by the fond hope of seeing a king promised to them by the Almighty, should fall into a similar error?

LXIV. In this section, our author questions the Jews seriously, if they expect the Messiah to come with those signs that the Scriptures and the prophets describe, or with others, of which no mention is made?

I reply to the archbishop, that the Messiah we expect is the same that is described in the holy Scriptures; and if he wishes to know for what purpose he is to come, and what he will effect, let him read the following prophecies.

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Deuteronomy, xxx. 1—10. "And it shall come "to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, "the blessing and the curse, which I have set before "thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all "the nations whither the Lord thy God has driven

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thee, and shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and "shalt obey his voice according to all that I command "thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine "heart, and all thy soul; that then the Lord thy God "will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon "thee, and will return and gather thee from all the "nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered "thee. If any of thine be driven out into the uttermost parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy "God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: "and the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land "which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess "it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee "above thy fathers; and the Lord thy God will

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"circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to "love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with “ all thy soul, that thou mayest live; and the Lord thy "God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and

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on them that hate thee, who have persecuted thee; "and thou shalt return and obey the voice of the "Lord, and do all his commandments, which I com"mand thee this day; and the Lord thy God will "make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in "the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, " and in the fruit of thy land for good, for the Lord "will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers; if thou shalt hearken unto the "voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his command66 ments, and his statutes, which are written in the "book of the law, and if thou turn unto the Lord thy "God with all thine heart and with all thy soul."

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From these verses it must be inferred, that even after the advent of the Messiah, the law of Moses will be observed by His people.

Isaiah, chap. ii. ver. 2-4.

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pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's "house shall be established on the top of the mountains, "and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations "shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of

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“ the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he "will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his

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paths, for out of Zion shall go forth the law; and the "word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many “ people, and they shall beat their swords into plough

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"shares, and their spears into pruning-books; nation "shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall "they learn war any more."

Ibid. chap. xi. ver. 10-16. "And in that day there "shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an "ensign of the people, to it shall the Gentiles seek, and "his rest shall be glorious. And it shall come to pass "in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the "second time to recover the remnant of his people, "which shall be left from Assyria, and from Egypt, “and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, "and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the "islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign 'for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of "Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah 'from the four corners of the earth. The envy also "of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah "shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and "Judah shall not vex Ephraim. But they shall fly 66 upon the shoulders of the Philistines towards the "West; they shall spoil them of the East together;

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they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab, and "the children of Ammon shall obey them. And the "Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian

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sea, and shall wave his hand over the river, and with "his mighty winds shall smite it into seven streams, "and make men go over dryshod! And there shall "be a highway for the remnant of his people, which "shall be left from Assyria, like as it was to Israel in "the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt." Ibid. lii. 1. "Awake, awake: put on thy strength, "O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem

"the holy city! for henceforth there shall no more 66 come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean."

Ibid. chap. lxv. ver. 16, 19, and 20. "He who "blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in "the God of Truth, and he that sweareth in the "earth shall swear by the God of Truth; because "the former troubles are forgotten, and because they "are hid from mine eyes! . . . . I will rejoice in “Jerusalem, and joy in my people, and the voice of "weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor the "voice of crying. There shall be no more thence

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an infant of days: nor an old man that hath not "filled his days; for the child shall die a hundred years old: but the sinner being a hundred years "old shall be accursed." And so throughout the chapter.

Ibid. chap. lxvi. 18, 19, and 20. "For I know "their works, and their thoughts; it shall come that "I will gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and see my glory. And I will set among them

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a sign, and I will send those that escape of them "unto the nations Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw "the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, "that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my

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glory, and they shall declare my glory among the "Gentiles. And they shall bring all your brethren "for an offering unto the Lord out of all nations, 66 upon horses and in chariots, and in litters, and upon "mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain, Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as the children of Israel

bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of "the Lord."

Jeremiah, chap. iii. ver. 17 and 18. "At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord, "and all the nations shall be gathered into it to the "name of the Lord to Jerusalem, neither shall they "walk any more after the imagination of their evil "hearts. In those days the house of Judah shall "walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come "together out of the land of the north, to the land I "have given for an inheritance to your fathers."

Ibid. chap. xxxi. ver. 34. "And they shall no "more teach every man his neighbour and every man "his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for they shall "all know me, from the least of them even unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive "their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no "more."

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Ezekiel, chap. xxxvi. ver. 25 and 26. "Then I "will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall "be clean from all your filthiness, and from all your "idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give

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you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I "will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, " and I will give you a heart of flesh."

Ibid. chap. xxxvii. ver. 24-28. “And David my "servant shall be king over them; and they shall "have one shepherd; they shall also walk in my

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judgments, and observe my statutes and do them. "And they shall dwell in the land that I have given "unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt, and they shall dwell therein, even they and "their children, and their children's children for ever, "and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.

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