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"guided them in thy ftrength unto thy holy habitation. "The people fhall hear, and be afraid: forrow fhall "take hold on the inhabitants of Paleftina. Then "the dukes of Edom fhall be amazed; the mighty "men of Moab, trembling fhall take hold upon "them; all the inhabitants of Canaan fhalt melt away. Fear and dread fhall fall upon them; by "the greatness of thine arm they shall be as ftill as a "ftone; till thy people pafs over, O JEHOVAH, till "the people pass over which thou haft purchased. "Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the "mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O

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JEHOVAH, which thou haft made for thee to dwell ❝in, in the fanctuary, O JEHOVAH, which thy "hands have eftablished. JEHOVAH SHALL REIGN 66 FOR EVER AND EVER. For the horse of Pharaoh "went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into "the fea, and JEHOVAH brought again the waters of "the fea upon them; but the children of Ifrael went 66 on dry land in the midft of the fea."-" Sing ye to JEHOVAH, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the "horfe and his rider hath he thrown into the fea." Exod. xv. 1-19, 21.

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Although this fong was compofed and fung on the fea fhore, yet it is one of the fongs of Zion; and doth it not, as it were, follow of course, that those who give glory unto the God of Ifrael, by calling to mind the FAITHFULNESS of their gracious God in performing his promise to Abraham, and Ifaac, and Jacob, will in the next place alfo CALL TO MIND, and mourn at, and lament that he hath to hang his

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harp on the willow, and that his voice is as it were. faint when he attempts to fing one of the fongs of Zion in a strange land, Pf. cxxxvii. 2-4. It is not the found of the voice that is regarded, it is the HEART that the Lord God of Ifrael regards; he fearcheth the heart and trieth the reins, and giveth unto every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings, Jere. xvii. 10.

Now let me fubmit to the confideration of my fellow Chriftians, and especially to the Miffionary and London Societies, whether this fecond ftep to be taken by the Jewish nation, is not as plain and easy as the firft. Is there any difficulty in reading and meditating upon the 28th chapter of Deuteronomy? Is there any difficulty in acknowledging that man poffeffed no power to distress their nation, or to destroy Jerufalem or the temple, or to difperfe them into all nations? So far the reverse, that it is to the glory of JEHOVAH, God of Ifrael, to affert and to maintain this great truth, and whatever tends to the glory of JEHOVAH, God of Ifrael, tends alfo to the good of Ifrael, his people. If, on the contrary, they had to confefs that man poffeffed, that the Romans, or any other people, of themselves poffeffed this power to afflict them, it would indeed be a HARD THING; it would be derogatory to the honour of their nation to acknowledge it; for it would inevitably follow, by neceffary confequence, that if ever they were to be restored to the land of their ancestors, it would be the act of MAN; they would be degraded, indeed, into the character of needy fuppliants, abjectly depending

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upon the fmiles, and fhrinking before the frowns of man: but by pursuing the line of conduct appointed for them to purfue, and predicted by Mofes, their great law-giver, the fervant of JEHOVAH their God; they are to maintain and affert the glory of the Lord God of Ifrael, by meditating upon the denunciations contained in his books, in the event of their national difobedience, and by confeffing that the Romans, or any other people, poffeffed No POWER OF THEMSELVES to hurt their nation, but that they were the mere rods and scourges in the hand of the Almighty God of Jacob! and confequently that the Almighty God of Jacob is he, and he only, who can restore them to their long loft inheritance. This is a truth that will not only be admitted by the Jewish nation, but promulgated and proclaimed in all nations; "Hear the word of JEHOVAH, O ye nations, and "declare it in the ISLES afar off, and fay, HE "that SCATTERED Ifrael will GATHER him, and keep "him as a fhepherd doth his flock." Jere. xxxi. 10. It is HE, and he only, who hath fcattered Ifrael that can gather him; and as he hath declared in what way he will gather him, how, and in what manner he shall be PREPARED before he gathers him, let all BEWARE how they interfere in this matter. If all the powers upon earth, and every individual in whofe noftrils there is the breath of life, were to be leagued together to restore the Jewifh nation to their long loft inheritance, and they were not PREPARED in the way that the Almighty God of Jacob, by Mofes his fervant, has declared that they fhall be prepared to return to their

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long loft inheritance, their united efforts would end but in deftruction! If, on the other hand, the Jewish nation were to be PREPARED to return in that way which Mofes the fervant of God hath declared; if all the powers upon earth, and every individual in whofe noftrils there is the breath of life, were to be leagued together to oppofe their return, their efforts would end in a far more awful deftruction than that which overtook Pharaoh and his hoft!!

Do the Jews ftand in need of any exhortations of the Miffionary or London Societies, or of any individual of the Gentile nations, to urge them to pursue a path which is fo plain, fo obvious? And is there any intimation in the Books of Mofes that the first ftep to the restoration of Ifrael, to their long loft inheritance, will proceed from the efforts of the Gentile nations to inftruct them in the true meaning of thofe facred books which the Gentile nations have received from them?

But it is not a mere meditation on the accomplishment of the prophecies of Mofes, the fervant of God; it is not merely an acknowledgment of the faithfulnefs of JEHOVAH, their gracious God, in performing his promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, their fathers, in giving and putting them in poffeffion of the land of promife, or merely meditation upon the denunciations contained in the Books of Mofes in the event of their bowing down to idols, that will effect their restoration to their long loft inheritance; these are but the two firft fteps they are to take, but the third step in their progrefs towards Zion is as obvious,

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and as naturally follows the fecond step as the fecond does the firft.

They are not merely to meditate; meditation is of little avail in any thing, if it doth not produce an effect. What effect What effect may be expected to be produced by this meditation? Surely the natural effect that may be expected to be produced by it is humiliation, not humiliation before man, but humiliation before their gracious God; I was going to call it a proud humiliation, a dignified humiliation, a humiliation very different from that which Ifrael hath in times past endured; for the fear of man degrades; the humiliation produced by the fear of man is an abject, a degrading humiliation; but the humiliation produced by the fear of God invigorates and exalts the foul, it lifts up the mind to dependance on the Almighty, and on him ALONE; and if thoufands and ten thousands are drawn up in array against an individual, humbled by the fear of God, he views them as chained and controlled by him whom he loves and fears, and finging praises to his gracious God, WHOSE MERCY ENDURETH FOR EVER, he beholds the fwords of his enemies, controlled by the Almighty, employed in deftroying each other, and all he hath to do is to fing praises to his God and gather up the fpoils. 2 Chron. xx. 1—30.

The humiliation of Ifrael, which will fucceed this their meditation, is defcribed in the 26th chapter of Leviticus: "If they fhall confefs their iniquity, and

the iniquity of their fathers, with their trefpafs which they trefpaffed against me, and that alfo they have "walked

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