The History of Sabatai Sevi, the Suppos'd Messiah of the JewsEvelyn, John
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The History of Sabatai Sevi, the Suppos'd Messiah of the Jews
Evelyn, John
Impostors and imposture -- Early works to 1800; Shabbethai Tzevi, 1626-1676
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THE
HISTORY
OF
_SABATAI SEVI_,
The Pretended
_Messiah_ of the _Jewes_,
In the Year of our _Lord_, 1666.
The _Third Impostor_.
According to the Predictions of several _Christian_ Writers, especially
of such who Comment on the _Apocalyps_, or Revelations, this Year of
1666 was to prove a Year of Wonders, of strange Revolutions in the
World, and particularly of Blessing to the _Jewes_, either in respect of
their Conversion to the _Christian_ Faith, or of their Restoration to
their Temporal Kingdome: This Opinion was so dilated, and fixt in the
Countreys of the Reformed Religion, and in the Heads of Phanatical
_Enthusiasts_, who Dreamed of a Fift Monarchy, the downfall of the
_Pope_, and _Antichrist_, and the Greatness of the _Jewes_: In so much,
that this subtile People judged this Year the time to stir, and to fit
their Motion according to the season of the Modern Prophesies; whereupon
strange Reports flew from place to place, of the March of Multitudes of
People from unknown parts into the remote Desarts of _Arabia_, supposed
to be the _Ten Tribes_ and _halfe_, lost for so many Ages. That a Ship
was arrived in the Northern parts of _Scotland_ with her Sailes and
Cordage of Silke, Navigated by Mariners who spake nothing but _Hebrew_;
with this Motto on their Sailes, _The Twelve Tribes of Israel_. These
Reportes agreeing thus near to former Predictions, put the wild sort of
the World into an expectation of strange Accidents, this year should
produce in reference to the _Jewish_ Monarchy.
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