To you who are the Shepherds of Israel, and Rulers, who reside for the great God of the whole World, in theCitieofSmyrna,which isMotherinIsrael,to her Princes, her Priests, her Judges, and especially to the perfect wise men, and of great experience, may the Lord God cause you to live before him, and delight in the multitude of Peace, Amen,so be the will of the Lord.These our Letters are dispatched unto you, to let you understand, that in the place of your Holiness, we have heard that the learned man, which was inGaza, calledNathan,Benjamin, hath publishedVaine Doctrines, and made the World Tremble at his Words and Inventions; And that at this time we have receiv'd Advice, that this man some dayes since, departed fromGaza, and took his Journey by the way ofScanderone, intending there to Imbarke forSmyrna, and thence to go toConstantinople, orAdrianople: And though it seem a strange thing unto us, that any Man should have a desire to throw himself into a place of Flames, and Fire, and into the Sparkes ofHell; notwithstanding we ought to fear, and suspect it;For the Feet of Man alwayes guide him to the worst: Wherefore we Under-written do Advertise you, that this Man comingwithin the compass of your Jurisdiction, you give a stop to his Journey, and not suffer him to proceed farther, but presently to return back. For we would have you know, that at his coming, he will again begin to move those Tumults, which have been caused through the Imaginations of a New Kingdome;And that Miracles are not to be Wrought every day.God forbid that by his coming the People of God should be destroy'd in all places where they are, of which he will be the first, whose Blood be upon his own Head: For in this Conjuncture, every little Error or Fault is made Capital. You may remember the Danger ofthe first Combustion: And it is very probable that he will be an occasion of greater, which the Tongue is not able to express with Words. And therefore by Vertue of Ours, and Your own Authority, you are to hinder him from proceeding farther in his Journey, upon paine of all those Excommunications which OurLawcan Impose, and to force him to return back again, both he, and his Company. But if he shall in any manner Oppose you, and Rebel against your Word, your Indeavours and Law are sufficient to hinder him, for it will be well for him and allIsrael.For the Love of God, let these Words enter into your Eares, since they are not vain things; for the Lives of all theJewes, and his also, consist therein. And the Lord God behold from Heaven, and have pitty upon his PeopleIsrael, Amen. So be his holy Will: Written by those who seek your Peace.Joam Tob, Son ofChanania Jacar.Moise Benveniste.CalebSon ofChocham, Samueldeceased.Isaac Aloenacagne.Moise Barndo.Joseph Kazabi.Elihezer Aluff.Samuel Acazsine.Jehoshuah Raphael Benveniste.
To you who are the Shepherds of Israel, and Rulers, who reside for the great God of the whole World, in theCitieofSmyrna,which isMotherinIsrael,to her Princes, her Priests, her Judges, and especially to the perfect wise men, and of great experience, may the Lord God cause you to live before him, and delight in the multitude of Peace, Amen,so be the will of the Lord.
These our Letters are dispatched unto you, to let you understand, that in the place of your Holiness, we have heard that the learned man, which was inGaza, calledNathan,Benjamin, hath publishedVaine Doctrines, and made the World Tremble at his Words and Inventions; And that at this time we have receiv'd Advice, that this man some dayes since, departed fromGaza, and took his Journey by the way ofScanderone, intending there to Imbarke forSmyrna, and thence to go toConstantinople, orAdrianople: And though it seem a strange thing unto us, that any Man should have a desire to throw himself into a place of Flames, and Fire, and into the Sparkes ofHell; notwithstanding we ought to fear, and suspect it;For the Feet of Man alwayes guide him to the worst: Wherefore we Under-written do Advertise you, that this Man comingwithin the compass of your Jurisdiction, you give a stop to his Journey, and not suffer him to proceed farther, but presently to return back. For we would have you know, that at his coming, he will again begin to move those Tumults, which have been caused through the Imaginations of a New Kingdome;And that Miracles are not to be Wrought every day.
God forbid that by his coming the People of God should be destroy'd in all places where they are, of which he will be the first, whose Blood be upon his own Head: For in this Conjuncture, every little Error or Fault is made Capital. You may remember the Danger ofthe first Combustion: And it is very probable that he will be an occasion of greater, which the Tongue is not able to express with Words. And therefore by Vertue of Ours, and Your own Authority, you are to hinder him from proceeding farther in his Journey, upon paine of all those Excommunications which OurLawcan Impose, and to force him to return back again, both he, and his Company. But if he shall in any manner Oppose you, and Rebel against your Word, your Indeavours and Law are sufficient to hinder him, for it will be well for him and allIsrael.
For the Love of God, let these Words enter into your Eares, since they are not vain things; for the Lives of all theJewes, and his also, consist therein. And the Lord God behold from Heaven, and have pitty upon his PeopleIsrael, Amen. So be his holy Will: Written by those who seek your Peace.
Joam Tob, Son ofChanania Jacar.
Moise Benveniste.CalebSon ofChocham, Samueldeceased.Isaac Aloenacagne.Moise Barndo.Joseph Kazabi.Elihezer Aluff.Samuel Acazsine.Jehoshuah Raphael Benveniste.
By these meanesNathanbeing disappointed of his Wandring Progress, and partly ashamed of the event ofThings contrary to his Prophesie, was resolved, without entringSmyrna, to returne again: Howsoever he obtained leave to visit theSepulcherof hisMother, and there to receive Pardon of his Sins (according to the Institution ofSabataibefore mentioned) but first washed himself in the Sea, in manner of Purification, and said hisTephilla, orPrayers, at the Fountain, called by us the FountainSancta Veneranda, which is near to theCymetryof theJewes, and then departed forZionwith two Companions, a Servant, and threeTurks, to conduct him, without admitting theLegatesto Audience, or answering the Letter which was sent him, from all the Communities of theJewesinItaly. And thus the Embassy of these Legates was concluded, and they returned from the place from whence they came, and theIewesagain to their Wits, following their Trade of Merchandize and Brokage as formerly, with more quiet, and advantage, then the meanes of regaining their Possessions in the Land of Promise. And thus ended this madPhrensieamongst theIewes, which might have cost them dear, had notSabataiRenounce't hisMessiashipat the Feet ofMahomet.
THE END
WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. LOS ANGELESPUBLICATIONS IN PRINT
1948-1949
16. Henry Nevil Payne,The Fatal Jealousie(1673).
18. Anonymous, "Of Genius," inThe Occasional Paper, Vol. III, No. 10 (1719), and Aaron Hill, Preface toThe Creation(1720).
1949-1950
19. Susanna Centlivre,The Busie Body(1709).
20. Lewis Theobald,Preface to the Works of Shakespeare(1734).
22. Samuel Johnson,The Vanity of Human Wishes(1749), and twoRamblerpapers (1750).
23. John Dryden,His Majesties Declaration Defended(1681).
1950-1951
26. Charles Macklin,The Man of the World(1792).
1951-1952
31. Thomas Gray,An Elegy Wrote in a Country Churchyard(1751), andThe Eton College Manuscript.
1952-1953
41. Bernard Mandeville,A Letter to Dion(1732).
1962-1963
98.Select Hymns Taken Out of Mr. Herbert's Temple(1697).
1963-1964
104. Thomas D'Urfey,Wonders in the Sun; or,The Kingdom of the Birds(1706).
1964-1965
110. John Tutchin,Selected Poems(1685-1700).
111. Anonymous,Political Justice(1736).
112. Robert Dodsley,An Essay on Fable(1764).
113. T. R.,An Essay Concerning Critical and Curious Learning(1698).
114.Two Poems Against Pope: Leonard Welsted,One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope(1730), and Anonymous,The Blatant Beast(1742).
1965-1966
115. Daniel Defoe and others,Accounts of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal.
116. Charles Macklin,The Covent Garden Theatre(1752).
117. Sir George L'Estrange,Citt and Bumpkin(1680).
118. Henry More,Enthusiasmus Triumphatus(1662).
119. Thomas Traherne,Meditations on the Six Days of the Creation(1717).
120. Bernard Mandeville,Aesop Dress'd or a Collection of Fables(1704).
1966-1967
122. James MacPherson,Fragments of Ancient Poetry(1760).
123. Edmond Malone,Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Mr. Thomas Rowley(1782).
124. Anonymous,The Female Wits(1704).
125. Anonymous,The Scribleriad(1742). Lord Hervey,The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue(1742).
126.Le Lutrin: an Heroick Poem, Written Originally in French by Monsieur Boileau: Made English by N. O.(1682).
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PUBLICATIONS FOR 1967-1968
127-128. Charles Macklin,A Will and No Will, or a Bone for the Lawyers(1746).The New Play Criticiz'd, or The Plague of Envy(1747). Introduction by Jean B. Kern.129. Lawrence Echard, Prefaces toTerence's Comedies(1694) andPlautus's Comedies(1694). Introduction by John Barnard.130. Henry More,Democritus Platonissans(1646). Introduction by P. G. Stanwood.131. John Evelyn,The History of ... Sabatai Sevi ... The Suppos'd Messiah of the Jews(1669). Introduction by Christopher W. Grose.132. Walter Harte,An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad(1730). Introduction by Thomas B. Gilmore.
127-128. Charles Macklin,A Will and No Will, or a Bone for the Lawyers(1746).The New Play Criticiz'd, or The Plague of Envy(1747). Introduction by Jean B. Kern.
129. Lawrence Echard, Prefaces toTerence's Comedies(1694) andPlautus's Comedies(1694). Introduction by John Barnard.
130. Henry More,Democritus Platonissans(1646). Introduction by P. G. Stanwood.
131. John Evelyn,The History of ... Sabatai Sevi ... The Suppos'd Messiah of the Jews(1669). Introduction by Christopher W. Grose.
132. Walter Harte,An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad(1730). Introduction by Thomas B. Gilmore.
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Transcriber's Notes:Obvious punctuation errors repaired.Illegible and missing letters repaired from the context.Third page of "To the Reader": "Transastions" changed to "Transactions" (most of these Transactions).Hyphen removed: "fore[-]fathers" (p. 60).Page 45: "Tamnz" changed to "Tamuz".Page 46: "Kislen" changed to "Kislev".Page 47: "Cælestial" changed to "Cœlestial".Page 66: duplicate "with" deleted (passed more easily with them).Page 72: "Jewt" changed to "Jews" (where the Jews reside).Page 78: "Chochan" changed to "Chocham".Page 79: "Cocham" changed to "Chocham".Page 82: "assoon" changed to "as soon" (as soon as he saw placed).Page 99: "Merchantlie" changed to "Merchantile" (leaving their Merchantile course).Page 110: "Xio" changed to "Zion", although this is far from certain.Page 110: "rerurned" changed to "returned" (they returned from the place).
Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
Illegible and missing letters repaired from the context.
Third page of "To the Reader": "Transastions" changed to "Transactions" (most of these Transactions).
Hyphen removed: "fore[-]fathers" (p. 60).
Page 45: "Tamnz" changed to "Tamuz".
Page 46: "Kislen" changed to "Kislev".
Page 47: "Cælestial" changed to "Cœlestial".
Page 66: duplicate "with" deleted (passed more easily with them).
Page 72: "Jewt" changed to "Jews" (where the Jews reside).
Page 78: "Chochan" changed to "Chocham".
Page 79: "Cocham" changed to "Chocham".
Page 82: "assoon" changed to "as soon" (as soon as he saw placed).
Page 99: "Merchantlie" changed to "Merchantile" (leaving their Merchantile course).
Page 110: "Xio" changed to "Zion", although this is far from certain.
Page 110: "rerurned" changed to "returned" (they returned from the place).