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Show \ 248 ADDRESS OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH. ancient and venerable materials.—Were ADDRESS OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH. pot your fa- berne him in his banishment. Let now the wings of! , , ; : your libert y, compassion , and blessed retreat, bear ’ him¢ froin his dreary wilds to the tempie | : ee Look ring the miserable remnant of my outcasts there, m ihe | alds of salvation. your birth-right, and engage in the work by Heaven as- ) life. signed. Let not those tribes of my ancient people, whom I have borne as on eagles’ wings for so many ages; of God. at the origin of those cegraded natives of |your continent, and fly to their retief,—Send thm the heel then, ye distinguished people in | Send them, the word, the bread of You received. that book from the seed of Abra- ham. All your volume of salvation was written by the sons of Jacob. And by them it was transferred ‘ae let them not become extinct before your eyes ; te thesa Jerusalem to the lost heathen world, and to you sother no longer roam in savage My wise you had now been barbarism and depth bowels yearn for Ephraim. my Eup I spake against him, | do earnestly remember oebe still.” “1 have seen his ways, and will heal ai 7 will restore peace to him, and to his aoe nace [ will again Prbear him in the renewal of my covenant. on eagles’ . . wings, and bring r him to myse . ~ Is reservedpee4 © or i SE 019 ae tion. en Se ae er forefathers be a 820 te ey the oe all almost 3 Fe oe od oacdaieek yea to this country, have made mention of, ¢ e . 3 rs. the prosecution oft his piousere design. enjoined upon settlers, the } ry charter eranted by William and Marye ae : 2 _ al sale SD eene asBarney notes 1xthe aclasesain Sas of this object, setts, to an express Massachus : knowledge the Indians the Saviour of to men.” kno The 4 same recosnllio: and obedienc sage: e object 1s expr viz. The “to of the me tie true >» G only ee cr ess]y °° a5 God anc recoenized in the Pennsylva= c d by king Charles II. to William Penn wi NE Charter granted vy | bieet been neglected and forgotten. nia. . How sadly has the a = of Israel, s American Christian s f e Sral 3 4 ; be indeed rl our Pee her ees is, that that onefrom great theobject of c their inher oueepane:ere. aie of ; ede ee a primary Shatianee of Israel » Ss = . agency in restoring oe ‘Those Hebrews first So eh ‘ - e Src e 9 of “the Christian ' = ion. ain the old and dark dispensat under oe seonnst . ant under ; sings of this covenant, ; on of the blessing | = Gentiles came into possess) Noah, more than four thousand predic d uttered the following prediction. ite, Bete ec Christin Be pas me Rbieeay th - (i. Sons is Pei aancoerse Japhe oy. oe en of the He Send : Mm sa the tents of Shem,” (or tine a. ig be es Gentil till the fulness of the eo real as . po sehpeyt ohll the Hebrews again take their place, Soa us Let Isat. Ix.) es 20,21; Zech. i. 16. . onbig their long lost blessing. nese, thas double your own rich inheritance in its blessings, to read the book of grace. Learn them Learn them its history and theirown. Teach them LL > ~ re e rT ef the story of their ance ahou stors; the there * Subheate Jacob. econViews omy of Abraaham,aes Isaac and | x : S suits of the forests. . . . Elevate 1 : , 7 ~~ c : g ; them done for their nation ; and what —— one so Englaud; New settlmg in charters, grants, letters pare relative on eit (in this land) was {rem eae {the Fealhen fo eternally purabove the wilds of barbarism and death, by showing the m ad * This duty of christianizing the petites °F eS heathen, Remember then word your ofdebt ancient and to them, Restore toit God’s lie. of gratitude forthe people: ‘OU (my suppliants in the west,) this honour "£4c Li ph . iii, . 102e The wings of your continent have iong J Pre thers sent into that far distant world, not only to be (in their posterity) built up a great protecting nation; but also to be the instruments of gathering, or recove- last days ?* Rejoice, 249 what has js yet to been be done by the God of their fathers, in the line of his promise. Teach them their ancient history ; their former blessings; their being cast away; the occasion of it, and the promises of their return, Tell them the time draws hear, and they must now return to the God of their Salvation. Tell them their returnis to be as life from the dead to the Gentile nations. Tel l the m what their ancient fathers the prophets wer e ins pir ed to predict in their behalf; and the cha rge here given for their restoration. Assure them this talk of an ancient prophet 1s for them, and they must listen to it and obey dt. Tha the Great Spirit above the t clouds now calls’ them you to come and receive b star from Jacob, the Shilohhis grace by Christ the true the people must be gat who has come, and to whom hered. Inform them that embracing this true see d tudes of other Gentiles, of Abraham, you and bf have become the chi that ancient patriarch ldren of ; and now they must come as you r et Re brothers © inin the Lord in h k the Lord. 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