(typical of the general Refurrection at the laft Day) that they fhould by the Almighty's Power be made to live; for faith the Lord God, Behold I will open your Graves, and caufe you to come out of your Sepulchres, and ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your Graves, &c. Where God alfo promi feth his Chofen and Elect, the celestial Ferufalem, there to dwell in eternal Joy and Felicity; for this tranfitory World is but a vain Shadow, that paffeth away in a Moment, wherein we live in Anxiety and Perplexities, in Distreffes and Afflictions: The greatest Expectation of our Felicity must be in a future State.

Hannah by divine Infpiration prophefy'd, that God will raife the Dead to Life 1 Sam. 2. 6. again, The Lord killeth and maketh alive; bringeth down to the Grave, and raifeth Deut. 32. 39. up again. God faith alfo, I kill and give Life.

Dan. 12. 15,

The Prophet Daniel prophefies of the
Refurrection of the Dead: The Angel
Michael will raife the Dead, who is a
Figure of Chrift, who founds the Trum-

pet
of Life, and fhall call and fay to his
Saints, Awake ye that fleep in the Duft,
when every one will receive according to
his Deferts. It is alfo further evident,
That bleffed Saviour fhall take away
my

the

the daily Sacrifice, by the New Cove-Dan. 12. 13 nant, that no Sacrifice can avail with God but true Repentance.

Your Talmudifts, and you your felves, have conceiv'd fuch an Averfion and Antipathy against my bleffed Saviour, that you abhor, and think it a very heinous Crime, even to make mention of his Name; but the Expreffion you use conftantly, is by the Name of in or banged Perfon. You also further blafpheme moft impudently his holy Name, by turning the Word Jefu, or Fefus, into a Curse, that I abhor, and am afhamed to

mention.

גיטין פרק,The Talmud gives you an Account הנזיקין.

< That when Onkelaus (who was the Gitten Perek Nephew of Titus Vefpafian) raised Haneziken. Fefus from his Grave by Magick, he

C

C asked him, If he might be converted to the Jewish Religion? To which Jefus anfwered, Yea. He asked him again, What Punishments are inflicted on him, for deluding the People? Jefus anfwered, a very indecent Punishment, which is, That he is boiled every Day' in NY bot Soil, &c. for, faith he, this is the Punishment inflicted on thofe that corrupt the Laws of the ? or wife Men. This Hiftory is very fit to be placed with the fabulous Hiftories

אבא בר בר חנא,ftories of Ababar bar Hana בבא בתרא

Baba bathra,

and efpecially with the History of a cerPerek Hasfe-tain Rabbi, making a Voyage beyond Sea, and he look'd into the Sea, and beheld

ла,

Angels cutting and fawing of Diamonds סנהדרין דף

Sanhedrin, p.

170.

and Saphires, &c. He asked the Angels what they were doing? They made Anfwer, That those were the Diamonds and Saphires, &c. for to build the Temple, and the City of Jerufalem, At which the Rabby being rejoyc'd, told this Tale to one of his Difciples, who anfwered him, That whereas a Diamond as large as a fmall Nutt, is worth immenfe Riches, how could it then be poffible to find fuch large ones in the Sea? At thefe Words the Rabby caft his Eyes on him, and curs'd him, that he became immediately a Heap of Bones." There are many other more fuperftitious and fabulous Histories than these; but to mention all the Particulars thereof, would fwell to three or four large Folio's, and, perhaps, tire the Patience of the Reader. I do only fhew you what great Inveteracy you have against the Lord of Life; and not only against him; but also against the bleffed Virgin Mary, and my bleffed Saviour's Difciples, by faying that one John had criminal Commerce with the Virgin, when the at the fame Time

was

הגינה סנהדרין.

was betrothed to Jofeph; and the Disciples are described in the blackest CharaHagigai & ters imaginable. Whereas every Thing Sanhedrin at my blessed Saviour's Coming, was in him fulfilled and accomplished, as I have by Inftances proved already; and if so, then certainly his Mother must be a pure Virgin, and his Difciples pious Men, excepting Judas (who was to betray him into the Hands of wicked Men) Tea; bis Pfal. 41. jo own familiar Friend whom he trufted, be that did eat of bis Bread, laid great wait for himgong

Thus have I fhewn you, that the Hatred and Malice you bear against the Lord of Life, Jefus Chrift, is chiefly grounded upon the fabulous Hiftories of the Talmud, where there is not one Word of Truth, but they delude you with vain Imaginations. I fhall farther proceed and plainly make appear to you, that my bleffed Saviour came within the limited Time appointed by the Scriptures.

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The Scepter fhall not depart from Gen. 49. xé Juda, nor a Lawgiver from between his Feet, until Shiloh come, and unto him fhall the Gathering of the People or Nations be.

If we feriously confider thefe Words, we cannot but apply them to the Meffias

i

1ft. The Scepter Shall not depart from Juda. From the first King, who was David, this Scripture received Part of its Accomplishment. The Targum will have

that the Word aw Shebet, or Scepter, is Sultan, a King, or Supreme Governor, but Rafhi contradicts even those that you style greater than him, and applies the Word baw Shebet, a Rod, not for Rule, but for Correction, when most of the learned Rabbies and Traditions give their Opinion that this Verfe relates to the Meffia. There are one or two who ftrain their Wits in inventing all Manner of Evafions of this Semfe: One faith Shilob is Mofes ; another faith it is wowo the Tabernacle of Shiloh ; another faith boldly, The Scepter is not yet departed from them, but that they have as they pretend) a great Kingdom, behind the River Sam batyon, and many of them defeended from the Tribe of Juda; which River (you fay) no Perfon is able to pafs over, excepting on the raw Sabbath, for it continually throws up large Stones all the Week, but refteth on your n

Sabbath. But we have never heard of any fuch Place. Confider then, I befeech you, the many Contradictions of your deluded Rabbies, enough to convince you of their pernicious Errors adly