For first, Upon consult of reason, there will be found no easie assurance to fasten a material or temperamental propriety upon any nation; there being scarce any condition (but what depends upon clime) which is not exhausted or obscured from the commixture of introvenient nations either by commerce or conquest; much more will it be difficult to make out this affection in the _Jews_; whose race however pretended to be pure, must needs have suffered inseparable commixtures with nations of all sorts; not only in regard of their proselytes, but their universal dispersion; some being posted from several parts of the earth, others quite lost, and swallowed up in those nations where they planted. For the tribes of _Reuben_, _Gad_, part of _Manasses_ and _Naphthali_, which were taken by _Assur_, and the rest at the Sacking of _Samaria_, which were led away by _Salmanasser_ into _Assyria_, and after a year and half arrived at _Arsereth_, as is delivered in _Esdras_; these I say never returned, and are by the _Jews_ as vainly expected as their _Messias_. Of those of the tribe of _Judah_ and _Benjamin_, which were led captive into _Babylon_ by _Nebuchadnezzar_, many returned under _Zorobabel_; the rest remained, and from thence long after upon invasion of the _Saracens_, fled as far as _India_; where yet they are said to remain, but with little difference from the _Gentiles_. The Tribes that returned to _Judea_, were afterward widely dispersed; for beside sixteen thousand which _Titus_ sent to _Rome_ unto the triumph of his father _Vespasian_, he sold no less then an hundred thousand for slaves. Not many years after, _Adrian_ the Emperour, who ruined the whole Countrey, transplanted many thousands into _Spain_, from whence they dispersed into divers Countreys, as into _France_ and _England_, but were banished after from both. From _Spain_ they dispersed into _Africa_, _Italy_, _Constantinople_, and the Dominions of the _Turk_, where they remain as yet in very great numbers. And if (according to good relations) where they may freely speak it, they forbear not to boast that there are at present many thousand _Jews_ in _Spane_, _France_ and _England_, and some dispensed withall even to the degree of Priesthood; it is a matter very considerable, and could they be smelled out, would much advantage, not only the Church of Christ, but also the coffers of Princes.