JEWS AND GENTILES; OR, THE MYSTERY OF REDEMPTION IN THE TWO COVENANTS, AND THE TWO WITNESSES IN REVELATIONS XI. EXPLAINED BEING A REPLY TO A PAMPHLET AND ITS SUPPLEMENT ENTITLED "THE COMING "For to Abraham and his seed were the promises made; that in him, "And so ALL Israel shall be saved."-Rom. xI., 26. LONDON: WERTHEIM & MACINTOSH, 24, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1857. 101. d. 124. PREFACE. IN offering this reply to the work entitled "The Coming Struggle among the Nations of the Earth," I am aware that others more learned in collegiate lore have gone before me, and the excitement that work created has now passed by; but still, if there is work to be done in the field of God, we must not be influenced by the fashionable time of publication to suit the caprices of the world. My present offering is tendered in the spirit of humility and love, and I shall leave the work to speak for itself. If, as many persons seem to imagine, the prophetic times and seasons are now fast developing themselves, to bring about some great and glorious end, let us begin by mutual love and combination to unite in faith for the glory of Messiah's kingdom, hoping that thus all will work together for good. For God has declared that he "will finish the work in righteousness, that so all Israel shall be saved." If, in reading these pages, some may feel inclined to find fault with what may scem occasionally to be a too frequent repetition of the same passages, let them remember the importance of the subject we have undertaken to prove; and if some are conversant with the Scriptures, all are not equally so; and that I have not written merely to please the fancy, but to try and make manifest the oracles of God for the glory of his name and the hope of Israel. Let it be also remembered that these pages are not written for Christians alone, but in the fervent hope that the Jews will read them also, and feel as they do so their hearts gladden and their spirits rejoice to think that while they have almost sunk in the fearfulness of hope deferred, their Messiah has ever been faithful to his Covenant as their God and our God; while he was the spiritual shepherd over all who would hear his voice, as his chosen people and the sheep of his pasture. PREFACE TO THE JEWS. CHILDREN of the stock of Abraham, to whom the Covenant promises in Messiah were first made, let me earnestly entreat you to read these pages with an unprejudiced eye, and examine for yourselves as you go on the records of divine inspiration in the texts pointed out-they will speak for themselves. I do not ask you to be guided by me or my elucidations. To you the records of truth were first vouchsafed: you have preserved them by Almighty permission to teach men wisdom in heavenly things; and even now, as these pages have proved, God has not left himself in you without a witness. Up to the present time you have been the living witnesses of his truth; and if you receive that truth as it is and was from the beginning in Messiah's promises, you will continue to be the living monuments of his glory. and reject not what these pages contain. sense will tell you it is not worldly interest that has dictated them, but a love for you as the children of the Messiah's promise, and a hope to fulfil a duty that Then read Your own |