LIGHT For the Jews Or, the Means to convert them, in Answer to a Book o● theirs, called The Hope of Israel, Written and Printed by Manasseth Ben-Israel, Chief Agent for the Jews here. 1650.  
Showing the time of King Charles coming in; his War with Holland, and the Issue of it: Also the Emperor Wars with the Turk, and the Event of it; given as 〈◊〉 Sign to the Jews, to know when to stand up in their own Land, and how to prevail.  isaiah. 60. 1. Ephes. 5. 14. 
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and stand up from the dead, and Christ shall give thee Light.  
This Book was Written Eight years ago, and delivered into the hands of Mr. John Androws a Person of Quality▪ living in Castle-Yard, and never published till now. 1664.  
Printed for the Author.   

LIGHT For the jew: Or, the Means to convert them, in Answer to a Book of theirs, called The Hope of Israel, written and Printed by Manasseth Ben-Israel, Chief Agent for the Jews here. 1650.  
Showing the time of King Charles coming in; his Wars with Holland, and the Isue of it: also the Emperors Wars with the Turk, and the Event of it; given as a Sign to the Jews, to know when to stand up in their own Land, and how to prevail.  isaiah. 60. 1. Ephe. 5. 14. 
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and stand up from 〈◊〉 dead, and Christ shall give thee Light▪  
London, Printed for the Author 1656.   

TO THE Jews NATION.  
BEloved of God, there is no true Christian, but must needs acknowledge your Nation of old to be the People chosen of God, in a singular manner; and that from you we have received the Oracles of God, and knowledge of our Salvation: And since you have been under dissertion, groping in the dark, this 1650, we that have received the Light which ye refused, because it was so determined of God; I say, we now knowing what you look for, and how it is made manifest among us, aught to lead you by the hand to the Light that shins upon us, through this dark and tempestuous Cloud of War, and to bring you to your Messiah, whom ye seek and desire to see, though we own no Messiah but Jesus Christ.  
The consideration of these things made me by the good hand and providence of God upon me, (to him be the Glory) when I saw in what manner you described your Messiah to labour to bring you to him; for at first, when I saw that Learned Piece of your Famous Senator Manasseth Ben-Israel, called, The Hope of Israel; an effectual door was opened unto me on your behalf, that I could not but show as 〈◊〉 in several Books, who it was that you called your Messiah; and because the more I looked into the matter, the more and more Light God gave me to see the more certainty of his Truth in manifesting your Messiah; beyond what my Tongue or Pen could express.  
Therefore being not satisfied in what I had written, I wrote this little book following, and directed it to Manasseth Ben-Israel; and when I had got it Translated into Latin and written fair, I gave it him; and after a short time the Interpreter that spoke between us, went unto him, to know his thoughts upon it; and he answered, That the time wherein their Messiah should appear was come, but that KingCharles Steeward was he, that he could not believe, for he could not believe that ever KingCharles should rise again and be restored to his Empire; but said he, Oliver Protector, or the King of Swedland is more liker to do it than he, and specially the King of France is the most likest to be our Messiah; If he be a Gentile, and be in this part of the World; for he had, as he said, a great deal of confidence in the words of an Ancient French Author, that declares much to that purpose.  
Then said I to the Interpreter, Manasseth Ben-Israel will not believe me; yet tell him from me, that the Glory of the Protector, and King of Swedland will soon vanish away: and concerning the King of France, he is mistaken; the French King is not the King of France, but Deputy; for the King of England is the King of France, it being conquered near three hundred years ago by King Edward 3 And moreover, tell him that many which were wellwishers to King Charles than they were told of his coming to his 〈◊〉 shortly, answered, That they should 〈…〉 ve to see it, were taken away by death, for a reward of their unbelief, as Mr. White Prisoner at the Fleet and others have observed it, so he may die quickly also: But I say, he that lives five years to an end, shall see King Charles Steeward flourish on his Throne to the amazement of all the World, for God will bring him in without bloodshed.  
But I had no answer to these last words: Therefore finding Ben-Israel not to believe, I left him, and purposed speedily to direct this Book to you in general, and put it out in Print with some Addition; being persuaded that some of your Nation have the English Tongue, that are able to Translate it into such a Language as all may understand it.  
The main cause why Manasseth Ben-Israel cannot believe, is because of the low Condition of King Charles, and the great power of his Enemies at present: What of all that? doth not he himself say in the 26. Sect of his Book, called The Hope of Israel, That all your Wisemen which speaks of your Messiah, say, That he must be slain, and then rise again to be your Captain and Deliverer? But suppose King Charles be so low, that he is a dead man, for so he is by the Edicts of his Enemy; Cannot God raise him again? and certainly he will do it: For, we have many Ancient Propheticks; saying, which tells us that a dead King shall rise and do glorious things: One is this, 
When the dead King shall set on his Crown,  
then shall the World turn upside down;  
And London in Truth shall tremble that day,  
expecting the words the dead King shall say:  
But he shall treat them well, that it be a wonder,  
and shall settle Truth, Peace and good order.   
Another's this: When the dead King sets on his Throne, Grace shall grow to them that walks in his way, than all men shall enjoy the main Resurrection, specially men of Religion, namely, all men that have been true; but false men will run away to hide themselves, being not able to abide the presence of him that sits on the Throne.  
And doubtless all this is spoken of King Charles steward, for he consists all of Wisdom and Love. When he was in France, the people rose against the French King and his Mother, that they were forced to flee; for that Nation thought to do as England did, and destroy the French King; for they made great provision for War, and had hired the Duke of Lorain to come with a great Army to help them; but King Charles saved them by his Wisdom, for he went to Lorain, and persuaded him to go back again, and went to both sides, brought them together and made them good Friends again: Then the people seeing the great work that he had done, cried him up to be the man of God, in so much that at last the French King and his Council became Jealous of him, and they joined themselves with his Enemy, and most unnaturally, for he was their near Kinsman, and most ungratfully in regard he had saved them; they forced him to go out of France, as he was forced to go out of England; and that is in God's Book of Remembrace, the French shall be called to account for it one day.  
Again, when King Charles went to Scotland, and all his Nobles there were Enemies one to the other; he presently by his loving Wisdom made them all good friends, to the admiration of the people: So that I may surely say there is not such another peacemaker in the World, and yet Manasseth Ben-Israel think this King shall not rise again; I am sorry to see the hardness of his Heart.  
But beloved, take you notice of what I say for a sign to you, if King Charles steward, King of England, do not come into his Throne within this five years, without one drop of blood spilled in the cause, believe nothing of what I say in this Book; but afterward some of those that took upon them to judge the Old King, this King's Father, & most cruelly murdered him; and yet will not repent and come unto the King for mercy, most die for it, the King shall not save them; for Law and Justice shall take place where mercy is refused.  
Now there is no people under Heaven, that boast and stand so much upon their Sword as these States-people of England do; yet God will order it so, for King Charles his sake, that their Sword which they glory in, shall fall out of their hands, and they shall not know how nor which way they lost it; and God will put it into the hand of King Charles, so that all the world will wonder at the strangeness of his Salvation; and they shall glorify God on his behalf, when they see such an excellent thing done that no age can parallel.  
And when right is done to the King and Church, and to the King's Friends and Servants, though it be done with much favour to the Enemies; there will be many discontented persons that will plot and strive to maintain the States false interest, to their own Ruin and Destruction: Besides, the proud State of Holand though they be now sufficiently beaten and spoiled by the English State, will then for their own ends make show as if they would help them, and presently before the King is much settled in his Throne, they will pick a Quarrel with him; but the harmless and Wise King, being inclinable thereunto, will make Peace with them upon any terms and agree.  
Notwithstanding, the False Envious, Persidions, Covetous Holander, being proud, is not quiet but reproacheth the King with foul Language, because of his former afflictions by which God Refined and fitted him for future glory, and takes all occasion and advantage to do what mischief they can to the King and his Subjects: And though God in that time send the Plague among them for it, so that they die by thousands at a time; yet they will not forbear, but still go on in their malice against the King, that God might utterly destroy them, and the English Enemies that go to them, by the Sword, Plague and Famine; and blot out their Names from being a State under Heaven, for so God will fight against all the Enemies of King Charles; and proud Holand shall be made the first Object of God's wrath, against them that fight against King Charles and despise him: but do you depart from Holand betimes.  
Therefore blessed and happy shall those Kings and persons be that shall take their Power and Authority from King Charles, and live under his protection; for all his proud Enemies that shall despise him, and refuse to submit unto him, shall be destroyed, because God with King Charles will do a new work upon the Earth, and bring all the world unto himself under one Head: and for this cause God chose King Charles, and Refined him in the Furnace of affliction, as the Prophet saith, isaiah. 48. 10. isaiah. 51. 16.  
About the same time the Turk will come and fight against the Emperor of Germany, and he shall prevail for a time, but afterward the Emperor shall beat him sadly; then shall you arise, and under the banner of King Charles with an Army of a hundred forty and four thousand; twelve thousand of every Tribe go to your one Land, and possess it for ever and ever; and you shall believe in Jesus Christ, who is your everlasting King, as your Rabbins say in their Talmuds; If you can but understand them aright; for they say, that Jesus Christ whom they truly call Messiah, the Son of David, shall be your everlasting King, when ye come to your own Land, as ye have them cited in the 26. Sect of the foresaid Book, called The Hope of Israel: thus.  
But which way that Redemption shall be, no man can tell, but only so far as we may gather out of the Prophets; That at that time the Ten Tribes shall come to Jerusalem, under the leading of a Prince, whom some Rabbins in the Talmud, and in some places of of the Caldy Pharaphrase, do call Messiah the Son of Joseph, and elsewhere Messiah the Son of Ephraim; who being slain in the last war of Gog and Magog, shall show himself to be Messiah, the Son of David: Who shall be, as Ezekiel and Hosea say, the everlasting Prince of all the twelve Tribes?  
Our Wismen do in many places, especially in the Babylonish Talmud in tract. fuca, C. 5. make mention of Messiah, the Son of Ephraim; where they say, that he shall die in the last War of Gog and Magog, and they so expound that of Zech. 12. 10. And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only Son: They add also that the four Captains of whom the said Prophet speaketh of chap. 6. 1. are Messiah the Son of David, Messiah the Son of Joseph, the Prophet Elias, and the high Priest, which four are those Dignities which shall show their power in that blessed Age.  
Observe that sometime they call Messiah the Son of Ephraim, sometime of Joseph, for he shall come out of the Tribe of Ephraim, and shall be Captain of all the Ten Tribe, who give their Name to Ephraim, because that their first King Jeroboam was of that Tribe; not without cause do they call him the Son of Joseph, for he was the true Type of the house of Israel in his imprisonment and future happiness, add to this that he was so long hid from his Brethren, that they knew him not, as in like manner the Ten Tribes are at this day: who are led Captive but shall come hereafter to the Top of Felicity, in the same manner as Joseph did.  
That Messiah of Joseph shall die in the battle of Gog and Magog, and afterward shall rise again, that he may enjoy the Dignity, not of a Kingly sceptre, but the office only of a Vice Roy, as Joseph in Egypt: For that the Empire of the House of Israel fell under the Reign of Hosea, the Son of Elah, as the Prophet Amos saith, in Chap. 5. 2. Therefore the Kingdom of the Ten Tribes shall be restored as Ezekiel saith, Chap. 37. Under the Reign of Messiah the Son of David, who shall be everlasting; for by the death of Messiah, the Son of Joseph, the Ten Tribes shall see that God will not that they should have more Kings than one, as it is already said. Thus much out of that Book, called The Hope of Israel.  
Now brethren you see by their words, that your Rabbins and Wise men say that when you are restored to your own Land again, Messiah the Son of David, (that is Jesus Christ) shall be your King for ever; who will have his Vice Roy King Charles Steewrad to be over you, as Pharaoh had Joseph over Egypt, and (mark) as Joseph was a stranger and not an Egyptian, yet Governed them all; so must you have ●a stranger even King Charles steward (as his name signifieth a Vice Roy, for a King's steward is a Vice Roy) to give you order in all things: and not as Manasseth-Ben-Israel say, in his Observation upon your Rabbins, and wise men's words; who would have us believe, that your Messiah (which your Rabbins and wisemen call the Son of Joseph and of Ephraim) must needs be a Natural Jew, descended from the Loins of Joseph, and Ephraim, and the Reason he gives for it is, because that their first King Jeroboam was of that Tribe, but Ben-Israel is mistaken, for they not knowing how to call him otherways, improperly call him the Son of Joseph, and of Ephraim, as Eli calls Samuel his Son, 1 Sam. 3. 6. and the Benjamite his Son, 1. Sam. 4. 12. 16. and King Hezekiah calls the Levites his sons, 2. Cron. 29. 11. after such a manner, neither can he prove that Jeroboam came out of the Tribe of Ephraim, only he supposeth, because King Solomon, made him Ruler over the house of Joseph, 1 King. 11. 28. that argueth no such thing, but rather that he was of the Tribe of Judah, for Kings use to prefer their own kin, and put them into places of trust, as you see King Saul makes Abner General of all his Army, because he was a man of Valour and his uncle's Son, 1 Sam. 14. 50. and King David made Joab Captain General of his Army, because he was a man of Valour and his sister's Son, 2 Sam. 8. 16. 1 Chr. 2. 15. 16. and I believe that Solomon made Jeroboam Ruler over the House of Joseph, because he was his Kinsman of the Tribe of Juda; and for Zereda, where his Father dwelled, that is hard to be found: If it was Zeredatha in the Plain of Jordan, on the other side Jordan near Succoth, 2 Chron. 4. 17. For Succoth and all those Countries was the Tribe of Gad's Inheritance, Joshua 13. 27. Then was Jeroboam of the Tribe of Gad? But if Zereda was the City of Zareathits, 1 Chron. 2. 50. 53. Then was he of the Tribe of Juda, and his Father is called an Ephrathite, as Jesse and others are called Ephrathites, Ruth, 1. 2. 1 Sam. 17. 12. More of this in my book following.  
And the four Dignities or four Captains, signified by four Chariots, Zech. 6. 1. Which your Wisemen call Messiah the Son of David, Messiah the Son of Joseph, the Prophet Elias, and the High Priest: The first is Jesus Christ your King, giving order to King Charles steward in what he shall do: The second is our King Charles Stuart executing his office, in doing what his Master Jesus Christ commanded him to do: The third is a Prophet, his works will make him known: The fourth is an Archbishop of Canterbury, which shall be settled here when our King Charles comes to his Throne, who shall fend to you to show you our Christian Religion to convert you, and settle it among you; that you may live happily as once we did, and yet shall do, but now we are in Captivity as well as you; and I am sure we shall be delivered in a short time both Jew and Gentile. And King Charles steward 'tis God's chosen Vessel to deliver us all; and when you obey your King Jesus Christ, then shall you have this preeminency above all the Nations in the World; you will have a King that is King of all the Kings and Emperors in the World, as all Christian Kings confess now, and all others must do it: And he that Ruleth you as his Vice Roy, shall be higher than any of them, and shall be over them also, as Joseph was over all the Nobles in Egypt; they being the Subjects of Jesus Christ.  
And to conclude, we have had sixteen hundred years ago great and glorious Noble Persons of your Nation, that came from Jerusalem and tendered Jesus Christ unto us, and we were soon converted, and received him to the great comfort of our Souls and Bodies, and do obtain Eternal Life by him.  
Oh! do you now receive him from us? who now tenders Jesus Christ unto you for your Salvation, that you also may be made happy and obtain Eternal Life by him, and enjoy your own Land again? for certainly, there is no other means to save you or us but he. Alas beloved, all other means without him are vain, for he only is appointed of God to save the World; Prayers, Sacrifices, Kings, Princes and whatsoever else that is or can be named, will do no good to them that have not Jesus Christ to appease God's wrath against them, for the Sin of Adam and their own Sins. Oh, than you are his Bone and his Flesh! he is your glorious King, a Native Jew born in Bethelem-Iuda; who ever liveth to make intercessions to God for you, as your good Kings and Rulers used to do, Numb. 14. 13, 19, 20. Joshua 7. 2 Chron. 30. 18. 19, 20. Do not refuse Jesus Christ and your own Salvation, which you cannot have without him. I wish you as well as to my own Soul, and so farewell.  
Your Friend Arise Evans.   

TO Manasseth Ben-Israel, Arise Evans Wisheth Grace and Truth, Through God our Saviour, Amen.  
Worthy Sir,  
I Am sorry that our difference of Language is such that you and I cannot converse toether, I having a matter of so great concernment to impart unto you; but I trust that by the help of the Ingenuity of the worthy Interpreter, it will faithfully be communicated unto you, it being answerable to your expectation, manifest in the 26 Sect. of your Book, called The Hope of Israel.  
1. I say, King Charles steward, Son to the late King Charles of England, is he whom you call your Messiah Captain and Deliverer, who will bring you to present happiness, if you follow him.  
2. I say, those Jews who would come into England without his command, come against God, and their Messiah appointed of God for them; and therefore if they come, they shall in a short time be spoiled and destroyed.  
3. I that tell you these things am a man that have had the Spirit of prophecy this twenty four years, and I have declared above twenty two years agone; all the Judgements that came since upon this Nation, as thousands of English can witness it: And that then I was a Prisoner three years upon that account. And you may see more of this in my Book, called A voice from Heaven, and my Book called the echo to the Voice from Heaven.  
4. I tell you that King Charles steward by descent, as his Star did manifest, is the first Born of Japhet the Elder Son of Noah, Gene. 10. 21. And therefore the said King Charles by right is Heir to all the World: And God will give him and his Seed-Royal in due Season the pre-eminence of it: And all the Jews shall be converted unto Jesus in him, John 6. 56. and be an eminent people (under him and his Seed-Royal) in places of preferment, and in your own Land Flourish. Thus much I see from the Holy Scriptures and Visions.  
But you will say, How can King Charles be the said Messiah, seeing our Wisemen say that he must be the Son of Joseph, and come of the Tribe of Ephraim, and that he must die in the last War of Gog and Magog, and afterward rise again for to enjoy the dignity of a Vice Roy, as Joseph was in Egypt?  
1. I answer, that the two Messiahs are signified in them Shem and Japhet, because they were to come out of their loins; Jesus of Shem and of Abraham and David; Charles of japeht, and by adoption in Jesus: Of Abraham and Ephraim or by imputation, and not by a carnal Generation; because Japhet the Elder was to come first into the Tent of Shem, and so to be exalted by that voluntary Act of condescending, and giving the honour to his Brother Shem, according to the will of his Father. Therefore the saying of Noah to his sons, Gen. 10. 25, 26, 27. is the groundwork of all that is spoken concerning the Messiah; and from that Ground did all the Prophets prophesy of the Messiahs; yet there was ground given to Noah for his saying to his Sons, From the Beginning Cain should have had condescended to Abel; for God ordained it then that the Elder in love and respect should serve the Younger; for God had respect to Abel, and Cain should have had respect unto him for that cause, and not to have hated him and slain him for it.  
2. I say King Charles is called the Son of Joseph not that he cometh out of his loins, but because he is like unto him; for as Joseph was beloved of his Father above all his brethren, in so much that he made him a Coat of Honour, as King's Children had 2 Sam. 13. 18. It being of divers colours like a King's Parliament Robe; for which cause he was hated of his brethren, and because of his faithfulness to his Father and his Visions, they hated him yet more, and sold him away to the Ishmalits' Gen. 37. So in like-manner because King Charles the first was beloved of God his Father, and honoured above all his Scots brethren; they hated him, and because of his Wisdom, Faithfulness and Visions of God they hated him yet more, and sold him away to the English Parliament merchants: And as Joseph was long in affliction before he was exalted, Gen. 39 Gen. 40. So King Charles suffered much for a long time, being imprisoned, and at last slain, and he shall be likewise exalted by his Resurrection in the King Charles his Son, both in person and power, as he saith (in the conclusion of his last speech to his Son in his book) Let my Memory with my Name ever live in you, for the King believed that God would raise him up again in his Son.  
And as Joseph being a Stranger in Egypt, yet was he exalted above all the Egyptians except Pharaoh there King, who adopted him and gave him that power, Gen. 41. So King Charles being a Stranger by Nation, and not a Jew, shall be exalted above all the Jews, except Jesus the King, who doth adopte him, and give him that power; In these things King Charles is like Joseph, and therefore by an Allegory he may be called his Son.  
Thus he is also an Eprathite. I have all ways found that England in Scripture is signified to us by Mount Ephraim, and more particularly in Dan. 11. 45. is called the glorious holy Mountain between the Seas. And that the prophecy of Hosea which speaks much of Ephraim, is very much fulfilled among us now, for England feeded one wind, and followeth after the East wind, which hath blasted the glory of our Church and Kingdom, and made it desolate, Hosea 12. 1. For following the wind-breath and lies of sectaries coming from New England, Holand, and other places East from us, hath spoiled the glory of our Nation: And much more I could show to prove that England in Scripture is signified by Mount Ephraim, and specially is that Ephratah spoken of by David, Ps. 132. 5. 6. and by Micah. 5. 2. From whence your Messiah comes, for the present King Charles Steeward is an English man born, but an Ephrathite born in Mount Ephraim by Scripture account. And I find that there was in the Country of Israel two sorts of Ephrathies: First, the Seed of Levi born in the Land of Ephraim were called Ephrathites 1 Sam. 1. 1. Secondly, they that were of the Seed of Caleb, by his Wife Ephratah, 1 Chorn. 2. 19, 24, 50. were called Ephrathites, Ruth 1. 2. And these last Ephrathites did much signify the English; for Ephratah, who was joined to Caleb of the Tribe of Juda, was an obscure woman whose kindred is not known, which woman signifies a strange Land that should bring forth light to Israel, which woman is first called Ephrah, that is a Mother 1 Chron. 2. 19 and then after that is called Epratah, 1 Chorn. 2. 24. 50. 1 Chron. 4. 4. that is Mother of many Nations, as Abraham was first called Abram, that is a Father, and then afterwards called Abraham, that is a Father of many Nations, Gen. 17. 5. yet it is more than probable that this woman called Ephratah was a Gentile, because the place from whence her Name is derived, Gen. 35. 16. 19 was called Ephrah by the Ancient inhabitant of the Land of Canaan; I mean some Holy Ones, such as Melchizedek and the like, else the Name Ephratah had not been of such esteem in Israel, as we see David and Micah lays it for a groundwork, and as David enquiring for the Habitation of the Mighty God of Jacob, which God of Jacob signifieth the second Messiah, by your term, or the third person as we term it, saith he, Ps. 132. 6. Lo, we have heard of it at Ephrata▪ we found it in the Fields of the Wood: Giving us to understand that this place of your Messiah's Birth was as hard to be found, as it is for a stranger to find a House that is in the midst of a great Wood. Therefore if you ask our now English Ministers, why the Prophet Micah. 5. 2. calls it Bethelem Ephratah? And the Evangelists coating the same Scripture, Matthew 2. 6. calls it Bethelem in the Land of Juda, they cannot answer you; but the Reason why the Evangelists doth not mention Ephratah, is because that he understood these things in part, that I now manifest unto you; namely, that there should come another great One (for your deliverance) out of some Country signified to Jesus Christ and his Apostles, by that same woman called Ephratah. And in this sense your Wisemen call your Messiah an Eprathite, and not that he must come out of the Tribe of Ephraim Loynally, as you suppose Jeroboam did.  
4. That this late War of England, in which War King Charles the first died; which War is not yet ended, nor will not end in England is the last War of Gog and Magog, may be easily proved, for this Land, as our English Chronicles report of old, until the Btittains' Conquered it, was Gogmagog's Land: As further in the great Hall of London, called Guild-Hall, you may see the very Picture of Gogmagog, and Brittainus that slew him, in there full stature, set up for a memorial to show what Mighty men of strength & stature were in those days. Thus you see how King Charles is the Son of Joseph and an Eprathite, how he died in the last War of Gog and Magog, and how he is to rise again in his Son, to be according to his Name, a steward or a Vice Roy under Jesus, as Joseph was under Pharaoh, all agreeable to what your Wisemen say of him, for the seed of Gogmagog that remained in this Land, rose up against their King, sold him and slew him, to fulfil the Scripture: But he shall rise again according to it, as abovesaid, for your deliverance; as Constantine the Great also born in this Land arose to deliver the Christians from the tyranny of the Heathenish Roman Emperors.  
5. You may know King Charles Steeward to be the man that you look for, or your Messiah, as you call him, by the Star that appeared at his birth, 2 Pet. 1. 19 according to the promise of Jesus, Revelat. 2. 26, 27, 28. For as there was a Star seen at the Birth of Jesus, which Star directed the Wisemen of the East unto him, and by which Star they knew him to be the King of the Jews, Mat. 2. So the same Star appeared at the Birth of King Charles, Revel. 2. 27. 28. as it is written, Psam 50. 6. The Heavens shall declare his Righteousness: for God is judge himself Selah. He sendeth his Star to justify Charles. And again, Psalm 97. 6. The shall Heavens declare his Righteousness: and all the people see his glory: Very few saw the Star that appeared at the Birth of Jesus, but thousands and myself for one saw the Star that appeared at the Birth of Charles, and there was Verses made of it in Latin, and presented to his Father, the late King Charles as he went to Paul's Cross to give thanks for the Queen's Deliverance.  
Thus in English.  
When to Paul's Cross the grateful King drew near,  
A shining Star did in the Heavens appear:  
Thou that consults with Divine Mysteries,  
Tell me what this bright Comet signifies.  
Now is there born a Valiant Prince' i'th' West.  
That shall Eclipse the kingdoms of the East.  
6. You may know King Charles to be the Messiah you look for, by the description of his person in Scripture, for saith the Spouse, Cant. 5. 10. 11. My beloved is White and Ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand (his head is as the most fine Gold, that is Jesus) his locks are busy and black as a Raven, that is Charles, and for his Stature also Esdras saith, That he is taller than all about him, 2 Esdras 2. 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47. and such a proper person King Charles is. Your forefathers refused Jesus, because of the meanness of his Birth and Parentage, though indeed Jesus is the most Excellent of all men: But what can you say against King Charles the Servant of Jesus? he is a King of the highest Birth, being the Successor of above three hundred Kings who were his forefathers in Scotland; The Turk and all the Kings in the World for Antiquity are but younger Brothers in comparison of him, for the first King of Scotland was Gathelus Fergus of the Seed of Japhet, the Successor of Melchizedek, which Gathelus Fergus Married Scota, the Daughter of Pharaoh that took Moses for her Son: and when the Plagues was in Egypt, fearing lest those Countries (because of their wickedness) should have been destroyed as Sodam was, Gathelus Fergus and Scota withal their people came away to Sea; and brought with them from Bethel the very stone which was Jacobs' Pillow there, Gen. 28. 18, 22, and the first place they landed at was Portugal: thence they came to the North of Ireland and built a City, calling it after the King's Name Knockfergus; and from thence they came to Scotland, which they so Named from Scota the Queen: And there they are, though many times brought low, as now they are, yet an unconquered people to this day: And of the stone of Jacob, which they brought from Bethel in Canaan, they made of it a Chair, in which Chair of old they were wont to Crown their Kings, but some hundred years agone the English got the said stone Chair from them, and brought it to London; which stone now is to be seen for a Monument in Westminster abbey; I have seen it myself, and there is a prophecy of it runs thus.  
The Scots shall have that Land as Native Ground,  
If words fail not, wheresoever this Stone is found.  
And we have seen it partly so fulfilled: for since King James came to England, the Scots had England as their own Native Land: And what beauty every way else can be desired, but is to be found in this King, for his Wisdom, godliness and Valour? there is none like him, wherefore the Prophet Isaiah said of him to the Jews, when by the spirit he saw his glory Isai. 33. 17. Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty: they shall behold the Land that is very far off: giving you to understand that the King was full of beauty, yet that the Land of his Nativity even England was very far from Juda, as he saith again, Isa. 30. 27. Behold the Name of the Lord cometh from far: so here in also it is plain that your Messiah was not to be a Jew, because no Jew now can descend of such a Noble lineage as King Charles came from, for the Jews have been a cursed ever in slavery and misery, since they crusified the Lord Jesus Christ: and it will never be otherways with them, until they confess him to be the Son of God, and the only saviour of the world. Then shall the Jews have the Glory among all Nations, as it is written, Zech. 10. 23. ten men out of all Languages of the Nations shall take hold of him that is a Jew, saying, we will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.  
7. You may know King Charles Steeward to be your Messiah, by this also, we have a maxim in our English Law, that saith, The King of England never erreth nor never dieth: Which if our English Lawyers that affirm it, did but understand what they say, and whereof they affirm or did apprehend the meaning of the first Authors of the said maxim, they might know that such a prerogative as not to sin or to die, is a prerogative that belongs to Christ only: Therefore it followeth that our Ancestors did believe that Jesus Christ lived in the English King, and that he would appear in him, as now he doth appear in the person of King Charles steward for your Conversion and Deliverance.  
8. And this also to me is a strong evidence that Christ did appear in the said King, the same day that the King suffered, it being the 30 of January, 1648. was by the providence of God, and appointed of the Church of England in the calendar, the relation of Christ's Sufferings appointed to be Read; as yet you that doubt may see it is so set down; whereby God did by the said providence assure us, that the same Tragedy which once was acted at Jerusalem by the Jews on the Body of Jesus, was now reacted at London on the body of his Servant Charles: So that in like manner the Son of God here suffered afresh, and was put to an open shame by his Enemies, Heb. 6. 6. and this it was before the King suffered, that morning, Ian. 30. Doctor Judgson Bishop of London Read Morning Prayer to him, and the Chapters appointed for that day Morning; the first being the seventh of Exodus, which is very remarkable also, for as in Egypt on that day, the Lord pronounced Moses to be a God to Pharaoh: So on this day in England, by the same word the Lord pronounced Charles a God to stand against all the hard hearted Pharaoh's in the World, because he was like Moses in faithfulness and meekness, Numb. 12. 3. 7. yea and in slowness of speech too, for the King had his stamering, Exod. 4. 10. The second Chapter was, Math. 27. and it is the Relation of Christ's Sufferings; the King thought that the Bishop read it of purpose, whereupon the King asked him why he read that same Chapter? said he, because it is the same that is appointed for this morning, and when the King found it so in the calendar, he was overjoyed with it, because by that he saw that he should be like his Saviour, raised again to Life and Glory Immortal.  
9 I say it is needful for you to read the Testament of Jesus Christ, for therein you shall find your Messiah most perfectly set forth, where sometimes he is called the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, the holy Ghost, the Deliverer, the more sure Word, John 14. 16, 17, 26. John 16. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. Math. 12. 31, 32. Rom. 11. 25, 26. 2 Pet. 1. 19 and sometimes the Lord the Lamb or the like Titles, 1 Corin. 4. 5. Revel. 14. 1. And abundance more places I could show you in the New Testament that sets him forth, which now I omit for brevity sake; Besides, you shall find there that you Jews are to have the pre-eminence with him, for there are a hundred forty and four thousand Jews sealed for him, twelve thousand of every Tribe, Revel. 7. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. and see that the same number of Jews stand up with him upon Mount Zion to war against the wicked, and to overcome them, Revel. 14. 1. Revel. 17. 14. and in Revel. 12. you may see the Birth of your Messiah; who shall Rule all Nations with a Rod of Iron; and see how the Wicked persecutes his Mother, and would fain devour the Child, but he is taken into the Throne of God, so that he is out of the wicked dragon's reach: some silly Zealots will tell you that this Child is Jesus Christ, but you may say, No, for Jesus Christ himself saith, Revel. 2. 27, 28. That he will give this power over Nations, to some other faithful persons, now manitfested to be Charles Steeward, and thahe will give him the morning Star; and to what end should Jesus give him the morning Star? but to testify at his Birth that Charles Steeward is the chosen of God, who shall Rule all Nations with a Rod of Iron, and Jesus calls him his Son, who shall Inherit all things, Revel. 21. 7. as it is Written Psal. 2. 7. 8. 9 saying to him, Ask of me, and I shall give thee the Heathen for thine Inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the Earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a Rod of Iron, thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's Vessel. Now this promise of Ruling over Nations and of having the morning Star, was obtained by the first Charles for the condition on which the promise are grounded is this Revel. 2. 26, 27, 28. He that overcometh and keepeth my works to the end, to him will I give Power over the Nations. And he shall Rule them with a Rod of Iron; as the Vessels of a Potter shall they be broken to shivers, even as I received of my Father. And I will give him the Morning Star. And King Charles the first is he that overcame all the Enemies of God's Truth, who by his death kept up God's True worship, and sealed it with his blood, and so obtained the promise for himself and his Seed for ever.  
10. And though the present King Charles Steeward be thus dignified; yet do not you think that ever he will acknowledge himself to be your Messiah, for his Humility and Zeal, for the Lord Jesus shall be such, that he will not take upon him such a Title as to be called the Messiah. For as John the Baptist was so humble, that he would not acknowledge himself to be Eliah John 1. 14. Though Jesus Christ saith that he was the very Eliah, Math. 11. 14. So in like manner King Charles will be so humble as not to acknowledge himself to be your Messiah; though you see it now manifested that he is your Messiah, asye call him; yet our wisemen and Prophets that foresaw him, and did prophesy of him; durst not call him the Messiah, lest thereby they should offend God; but they called him by several other names, as sometimes the lion of the North, Or the Great King of the North, Psal. 48. 1, 2. The dead King risen, or the like names; and under such names will he go and do the work of God for your Deliverance, and under such notion shall he prevail against all that oppose him until all be brought in due season under his sceptre: Besides, I say all these late transactions in England came to pass only for your sake: God now being mindful of his promise to your Nation, for there was no other cause why the people of these Lands should rise against their King and prevail as they did, no people under Heaven being in a better condition than they were when this war began, but that some holy Ones here had prayed for your conversion, and God granted their request, and stirred up cruel Ones to bring these things about to effect it.  
11. I say that you Jews shall never come rightly to understand the Scripture, and reconcile them, until you come to acknowledge your King Jesus Christ to be the only Messiah, and no other, for the Scripture speaks but of one Messiah: neither shall the Christians ever come to understand them right and reconcile them, until they come to acknowledge Christ Jesus second coming to be in Charles Steeward for his Deliberance: 
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but mistake me not, for though the day of judgement in some places is said to be as a lightning a moment, a twinkling of an eye for shortness Mat. 24▪ 27. 1 Co●in. 15. 52. Yet in other places of Scripture that day is said to bea long day containing Summer and Winter Zecha. 14. 6, 7, 8, 9 and St. Pet. speaking of the day of judgement speaks as if it were a thousand years 2 Pet. 3. 7, 8, 9  
Hence I do infer that though this day is as a Moment in regard of its breaking forth, yet regad of God's Mercy to bring sinners to the Truth, it may last a thousand years.   And why? because the Messiah sometimes in Scripture is said to come of a dry Ground (that is of poor Parentage) and so as to have no beauty or things desirable in him: And therefore we see his people despise him and reject▪ him, Isai. 52. 13, 14, 15. Isai. 53. 23. And though he be their only King, yet they cut him off, and take life and all so far as they can from him, Dan. 9 26. And sometimes in Scripture he is said to be a Glorious Victorious King, and that his people shall willingly receive him, Psal. 110. 1, 2. Isai. 33. 13. Isai. 63. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. And this is the cause why men cannot agree about their Messiah. The Jews will have him only to be a Glorious Victorious Warlike King: The Christians will have him only to be a poor man without any worldly pomp at all, but they should look on him as he appeared first in Jesus, and after in Charles: Then their expectation on both sides will be answered, and take notice what the Spouse saith of him, Song. 5. 11. His Head is as the most fine Gold, that is Jesus; His Locks busy and black as a Raven, that is Charles: Lo here are two men described, one with yellow Hair like Gold, another with Hair as black as a Raven; yet in the singular number, because of the Union that is between them: And therefore I say again to you, because the Messiah in some places of Scripture is said to be a poor despised person which none regards; and in other places he is said to be a most glorious person: This is the Reason why men vary and differ in their Judgements concerning the Messiah, which Messiah was to be manifested in his first and second coming by two persons, yet both of them by the Scripture so interwoven together, as if they were but one man, wherefore few as yet understand a right the Mystery of the Messiah. Moreover, I say when men come to consider what manner of beginning and being Jesus Christ had in the world, comparing it with the Scripture; and to consider what manner of beginning and being Charles hath also in the World, comparing it with the Scripture, confessing them both.  
Then men shall understand the Truth, and find the Mystery opening itself to them.  
Then shall the Jews and Christians agree, for their is but a little difference: Now the Jews look for the coming of their Messiah; the Christians look for Christ's second coming: both in substance is the self same thing, yet the danger stands in a mistake of the person, and the manner of his coming: The Vulgar Christians (and not the Learned, who know it to be a Mystery) look for Jesus to appear in a strange manner, yet in that same body of flesh which suffered on the Cross; though himself and St. Paul tells them plainly that they should not see him, nor know him no more in that body, John 16. 10. Corin. 5. 16. But he appears in Charles according to the manner that you Jews look for him: Embrace him and receive him, for they that refuse him now, shall be miserable for ever and ever.  
12. I say that by considering these things you shall come to understand the Truth, and see the promise of God fulfilled unto you in this point; but take heed lest you be deceived in that you believe, that your Messiah must needs be a Jew, and come Loynally out of Ephraim; because as you say Jeroboam the first King of the Ten Tribes came of Ephraim; for I tell you Jeroboam was none of that Tribe, but he rather came of the Tribe of Juda, or of the Tribe of Levi; for if Jeroboam had come of Ephraim, he had been called an Ephraimite, as you see Joshua 16. 10. Judges 12. 5. 6. Those of the Tribe of Ephraim are called Ephraimites; and Jeroboam is said to be an Ephrathite, 1 Kings 11. 26. and not an Ephraimite; and so as I said before, the Seed of Juda are called Ephrathites, Ruth. 1. 1. 2. Yea, David himself is called the Son of that Ephrathite, 1 Sam. 17. 12. And Elkanah is called an Ephrathite, because he was born in Mount Ephraim, 1 Sam. 1. 1. yet he was of the Tribe of Levi, 1 Chro. 6. 27, 28. none of the Seed of Ephraim are called Ephrathites; and for the place from whence Jeroboam is said to come, called Zereda; who can tell where it was? if it be not the City of the Zareathites, who were of the Tribe of Juda, and of the Seed of Caleb by Ephratah, 1 Chron. 2. 50, 53. or from whence Nebat and Zeruah jeroboans Parents came, except they came from thence, and being also the Seed of the Woman Epbratah, 1 Chron. 1. 50. came to be called Eprathites: who can tell whence they were, except they came from Juda? for we read no more of them but what we read in 1 Kings 11. 26. Yet you will ask me, how comes David to be called the Son of that Ephrathite, seeing he came not properly of the woman Ephratah, 1 Sam. 17. 12. 1 Chron. 2. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.  
I answer, David came to be called the son of that Ephrathite from Boaz, Marrying of Ruth the Wife of Malhon the Ephrathite, Ruth 1. 1, 2. to raise up his name (as he was an Ephrathite) upon his Inheritance; so that Obed●esse and David are sons of that Ephrathite by imputation; for the blessing was conferred upon Boaz, because of his kindness to the dead, Ruth 4. but their was a nearer Kinsman to Malhon that refused to take Ruth and do it, Ruth 3. 12. And who can tell but that Jeroboam came from that unworthy nameless Kinsman of Malhon, for it is clear that he came not from Ephraim? And since the Scripture is so silent in his pedigree, if a man had a mind to be contentious, he might hold an Argument that King Charles came of the Tribe of Ephraim as much as Jeroboam did by a Female line: For in old time many Noble Christian Families of Jews came and dwelled in this Land, whose Seed though obscure, are among us to this day, but it is uncertain, and I shall not stand to maintain it; It is the fault of every one, he would engross all to himself, his Neighbour should have nothing by his good will. The Jew would have all the pre-eminence to himself: The Gentile having Jesus and all things with him, would have the Jews to have no snare with him; but God is the Disposer of all these things; you Jews would have both Messiah to come Loynally from your Nation, not considering that God by Noah from the beginning made the same promise to Japhet as he made to Shem, Gen. 9 26, 27. so that the one Messiah comes from Shem, and the other from Japhet; this is God's Decree, and the Root of the History, and God who hath fulfilled it in part, will have it so perfectly fulfilled, though men do what they can against it: Therefore deceive not yourselves, by expecting an Ephraimite of the Seed of Ephraim Loynally to come and be your Messiah, for if Jeroboam had been an Ephraimite, yet it doth not follow that your Messiah must needs come of that Tribe also; but your Conversion mystically, yet clear to me, is set out and signified in Abraham sending of his servant to take a wife for his son Jacob, Gen. 24. where you are first to observe that by Abraham is signified God the Father, by Isaac is signified Jesus Christ, by the servant is signified Charles Steeward, and by the wise Rebeckah is signified you Jews: Observe it thus again, that Abraham is the Father of the Faithful, that Isaac is the promised Son, and that in Isaac his Seed (or Rebeckah) is called, ●y which Seed called, chiefly is signified your Call and Conversion to Jesus Christ, and consider that this Servant of Abraham, who is sent to call Rebeckah, is the steward of his house that Ruled all he had: and a Gentile of Damascus, by which sending of this steward, Gen. 24. 2, 3, 4. Gen. 15. 2, 3. is signified God sending of Charles steward to call you and bring you to Jesus Christ, as the other brought Rebeckah to Isaac. Now by this emblem also you may see the manner of your Conversion to God in Jesus Christ, and that you shall be brought to him, by one that is a steward by Name▪ and a Gentile also; Therefore him whom you call the Messiah is a Gentile and nor a Jew: but the true Messiah, unto whom he is a Jew, even Jesus Christ, to whom be the Glory, for ever and ever, Amen.  
And to conclude, Beloved, Elect of God, if you had been here in land thirty years agone, to see the Beauty of our Church, and the Worship of God as it was then Established among us, according to the institution of David the Singers in their Courses daily praising God in the beauty of holiness, all things being 〈◊〉 decently in order according to the Word of God, without any superstition or, Idolatry. I say, if you ha●… been here then to see it, you would have said that our Reformation and Worship was that way prophesied of by the Prophet Isai. 35. 8. and called the way of holiness, which way yet shall be Established among us, within this eight years more perfectly then at that time, for then the Enemies had too much Liberty, and did blaspheme and brought contempt upon the true Worship of God to the Ruin of it▪ and making it desolate, they have brought us to confusion; so that there is no face of religious-worship among us now, but instead thereof we have vain babblings; Jang 〈…〉 and wranglings about we know not what; Something we would have, but alas, doting about questions we are not able to resolve on anything that is good, neither can we agree in any thing, but in persecuting of that Truth which we once loved▪ and in which Truth is our Eternal happiness. This hath been the Case of England▪ many years: Now even since we break in pieces the Bonds of Peace, Unity and Amity, which Bonds once we kept and were made happy by it. All this came upon us for our sins and murmurings against the true worship of God established among us; yet we do not repent of it, neither dare we return, nor can we do any good for ourselves, until our God come and break the yoke of our Adversary, and set us at Liberty again: but chiefly these things came upon us for your sake, to fulfil God's word, to give Light to you, to free you, that you may be 〈…〉 med, Delivered, Converted and 〈…〉 ght to your King Jesus Christ, which is the desire of your Servant for his sake.  
Arise Evans. blackfriars in Long Alley▪ March. 16. 16●●▪   

The Postscript.  
BEware of Amsterdam, that damned rebellious City of Holland, that provoks God to his face, in which Atheists and Devils have their abode: It is a Cage of every unclean and hateful Bird, Revel. 17. 2. that shall seek to hinder your Conversion by King Charles; therefore God abhors it and will destroy it. For the covetous State of Holland doth receive any sort of sectaries to them for their money, and are become rich and proud by it: A fore this time when they begged a relef from England and had it, than they called themselves the poor distressed States of Holland; now being rich and proud they disdain all Kings, and call themselves the High and Mighty States of Holland, would have England to be theirs, but the English under the English State pulled them down a little; and the same English men under King Charles when he comes to his Throne shall destroy them, for as they are like Tyrus they may see themselves as in a Glass; and that is their doom? Isa. 23. 7, 8, 9 Ezekiel Chap. 26. Chap. 27. Be Valiant ye English men and utterly destroy them, for the Lord Commands you, and be will help you, then shall no pricking Brier, nor any grievous Thorn be of all that are round about you to trouble you, Ezekiel 28. 23. 24.  
This Book was written Eight years ago, and delivered into the hands of Mr. John Androwsa Person of Quality, living in Castle-Yard, and never published till Now. 1664.  
FINIS.