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I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Ifrael. And the Lord faid unto me, Take unto thee yet the inftruments of a foolish fhepherd. For, lo, I will raise up a fhepherd in the land, which fhall not vifit thofe that is cut off, neither shall feek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that ftandeth ftill; but he fhall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their laws in pieces. Woe to the idol fhepherd that leaveth the flock! the fword fhall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye; his arm fhall be clean dried up, and his right eye fhall be utterly darkened.

O my God, from the day Ifrael rejected you, the has drank the waters of affliction, from the day of her captivity, under Titus, her arm remains dried up. She is no more a nation, but a vagabond obnoxious, an alien, (as Cain after imbruing his hands in his brother's blood) whoever fees her may kill her; he has no remedy in herself, having neither civil or military force, nor power, either to compel others, or defend herself. Her arm is truly withered and dried up. Ifrael's eye is alfo darkened, the veil is over her eyes, until now, fhe knows not, that she is guilty of a crime fo far more heinous than Cain's, as you, my Lord, in dignity, are more worthy than Abel. Cain confeffed his guilt with the juftice and equity of the law of retaliation. Genefis 4th chpater, I fhall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it fhall come to pass, that every one that findeth me fhall flay me. But Ifrael has not only dipped her hand in the blood of her brother, which would

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would have been upon an equality with Cain's murder, fhe has put to death, after using every degradation, infults, the most atrocious calumnies, buffets, fpitting in his face, fcourgings, mockings, and whatever her malice could invent, the Lord of life, the Chrift of God, her Lord and her God. But as if her Lord was not fufficiently degraded, they contrived the most ignominious and painful death, and placed him naked betwixt two thieves. Their difcourfe of him was, attributing his miracles and the wonders that he daily laid before them to Satan, who, fay they, affifts this feducer, to raise feditions and draw the multitude from their duty to the law of our fathers, and allegiance to Cæfar; by which means, if we let him go on, we shall be of no refpect, and the Romans will destroy our nation. This vindictive fpirit, revengeful in the extreme, blafpheming that very God that was fo long, and through all the prophecies pointed out circumftantially to them, accepting the robber Barabbas in preference, demanding not his death alone, but that his blood should be on herself and children, as the prophet Ifaias forewarned her, faying, Go to this people, and fay to them, with the ear you fhall hear, and fhall not understand; and seeing you fhall fee, and fhall not perceive. For the heart of this people is grown grofs, and with their ears have they heard heavily, and their eyes they have shut, left, perhaps, they should fee with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and fhould be converted, and I fhould heal them. O my God,

God, to the confufion of our nation this prophefy of blindness, deafness, ignorance and obduracy, remain unabated until this day, according to the teftimony of your fervant Mofes, our law-giver, in the following words; "And the Lord thy God fhall raise you up a prophet of your own brethren like unto me, him fhall you hear, and it shall come to pass, that every foul that will not hear that prophet to do whatfoever he commandeth them, fhall be cut off from his people." The completion of these prophecies is evidenced and have been verified. from the deftruction of our temple and city. And, according to our prophet Daniel 9th chapter, (before Chrift 534 years) for rejecting and putting to death the Meffiah.. This heavy malediction fhould remain in our nation, and points out the time of this bloody catastrophe disclosed by the angel Gabriel.

490 years before Chrift. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish the tranfgreffion, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlafting righteousnefs, and to feal up the vifion and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. Know, therefore, and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerufalem unto the Meffiah the Prince fhall be feven weeks, and threescore and two weeks; the ftreet fhall be built again, and the wall even in troublous times; and after threefcore and two weeks fhall Meffiah be cut off, but not for himself; and the people of the prince (the Romans under Titus) that shall

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come shall deftroy the city and the fanctuary; and the end thereof fhall be with a flood, and to the end of the war defolations are determined; and he fhall confirm the covenant with many for one week, and in the midft of the week he fhall caufe the facrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overfpreading of abominations he fhall make it defolate, even until the confummation, and that determined, fhall be poured upon the defolate.

Boy. Before Chrift 520 years. In the feventh month, in the one and twentieth day (fecond year of Darius) came the word of the Lord by the prophet Haggai, faying, Speak now to Zerubbabel, fon of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the fon of Jofedech, the high-priest, and to the refidue of the people, faying, Who is left among you that faw this house in her first glory? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing? yet, now be ftrong, O Zerubbabel, faith the Lord; and be ftrong, O Joshua, fon of Jofedech, the highprieft; and be strong, all ye people of the land, faith the Lord, and work; for I am with you, faith the Lord of Hofts, according to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out. of Egypt; fo my fpirit remaineth among you, fear ye not. For thus faith the Lord of Hofts, Yet once, it is a little while, and I will fhake the heavens and the earth, and the fun, and the dry land; and I will fhake all nations, and the defire of all nations fhall come; and I will fill this houfe with glory, faith the Lord of Hofts. The Silver is mine, and the gold is

mine, faith the Lord of Hofts. The glory of this latter houfe fhall be greater than of the former, faith the Lord of Holts; and in this place will I give peace, faith the Lord of Hofts. Ezra 6th chapter. Thefe are your words, O Lord; your temple was built and finifhed on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the fixth year of Darius the king, and facrifice was offered for the space of five hundred years, until it was destroyed by the Romans under Titus. In this temple, O my God, you fulfilled and accomplished your determined decree, promised man at the fall of our first parents, made fure to Abraham that in his feed all the nations of the earth fhould be bleffed, you were pleased, my Lord, to tranfmit your bleffing to Ifaac, and after him to Jacob, you then continued it in the tribe of Judah, until David; him you appointed (a poor fheep boy) king over all Ifrael, feated him on the throne of majefty, and crowned him with the diadem, placing in his hand the royal fceptre, and with him confirmed an everlafting covenant ordered in all things and fure. O my Lord, you not only crowned him with royalty by making him king, but you have raised and dignified him with the exalted title of royal prophet. His pfalms are the inestimable treasure of your goodnefs, in them the prophecies are fet forth, what was to be accomplished one thoufand years after, your. divinity, humanity, abjection, fufferings, rejection, death, refurrrection, afcenfion, triumphantly feated on the right-hand of the infinite Majefty, reprobation of your enemies, and eterZ 4

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