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Show oe See a bite. ae 4 * ee _, is ™ eo The great and generous Christian people, who occupy much of the land of those natives, Tiel ote ag iM 7 MRD. HR the God of Abraham designs shall be done. and who are on the ground of their continent, and hence are the best prepared to meliorate their condition, and to the land that I gave to their fathers, aad they shall possess it.””? ‘Fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the Lord; neither be dismayed, O Israel ; for lo, ] will save thee from afar.” ‘ Behold, | will bring bring them to the knowledge and order of the God of Israel, must of course be the people to whom this work is assigned. This one consideration would do much toward the de- them from the north country, and gather them from the cision of our question, Who is the nation addressed ? coasts of the earth.”? 6. Various things are found in the predictions of the ancient people, restoration of God’s being of them recovered from this land, and by the agency of the peo- r A few of these shall be noted. le of our states. In the thirtieth and thirty-first chapters of Jeremiah, } treats of the united restoration ten tribes. And in relation to the ten tribes, they bave Of the former, is expressly to be restored with them. then been outcast for an ears.) God says; chap. xxxi. 20; Is hea pleasant child? dearson? and hundred nis final will surely |The next restoration. compassion a have mercy upon verse invites and These Ephraim yearbings (one noted of the name of Gym predicts / agi Sot thes ap way-marks, make thee high heaps, set thine heart ioward the bigh-way—turn again, O virgwotis- 2 Be | : F } @ wi O ye nations, isles afar off, and say, He that Baer: him, and keep him as the ‘Isles his flock.” afar off!” “Isles rreprew language, signify any lands, ever so ex- away over.great waters. Where he ‘ off,” can these (these “coasts off the earth,” here ad- mes her In relation to the restoration of his outSeg Ae: Hs € oved Ephraim,) where can they be so naiuraliy @ found as ID America ? In Jer. xvi. 14,15, 16, | | | ; | - le sin SHINS: @y | tent a tribes) are the immediate precursor of his teateesOne «} will surely have mercy upon hina, saith the Lo Eck re a | For since [spake | do earfrom Canaan,) him, (er expelled agaist Sear saaomber him still;him therefore my aacals are him; troubled \ caith the for Lord.” a: | my Ephraim * Is | twenty Hear. the word of the Lord, “ tie m3 Israel, and Ephraim is my first born ;” declare it in the and i of these chapters Is\ to oe 5 she 4 appropriated to the ten tribes of Israel ; though Judah (having from the coasts of the earth,” and says, “ they ns i. —s eile with weeping and with supplication ; for I Cy a time near the battté-of the greatday ; see verses 6—-8, off, and the connexion, when God promises to gath- In Hie sani { chap. xxx. 24; and at the Much of the substance ‘This might with afar singular propriety be called the land coasts of the earth. J 7 ‘These outcasts been ideas strikingly accord with their having from the known world, in America. never yet had evena primary accomplishment, or any The restoration there predicted degree of fuifiiment. 93 94, (For more than is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.” i ‘These chapters were written about one and Israel. of the hundred and twenty years after the expulsion wis to bein “the latter days >? off, these 2000 years none sought after the ten tribes.) Y of Judah the prophet In this country “ afar” “ coasts of the earth,’ they had been in an outcast state. “Because they called thee an outcast, saying; ‘* Lhis which strikingly accord with the idea ofa great branch 231 rael; turn again to these thy cities.” ‘1 will again be the God of all the families of Israel; and they shall be my people.” ‘For lo, the days come, saith the Lord, that | will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah ; and I will cause them to return ¥ ~ called upon to restore them; or bring them to the knowledge of the gospel, and to do with them whatever ADDRESS OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH. ata. ees SAIAH. ADDRESS OF F THE 4) PROPHET ISAIAH ek € 230 & | o God is predicting the restoof Israel in the last days. +* Therefore behold, Ae come, saith ihe Lord, that it shall no more be » Lhe Lord liveth that brought up the children of Rhee out of Egypt, but the Lord liveth that brought uy ) 7 children of Israehfrom the land of the north, and from ee ies whither he had driven them; and I will brino amas rnd that stv utotiefher 1eir restoration, In the next |