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
The Prophet _Isaiah_ saith in chap. 11.11. _that he will return them the
second time_, &c. Now the redemption from _Babilon_, cannot be called
such an one, because all of them were not brought back to their Country.
But the redemption shall be universall to all the Tribes, as it was when
they went out of _Ægypt_, which redemption shall be like the first in
many things, as I shewed in the third part of my _Reconciler_; and so it
may be called the second, in reference to that first from _Ægypt_.
Whence _Jeremiah_ saith, Cha. 23.7, 8. _That then it shall not be said,
He that brought_ Israel _out of_ Egypt, _but from the North, and from
all Countries, whither he had driven them_. That they shall not mention
their departure from _Ægypt_, for the cause fore-mentioned.
_SECT._ 25.
The same Prophet, _sc._ _Isa._ 43.5, 6. saith, _I will bring thy seed
from the East, and will gather thee from the West: I will say to the
North, Give up; and to the South, Keep not back; bring my Sons from
farre, and my Daughters from the ends of the earth_. For _Media_,
_Persia_, and _China_, lye on the East; _Tartary_ and _Scythia_ on the
North; the Kingdome of the _Abyssins_ on the South; _Europe_ on the
West, from the Holy Land. But when he saith, _Bring ye my sons from
farre_, he understands _America_; so that in those verses he understands
all those places, in which the Tribes are detained. Also in Chap. 49.
from ver. 7. to the end of the Chapter, he saith, that that returne
shall be most happy. And in ch. 56. vers. 8. God saith, _He that gathers
the out-casts of Israel_. And the Prophet _Jeremiah_, in ch. 33. ver.
16. _In those dayes shall_ Juda _be saved, and_ Jerusalem _shall dwell
safely_. It is certaine, and _Jerome_ assents to all our Authors, that
when _Judah_ is joyned with _Israel_, by _Israel_ the ten Tribes are
meant. The same adds in _chap._ 31. _ver._ 15. in the comforting of
_Rachel_, who wept for the carrying away her sons, _Joseph_, and
_Benjamin_, the first by _Salmaneser_ into _Assyria_, the last by
_Nebuchadnezzar_ into _Babilon_, he saith, in vers. 16. _Refraine thy
voyce from weeping, and thine eyes from teares, for thy work shall be
rewarded._ And it followes in Chap. 33. ver. 7. _And I will cause the
captivity of_ Judah, _and the captivity of_ Israel _to returne, and I
will build them up as at the first_. _Ezekiel_ saith the same in Chap.
34.13. and in Chap. 37.16. under the figure of two sticks, on which were
written the names of _Judah_, and _Ephraim_, by which he proves the
gathering together of the twelve Tribes to be subject to _Messiah_ the
Son of David, in ver. 22. he saith, _And one King shall be King to them
all_; according as _Hosea_ saith in Chap. 2. So also saith _Amos_, in
chap. 9. vers. 14, 15. _And I will bring againe the captivity of my
people_ Israel, _and they shall build the wast Cities, and inhabite
them; and they shall plant vine-yards, and drink the wine thereof: they
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