorrupt as the Authors left them for that it was impossible for any enemie to corrupt so manie copies over the world without discoverie and resistance And thus much for the credite and authoritie of our Evangelists The confession of Martyrs NOw for the Martyrs or witnesses appoynted by God for the sealing deliverie of this doctrine of the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ to all the world they were first and principally his owne Apostes and Disciples Now ye are witnesses of these things Who both heard his doctrine and sawe his myracles as S. Iohn testifieth that which wee haue heard which we haue seene with our eyes c. That I say which we haue seene and heard declare we unto you And S. Peter For we followed no deceiueable fables when we opened unto you the power and comming of our Lord Iesus Christ but with our eyes we sawe his majestie This doctrine I say of the glorious Gospel of our Lord and Saviour whereof they were so fully perswaded they did not onely professe it with their mouthes yea euen before Kings and were not ashamed as God sayth to Paul as thou hast testified of me in Ierusalem so must thou beare witnes also at Rome thou must be brought before Caesar but in witnes thereof they gaue up their liues and by their deaths sealed and delivered to the world the truth of that which in their liues they professed they haue sealed that God is true These are witnesses worthy to be beleeved these are Martyres Next to these are all those holy Disciples of theirs all those holy confessors of the Primitiue Church put to death with most exquisite torments under those cruell Roman tyrants during those tenne famous persecutions upon record called the ten persecutions Catexochen in respect of the rage furie and crueltie thereof and all against poore harmeles and innocent Christians dayly to●ne in pieces butchered by those wolues as sheep appointed for the slaughter whereof our Saviour long before had forewarned his Disciples Behold I s●nd you as lambes among wolues c. persecuted euen to the death for the Word of God and for the testimonie which they m●inteined In vvhich extreame most incredible sufferings of Christians three points are vvorthie of great consideration The first vvhat infinite multitudes of all estates conditions sexes qualities and age did suffer dayly for testimonie of this truth The second what intollerable and unaccustumed torments not heard of in the world before were devised by tyrants for afflicting this kind of people Thirdly and lastly what invincible courage and unspeakable alacritie these Christians shewed in bearing out these afflictions and torments which the enemies themselues could not attribute but to some divine powre and supernaturall assistance The subjection of Spirits ANother consideration followeth of his divine powre omnipotencie declared and exercised upon the spirits infernall which in those dayes spake in the oracles and till that time had possessed and deluded all nations Heare the complaint of one of them Hei mihi congemiscite hei mihi hei mihi oraculorum defecit me claritas Woe unto me lament ye with me woe woe to me for that the honour of oracles hath now forsaken me Which woefull complaint is nothing els but a

that man of sinne the sonne of perdition that wicked one c. with all other adjuncts and circumstances so liuely described as if he had been then alreadie come for euen in these dai●s as the Apostle speaketh did this mysterie of iniquitie beginne to worke See then I say 2 Thes. 2. 1 Tim 3. 2 Tim. 4. 2 Pet. 2. 1 Iohn 2 18. chap. 4 1. 2 Ioh. ver 7. yea the whole Revelation is nothing els but a continued prophecie of all such things as should happen to th● church militant euen from the Apostles tymes to the ende of the world All which prophecies we see accomplished except b●fore excepted the finall destruction of Babylon and the calling of the Iewes whereof both our Saviour himself as also Paul hath prophecied Rom. 11. both which we dayly expect and then as it is in the Revelation Come Lord Iesus Of which second comming or generall doome with the maner of it and all other circumstances we haue also sundrie prophecies both of Christ his Apostles which here I will joyne in one as proceeding all from one and the same spirit for here all prophecies must come to a full period nil ultra I will onely quote them as formerly Mat. 16 27. chap. 19 28. chap. 20 1. chap. 24. chap. 25. chap. 26.64 Iohn 5 25. c. 1 Cor. 15. 1 Thes. 4 14. chap. 5 1. Iam. 5 8. 1 Pet. 4 7. 2 Pet. 3. Iude ver 6. 14. Rev. 21. where you shall see a new heaven and a new earth c. New Ierusalem descending from God out of heauen prepared as a bride trimmed for her husband Thus haue I brought you at length as after a long and tedious passage by sea to see land and as it were the sea-mark whereunto after so many variable winds and so often tacking to and againe we haue directed our course euen from the first prophecie made to Adam in Paradise Gen. 3 15. to the verie last period of all prophecies in the Revelation shutte up in the second Adam Iesus Christ who is the first and the last Alpha and Omega the beginning and the ending in whō all prophecies kisse each other haue their consummation These are the words sayth he which I spake unto you while I was yet with you that all must be fulfill●d which are written of me in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and in the Psalmes c. Thus it is written and thus it behoved Christ to suffer and to rise againe from the dead the third day and that repentance remission of sinnes should be preached in his name among all Nations beginning at Ierusalem I say from this Ierusalem which now lyeth desolate I haue brought you to the New Ierus●lem comming downe from heauen as a bride adorned for her husband from an earthly to a heauenly paradise and there I leaue you FINIS A COLLECTION DEMONSTRATIVE OR Summe of the former proofes The Messiah must be a spirituall King to conquer the Divill death and sinne both by scripture as also by the interpretation of the ancient Iewes themselves vpon that place of Genesis he shall break thine head Therefore not a temporall King as the later Iewes imagine The Messiah must be King over the Gentiles as well as the Iewes both by scripture as also by theire owne writers Therefore not a tēporall King to reigne over thē onely much lesse to subdue the Gentiles to the servitude of Iurie as some of them imagine The Messi●h must be both God and man the sonne of God the Word of God incarnate The second person in Trinitie both by the scriptures as also by their owne writers Therefore no such earthly Monarch as they exspect The Messiah at his comming being to be King both of Iew and Gentile must change the lawe of Moses to wit the ceremoniall and provinciall proper to the Iewes onely and insteed thereof give a generall law to both absolute and perfect to serve for all persons times places to indure euen to the end of the world therfore no such temporall monarchie to be expected as they looke after For one and the same conclusion followeth vpon all the premisses beating vpon theire mayne ground to wit a temporall or earthly kingdome which being once shaken the rest falleth to the ground All prophesi●s whatsoever with everie particular circumstance foretold by the Prophets of the Messiah were both substancially circumstancially fulfille● in the person of our bless●d Saviour both as touching his bir●h life doctrine myracles death resurrection asc●ntion and o●her effects afterwards of his divin● power in sending of the Holy Ghost and the myraculous increase of his Church c. Therefore was he in deed the Messiah no other to be expected The Messiah by Daniels prophecie was to appeare immediatly vpon the establishment of the Roman Empire for saith he in the ●ayes of these Kings shall the God of heaven set vp a kingdom which shall not be destroyed Dan. 2.44 which must needs be vnderstood of the kingdome of Christ or the Messiah And in these dayes was our Saviour borne even in the dayes of Augustus Caesar Therefore in him is the circumstance of time verified The Messiah by Iacobs prophecie was to appeare imediately when the rod or scepter was departed from the house of Iuda Then appearred that state of Iacob our Lord and Saviour ergo The Messiah by the prophesie of Haggai as also by their● owne Thalmud was to come during the second temple then came our Lord and Saviour ergo And consequently the Ievves after this time to wit the destruction of the second temple in vaine expect for another The Messiah by the true account and calculation of Daniels Hebdomades or weekes of yeares was to come just according to the times before mentioned So did our Saviour as is aforesaid therfore to him doth this circumstance of time beare witnes And cons●quently the Iewes after these times by God himselfe appointed for the Messiah or rather one the same time for there is no other difference but onely in adjuncts and circumstances expecting yet for an other besides their vaine expectation make God himselfe a lyer The Messiah by the scriptures was to be borne of the tribe of Iudah of the house of David so vvas our Saviour Therefore he alone the legitimate and true borne Messiah by birth-right as I may say as also by praescriptiō ●fter so long time of peaceabl● possession no other to be expected The Messiah by the scripture as also by theire ovvne Rabbins was to be borne of a Virgin so vvas our Saviour ergo All other particulars foretold of the Messiah see them fulfilled as followeth To wit That the place of his birth should be Bethlehem That at his birth all the infants thereabouts should be slayne That Kings or great personages should come adore him offer gold other gifts unto him That he should be presented in the