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Show 278 " APPENDIX. APPENDIX. have no further allusion to those particular people ; but to another community under the same name,—the Christian church. If this is not the sense of the Reviewer, am unable to comprehend his meaning, or arguments. I understand it as being on this ground that he now believes that the many prophecies which seem to predict the literal restoration of Israel and Judah to Palestine, yet mean no such event. ihe Reviewer finds in Rem. xi. that the literal Jews are to be converted to Christ ; but not to be restored to Palestine, as he conceives. But the ground he has assumed as much forbids their being brought to Christ as Jews, as their being as such restored to Palestine. If his premises contain his consequences ; it can be only on the ground that no Old ‘Testament prophecy relative to the literal Jews and Israel under the Christian dispensation, has any distinct appropriation to hiteral Jews and Israel; but to a Christian church under their name. And according tothe same argument, their being brought to the land of their fathers can mean only their being brought into the kingdom of Christ. But if this be correct, how strangely have “the existing church,” and the most profound and pious commentators, been deceived in supposing that they have seen held up before the world, a tremendeus fulfilment of Old Testament denunciations of signal judgments en the literal Jews now for about 1800 years! Those predictions foretold they should be removed into all kingdoms, for their hurt, their reproach; and they should be a proverb, and a taunt, and a curse in all places; Jer. xxiv,9. Ezek. v. 15. Are we now to learn that such things were never to befall the Jews, as such, under the Christian system? Should the present church decline timent, and still adhere to their belief, that Old this sen- Testament predic- tions of evil are now fulfilling on the Jews as such; they may be likely still to mier that the connected predictions of the recovery of the same Jews, and their restoration to theirown land, may likewise be expected to havea literal accomplishment. Andif so, they may in ike manner deem it a truth that the collateral predictions of the restoration of Israel with the Jews, wil) have a literal fulfilment. Does the Reviewer mean to have it understood that the ten tribes, when expelled from Canaan, 725 years before Christ, amalgamated with the heathen world, and were lost? The writer was informed, before he saw the review, that this was the sentiment of the Reviewer. And see not but the review carries this sentimert. But the existing Christian church will want more evidence than has yet been discovered, to adopt this belief. ‘The names of Israel and the Jews, it is acknowledged, are in some sacred passages used in a mysitcalsense. But totake an occasion from this to anmbhilate all further use ofthese terms in the prophecies, as relating to that pa‘ticular people, would indeed be extraordinary ! | The reasoning of Paul, Rom. xi. to show that the temporal cas- tizg away of the Jews was consistent with the entail of the coverant of erace with Abraham, involved (among other things) the fact, that And they as Jews should be recovered. hold equally true with the ten tribes? Had the Jews the same disappeared from the world when argument must expelled from Canaan, and never more been heard of as Jews; whatever difficulty micht have attended the reconciling of this with the divine promices gad predictions ; the Reviewer would have had greater plausibibty But as the Jews do still as Jews exist ; and gf reasoning on his side. manifest apon as Jews; it must erally fulfilled, then the predictions which are blended Ezek. xxxvii. receiving show to indeed task a be that the predictions df their restoration to the land of Canaan (where they shall in numbers, and in prosperity, far exceed all their ancient faButif they are to be hitthers,) are to receive no literal fulfilment. God’s above all this over and and those of with to the same become. one, the event, that.Israel shall in like manner be recovered jand, that the two sticks in the prophet’s hand shall giving a new them Had heart and anew spirit; must likewise be literally fulfilled. the general theory of the Reviewer been correct, probably nothing more would have been heard of the Jews, after the destruction of Jerusalem, than has long been heard of Israel. But the Jews have been And one of wonderfully kept a distinct nation, for many centuries. the brightest ornaments of the republic of science, (and one too who did not deem it beneath his dignity to study the prophecies) could say; * Whenever I see a Jew, I seeni to see a standing miracle in favour of the truth of divine Revelation !” Relative to the proofs adduced in the View ofthe Hebrews in fa« vour from Israel; the Reviewer says; of our Indians having descended which Mr. I never heard these authorities impeached, un- ** Various degrees of credit are due to the authorities S. relies.” eply. ' that nothing dubious authors are coloured. given should impeach them. admitted. And to Jess this insinuation isdesigned be The Reviewer expresses his difficulty with on It was the in their own words, that nothing designed testimonies should the scheme, of appear from a dissimilarity of the Indian features and countenance with those of the Jews. This objection has in the preceding swer, which will not here be repeated. pages received an an- But granting all the facts stated in the View of the Hebrews, the Reviewer discovers nothing conclusive in all this. For he says; * We have no evidence that the customs and institutions of the Hebrews, which were sanctioned by divine authority, were all peculiar to that people, nor that they originated with them.” It is admitted that various sacrifices were offered among other nations. And cir- cumcision was practised among the descendants of Abraham in Arabsa. But the chief reliance of the writer was on those rites which he ever deemed peculiar to Israel. Have wethen “no evidence” that the passover, the ark of the covenant, the special feasts in Israel. the separation of females, the annual atonement, cities of refuse and the other ceremcnial observances adduced ;—have we no evidelids tiiat these originated in Israel? Have we now to leara that the Ceremonial Jaws in Israel were only “sanctioned by divine authority there :". — but that they were not “ peculiar to that people ;” nor did7 they 9 “=a ori-— ‘ginate with them?” Let evidence of this be exhibited, and it shal] © have its weight. & .4 =e} By © i But till this is Gone, I shall stand firm in the old aa \lief, that God did originate the ceremouial law in Israel As socn ‘should I believe that the rites of the Christian religion did nk origi ate from God in his church, but originated among the heathen - Sd were only “ sanctioned by God” in his church : as to believe the . “ei relative to the rites of jhe ceremonial law, which have been botad: oes coe de:.unciations of ancient fulfilment the them are ns > ‘ “SR . AN a beta Seat a oe a k ig gare oa ei ee he BU, Sea , P ee: - oa Se ‘ aetna . | _ ; |
