them. If they confider thefe Words in the Original, and the Ideas conveyed by them, they will find that the Bleffings contained in them are of a Nature, and Duration, infinitely beyond what the most extravagant of them could ever afcribe to the coming of their Meffiah, or to what they fhould enjoy in his Reign.

'Tis likely that, befides the Pofition of the Bull in the Cherubim, the Reason for fprinkling the Blood towards the East was, because the Exhibition was firft there, fo this a Representation of, or taken from that; and perhaps the Reasons why at making a Covenant between Men, the Parties ftood on each fide, when the Blood of the Victim was fhed, &c. and the Reafon why the Victims were divided into two, and of paffing between them, the Name of the Hebrews, and many other Things, may be fhewed to have had their Rife from these Figures, which are not before me now.

It is a terrible View to confider the Crime of rejecting Chrift, and to see the Effects it had upon the Jews as a Nation, and upon each of them to this Day, who, if they had believed Mofes, would have believed Chrift. And amazing beyond Expreffion that Countries who pretend to

profefs Christianity, and to believe that he was a Perfon of the Effence, and that confequently whatever he pronounced would furely take Effect; after he had given fo many Cautions against the Leaven, and pronounced fo many Woes against the Scribes and Pharifees, charging them with omitting the weightier Matters of the Law, Judgment, Mercy and Faith, with Hypocrify, with fhutting up the Kingdom of Heaven against Men, neither going in themselves nor fuffering those who were entering to

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in; after he had afferted that Publicans and Harlots went into the Kingdom of Heaven before them; and faid Matth. Xxiii. 15. Wo unto you Scribes and Pharifes, Hypocrites; for ye compafs Sea and Land to make one Profelyte, (that was from being a Heathen) and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the Child of Hell than yourfelves. So that the Curse extended, and was doubled upon all who followed their Rules; that thefe Countries fhould never attempt to reject their Conftructions of the Bible, and those who study and propagate them, and feck for its genuine Sense; but profelyte Youth to them, by teaching them thofe Conftructions, Pointings, Rules, and directing them to read the Forgeries, and villainous

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Stories in their Books; fo, from the lowest to the highest Rank of Students, to retail them in their Pulpits, Sermons and Books. Were ever People, in any other Cafe, fo mad as to admit the Opinions of declared Enemies against any Scheme, without examining the Evidence? Though one would, at first Sight, think this Prediction impoffible, thefe Things have been by great Application, in a great Length of Time, too fubtilely contrived, and too well adapted to the present State and Pride of Man, for idle Youths or Students to fee through ; and every one knows the Power of Education, and the Value a Man fets upon his own Judgments, when he has once approved an Opinion. If a Profelyte to their Opinions, and who pretended to be a Jew, was twofold, one who follows their Opinions, and pretends to be a Christian, is at least fourfold more the Child of Hell than they. So that it is fourfold more impoffible to make any Impreffion upon one fo educated, and who has, without any other Light, studied their Books, than tis upon a learned few, who has been taught many Things by Tradition, which they write not, and how to understand many Things otherwife than as they are written; which fhews them what they will not

own, fo makes them Hypocrites; fome fuch Jews have been converted; but I defpair of feeing any of their Profelytes converted; nay even the Inquifition cannot root out this Leaven; and there can scarce be ftronger Evidence of Chrift's Omnifciency than to fee Completions of his Prophecies, in fuch furprifing Events. I am directed, by Chriff's Example, to warn thofe who are in this Condition; and to warn others against the Preachings or Writings of all fuch, even from thofe who have ftudied the Rabbi's, to thofe who have taken up with Philo, &c. whatever Epithets the World may have given them, as wife, learned, or c. they are the worst of Enemies, and the leaft Article of that Leaven effectually prevents any one from being a Chriftian. 'Tis faid fome for the Benefit of Trade, in Spain and Portugal, live Papifts, and die apoftate Jews; but I never heard that any of them have been fo wicked as to enter into the Orders of the Chriftian Priesthood to perform the Services of Chriftians, and to preach the Doctrine of the apoftate Jews; if they did the one, they would not be fuffered to do the other. So they do not half the Mifchief they are permitted to do elsewhere, where they have not only Liberty to speak

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and write, but where they are permitted to hold Livings, and teach thefe Notions. I foresee that I fhall be charged with making of Images, with Popery, for fhewing a Figure made from feveral Vifions by Directions. Why fhould it be unlawful to use our Eyes to fee Vifions or Figures, any more than to read Words, or our Ears to hear Sounds? All Knowledge was convey'd by Visions and by Figures at first; and writing with Letters was not reveal'd 'till late; and this Figure was retain'd, after Writing, as the fureft Method to preferve and record the Exhibition. The Jews, the Papifts, the Reformed, nay all Men, are ignorant how to make, and therefore forbid to make any Similitude of their own devifing, for exhibiting the Perfons in the Effence, or their Actions; to bow before, or &c. And for the fame Reason, they and we, and all Men are forbid to make any Description of them or their Actions in Words or Writings; or to contrive any Rules how they are to be reconciled or worshipped; or to propagate those made or contrived by others. Are these Reasons to prohibit Jehovah Aleim from giving Vifions, or ordering them to be reprefented in Figures, or ordering them to be recorded in Writing, to direct and determine

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