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ISAIAH lxii. 1, 7. << For Zion's Sake will I not hold my
Peace, and for Jerufalem's Sake I will not reft, until the
Righteoufnefs thereof go forth as Brightnefs, and the Salva-
tion thereof as a Lamp that burneth; till the Lord esta-
blish, and make Jerufalem a Praise in the Earth."

LONDON:

Printed for J. JOHNSON, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard

M.DCC.LXXXIII.

Nov. 22, 16. MIATT,

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DEAR BRETHREN,

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S fellow creatures, and many of you as fellow Britons, the benevolent defign of this addrefs to you is to perfuade you to become fellow chriftians. In my hum-" ble opinion, I cannot evince more, to your and my own fatisfaction, my love and friendship for you, than by endeavouring to convince you, from the teftimony of your own prophecies, delivered by God to your forefathers, that the fuffering Jefus of the Chriftians was your Meffiah, of the feed of David, and that your difperfion throughout all lands, as ftrangers and fojourners, will continue, fo as that you will not be able to obtain a fettlement, or the rights of citizenship, in any part of the earth, till you believe in, B

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and acknowledge the first past advent of your Meffiah. On the contrary, when, in the language of the great apoftle to the Gentiles, Paul, who was a Jew, and a perfecutor of the Chriftians, before his fignal converfion," the veil which is now on your hearts, when you read Mofes and the prophets, fhall be taken away," fo as that you shall clearly difcern, difcerning acknowledge, and acknowledging obey, this Jefus as your promised Meffiah; not only those of you, who may choofe to dwell in the various Chriftian countries where they now fojourn, will be admitted to the enjoyment of the rights of citizenship in these countries, but as many of you as shall prefer a return to your own land, will receive the divine bleffing on your undertaking, till, at length, after a series of years, God will bring you all back, with joy and triumph, from all the countries whither he has driven you; and the several nations of the earth will be so far from obftructing your return, that they will aid and affift you in it, as I hope to fully prove from your divine prophecies, in the fequel of this addrefs. At prefent I beseech you, by the mercies of God, which Pagans, Mohammedans,

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Mohammedans, Jews, and Chriftians, undefervedly experience from Jehovah, the God of Ifrael, and the God of all the inhabitants of the earth, to seriously reflect that the hand of God has been, is, and will still be, against you, and, in the emphatic language of your own Scriptures, "his face turned away from you," so long as you remain in your unbelief. Out of numerous instances which might be cited, from the page of history, to evince the truth of this affertion, I fhall produce two.

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The firft, which occurred in this country during my state of childhood, is very remarkable, and was as follows.-When a liberal minded minifter in the laft reign, Mr. Pelham, attempted to introduce a bill for the naturalization of your people, the clamours of the nation were fo vehement against it, that he was compelled to drop it, to the best of my recollection, after it had made its way through the two Houfes of Parliament, even in its laft ftage, when it waited only for the royal affent to pass it into an act, which you know, agreeably to the political conftitution of this country, is ne

ceffary before it can obtain the force of a law.

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