could have no refpect diftinctly to him, or his pofterity, the inftitution confequently general, which is proved by the teftimony and affurance to Abraham that in his feed all the nations of the earth fhould be bleffed.

2d Query. Was the validity of the promise marked out by the fcriptures for the manifeftation of the Meffiah and fulfilling of, and completing the effect, obtained, which fince is feventeen hundred and eighty-five years?

Aaron, Eleazar. No Ifraelite can give a direct answer to your question. Ifrael cannot rejoin a negative, neither can fhe reply in the affirmative. If we fay, the promise remains incomplete, we arraign the God of truth, and bring the fcriptures into disrepute. If we grant the promise perfect and fulfilled, our priefts and rulers, with that part of the Jews who adhered at that time with them, in the rejection of Jefus (who openly declared himself the Meffiah) with the generality or bulk of our nation, their affociates, and from thence the confederation, who retain the name of Jews until this day, must be reprobated and condemned. There is no alternative. God and his fcriptures must be annulled or the Meffiah produced.

Abfalom, Mordecai. Not one jot of the law fhall perish, but fhall remain everlaftingly.

3d Query. Fofhua, Nehemiah. Will the earth and its inhabitants continue in their ftate, condition, and regulation for ever?

Abfalom, Mordecai. Molt undoubtedly. Circumcifing and the Law of Mofes fhall have no change for ever, and when Mefliah fhall come

to Zion he will gather Ifrael as a hen her chicks, from all parts of the earth, where we have been fcattered, and we fhail, inttead of horses, mules and jack-affes, ride pick-a-pack on the backs of Kings and Princes. Judea from thence for. ward will be the garden of Paradife, and as Meffiab comes to restore man to his innocent ftate, furely he will plant the Tree of Life, which we will be careful to propagate in great abundance throughout the country. Then shall we live fafely every man under his own Figtree, and the riches of the heathen fhall be brought in great abundance to Zion. The Tree of Life will be an antidote to prevent death. Happy the heathen that can catch hold of the skirt of a Jew. Eternal days. moiv2

Jofbua, Nebemiab. What Meffiah does the prophet Daniel fay, in his 9th chapter, should be put to death, after confirming the fecond covenant with many, (and this at the time Jefus Chrift was put to death and fettled and eftablished the Chriftian covenant) and that the people and their prince that fhould come should destroy the city and fanctuary, and put an end to oblations and facrifices, even to the confummation, all which was completed by the Romans? &c.

Mofes. O infinite and eternal God, how can a wretch that hath spun out a life of fourfcore years in the paths of infamy and wiles of Satan -repair to your dread tribunal for mercy? I am lot and buried in the depth of horror and confufion O my God, I confefs myfelf guilty even of tifling the operation of my reason which

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which pufillanimity prevented, and rendered the feed of falvation (that you have planted in every rational being) from profiting by an increafe of merit to claim your mercy through the infinite ranfom you have purchased us with, abortive. O my God, the fcriptures that you deposited with our fathers to enlighten our understanding and guide us in an unerring direction to the altar of redemption, on which you, my Lord and my God, was pleased to be immolated, I have made use of to my own deftruction and by perfuafive allurements enticed and fettered many in the fhackles of impiety, blafpheming our God, whofe Majefty we received our being to adore. O my Creator, my Saviour and Redeemer, my God and my All, your bleffed name be for ever adored, and if your creature was capable of infinite adoration, O my God, I would with my whole heart and powers of my foul lay it with myfer buried at your facred feet. My Jefus, my Lord and Meffiah, how could your juftice, my God, fo far give place to your mercy as to screen and fuffer fo base a rèptile to go on for a series of years depreciating your adorable and moft facred Deity with impunity. True it is, my Lord, as the fcripture tells us, that you will have mercy and not facrifice, and in this your mifcreant creature is this fcripture verified. O my God, can I ever ceafe thanking, praising, loving and adoring your infinite goodness, pouring out my foul and devoting the fmall remains of life in the love and fervice of your omnipoteat Majefty, and fo row for the impious years. I have

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I have lived. I will now turn my eyes upon this child of the devil, unworthy to lick up the mire of the infernal lake, actuated by vain con ceit, erroneous and irreligious principles, from which proceed a reftlefs and malignant zeal, a firebrand, irkfome and irreconcileable; with this fetid monfter you grew up and made your league. What diftant clime have you not trod in queft of that very peace your callous heart, as a ftill-born foetus, was not capable of perceiving; though you were continually with every enticement invited to its banquet.

Proverbs, chap. 9. Wisdom hath builded her Houfe, the hath hewn out her feven pillars; the hath killed her beafts, fhe hath mingled her wine, the hath alfo furnished her table; fhe has fent forth her maidens; the crieth upon the highest places of the city. Who is fimple, let him turn in hither; he that wanted understanding, the faith to him. Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. Forfake the foolish and live, and go in the way of understanding. He that reproveth the fcorner, getteth to himself fhame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man, getteth himself a blot. Reprove not a fcorner, left he hate thee: rebuke a wife man, and he will love you. Give inftruction to a wife man, and he will be yet wifer: teach a juft man, and he will increafe in learning. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wifdom: and the knowledge of the Holy is understanding. For by me your days fhall be multiphed, and the years of your life fhall be increased. If thou art wife, thou fhalt

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Man being invefted with the most noble quality of free-will, to reject, or accept at pleafure, the divine feed being fown in his heart, his falvation depends on himself. O mifadvifed culprit, to reftrain and mortify your paffions and various inclinations, that your life might pafs unfullied, emaciating your body and reftraining your will from common neceffaries, that the poor might find a refuge, and in you a common father; what other delight have you feeked from your youth, and confidered it your duty to fort with the needy and bear their burthens to inculcate religion in their hearts, root out vicious habits, and in all things make them happy; and this not confined to your own nation, but univerfal, the whole ftock of the human fpecies. And yet vain man, the Imperial or Royal duty from which the other fhould proceed and draw its effects, you have not alone flighted, but thundered forth from a malevolent and mifchevous heart, the moft fpiteful and wicked blafphemy; fo that while your morals and duty to your neighbour remained unimpeachable (your wicked inftruction excepted) you were in a far more wicked and deteftable Itate, than the reprobate angels or devils. They ftood part of the Celeftial Hierarchy, and thro' the excellency of their fuperior quality were worthy the immortal thrones they were feated on, but contemplating as they conceived their irrevocable fublimity, and being struck with a fecret paffion of fondnels at the exquifite and Bb 2 spotlefs