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or faint appearance of returning bleffings from our God! Ifrael has finned, a grievous fin, O Lord our God, which has brought this confufion on our guilty heads, but which is hidden from our eyes. Yet, my God, Ifrael will not forfake the covenant you made with our fathers, neither will the forget the promise you have given her, nor give your glory to another. [Zachariah, chap. 8. before Chrift 518.] Thus faith the Lord of Hofts: " It fhall yet come to pafs, that there fhall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities; and the inhabitants of one city fhall go to another, faying, "Let us go. fpeedily to pray before the Lord, and to seek the Lord of Hofts; I will go alfo. Yea, many people and ftrong nations fhall come to feek the Lord of Hofts in Jerufalem, and to pray before the Lord." Thus faith the Lord of Hofts. "In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men fhall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even fhall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, faying, "We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you." This with many other prophecies confirm Ifrael not to fuffer any innovator to feduce her, but to perfevere in the law of your forefathers until Meffiah our Prince be manifefted to the glory of his people and confufion of our foes.

Boy Zachariah 9th chapter. "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; fhout, O daughter of Jerufalem; behold thy King cometh unto thee; he is juft, and having falvation, lowly, and riding upon an afs, and upon a colt, the foal of an afs. And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim,

Ephraim, and the horse from Jerufalem, and the battle-bow fhall be cut off; and he fhall fpeak peace unto the heathen; and his dominion fhall be from fea even to fea, and from the river even unto the ends of the earth.

Mofes. O my God, Jefus, who is called Christ, a few days before his death, rid upon the foal of an afs, attended by an innumerable concourse of people that had gathered from many countries to the great feftival with great acclamations. Hofanna to the fon of David, bleffed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, Hofanna in the higheft. This multitude was egged by a ftrange miracle he performed a few days before, in the prefence of many perfons; raifing one Lazarus, after being in the grave some days. Thefe matters are enrolled by the evangelifts, with a thousand other extraordinary events, which Ifrael has ever attributed to collufion and art magic. Ifrael is too closely and powerfully linked and attached to her Meffiah, Lord of Lords, and King of Kings, the High and glorious Prince, tranfcending all who have been feated on the throne, or wore the diadem of Majefty, to confent, even by thought, to favour one the condemned by an impartial procefs, for affuming that facred character, to retract, or be cajoled, from the upright fentence paffed; this by no means will, or can, Ifrael be induced to do.

Meffiah Great and Glorious, whose sphere is Majefty, kings and princes compofe his train, and nations lick up the duft before him. Jefus, poor and abject, placed in lurking holes, accompanied

companied by fishers, publicans, and other vagrants of the peftiferous frum. Can the glory of the one be transferred to the other? Light and darkness are oppofites, which the two characters before us bear the most faithful refemblance.

Boy. You have declared the caufe, or quality, that has entailed unremitted mifery, for near two thousand years, on the people of the Jews, not leaving a veftige or leaft appearance of alleviation; which caufe, or quality, is infused or animated by pride and vain-glory, clouds and darkens the foul, and prevents the difplay of reafon; the fruits are purely terreftrial, neither can we be at a lofs to account for this ftrange infatuation, when we observe the fcourge continually exercifed upon that people for their obduracy, even from that memorable epoch of their unrelenting villainy to their brother Jofeph, in refolving his death, through envy and hatred. The fcriptures are one continued chain of threatenings and chaft fements, and which has come down to us, your own Speech gives evidence. Which of the prophets have you not calumniated, harraffed, and put to death, laft of all your Meffiah? and, altho' near two thousand years, your rancour and thirst of blood fpeaks the malignity of your imbittered heart, against whom, your Father, your Lord, and your God. The caufe, his manifefting himself in a meek and humble ftate, and degrading himself even to the moft difgra eful death of the Crofs, as a coramon malefactor, betwixt two thieves. Why this humiliation?

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to place himself the barrier betwixt the offended Deity and his criminal creature. Who were his executioners? These criminals, for whom he died, his chofen. What were the manner of his death? The princes and ancients of his favorite nation, through envy and malice, plotted and bribed one of his felect friends to betray him, for thirty pieces of filver; and when their prifoner fpent the night in calumniating, buffering, blafpheming, fpitting in his face, and infulting him with every affront their bloody minds could invent. How ended this tragical scene? In the morning he was taken to the heathen, Pilate, and infifted to have him crucified. Was he proved guilty of any offence? So far from being even derided by the judge, though heathen, that he used every perfualive argument to wreft him from your malice; fo far, that when he found you were not to be gained upon, he declared himself innocent from the blood of that Juft Man. You even carried your perfidy to the choice of a common thief rather than not be of that inveterate and invidious temper, or fpirit, which actuated without controul your fathers against your God, and his fervants, the prophets. But in this laft tragedy you have outstript them; you are guilty of Deicide, for which crime that unparalelled malediction remains unabated on the whole nation of the Jews, as is obvious to the world at this day. What was done to the Meffiah when Pilate paffed fentence of death, though at the fame time teftified his innocence? He was taken into the governor's hall,

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cloathed with a garment, crowned with thorns, and many other infults, and derided as a mock king, as he was a few hours before by Herod and his court. He was alfo tied to a pillar, and most inhumanly mangled, as was alfo done a little before by Pilate, with a view to appease the obduracy of the Jews, to fave his life. When he had paffed through various fufferings in the hall of Pilate, you loaded him with the gibbet on which he was to make his exit. Your infults accompanied to the place of execution, when your obduracy, having no bounds, nailed him through his hands and feet to the gibbet, then raifing him in the air to the world, proclaimed yourselves the moft abandoned and wicked men, leagued in the most atrocious and infamous perfidy with the fiends of darkness; and during this bloody fpectacle you continued your infults, your chief priests and ancients mixing in the common mob, deriding and reviling him, offering vinegar, with gall, to quench his thirft; nay, after his death, his fide. was opened by a fpear, piercing into his heart, to prevent his return to life. Every transaction throughout this bloody fcene do we obferve the fulfilling and accomplishing fome prophecy. We have compared, as we have proceeded, the prophecies relating to the death of the Meffiah, with the particular circumstances relating, at the death of Chrift, and find the whole, as you acknowledge, perfectly correl pond with each other. You will take this caution, that many prophecies, expreffing the restoration of Ifrael, were before the captivities.

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