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creatures, and the powers of an infallible Pontiff, making up a mock Theocracy; which things the Jews cannot at all endure. So that the strange saying of the Jews, that now their "Messiah is bound in the gates of Rome," may in one way be allowed to have been correct.

What can be more pregnant a sign of a sudden change, than that many of the most educated Jews have called themselves German free-thinkers, blank Deists, or even Atheists? We feel at once, They cannot stay there long! And, what Unitarian or Arian can stand, when the Jew falls? for who so respectable an Unitarian as a Jew? in fact he is the only Unitarian who has the semblance of anything to say for himself: inasmuch as the Jew rests on the supposed meaning of that Book, which even the Koran treats as the Word of God; thus the Heathen Tacitus, (His. 5, 13,) calls the Old Testament, "antiquis Sacerdotum litteris," and Suetonius (Vesp. 4,) says of the same record,

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esse in fatis," and Juvenal, (14, 102,) styles it "arcano volumine, "and as such it had been translated for Ptolemy Philadelphus, B.C. 285, when the Septuagint Version was made. On this confessedly sacred Book, the Old Testament, the Jew has hitherto habituated himself to rely, in his Unitarian views, as when it says, Shemang Israel, "Hear, O Israel, the LORD our GOD is ONE LORD." But now we point out to him, that even there, the Elohim or God is a Triune Being. We show him that many of the oldest Jewish writers were quite familiar with the doctrine of the Ab, and

the Ben, and the Ruach Haccodesh; as Serle also in his admirable Hora Solitariæ points out. In fact, it can be proved, as in Mr. Cory's erudite work, (Pickering, 1837,) that there has been no nation or period of the world without this doctrine. We take the Jew to his oldest Rabbis, whose writings represent the "Holy Spirit" as a Person; we point to the Targums which state that the "Word of Jehovah" is a Person likewise, the mediator between GoD and men. And in the celebrated ancient Jewish work called Zohar, the Trinity in Unity of the Deity is deliberately admitted. The Talmud itself says concerning the necessity of a sacrifice for men's sins, "For these, Blood is the only Atonement"-and will not the acute minds of the Jews see, that in the Sacrifice of the Godman CHRIST, there is the very divine sufficiency which atoning blood ought to have, if it be of any avail,-as their own 49th Psalm tells them, that no mere man can redeem his brother, nor make atonement unto God for him; for it costs more than man can give, to redeem a soul, so that he must let that alone for ever! When any soul agrees to this, he becomes a Christian, confessing that Immanuel's Sacrifice alone proclaims, matsathi copher, "I have found a ransom!" The Toledoth Jesu' owns that CHRIST raised the dead; and all it can add is, that He did it by magic! The ancient Rabbis also say the Messiah was born at the time represented by the New Testament; only He lies. hid:-how flimsy is such an obscuration of Christian truth! How can the Jew overlook the fact, that the

whole Old Testament demonstrates that the Jews never were punished but when they rejected GOD: and yet now, tho' they do cling so ardently to their ADONAI, and tho' they are nowise idolaters, they have been for centuries suffering most grievously: are they not thus a colossal proof to themselves that they have been all that time in worse error than ever they were before; because God gave an emphatic manifestation of what He really is, and they summarily repudiated it? Will not the brilliant intellects of Israel be thus "taught of GOD" to discern that they have been mistaken in their views of GOD? for God must be regarded through His SON by the SPIRIT: but they took counsel together against the LORD, AND against His Anointed, the Messiah: He came unto His own, and His own received Him not: whence God has left them ever since without any prophet, any guide, during 1800 years. The Jews can be led to own that their modern idea of the utter Unity of God is unscriptural, and an idol of the imagination, as unauthorised as any graven image. Even the First Commandment, while it teaches the Unity by the words, "Thou shalt have none other gods but Me," does at the same time indicate, by the phrase "other gods," that there is a mysterious plurality therein; just as seven perfect prismatic colors can co-exist in one ray of light. Will not the Jew take up the 110th Psalm, "the LORD said unto my LORD," and calmly ask himself, are there not here two Beings each called "Lord :" David the King calls one of them "my LORD:" and,

what second "LORD" had King David, except GoD the Son? in CHRIST'S own conclusive query, "If David then call Him LORD, how is He his Son?" and, as then, so now, no Jew can answer Him a word, save by confessing that CHRIST is both, SoN and LORD: Son as Man, and LORD as GOD: for GOD and Man is one Christ. And when the 45th Psalm says, "Thy Throne, O God," and adds, "Thy God hath anointed Thee:" the Jews must tear the Psalm to pieces, or else acknowledge that here there are two Divine Beings; involving the truth that "great is the mystery of godliness, GoD was inanifest in the flesh." Also when it is written that the Sceptre should not depart from Judah, until Shiloh came; what can be more obvious than the fact that, as the Sceptre has departed, Shiloh has come? The prophet Malachi said the Messiah would suddenly come to His Temple, namely, the renowned Temple which then stood: but that Temple was razed to the ground shortly after the Crucifixion: therefore CHRIST is the Messiah, or Malachi is false. And Haggai stated that the glory of that Second Temple of Zerubbabel should be greater than the glory of even the peerless First Temple of Solomon, and the reason is given-for "in this place will I give peace," namely, the Propitiating Son Whom the 72nd Psalm foretells as "our peace." CHRIST was present in that very Temple: and no one else appeared who made the least claim to be the Saviour, or set up any religion thereon: that Temple has been demolished for 1,800 years;

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therefore CHRIST is the true Messiah, or Haggai is false. Such evidences can be gained, and strengthened, and multiplied, all through the Scriptures. The Jews cannot disprove these truths; and at last they come forward and confess, "We have found Him of Whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets did write, JESUS of Nazareth!"

In this direction great achievements have already been accomplished; they are most thoroughly in unison with the great fact of Christian history, that Jews brought Ordination and every Ecclesiastical institution into the Gentile churches, so that it is only just and reasonable that the Jews when converted should resume those privileges in all their force and doubtless the animating words, " O that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of His people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad," can soon be uttered with a greater and greater sensation of ecstacy, according as God's purposes towards His people become evolved. Bible-reading Englishmen should therefore gladly come to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty," against the legion of unbelievers. Anything that may conduce to so happy a result, should be resorted to, either individually or nationally, as long as there is no sacrifice of principle; and even bad political precedents, fabricated in vain against us in other times, and such as we cannot now alter, may be taken advantage of, to further the spiritual emancipation of Israel.

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