hand that rules the storm. And I write it to allay, in some measure, (if the Lord will,) the petty clamours which are raised against those men of God, who in all sincerity, though encompassed with our common infirmity, are doing the work of our heavenly Father. With respect to the spirit in which the present volume is written, I have only to say, that my design has been to avoid any approach to either of two extremes. On the one side, I detest that whining affectation of tenderness, which libels while it imitates the chastened manly sympathy of true Christian feeling. And on the other side, I equally abhor levity, or sarcasm, or jesting: such modes of speech being delicately yet powerfully stigmatized by an apostle, as not convenient---OVK ávñкovта. (Eph. v. 4; compare Rom. i. 28.) It has been my anxious desire and prayer to exemplify the scriptural characteristics inculcated upon Titus, uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity. How far I have succeeded, it is not for myself to judge. If I have failed, my infirmity, and not my will, consented. The argument urged in the Introduction is familiar to every student of the evidences of Chris tianity yet I deem it far from unseasonable to give a brief, popular statement of it, with a somewhat varied form of illustration. The third Lecture of the series has been already published as a separate pamphlet ; but is long since out of print. And I refrained from printing a second edition of it, in the design of the present publication. Albury Rectory, June, 1830. し The object of these Lectures to examine the prophecies con- cerning the Jewish nation-History the best interpreter of prophecy-Mr. Davison quoted-The first revealed charac- teristic of the Jewish people, is their separation from the sur- rounding nations of the earth-Constituted a distinct nation by the word of God to Abraham-His manner of interpreting that word-His descendants continue separate during the Egyptian bondage-In the wilderness-In the occupation of Canaan- Predictions by Moses-Establishment of the royal government— The nation carried captive to Babylon, and there kept separate- Lo! the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned The separate state of the Jews proved from facts, and uni- versally admitted up to the time of the birth of Christ-From that period of their history, a difference of opinion exists in the Christian church-That difference stated-The opinion that their separation will continue till the end of the world, main- tained-Distinction between Israel and Judah-As a plain matter of history-As fully recognized by the prophets-Dis- tinction between Judah national and the Christian remnant out of it in each age--Clearly stated by St. Paul-Continued sepa- ration of the Jews not to be accounted for by second causes- Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Gibbon quoted-Proofs that the separa- tion must continue-1st. From the predictions that the Jews shall be a taunt, reproach, proverb, and by word-2nd. From the prediction of the transfer of the cup of the Lord's anger from them, to those who have afflicted them-3rd. From the argument of St. Paul, that the receiving of the Jews again to Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. The Jewish nation to continue separate, till the end of the |