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JESUS, THE DIVINE MESSIAH. 
 
 TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. 
 
 "For thou art nn holy people unto the Lord thy God ; the Lord thy God 
 bath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all peo.jle that 
 are upon the face of the earth. The Lord did not set hia love upon you nor 
 choose you, because ye were more in number than any people, (for ye were 
 the fewest of all people.) But because the Lord loved you; and because ho 
 would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord 
 brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of 
 bondmen, Irom the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Know therefore that 
 the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and 
 mercy with them that love him, and keep his commandments to a thousand 
 generations; and repayeth them that hateth him to their face, to destroy 
 them ; he wil not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to hia 
 taco. Ihou Shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and 
 the judgnients, which I command thee this day, to do them,"— Deuteionomu 
 
 Vila D""!!, 
 
 This beautiful passage, so expressive of Divine love, so illus- 
 irative of Divine sovereignty, and so aw^c-inspiring as a declara- 
 tion of God's faithfulness both in threatening^ • and promises, was 
 addressed to the children of Jacob by their great Lawgiver Moses. 
 Other records of blessing and of cursing are contained in this 
 book, which have been remarkably fulfilled in the history of this 
 wonderful people. Indeed its fearful comminations are now in 
 process of accomplishment, as il.ey have been for the last eighteen 
 centuries. Their long dispersion among all the nations of the 
 Gentiles, and the sore calamities to which they have been ex- 
 posed are in exact accordance wnth the predictions of their own 
 Scriptures read in the Synagogue every Sabbath-day. And this 
 grievous state of matters will continue in some form or other 
 until the children of Abraham receive the Messiah, of whom 
 <' the Law, the Psalms, and the Prophets," so abundantly testify. 
 It is our fervent prayer that the Lord, the Spirit, would remove 
 the veil which is upon their heart, as they read Moses and the 
 
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 prophets. May Jchovoh rcmeml)cr His covenant, and have 
 mercy upon Israel, that they may be saved. 
 
 I olTer no apology for addressing a discourse to Jews and to 
 Christians in relation to Jews, for they are objects of deepest in- 
 terest to every right-minded disciple of Christ. '< They are be- 
 loved for the fathers sakcs,"'— -< their debtors we are"f— « who 
 are Israelites ; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, 
 and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of 
 God, and the promises, whose are the fathers, and of whom as 
 concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all God (Supreme 
 God) blessed for ever."t We long for their salvation. We 
 believe that the hopes of the church and of the world are linked 
 with that salvation. There can be no gathering to Zion of the 
 fulness of the Gentiles until the Jews are brought in ; and " God 
 is able to graft them in again." There has always been a remnant 
 according to the election of grace, who have exhibited true faith 
 in Jesus of Nazareth; of which remnant it is the plain duty of 
 the Churches to seek the increase— a duty that may be hopefully 
 performed, inasmuch as God's promises are full and abundant. 
 
 It is not my purpose at this time to construct an elaborate or 
 critical argument, nor to deal much in controversy ; but rather 
 in a style unafTected and simple— in the first place to inquire from 
 the Jewish Scriptures— an acknowledged standard of appeal— 
 What Messiah was to be ? Secondly, to ^mv that Jesus of 
 Nazareth was actually all that Moses and the Prophets thus 
 described and, finally, to urge sundry considerations as an in- 
 citement to the reception of this glorious Messiah. It may be 
 proper simply to note at the outset, that in the matters of con- 
 troversy between Jews and Christians, the former have availed 
 themselves largely in these latter times of the plausibilities of 
 German Rationalistic Conjmentators, so that many texts which 
 the more ancicit Jewish writers attributed to the Messiah are now 
 dei.ied a place in that category. The interpretations of the Ra- 
 tionalist school have been subjected \o a rigid analysis by other 
 German commentators equally learned, and vastly more logical 
 and more devout, and with all their plausibility they have beeq 
 dfcffionstrated to be utterly unsound. This infidel school rej^pt* 
 
 * Komans xi. 28. f Romans xv. 21 t Rtwaans ix 4, 6. 
 
as not Messianic^ a large portion of all the Psalms and Prophecies, 
 in which that distinguished personage is predicted, — despiritualizes 
 inspired songs and predictions, — and contemptuously laughs at 
 the Old Testament Miracles. But it heing obvious that such 
 principles of interpretation would reduce the ever blessed Jeho- 
 vah Himself to a poetical myth, and render the Sacred Scrip- 
 tures without value as a standard of faith and morals ; they have 
 been successfully unmasked, and denounced as alike false and 
 mischievous. It would be to stray from my purpose now to enter 
 into these investigations; besides, the work has Deen successfully 
 done by others, and the substantial accuracy of the holy oracles, 
 as we possess them, has been established. In this discourse we 
 «hall use prophetical unfoldings and descriptions which are recog- 
 nized as having reference to the Messiah by the most learned 
 Christian writers of modern as well as ancient days, and which 
 were in the main so recognized by the writers of the ancient 
 Jewish Targums, without troubling ourselves with the perversion* 
 of a misnamed Rationalism. 
 
 I. 
 
 WJiat do the Old Testament Scriptures teach us to expect 
 concer?iing the Messiah ? 
 
 It is not needful to enter upon preliminary evidence, that the 
 grand subject of ancient propiiecy was ever the coming of a 
 Saviour, for of that fact the intelligent Hebrew has a perfect con- 
 viction. Observe then — 
 
 1. TJie Jeivi^i Sc.ipturcs induce the expectation that the pre- 
 dieted Saviour sJiall be called Messiah. This word signifies 
 " anointed," or the being instituted to an ofRce by anointing, — 
 and it is derived as a name from the Divine command, to anoint 
 persons and things, when set apart to the service of God. The 
 patriarch Jacob, after having slept in the neighbourhood of Luz» 
 under heaven's canopy, reared a stone as a pillar, and pouring 
 oil upon it, consecrated it as a memorial to God, calling the place 
 henceforth Bethel, or the house of God. See Genesis xxviii. 18 
 — 22. According to the Divine injunction, the Lawgiver Moses^ 
 anointed with holy oil, the tabernacle and its furt>iture, the altar 
 and its appurtenances, and then Aaron and his Sons to be Priesli 
 

 of the Lonl— Exodus xl. 9—15. The kings of Israel were de- 
 nominated '« The Lord's Anointed," inasnuich as they were con- 
 Bocraled to omce by a special anointing. See 1 Samuel x. 1 ;— 
 xvi. 13, in which the setting apart of Saul rnd of David is des- 
 cribed. Thus also were the prophets of the Lord consecrated, 
 88 we read Jeliovah's command to Elijah, saying : " (Jo, return 
 on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus ; and when thou 
 comest, anoint Ilaxael to be King over Syria ; and Jehu, the son 
 01 Nim^hi, Shalt thou anoint to be King over Israel; and EHsha, 
 the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah, shalt thou anoint to be pro- 
 phet in thy room."— 1 Kings xix. 15-16. Thus, places and 
 instruments of worship were anointed as thereby consecrated to 
 God's service, and officers, especially tiie Monarch, the Priest, 
 and the Prophet, were inaugurated into oflice by similar anoint- 
 ing. 
 
 Agreeably to this institution, the sacred writers celebrate the 
 expected Saviour under the name Messiah, as ordained to be a 
 Ktng, a Fricst, a ProphcL, and these in a manner distinct and 
 isolated from all others. In the second Psalm, the first of these 
 offices is assigned to him. The Chaldce Targum* and the most 
 ancient Jewish interpreters apply this Psalm to Messiah ; though 
 some of the moderns have sought to divert the reference. An 
 attentive and candid reader can hardly fail to agree in opinion on 
 this point with the Targum and the Ancients. In the second 
 verse of the Psalm, the Kings of the earth are described as setting 
 themselves ''against Jehovah, and against his Anointed," or Mes- 
 siah ; and in the sixth and seventh verses that personage is 
 enthroned, and recognized as the Son. '« Yet have I set (An- 
 nointed) my King upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the 
 decree : Jehovah hath said unto me. Thou art my Son, this day 
 have I begotten thee." In Psalm ex. 1, this King is pronounced 
 to be a Priest. « Jehovah hath said to my Lord, Sit thou at my 
 right hand, until I make thine enemies thy fooistool. Jehovah 
 shall stnd the rod of thy strength (the sceptre of thy power) oul 
 
 * The Targums are paraphrastic versions of some parts of the Old Testa- 
 ment made in the Chaldec language, after tlie Hebrew liad ceased to bever- 
 nacuhar among the Jews. The most ancient of these is that of Onkelos. 
 vZr-!f T r^ ^^"t^t <=°»t'^"P«'-ary of St. Paul. It is on the Pentateuch. 
 ? '^f* 7 Jt-nathan Ben Uzziel, contemporary with Onkelos, is on the Prophets, 
 including most of the historical books. ^ ' 
 
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 of Zion ; rule thou n ('^c miJat of ihino enemioH 
 
 Jehovah hath sworn and will not repent, Thou art a priest for 
 ever after the order of Mclcliizedck." The ronlateudi fo.itaina 
 a distinguished prophecy of Messiah in Ills character of Prophet. 
 « The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the 
 midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall 
 hearken. According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy 
 
 God in Iloreb I will raise them up a Prophet 
 
 from anu)ng their brethren like unto thee, and vvi" put my words 
 in his mouth ; and ho shall speak unto them all that T siiall com- 
 mand him."— Z)^?/«. xviii. 15—19. Thi« passage rcciuiros t' "M 
 Messiah .should not only be a prophet, but a Legislator as was 
 Moses, the founder of a new law, and the head of a new eco- 
 nomy. No Jewish prophet, other th.>n Messiah, sustained the 
 relations which Moses did, especially that of lawgiver. The 
 Trophet Isaiah, in a passage concerning vhich the Targum is ex- 
 plicit, and the ancient interpreters are unanimous, in the reference 
 to Messiah, thus discourses: "And there shall come forth a rod 
 out of the stem of Jesse-, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots; 
 and the Spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon him, (which is his an- 
 nointing by the Spirit,) the spirit of wisdom and understanding, 
 the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of 
 the fear of the Lord ; and shall make him of quick understanding 
 in the fear of Jehovah, and he shall not judge after the sight of 
 his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears ; but with 
 righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with ecpiity for 
 the meek of the earth ; and he shall smite the earth with the rod 
 ofhis mouth, and with the breaih of his lips shall he :slay the 
 wicked, and righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and 
 faithfulness the girdle of his reins."- -/sa««/i xi. 1—5.* Another 
 passage in the book of Isaiah, which the Chaldco paraphrast de- 
 clares to belong to the Messiah, and concerning which Abarbanel 
 scruples not to assert that all those who do not interpret the pro- 
 phecy oX Messiah have been struck with blindness, presents to 
 view an explicit testimony : " Behold my servant, whom I up- 
 
 » The Targum of Jonathan expounds the first verse thus: "From the 
 chil<n-cn of Jesse a King shall proceed, and from his children's pobterity the 
 Messiah shall arise to greatnesa." ^ -' 
 
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 hold ; mine elect in whom my soul delighteth : I have put my 
 ^pint upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. 
 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in 
 the street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smokin. 
 flax shall he not quench: he .hall bring fc.h judgment unto 
 truih. lie shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set iud<^- 
 mcnt on the earth : and the isles shall wait for his law. Thus 
 saith God, Jehovah, that c,-cated the heavens, and stretched them 
 out; he that spread f-ith the earth, and that which cometh out 
 ol it ; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to 
 them that walk therein ; I, Jehovah, have called thee in righteous- 
 ness, and will hold thine han.l, and will keep thee, and give thee 
 for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles : to open 
 the bhnd eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and 
 them that si' la darkness out of the prison house. I am Jehovah ; 
 that ,s my name ; and my glory will I not give to another, neither 
 my praise to graven images. Behold, the former things are come 
 to pass, and new thing, do I declare ; before they sprin<r forth I 
 w.ll tell you of ihem --Isciiah xlii. I- 9. That another striking 
 description in this book has exclusive reference to the Messiah 
 does not admit of question, namely, Isaiah Ixi. 1-3. This areat 
 personage is prophetically the speaker, in terms full of meaning. 
 " liie Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; for Jehovah hath 
 anomted me, to publish glad tidings, &c." These verses, and 
 others parallel with them as t. topic, should be carefully pondered 
 by the anxious inquirer. 
 
 The quotations just given indicate the propriety of generally 
 understanding by the name Messiah, and by the introduction of 
 an unujue and most distinguished ])ersonage, that great Saviour 
 who was promised to the fathers, and who must ever be the hope 
 and the joy of the redeemed church. One or two exceptions to 
 his statement confirm the rule. As e. g., Psal.n cv. 5. where 
 the name is applied to the Patriarchs : " Touch not mine anoint- 
 ed, and do my prophets no harm ;" and Iscdah xlv. 1, where the 
 designation is given to Cyrus. The speciality of the reference in 
 every such case is so marked, that mistak3 is impossible. In- 
 deed the Jewish Creed, which asserts that the Saviour is yet to 
 come, calls that Saviour the Messiah. 
 
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 We go on to remark that 
 2. The Old Testament Scriptures distinctly intimate a singular 
 and mysterious constitution of j^e^'soJi as belonging to Messiah. 
 That he was to be a man, is evident from the primeval promise 
 in Eden, wliere he is described as "the seed of the woman," as 
 also from the assurances elsewhere recorded, that he should be 
 the offspring of Abraham, and the " son of David." But this point 
 is admitted by the Jews, and need not be futdicr insisted upon. 
 Their Scriptures, however, speak with much distinctness of a 
 higher nature. He was to be the Son of God in a sense which 
 supposes equality and indeed oneness with God. The names and 
 the attributes of humanity are ascribed to him, and we know him 
 to be a man. In like manner are we taught his Divinity, by the 
 ascription to him of the names and attributes, the works and glory 
 which are peculiar to God. 
 
 The passagejn the Psalm xlv., verse 6 and 7, is very striking: 
 " Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever ; the sceptre of thy 
 kingdom is a right sceptre. Thou lovest righteousness and hatest 
 wickedness, therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the 
 oil of gladness above thy fellows." The Chaldee paraphrase is a 
 sufficient proof that the ancient Jews considered this splendid ode 
 as an address to the Messiah. On the controverted point in it, 
 the Targum has " The throne of thy gloiy, Jah, standeth 
 for ever." Thus the name, the throne, the kingdom, the right- 
 eousness, the v:jrnity of Jehovah, are ascribed to Messiah. It 
 is a distinguisliing feature of Isaiah's prophetical writings, that he 
 r mstantly passes from the near, the temporary, and the earthly, 
 to sublime descriptions of RIessiah's person, kingdom and in- 
 fluence. An instance of this occurs, Isaiah vii. 14: <' Therefore 
 the Lord himself shall give you a sign ; Behold a virgin shall con- 
 ceive, and bear a Son, and shall call his name Immanuel." This 
 prophecy seems to have compreliended two very distinct things, 
 namely, a birth soon to occur, and then in after days the Messiah. 
 It is of that class which had a primary, but inferior and partial 
 reference to some proximat.? person or event ; and then another 
 and a designed reference to some remoter circumstance, which, 
 when it occurred, would be the real fulfilment, answering every 
 feature, and filing up the entire extent of the original delinea- 
 tion. It may be com.pnred with in one view, a parallel prcdic- 
 
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 tion by the prophet Micah v. 2—4: "But thou Beth-lehem 
 Ephratah, though thou bo little among the thousands of Judah, 
 yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be Ruler in 
 Israel ; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlast- 
 ing. Therefore will he give them, up, until the time that she 
 which travaileth hath brought forth; then the remnant of his 
 brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. And he shall 
 stand and feed in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the 
 name of Jehovah, his God; and they shall abide ; for now shall 
 he be great unto the ends of the earth." The first promise was 
 that Messiah should be with special emphasis: '' The seed of the 
 Woman," and accordingly, the prophecy intimates that a Virgin 
 conceives, travails, brings forth ! 
 
 In strict accordance with the magnificent ode, the 45th Psa.m, 
 already quoted, is that remarkable prediction in Isaiah which all 
 the cavils of the enemy have failed to silence in its clear and tel- 
 ling testimony that Messiah was to be properly Divine. No 
 interpretation, having even plausibility, has ever been put upon 
 this passage which blinks this great truth. The inspired song 
 speaks out in unmistakeable terms both the humanity and deity of 
 the Messiah. " Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given : 
 and the government shall be upon his shoulder ; and his name 
 shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Ever- 
 lasting Father, the Prince of Peace- Of the increase of his 
 government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of 
 David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with 
 judgment and with justice, from henceforth even for eve-. The 
 zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this."— /sam/i ix, 6, 7. 
 
 A personage is introduced in several parts of the Old Testament 
 Scriptures under the designation of Angel of Jehovah, a name 
 which some conceive should be rendered "Angel Jehovah." It 
 would be impossible to disprove the correctness of this last ren- 
 dering, but as it cannot be certainly established, the first may be 
 adopted. This great Being speaks to Hagar three times as des- 
 cribed.— Gcwews 16: 7—13. And at length it is aded that Hagar 
 called upon the name of Jehovah who had spoken to her, 
 « Thou art God who scest me." The Angel of Jehovah from 
 heaven calls to Abraham saying « now I know that thou feare-it 
 
 God. and hnst nnt wifhliol/l ♦H.r c^., *u:..- .i„ /•„- '"> 
 
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 Angel of Jehovah calls to Abraham a second [time from hea- 
 ven, and said By Myself I have sworn, saith Jehovah that 
 since thou hast not doubted this thing ia blessing I will bless thee 
 and in multiplying will multiply thy seed as the stars of the hea- 
 ven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore See Genesis 
 
 xxii: 11—18. There are many similar passages, which, with 
 these, represent the Angel of Jehovah as possessing uncontrolled 
 dominion and the attributes of omniscience and omnipresence :— 
 He swears by 7/msc//as Deity, and He describes himself as the 
 Almighty Protector and Redeemer— the author of the most desi- 
 rable blessings. He is the object of religious invocation— He is in 
 the most express manner and repeatedly declared to be Jehovah, 
 God, the ineffable I am that I am, and yet this Mysterious 
 Being is represented as distinet from God, and acting (as the 
 term Angel imports) under a Divine Mission. There can be no 
 doubt whatever that this remarkable personage was and is the 
 Messiah. 
 
 3. TJie time and place of Messiah's appea.ing are paints dis^- 
 tincttj predicted. 
 
 Their father Jacob thus prophecied to the twelve patriae chal 
 ancestors of the Jews " The Sceptre shall not depart from Judah, 
 nor a law giver from between his kei, until Shiloh come ; and 
 unto him shall the gathering of the people be."— Gmms xlix : 10. 
 This prophecy was understood by the Ancient 3eyf& to refer to 
 Messiah, as appears from the Targum of Onkelos. « There shall 
 not be taken away one having the principality from the house of 
 Judah, nor a scribe from his childrens's children even for ever, 
 till Messiah come, whose is ths Kingdom and him the people' 
 shall obey." As a further proof that the Ancient Targumist 
 believed Jacob to be favoured with a view of Messiah's coming, he 
 paraphrases the 18th verse of this chapter as follow: "'I wait 
 for thy salvation, Lord'— Our father Jacob said not I wait for 
 the salvation of Gideon, the Son of Joash, which is a temporal 
 salvation ; nor the salvation of Samson, the Son of Manoah, which 
 is a transitory salvation : but I wait for the redemption of Messiah, 
 the Son of David, who shall come to lead the children of Israel io 
 himself; even for his redemption my soul waiteth." We i nder- 
 Btand this prophecy of Jacob to assure the Jewish people that 
 
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 they should be an organized nation until Messiah came. There 
 should continue among them the regal and judicial authority until 
 this great Saviour should make his appearance and assume the 
 dominion. 
 
 Another passage of marked character as to the time of Mes- 
 siah's advent is found, Ilaggai ii : 6, 9, compared wllh Malachi 
 in : 1 . « For thus saith Jehovah of hosts. Yet once, it is a little 
 while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, 
 and the dry land : and I will shake all nations, and the Desire of 
 all nations shall come: and I will fill this house (the second tern- 
 pie) with glory, saith Jehovah of hosts. The glory of thi? latter 
 house shall be greater than of the former, saith Jehovah of hosts: 
 and in this place will I give peace, saith Jehovah of hosts.'" And 
 the Lord says by Malaehi, " Behold, I will send my messenger, 
 and he shall prepare the v^ay before me : and the Lord, whom ye 
 seek, shall suddenly come to his temple even the messenger of the 
 convenant, whom ye delight in : behold he shall come, saith 
 Jehovah of hosts." 
 
 This remarkable prophecy is interpreted by ancient Jewish 
 writers as referrin-^ to the Messiah. Indeed that reference seems 
 beyond dispute. Yet he is identified with Jehcvah, for the fore- 
 runner « shall prepare the way before me"— saith Jehovah. 
 He is also represented as the Proprietor of the Temple. He is 
 characterized as The Sovereign a title no where given in this form 
 to any except Jehovah. And it is His coming which imparts 
 Its superior glory to the Matter house," for in all material 
 glory that Temple was greatly inferior to the Temple built 
 by Sol on. Besides neither tabernacle nor temple were 
 said to be filled with glory except by the visible symbol of the 
 Divine presence: accordingly the only way in which this 
 latter house could excel the former must be by the entrance 
 within its sacred precincts of the Divine Majesty in the person 
 of Messiah. He was the Desire of all nations, because he 
 was to be their light and the author of their most needed 
 blessings, and he was to come into that house, consequently 
 while that building stood on Mount Moriah. That same house 
 did stand until Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans, for 
 Herod's work upon it was repairing and beautifying, not 
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 of Babylon remained until destroyed by the Roman Emperor, 
 since which no temple has stood in Zion : and yet Messiah was 
 to come and to crown with excelling glory that Temple. 
 
 Daniel had been favoured with remarkable visions, especially 
 of Messiah's Kingdom as contrasted with the rise and fall of cer- 
 tain secular empires;— and as a distinguished token of the Divine 
 regard, he receives precise information respecting the time when 
 this Kingdom should be set up.— « Seventy weeks are deter 
 mined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish the 
 transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconcilea- 
 tion for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal 
 up the vision and projjhccy and to anoint the most Holy. Know 
 therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the com 
 mandment to restore and to build Jerusalem, unto the J\Jessiah the 
 Prince, shall be seven weeks, and three score and two weeks 
 the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous 
 tmies. And after three score and two weeks shall Messiah be 
 cut off, but not for himself, and the people of the prince that shall 
 come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end 
 thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desola- 
 t.ons are determined.''— i)«w«W ix : 24—26. Now it is to be 
 observed that seventy weeks or sevens is a mode of prophetic 
 reckonmg to be calculated by the expression in the second verse 
 of the chapter, namely seventy years. It is a determinate num- 
 ber. Hence seventy times seven or four hundred and ninety years 
 even according to Jewish writers themselves, is the period of 
 time assigned in the prophecy for a particular purpose. And 
 what was that purpose. The text distinctly answers the question 
 Certainly it was not the purging away of the people's sins by 
 their own sufferings, for not only is this directly contrary to the 
 whole teaching of the Bible, but also such a view would have 
 afforded no encouragement to Daniel, whom God would comfort 
 for he had just said in his prayer - We do not present our suppli- 
 cations before thee for our righteousness, but for thy great mercies 
 O Lord hearken and do, defer not, for thine own sake, my 
 God, for thy City and thy people are called by thy name." 
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 sacrifices had only prefigured. Then was to be performed the 
 redemption work prophetically announced in the fi)rtieth Psalm, 
 where Messiah himself is the speaker— « Sacrifice and offering 
 thou didst not desire : mine cars hast thou opened ; burnt-offering 
 and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come : in 
 the volume of tli^ book it is written of me, T delight to do thy will, 
 O my God ; Yea, thy law is within my heart, Pscdm xl : 6—8.' 
 When sin should be thus removed, and everlasting righteous- 
 ness brought in, another part of the Divine purpose would be 
 answered, namely, '< to seal the vision and prophecy," that is, to 
 confirm all the prophecies concerning the Messiah, by the accom- 
 phshment of ihem in Himself. The last part of the Divine pur- 
 pose which was to be carried into effect at this period, was « to 
 anoint Ihe most holy," or " holy of holies," an expression which 
 usually denotes the inner sanctuary. This cannot refer to the 
 actual temple at Jerusalem at any time after the captivity, for it 
 was destitute of the anointing oil, nor can it refer to any future 
 anointing, for the 490 years, at the end of which it was to be 
 done, have passed eighteen centuries ago, accordingly we must 
 look for the fulfilment in a spiritual anointing of a spiritual holy of 
 hohes, which, as the place and medium of access to God. doubt- 
 less means the Messiah. 
 
 Thus explicit in regard to the time of Messiah's advent, the 
 Old Testament is not less clear in its announcement of the place. 
 The prophecy already quoted from Micah, specifies Bethlehem 
 of Judah, the City of David. 
 
 4. The line of Messiah's descent according tothejlesfi, is dis- 
 tinctly marked in the Jewisli Scriptures. 
 
 We have here a point upon which enlargement is not needful 
 for upon It there is no controversy. It is admitted by all that 
 Messiah was to be of the seed of Abraham, and of the family of 
 David. And one would suppose it must follow that he should 
 appear before the Jewish genealogical registers were lost, and 
 whde It was possible to identify the family of David, and the 
 Messiah as springing therefrom. How could that be done now^ 
 Supposmg for the sake of illustration the Jew to be right in his 
 anticipation of the Messiah to come, and supposing some one 
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 possible to prove him of the family of David, or how could his 
 claim be disproved ? The registers are irretrievably lost. 
 
 There is, however, in the prophecy, an interesting item, as to 
 the state of David's family, when Messiah should spring out of it. 
 
 The branch of it from which he was to come, should be greatly 
 reduced in position, so as to be lowly and despised by the world. 
 The figure used by the Prophet Isaiah to denote this lowly condi- 
 tion of that distinguished house, is that of a noble tree, worn down 
 to the stump by age, or felled to the roots. « But there shall come 
 forth a shoot from the stem of Jesse, and a scion shall spring forth 
 from his roots," Isaiah xi., 1. The word rendered in the Eng- 
 lish Bible « stem," occurs but three times in the Old Testament. 
 In Job xiv., 8, we read, « though the root thereof wax old in the 
 earth, and the stock (stem) thereof die in the ground," &c. ; and 
 in Isaiah xl., 24, we read, "yea their stock (stem) shall not take 
 root in the earth." It means, therefore, the stock or stump of a 
 tree that has been cut down,— a stock, however, which may not 
 be entirely dead, but where the decayed stump may send up a 
 branch or shoot from its roots. It is thus beautifully applied to 
 an ancient and honourable family that has fallen into decay, its 
 glory having departed, yet where there may be a descendant that 
 shall rise and flourish exceedingly, just as a tree may decay and 
 fall, but with vitality in the root, it may yet send up a glorious 
 shoot. 
 
 5. Mark the numerous circumstances, m^ny of them minute^ 
 which the Old Testament Scriptures prophetically apply to 
 the Messiah. 
 
 His public preaching was to be of good idings : « The Spirit 
 of the Lord Jehovah is upon me, for Jehovah hath anointed me 
 to publish glad tidings," Sac— Isaiah Ixi., 1 . This was to be accom- 
 panied by numerous miracles of mercy. « Strengthen ye the 
 vsreak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to the faint 
 hearted : Be strong ; fear not ; Behold your God ! . . . Then shall 
 the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstop- 
 ped. Then shall the lame leap like the hart, and the tongue of 
 the dumb shall sing: For water shall break forth in the wilder- 
 ness, and streams in the desert."— /samfe xxxv.,3,6. He was to 
 preach with *he autbo^it" ^f ^^^.^u^t. __j i ? im , 
 
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 Moses, and those who disregarded his words should do so at their 
 peril, they should be cut off from among the people.^See Deut. 
 xvui., Ij— 19, already quoted. At the same time he was to be 
 despised and rejected by the people and their rulera, and deliver 
 ed by them to an accursed death. "All they that see me laugh me 
 to scorn ; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying. He 
 trusted on Jehovah that he would deliver him : let him deliver 
 him seeing he delighted in him."— Psa//w xxii., 7, 8. « The Lord 
 Jehovah hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither 
 turned away back. I gave my back to the smiters, and my 
 cheeks to them that plucked off the hair, (the beard.) I hid not 
 my face from shame and epitting."— isa^oA 1., 5, 6. In both 
 these passages Messiah is himself the speaker, but in the following 
 he appears in the third person : " For he shall grow up before 
 him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground : he hath 
 no form nor comeliness ; and when we shall see him, there is no 
 beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected 
 of men j a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and we hid 
 as It were our faces from him ; he was despised and we esteemed 
 him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sor- 
 rows; yet wc did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and 
 afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was 
 bruised for our iniquities : the chastisement of our peace was 
 upon him ; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like 
 sheep, have gone astray ; we have turned every one to his' own 
 way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us ^W— Isaiah 
 liii., 2 — 6. 
 
 As to his death, not only the fact, but the minutest circumstan- 
 ces are foretold. He was to be put to death in a manner unknown 
 to the laws of Moses, namely, by crucifixion. « They pierced 
 my hands and my feet."-Psa/mxxii., 16. He was to be betrayed 
 by his own familiar friend. « Yea mine own familiar friend in 
 whom I trusted, who did eat my bread, hath lifted up his heel 
 against me."-P5a/«j xli., 9. He was to be sold for thirty pieces 
 of silver. « So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. 
 And the Lord said unto me, cast it unto the potter ; a goodly 
 price that I was prized at of them."— ZfcA. xi., 12, 13. He was 
 to be put to death as a criminal, and along with criminals, « he 
 poured out his soul unto death ; and he was numbered with the 
 
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 iransgressors,"— Isaiah liii., 12. His remorseless foes were to 
 give him vinegar and gall to drink in his dying agonies. « They 
 gave me also gall for my meat ; and in my thirst they gave me 
 vinegar to drink."— Pso/wi Ixix., 21. They were to deride and 
 scoff him.— See Psalm xxii., 7, 8, already quoted. They were 
 to part his garments among them, and to cast lots upon his ves- 
 ture. " They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon 
 my vesture. But be not thou far from me, Jehovah ."—Pso/m, 
 xxii., 18, 19. He was to display the meekness of a lamb brought 
 to the slaughter " He was oppressed and he was afflicted ; yet 
 he opened not his mouth ; he is brought as a lamb to the 
 slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he open- 
 eth not his mouth," Isaiah liii., 7. He was to make intercession 
 for the transgressors, which is declared, IsaiaJi liii., 12. He was 
 to be pierced as said the Prophet Zechariah. " They shall look 
 upon me whom they have pierced ;" Chap, xii., 10. And yet 
 none of his bones were to be broken, just as'the passover lamb was 
 to have no bone boken. See Exodus xii, 46. Psalm xxxiv, 20. He 
 was to be buried, yet to see no corruption ; therefore to rise again 
 early. « Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, (in Hades,) neither 
 wilt thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption."— Pso/m xvi., 10. 
 Although his death should be ignominous, he was to be buried 
 in an honorable manner, "and he made his grave with the 
 wicked, but with the rich man was his tomb."— /sa2a/i liii., 9. He 
 was to rise from the dead and ascend into heaven. « Thou will 
 show me the path o( life ; in thy presence is fulness of joy : at 
 thy right hand are pleasures for ever more."— Psa/»j xvi., 11. 
 « Thou hast ascended on high : thou hast led captivity captive : 
 thou hast received gifts for men, and for the rebellious also : that 
 thou, Jah, O God ! mayest dwell with us."~P5aJw Ixviii. 
 18. He was to sit on the right hand of God, tiU all his enemies 
 were made his footstool. « Jehovah hath said to my Lord, sit 
 thou at my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool," 
 Psalm ex., 1. 
 
 The sufferings of the Messiah were to be the great vicarious 
 atonement for sin. The history of the trial of Abraham when 
 caUed to offer up his son Isaac ; the sacrifice of the passover : the 
 various expiations under the law, especially the expressive solem- 
 nities of the great dav of atonement, werft all tvninnl nf AVc auffo-. 
 
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 ings whom it should please the Father lo set forth as a propitiation 
 for sin. « Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows." 
 He ,was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our 
 iniquities, the chastisement by which our peace is effected wa» 
 laid upon him, and by his stripes, we are healed. 
 
 The kingdom of the Messiah was to be set up in the world, 
 beginning at Jerusalem, and extending to the uttermost parts of 
 the earth ; but it was not to be of this world ; its principles were 
 to be righteousness and peace, mercy and truth ; not the policy 
 of man, but the perfections of God "Mercy and truth meet 
 together ; righteousness and peace kiss each other. Truth shall 
 spring out of the earth ; and righteousness shall look down from 
 heaven. • * • Righteousness shall go before him, and shall 
 set us in the way of his steps."— Psa/w Ixxxv., 10—13. This 
 kingdom was not to be extended like that of Mahommed, by fire 
 and sword, but by the propagation of the truth, first by Messiah 
 himself, and afterwards by his chosen servants. This gospel truth 
 was to be accompjinied to the heart of men by the power of the 
 Spirit of God, and was to be productive of the most wonderful 
 change of character in the subjects of His gracious influence. It 
 was to be a benignant reign— glorious in its truth and love. « And 
 It shall come to pass in the last days, the mountain of Jehovah's 
 house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall 
 be exalted above the hills ; and all nations shall flow unto 
 It ; and many people shall go and say, come ye, let us go up to 
 the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob ; and 
 he will teach of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for 
 out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah 
 from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and 
 shall rebuke many people ; and they shall beat their swords 
 mto plow-shares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation 
 shall not lift up sword, neither shall they learn war any 
 more."— 7sam^ ii., 2—4. The peace of His reign is thus further 
 described. « The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the 
 leopard shall lie down with the kid- and the calf and the young 
 lion, and the fading together: and a little child shall lead them. ♦ 
 • * * They shall not hurt nor destroy in all ny holy mountain, 
 for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the 
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 to be confined to any particular nation for the heathen were to be 
 gathered into it, and the Gentiles were to rejoice in its light : " Ask 
 of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and 
 the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession." -Psalm ii., 8. 
 And it was to be an everlasting kingdom, never to be shaken or 
 removed. " Of the increase of his government and peace there 
 shall be no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdon. 
 to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice 
 from henceforth even forever.''— IsaiaJt ix., 7. Daniel in a vision 
 saw the Ancient of days seated on bis throne, and the Son of 
 man coming in the clouds of heaven, and being brought near 
 before him. " And there was given him dominion and glory and 
 a kingdom that all people, nations and languages should serve him ; 
 his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass 
 away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed."^ 
 Daniel vii., 14<. 
 
 The limits of a single discourse confine one to the merest 
 epitome of the teachings of the Old Testament on this great theme. 
 It has appeared as we have proceeded that the predicted 
 Saviour— the expectation of Israel, should be called Messiah,— 
 that he should be a human being, and yet Divine ; that the time 
 and place of his advent are distinctly specified ; that his descent 
 m family line is fixed, and that very many remarkable circum- 
 stances m his ministry, his sufferings, and the glory which should 
 follow are foretold in a most minute and particular manner It 
 follows that no Impostor could have the smallest resemblance to this 
 mspired description of the genuine Messiah. He who shall answer 
 God's own description as given to the Jews in these sacred ora- 
 cles, must possess in his own person most astonishing attributes: 
 must have come at a certain period, in a certain city, of a certain 
 <amily, and been born in a peculiar way : must have been a pub- 
 lic character,_have spoken as never man spake -have acted as 
 never man acted,— have run a race unparalleleci a the annals of 
 the Universe of God ;_must now be invested with the honours of 
 sovereignty over heaven and earth ;-must be at this moment our 
 Supreme Governor, and at the end of the world our unerring 
 judge. Surely it cannot necessarily remain a matter of doubtful 
 disputation, whether the most remarkable nersona^e »nnnunr.A Sn 
 
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 Jesus of Nazareth was all that fias thus been described, and is 
 therefore the Messiah. 
 
 He avowed himself to he the Messiah, and was called " the 
 Christ:' He affirmed his right to the office and title by confess- 
 edly remarkable teachings, and by wonderful works. The reality 
 *♦; those teachings and of those works was not questioned by con- 
 temporary Jews, though published among them in the four gos- 
 pels, by writers, every one of whom was a Jew. He was born 
 of a virgin, and she of the family of David, now reduced in its 
 state as the stock of a decayed tree. The Jewish interpreters of 
 the law were summoned by Herod to say where the Messiah 
 should be born, and by the quotation from Micah, established 
 their understanding of that prophecy. All the details of time and 
 place were remarkably fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Daniel's weeks 
 were now accomplished, and expectation was general, when the 
 Star in the East led the Persian Magi to Bethlehem where they 
 found the young child. The sceptre was still in Judah's hand, 
 that is, Israel had rulers and princes as they had during all the 
 captivity according to the statements of Ezra and Nehemiah, and 
 yet ere Jesus the Messiah was cut off, the sceptre was broken and 
 Judea became a mere Roman Province under Poniius Pilate. 
 The genealogies were still extant, and his descent from David 
 could be fully established, a thing impos^Ue nmv, as for many 
 ages past. He was born in Bethlehem, and at a time 
 when the question of descent came up b^ ,.-,'? ■ of the 
 enrollment by an imperial decree, thus markin<^ v, ^ ..ecial 
 emphasis the time and place of this birth. His /^loihei's lineage, 
 of whom he was emphatically born, was of David, and so was that 
 of his reputed or legal father, under whose protection he was 
 placed. Moreover he was a Prophet like unto Moses, being 
 Legislator as well as Teacher, that which no other one, not even 
 Davi-i ;vas. He came, the desire of all nations to that very tem- 
 ple on V, Iiich Haggai gazed, for although Herod repaired and 
 
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 beautified it, the structure was the same. A few years afterwards 
 that temple was utterly destroyed by the Romans, so that no 
 Messiah couhl have come to it since. He offered liimself a sacri- 
 fice for sin, tlie anti-type of all the types— the end of the law for 
 justification — and soon thereafter the altar was thrown down not 
 again to be rebuilt; the daily sacrifice ceased— the very Jerusa- 
 lem in which the sacrifice was offered was destroyed, and for 
 eighteen "nturies have the Jeivs been loithout any sacrifice hut 
 thin anti-type of them all, the blessed Messiah. 
 
 And then how perfectly were the details which we have rapidly 
 aketched, as taken from numerous prophecies, fulfilled. Of the his- 
 torical verity of the New Testament records, there can be no rea- 
 sonable doubt even in the mind of a Jew. He may question the 
 doctrines, but he must admit the historical facts. Christ's public 
 ministry was a proclamation of glad tidings. It was largely made 
 up of the most astounding miracles, all miracles of kindness. 
 The common people heard him gladly, but he was despised, 
 persecuted, and rejected by the doctors and rulers of the nation.' 
 He was betrayed for thirty pieces of silver with which a potter's 
 field was purchased, and that betrayal was by one of his disciples. 
 He was put to death by crucifixion, with a thief on either side 
 of him, thus " they pierced his hands and his fc 3t." They gave 
 him gall and vinegar to drink, and they ceased not to deride and 
 scoff" him, unwittingly employing the very language that had been 
 predicted many centuries before. The soldiers parted all hia 
 garments among them except the robe which was ivithout seam 
 —for that they cast lots. He displayed the meekness and gen- 
 tleness of the lamb, and he made intercession for the transgres- 
 sors saying <' Father forgive them for they know not what they 
 do." He was pierced with a spear, but his legs were not broken, 
 nor any bone, though they brake the legs of tho -e who were 
 crucified with him. He was buried in the new tomb of a rich 
 man, but he saw no corruption, for on the morning of the third 
 day he arose from the dead. After instructing and comforting 
 his disciples he ascended to his mediatorial throne in heaven, and 
 was inaugurated and crowned as King in Zion amid the gratula- 
 iions of the celestial host. 
 
 ^ His sufferings being vicarious and sacrificial have prevailed in 
 ilic jusiincation and salvation of myriads of Jews and Gentiles 
 
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 who have in every age bel-^ved on him. Their character has 
 been transformed— their hearts have been comforted— tlieir lives 
 have been pure-their death has been peacefully triumphant, 
 and their future is in the presence and under the smile of" Him 
 who sitteth upon the throne, and of the Lamb for ever and ever " 
 He commissioned and inspired Apostolic Ambassadors who com- 
 pleted the canon of scripture, and organized his Spiritual King- 
 dom. Its principle-, are all righteous: its influence is uniformly 
 benignant— its real progress is always the triumph of right and of 
 love. Mu-.n has been done in its name, which it repudiates with 
 unmitigated detest.-.tion ; but all that really belongs to it would 
 sustain the glowing descriptions of ancient prophecy some of 
 which have been quoted. Moreover it is an ever growing 
 dominion. None of its subjects are ever lost. When they die 
 they only a&cend to its higher and holier department. And on 
 earih they continue to multiply. Neither the waywardness of 
 error, nor the fascinations of the world, nor the terrors of persecu- 
 tion, can stay the march of this reign of love : its trophies con- 
 tinue to multiply as immortal souls are brought into vital union 
 with Christ by the exercise of " repentance towards God, and 
 faith to'^ards our Lord Jesus Cnrist." The past as illustrating 
 the import of prophecy, throws its blessed light of hope upon the 
 future. All the children of Zion " shall be taught of the Lord 
 and great shall be the peace of her children." And in due time, 
 we are assured, "the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the 
 earth, as the waters cover the sea," for the kingdom of our Mes- 
 siah is an everlasting kingdom, and of his dominion there shall be 
 no end. 
 
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 JUt the Jews receive this glorious Messiah. 
 
 The religion of the New Testament has communion with you 
 in respect of the Fathers, indeed the religion of both economies is 
 essentially the same, the christian being the development and 
 consummation of that which went before. The ancient saints of 
 your race, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Samuel, David and 
 others were believers in prospective christian truth. They saw- 
 Messiah's day and were glad. They dwelt in the dawn of the 
 
 
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 morning, but they looked forward to the perfect day. We love 
 their names, we venerate their virtues, we follow their faith. 
 Their God is our God. Him we love and worship. Their 
 A ngel of .7 /novah is our Mediator and Redeemer. Him we love 
 and worship. And the Holy Spirit, who inspired their faith and 
 hope, and by whom they were moved in penning Sacred Scripture, 
 is the Divine Agent on whom we rely for every holy motion. 
 We urge you not to embrace a new religion, but rather that which 
 is the perfecting of your own. The Mosaic Institutions were 
 manifestly preliminary and temporary; Christianity is their 
 designed and adapted end. You look for the Messiah ; behold 
 him in Jesus of Nazareth. 
 
 Again, our appeal to you is in love. No true Christian despises 
 the Jew. Our Messiah was a Jew. Jesus was born in Bethle- 
 hem, of the family of David, of the tribe of Judah ; all his Apostles 
 were Jews, who loved their nation, and most earnestly sought 
 their welfare. All the multitude of early converts were either 
 Hebrews or Jewish proselytes. Jerusalem and Judea were the 
 cradle of Christianity. How numerous were Jewish believers 
 then ! What crowds acknowledged Jesus as both Lord and 
 Christ ! " A great multitude of the priests were obedient unto 
 the faith." In every city of the known world in which the Jews 
 dwelt, were there from among them converts to the Christian faith. 
 Nor has this fact ever been without its counterpart, for ever since 
 there has been '<■ a remnant according to ihe election of grace," 
 who born Jews, have become believers in Jesus. There are now 
 some thousands of Christian Hebrews scattered throughout Chris- 
 tendom. The illustrous Neander, the German professor, and the 
 historian of Christianity was a Jew, but a most firm and consistent 
 believer in Christ. We therefore invite you to no new thing, but 
 to follow in a course which the best of your fathers have trodden 
 ever since the Christian era. 
 
 Still further, be assured that the New Testament bears unmis- 
 takeable marks of the same Inspiration as does the Old Testament ; 
 they are the utterances of the same glorious voice— the thinkings 
 of the same Infinite Mind. We pray you to give to the former a 
 candid perusal. Let the God of your fathers be invoked to give 
 you understanding in his testimonies. You will find homage done 
 to Moses. You will find a full recognition of the Divine autbor- 
 
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 admutmg h s future ao.ngs to be good, they are no more than duty! 
 
 are w,thout sta,n : m the sight of a HolyGod they are all defeC 
 
 t've. On the ground of them it would be derogatory to His 
 
 oyernment to accept us and smile upon us. But witlfthe p! ! 
 
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 throlom d °r""^ ■'"P"'''"™ of righteousness to the sinner 
 throughout the ancient Scriptures, but the doctrine is not fully and 
 c arly ^ught until Chris, haying finished the work of redemp, on 
 
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 that can engage human attention, you must study it in the fuller 
 
 anWe glorious light of the New Testament Scripti^e! 
 dispersion. Tms has been already indicated in our remarks. 
 
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 The Messiah has come and you have rejected him and do reject 
 him. The glorious personage predicted by your ancient Prophets, 
 and whose praises were sung by your ancient poets, came in the 
 fulness of the time as a Jew, born in your own glorious land, 
 and having worshipped and taught in your once magnificent tem- 
 ple. But your nation denounced him as a deceiver, and urged his 
 crucifixion, exclaiming, " His blcod be upon us and upon our 
 children." Blessed be the God of all grace, many of your nation 
 repented of the wrong, and became followers even unto death of 
 the despised Nazarene, of whom there have been successors in 
 every age, but the bulk of your people rejected him, and they 
 endured the consequences. Your own historian Josephus seems 
 overwhelmed with awe as in the midst of God's judgments when 
 he describes the siege and sack of your beautiful Jerusalem. It 
 was predicted that for this rejection you should be banished from 
 your land, and be wanderers upon the earth. The prediction is 
 fulfilled. You continue banished ones, and must so continue until 
 you receive Jesus as the Messiah. You have entertained in dif- 
 ferent ages since, many hopes of deliverance apart from faith in 
 Jesus, but tlieir issue has shown them to be a mockery, as will 
 that of all other save faith in the Lord Christ. 
 
 Finally, the reception of Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah, 
 will introduce you to your high vocation, your true and glorious 
 mission. You have one ; but alas ! it is not understood. You 
 are told that it is to bear testimony to one God. Surely this can- 
 not be, for every Christian and every Mahommedan does this. 
 You are told that it is the exhibition of a high morality. But in 
 tljis you are not singular, for Christianity retains all your morals, 
 and carries some points in morals to a higher point than you. 
 You are told that it is a voluntary martyrdom in respect of pos- 
 session and enjoyment upon earth. This cannot be, for such 
 martyrdom is no virtue, it is asceticism, not religion, and then 
 neither do your peo^ ' voluntarily abstain from possession and 
 enjoyment, nor if they did, would they be alone in the thing — 
 Monasticisim was based upon this. Christianity teaches your 
 mission in the following terms : " For if the casting away of 
 them, (the Jews), be the reconciling of the worid, wlmt shall the 
 receiving of them be, but life from the dead. . . And they, 
 if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in again ; for 
 
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 God is able to graft them in again. For if ,hou, (tlie Gentile^ 
 wert out out of the olive tree whioh is wild by nature, and wer^ 
 
 shall these >vh,ch be the natural branches, be grafted into Iheir 
 own ohve tree ? ' (Eead the whole of the eleventh chapter o 
 the Epstle to the Romans.) When thus grafted in again - 
 vheu brought ,nto the Churches of the Saints made up 'f J w 
 and Genule all one in Christ Jesus,-the Jews will be dilguish" 
 ed .nstruments ,„ spreading the Gospel. They are now a stand- 
 
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 all oal 'rl "" T"" """"•"^ '° """'•'' » '^P'-^'^ people in 
 In I T^' "<"™*»'a"ding every attempt to amalga- 
 
 mate them w,th the nations. They are thus of all nations and of 
 11 languages Stu„,bled by the miserable caricatures of Chril 
 hamty wh,ch are found wherever the Virgin Mary, and sains 
 
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 wo sh,pped, they now testify to one God, Jehovah of Hosts : but 
 
 let them become, like Neander, the Apostles of Christianity and 
 
 who can calculate the influence they will exert upon hTe'arth 
 
 The,r hereditary abhorrence of idolatry, combined with the hot 
 
 to men,_w,ll mduce a sp.ntual crusade against all forms of suner- 
 
 Ton the T'^' f ?°''™- """^y -" ^e valiant forTuTh 
 upon the earth and having the advantage of the knowled Jof 
 
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 " Oh House of Jacob come, 
 
 And walk with us in light : 
 No more bewildered roam, 
 Like wanderers in thq night. 
 The hope of Israel caUs you near, 
 And Abraham's shield, and Jacob's fear. 
 
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 thou by tempests tossed, 
 
 Reviled, oppressed, trod down, 
 In every region crossed, 
 With grief familiar grown ; 
 Scattered and abject, peeled, forlorn, 
 Thy name a taunt, thyself a scorn ! 
 
 Though thou art filled, alas ! 
 
 And drunk with misery. 
 
 That cup begins to pass 
 
 To them that hated thee. 
 
 But know, we honour Israel's name, 
 
 Our God and Abraham's is the same. 
 
 Rise, Jacob, from thy woes! 
 
 Thy own Messiah see. 
 He who thy fathers chose, 
 
 Waiteth to pardon thee. 
 At His command we bid thee come, 
 Lost Israel, Zion welcomes home."