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<P>THE CASE OF The JEWS is Altered, AND Their Synagogue Shut To all Evil-WALKERS. OR, A VINDICATION OF THE JEWES From the fal&s;e IMPUTATIONS laid upon them in a &s;currilous PAMPHLET, INTITULED, <HI>The CASE of the JEWS Stated,</HI> OR, <HI>The JEWS SYNAGOG&V;E Opened.</HI></P>
<P>By <HI>Jo&s;eph Copley,</HI> Gent.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> printed for the AUTHOR, 1656.</P>
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<HEAD>The Ca&s;e of the JEWS, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THere came lately to my view, a Libel which did pennance in a &s;heet, (as I am informed its Author did once, doubtle&s;s for &s;ome of his good qualities upon the pillory) intituled, <HI>The Ca&s;e of the Jews &s;tated, or their Synagogues opened.</HI> A man would admire to finde &s;o much venome in the body of &s;o little a Spider; but what can be more poi&s;onous than the blood of a red haired man? This Scriblers pen was once filled with malice and &s;lander as black as his ink; yet God &s;ends cur&s;e Cows &s;hort Horns, and 'tis in vain for &s;uch Wolves to bark a|gain&s;t the Moon. As this Fellows heart is filled with envy and malice; &s;o his noddle is as well gifted with a goodly talent of bea&s;tly ignorance, which he betrayes at the fir&s;t da&s;h, when he would needs have the Archi-Syna|gogues to be Levites and Prophets; whereas the Levites are one certain Tribe, and the Archi-Synagogue neither were alwayes cho&s;en out of that Tribe, nor con&s;tantly Prophets. In the next place he picks out a ridiculous fa|ble out of <HI>Matthew Paris,</HI> which relates the crucifixion of &s;ome children by the Jews: 'tis a likely matter, that the Jews &s;hould fir&s;t circumci&s;e a Child to make him a Jew, and then murder him; or, that in &s;uch their enterprizes, they &s;hould cau&s;e one to repre&s;ent <HI>Pilate,</HI> when none of them that I ever &s;pake with, believe there was any &s;uch per&s;on; be&s;ides this <HI>Hebraeo-Ma&s;tix</HI> &s;hould (if he would have had his &s;tory credited) have be&s;towed &s;ome Hebrew name on his child, rather than <HI>Jurnin.</HI> We do not deny,
<PB N="2" REF="3"> but &s;ome &s;uch things were father'd upon the Jews, as al&s;o poi&s;oning of Wells about the time they were expelled, but who I be&s;eech you were the actors of the&s;e crimes? none but the Monks and Friers, men, who be&s;ides their practice of Necromancy and other unlawful Arts, did frequently murder children in their Mona&s;teries, to keep their unclean conver&s;ation from the knowledge of the world, they moved by envy at the pro&s;perity of the Jews, crucified Children, and poi&s;oned Wells that laying the blame upon the Jews, they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ght provoke the hatred of the common people toward<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> them, and al&s;o to have matter where-with<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">r which to com|pl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">in of them to the King that they might pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">e from him their B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ni&s;hment, for which they h d l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">g time before very earne&s;tly, though in vain, &s;olicited <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">im, as Mr. <HI>Daniel</HI> &s;heweth, who&s;e excellent pen hath &s;et forth very much of the injurious dealing and cruelties u&s;ed to|wards the Jews; from the guilt of which, I be&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ch the Lord to ab&s;olve this Generation, &amp; give us good hearts towards his poor afflicted people, who are therefore di&s;|per&s;ed among&s;t us, that we may have occa&s;ion for the exerci&s;e of mercy and ho&s;pitality; and becau&s;e Almighty God will try whether we will like &s;avage Canibals devour &s;trangers, or with good <HI>Abraham</HI> and <HI>Lot,</HI> receive them kindly into our hou&s;es. This fellow &s;ays moreover (for though <HI>Iupiters</HI> brain could produce but one <HI>Minerva</HI> his whim&s;ical noddle can hatch a thou&s;and Chymaeraes of folly) that the Jews were enjoyed by a Statute to wear a piece of woollen Cloath upon their bre&s;ts&punc; that they might be thereby di&s;tingui&s;h'd, but he tells us not in what time this Statute was enacted; &s;o that we mu&s;t let it re|main <HI>Apocripha</HI> till we have lea&s;ure to &s;earch, and then I doubt it will be canoniz'd, <HI>nemine contra dicente,</HI> among&s;t the re&s;t of his lyes. But that which I mo&s;t blame in this
<PB N="3" REF="3"> Companion, is, that he goes about by a &s;ecret way to in&s;truct <HI>(&s;ic &s;us Minervam docet)</HI> the &s;upreme Authority what is to be done; for his pre&s;umption intends this Patch as a pre&s;ident for them, and flatters him&s;elf that it may prove a <HI>Remora</HI> to their favourable proceedings in the Jewi&s;h affairs. But admit the Jews were commanded to wear &s;uch a badge of di&s;tinction formerly in <HI>England,</HI> as now they are at <HI>Rome,</HI> cau&s;ed to wear Hats of a different colour from others: mu&s;t the &s;ame mea&s;ure be u&s;ed to|wards the&s;e Jews in the&s;e times, and under this mo&s;t ex|cellent Government? mu&s;t we imitate Papi&s;ts in u&s;ing &s;trangers to whom we give harbor de&s;pitefully? doth this man finde it in the Go&s;pel, that we mu&s;t do good to tho&s;e who per&s;ecute us, and will he per&s;ecute tho&s;e who do him no hurt? is this to a&s;&s;ert the Kingdom of Chri&s;t? truely it is rather the my&s;tery of iniquity, and the voice of an Antichri&s;t: there is no rea&s;on for this pretence, a|gain&s;t it there is; for &s;hould the Jews have Re-admit|tance here, it would behove many of them, and &s;ome very eminent per&s;ons, who have been forc'd to di&s;&s;emble their Religion among the Papi&s;ts, to keep them&s;elves &s;till in &s;ome &s;ort &s;ecret (which they cannot do if they may be known by their Garments, le&s;t the Je&s;uitical &s;pies, which are here, &s;hould &s;end intelligence of them beyond Sea, and upon their account cau&s;e their Friends in <HI>Spain</HI> and <HI>Portugal,</HI> and in &s;ome parts of <HI>Italy,</HI> where the Inqui&s;ition is, as in <HI>Millain,</HI> to be called in que&s;tion.</P>
<P>In the next place, it would grieve one to &s;ee how the pitiful thing doth &s;tretch his &s;lender wits upon the tentor-books to mu&s;ter up the Jews Ceremonies, Prayers, and Benedictions u&s;ed in their Synagogues, which he hath borrowed ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> of <HI>Purcha&s;es Pilgrimage,</HI> or <HI>Ro&s;&s;e</HI> his <HI>View of Religions,</HI> (who took them upon tru&s;t them&s;elves) but if
<PB N="4" REF="4"> he had met with <HI>Leo Modena's</HI> Book of <HI>the Manners and Cu&s;tomes of the Jews&punc;</HI> tran&s;lated by Mr. <HI>Edmund Chilmead,</HI> he might have been better informed, however we mu&s;t take it at his hand, as men buy wares at the third and fourth Mart, with all the &s;ophi&s;tications; &s;o that it may he &s;aid of him in re&s;pect of his Pamphlet, as one &s;aid of <HI>Homer</HI> in regard of his Iliades.</P>
<P>And thus he lyes, thus mingle fal&s;e with true. 'Tis true that many of tho&s;e Ble&s;&s;ings and Ceremonies are indeed u&s;ed by the Jews, for which they are not to be blamed by him or any other: but when he would per&s;wade people by the opening and &s;hutting of Heavens Gates, that the Jews believe God hath need of re&s;t or &s;leep, or &s;hunneth importunities, <HI>ri&s;um teneatis amici?</HI> And &s;ince I read the &s;tory of his Cock, I profe&s;s I never &s;aw a Cock, but I thought of him for a Coxcomb when he comes to the privy he paddles to the very throat in &s;tinking lyes, and there we will leave him to play the Gold-finder, for 'tis a place much fitter for him, than the Pulpit: onely we mu&s;t take &s;ome notice of his malicious a&s;&s;ertion, That the Jews con&s;tantly cur&s;e the Chri&s;tians in their A&s;&s;em|blies, <HI>cujus contrarium verum e&s;t:</HI> for in their dayly prayers they be&s;eech God for the peace of tho&s;e Nations among whom they live, and for the honour, &s;afty, and increa&s;e of the power of the Prince under who&s;e protection they are; as may more largly appear in a Declaration &s;et forth lately by that learned Jewi&s;h Doctor <HI>Mena&s;&s;eh ben I&s;rael,</HI> which might have &s;topt this Fellows mouth, and pre|vented his ugly, mi&s;hap'd, abortive, unlick'd Cub from creeping into the view of the world, if his bruiti&s;h Sire had not been wholly made up of folly and impudence.</P>
<P>Whereas he mentions la&s;civious Motto's (as he calls them) placed in the hou&s;es of the Jews, it is utterly fal&s;e;
<PB N="5" REF="4"> or &s;hould any lewd per&s;ons of them (and it &s;eem, his ac|quaintance was only of that &s;ort, if he knew any Jews at all) &s;et up any &s;uch Ribauldry in their rooms, the gra|ver &s;ort, who do frequently vi&s;it the hou&s;es of the re&s;t, would tear it down; and for my own particular, I have been in the hou&s;es of many Jews, but never &s;aw any &s;uch thing: the only Ornaments they u&s;e for their walls are Pi|ctures repre&s;enting Bible-Hi&s;tories. Suppo&s;e he had &s;een &s;ome &s;uch Motto's in the hou&s;es of &s;ome idely di&s;po&s;ed per&s;on among&s;t the Jews, is it not a madne&s;s in him to chargethe whole nation with it? &s;ome of all nations and religions are bad, mu&s;t therefore all the men in the world be &s;o? if men did not con&s;ider the time when his paper came out, they would think Mid-&s;ummer Moon did o|perate in this Fellow's Pate. In the rear of all he brings up that of the Apo&s;tle <HI>Paul</HI> in 1 <HI>Cor. cap. ult. v.</HI> 22. <HI>If any man love not the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, let him be Anathema, Mari|natha.</HI> But he &s;hould have remembred, that the Apo&s;tle &s;peaketh here neither of, nor to the Jews, but concerning &s;uch as <HI>Alexander,</HI> and <HI>Hymeneus, Simon Magus,</HI> and his Followers, who were apo&s;tatized Chri&s;tians; for <HI>Paul</HI> doth el&s;ewhere expound him&s;elf, and affirm, That the Church hath no power to puni&s;h by Excommunication or Anathematization, &s;uch as alwayes were out of the pale, but &s;uch only as having been once within the pale, have departed out of it. To this all the Fathers and Do|ctors of the primitive Church a&s;&s;ent; for none can have due voc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">tion to puni&s;h, but tho&s;e to whom the offender oweth &s;ubjection. In this re&s;pect the renowned Repub|lik of <HI>Venice,</HI> together with all the mo&s;t learned Civili|ans of Chri&s;tendome, have judged it unfit that the &s;ecu|lar Magi&s;trate &s;hould take any notice of any eccle&s;ia&s;tical cen&s;ures denounced again&s;t &s;uch as never were &s;ubject to
<PB N="6" REF="5"> the Church, as may be &s;een more fully in the Hi&s;tory of the Inqui&s;ition, compiled by that able States-man and judicious Lawyer, <HI>Paul Serveta,</HI> an Italian Frier.</P>
<P>Thus (gentle Reader) have I vindicated the honorable Nation of the Jews from the fowl a&s;per&s;ions of a black-mouth'd &s;landerer; which, if I have done with &s;ome &s;harp|ne&s;s, it is but what his folly hath merited. In the mean time, I hope no ingenious Per&s;on will think a rod ill be|&s;towed upon a Fools back: but if ever he di&s;play his fol|ly again upon the &s;ame &s;ubject, (as I look he will, for a fool will be never the wi&s;er, though brayed in a morter) in&s;tead of a Rod, I will &s;end him </P>
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<L>A rope, with which the &s;illy elf</L>
<L>Shall make a noo&s;e, and hang him&s;elf.</L>
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<P>I could have inlarged, in &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">wing the many commodi|ties the Jews would bring to this Commonwealth, their adherency formerly to the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> and their great affection to the pre&s;ent Government, and par|ticularly to his Highne&s;s the Lord Protector, (who&s;e Pa|tronage they do more de&s;ire than that of any other Prince in Chri&s;tendome) but that it hath been done already &s;uf|ficiently by an abler Pen, I mean that of <HI>Mena&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">h ben I&s;ra|el,</HI> the Hebrew Doctor. Therefore I &s;hall conclude, be|&s;eeching Almighty God to give to all tho&s;e that are right in heart, the fruition of tho&s;e good things promi&s;ed under the reign of the Prince of peace, who&s;e coming is dayly expected and hope to be at hand by many good Chri&s;tians.</P>
<Q>O that the Salvation of I&s;rael were come out of Sion: when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob &s;hall re|joyce, and I&s;rael &s;hall be glad,
<BIBL><HI>P&s;al. 14.7.</HI></BIBL></Q>
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