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their ministry: and he said to them, Your fathers have recompensed me evil instead of good. I said unto them, Thou shalt have no other gods before me; but they soon polluted my command; they made a molten calf, and worshipped it, and sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel. I then lifted up mine hand unto them, that I would scatter their seed among the gentiles. Now for the idolatry of your fathers, and your own sins, *you shall go abroad and make an atonement; and the atonement shall be, that you shall preach against idolatry among the nations. I know you will suffer much, and you must suffer, yea, even a great deal for my name's sake: but never despair; remember that I have passed my holy word already, to make thee Lord over all the sons of Adam; and in due time I will fulfil my word. I also will never forget them that shall be kind to you; but all those families that shall trouble you, they shall receive punishment.

Jews and gentiles believe that God created the heaven and the earth, and all that is in them; the Lord created mankind that they should be happy, but the sons of Adam turned aside. What was to be done they must all return, but there must be some means devised how to bring them all back. Here God acted like a wise husbandman, who, having * one bushel of fine wheat, will not keep it concealed; for so it never will increase but he will scatter it abroad, and by so doing he expects a good harvest. And the only seed which was to be scattered was Israel; for they are the ministers, they must preach, but no others; as it is written: This people have I

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formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise, but not the gentiles. Isaiah xliii. 21. And again, "O give thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the nations." Psalm ciii. 1. "Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all nations." Psalm xciii. 3. Thus far it is proved, that Israel was scattered, first, to suffer, and secondly, to preach to all nations. We ought also to consider that, if Israel were not scattered abroad, and only punished at home in their own land; in the day of judgment, it would be a fine excuse for many of the nations, when the Lord should say, Why have ye despised my honour? I am the only true God, and ye made to yourselves strange gods their answer would be a very good one; they would say, Lord, we never had any true instruction. Then he would say, Why did not you go and learn of my people Israel? They would say, Lord, we never heard of Israel; we know not their land, neither the people. By this means, many nations that are afar off from the holy land would escape punishment. *But now no excuse can be made; Israel, the ministers of God, are sown almost in every nation.

5. When Israel was scattered abroad, the nations observed that this people differed from all nations in laws and ceremonies; and one of the nations said to a Jew, Come and take my daughter. for a wife he said, I am forbidden by my law: then he said, Come and eat with me: he answered and said, My law has forbidden me to eat with you. The gentile said, Give me information in your law. The Jew began to expound to him

the law; and thus the gentiles, in process of time, obtained a considerable knowledge in the Jewish striptures. Then the gentiles began to explain those scriptures in a different way; and, because Israel would give no ear to their improper explanation, they began to butcher them; killing and murdering men, women, and children; and the property of Israel they divided among themselves. But Israel did not cease to preach, still knowing their duty; they preached not only in one country, *but every where they preached wonderful sermons, and that in every corner of the world. Now this fact, which I have here stated, is acknowledged by all nations; and in one corner, and in one city, Israel preached a sermon, and his text was, That it was better to die courageously for the law, &c. and, as he said, so it was done. Fifteen hundred of them *took knives and stabbed their wives and children; afterwards, the men set fire to the place wherein they were, and all of them became a burning sacrifice to the law of their God. Such surprising sermons Israel preached in almost every country. But none of the gentiles, yea, not one nation laid it to heart, saying, What can be the meaning of this people, preaching such shocking sermons? * They must have a good reason for so doing; and the gentiles will be undone some day or another; but this kind of meditation never was thought of.

6. The gentiles will acknowledge that which I have here mentioned to be true; but all this Israel suffered for their sins, and their sermons are nothing, because we see that all their preaching had no effect; and we until this day have

seen no harvest, not even so much as a beginning; and we have not seen even yet that Israel should be the lord over all nations; but on the contrary, we know the gentiles are the lords, and Israel are their servants. But remember this, that as long as the bushel of wheat is in being the time is not passed. It is well known that the bushel of wheat was cut down in sundry times, yet no sooner was it cut before it grew up again. This must be a clear proof that at last there will be a harvest; and at the same time he who will be the gatherer of the harvest will certainly be also the Lord over the whole harvest; and in spite of all nations they will gain their point at last; and all those nations who despised the ministers of God, shall be glad at last to beg, and to say, "O let me go with you, for we have heard that the Lord is with you." Zech. viii. 23.

Although we have proved by Holy Scripture that Israel are the ministers of God, and that he only who is appointed to minister has a right to preach; yet, in spite of the word of God, the Christians will have it that they are the ministers now, and that they are to preach to Israel; and now they are to make the harvest, and to bring back the outcast of Israel to the knowledge of the new law. We know that there is only one holy God, one holy nation, one holy law, one holy land, one holy city: this was engraved on the tables of the great drawing of the law, before the foundation of the world, and so it must remain for ever: and so we find it recorded; "For I am the Lord, I change not." Malachi iii. 6. Now, if God is not changeable, then it will follow that

every thing must remain as it was ordained from the beginning; but, as concerning the new drawing, or the new law, not a word is mentioned about it in the great drawing of the law. The Christians boast very much about this new law; and here we shall ask, If their new law permits them to make free with the blood of innocent people? They cannot say that they are at liberty to do so; they will say we are commanded not to murder. Now the question will be, how or by what means will they repay the blood of Israel, which they have so gladly and wilfully shed? They must be found guilty even by their own law; and even their own law is not able to save them after they have broken their own law, and profaned the word of God, and stained their hands with innocent blood; yet they will say they are chosen to be the ministers of God? And is it possible, that a true God would choose men of this kind? The Lord said, "Be ye holy, for I am holy."

8. * Perhaps they will say, This was done by our forefathers; but, as for us, we were never guilty of shedding the blood of Israel. This is true, but there is a way of killing people without a sword, that is, by continually publishing, and, in it, describing the abominable character of people, that all their actions are enormous; and painting them in such colours as are not fit to be ascribed to man and this publishing is not only once but from age to age, even until this very day. It must be acknowledged by all nations that all this was done, and is done until this very day, to innocent Israel; and this kind of ill usage

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