men that lived before him, or ever shall live after him.

8. I believe with a perfect faith that all the law which at this day is found in our hands was delivered by God himself to our master Moses (God's peace be with him!)

9. I believe with a perfect faith that the same law is never to be changed, nor any other to be given us of God, whose name be blessed.

10. I believe, &c. that God (whose name be blessed), understandeth all the works and thoughts of men as it is written in the prophets. He fashioneth their hearts alike; he understandeth all their works.

11. I believe, &c. that God will recompence good, to them that keep his commandments, and will punish them who transgress them.

12. I believe, &c. that the Messiah is yet to come, and although he retard his coming, yet I will wait for him till he come.

13. I believe, &c. that the dead shall be restored to life, when it shall seem fit unto God the Creator, whose name be blessed and memory celebrated, world without end, Amen."

The late indefatigable Dr. Priestley addressed the Jews some years ago with spirit, and the above Mr. Levi, a learned-Jew, replied. An excellent Address, however, to the Jews, has since come from the same pen, dated Northumberland, America, October 1, 1799. It concludes in the following pointed

manner : "I formerly took the liberty to address you, and had the happiness to find you were satisfied that I wrote from the purest motives, and a sincere respect and good-will to your nation. Having then advanced all that I thought necessary for the purpose, I shall not repeat it here. But I cannot help observing, that though one of your nation, a person whom I well know and respect, replied to me, he did not undertake to refute my principal argument, viz. that from Historical Evidence. He did not pretend to point out any defect in the arguments that I advanced, for JESUS having wrought real miracles, his having died, and having risen from the dead. And if the gospel history of those facts be true, whatever may be objected to Christianity on other accounts, the divine mission will be unquestionable. God would never have suffered any person pretending to have come from him, to impose upon your nation and the whole world in so egregious a manner as Jesus must have done, if he had been an impostor. Would God have raised an impostor to life, after a public execution? And yet in my discourse on that subject, I have shewn that this one fact has the most convincing evidence that any fact of the kind could possibly have If you attentively consider the character of Jesus, his great simplicity, his piety, his benevolence, and every other virtue, you must be satisfied that he was incapable of imposture. Compare his character and conduct with that of Mahomet;

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or any other known impostor, and this argument of the internal kind must strike you in a forcible manBesides, how was it possible for such a religion as the Christian, preached by persons in low stations, without the advantage of a learned education, to have established itself in the world, opposed as it was by every obstacle that could be thrown in its way, if it had not been supported by truth and the God of truth! The belief of your nation in general, has answered an important purpose in the plan of Divine Providence, as nothing else could have given so much satisfaction, that Christianity received no aid from civil government, and that the books of your scriptures are genuine writings, not imposed on the world by Christians. But this great end being now completely answered by the continuance of your incredulity for such a length of time, I hope the time is approaching, when, as the apostle says, Rom. xi. 26, All Israel will be saved, an event which will be followed by the conversion of the Gentiles in general. Your restoration cannot fail to convince the world of the truth of your religion; and in those circumstances, your conversion to Christianity cannot fail to draw after it that of the whole world!"

In the Spectator, No. 495, Addison has given a paper on the history of the Jews, written with his accustomed ingenuity and piety. See also a discourse preached on the Conversion of the Jews, by the Rev. D. Bogue, before the Missionary Society.

Doddridge, Gill, Edwards, Bicheno, Winchester, and Wrangham are of opinion, that the Jews shall be restored to the land of Palestine. Winchester sug

gests that the large rivers in America were placed by the Creator on the eastern side, that the Jews may waft themselves down to the Atlantic and then across that vast ocean to the Holy Land-and Mr. Wrangham, a respectable clergyman now living, has these spirited lines on the subject.

And see THEY come! survey yon sweeping bands,
Countless as Persian bowmen, who beset

Freedom exulting on her attic rock,

When Asia rous'd her millions to the war,
And sunk in all her pomp before the foe.
With ranks as full,

But with more prosp'rous fates and purer joys,
Than swell the warrior's breast, their destin'd march,
The HEBREWS bend from where Hydaspes rolls

His storied tide, or cleaves with holy prow

Th' Atlantic main, whose conscious surge reveres
Its buoyant load

Now call'd by God, or from the western stream

Of Plata, or where Ganges pours his urn,

In love-knit league they throng! With guardian hand
MESSIAH erst their nation's deadliest fate,

Guides the returning host!

Lightfoot and Lardner are, however, of a contrary opinion, declaring that their call shall not cause them to change place, but condition. So various are the sentiments of divines on this curious subject.

Attempts are now making by the Rev. Mr. Frey, a convert from Judaism, to induce his countrymen to embrace Christianity. He preaches at a large Chapel, usually termed the French Church, in Spital Fields-and is patronised by the London Society. These efforts have hitherto been attended with little success. The reader, however, is referred to their publications as well as to the following Piece by the Author of this work-An Address delivered at Worship Street, October 2, 1809, on the Immersion of Mr. Isaac Littleter upon his Conversion to Christianity. Mr. Littleter had met with a Discourse preached by J. Evans, at the opening of a New Chapel at Cranbrook in Kent, on the Messiahship of Christ, the perusal of which happily terminated in his profession of the Christian religion.-The Jews will not allow that any of their brethren abandon Judaism but from interested motives-this is illiberal and contrary to fact. Amongst the many Jewish converts, we would hope that they are not all chargeable with this gross duplicity, were it merely for the credit of their own nation.

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Mr. Evans, in the above Address, remarks. is a melancholy fact, that the Jews have been barbarously used in almost every age, and in almost every country. Nor must I conceal this mortifying truth, that they have in general been treated better by Mahometans and Pagans, than by Christians! Since the reformation, however, their condition has been meliorated. Even in this country, the life of a