TO me the receiving of them is acceptable, and my spirit embraces them with gladnesse, for they are to me beloved for the Fathers sakes, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, Samuel, David, Daniel, and all the Worthyes, and righteous men, and Prophets of the Lord, which have sprung up among them; whose breasts, some of them, we suck to this day; and who stand as worthy ensamples to us, upon whom the ends of the world are come: of whom also our Lord came, that hath brought life and immortality to light to us Gentiles; who hath taken down the partition wall, that was between the Jewes and us Gentiles, so to take away the enmity, and of twain to make one. Though they yet see not this, yet my heart is enlarged towards them to place them in its love; and not mine onely, but many others.

Againe, We look that they shall come in and believe, and that the time of their restoring is very nigh: Why should we not then desire to have them with us, that when God opens their eyes to see him whom they have pierced, they and we may rejoyce together, after the mourning, Zech. 12.

Againe, Why should we not be desirous of their comming in (if there be any love in us towards them) that so if it be possible we may become instruments of their Conversion; holding forth before them a Heavenly conversation to convince them; and that they may come to see that Christ Jesus hath followers that are innocent and blamelesse in the world; for this Nation doth afford such. And so that great stumbling block of the wickednesse of the lives of seeming Christians, who have got the name; and that other great stumbling block of the superstition and Idolatry of their worships, may be taken out of their way: for God hath among us such as bear testimony against both these.

Againe, They are to obtaine mercy thorow our mercy, Rom. 11. 31. If then our mercy be shut up against them, how shall they obtaine mercy thorow ours? what manner of spirit is this, that shuts them out from mercy, or hardens their hearts, by shutting up their own bowels of mercy against them, thorow which their mercy is to spring: as on the contrary, our mercy sprang up to us thorow their unbeliefe, Rom. 11. 30. How unthankfull, how unkinde is such a spirit.

Againe, Its said, Rom. 11. 12. If their fall be the riches of the world, and their diminishing be the riches of the Gen­tiles, how much more their fulnesse; now we looking for this, why should we not desire the furtherance of their conversion, even for our own sakes.

Againe, It is agreeable to the Spirit and precepts of Jesus Christ, to give to him that askes, and not to be forget­full to entertaine strangers: Now why should we not put in practice these precepts towards the Jewes, seeing they are strangers, scattered in the Earth, and peaceably ask and entreat for a habitation among us: except we can shew reason why they are to be excluded in this case, and not comprehended in those precepts.

Againe, lastly, The Jewes being scattered from their Country, and lying under the severity of the Lord; this is a time for us to shew mercy, and not to help forward the affliction, Zech. 1. 15.

These things I am moved to publish, as out of love to the Nation of the Jewes; so also out of love to my owne Country, which I would not have to be found a rejecter of them being strangers in the time of their calamity, they seeking to come in and live peaceably among us. But chiefly, that they may not returne and say, They have prayed for us but they will not receive us; and so the name of Christ be blasphemed and evill reported of by them. Let that lying-prayer lye upon the heads of those onely, in whom all other lying-prayers are found; that the name of Christ may not be blasphemed with it abroad; as it is with all the rest of their abominations: For there are many in this Nation whose bowels are as well enlarged to receive them, as they have been to pray for them.