Demurrer to the Jews, Part 1 (3 of 3)

Demurrer to the Jews · Part 1 (3 of 3)

p. 888. The (r)(r)Surius Concil. Tom. 2. p. 735. Gratian. Diſt. 28. qu. 5. & 29. qu. 8.converſation of the Jews is ſo dangerous to Chriſtians; that the 4 Council of Toledo: can. 59.61, 62, made this Decree, The Converſations and Companies of evil men do oftentimes corrupt even the good, how much more then thoſe who are prone to vices. Let therefore the Jews who are converted to the Chriſtian faith, have no further Communion henceforth with thoſe, who ſtill continue in their old Jewiſh rites, leſt peradventure they ſhould be perverted by their Society: Therefore we decree, that the Sons and Daughters of thoſe Jews, which are baptiſed, that they be not again involved in the errors of their Parents, ſhall be ſeperated from their company, and placed with Chriſtian men and women fearing God, where they may be well inſtructed, and grow in faith and Chriſtian manners, and that the Jews believing Wives, ſhall be divorced and ſeparated from their Husbands, unless upon admonition they turn Chriſtians. The …e was decreed by the **Surius Concil Tom. 4. p. 58.57.Council of Baſil Seſſ. 20. and (ſ)(ſ)Fredericus Lindebrogus Codex Legum, Antiq.…nacted by the Wiſogothes Laws; lib. 12. Tit. 2.3. Yea (t)(t)Centur. Magdeb. 12. c. 7. col. 1079.Pope Alex. the 3. Decretal. l. 6. c. 7. prohibited all Chriſtians, under pain of Excommunication to cohabit with the Jews, or keep company with them, becauſe their manners and Chriſtians accord in nothing, and they by reaſon of the…r continual converſation, and daily familiarity, might eaſily incline the minds of ſimple people to their ſuperſtition and infide…ity. And ſhould p. 89not thoſe men, who pretend them…elves far greater Zealots than the Goths, Spaniards, or Pope, and the Popiſh Canoniſts (who decree the like upon the ſ…me reaſon) upon theſe very grounds much more oppoſe, prohibi…e their re-admiſſion into England, in this giddy Apoſtatizing age, leſt their Company and Society ſhould eaſily ſeduce the unſtable people to their Judaiſm and Infidelity, to Chriſts diſhono…r, their own damnation, and the infamy of our Church and Government? The rather, becauſe if extraordinary care be not taken herein, under pretext of Jews, we ſhall have many hundreds of Je…uites, (who derive both their Name and pedigree from the Jews e…en from Ieſui and his family of the Ieſuits Num. 16.44., as ſome of them affirm in prin…,**Hoſpiniani Hiſtoria Jeſuitica, l. 1. c. 2. though others from other grounds.) of Popiſh Prieſts and Friers come over freely into England from Portugal, Spaine, Rome, Italy, Poland, and oth…r places, under the title, habit, and diſguiſe of Jews, of purpoſe to undermine our Religion, Church and State, and ſow the ſeeds of Hereſie, Blaſphemy, Popery, Super…tition, Schiſms, and Diviſions amongſt us, they having formerly ſent over ſome of late years amongſt us, under the notion and vizard of converted Jews, as Ramſey the Scot, and Eleazer, and Joſeph Ben-Iſaiah, all Jeſuitical, wicked, cheating Impoſtors: the two laſt whereof, have cheated the honeſt people of the Nation of many thouſand pounds being notorious Villains, one of them formerly a Trooper and Plunderer in Prince Ruperts army, as he confeſſed to his Hoſteſſe at Durſly in Glocesterſh…re in his …rink, where he would have raviſhed the Maid-ſervant of the houſe, locking the door upon her, whi…es ſhe was warming his bed in the night, and upon her crying out for help, fled away preſently in the night, to avoid apprehenſion; And yet wanders about cheating the p…ople in other places, inſtead of being brought to Tybu…ne for his Villanies. And if they abuſe and cheat us thus already, much more will they doe it upon, and after the Jewes admiſſion.

p. 909. To pretermit their baniſhment out of Rome by the Emperor Claudius, recorded Acts 18.2. and that as (t)(t)Oroſius l. 2. c. 6. Cent. Magd. 2 col. 26 Euſeb. l. 2. c. 8. Opmeri Chron. p. 185. Metamerus de Academiis Hiſp.Eccleſiaſtical Hiſtorians report, for their cheating, and tumults there raiſed. I ſhall only in brief relate, how they have from time to time been baniſhed, expelled many Chriſtians Citi…s, Countries, Kingdoms, and their Synagogues burnt and deſtroyed, eſpecially for their Infidelity, and other forementioned Mildemeanors, Crimes, Vi…lanies. [u][u]Soc…ates Schol. Eccl. Hiſt. l. 7. c. 13. Agobardus de Judaicis ſuperſtit. Bibl. Patrum. Tom. 9 pars 1. p. 564. Cent. Magd. 4. col. 1081.1490About the year of Chriſt 430. at the inſtigation of St. Cy…il Biſhop of Alexandria, and the Chriſtians there, they were expelled and baniſhed that famous City, where they had long inhabited for their inſolenc…es, & ſeditious conspiracies against the Chriſtians. The [x][x]Paulus Diaconus, l. 17. Zonaras Tom. 3. Cent. Magd. 7. c. 15. col. 588.Emperor Phocas, about the year 605. baniſhed them out of the City of Antioch, for the tumults they had there raiſed againſt the Chriſtians and Government. The **Surius concil. Tom. 2. p. 742.6 Council of Toledo Anno 686. c. 3. informs us, That King Chinrilla by the inſpiration of the moſt high God, inflamed with the ardor of Faith, utterly extirpated the Infidelity, prevarications and ſuperſtitions of the Jews, neither would he permit any one of them to live in his Realm, who would not become a Chriſtian: For which this Council highly commended him, rendered ſpecial thanks to God for it, and withall enacted by the con…ent of the Nobles, that every King of Spain in future times, before he ſhould be inſtalled and crowned King, ſhould take an Oath, That he would not ſuffer the Jews to violate the Chriſtian Faith, and that he would in no wiſe favour their infidelity, through any kind of negligene or covetouſnes, nor give entranc to any thing tending to the precipices of infidelity & prevarication, &c. About the year of Chriſt, 615. they were baniſhed out of Jeruſalem it ſelf, by Heraclius the Emperour, as Zonaras, Tom. 3. in his life: Paulus Diaconus, rerum Rom. l. 18. & Cent. Mag. 7. c. 4. ſtorie, & near that age, out of Arverna Bibl: Patr. Tom. 6. part. 2. p. 243. Venantii Fortun. l. 5. c. 5. About Anno 616. [y][y]Rodericus Toletanus de Rebus Hisp. l. 2. c. 17. Vaſaeus Chron. Hisp. p 685. Jo Mariana de Reb…s Hiſp. l. 6. c. 3. Sigeberti chro. Ado Viennenſis. Opmeo…s Orbis unive…ſi. Chronogr. p. 355 Cent. Magd. 7. c. 14. Genebrar. Chronogr.King Siſebutus baniſhed them all out of Spaine, unleſſe they would turn Chriſtians, which p. 91the moſt of them refuſing to doe, departed thereupon into France, as the marginal Authors unanimouſly atteſt. About the year 618. they were all baniſhed out of France by King Dagobert, unleſſe they would renounce their Judaiſm, and turn Chriſtians, upon the command and inſtigation of Heraclius the Emperour; as Reg…no, Chron. l. 1. & Cert. Magdeb. 7. c. 14. relate. King Wamba about the year 710. baniſhed them out of the Province of Narbon; as Rodericus Toletanus de Rebus Hisp. l. 3. c. 11. informs us. About the year 1196. they [z][z]Cent. Mag. xi. c. 14. &c. 15. col. 689.were baniſhed out of the City of Mentz, and near the ſame time out of the City of Triers, and the Biſhoprick thereof, by Biſhop Everhard. [a][a]Vincentius Belu. Spe. Hiſt. l. 29. c. 25. Antonini Chron. pars 2. Tit. 17. c. 9. Mat. Paris Hiſt. Angl. p. 861. Abbas Usperg. Paral. p. 346. Herman. Schedel. Chro. f. 231. Cent. Mag. 12. c. 15. col. 1781. Genebrardi chron. l. 4. p. 638. Fox. …cts & Mon. Vol. 1. p. 423, Cook… 2 Inſt. p. 507. Seb. Mun. Coſ. l. 2 c. 57. f. 117. Bzovius Annal Eccl. An. 1198. n. 3.Philip Auguſtus King of France baniſhed them all out of France by ſeveral Edicts, Anno 1152. 1162. & 1182. for the…e reaſons: Becauſe they had divers times crucified children of Chriſtians in Paris, and elſewhere, in contempt of Chriſt and his paſſion; entertained Chriſtian men ſervants and maid ſervants in their houſes, who did likewiſe play the Jews with them, contrary to the Decrees of God and the Church; above meaſure oppreſſed, impoveriſhed by their Uſuries, the Citizens, Knights, Gentry, and Country people both in the Cities, Suburbs and Villages of France, and detained ſome of them priſoners in their houſes, like captives, binding them by an oath, not to depart out of them; moſt vilely profaned the ſacred Veſſels pawned to them by Churchmen in caſes of neceſſity, cauſing their little children ordinarily to drink wine and eat ſops out of them, yea to lay their excrements in them (as **lib. 5. Epist. 33. Cent. Mag. 12. c. 14.Petrus Cluniancenſis records, in contempt of the Sacrament) and caſting the ſilver Veſſels, Croſſes, and guilded Books of the Goſpel pawned to them, into a Jakes in a ſack, that the Chriſtians might not find them, and becauſe the Saracens upbraided the Chriſtians for entertaining them amongſt them, being the profeſſed Enemies of Chriſt: Ʋpon theſe grounds, as alſo becauſe their wealth and number were ſo increaſed, that they had almoſt gotten p. 92half the city of Paris into their hands, King Philip cauſed them to be all apprehended through France in one day, as they were in their Synagogues, then **To which the Epiſtle of Petrus Cluniacenſis to him lib. 5. Epiſt. 33. encouragd him, wherein he proves it lawfull.ſpoiled them of all their rich gold and ſilver garments, confiſcated all their Lands, Houſes, poſſeſſions, and baniſhed them the Realm, notwithſtanding the interceſſions of many Biſhops and Nobles (bribed with their gold and gifts) in their behalf, and the proffers of great ſums of money to him by the Jews, wherewith he would not be mollified. After which, he cauſed their Synagogues to be prophaned, and then conſecrated and converted to churches, that ſo where Chriſt was firſt blaſphemed after the manner of the Jews, he might in the ſame places be praiſed both by the Clergy and people, as Vincentius records at large. After this, creeping into that Realm again by money and bribes, they were [b][b]Aemilius l. 8. Gaguinus, l. 7. Genebrardi chronogr. l. 4. p. 634.660, 667. Heylins M…crocoſme, p. 576.again banniſhed out of France, and their goods confiſcated by King Philip the Fair, in the year 1293. as ſome, or 1307. as others compute it, and driven into Germany. In the year 1349. at the earneſt importunity of the people they were all baniſhed out of [c][c]Alberti Argentinenſis chron. p. 147, 148. De Rebus Geſtis Bertoldi p. 177, 178.Alſatia, and the Impe…ial Cities, by the agreement of the Biſhops and Nobles, and moſt of them burnt and deſtroyed, as they had been formerly in thoſe parts by Earl [d][d]Aventinus Annal. Boior. l. 5. p. 468.Emicho, An. 1102. who then baniſhed them thence. Ludov…cus Duke of Bavaria, about the year 1425. baniſhed all the Jews out of his Territories, as Aeneas Picolomineus in his Europae ſtatus ſub Frederico, l. 3. c. 32. p. 79. aſſures us: and that for conſpiring againſt the Chriſtians, &c. Procul ejicienda Gens mpia finibus, quae in contumeliam Chriſti & in ſubverſionem vergit Chriſtianorum: as **Munſteri Coſmogr. l 2. c. 20. p. 78.Abraham Bzovius writes. The Jews were baniſhed out of the **Anno 1425. n. 15.Kingdome of Caſt…le by K. John the 2. about the year 1430. (e)(e)See Munſteri Coſmog. l. 2. p. 72, 73.171. Bzovius Annal. An. 1424. n. 2.44. An. 1497. n. 16. Hieron. Conneſtaggius de Portugal, & Caſt, conjunct. p. 1064, 1065. Vaſaeus Chron. Hiſp. Johan. Mariana de Rebus Hiſp. l. 26. c. 1.3. The general Hiſtory of Spain in their Lives. Genebrardi chronog. p. 380, 634, 660, 667, 703, 705.708. Heylins Microcoſme, p. 507. Opmeri Chronogr. p. 429.In the p. 93years, 1474, 1482. and 1492. they were all baniſhed out of Spain by King Ferdinand, ſurnamed the Catholique, from whence they were tranſported and received into Portugal, they paying to King John the 2.8. Duckets for every poll of them at firſt, for their admiſsion; which much augmented his Exchequer, though it diminiſhed his piety and honour. Not long after, Anno 1497. they were driven and baniſhed out of Portugal by King Emanuel: And in the year 1539. they were baniſhed out of Naples and Sicily by Charles the 5th. To which I might adde the deſtruction, burning and utter extirpation of the Jews by the Rubeaque…ſes, Anno 1309. and 1338. Munſt. Coſm. l. 3. p. 547. **Bzovius Annal Eccl. Tom. 15. An. 1385. n. 22. & An. 1410. n. 35. An. 1475. n. 13.Their baniſhment out of Germany, Anno 1385. out of Miſnia and Thuringia Anno 1410. out of Wormes and Spires, Anno 1092. Munsteri Coſm. l. 3. p. 582. Out of Prague, by Wratiſlans for hating and ſlaying the chriſtians, Geor. Bartholdus Pontanus Bohemiae Piae. l. 2. p. 20. Out of Berne, Anno 1287. Munſteri Coſm. l. 3. p. 582. **Chron. Herman. Schedel f. 275, 276. Munſter. Coſm. l. 2, c. 71. Sabellicus Aenead l. 10. p. 472.Out of Trent, Anno 1475. for crucifying a child: And out of **Hiero Rubeus Hiſt. Raven. l. 11.Rome it ſelf, Anno 1508. by Pope Pius quintus, for their horrid extravagant uſuries, oppreſſions, combining with Theeves and Robbers, Forgeries, and ungodly charmes in wooing of women to their luſts. Having therefore been thus frequently baniſhed by Chriſtian Kings, Princes, from time to time, at the earneſt ſollicitation of their godly chriſtian Miniſters, Biſhops, people; and by our King and Parliament too out of **Annales Domin, Colmarienſium, p. 25.England, ſo long ſince, never to return again, what ſhadow, colour of piety, policy, prudence, juſtice, law, reaſon, there can be for any perſon or perſons whatſoever to re-admit them (except the argument of diſhoneſt, private, filthy under-hand Bribes or Lucre, by which they uſually ſcrue themſelves into thoſe places, whence they have been exiled) tranſcends my ſhallow capacity to comprehend, eſpecially at this ſeaſon, when we are ſo over-ſtored with Engliſh, that ſome think of ſending and planting Colonies in another world, whithet theſe Gold-thirſty Jews may do well to tranſplant p. 94themſelves, if they be weary of their former habitation.

10. The forecited Chriſtian Authors, Hiſtorians, old and new, much applaud and magnifie thoſe Chriſtian Emperors, Kings, Magiſtrates, States, who have moſt oppoſed, reſtrained, ſuppreſſed by (f)(f)See Juſtiniani Codicis. l. 1. Tit. 10, 12, 13. Concil. Meldenſe c. 73. Surius concil. Tom. 3. c. 465, 466. Leges Wiſtgoth. l. 12. Tit. 2, 3. Surius concil. …. Tom. 2.277, 608, 640, 679, 696, 674, 680, 734, 735, 1092 Tom. 3. p. 552.622, 670, 726.754. Cent. Mag. 4. col. 541.1461. cent. 6. col. 324. cent. 7. col. 588.Titus 2:3ſevereſt Laws, Edicts, the Jewiſh Synagogues, Ceremonies, Superſtitions, Rites, Abuſes: and baniſhed theſe Antichriſtian Blaſphemers and Enemies of Chriſt Jeſus out of their Kingdoms and Territories, eſpecially for their Infidelity, and cenſured thoſe who favoured them. And Matheus Flacius Illericus, Johannis Wigandus, Andreas Corvinus, Thomas Holthuter, 4 famous learned Proteſtant Hiſtorians and Divines, in their laborious, learned Eccleſiaſtical centuries, as they every where do the like: So in their 12 Cent. cap. 7. col. 1078, 1079. they paſs this ſharp cenſure againſt the Decrees of (g)(g)Surius concil. Tom. 3. p. 726.Pope Alexander the 3. and Clement the 3. (prohibiting the Jews to build any new Synagogues where were none before, yet tollerating them only to repair old ones where they were fallen down and defaced, to uſe their rites in; But withall forbidding all chriſtians under pain of Excommunication, any communion with them, for fear of being ſe…uc…d to their Superſtitions, &….) Denique ut extremam …omanorum Paparum impadentiam et ſtupendam impletatem videas, non pige …i… …orum Decreta, pro blaſphema in deum gente Iudaeorum lata, adſcribere; (…ough ſome Popiſh Schoolmen, as Alexander Alenſis, Summa Theologiae pars 2. qu. 61 Aquinas. 2.2. queſt. 10. Art. 9, 10, 11, 12. Scotus in l. 4. Sent. diſt. 4. qu. 9. are not aſhamed to juſtifie, Quod ne deterius quid contingat, & aliquo modo bonum eliceatur, tollerandi ſunt Judaei ritus ſuos ſervare, to gra…fie their Popes herein, w^ch they likewiſe affirm of the i…olatrous Gentiles rites and worſhip, as well as of the Jews.) And Peter Heylin in his Microcoſme, p. 569, 570. writing, That the Jews having been put to divers fines and ranſoms, they are at laſt even thruſt quite out of Europe alſo. They were p. 95baniſhed out of England by Edward the 1. Anno 1290. Out of France, Spain, Portugal, Naples, and Sicil (by the Kings forecited) ſubjoyns by way of cenſure: Yet are they found in great numbers in the Romiſh part o… Germany and Poland, in moſt Cities of Italy, eſpecially Rome, where there are no leſſe than 15000 or 20000 of them, and alſo in the Popes country of Avignion. The reaſon why they are permitted to live thus under our holy …athers Noſe, is forſooth, an expectation of their converſion, which is a meer pretence, the reaſon being indeed the benefit hence ariſing to his Holineſſe coffers, Nota.but the hopes of their conver…ion is ſmall, and the means leſſe, &c. And therefore we cannot now re-admit them into England upon the ſelf-ſame pretence, and ground of gain; without incurring the like cenſures from Proteſtants and Papiſts too; and bringing intollerable Scandal, Diſhonour, Reproach, both on our Nation and Religion, in theſe times of pretended higheſt Reformation; they being the profeſſed Enemies of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, who will not have him to rule over them, Luk. 19.27. and ſo odious to the [h][h]Heylins Microcoſm, p. 570.very Turks themſelves for crucifying Chriſt, that they oft uſe to ſay in deteſtation of a thing, I would I might die a Jew. Neither will they permit a Jew to turn Turk, unleſs he be firſt baptized.

11. Many of the wiſeſt Heathen Law-givers, Politicians, States, have ſpecially prohibited the introduction and habitation of foraigners amongſt them. Hence [i][i]…lexander ab Al…x…dro, l. 4. p. …03. Plutarch's Laconica inſtitut. Xenoph…n de Lacaedem. Republica, Thucidides, Coelius Rhodigi…us antiquar. lect. l. 18. c. 5. Boemus de moribus Gent. p. 199,Lycurgus the famous Legiſlator, and the Spartans by his Law and advice, expelled all foraigners out of their city and country, leſt by inſinuating themſelves amongſt them, they ſhould teach their Citizens ſome ill, introduce foraign manners, & an ill diſordered kind of life; upon which ground they alſo prohibited their Citizens to travel into foraign countries. Upon theſe grounds the Thebans & Apoloniatae (in imitation of the Spartans) baniſhed all foraigners out of their City, as Aelian Var. Hiſt. l. 13. c, 16. Alexander ab Alex. l. 4. c. 10 record. Plato p. 96the Philoſopher Dialogo 12. de Legumlatione, though he permits foraigners by way of ſtudy, trade, travel, and embaſſie to come into his city and Republike under certain Laws, and Rules, yet he totally ſecludes them from inhabiting therein, or to trade, without ſtrict Laws to prevent their danger, upon this ground; Solet enim civitatum in commerciis permixtio, varios mores civitatibus ammiſcere, dum externi externis viciſſim novationes inducunt; quae res civitatibus, per rectas leges benè inſtitutis maximum deirimentum affert. **De Repub. l. 5. c. 2.Ariſtotle obſerves, That the bringing in of foraigners is the principal cauſe of ſeditions, tumults,, Qui inquilinas aut advenas recipiunt in civitatem, Hi fere omnes aut certe plurimi ſeditionibus conflictantur. (k)(k)Sphaera civitatis l. 5. c. 3. p. 435.437, 438.Dr. Jo. Caſe gives the reaſon of it. Nam ut nihil citius corpus humanum inficit, quam peſtilentium vaporum malis humoribus copulatio; ita nihil velocius corrumpit Civitatem, quam peregrinorum admiſsio, in qua contagio & venenum latet. And hereupon he raiſeth this queſtion from Ariſtotles Text; Utrum periculoſa ſit in Rempublicam peregrinorum admiſſio? And thus reſolves it. It is perillous to take Snakes into the boſom, and Foraigners into the Commonweal; for as they being refreſhed with heat do bite and ſting: So theſe being enfranchiſed deſtroy the Republike. To prove this by arguments, we may conſider, that every Nation hath its proper ceremonies which they bring along with them, and do not change with the climat when they come into another Countrey; Wherefore there is great danger, leſt by receiving ſtrangers the ancient manners and Laws ſhould be changed into new and foraign. Now what ſooner begets ſedition than alteration of Laws and Cuſtomes? (as we may ſee even in ſundry Scripture examples, which he remembers not, and of the Jews eſpecially Acts 14.2. to 7.16. c. 16.19. to 25. c. 18.5, 6, 7.17, 18, 19. c. 17.12. to 18. c. 19.24. to 41. c. 21.27 to 40. c. 22.22. &c. c. 23, & 24, & 25.) What therefore is more perillous than the admiſſion of Foraigners into our Commonwealth? Moreover wherefore p. 97hath Nature inſtructed like to aſſociate together with like, if it ſhould draw men of ſtrange and different manners into a Republike? Nature will not that ſheep ſhould be aſſoci…ted with wolves, neither wills Prudence that Natives ſhould be coupled with Foraigners; For Philoſophy perſwades this, that contraries cannot dwell in the ſame place, but ſtrang…rs for the moſt part are Enemies to the Citizens with whom they converſe. Adde to this, that as Locuſis are to the Corn, ſo are Foraigners to the Republike, for as they doe waſt and conſume the grain of Corn, ſo theſe devour the fruit of the Commonwealth; for although they are branches of the ſame plant, yet they ſuck not wholſom juyce, but poyſon from the root, wherewith at length the who…e plant being infected, periſheth. This he proves by ſeveral examples out of **De Republ. l. 5. c. 2.3. See Thucidides Hiſt. l. 6. p. 506.Ariſtotle himſelf, by the Trezenii, Zanclei, Sybarites, Byſantii, Antiſſiaei, Apoloniatae, Chii, Syracuſani, Amphipolitae, who by receiving ſtrangers into their cities and countries were all much infeſted, ſome of them quite ſupplanted and ejected by them, the reſt enforced to expel them by force of arms. Then he ſubjoyneth, That the ſtrangers admitted among Gods own people, proved briars and thorns unto them; and Solomon himſelf by many ſtrange women fell into Idolatry; concluding thus, The Spaniards in my opinion did not unjuſtly baniſh the ſeditious Iews out of their Coaſts: propius non accedo, …ed Chriſtum oro, ne peregrinorum turba immanis turbo in civitate fiat. As theſe Grecians in ancient times prohibited the introduction of ſtrangers amongſt them, for the forementioned reaſons, ſo likewiſe did ſome of the wiſeſt Romans: Pennus in ancient times, and Papius after him (as (l)(l)Cicero de Officiis l. 3.Cicero relates) Peregrinos Ʋrbibus prohibent, eoſque exterminant; which although he thus cenſures as an inhumanity, ſuverò urbis prohibere peregrinos, ſanè inhumanum est; Yet he intends it only of excluding ſtrangers from all trading and commerce, not from cohabitation, as Denizens, from which he holds it juſt to debarre them, there being a p. 98ſpecial Law then in force for that purpoſe, which he thus expreſſeth: Nam eſſe pro cive qui civis non ſit, RECTUM EST NON LICERE: QUAM LEGEM TULERUNT SAPIENTISSIMI CONSULES, Craſſus & Scaevola. Hence Claudius the Emperour baniſhed the Jews out of Rome, Acts 18.2 and Suetonius in his life. And the miſchief of admitting forraigners is largely argued in (m)(m)Page 218, 219, 220.Cornelius Tacitus, who were after his time baniſhed out of Rome, as (n)(n)Antiqu. Lection, l. 18. c. 5.Coelius Rhodigmus relates out of Ammianus Marcelinus; So the (o)(o)Alexander ab Alexan. Gen. Dier. l. 4. c. 10.Carthaginians, Solthians, Scythotauri, Gamphaſantes, Seres, Indians, Aegyptians in ſome places; the Epidauri, & Athenians alſo excluded foraigners their country, company & converſation; Ne cives longo uſu diſſimiles mores imbuerent, & in alienas leges rituſque tranſirent, as Alex. ab Alexandro, Gen. Dierum l. 4. c. 10. and Boêmus de Mor. Gentium record. Yea we read of the (p)(p)Purchas pilgrimage, l. 4. c. 13.19. p. 537, 538.Tartars and moſt politick Inhabitants of China, at this day, that they will admit no ſtrangers into their Countries, ſo much as to travel or traffick for fear of diſcerning their ſecrets, and corrupting their manners, and thoſe few they admit by ſpecial licence to enter into their Country, they will by no means ſuffer to return thence, nor permit Merchants and Marriners there trading to walk abroad publikely in their Cities and Countries, nor to lodge on land, but only in their ſhips. And to come nearer home, our Kings heretofore upon the grievous complaint of the Nobility, Gentry, People, have frequently baniſhed all ſtrangers out of England, as the greateſt peſts, inconveniences and grievances to the Natives. Thus in the reign (of (a)(a)Will. Malmesb. de Geſtis Regum l. 2. c. 13. Mat. Weſt. Fl. Florentius Wigornienſis Huntindon, Hoveden, Polychron. Brompton, Speed, and others.) King Edward the Confeſſor, Anno 1052, All the Normans, except two or three were baniſhed our of England for giving ill counſel to the King, and incenſing him againſt the Engliſh, by agreement both of the King and Parliament. So King (b)(b)Nub…erſis, Trivet. P… lydor Virgil. in H. 2. Holinſh. p. 65. Grafton chron. p. 50. & others;Henry the 2. in the 1 year of his reign, Anno Dom. 1154. or in the ſecond year of his reign as others write, commanded all ſtrangers to avoid out of the Realm, by Proclamation, by a certain day p. 99under great penalty, eſpecially the Flemings and Souldiers, who committed all kinds of miſchief, under pretence of a liberty permitted to Souldiers by the Law of arms in time of war. In the year 1220. (c)(c)…o…inſhed p. 202. Grafton p. 119. Speed, p. 513. Matth. Paris, Hygden, and others.King Hen. the 3. by his Proclamation commanded all ſtrangers, to avoid the land by Michaelmas next following, except ſuch as came with Merchandize to make ſale of their wares under the Kings ſafe conduct: After which the (d)(d)Mat. Part. Hiſt. Angl. p. 973, 976, 983, 989, 990. Mat. Weſt. An. 1258.1269. See Daniel, Holinſhed, Speed, Baker, and others.Po… ctouvines coming into England in great number, obtaining great offices about the King, miſcounſelling, ſeducing and encenſing him againſt the Engliſh Nobility, and ingroſſing the wealth of the Kingdom into their hands, were aſſaulted, plundered, and many of them inforced to retire out of England by the Barons in the year 1258. And the next year after they were all baniſhed out of England by Edict of Parliament. After which they returning, and oppreſſing the Realm, were again expulſed and exiled by the Barons Anno 1260. So in the (e)(e)Walſingham Hiſt. Ang. p. 71. Ypodigm. Neuſtriae, p. 99. See Holinſhed, Speed, and others.Parliament of 4 Ed. 2. Anno 1311. It was ordained by the Archbiſhops, Biſhops, Earls, and all the Commons in Parliament, amongſt other things, That the King ſhould baniſh all Foraigners out of his Court and Kingdom, as his Father had commanded him; which the King obliged himſelf by Oath to performe: And thereupon baniſhed his own Minion Pierce Gaveſton into Ireland. Which practices and proceeding of all theſe recited Nations and our Anceſtors, being if not grounded on, yet at leaſt warranted by Gods own forcited Precepts to the Iſraelites, & being warranted by the Jews own practiſe, who had no dealings with the Samaritans, John 4.9. and the Samaritans reciprocal carriage towards the Iews, whom they would neither lodge nor entertain, Lu. 9.51, 52, 53. Why we ſhould not upon this account ſeclude thoſe alien Jews, ſo different from us both in manners, cuſtoms, Laws, Religion, and obeying not the Laws of our Saviour Chriſt Jeſus, it being not for the Kings or the Kingdoms profit to ſuffer them, (as Haman, Eſther 3.8. once ſaid of them in another caſe) I referre it to all wiſe p. 100Stateſmen to reſolve, ſince it may be truly ſaid of ſuch unwelcom gueſts.

Turpius ejicitur quâm non admittitur hoſpes.

Neither will this contradict that Goſpel precept, Heb. 13.2. Be not forgetfull to entertain ſtrangers: or Deutr. 10.18.19. c. 23.7 Mat. 25.35, 43. which extend only to Chriſtian hoſpitality, liberality, and pity towards private diſtreſſed exiles, travellers, and other ſtrangers, coming to lodge or ſojourn with us for a ſhort ſeaſon into our houſes or country, upon extraordinary or juſt occaſions eſpecially ſuch who ſtand in need of our releif,, and are of the Houſhold of Fa…th, as is clear by the Texts themſelves, compared with Rom. 12.13. 1 Pet. 4.9.3. Iohn 5. Gal. 6.10. not to Infidels Jews, Pagans, or who are in no ſuch abſolute neceſſity nor ſtand in need of our charity or reception, nor yet to the reception of any forraign Nation or Colony into our Iſland,**Here p. 6. to cohabit perpetually with us (the only point in queſtion) which the Scripture no where commands nor intends, but diſallows in the aforecited Texts, & Neh. 9.2. c. 13.30. And theſe Scripture expreſſions, Prov. 5.10. Leſt ſtrangers be filled with thy wealth. Iſay 1, 7. your lands ſtrangers devour in your preſence, and it is deſolate as overthrown by ſtrangers. Lam. 5.2. Our inheritance is turned unto ſtrangers, our Houſes to aliens. Hoſea 7.9. Strangers have devoured his ſtrength, and he knoweth it not; ſufficiently manifeſt both the illegallity, folly and ſad conſequences of our receiving Jews and other ſtrangers in ſuch a nature, of which our Anceſtors had ſufficient experience in the Jews themſelves, enforcing them for ever to exile them hence: who have places enough in many other parts of the world where they now inhabit in peace and plenty, and enjoy their Merchandizes and other franchi…es, together with their Schools and Synagogues, as Benjamin the Sonne of Ionas a Jew records at large in his Peregrination: together with Mr. Samuel Purchas in his Pilgrims, l. 9. c. 5. And Menaſſeh Ben-Iſrael him ſelf confeſſeth in his Epiſtle Dedicatory and Addreſſes, where thus he writes; Our Nation at the preſent is spread p. 101all about, and hath its ſeat and dwelling in the moſt flouriſhing parts of all the Kingdoms and Countries of the world, as well in America, as in the other three parts, (which he proſecutes more at large, p. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. boaſting of their extraordinary wealth, Offices, Power and Priviledges in other places.) And therefore this only remains in my judgement, Before the Meſsia come and Reſtore our Nation that firſt we muſt have our ſeat here …kewiſe: therefore having ſo much Elbow-room already throughout the world, their reception here will be no act of piety or charity in us, neither do they preſſe it as ſuch; but an act of the higheſt impiety, they now inſiſting on it as a neceſſary preparative to the coming of th…ir long expected falſe Meſſia, to reſtore them to their temporal Kingdom again, and Fathers inheritance, as he expreſly writes.

Theſe general Reaſons againſt the Jews readmiſſion premiſed, which I hope will ſatisfie moſt men, I ſhall conclude with ſome particular Reaſons drawn from late publiſhed Declarations, of our Grandees, which I conceive will beſt ſatisfie them of any other: and for this end, (I hope without any juſt offence, or Scandalum magnatum) I ſhall crave leave to preſſe them home in this common cauſe, for the defence of the Glory, Honor, Scepter, Goſpel, Kingdome of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, the only [q][q]1 Tim. 6.15. Col. 2.10. & 16. R…v. 1.5. c. 17.14. c. 19.16. tom. 9.41 Tim 6:15Col 2:10Col 2:16Potentate, the Prince of the Kings of the Earth, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, the head of all principality and power, and God over all bleſſed for ever, before whoſe feet all other ſubordinate Kings and Potentates whatſoever ought to [r][r]Rev. 4.9.10.11, c. 19.4. Rom. 11.36.Rev 4:9Rev 4:10Rev 4:11Rom 11:36proſtrate, not only their perſons, but Crowns, and most peremptory Royall Wills and Edicts too; for whoſe pleaſure, honor and glory alone, all things and powers likewiſe both are and were created: in whoſe cauſe we muſt be mo…t [ſ][ſ]Ez…c…. 2.3. to 9. Acts 4.19.20 c. 5.20, 30, &c.Acts 4:19Acts 4:20bold and zealous, not fearing the faces of any Mortals.

My 1. Reaſon ſhall be drawn from the very words of the Declaration of 21. Novemb. 1655. inviting the people of this commonwealth to a day of ſolemn Faſting and Hum…liation, on the 6. of December laſt (a **2 Kings 19.3.2 Kgs 19:3day of trouble and of rebuke, p. 102of blaſphemy, & provocation, in reſpect of the violence acted on it that time ſeven years, when the children were come to the birth, and there was no ſtrength to bring forth, but only to obſtruct and pull out the Members, to prevent out peace and ſettlement.) The principal cauſe whereof they Declare to be; The abominable Blaſphemies vented and spreading of late, through the Apoſtacy of, and the abuſe of Liberty by many profeſſing Religion. And to joyn with them in ſolemn and earnest ſupplications to the throne of Grace; That the Lord will diſappoint the deſigns of thoſe, that labour to lift themſelves up againſt the interest of Christ and his people: That he will rebuke the foreſaid Evils, and give his people to know the things that belong to their Peace, that ſo we may with one heart and ſhoulder ſerve the Lord, both theirs and ours. The Jews of all other Nations in the world, are the greateſt venters, ſpreaders of abominable **Acts 13.45. Rev. 2.19.Acts 13:45Rev 2:19Blasphemies againſt our Saviour and the Goſpel; the greateſt Apoſtates from God and abuſers of Liberty of any profeſſing Religion; The greateſt deſigners, plotters and lifters up of themſelves againſt the intereſt of Chriſt and his people; as the Premiſes undeniably evidence: And their introduction amongſt us at this ſeaſon, when the generality of the people, and profeſſors of Religion likewiſe are ſo bent to Apoſtacy, and all kind of Errors, of Novelties in Religion, will no ways allay, but moſt certainly increaſe the venting and ſpreading of abominable Blaſphemies amongſt us, multiply the Apoſtacies of, and abuſe of liberty by the profeſſors of Religion, and make thouſands in probability turn Apoſtate Jews, inſtead of converting any of the Jews to Chriſtianity. It will not diſappoint, but moſt of all advance the deſignes of thoſe that labour to lift up themſelves againſt the intereſt of Jeſus Chriſt and his people; this being (as ſome juſtly fear) the Jews very end and plot in preſſing now to be received amongſt us, to ſeduce us unto Judaiſm, to which many are now inclined; and to deny our Saviour Chriſt in words, as too many have [t][t]Tit. 1.16. 2. Tim. 3.5. 2. Pet. 2.1, Jud. 14.1 Joh. 4 3.Titus 1:162 Tim 3:52 Pet 2:1Judg 141 John 4:3denied him in their works, and ſome in their opinions of late years. It will not rebuke, but p. 103foment the foreſaid Evils; obſtruct Gods people both from knowing and purſuing the things that concern their peace; and inſtead of enabling them with one h…art and ſhoulder to ſerve the Lord, divide them into more Sects and Schiſms, than formerly, and ſet up Judaiſm to affront Chriſtianity with open face, as 2 Pet. 2.1. Jude 3.4. &c. Tit. 1.10.11. 1 Joh. 4.3. 2 Joh. 7 reſol… & ſo multiply the late Rebukes and Judgements of God upon the Nation. Therfore their re-admiſſion into England after ſuch a Sol…mn Declaration, and Day of Humiliation as this (and ſome others formerly preſcribed, obſerved through the Nation, for the late monſtrous growth and spreading of Errors and Blasphemies amongſt us,) if reſolved and effected, wil… be reputed by God and Men, A moſt palpable violation, yea contradiction of this Declaration and Humilation; a mo…t hypocritical, Atheiſtical mocking of God himſelf to his face; a moſt prophane abuſe, and per…erſion of this Solemn Faſt and Humiliation; a fruſtration of all the prayers, hopes of moſt religious people thereon, who obſerved it for far other preſcribed ends, and an high Provocation of Gods ſevereſt wrath againſt the perverters of it, to this very end, to introduce the long-ſince baniſhed Jews, the debate whereof was propoſed immediately before, and began the very next day after it.

My 2. Reaſon ſhall be deduced from the Declaration of the 24 Novemb. 1655. in order to the ſecuring of the peace of the Commonwealth; Declaring it neceſſary to uſe all good means to ſecure the Peace of the Nation, and prevent future troubles within the ſame. The bringing in of the Jews at this ſeaſon, when the people are …o generally divided, diſcontented, and declare (for ought I can learn) their higheſt, unanimous diſlike, and deteſtation of it, is the moſt probable means to diſturb the peace of the Nation, and to engender future new troubles, Tumults within it; the generality of the people in England, and in other Countries, having in former **See here p. 8. to 15 8.27.32, 35.79. to 88 89 …0. &c.ages frequently ri…en up in armes againſt them, maſſacred, burnt …nd de…royed them, notwithſtanding their Kings and Magi…r…te p. 104Proclamations and Edicts to the contrary. And the [u][u]See Socrates Schol aſt. l. 7. c. 13. Sozomen, l. 4. c. 7. Cent. Magd. 4, 5.7.12, 13, c. 14.Jews themſelves in all ages having been principle firebrands of ſedition both in their own Land, and all places where they have been d…ſperſed, as the Texts and Authors in the 3. and 7. premiſed reaſons, with the foregoing Relations out of our Engliſh Historians atteſt. Therefore their re-admiſſion into England, (eſpecially in this unquiet ſeaſon) muſt needs be diametrically contrary to the ſcope of this Declaration; and neither in policy nor prudence to be reſolved on, but utterly rejected.

My 3d. reaſon ſhall be grounded on this clauſe of that Declaration: That no perſon who hath or ſhall be ſequeſtred, or e…ected for Delinquency, or being in actual arms for the late King againſt the th…n Parliament, or for Charis Stuart his Son, &c. out of any Benefice, School, or Colledge, ſhall from and after the 1. day of December, be kept as a Chaplain or School-maſter in any ſ…queſtred perſons houſe; Nor after the 1. day of January, keep any School publike or private; Nor preach in any publike place, or private meet…ng of any other perſons than thoſe of his own family; No… ſhall adm…nister Baptiſm, or the Lords Supper, or Marry, &c. upon pain that every perſon ſo offending in any of the premiſſes ſh…l be proceeded againſt, as by Orders (therin mentioned) is provided: preſcribing 3 months impriſonment for the 1.6 months for the 2d, and baniſhm…nt for the 3d Offence, as I am inform…d. If native freeborn Eng…iſhmen formerly ejected out of any Benefice, Colledge or School, only for their old delinquency in adhering to the l…te King and Prince (though according to their Oaths, duties and dictate of their conſciences) after ſome years publike liberty to preach, Articles of Agreement confirmed by the Army and both Houſes, and that which ſome call, An Act of Oblivion, and future indempnity, though orthodox in Doctrine, unblamable in con…erſation, and eminent in learning, without any particular impeachment, hearing, conviction of any new Delinquency or mi…demeanors whatſoever, muſt not have ſo much liberty as to keep any School, or preach Gods Word in publike or private, or to be entertained p. 105in formerly ſequeſtred Engliſhmens h…uſes, under the foreſaid penalties at this ſeaſon, only in Order to the Nations peace: Then much leſſe ought J…ws, meer aliens, who always have been, and ſtill are …ofeſſed Enemies in arms againſt the Perſon, Kingdom, Goſpel of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt (which the late Parliamen… by their ſolemn Proteſtation, Vow and Covenant, eng… ged by all good means to d…fend and advance) to be ent…rtained by any Engli…h Chriſtians or publikely or priva…ely to teach, preach, ſpread, propagate their Jewiſh Doctrines, Errors and abo…iſhed Ceremonies in our Iſland, but to be baniſhed for ever from amongſt us, if any o… them ſhould pub…ikely or privately attempt to creep in amongſt us; Elſe not on…y all ſequeſtred Delinquents, but the whole Eng…iſh Nation and world too, will cry out and ſay, (x)(x)imò qui Regi parucrit pro excommunicato habeatur: qui contra regem fecerit, à n… â injuſtitiae, & periurii abſolvatur, as Sigebertus Gemblacenſis. Chron. An. 1088. Writes of Pope Hildebrand, a…d his Abetto….the faithfull loyal Chaplains, S…rvants, followers, Friends of the late K. and Pr. though Engliſh Nativs, Freemen, ye our felow brethren Members in Chriſt are more execrable to, more injuriouſly, unchriſtianly, uncharitably dealt with by their Fellow Engliſh Chriſtians in preſent power, only for their loyalty and conſcientious adhering to their late temporal King and Prince, than the very alien Jews, who both denied, rejected, crucified the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, their own tem…oral Soveraign, who [y][y]M…. 2.2. c. 27, 37. Lu. 1.32.33. Rev. 15.9.…3.Rev 15:9Rev 15:3was born King of the Iews, and had this very title inſcribed on his Croſſe; and their & our only ſpiritual King and Saviour, whoſe Honour, Power, Kingdom, Goſpel, we avowedly profeſs to ad…ance; & that they enjoy leſſe Chriſtian or civil liberty for themſelves, their wives and families neceſſarie ſubſiſtance, (for whom they **1. Tim. 5.8.1 Tim 5:8muſt provide, unleſs worſe than Infidels) now in their Native country then the Jews, where they muſt neith…r teach nor preach Chriſt Jeſus to any in publique or private, though Gods word and their function, condition, en…oyn, **1 Cor. 9.16. 2. Tim. 4.1.2. Acts 4.19.30.1 Cor 9:162 Tim 4:12 Tim 4:2Acts 4:19Acts 4:30neceſſitate them to do both, when as theſe admitted Jews may (and all other kind of Sectaries do) both teach and preach againſt him too in publick and privat. Which reſtraints on theſe Engliſh Royaliſts on the one hand, p. 106and indulged liberty to the alien Jew **1 John 4.3. 2 John 7.1 John 4:32 John 1:7Antichr…ſts on the other, if now put in execution, I humbly ref…rre it to the ſaddeſt confiderations and conſcientious meditations of all in power to reſolve themſelves, how ſcanda…ous and odious it will prove both to God and all good men: how much it will reſemble the proceedings, not only of the malicious Jews themſelves againſt the Apoſtles & Miniſters of Chriſt, recorded, Acts 4.1. to 24. c. 5.24. to 32.1 Theſſ. 2.14, 15, 16. & of beheaded (z)(z)Canteries Doom, p. 107.138, 491, 199.Canterbury, again…t Mr. Workman of Gloceſter, whom he first prohibited from preaching, then from teaching School and practiſing Phyſick, to ſu…port himſelf and his family, whereby he was reduced to great extremity; But likewiſe of that deteſtable Apoſtat Emperour (a)(a)Ambroſ. Epiſt. l. 5. Ep. 29. Cent. Magd. 4. cap. 3. col. 114. to 120. c. 14. col. 1438.1459. Nazianzen Oratio 2. in Julianum Socrates Schol. l. 3. c. 22. Ruſfinus, l. 1. e. 28. Theodoret, l. 3. c. 20. Nicephorus l. 10. c. 3.4.5.24, 25, 32, 33. Sozomen. l. 5. c. 22.Julian, who out of his deſperate malice to Chriſt, to undermine and exti…pate Chriſtian Relig…on without ſhedding the bloud of Christians, firſt ſhewed himſelf a moſt zealous Chriſtian profeſſor, reducing the O…thodox Biſhops, Miniſters, chriſtians, whom the perſecuting Arian Emperour Conſtantius had exiled, and reſtoring them to their confiſcated Biſhopricks, to ingratiate himſelf with the people; but not long after turning Apoſtat, he took away all the priviledges, honours, revenues of the Clergy, ſetled on them by Conſtantine, with the Laws for their eſtabliſhment, ſhut up the Churches and Schools of the Chriſtians, prohibiting them to preach or teach in publike or private, or to ſet their Children to School, unleſs they would renounce their former Religion, and turn Pagans; impoveriſhed, oppreſſed the Chriſtians with extraordinary doubled Taxes, from which the Pagans were exempted, and caſt many of them into priſon. But on the contrary at the ſame time, he ſhewed extraordinary favour and affection towards the Iews, ſent for the chiefeſt of them to his Court, where he dicourſed with them, writing a ſpecial Letter to them, wherein the deſired their prayers for him; granted them free exerciſe of their Jewiſh ceremonies, and ſacrifices long diſcontinu…d, encouraged and aſſiſted them with monies out of his publike Treaſury to re-edifie the Temple at Jeruſalem, to revive & ſet up all their Jewiſh Sacrifices and cuſtomes there formerly uſed, whereupon they began to build it, p. 107till miraculouſly interrupted therein; and all to vex and undermine the Chriſtians. By which indulged Liberty, the Jews then grew ſo inſolent againſt the Chriſtians that they greivouſly perſecuted divers of them, deſtroyed and burne down ſome of their Churches, and threatned to perſecute them worſe than the Pagan Romans had done; as the Marginall Hiſtorians record more at large. The imitation of whoſe proceedings now in any degree in theſe particulars, what harſh conſ…ructions and ſad events they may produce, I refer to all wiſe Chriſtian States-men ſeriouſly to ponder, for their own and our Religions honor and Security.

My 4. argument is this, The Orders for ſecuring the peace of the Nation, which the Declaration relates to; [a][a]See here, p. 63, 64, 65. 1 H 4. rot Parl. n. 44, 47, 50. Memineritis. nihil poſſe judicio fieri contrarium magisquam ſine judicio proſcribere aliquem Non ſinit Lex decretum lege plus valere: iſte cum tot ſunt leges, decretum ratum facit, leges tollit: Demoſthenes, Oratio contra Timocratem, p. 200.contrary to all the Statutes, Acts, Reſolutions of our Parliaments and Law-books forecited, upon another occaſion) authorize the Major Generals and Commiſſioners named in them. To baniſh and ſend into Foraign parts and Plantations, all perſons of the royal party formerly in arms, of no estate, and living looſly, and all perſons whatſoever that ſhall appear by their words or actions to adhere to the party of the late King or his Son, & to be dangerous Enemies to the peace of the Commonwealth; even without and before any Legal indictment, tryal, conviction of any particular crime, for which a Sentence of Baniſhment is preſcribed by our Laws: or any Judgement or Act of Parliament inflicting this heavy Puniſhment upon them, far worſe to many than death it ſelf. Now I ſhall earneſtly intreat in the name and fear of God, all thoſe whom it moſt concernes, to conſider and determine in their own retired thoughts, how unjuſt, un-righteous, unreaſonable, unchriſtian and more then **Parcit cognatis macults ſimilis ſera, &c. Juvenal.brutiſh, it will ſeem to all Freeborn Engliſh men, and conſcientious chriſtians, both at home and abroad, and what great ſcandals it may bring, both upon our Nation, Government, and Religion it ſelf, in this manner, (and on this old account alone) to baniſh theſe chriſtian Engliſh Freemen out of their Native country, both from their Wives, children, p. 108Kinred, and Gods own publike Ordinances; and at the ſelf-ſame time to call in foraign Infidel Jews, (greateſt Enemies to Chriſt himſelf and Chriſtians, and in that reſpect more dangerous to the peace and welfare of the Nation than tho…e thus to be baniſhed) to ſupply their places, even againſt an expreſs old Judgement, and Edict of the whole Kingdom in Parliament, for their perpetual exile. What a ſad pernicious **Mat. 7.2. Luk. 6.37.38. & Rev. 13.10. Obad. 15. & Joel 3.6, 7, 8.Matt 7:2Luke 6:37Luke 6:38Rev 13:10Obad 1:15Joel 3:6Joel 3:7Joel 3:8preſident it may prove in future ages, (eſpecially to the Authors of it and their poſterities by divine retalliation, as the **Ae…ian Variae Hiſt. l. 13. c. 24. Alex. ab Alex. lib. 3. c. 24. Caelius Rhodiginus Anti que Lect. l. 5. c. 44.Athenian Oſtraciſme did to Cliſthenes who invented it & was the firſt exiled by it.) upon e…ery new revolution to baniſh all Engliſh freemen of a contrary, party, and call in Forraigners in their rooms: Whether it will not revive that ancient complaint of**Lib. 5. Epiſt. 33. & Cent. Mag. 12. ca. 14. Petrus Cluntacenſis. Lex nam vetusta ſed verè diabol…ca ab ipſis Chriſtianis Principibus proceſsit, &c. Manet inultum ſcelus deteſtabile in Judaeo, quod exilio vel horrenda morte ſuspendit punitur in Christiano. Pingueſcit inde & deliciis afflu…t Iudaeus, unde laqueo ſuspend…tur Chriſtianus? And whether upon conſideration of this and the precedent reaſons deduced from theſe Declarations, and all the premiſes, they ought not peremptorily to conclude againſt the Jews preſent and future re-admiſſion into England?

I ſhall cloſe up all with an Anſwer to the two principal Allegations for their reception into our Realm.

1. The main and on…y conſciencious Argument for their introduction, is this; That it may be a very probable hopefull means of the general calling and converſion of the Iewiſh Nation to the Chriſt an Faith, which hath been ſo long prayed for and expected by Chriſtians, and ſeems now approaching; which their ſecluſion from us may much obstruct.

Not to enter into any large debate of this converſion of the Iews, wherein learned [b][b]See Oecotampadius Hyperius, Oſiand. Peter Martyr, Bucer, Melan…thon, Calvin, Selneccerus, Marlorat, Pareus, Willet, Wilſon, and others on Rom. 11. Dr. Prideaux, Orat. 6. de Vocatione Judaeorum. Dr. Willet, de Generali & noviſſima Judaeorum converſione. Purchas Pilgrim. l. 2. c. 21.Rom 11Orthodox Divines and Writers, are much divided. I ſay, 1. That I could never yet be ſatisfied, that there ſhall be ſuch a general call and p. 109converſion of the whole or major part of the Nation of the Jews, as ſome expect, but only of every ſmal electremnant of them, The [c][c]He…e p. 63, 64, 65, 66.forecited Texts, with Iſ. 30.8, 9, 10, 11. Now go write it before them in a Table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come FOR EVER and EVER, That this is a rebellious people, children that will not hear the Law of the Lord, which ſay to the Seers ſee not, and to the Prophets, propheſie not unto us right things, &c. cauſe the holy one of Iſrael to depart from before us. Luk. 20.16, 17, 18. Mat. 21.41, 42, 43, 44, 45, John 1.11.12. Rom. 9.27.26.33. c. 11.2, 5, 7, 8. contradicting ſuch a general converſion of them, & that of Rom. 11.26.27, 28. And ſo all Iſrael ſhall be ſaved: being meant only of the Elect, and true Iſrael of God, both Jews and Gentiles, as many judicious Expoſitors, and Rom. 2, 26, 27, 28, 29. c. 9.6, 7, 8. c. 11.1. to 8. Gal. 3.7, 9, 14, 16, 22, 28, 29 c 6.16. ſeem to expound it, not of the whole Jewiſh Nations calling and ſalvation at the laſt. 2ly. It is agreed by moſt who expect ſuch a general calling and converſion of the Iews [d][d]Paraeus Wil…t, Peter Ma…tyr. Wilſon on the place, and Dr. Prideaux, Oral. 6.That it ſhall not be till the fullneſſe of the Gentiles become in, as Rom, 11, 24, 25. reſolves, And whether this fullneſſe be yet come in, there being ſo many Gentile Nations yet [e][e]See Purchas Pilgrimage, and Pilgr…m. Edwa…d B…rewood his Inqui…y touching the diverſity of Religions through the chief par…s of the wo…d.unconverted, eſpecially in Aſia, Africa, and America, and thoſe infinitely exceeding the Gentiles yet converted to the Goſpel, let thoſe conſider who now expect the Iews converſion. 3ly. If this fullneſſe of the Gentiles converſion to Chriſt, muſt preceed the general calling of the Iews, as a neceſſary preparative and introduction thereunto, then we ought by this allegation in the firſt place to call the Turks, Tartars, Perſians, Chinoys, Indians, & all other unconverted Gentile Nations with their Religions into England, & firſt convert them to the Chriſtian faith, before we bring in the Iews, whoſe converſion is to ſucceed theirs, & the Gentiles fullneſs: And then we ſhall have Religions enough in England to pleaſe all Novelliſts, and a thouſand aliens to each Engliſh Native. 4ly, There are farre more expreſſe, direct promiſes, p. 111texts, grounds, both in the [e][e]Pſ. 2.8. Pſ. 22.27. Pſ. 65.2, Pſ. 72.1 to 18. Pſ. 67.3.4.6.7 Pſ. 86.9, 10. Pſ. 100.1, 2, 3, 4. Pſ. 148, 11, 12. 1. Kin. 8.43 Iſay 2.1, 2.3, 4. c. 9.2.7. c. 11, 10. c. 18.7. c. 35.1, 2, &c. c. 40.4, 5. c. 41.2. c. 42.1, 6, 7, 10 11, 12, 16. c. c. 49.6, 7, &c. 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 c. 54.1, 2, 3, 4 c. 55.4, 6.1. …. 56 5, 7, 8. c. 60. throughout, c. 61.5, 6, 9. c. 62.2. c. 65.1 c. 66.19. to 24. Jer. 16.19. Dan. 7.14, Hag. 2 7. Mic. 4.1. to 8. Mal. 1.10. Hoſ. 1.10. c. 2.23. Gen. 49.10.Ps 2:8Ps 22:27Ps 65:2Ps 72:1–18Ps 67:3Ps 67:4Ps 67:6Ps 67:7Ps 86:9Ps 86:10Ps 100:1Ps 100:2Ps 100:3Ps 100:4Ps 148:11Ps 148:121 Kgs 8:43Isa 2:1Isa 2:2Isa 2:3Isa 2:4Jer 16:19Dan 7:14Hag 2:7Mic 4:1–8Mal 1:10Hos 1:10Gen 49:10Old and [f][f]Mat. 12.21. c. 28.19, 20 Mar. 16.15. Luk. 2.32. Iob. 7.25. Act… 9.25. c. 10.1. &c 44.65. c. 11.1.18. c. 13.42. to 49. c. 14.27. c. 15.3. to 24. c. 16.4. to 13. c. 17.12 c. 18.8.10. &c. c. 19.10. c. 21.25. c. 22.21. c, 26.20, 21, 22, 23. c. 28.28. Rom. 1.13. c. 9.24.30 c. 10, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20. c. 11.11, 12, &c. 25.30. c. 15.8. to 30. c. 16.4.26. 1 Cor. 12.2. to 24. Gal. 2.2.16. c. 3.14. Epheſ. 2.1.11. to 22. c. 3.6. to 12. Col. 1.6.23, 26, 27. 1 T… : 2.1. to 9. c. 3.16. 2 Tim. 1.11. c: 4.17. Rev. 5.10. c. 6.9, 10. c. 11.15. c. 14.1.3.6.7.Matt 12:21Mark 16:15Luke 2:32Job 7:25Acts 9:25Rom 1:131 Cor 12:2–24Gal 2:2Gal 2:16Eph 2:1Eph 2:11–22Col 1:6Col 1:23Col 1:26Col 1:27Col 1:12 Tim 1:11Rev 5:10New Teſtament, for the calling, converſion of all Gentiles, and yet unconverted Heathen Nations to the faith of Chriſt, then of the Iewiſh Nation: not one Nation of them (for ought we read) being ſo far rejected, broken off, and given up to an obduration of heart, and blindneſs of mind, by Gods judiciall decree, as we read the Jews to be; Iſa. 6.9, 10, 11, c. 8 14.15, 16. c. 29.9, 10, 11, 12. Mat. 13.14, 15. Mar. 4.11, 12. Lu▪ 8.10. Iohn 12.37, 38, 39, 40. Act 28.25, 26, 27, 28. Rom. 11.7, 8, 9, 10. Therefore our prayers and endeavours ought firſt to be for the converſion of all Gentiles yet unconverted to the faith, being more hopefull, more ſucceſsfull in all probability, than our prayers, endeavors for the Iews converſion, at leaſt till the Gentiles fullneſſe be come in. 5ly, Admit either a general or ſpecial calling and converſion of the Iews in the latter end of the world; yet the calling of them into England to cohabit with us in ſuch a manner as they now deſire, is no ways neceſſary for that end. For 1. it is no where declared in Gods word, that they muſt be called in England, or by Engliſh men. 2ly. If they were principally to be converted by Engliſh Divines or Laicks, we may with more eaſe, leſſe danger and prejudice to our Nation and Religion, ſend Engliſh Divines and Laicks into other forraign parts where they now reſide, to inſtruct, teach, convert them to the faith, than call them into England to convert them now, in this giddy, unſetled, apoſtatizing age, wherein they are likelier to gain a thouſand Engliſh Proſelytes to their Judaiſme, than we one Jewiſh convert to Christianity, if introduced with their Synagogues and Jewiſh ceremonies; perhaps their hopes of ſuch a harveſt here, is the principal motive that they are ſo p. 110preſſing to be now admitted again into our Engliſh climate, without delay. 3ly. If we admit them with all their Jewiſh worſhip, Synagogues, Ceremonies, as they now propoſe, it will be rather a means to harden, then convert them; a [g][g]1 Tim. 2.3 10. Rom. 3 8.1 Tim 2:3Rom 3:8doing of evil that good may come of it: a ſwallowing down of a certain deadly poyſon, in hope to correct it with a ſubſequent antidote; and to ſet up a preſent [h][h]Rev. 2.9. c. 3.9.Rev 2:9Synagogue of Satan, upon hopes hereafter to convert it into a Church of Chriſt. 4ly. God can convert them in any other Countries, as well as in England, and by any other Chriſtian Nations, as well as Engliſh, as he hath done[i][i]See Cent. Mag 4.10 13. c. 14. Pa…ns Com. in Ro. 13. p. 1101. Here p. 17. Antonini Chron. pars 2. Tit. 16.1.2. & Tit. 17.Rom 13 ſom few of them in al ages as Hieron: a fide, and Petrus Alphonſus, Lyra, Tremel. three eminent Divines and Writers, amongſt others: And there being as learned able Proteſtant Divines in Holland, Germany, France, Denmarke, as any in England, if they cannot convert them, what hopes have we to do it? 5ly. Converſion of their hearts to the truth of the Gospel, and ſaving Grace, is [k][k]Je… 31 18. Eph… 2 1. &c. John 3 8. c 12.40. …. 2 13.Eph 2:1John 3:8only the work of God, not men, who can work it when, where, and by whom he pleaſeth, and is not tied either to place or perſons, much leſſe to our Engliſh climate to effect it. And, it is Gods and Chriſts uſual preſcribed way of converting Nations, People, to ſend Apoſtles, Miniſters to preach the Goſpel to, and convert them, in the Countries, places where they dwell; not to call them into another Forraign Land where the Goſpel firſt ſhined, or where it is entertained: as he ſent his Apoſtles from Jeruſalem into all the world, to convert the Gentiles, not called them all to Jeruſalem or Paleſtine, to be there inſtructed and converted, Mat. 9.38. c. 10.5.6. c. 28.19, 20. Mar. 16.15. Iſay 2, 3, 4. Acts 9.15. c. 10.20. c. 22.12. Epheſ. 3.8. 2 Tim. 4.17.3. Iohn 7. Why then we ſhould take this new-found contrary way, of calling the Iews in to us to convert them, and not rather ſend out Miniſters to them, I cannot diſcern; The rather, becauſe the **Surius Concil. Tom. 4.57. Fox Acts & p. … M…n. … 1. … 13 un. … ella & An… ca, Tit. …Council of Baſil, An. 143 1. Seſſio 19. preſcribes this courſe both for the converting of the unbelieving Jews and Gentiles to the Orthodox Faith; p. 112That all Dioceſans ſhould yearly, at appointed times, provide certain men well learned in holy Scriptures, and in the Tongues, to preach and explain the truth of the Catholick Faith, IN SVCH PLACES WHERE THE IEWES AND OTHER INFIDELS DID DWELL, in ſuch ſort, that they acknowledging their error, might forſake the ſame. To which preaching they ſhould compell all of both Sexes that were at years of diſcretion to reſort, by interdicting them commerce with Chriſtians, and other fitting penalties. Provided, the Dioceſans and Preachers ſhould behave themſelves towards them mercifully, and with all charity, whereby they might win them to Christ, not only by declaring of the truth, but alſo by other Offices of humanity. 6. If the obſervation of learned[m][m]Comment. on Rom. 11. p. 1101, 1102. See Sir Edw. Sands his Relation of the State of Religion. &c.Rom 11 Paraeus be true, that the over flowing of all ſorts of wickedneſſes, crimes, murders, wars, oppreſſions, rapines, injuſtice, tyranny, cruelty, extortions, uſuries, the infinite multiplicity, contrariety of Sects, Schiſms, Religions, and unchriſtian, heatheniſh, atheiſticall practiſes of one Christian towards another, be principal obſtacles to hinder the Jews converſion, eſpecially amongſt Proteſtants (as theſe, with idolatrous worſhip of Images, Saints, and the Hestia amongſt Papiſts) than the calling of them now into England, where **See my Q…a…ers U…mas… ed: and New Diſcovery of Free State Tyran….all theſe abound more than ever heretofore, and more than in other Nations, will be a means more to harden them, and hinder their converſion, then any furtherance thereunto: the rather, becauſe the deſperate Apoſtacy, and atheiſtical actions of ſundry late eminent Profeſſors, have cauſed many Engliſh Chriſtians to turn Antiſcripturists, Seekers, Atheiſts, and like the Iews, to repute Chriſt and Chriſtianity meer Fables. 7ly. Moſt of the Iews, who ſince their diſperſion have been baptized, and turned Chriſtians in any age or place, have done it either out of fear, to ſave their lives, or eſtates, when endangered by po…ular tumults, or judgments of death denounced againſt them for their Crimes; or for fear of baniſhment, or by coercion of penal Laws, not cordially and ſincerely, they ſtill playing the Jews in private p. 113upon every occaſion, and renouncing their baptiſm and chriſtianity at last, either before or at their deaths, as our own [n][n]… P. 9, 10, 12.….forecited Hiſtorians; Synodus Nicaena 2 Can 8. Surius concil. Tom, 3. p. 193. the 4th Council of Toledo, cap. 58, 59, 62.63. Iuſtiniani Codicis l. 1. Tit. 10. de Ap…ſtates I…o…, Gregorius Teronerſis, lib. 6. Bibl. Patrum. …m. 6. pars 2. p. 467. Leges Wiſigethorum, lib. 12. Tit. 23 Vincerſius Beluacenſis Spec. Hist. l. 29. c. 25. Roderi…us Tel… tanus, de rebus Hiſp. l. 2. c. 17. Avertin…s, Annal. Boiorum l. 5. p. 468: Abbas Uſpergenſis Chron. p. 227.228. and [o][o]… 147 …. 3 …. l. 19. …. 481, 482. …. l. 1. …. 19. …. 72.73. S…m. Reſelia. Tit. Judaeusother authors atteſt. Of which we have this late memorable Hiſtory recorded by Munſter in his Coſmography, l. 2. c. 19. f. 72, 73. There being no leſſe than one h…ndred twenty four thouſand Jews baniſhed out of Spain, Anno 1492. leaving all their gold, jewels, houſes behind them, and paying two duckets a poll to the King for their tranſportation into Portugal; ſome of them there ſeemingly turned Chriſtians, and were baptized, but yet ſecretly practiſed their Judaical rites, being Chriſtians only in ſhew, but not in heart, obſerving the Paſſeover, and eating fleſh with the Iewes: Upon the diſcovery hereof, there aroſe a great tumult of the people againſt them in Lisbon, the people complaining thereof to the King, Anno 1506. Whereupon the King commanded 16 of them to be impriſoned, and at laſt diſmiſſed them without other puniſhment. Upon this the Citizens conſpiring again… the King and Governour, raiſed a comm…tion againſt theſe Iews and falſe Chriſtians, ſlaying all thoſe falſe converted new Iews they could find throughout the City, to the number of ſix hundred, whom they likewiſe burnt; which example ſpreading into the Country, there were ſlain in the City and Country of theſe falſe Iewiſh, converts, to the number of 1630: which the King hearing of, being then abſent, he was ſo incerſed againſt the Iews, that he impriſoned very many of them, whereof ſome were burned, others beheaded, others hanged on Gibbets, and all the reſt ſpoiled of their goods, then expelled and baniſhed the Kingdom, A ſad judgement on them for their Hypocritical p. 114converſion; and ſuch converts moſtly we are like to find them, and none other. Whereupon the 2 Council of Nice, Canon. 3. decreed, That no Iews ſhould be admitted ſuddenly into the Chriſtian Church, nor baptized, unleſſe they publikely certified, that they were converted, out of a pure ſincere faith, with all their heart, and utterly renounced their judaical rites. And the Council of …gatha Can. 34. decreed, That the Iews who deſired to turn Chriſtians ſhould remain for 8 moneths ſpace amongſt the Catechimeni, for trial of the ſincerity of their converſion before they were baptized, upon this ground, becauſe they frequently returned to their infidelity & vomit again Judaei qui eorum perfidia FREQUENTER ad vomitum reddit. Which Alexander Alenſis ſumma Theolog. pars 2. qu. 161. approves. 7ly. If any private Iews out of meer conſcience or ſincere deſires of being converted to the Chriſtian faith, ſhall upon that account alone deſire admiſſion into England, to be inſtructed by our Engliſh Divines, I ſuppoſe no Engliſh Chriſtians will oppoſe, but further their deſires herein, and contribute both their prayers and beſt endeavors for their converſion, and if ther be cauſe, admit them alſo into our Churches Communion upon real teſtimonies of the truth of converſion in, and work of grace upon them; which is as much as they can deſire at our hands; But to admit whole multitudes and Colonies of infidel Iews at once into our Nation, who neither deſire nor pretend converſion to Chriſtianity, (but the quite contrary) together with the free uſe of their Iewiſh Synagogues, Rites, Ceremonies, (which they ſtrongly inſiſt upon) to eſtabliſh their Judaiſm, make way for their long expected Meſſia his comming, increaſe their wealth and traffique, and enable them to recover their ancient Country and Kingdome again, the only things they now aim at as Menaſſeh Ben Iſraels printed addreſſes proclaims to all the World, is ſuch an Impious, Unchriſtian, Antichriſtia… dangerous preſident (gloſſed over only with a p. 115poſſibility of their future converſion) as no ſincere Engliſh Chriſtians can approve of, nor the Iews themſelves deſire: For as the Iews by [p][p]Deut. 7.5. Exod. 23.35. c. 34.13, 14.2. Chron. 30.14. c. 31.1 c. 34.3. to 9.33 Levit. 17.12. c. 24.16.22. Nunn. l. 5.16.30, 31. Deut. 31.12. See Mr. Selden. de Jure naturali & Gentium, juxta Diſciplinam Eorum. l. 2 & 3. Judaei non permiſerunt Gentiles ſecummanere qui Gentilitiis ritibus ſemerebant, at eos permiſerunt qui uberum Deum colebant. Thomas Waldenſes Doctrinales Fidei. l. 3. c. 5. Sect. 1. p. 4.18.Deut 7:5Exod 23:352 Chr 30:14Lev 17:12Deut 31:12Gods own Laws, and their own Iewiſh Rabbies precepts, neither might, nor yet would permit any Heathen Gentiles heretofore to dwell among them, nor to ſet up any Altars, Images, Idols, Groves, or exerciſe any Idolatrous worſhip amongst them, or to blaſpheme, reproach their God or Religion, under pain of death, if they tranſgreſſed therein; There being the ſelf ſame Law of God in theſe things both to Gentiles, & Iews: And like as they afterwards would not permit the Apoſtles and Chriſtians in Ieruſalem, or any other Cities, for to preach the Goſpel, and exerciſe the Chriſtian Religion freely, but raiſed up preſent tumults against and perſecuted and caſt them out thence, as 1 Theſ. 2.14, 15, 17. the whole Hiſtory of the Acts, and premiſes abundantly teſtifie: So by the very ſelf ſame juſtice and equity, they can neither now demand nor expect that we, or any Chriſtian Realm or State ſhould tollerate or connive at, much leſſe openly countenance and protect them in the publick or private exerciſe of their Iudaiſme, or Iewiſh Rites, and Blaſpemies againſt our crucified Saviour, and his Goſpel: All then that Engliſh Chriſtians can do for them, is to (q)(q)Rom. 10.1. 1. Tim. 1.1. p. 3.Rom 10:11 Tim 1:1deſire, and pray for the converſion of all Gods elect amongst them in his due time, by ſuch means as he ſhall think meeteſt, and to inſtruct them in the faith, by learned Miniſters ſent to them, if they deſire it; but not to admit them (and perchance many diſguiſed Ieſuits, Papiſts and Friars with them) promiſcuouſly into our Nation; to undermine our Church and Religion, and undo many thouſand Souls, it being our duty, **1 Cor. 10.32.1 Cor 10:32as to give no just offence to the Iew, ſo neither to the Gentiles, nor to the Church of God, whom their admiſsion amongſt us, eſpecially upon Manaſſeth Ben-Iſraels motives and addreſſes, (tending nothing at all to Piety or their conververſion,) but worldly gains and obſtinate perſeverance in their Jewiſh Antichriſtian Rites and Superſtitions will p. 116moſt juſtly offend. Laſtly thoſe Popes & Popiſh Princes, who have hertofore admitted any Iews to cohabit amongſt them have done it under theſe ſeveral cautions and limitations preſcribed to them by their **Ju…tiaiani Codicis l, l. 1. Tit. 12. de J… daeis Frede…icus Lindebrog…s Codex l…gum Antiq…. leges Wiſegothorum. l. 12. Tit. 2, 3. Lau…. Su…ius, Concil. Tom. 2. p. 277.322, 366, 608.646, 634, 674, 679, 698, 735, 1042. Tom. 3. p. 2.6.7.466, 467.552, 670.726, 754, 632, 753, 495, C…ncil Baſilenſ. Self. 19. Surius Tom. 4. p. 57, 56. A…xander, 3 De…et. l. 5. Tit. 6. c. 4, 5, 7, 8. Innocentii, …. Opera. T…m. 1. p. 488. Tom. …. p. 798 805. G… Greg. Ep. 7. Ep. 15.113.10. tiau Cauſ. 28. qu. 1. Pa…o… …i…an, … …n…i Co…ſ…i…, Rep…r…or…m in …. Tit. Judaeus Cardinalis Hoſtinenſis Summa cum additionibus, Nicholai Superami…, l. 5. …it. 11. de Judaeis & Saracenis & eorum ſervis Baptista Trovomala Summa Roſella Tit. Judae…s Angelus de Clavaſio Summa Angelica. Tit. Iudaeus, Th… Zeru… a Praxis Eſcopalis pars, 1 Tit. Judaeus, Centur. Magd. 12 c. 7. Iac. de Graff…is Decipi. Au earum pars, 2. lib. 2. cap. 23. de Judaeis & Saracenis Calderni…s ac Judas Conſ…l. Clauſ. 37. H. 3. m. 18. Clauſe 7. E. 1. m. 6. dorſ.Titus 2:3Laws, Councils, Canons, Decrees, Divines and Canonists. 1. That they ſhould build no new Synagogues, nor repair any old o…es qu…te demoliſhed. 2. Th…t where there were old Synagogues formerly uſed by them ſtanding; they ſhould only repair, but not enlarge or build them higher than before, nor extraordinarily adorn them. 3. That they ſhould not ſtir out of their doors on good Friday, nor open their doors, windows, ſhops, or do any ſervile work on the Lords days or other ſolemn Chriſtian Feſtivals. 4. That they ſhall utter no blaſphemous words, ſpeeches againſt God, Chriſt, Chriſtians, or Chriſtian Religion, nor manifeſt their open contempt of them by geſtures or actions, under pain of pecuniary, corporal, and capital puniſhments, according to the quality of the offence. Yea King Eringius Leges Wiſigothorum, l. 2. Tit. 3. c. 3.4.7. and 12. Council of Toledo c. 9. prohibited the Jews the uſe of circumciſion, the obſervation of their Jewiſh Paſſeovers, Sabbaths, differences of meats, and other Jewiſh Rites under pain of whipping, confiſcation of goods, loſſe of Noſes, Genitals, Baniſhment, 5. That they ſhall be admitted to no degress of learning, honour, dignity, office or preferment whatſoever in ſtate or Church, becauſe it is moſt abſurd and unjuſt, that any blaſphemer of Chriſt, ſhould exerciſe any power or authority over Chriſtians in any Christian State. 6. That * they ſhould neither eat nor drink, nor have any dayly familiarity or communion with Christians, nor entertain any Chriſtian man or woman in or out of their houſes, either as a Servant, or Nurſe to their Children, or otherwiſe, nor yet adminiſter phyſick to any p. 117Chriſtian in his ſickneſſe, leſt any ſimple Chriſtians ſhould be ſeduced by them to Judaiſme by theſe means. 7. That all Iews both males and females ſhould always wear a ſpecicial **Clauſ. 2 H. 3. m. 10 D…rſ. Clauſ. 37. H. 3. m. 18. See here, p. 35. Munſteri Coſ…e. l. 4. c. 44. p. 1…8. Concil La…eranumſ…. Innocent. 3. c. 65. …urius Tom. 3. …. 753.badge or ſign in all places upon their outward Garments or heads, whereby they might be diſtinguiſhed from C…ristians, and known by all men to be Iews, to avoid commixtion and communion between them and Chriſtians which otherwiſe would happen. 8. That they ſhould be diſabled to bear witneſſe, or give in any legal teſtimony againſt Christians, or to purchaſe any advowſon or Eccleſiastical preferment, or to bequeath any legacy to the Nation or Corporation of the Iews, or to exerciſe uſury amongſt them. 9. That they ſhould be ſubject both to the Eccleſiaſtical & Temporal Courts and Iudges for all offences properly puniſhable by them which they ſhould commit. 10. That they ſhould pay all predial and perſonal Tithes to the Chriſtian Miniſters where they lived. 11. That though they ſhould not be compelled to be baptized or turn Chriſtians againſt their will, yet they ſhould at certain times **S… Pat. 8. … m. 37.be all conſtrained to come to the Sermons of ſuch Christian Prieſts and Miniſters as were appointed to inſtruct them in the Chriſtian faith, and to preach unto them to convert them. 12. That their Servants and Children being Iews; when once baptized and turned Chriſtians, ſhould no more cohabit with, nor be under their power. 13. That upon their converſion to Chriſtianity, all their goods and mony gotten by uſury and cheating ſhould be diſtributed to pious uſes, and the reſt only retained for their proper uſe and livelyhood. 14 That if any of them after their baptiſme apostatized and turned Iewes again, or fell into Hereſie, they ſhould be proceeded againſt and burned, executed as Apoſtates, and Hereticks. 15. That no Chriſtians ſhould communicate with them in any kind, except in buying and ſelling, nor cohabit with, ſerve them as a Nurſe or Servant, under pain of excommunication, Yet notwithſtanding all theſe reſtrictions and cautions, we read of few Iews really converted by them, and that the Iews have (r)(r)Zon…as Tom. 3. Centur. M…l. 9. c. 14. col. 614. Ma…ianus S…us, General Hiſt. of Spanish. 775 958. Bzovius Annal. Eccl. p. An. 1259, n. 3.perverted and ſeduced ſundry Chriſtians to p. 118Iudaiſme, and made them profeſſed Iews; perſwaded other Chriſtians to obſerve Moſaical ceremonies, beſides Baptiſm, whereby they made a confuſed Chaos of Religion; yea they corrupted Michael Balbus the Emperor ſo far, that he commanded Chriſtians to faſt on their Sabbath, and made him as it were a ſink of Sects, as Zonaras and others record; And Frederic. & Iſabella baniſhed them out of Spain upon this ground, that they induced many of the Nobles in Andaluzia to become Jews, as Manaſſeh Ben-Iſrael himſelf acknowledged, p. 15.25. Yea, Sedechias the Iewiſh Phyſician (ſ)(ſ)Martini Poloni ſupputationes. Anno 876. Sigeberti chron. Grimſton and others in his life.poyſoned the Emperor Charles the Bald his body, as well as others in that age and after poyſoned other Chriſtians ſouls. What miſchiefs then they may doe to mens bodies in England, by poyſoning of them, (as they did the(t)(t)See here, p. 35.78. Engliſh Barons heretofore, and Dr. Lopez a Iew, bribed by the Spaniard would have poyſoned **Cambden, Speed, and others in her life.Queen Elizabeth of late whom he profeſſed, he loved as well as he did Ieſus Chriſt himſelf) and what deſperate venom they may infuſe into their ſouls by their Iewiſh Doctrines, Synagogues, and Antichriſtian Ceremonies, if admitted without, ſuch or upon theſe reſtrictions, or any other, let all prudent Chriſtians reſolve: Since(u)(u)Conſtitut. l. 2. Constit. 22. Oper. Tom. 2. p. 798. Pope Innocent the 3. himſelf, and (x)(x)Summa li. 5. tit. 11. De Judaeis, &c.Cardinal Hoſtienſis, with other Popiſh Canoniſts, who have tolerated them, give us this account of their requital for it, in poſitive terms. Iudaei ingrati, pro gratia reddunt contumeliam, pro familiaritate contemptum, impendentes nobis illam retributionem, quam juxta vulgare proverbium, MVS IN PERA, SERPENS IN GREMIO, IGNIS IN SINV, ſuis conſueverunt Hoſpitibus exhihere, Nam ſunt quidam (quod nefandum eſt dicere) Nutrices Chriſtianas habentes, non permittunt lactare filios cum corpus Chriſti ſumpſerunt, niſi prius per triduum lac effuderint in latrinam, (quaſi intelligunt, quod corpus Chriſti incorporetur, & ad ſeceſſum deſcendat.) & alia inaudita committunt, & deteſt…bilia, quae a fidelibus ſunt minime toleranda, ne ſi haec n…gligunt quae inducunt confuſionem fidei INDIGNATIONEM DIVINAM INCVRRANT. p. 119As therefore (y)(y)Conſil. 87. & 264.Oldradus de Ponte; Abbbot Panormitan, (z)(z)Repertorium in Ab. Panormitan. Tit. Judaeus Jac. de Graff. Deciſ. Aur. Tom. 2. l. 2. c. 23 Sect. 60.Antonius Corſetus, and other Popiſh Canoniſts conclude poſitively. That Chriſtians and Chriſtian Kings may lawfully expel and baniſh all Iews and Infidels out of their Realms, though peaceable, for their Infidelity, and other juſt cauſes: So may all Engliſh Proteſtants likewiſe upon the premiſed reaſons conclude: we may as juſtly, as lawfully now keep them from re-entring into England, notwithſtanding the pretence of their converſion to the Faith, which I hope I have ſatisfactorily anſwered.

The 2.Allegat. 2 Allegation for bringing in the Iews is meerly politick, That it will bring in much preſent and future gain and mony to the State, and advance trading. This is the Argument Menaſſah Ben-Iſrael moſt inſiſts on, p. 1. to 11.3. How profitable the Iews are, adding, That profit is a most powerfull motive, and which all the world prefers before all other things. And therefore (writes he) we ſhall handle that point firſt. Though he handles it ſo, that every eye may ſee he aims more at his own Nations profit, benefit, advance, than ours.

I anſwer,Anſwer. 1. That if this argument overpoyſed not the ſcales, that of conſcience, (the hopes of their converſion) would be lighter than the duſt of the ballance and ſticke with no man, their mony being the only engin, which hath opened the gate and paſſage for them into any Chriſtian Kingdoms at firſt, and made new entrance for them when they have been expelled, as (a)(a)… concil. Tom. 3. p. 534.Concilium Toletanum, 4. c. 57. and others inform us. This opened their firſt paſſage into (b)(b)See …ere, p. 2.6.England, (c)(c)Hi… r… mus Con…. … gius de Po… gal et Caſtil. unione. p. 1054, 1065. Opu…s Chronog. p. 429Spain, Portugal: and Philip Auguſtus who baniſhed them out of France, An. 1182. Postea verò quum propter bella inopia laboraret pecuniae, accepta grandi à Iudaeis pecunia redditum eis conceſſit & domicilium Pariſiis, as (d)(d)Coſmogr. l. 2. p. 171. Vincentius, l. 29. c. 25, Gaguinus and others.Munſter and others inform us. And this kept them ſo long in England heretofore, till their very baniſhment; A ſign we love their money better than their ſouls or our own. 2ly, This argument, p. 120for their readmiſſion, is but wordly, carnal, ſenſual: the very ſame with that of Hamer to the Shechemites, when he would perſwade them to be circumciſed, and turn Iews, Gen. 23.25. ſhall not their cattle and their ſubſtance, and every beaſt of theirs be ours? only let us conſent unto them, and they will dwell with us. An argument only fit for ſuch whom the Apoſtle characterizeth, Phil. 3.18, 19. For many walk of whom I have told you often, and now tell you weeping, that they are the enemies of the Croſſe of Chriſt, whoſe end is deſtruction, whoſe God is their belly, and whoſe glory is in their ſhame, who mind earthly things; Or for ſuch Princes or Governours as God of old complained thus of (e)(e)Ezech. …2.27.Ezek 2:27Her Princes in the midſt thereof are like Wolves ravening the prey, and to ſhed blood, and TO DESTROY SOULS TO GET DISHONEST GAIN. It proceeds from ſuch (f)(f)Ier. 22.17.Jer 22:17whoſe eyes and hearts are not but for their Covetouſnes (g)(g)Phil. 2.20, 21.Phil 2:20Phil 2:21who all ſeek their own, not the things that are Ieſus Chriſts. And if the root of it be covetouſneſſe (h)(h)Epheſ. 5.3. Col. 3.5.Eph 5:3Col 3:5which is Idolatry, which Chriſt commands all (i)(i)Lu. 12.15.to take heed and beware of, and (k)(k)Epheſ. 5, 3.Eph 5:3is not ſo much as to be named (much leſſe practiſed) amongſt Chriſtians, whoſe (l)(l)Heb. 13.5.Heb 13:5converſation ought to be without covetouſneſſe, and they to rest contented with thoſe things they have; Becauſe (m)(m)1 Tim. 6. …2.80.1 Tim 6:21 Tim 6:80They that will be rich fall into temptations, and a ſnare, and into many fooliſh and noyſom luſts which drown men in perdition and deſtruction; For the Love of mony is the root of all evill, which whiles ſome coveted after, they have been ſedu…ed (or erred) from the faith, (as thouſands of late years have been) and pierced themſelvs through with many ſorrows, Therfore 'tis not ſo much as once to be named or inſiſted on amongſt us, unleſſe we will renounce our Chriſtianity, make great gain our only godlineſſe, inſtead of making (n)(n)1 Tim. … c. 6.1 Tim 6Godlineſſe with contentment our great gain;(o)(o)Mat. 26, 15, 16. c. 27.3, 4.Matt 26:15Matt 26:16 betray and ſell our Saviour Chriſt again to the Iews, like Iudas, for thirty peeces of ſilver, without repenting and making reſtitution of it to p. 121the Iews, as he did; and moſt blaſphemouſly transferre our very Saviours moſt bleſſed Deity, and ſtamp his moſt ſweet and higheſt Title (p)(p)Mat. 1, 23.Matt 1:23GOD WITH US, upon a contemptible piece of white and yellow ſhining clay, as ſome have lately done on all our New State coyn (as if it were the only God with them and us) how chriſtian-like, let themſelves determine. 3ly. God himſelf who ſaith (q)(q)Ezech. 22 12, 13.Ezek 22:12Ezek 22:13Behold I have ſmitten mine hand at thy diſhoneſt gain, which thou haſt greedily gained of thy neighbour by oppreſſion, & other unlawfull means; will certainly ſmite his hand at this gain by the Iews re-admiſſion. And therefore let us give that reſolute anſwer to the Iewiſh Agents, if they proffer to purchaſe an indenization amongſt us by their gold, as (r)(r)Acts 8.18, 19 20.Acts 8:18Acts 8:19St. Peter once did to Simon Magus in another caſe: Thy money periſh with thee; Thou haſt neither part nor lot in this buſineſſe, for thy heart is not upright with God. 4ly. None ever gain'd by the Iews introduction or continuance in any Chriſtian State, but the King and ſome of his bribed Officers, and that by oppreſſing, ſqueezing, fleecing, taxing: excoriating, eviſcerating, crucifying, pillaging, plundering the poor Iews in ſuch an unchriſtian, inhuman, illegal, unrighteous manner, againſt (ſ)(ſ)Exod. 22.21. c. 23. Mic. 2.1, 2. c. 3.2.3, 4, 9. Zeph. 3.3. Ezech. 22.27.28. Jer. 22.17. Mal. 37. Levi…. 13.34. Baptiſta …rou…mola, Sum Roſelia Iudaeus. 2. Angelus de Clavaſio, Sum Angelica Iudaeus, ſect. 30 Oldradus Conſil. 83.264. Iacobus de Graffiis Deciſ. Au…ea…um. Tom. 2. l. 2. c, 23. Sect. 60. Gratian. Cauſ. 23 qu. 7.Exod 22:21Mic 2:1Mic 2:2Zeph 3:3Ezek 22:27Ezek 22:28Jer 22:17the expreſs commands of God, as made both Chriſtians and Chriſtianity moſt deteſtable to them, brought a ſecret curſe of God upon all thoſe unrighteous gaines as alſo upon their very perſons and Government, (witneſſe (t)(t)See Mat. …a…is, and others in their lives.King Iohn, and Henry the 3d.) and encouraged them to oppreſſe, fleece and pillage their Native Subjects, by illegal Taxes and Projects, and to uſe them rather like Iews than Chriſtians, enforcing them thereby to take up arms againſt them for their Laws, Liberties and Properties juſt defence, as thoſe Kings reigns, and others ſufficiently evidence. 5ly, The introduction of the Iews into England and other Nations, never advanced the publike wealth of the Natives and Republike,**Here p. 33.34.38. to 46.74.75, John S…owes Survey n… London 1633. p. 288, 289. but much impaired it by their Vſuries and Deceits, clipping and falſifying monies, ingroſſing all ſorts of commodities into their p. 122hands, uſurping the Natives trades, and becomming ſuch intolerrable grievances to them, that they were never quiet till they were baniſhed, as their greateſt Annoyance, and purchaſed their Exiles even with publick Subſidies granted to their Kings to be quit of them; as the **Here p. 43. to 63.premiſes abundantly evidence. 6ly. The Trade of this Nation flouriſhed more after their baniſhment hence, then ever it did before; and their introduction now, will but ſupplant, undoe our Engliſh Merchants and other Natives, to enrich them, and ſome few other Grandees, who ſhall ſhare with them in their ſpoils and unrighteous gains: as they utterly ſupplanted, impoveriſhed, ruined the City of Norlingen in Germany where they intruded themſelves in great numbers by the Emperours priviledges; whereupon the Citizens Anno Dom. 1290. being reduced to extreem poverty by them, roſe up in arms and ſlew a geeat number of them, without deſtinction of age or ſex; for with the Citizens were put to ſo great fines by the Emperour Rodolfus and ſo oppreſſed by the Nobility and others obliged to the Jews by morgages and moneys lent them, though the Jews inſtigation, that the natives were inforced to leave both their Studies, Trades, aend the City it ſelf, reduced thereby to extreem penury for above 59 years ſpace; as **Coſmr. l. 3. c. 306. p. 707.Sebaſtian Mu…ſter. at large records. W^ch together with the premiſes, ſufficiently diſproves **Humble addreſſes p. 1 to 11.Meuaſſeth Ben Iſraels Suggeſtion of the profit the Natives of England may receive by their readmiſſion. 7ly, The taking off all long continued, unceſſant, new, illegal Taxes, Exciſes, Impoſts **See my Legal & Hiſtorical Vindication, of the Fundamental Laws & Liberties of England, part. 1. p. 13. to 20.60 to 104, &c. part 2. p. 65. to 80. Si quis Mercatores novis Thelontorum, & Pedagiorum exactionibus moleſtare tentaverit Chriſtiana communione careat, donec ſatisfecerit, Gratian Cauſ. 24. q. 3. Vincentii Spec. Doctrin. 1, 10, c. 163.impoſed without common conſent in Parliament on the Nation, ingroſſing, anticipating moſt of the current Monies of the Land, which are the nerves and wheels of Trade, eating up all the Merchants, Peoples gains and labors, and overclogging all or moſt Commodities imported or exported. The disbanding of all unneceſſary mercenary Forces and Garri…ons, who have devoured moſt of the publike and private wealth of our three Kingdoms, and extraordinarily p. 123impoveriſhed them, only to enrich and advance themſelves; and ſetting up the old unmercinary Trained Bands and Legal Militia of the Realm in their ſteads: The encouraging of Merchants to bring in gold and ſilver Bullion, to ſet the Mint on work, which hath lain for the moſt part idle near 15 years: the ſuppreſſing of the ſuperfluous making, wearing, uſe of gold and ſilver lace, wyre, gilding, which conſume many thouſand pounds of current coyne every year: The inhibiting of the exceſſive uſe of that late intoxicating ſmoke of Tobacco, cauſing ſuch a prodigal expence of money, time, and hindring more neceſſary, uſefull, ſtaple merchandizes and plantations. The regulating of the groſs abuſes of Letters of Mart, now little better than commiſſioned open pyracies, occaſioning the ruine of Trade and Merchandize by way of Repriſal: The ordering according to Law, Iuſtice, Conſcience, that all prizes taken from any foraign Enemy, or other who pillage or damage the Engliſh, by the States Ships, and men of War, ſet out by the Merchants Cuſtoms, Tonnage, Poundage, Impoſts, and therewith maintained for their defence, (u)(u)Qui ſ…n… …, ſ…ere d…b…t & commodum; is, and o…g…r to be … in th…s c…ſe.ſhall be equally diſtributed to our Engliſh Merchants that are damnified, or undone by them, towards the reparation of their loſſes, who maintain them, to enable and encourage them in their trading (eſpecially when much impoveriſhed or undone by their loſſes) and not at all converted or rather perverted to the uſe of that ſome ſtile, the Admiralty & State, or Mariners who take them; (at whoſe coſt they are not maintained:) The binding of all Captains of all States men of war,**See 5. E. 2. Stat. 2. Ch. 3.to make good all the Engliſh Merchants, and their Allies loſſes, ſuſteined by their default or negligence: The **See Mr H…orical V…nd… t…on, pa…t 1. p. 64.103.104.reſuming of all the late alienated ancient Lands, rents, revenues of the Crown, got into private hands, which ought to defray the conſtant expence of the Government, now extorted for the moſt part by arbitrary new devices, out of the exhauſted peoples purſes, The ſpeedy preventing of the late unparalleld waſts in all places of Engliſh Timber, fit for ſhipping, p. 124of which there is like to be ſuch ſcarcity ere long, as will both deſtroy our Navy, ſhipping Trade. All theſe and every of them will far more advance the Trade and Traffique of the Nation, and the publike wealth, and give all the people far better content and ſatisfaction ten thouſand fold, then this New diſtaſtefull pernicious project of bringing in the Iews: againſt which I ſhall only diſcharge this ancient(x)(x)Surius Concil. Tom. 2 p. 734, 735. Canon of the 4th Council of Toledo in Spain, under their moſt religious King Syſenandus in the year of our Lord 681. which thus batters all eccleſiaſtical and temporal promoters of this allegation for filthy Lucres ſake, with this direfull thunderbolt; recited and confirmed in conſil. Meldenſes c. 58. Surius Tom. 3. p. 465. So great is certain mens lucre of money, that ſome coveting after it, according to the Apoſtles ſaying, have erred from the faith. For many hitherto of the Priests & Laity receiving gifts from the Iews, foſter their perfidiouſneſſe (or infidelity) by their patronage; who not undeſervedly are known to be of the body of Antichriſt, becauſe they act againſt Chriſt: Therefore whatſoever Biſhop or Clergy man, or ſecular perſon ſhall from henceforth give his ſuffrage to them against the Chriſtian faith. Either For reward or favour,, being (as prophane & ſacrilegious ) really made accurſed let him be reputed, excommunicated from the Catholick Church and Kingdom of God; becauſe he is worthy to be ſeparated from the Body of Chriſt, who is made a Patron or Protector to the enemies of Chriſt.

I ſhall cloſe up all with the memorable appoſite Hiſtory and words, of that famous ancient Biſhop of Millain St. Ambroſe (y)(y)Amb…oſii E…ſt, l. 5. Epi…t. 29. … g…bardus de Judaicis ſ… pe. …. Bibl. Pa… Tom. 9. p. 516. T…ipa…t…. Hiſt. l. 3. c. 1. l. 9. c. 1. Zena…es Tom. 3. cent. Ma…. 4. col 1165.1166The Eaſtern Chriſtians, out of Chriſtian zeal, burnt down a Synagogue of the Iews in the Caſtle of Callin…co, by their Biſhops inſtigation and command, for which the Emperour Theodoſius being much incenſed againſt them by the Jews and their Inſtruments, commanded his Lieutenant of the Eaſt to puniſh the people, and the Biſhop to re-edify the Synagogue for the Iews at his own coſts: Of which St. Ambroſe being informed; and unable p. 125to go to the Emperour, writ an Epiſtle to him, wherein he moſt boldly pleads the cauſe both of the Biſhop and people, proving by evident arguments; The burning of this Synagogue of impiety to be juſt, and that the Emperour ſhould ſin both againſt his own and his Kingdoms ſafety if he ſhould do any thing ſeverely againſt the Biſhop or people for it; Adding, that he himſelf was prepared rather to ſuffer death in this cauſe, than that he ſhould by his diſſimulation make the Emperour a Prevaricator, who had commanded ſuch an unjuſt thing againſt the Church. After which the Emperour coming to Millain, & St. Amb. hearing that the Iews had built a Synagogue in the Market at Conſtantinople: he publikely preached againſt it, & juſtified the peoples burning of the other Synagogue in his Sermon before the Emperor and people: wherein amongſt other paſſages, he uſed this Speech to the Emperor himſelf in the perſon of Chriſt. O Theodoſius! I have made thee of an obſcure private perſon, an Emperor, committing my flock unto thee: I have adorned thy formerly ſqualid head with a Crown: I have delivered the forces of thine Enemie unto thee, I have reduced thine Enemy under thy power, I have made thee triumph without labour; and doſt thou make mine Enemies to triumph over me? and offer contumely unto me, by preferring thoſe whom I have rejected, before thoſe by whom I am worſhipped? by offering violence unto them, and ſuffering a Synagogue to be built in the midſt of that City, wherein I am worſhipped, and my Croſſe adored, by thoſe who have been my Murderers? When St. Ambroſe came forth of the Pulpit, the Emperor ſaying to him: O Biſhop, you have this day preached againſt us. He thereunto replyed; He had not ſpoken againſt him, but for him. To which the Emperor ſubjoyning, O Biſhop, will you have the people in a well governed Commonwealth, to have licenſe raſhly and impudently to do what they pleaſe? St. Ambroſe thereto rejoyned: Neither is this verily to be granted, That the Iews ſhould have Synagogues in the midſt of p. 126a Chriſtian City, and offend the ears of the Godly with blaſphemous Prayers: Nor oughteſt thou to Decrée this, moſt holy Emperor; Whereupon the Emperor being quite ſilenced and convinced of his error, forthwith gave his faith and promiſe to St. Ambroſe, to reverſe his former decree for re-building the Iews Synagogue, before he went to the Altar to receive the Sacrament at his hands. I wiſh this my Demurrer m…y produce the like effects, & prove a perpetual barre to the preſent and future read miſſion of them and their Synogogues into England.

Gal. 5.2, 3, 4. Behold I Paul ſay unto you, that if**As every Jew…is. ye be circumciſed, Chriſt ſhall profit you nothing; For I teſtifie again to every man that is circumciſed, that he is a debtor to do the whole Law: Chriſt is become of no effect unto you; whoſoever of you are juſtified by the Law, ye are fallen from Grace.

1 Joh 4.3. Every Spirit that **The caſe of every Jewiſh Spirit.confeſſeth not that Ieſus Chriſt is come in the fleſh, is not of God, and THIS IS THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST, wherof ye have heard that it ſhould come, and even now already is in the world.

Alexandri ab Alexandro Iuris periti Neapolitani, Genialium dierum lib. VI. cap. VII. Querebat aliquando exme, dum Comae agerem, Raphael Volaterranus, vlr inſignis doctrinae & virtutis, cui ad mores emend atiſſimos gravitas libero homine digna, non modicam acceſſionem faciebat, quid cauſae foret, quod cum cauſarum patrociniis & foro uſque a pueritia eſſem addictus, illis poſthabitis, & quaſi forenſibu negotiis praetermiſſiis, in his ſtudiis mitioribus ita me oblectatem, ut cauſarum patrociniis bellum indixiſſe viderer? cui hoc cauſae referebam, quod leges, quae ad communem utilitatem editae, ſtudio & labore maximo quaeſitae & meditatae nobis forent, neque ab his qui jura darent, coli, neque perinde ut oporteret, praecipi viderem, doleremque juri dicundo illos plerunque peaeſidere, qui eas vel turpiter ignorarent, vel per gratiam & ſordes facilè corrumpi ſinerent: & quibus ſervandarum legum p. 127praecipua imminet cura, hi maximè legum ſcita contemnerent: quibus rebus effici, ut tot ſcita & decreta veterum monumentis nobis tradita, maximiſque ingeniis elaborata, & tam penſiculatè expenſa, unus homunculus nequiſſimus audaciſſimuſque, ignarus legum, judiciorum & fori, qui magiſtratui prae eſſet, non ſalubri temperamento, nec diſceptatione ac judicio, ſed auſu temerario, & omni jure neglecto, ad ſuam libidinem per ſcelus & nequitiam everteret. Horum non minima exempla dicebam fore ea, quae dudum experti vidimus. Nuper cùm Romae cuſtodias cognoſcerem, operae precium fuit videre, quae rerum miracula monſtris & portentis ſimilia, ac dictu faſtidienda, quaeve turpitudines ad aliquorum libidinem admitterentur contra jus faſque: ſiquidem ſacerdotem quempiam in his nacti ſumus, gravem & ſanctum virum, vita & moribus ornatiſſimū, hominem profectò honeſtae & magnae laudis, diu tenebris & carcere maceratum, indigniſſimam fortunam ſubire coactum, pro eo quòd pecuniam ſibi traditam ab eo qui illam furto ſubtraxerat, ut vero domino reſtitueretur, illius juſſu mandatoque reſtituerat ſuppreſſo autore, ipſum que quaeſtionibus ſubdi vidimus & tormentis vexari, ut illum qui conſcientia culpae, & ſpe veniae adductus, abſtuliſſe confeſſus fuerat, palàmfaceret delinquentiſque delicta, quae ille poenitens culpae dixerat, enunciaret: quo diſcrimine adactus pauper ſenior, confitentis peccatum & delinquentem enunciare coactus fuit: quod quidem Scripto jure vetitum, ſanctionibuſque & decretis interdictum eſſe conſtat. Rurſus alium immani ſcelere coopertum hominem impuriſſimum turpiſſimumque, qui maximorum criminum reus teſtibus, tabulis, teſtimoniis, & certiſſimis documentis convictus fuerat, quae nec ipſe gloriabundus diffitebatur, qui que legum, judiciorumque poenis ſaeviſs…me coercendus erat, ab eiſdem ergaſtulis, ſola praeſidentis temeritate, nullo negotio dimitti & liberari, aliaſque audacias & turpitudines, ne dicam ſcelera indigna audiru profatuque, quae vix credenti non modò enunciata, ſed viſa & comperta fuere. Iaſon Mataſſalanus & Ludovicus p. 182Matha, quum ſacerdotalibus quibus fungebantur muneribus cedere nollent, quaeſitis occaſionibus ad inimicorum libidinem, tetro carcere uſque eò tenti fuere, donec illorum arbitrio ſingulis ornamentis, fama, & fortunis omnibus exturbati, quoad illis liberet, excruciati ſunt, non verò judicio, ſed praeſidentis ſola temeritate & libidine: ne proſequar viros vitae inculpaſſimae, ſumma integritate & fide, falſis criminibus circunuentos ab impotentibus inimicis, miſeros & laborentes, in quos graviter crudeliterque conſultum vidimus, vel ut afflictas fortunas invaderent, ipſoſque de poſſeſſione & antiquiſſimis ſedibus deturbarent, vel ut invidorum libidini obtemperarent: aliaque in miſeros edita exempla, nulla pietate in ſupplices & calamitoſos, eoſque innoxios turpibus judiciis conflictari, & uſque premi ab his, qui gratiâ & opibus plus poſſunt, pollentque, alios vero autores manifeſti facinoris, ne appellari quidem. Quae cum viderem, patroniſque contra vim potentiorum aut gratiam nihil praeſidii eſſe, nihil opus fruſtra nos in legum controverſiis, & ediſcendis tot caſuum var…etatibus …am penſiculatè editis, tantum laboris & vigiliarum ſuſcipere, tantoque nos ſtudio fatigari dicebam, quum ad ignaviſſimi impuriſſimique cujuſ que temeritatem, qui jure dicundo praeſideret, quem leges virum bonum eſſe volunt, non aequo jure, ſed ad gratiam & libidinem judicia ferri, decretaque legum tanto conſilio edita convelli & labefactari viderem.

FINIS.