the Armenian priest, has set out for England. The Armenian merchant Macarditch, a most amiable gentleman, with whom I travelled through the deserts from Cairo to Gaza, and in whose company I spent the evenings in the Armenian convent, has set out for Cairo. I feel much the loss of those two friends. I accompanied them to the road of Arimathea, (Ramla,) where we sat down on the grass, near the ruins of a house, and eat some sweet cakes, and drank a little wine, and the Armenian priests sang a hymn to the praise of our Saviour. I recommended my friends to edify each other on their way through the desert with prayer and hymns, and I returned to Jerusalem with a heavy heart. When I re

turned home, a Jewish boy requested a Hebrew Bible. I gave it gratis, and also Tremellius's Catechism, and spake with him of Christ.

I went this evening again to rabbi Joseph Ben Wolf, with the intention of reading the Sohar with him, and thus have an opportunity of conversing with him about the glad tidings contained in the Gospel. I observed that several leaves had been torn out of the Hebrew Bible which I had presented him with. I asked the reason of it; Rabbi Joseph told me, that an enthusiastic Jew had done that mischief, on account of the crosses which are to be found in the Bible. I was so much displeased and hurt about it, that I left the room, and spent the night in the house of rabbi Solomon Ben Menahem Shfiro, who observed, that there are several mistakes in the Bible; for instance Isaiah ix. 6, is

r, and Rabbi Solomon thinksגבוה instead of לטננת

that the Samaritan text should not have been cited in the notes, and the sign of the cross, notwithstanding the innocency of the intention, ought not to have been chosen ; and he thinks farther, that the characters are too small, and is often used instead of

May 1-1 called on rabbi Joseph Ben Sachariah Smaria, and asked them who was the author of Psalm

CX.

The answer was, David. I asked them, Whom does David call Lord? They confessed that they were

not able to answer that question. Rabbi Joseph, however, has returned me the New Testament. I then went

to Rabbi Mendel, the high priest; several other rabbies and students were assembled. Rabbi Mendel expressed his desire of seeing me turn again to Judaism, and he added that he had some hopes on the following account: -First, That I never play cards, detested by Jews. Secondly, That I never went into the theatre. Thirdly, That I am a friend of orphans and widows, and of Jews in general, and have taken upon me the charge of their letters which the Jews wrote to Poland. I answered, that the faith which I profess, my faith in Jesus Christ, enables me so to act, and that I do all this for the glory of the Lord. We argued again for some hours. When I returned to my room, Isaac Ben Solomon, Abraham Ben Jeremiah, and Abraham Ben David, called on me. We sang together a very edifying Chaldee hymn, with which they were much pleased.

The English translation of the Hymn is as follows:

Lord God of the world and worlds, thou art King of the kings of kings.

It is beautiful to relate before thee the works of thy power and wonders.

Choir. Lord God, &c.

I offer up praises in the morning and in the evening time unto thee, O God of holiness, Creator of all the souls, of holy cities and children of men, of the animals of the field, and the fowls of heaven.

Choir. Lord God, &c.

Great are thy works and thy power in the height; he raiseth them that are bowed down; and if a man should live two thousand years, he could not explain thy power. O Lord, most precious and great, redeem thy sheep from the mouth of lions, and redeem thy people from the captivity; that people whom thou hast chosen.

Choir. Lord God, &c.

Return to thy temple, with all thy holiness, where all the spirits and souls rejoice, and sing and shout in Jerusalem, the beautiful city.

Choir. Lord God of the world and worlds, thou art King of the king of kings.

May 2.-Moses Ben David Shleifer, the brother of the converted Abraham Ben David Shleifer, although but ten years of age, understands exceedingly well the Hebrew and Chaldean tongues; he called on me to-day with his brother Abraham Ben David. I preached to them both, for above an hour, the preciousness of the Gospel; they were very attentive.

Rabbi Mendel, Rabbi Isaac, from Safet, and another Jew, Haim Takur, from Safet, and Mrs. Batsheba, argued with me several hours, and showed me a book containing beautiful sentences of moral precepts. 1 read in it, and approved of it, but showed them at the same time, the excellency of the power of onr Lord Jesus Christ; and although rabbi Mendel and all the rabbies plainly told me, that the Sanhedrin would have put me to death for my faith in Jesus Christ, I repeatedly confessed that Jesus is the Son of God. Oh Lord, how much is Pharisaical blindness, and hypocrisy mixed with sparks of the true Gospel light. Rabbi Mendel, the zealous Pharisee, to-day made this observation: We must, above all things, know the will of God, before we can know the state of the world; and he has set the world in their hearts, so that no man can find out the work of God from the beginning to the end. Rabbi Mendel asked me, What wisdom have you found in St. Paul? I replied, The "depth of the riches of the wisdom of God," Romans xi. 33.

May 3.-1 called again on rabbi Mendel; rabbi Isaac, from Safet, had been there. It is a fact that the rabbies in general do not believe the eternity of hell punishment. Rabbi Mendel, who denies it, tries to prove his opinion by Proverbs xxvi. 20, "Where no wood is, the fire goes out." The rabbies lay on these words the following sense," The wood is the sins committed by

men; as soon as those sins shall be punished, the wrath of the Lord shall cease, and Satan himself shall be redeemed." The second discovery I made is, that an institution like the Catholic inquisition founded by St. Dominic, existed among the Jews in the time of our Lord, and has been sanctioned by the Talmud, and even by the celebrated rabbi Mose Ben Maimon; see Sanhedrin, p. 36; and rabbi Mose Ben Maimon Hilhoth Momrim, chapter iii. Rabbi Mendel and rabbi Isaac, from Safet, again tried to convert me to Judaism; he gave me a cup of wine to drink his health, and desired me to ask the blessing over it, after the rite of the Jews; I immediately complied with his request, and said "Blessed art thou, O Lord, our God, King of the world, who hast created the fruit of the vine." I added to it as usual, that I shall always accommodate myself in all these things to those customs of the Jews, which are not opposed to the tenets of Christ's doctrine. I desired permission to sit with them in the Jestuba (college) and read the Talmud with them; for I perceive every day more and more the advantage of being able to argue with them upon their own ground; and after their own style and manner. Rabbi Mendel was disposed to comply with my wish, but Rabbi Isaac, from Safet, observed, that I must first acknowledge my belief in the Talmud. I declared that I believed only in Moses, the Prophets, and the Gospel. Rabbi Mendel's sentiments are, that all the rabbies being assembled together, and those rabbies being of unimpeachable integrity, they are infallible when they decide on matters of faith; and thus (rabbi Mendel further observed) it was the case in the times rabbies Hakadash, by his learning, converted the emperor Antoninus to Judaism. Rabbi Hakardash was afraid that the traditional word of God might be forgotten; he therefore assembled in Zppora all the rabbies of the world, whom he provided with every need, and they, full of the Holy Spirit, compiled the Talmud. The Catholics maintain in the same way infallibilitatem conciliorum œcumenicorum et infallibilitatem papæ in cathedra loquentis. I did not, how

ever, enter into any argument about it, but said, that the Jews should now assemble, and search whether Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ or not, for (I observed) it is highly necessary that you do so, as many of the Jews begin to suspect the authority of the Talmud, and the English nation tries to promote Christianity among the Jews with the most indefatigable zeal, land the New Testament has been translated for the very purpose of opening the eyes of the Jews, and to convert them to Jesus Christ. Assemble yourselves, therefore, in the name of the Creator of heaven and earth, and consult with prayer and supplication, and examine the New Testament of Jesus Christ, which we maintain is the same predicted of by Jeremiah the prophet, and this is what the Jews at Louisania are now doing. Rabbi Mendel observed, that the Jews are at present not able to call the rabbies together, for they are poor. I promissed them the assistance of English Christians, if they should be dispos ed to comply with my wish. Rabbi Mendel was ready to consent to my proposal. Rabbi Isaac, from Safet, protested against it.

May 4-Several Jews called on me, and asked for New Testaments, tracts, and Bibles.-I gave them the books gratis. They read them in the streets, but the Jews from Barbary took them out of their hands, and burnt a great many. Armenian and Greek priests called on me to-day, and desired to purchase Greek, Arabic, and Armenian Bibles and Testaments, but I was not able to comply with their wish; I therefore wrote again to John Barker, Esq. in Aleppo, and to Peter Lee, Esq. in Alexandria, to send me Bibles, Testements, and tracts.

May 5.-Abraham Ben David, who, I trust, has been converted to the knowledge of Christ, called on me, and told me, that the chief rabbies have this morning proclaimed in the synagogue, that every Jew must burn all the Hebrew Bibles, (Reineccius's edition,) on account of the Samaritan text, and of the crosses which are to be found in the notes. To prevent so great an evil, I wrote a letter immediately, in Hebrew, to rabbi Jom Toph Danum, to Morenu Meyahis, and to Abra