DISCOVERIES OF THE Day-dawning TO THE Jews.  
Whereby they may know in what state they shall inherit the riches and glory of Promise.  
J. P.  
LONDON, Printed for Thomas Simmons, at the sign of the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate, 1661.   

THere is no true happiness nor blessing but to the blessed state which was before transgression was, because in the state of transgression the curse stands, in which, glory and riches are an utter curse unto all mankind, and therefore the eternal God of glorious wisdom will not give the glory and riches of promise unto the Jews according to their foolish expectations, having ordained a better thing for them then they do believe or are ware of, which will first make them blessed before he gives them their expectations of the glory and riches of promise, that the glory & riches which they do expect may not be as the Quails between the teeth of their Fathers in the wilderness, when it shall be given them according to the covenant of promise, to which purpose he will first prepare the way, and bring them into such a state wherein they may be enabled to hold all the good in the blessing( where curse shall never be any more) when he opens the large Heavens of his everlasting mercies, and reins it down in full showers of over-spreading clouds upon their heads. And mythinks it is very marvelous that they( having the ancient Prophets writings, and reading them so frequent and often amongst themselves as they do) should be so much veiled in their understandings, and blinded from the true knowledge, as not to perceive this thing. And again mythinks it should be a very strange and marvelous thing unto any low, poor, human capacity, that they( having the Scriptures of the Prophets, reading them, and professing belief of them all) should be so extreme dark and stupid of understanding, as not to perceive the undermentioned particulars, concerning the Messiah.  
1. That Jacob prophesying over the twelve Tribes of his house, telling them what should befall them in the later dayes, said to Judah, The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh come, and unto him shall the gathering of the people be, which if Shiloh had not come before the sceptre was departed, and before the Lawgivers were all gone away, and the house of Judah left without a Teraphim, without a Sanctuary, without a Sacrifice, and without a Teaching Priest( according to the words of another Prophet prophesied unto their Fathers, and fulfilled on them since the dayes of their last great captivity) then must they needs make Jacob( the Father of the twelve Tribes) an absolute Liar, and not a true Prophet of the true God, and so deny themselves to be his seed, and consequently not to have any right unto that glory and riches of promise that is covenanted to his true seed.  
2. That unto Shiloh the gathering of the people were, and now are, even numerous and by very great multitudes, as Isaiah said, I will provoke them unto jealousy by a foolish Nation, the which Malachi explained saying, my Name shall be great among the Gentiles.  
3. That he came to a tittle in manner and order as Isaiah speaks of, born of a virgin, which if she had known man before his birth, then had it not been of a virgin, but the Prophet a Liar; but the power of conception and birth did answer the word of promise, that the prophesy might be fulfilled.  
4. That he came to the utmost point according to Isai. poor, low, humble, meek, upon an ass and the foal of an ass, despised, without form or comeliness, exceedingly humbled, a man of sorrows acquainted with grief, lead like a Lamb to the slaughter, supposed to be smitten of God, but was wounded for our transgressions, bore our griefs, and by his stripes we are healed, and as Daniel said Messiah should be cut off, not for himself, but for the sins of the people.  
5. That he also was cut off answerable to the prophesy of Jacob concerning the houses of Simeon and Levi( by whom the Jews last great curse of captivity came) as Jacob said, cursed be their wrath, for in their anger they slay a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Oh! that they did but see the wall that is dug down by the chief Levites and Elders of Simeon that took counsel against the man and slay him, that they might know that the extreme curse hath followed their anger, as their father Jacob  told them should happen in the later dayes, doubtless then they would look upon him whom they have pierced, and mourn for him in that sore manner of mourning as it was in the day of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon, and come to see him in what they yet see him not; to wit,  
6. That he came by name and in nature according to Isa. called Immanuel, that is to say, God with us, the eternal Father, the everlasting counselor, the Prince of peace, which is plain and manifest opened by Isaiah; to wit,  
7. That he came a light, for a way, & a high-way which the wayfaring men though fools cannot err therein, a light unto the Gentiles, that he might be the salvation of God to the ends of the earth, a Lawgiver on whom the Isles shall wait to receive the Law from his mouth, for a Leader and Captain of Salvation.  
I have cause again and again to say it is a very marvelous thing, and to double admirations a thousand times over and over again, that the Jews should be so extremely darkened as not to believe in dead and in truth in their hearts, the very things that they confess they believe with their tongues outwardly, and so plainly knowing that the Messiah was to come in all things according to the Prophets, before the sceptre was departed from Judah, and a Lawgiver from between his feet, to be born of a virgin, to call the Gentiles, to come in a way poor, low, humble, meek, despised, without form or comeliness, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, to be lead like a Lamb to the slaughter, and to be slain in the anger of Simeon and Levi, for whom the families of Judah must mourn, having pierced him; for if he were not thus come, and had not thus suffered already, then instead of the riches and glory of promise, that they look for by his coming, must yet bring down a further curse upon their heads, because as sure as it was prophesied that he should come, so certain it was prophesied that he should come in this manner, and likewise so certain that the Jews should slay him, and bring upon themselves a grievous curse thereby. Is it not therefore unspeakably marvelous, that they are yet so exceeding blind as not to know their good from their evil, their blessing from their curse, being so plainly  told it by Isa. Mala. Zach. and other Prophets, yea and by Israel himself their Father, of whose loins the Twelve Tribes were? For if they should be made partakers of the Riches and Glory of promise, before they had slain him, to slay him afterwards( whose slaughter of necessity must be by them,[ as Isa. Dan. & Jacob their Father  told them] in the anger of Simeon and Levi, to the breaking down the Wall and bringing the curse) would be a most perfidious and desperate wicked requital of him for the riches and glory received from him, and then also they must needs loose it again, by the means of breaking down the Wall, and bringing the curse upon themselves through his slaughter.  
Alas, my thinks if their eyes were but in the least measure open, they could not choose but think that the God of Moses who lead their Fathers through the read Sea, is faithful and true( though they be exceeding incredulous) who hath Covenanted their Redemption by a new Covenant which shall not be broken, as their Fathers did break the first Covenant, but Jeremiah tells them, that if the Covenant of the Sun and the Moon could be disannulled, yet this new Covenant shall not be broken, wherein the purpose of God Almighty is, that when the Jews shall return from the error of unbelief and hardness of heart, and look upon him whom they have pierced, and mourn, &c. Then he will draw them by the Light of his Eternal Spirit, that he put upon the MESSIAH( in which he was called,[ as Isaiah said] by the Name of the Eternal Father, and God with us) into the state of blessing, where curse shall never be any more found, that the glory and riches may be possessed and inherited, as a glory and riches given of their God indeed, that shall never more depart from them, but it shall be as sure unto them, as the Covenant of God is true and certain in himself, who can never change from the Truth of his God-head.  
Who therefore is that dark Mole, or blind Bat amongst them that will yet say the man Messiah is to come, and make himself guilty of his blood, and make his Father Israel, and the other Prophets liars, and so exclude himself everlastingly from the riches and glory that is to be given them in an unchangeable Covenant in an eternal state of bliss, where the glory and riches shall never corrupt, and in stead of imagining that it is nigh at hand to be revealed, to put it,( it may be) 1660. years more from their Generations, under the curse of their slaughter of the Messiah, which they must yet do, if the man Messiah were yet to come?  
Surely any sensible feeling man among them reading this, cannot choose but perceive this plain case, spoken of by their Fathers, and now opened by little worm jacob that was very low, but now is Arising, Appearing, and Spreading his face to the ends of the Earth, that he may henceforth live in the glory of his appointed day of brightness even for ever and ever.  
Well, seeing the Jews shall not have the glory and riches of promise in the way of their foolish expectations( wherein they would have it in a curse and so as not to hold it) but in the way of the wise God of Jacob to be held in the glory of Incorruption for ever; I therefore would labour to open unto them that way,( which Isaiah declared) wherein all they that believe shall be lead into the incorruptable life, which is the blessed State, that being prepared and lead thereinto, they may first receive, and afterwards hold the riches and glory everlastingly, according to the Covenant of promise.  
I will give him for a way, and for an high way wherein the wayfaring man though fools cannot err. And he shall be for a sign and an ensign to the people, said God through his Prophet ISA. And MALAC further said, he shall sit as a Fuller, and as a Refiner, purifying the Sons of Levi; Now that they may know how and where the Messiah appears, as a Way, a Sign, an Ensign, a Fuller and Refiner, that they may not only red the Prophets, but also understand them; it is in me first to show them( according to the Prophets) what the Messiah in the substance is, that they may not be always gazing after that which cannot redeem, ransom nor restore them from the captivity, instead of that which only can and must do it, that they may not always miss it through a misunderstanding of that which is to effect it.  
God said( through Isa.) that the MESSIAH should be called the Eternal Father, and God with us; So if the Jews believe in God, then they must needs think that God gives not his own name of Eternity unto any thing that is not of his own nature, hence it is evident that the name was not given to the visible body of flesh( which cannot redeem the captivity, for it was not so wrought in Moses day) but to the in visible spirit that only can ransom the captivity( as it appeared with MOSES at the read Sea) which( Isa. said) God did put upon the MESSIAH anointing him above all his fellows with that spirit that could properly bear the Name of the Eternal Father, or God with us, because it was so, and it is so, to all that purely believe. In which respect he said to their Fathers, you know me not, whereat they wondered, for they did know that visible body of flesh that was called Jesus the Son of Joseph the Carpenter, of which body( that they did know) he  told them plainly that he bare not witness, but only bare witness of the Eternal Father, whom their Fathers did not know.  
Well therefore said Isa. I will give him for a Light of the Gentiles, and to them that sit in darkness, in the shadow of death, that he may be my Salvation to the ends of the Earth; whence they may all easily understand, that the light which shall be the Salvation of God, to the ends of the Earth, must needs be the way of their Redemption and ransom, yea and the Redeemer and Ransomer from their captivity, or else they must deny their Salvation from their misery, and consequently lie in it everlastingly through unbelief, because another Prophet also witnesseth to the same, saying, not by battle, nor by bow, but by my Spirit saith the Lord; So if they will come( in very Truth) to believe the Prophets, whom( in word) they say they believe, the day of their Redemption will quickly come upon them, even at unawares.  
Now where the Messiah or Spirit of the Eternal Father appears as a way, is very plain and easy to be discerned,( that is to say) in every persons Conscience, which as a Light shineth into the darkness of the Jews hearts in this the time of the black night under which they are greatly clouded, and discovers unto them the extreme sinful course of their lives in all manner of the malice of Tophet, and beastliness of unclean lusts which flows among them as the River Nilus into the mouth of the Sea, in which state it is impossible for them to receive, and retain the riches and glory of promise without making it a very noisome stink in the earth; wherefore as the Messiah or light of the Spirit of the eternal Father appears inwardly as God with us, which is the glorious way of perfection, so next it is of worth for the Jews to know how he operates in this his way, as a Fuller and as a Refiner in the inward parts, making fit for the riches and glory &c. to which purpose( for their sakes) this is the Spirits direction and counsel to them all without respect of persons.  
O house and families of Judah draw near, and come ye unto this Fountain which is set and setting open for you, and for Jerusalem to bathe and to wash in, enter ye into that well-spring of the pure Light which ariseth in all your Consciences, cast your minds wholly into it, and plunge your souls entirely in the same, and there you shall inwardly and secretly feel the labour of the secret Spirit with you, washing you as with nitre, and rubbing your hearts as the cloth in the hands of the Fuller, and suffering his operation you will quickly come to see your crimson and scarlet sinful souls become as white as wool and snow, which will perfectly renew and restore you into the glorious similitude of the first mans blessed state, wherein the glory and riches can onely be received and retained, of which restoration God made a sure covenant, before Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, or any other of the Prophets were created, saying in this wise, The seed of the woman shall bruise the Serpents head, to which seed you are hereby inwardly directed, to find its virtue and power operating even unto the perfect effect of bruising the Serpents head in yourselves, the which when it is wrought, you will plainly see your state to be restored as the first mans was, before transgression was, and you must needs think( as I am assured) that because you shall be such a transparent glory as is covenanted of God,( yea I well knowing wherein the riches and glory of promise unto you, shall be infinitely a more excellent and illustrious glory then that in which Adam was in his perfect innocency) therefore the riches cannot be received and retained in a state of sin and corruption, or any jot short of mans first state in innocency.  
Now if the Jews do believe that ever they shall be a sanctified people to the holy God of Israel,( which will make them thoroughly rich and glorious within and without) it would seem to be a marvelous thing if they should think that it should be in any other way then the Prophets do tell them, as I have opened first through the Fullers washing their souls in the fountain of Judah, and now secondarily in the manner of that other dispensation spoken of concerning the Messiah, or Light of the Spirit of the eternal Father in them, appearing in the office of a Refiner it is in me to example forth( in plainness and easiness) unto them, whereby in a happy season they may all come to receive him, as he is given unto them to work within and without them, an everlasting redemption for them from all captivity and thraldom.  
I direct all their minds to dwell and inhabit in that Light of the eternal Father in all their Consciences, that they may feel it as a fire in their bowels burning on the fuel of lies, and all deceitful words, and so as they give their minds into this holy fire, they will come to see a sweet, glorious, and ravishing unity of their souls with the everlasting burnings, whose flames will give them a through light to apprehended that all the lies and deceitful words are burnt up and utterly consumed with the fire, which thing being done, they must needs know that nothing but Truth remains in the inward parts, because Truth is of the nature of the fire, and can never consume in the flames thereof; and when they perceive that the Light in the Conscience is of so glorious a virtue as to cleanse the soul from lies and deceitful words, by which all sin entred into the world, they must absolutely be persuaded that the Light( being of the eternal Father) cannot change from its nature, property, virtue, and power, that as it was loved and adhered unto in the inward convincement, and burning up of that one sort of sin through which all sin entred into the world, if the same inward light be loved and joined unto as a consuming fire that can burn up all sin, it will as surely consume all sins, as it consumed that one sort of sin ( viz.) lies; and so through the meltings of their hearts in the holy furnace, their souls will be perfectly purified as the gold that is seven times tried in the fire.  
Thus they may plainly see what the Messiah is in all their Consciences, who can never be more clearly seen, and better known then by his inward work and operation( as the Prophet speaks of him) as a Fuller and Refiner to the purpose of their purification, that when this first part of his work is wrought in and among the jews, making them meet and fit to receive and retain the riches and glory, immediately then he may led them into the full possession and everlasting unchangeable inheritance thereof, according to the Covenant of promise; for except this first be, they might easily think that if they had all the glories that are in the earth, and ten thousand times more then they can think, if they had it but in a state of corruption, it could not be a glory in the eye of the holy God of Israel, but an absolute stink in the nostrils of the God of jacob, and a curse before him continually; and it is also easy to be discerned, that if corrupt men have corruptible riches and glory added to their corruption, it makes them not more holy but more corrupt, and consequently not more blessed, but more cursed, and therefore the wise God of Israel will not give the riches and glory in the jews foolish way, but will give it in his own wise way, according to the Prophets( as I have plainly opened) and will make sure of his work, to make the jews surely his own people, surely in Covenant with him never more to depart from him, but to remain for ever with him in the state of everlasting blessing, where there shall be no more transgression nor curse, because transgression was always the breach of the Covenant between God and his people, onely on his peoples part, and there was never any other breach besides it, and therefore of necessity as the new Covenant is an everlasting and unalterable Covenant in which the jews shall possess the riches and glory, so it must be held in the blessed state in which transgression is not, which not an honest rational man among them can ever deny.  
Therefore well may they think that they have a great occasion to prise the mercy of the God of their Father Israel, who now gives them to know that the light of the Spirit of the eternal Father( which was put upon the man Messiah) is the true Messiah in the substance to work among them in his office of a Fuller and Refiner, and to see him as the way which the wayfaring men though fools cannot err therein, the which may clearly appear unto every Conscience among them, because no sin can possibly be committed in union with the Light in the Conscience, which is as a burning fire against all sin, I say it is a thing impossible because the invisible Light in its nature is eternally pure, and contrary to all sin, and therefore all they that walk in the pure way of the Light, not going out of it, is as impossible for them to err or sin( though fools and wayfaring men as the Prophet tells them) which not an honest rational man among them can ever deny.  
When the jews are come thus far into the true way, then they shall know the Messiah to be the true sign within them, and the glorious Ensign spread among them, the everlasting counselor unto them, and the true Leader and Captain of their Salvation, and all besides that the Prophets have spoken of him unto them, which will be the day wherein they will clap their hands and leap for joy, and sound out the shouts of the renown of their God, that the earth shall rent with his praise.  
Yet forasmuch at the Jews have a constant eye fixed on the carnal Ordinances that were given by Moses unto them( that is to say the Sacrifices and Oblations as they were ministered by Aaron for the sins of the people) that through a continual veil of ignorance they may not always and for ever lose the glory of promise, I am moved in Spirit( in this wise) to show them; That though Moses his glory was such in the eyes of their dark Fathers, that they could not behold his face for the glory and brightness thereof, and therefore was forced to cast a veil over it, that he might dispense the Law unto them, yea and though Moses talked with God face to face, yet Moses saw not Gods face, for God  told him that he could not see his face and live, and therefore shewed him onely his backer parts, as the record witnesseth: So that when the Jews eyes shall be opened, then they shall see, that as Moses saw but Gods backer parts, so he could minister unto their Fathers but the lower, weaker, and backer Ordinances, and not the face of the glory into which the Jews shall be everlastingly swallowed and wrapped up; because them external and carnal Sacrifices and Oblations were continually offered for the sins of the people, but when the people shall come unto that which will wrap them up into the blessing where there is no more sin nor curse, then undeniably they must needs see the end of all the carnal Sacrifices; for where there is no more sin there can be no more Sacrifice for sin; wherefore the last Sacrifice that is to be among the Jews is this,( to wit) faithfully and wholly to offer themselves, souls and minds unto their God in the fire of the Refiner which purifieth from all sin, in which they shall assuredly see the end of all sin, and consequently the assured end of all the carnal Ordinances, Sacrifices, and Oblations offered for sin; and the last washing that shall be among the Jews, shall be in the Eternal Fountain,( that is set and setting open for Judah and Jerusalem to bath and to wash in) which cleanseth from all sin, and consequently bringeth the end of all other washings.  
And whereas Moses saw but the backer parts of God, I could nakedly tell a true believing seed of Abraham, That God from the beginning never had pleasure( simply) in the slaughter of Bulls, Goats, Heifers, Sheep, Lambs, burning of fat, or offering any other visible Creature in that kind; for in all that God spake to Moses through these things, Moses did not see the face of God, nor understood his most glorious oraculous voice, but onely saw his backer parts, so wherein Moses( in his weakness of understanding of the Oracles of the highest Majesty) was accepted of God in offering the said externals, was onely in respect to the fear that was in Moses his heart,( which carried him forth to obey to the utmost of the backer parts which he saw) or weakness of his understanding of the eternal Oracles, which thing the Prophets do manifestly explain, telling the jews[ nakedly] that God hath no pleasure in any of those things, for all the beasts of the forrests were his, and he was more then ten thousand Rivers of oil, and he needed them not, but said that to obey was better then sacrifice, for when their Fathers went out of the obedience that Moses stood in, and departed from the fear that lead Moses in obedience to offer the said externals( supposing in the integrity of his heart, that that was the thing that God required of him, which had onely acceptance of God, because of the fear in his upright heart, he being in sight and knowledge but of the backer parts) God  told them plainly that incense was abomination unto him, their new moons and their Sabbaths together with their solemn meetings his soul loathed them, & therefore expressly commanded them ( by Isa.) to put them away, testifying to them that his soul was weary with them, whose exceeding mercy( as it graciously appeared unto them in that of telling them the Sacrifices and Oblations that his soul had no pleasure in) next discovered unto them the sacrifices that he was delighted in, which was fear, a contrite spirit, a broken heart, a soul of thanksgiving, a spirit of praise, bowels of mercy, to do justly, and to walk humbly with their God; Now whereas the Prophets do so plainly speak of these things, it seems to be a very strange and marvelous matter that the jews to this day have an eye on the Sacrifices that God positively commanded to be put away, because( as he  told them) his soul was weary of them, and therefore they had no acceptance of God in them, and comes not unto that which he lastly commanded, in which he will show them an everlasting countenance of gracious acceptance, through giving them the sweetness and riches of blessings that shall never depart from them any more.  
Qu. Hence if the jews do inquire, What Law shall be held and kept among them in the dayes of their unalterable everlasting state of glory?  
Answ. I answer positively and plainly, none other shall the Law be but that very Law that God did give directly unto Moses( which he said is nigh, in the mouth and in the heart, wherein there shall be offered [ in the Temple of God] one everlasting offering of cattle, Sheep, Children, Wives, and lives, yea and all created things purely to him that created all things) of which Moses( not understanding the oraculous and mysterious voice) saw but the backer parts: And that it shall be but the same law may appear very plain, because as God Almighty is in himself unchangeable, so is his Word for ever and ever. Wherefore as the Jews shall be brought to see the face of God( which Moses saw not, but his backer parts) so shall they see the face and glory of the Law that God gave to Moses,( of which he saw but the backer parts) and in the glory of it be swallowed up for ever and ever, according to the covenant of promise, and consequently the backer parts thereof shall stand behind them for ever. So the law shall never alter in one jot or tittle, as it stood from all eternity in the unchangeable God, though not comprehended by poor, weak, comprehensible man, but the jews shall change from the backer parts of the letter, which must of necessity end because it came in time, unto the glory of the face of the Spirit, which shall, nay nor can never end, because it had never time of beginning; and this all the faithful seed of Abraham shall witness, and set to seal unto even for ever, Amen.  
Finally I leave them to a search among themselves for the Fullers fountain, and Refiners fire, which is able to make them meet to receive, retain, and inherit the everlasting unchangeable riches and glory, according to the unchangeable Covenant of promise.  
And I pray the God of Israel in the remembrance of his everlasting love, and infinite mercies, to open their eyes that they may quickly find it, and be made a free people to possess the Land of Promise according to his word.  
Written by one that is called a Quaker. 
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