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. , ities of heathenism, might . . | ¥ | | , . . S borrow the name of the God | | | ; e - } } » % a | monial sui a adopted religion of Israe!, as not only to have to have 3 ntedd itit 3 in the impri srinte im so deeply é | Va — ze posterity as s through therewilds i. Pay it to their far distant som: :that they should transmit he 4 adopt to y seriousl Men, years? of ds thousan for #¢ America, vs, ¢{ornative. must be far more wild, and fond of miracles, than be admitted at this day of. light andimprovement. " ‘ : oy A ‘ ek : a i e os aaa ae tra ¥ clin « bat were nations rituals descenced ? heathen trom derived wilds have of the ceremonial a variety laws our of Indians the that ancestors their from « to their promised land.” But they may . be 5 7 t ye le Reviewer © 2 ; ’ — : ar . Th 71 : alas iz a makes reliance on this argument, I wouid : briefly become extremely Christ say, appeared, had corrupt, perverted their own scriptures. were pre. > * ? 7 _ - . Ee to reject and crucify the Lord of Glory, and or destruction; that accordingly “the existing were just ready Christian church” may now be as grossly ignorant relative to the true sense of Israel’s Promised restoration. Itis to be hoped the present church of Christ ate 7 correct evangelical more has than tehad grace, sentiment, and more ngelical senti ; . a They certainly have had more opportunity to investi -STl: . = oe ate + 7 true sense of the prophecies than had those Jews. And it is r Saas ou : ic - 3 . . Fr: Cc 2 many of them are far less corrupt. eviewer informs us, that the words “ Judah, Israel, Jerusa ay G. used in the prophecies, . which relate e to this subject, a + ~€c e j . seen synonimous with the word church,” And he “saproceeds t set In. -CQS TO . : . ; O rm that 6“ those prophecies which had a primary y reterence to the reteérenc ies , : hae onsu “ nee an and devastation of the Jewish dispensation ¢ xistine Bare RS ley were rey ealed, were necessarily fulfilled in re } “ yt? ¥ se who. were literally > Ny F 1 denominated > : [Israel we lation and But Judah. anc Judah es ay those which, speaking of Israel ; g srael and Judah, relate infactt lishment, the condition and progress of another church Se h seed expected to‘Kave their fulfilment any peculia sen 'y Cannot be nation, Risse’ it Wai cenced to bewith tira P er Ce ae {o that the term.” With whatever extreme caution this Sa: ie ee its seniiment appears f we is sentence th; is phrased ? ppears irom all the use made of it. to he ; relat: Testament which ts) Pnprophecies phecies relative to the names ofna taJudah € andthis;eee the (id ate to periods subsequent subse , : stue!, ’ but to. the destruc ‘ucton of ; Jerusalem, 4 24 sh | . ” ~ . & e they it does not follow, that because the Jews, when it incs of their muna: but be ascertained, the fact ° ' \ 1 the under an equal mistake. The Reviewer seems cautious in beins understood as adopting this as his own sentiment. But it appears Mansen that it 1s his sentiment, and a ground of his reasoning. As lar as > 7 tbat knows Israel will be restored other people all Who all heathen Mosaic knows shali rest oi ancient Israel; and let who will object, or disheleve,—I satisfied that a very considerable if not a sufficiency of that very kind of the world is to of evidence i+ here found, which about this peno:’ bring to light the long lost tribes of the house of Israel. in the United of his first edition The writer has seen a review States Liierary Gazelle, 10 which objections are made which merit some reply. The Reviewerit seems does not believe in a literal restoration of the Jews and Israelto Palestine. He argues, that as “the proph: ecies relative to the advent of the Lord were misunderstood } y the Jewish church,” existing Wi hen Christ appeared ;—as they were understood to speak of the restoration of Israel ; but the dispersion of “the existing Christian tribes followed rr So the two remaining ehurch believes that when the Niiilennium arrives the children of But | ask the objector; can these ancient facts afford him a satisfactory account h: w the American natives (granting them to be of Tartar extraction) came to possess so many traditions of the Mosaic ceremonial law 2 Behold these natives, filling this western world, far separated from the old continent, living at a period of between two, fand three thousand years later than the ancient heathen round about \ than ‘Tcrael, destitute of letters)children of nature, roaming for more tramanifest many possessing yet and forésts; wild in s two millenarie posces (what ancient heathen 4ven in the vicinity of Israel never of sessed) of the ceremonial laws of Moses! ‘Too often did the sons . But Jacob s#dopt the idolatrous customs of their heathen neighbours W Be when did their heathen nei#zhbours return the compliment: God of Israel: - of them ever adopted the geremonial religion of the rities of the The Mosaic ceremonies wére the distinguishing peculia from Heaven? Let contiguous heathen nations might symbolize with them in some similar facts. By these they were insulated Who broucht down of Israel, and “ You only have | known of the earth, who wer@ inigross idolatry. d all other nations to suffere “He of all the families of the earth.” onary notions of the traditi some While way.” walk in their own long before, were taught flood, the ark, of Babel, and of sacrifices, the Mosaic cerof s aritie peculi the ; ogies floating in heathen mythol | . emonial code were never adopted by heathen nations d .) gre haunte be but cannot (who then, Let the objector ings such just find can thought, Who knows out a lively imagination ROW us; inform to as kind so be *) as these among all heathen nations remote far and rous, the ancient Scytisians of the north, (barba be supposed as = a}l intercourse with the people of Israel,) should le distinguisbe the with ed delight and nted acquai so intimately themselves 5 but also; from vague in the mythologtes Yes, the Komans had their attach it to their superior false divinity. And other Jove, the Moors their Juba, and the Greeks their Jou. chosentribes. knows asked from ®) ¥ o Who it be ascertamed among things exist such objection, Let been witnesses,—imdulging unimpeached a great variety of have of Israel, law ceremunial the festlvy from ) | Mani- '™= wo w me by, Chris- traditions, of letters, and oe ea) aid derived the suggest of Indian So of Doctor Griffin correct remarks ancient heathen philoscphers from their contiguity to a people blessed This principle may account for all with the true light from heaven. of Seneca, and other heathen momorals the in found the excellencies They caught some of the rays which shot offfromthe true ralists. Light of Israei. The golden age of Virgil was no doubt borrowed irom the Kingdom of the Messinh in the prophet Isaiah. But while we ad- ‘ mire various of the sayings of Seneca, Cicero, and some other heathen writers; we are not in the least staggered at the divine assertion | But we are led to adthat *“* the world by wisdom knew not God.” the distant twi- | Israel; ancient in shining prophecy of word the Amir? 1 of whose rays could light up im unsanctified heathen minds ideas | fit These things are cheerfully admitted. so correct and so sublime. And it is also admitted that various heathen nations in the eontiguity of the light of Israel, having their superior and subordinate divin- . distinct somany when improvements, tian to hear men be extraordinary, it must And centuries.” nine lived of which they had wee These of years, Hebrews had lived hundreds the where and iu the neighbourhood a | APPENDIX, VY ledge to Egypt, ! we APPENDIX. : 276 vy 4 a vo ) ‘etl . < ; ;