TWENTY-ONE CHAPTERS TO THE JEWS; OR, AN EPISTLE TO THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL: BY HIRAM DAVID WILLIAMS. "For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jeru- St. PAUL to the GALATIANS, Chap. IV. Verses 25 and 26. BODMIN: PRINTED BY LIDDELL AND SON, FOR THE AUTHOR AT PADSTOW. 1849. Price 1s. 10d. PREFACE. THERE can be no apology due to men, when we write under conscientious influences, and without any regard to the erroneous practices of the age: because, when we advocate truth, to be making excuses for it, will by no means entitle us to any character but that of the coward, fearful of following it in its prevailing course. The minds of the truly wise are constantly aware, that truth must prevail, and this too among all the nations. In consideration of this, I have been bold, in these Chapters to the Remnant of Israel, to assert my conscientious opinion; and to press them by any arguments, however un favourable in a worldly point of view, and unsafe in regard to the prejudices of their repealed religion. To place one's self in the position of danger, perhaps, from them whom we are endeavouring to benefit;-to risk one's life, perhaps, as has been done in former time, for the sake of declaring to the Remnant of Israel the truth;-should at least awaken the consideration, in them who are conscious that their benefit was the sole object,-that the men, who thus would be of service to them at so much risk every way, are entitled, by every law, human and divine, to the warmest thanks of those whose welfare had been so disinterestedly pursued. There can be no divine law to return evil for good; and you could not enter on so wrong a resolve, in such case, without incurring divine displeasure : no matter what nation it is, O man, to which you belong. The natural Remnant of Israel may be assured, that I have been forewarned of the danger of this attempt: but as one, whom they as yet know not, stood by me to help, I cannot shrink from any danger with which they, or any other people, may blindly threaten me, for any of the arguments advanced to them in the following Chapters: especially as Moses' thirteenth chapter of Deuteronomy is, in a legal sense, applicable only to their own present estranged condition. With respect to Christians, I have to say, that no real Christian can take offence at my alluding to the symbolical teachings of the book of the Revelations of St. John, which denounce evil; because such denunciations can be applicable to none but to men, of all ages to which they refer; who, in the love of filthy lucre and worldly advan |