Menasseh ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell: Being a reprint of the pamphlets published by Menasseh ben Israel to promote the re-admission of the Jews to England, 1649-1656Manasseh ben Israel
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Menasseh ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell: Being a reprint of the pamphlets published by Menasseh ben Israel to promote the re-admission of the Jews to England, 1649-1656
Manasseh ben Israel
Jews -- Great Britain
_I doe now very highly esteeme of my interest in your conversation, and
thanke you very much for your kinde visitations, which I shal endeavour
to repay, and desire by these you will tell me where, if you be in town;
I shall continue in town till monday noone be passed, and will meet you
at the Stationers, or any where else you shall appoint; very necessary,
and too urgent occasions hindred my comming to —— untill last night. I
have somewhat thought with my self of the faire proposition of
re-printing what concernes_ Ben Israel, _the conversion and generall
call of the Jewish Nation, to which I now more perceive our serious
endeavours and hopes doe encline. But I must needs say, that_ Ben
Israels _Booke gives very small hopes of his conversion; Of which
notwithstanding neither you nor my selfe ought to despaire, for_ Saul
_the learned_ Jew _from a severe Persecutor became a_ Paul, _a holy and
remarkable Saint; I shall not at present enlarge my selfe unto you,
least I should prove troublesome, or impertinent till things be ripened
between us by a conference, but if it be necessary you should print
againe before I see you, I only desire this Letter of mine should be
printed. For I embrace your candor and ingenuity as much as you doe
mine, and I hope love and knowledge will still encrease between us, and
I shall say with the Psalmist_, Let the righteous smite me friendly, and
reprove me, but let not their precious balme breake my head; _I have no
desire to gaine applause of those who are without, or hazard their
censure in that which more learned men, but not so loving, may say, that
I write slight things, but I had rather first shew them that I can write
serious things as well as slight, by translation of some part of_ Peter
Galatine & Reuchlin, _which is now my travaile, as I in part shewed you;
I remaine_,
Febr. 21. 1650. Your friend in the truest interest of Christian love.
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FINIS.
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_Errata maximi momenti._
In the second Epist. p. 2. l. 8. dele happy, in the 3 Epist. p. 1.
l. 28. r. invironed, p. 2. l. 3. r. Carthagena, p. 3. l. 12. dele
so, p. 6, l. 21. r. thy, p. 18. l. 19. r. hating, p. 19. l. 16. r.
away Hoshea, p. 22. l. 23. r. Hunni, p. 23. l. 10. r. there, p. 26.
l. 3. r. were, p. 40. l. 27. r. honoured _Abraham Kolorni_, with p.
44. l. 24. r. for these, p. 46. l. 16. dele the, p. 49. l. 34. & he
saith, those must be nulled before.
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