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The other inftance is very recent indeed. I allude to a late tranfaction of the amiable and benevolent Emperor of Germany; who, notwithstanding he has, from his goodness of heart and liberality of mind, granted you the liberty of educating your children in German universities, (which, by the divine bleffing, may prove a means of facilitating your converfion) will not permit you to purchase a foot of land, nor admit you to the privileges of citizenship, in any one inftance, throughout his extenfive dominions.

Be affured then, you will ftill be outcasts from every civil community on the face of the earth, till you believe that the crucified Jefus was your predicted Meffiah, foretold to your ancestors by the prophets of God, that "King, who shall reign in righteousness, and execute judgment and justice," not only in Ifrael, but throughout the Earth; that King whofe kingdom shall break in pieces all other kingdoms;" that " King whom God promised to David from his loins to raise up to fit on his throne for ever;" that is, till, at the grand confummation of all things, "he shall de

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liver up his kingdom to God, who gave it, that God may be all in all," and thenceforth reign without a delegate. 'Is God a nian, that he should lie, or the fon of man that he should repent?' He will never falfify his own predictions.

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But I do not, my dear friends, expect to behold your converfion, either in whole or in part, till fome intelligent, benevolent Christian undertake to remove the obftacles, which Chriftians themfelves have thrown in your way, by their misconceptions of the effence of Chrift Jefus :-Mifconceptions fo grofs in fome particulars, as, by overturning every rational idea of natural religion, and the unity of the Supreme Being, muft difguft every thinking Pagan, Mohammedan, and Jew, who fuppofe fuch mifconceptions are founded on the tenets of genuine Christianity; whereas, in fact, they originate in a manifeft perversion of the doctrine of the Gofpel, and in human invention and mifinterpretation. I could wish fome Chriftian, more able than myfelf, would endeavour to remove these obftacles to your converfion, by rectifying fuch misconceptions; but, as none appears, B 3 I am

I am happy in offering myself as an inftrumental agent, however unworthy, in the hands of God, to effect a purpose fo worthy of God, and so beneficial to you. This I propofe to undertake in this ferious, affectionate addrefs, which, I trust, you will not difdain to honor with an attentive, candid perufal.

That God, your and my Jehovah, may keep you, my countrymen, the British Jews, and the whole house of Ifrael, under his holy protection, and that I may prove, both in word and deed, inftrumental, to the extent of my ability, in accomplishing your converfion to a faith in the suffering Jefus, as your promifed Meffiah, the future King of Ifrael, are the subjects of a fervent, cordial prayer, which I frequently addrefs to that infinitely wife, great and good Being. If this Addrefs, in its commencement, continuation, and conclufion, should in any degree, prove the happy inftrumental caufe, under God, of bringing not only your dispersed people, but also Pagans, and Mohammedans, to the acknowledgement of your Meffiah, of rectifying the various mysterious errors of Chriftians, and

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of more or less enlightening the minds of all, I cannot be too thankful to God for his goodness, in influencing my mind, by a train of his natural events, to dedicate my thoughts and time to your effential fervice. The Lord our God, who is one Lord or Jehovah, and not a fanciful tripartite Divinity, abundantly repays my little labor of love to you, in the inexpreffible joy of heart, refulting from a coufcioufnefs that your happiness is my grand object in view. Profeffing a zealous attachment to your true welfare, I pray to God to profper my benevolent endeavours for your good, if such be his holy will; and intend, if they should be productive of the defired effect, the converfion of a number of you to the acknowledgment of your Meffiah, and my God should be pleased to grant me life and health, to hold myself in readiness to accompany you, and, if called on by you, to lead you back, under God's protection, to your own land; for your first emigration thither, will, I apprehend, be neceffarily partial, or proportionate to the numbers of you, who fhall from time to time. embrace Christianity. Now as your Jehovah punished your forefathers by the sword,

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by a fignal destruction of their city and temple, by captivity, and by a general difperfion of them throughout all lands, agreeably to the predictions of Mofes and the prophets, which dispersion is a standing miraculous evidence of this truth, that Jefus was the Meffiah; and as you, their pofterity, are involved in these fufferings, which are the confequences of their guilt in rejecting him, and putting him to death fo you, on your converfion to Christianity, will receive double for all your fufferings. Inconceivably great are the bleffings God has in store for you, and through you, for all the nations of the earth, when this most defirable event fhall, in his due appointed time, take place. God has promised not to forfake you, but to be a God andfather to Abraham, Ifaac, Jacob, and their feed for

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I shall now, as was propofed, attempt to remove the obftacles to your converfion, thrown in your way by Chriftians themfelves. As your ancestors made void the word of God, contained in the law of Mofes, by their numberlefs traditions, and your modern Rabbis have rendered it ftill

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