nations shall flow into it, and many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his 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.

THE FACE OF THE WORLD is to be filled with fruit, according to the promise (Psalm vi. 7.), Then shall the earth yield her increase, and God, even our own God, shall bless us, and all the ends of the earth shall fear him. O glorious issue of divine love! God designs nothing less for our world than to form a new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. The blossoming, budding, and bearing fruit of Israel is the great means for accomplishing this blessed result. Thus, at length, the Lord's Prayer will be no longer viewed as a request to be attained; but it will shew us a blessing bestowed; it will no longer aid a struggle and conflict, but mark a victory and a triumph; no longer shew us a hope, but an enjoyment. No longer shall we say, Our Father which art in heaven, but Thy tabernacle, O God, is with men, and thou dwellest with them; thy name is hallowed; thy kingdom is come; thy will is done on earth as it is in heaven. The communication with heaven shall be re-opened; the new heavens and the new earth for ever glorify his great name; the kingdoms of the world be for ever his own, and earth for ever a beauteous reflection of heavenly harmony and obedience. Those great promises of scripture which shew the general conversion of the whole world to Christ, and his universal kingdom, are marked as to be fulfilled subsequent to his coming, and connected with the restoration of his people Israel. The 67th Psalm is the blessing of Sion made a blessing to the earth. The 72nd Psalm is the reign of our Saviour over the world. The prediction in Daniel vii. 13, 14 is of a universal kingdom at our Lord's return. The me

morable and most delightful assurance that the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea, is connected directly with the restoration of the Jews in one place (Isaiah xi. 9—11.); and with the coming of Christ in another. (Hab. ii. 3, 14. Heb. x. 37.) The equally memorable and equally delightful assurance at the sounding of the seventh trumpet, that the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever (Rev. xi. 15.), is connected with the time of the dead being judged. v. 18. The solemn appeal to Timothy joins together the return and the kingdom of Christ; I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who shall judge the quick and dead at his appearing and kingdom, preach the word, be instant in season and out of season. 2 Tim. iv. 1, 2. The promises of the Old Testament are very numerous, which join together the blessedness of Israel and the blessedness of the whole earth. No wonder then that the children of God are beginning to take a livelier interest in the welfare of the Jewish nation, now that the dawn of its restoration begins dimly to appear before us. O what an auxiliary, Christian brethren, to all our desires, efforts and labours will this zealous and righteous nation be!. We are fainting under the heat and burden of the day; The harvest is plenteous, the labourers are few; the earth with its untold millions, notwithstanding all the efforts of the little flock of God's people, is passing on to eternity, in darkness, idolatry, enmity and alienation from God, full of strife and full of misery. And the scriptures shew us that at length there will be a righteous nation, under the sway of the Prince of Peace, subduing all iniquity, attracting every eye, winning every heart, gaining the best affections of all kingdoms, and finally bending all monarchs and all nations in willing tribute to its divine Head, the King eternal, immortal and invisible, the only wise God, our

Saviour. We too, under him, shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever ; the happy and glorious rulers by whom its blessings are dispensed. O how mightily that kingdom realizes all our feeble plans of mercy, accomplishes all our designs of love, glorifies the God of the whole earth, fulfils all our prayers, and inspires our praises with rapturous Hallelujahs through eternity!

The practical lessons such a subject teaches are very many; but I can only just notice a very few.

1. TAKE A LIVELY INTEREST IN THE STATE OF ISRAEL. How many reasons have we for this! We received from them our blessings. Our Saviour was a Jew; our Bible came through them; our Lord's day through them; our conversion through them; our future glory through them. Most inexcusable, and base, and ungrateful is all despising and neglecting of the Jews. While, on the other hand, attention to them and interest in them is the very spirit of Christ and his apostles.

2. POUR OUT FERVENT PRAYERS FOR ISRAEL. This, God has again and again commanded; Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give him no rest till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. Surely this ought to be then a distinct, prominent and leading object in your prayers. Is it really so? Who is not guilty? Let us amend here especially.

3. LET CHRIST BE PREACHED FOR THEIR CONVERSION. This also God has distinctly commanded; Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people. Lift up a standard for the people, say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy Saviour cometh! Repentance and remission of sins must be preached among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem-to the Jew first and also to the Greek. Christ in his atoning death and his returning glory are the grand means by which Israel will be won.

4. FREELY GIVE OF YOUR SUBSTANCE. It is a talent entrusted to you. The ministry of the word is a talent. Strength to labour is a talent. If a minister is base who neglects his ministry; if a labourer is worthless who neglects his work, equally base and worthless is he who, having money entrusted to him of God, uses it not for those ends which God has required; and he has required this use of our money for Israel. If the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them even in carnal things, much more for spiritual objects. Oh brethren! let none of you be lovers of money! The man who is habitually more concerned to accumulate or retain the gains of this world, than he is to see that his soul, or the souls of others may be saved, is no Christian. He has only a name to live. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

DISCOURSE XIV.

THE PRESENT DUTIES OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS.

[PREACHED TO THE JEWS IN THE EPISCOPAL JEWS' CHAPEL, LONDON, MARCH 12, AND AT ST. AUGUSTINE'S IN LIVERPOOL, SEPTEMBER 27, 1837.]

ISAIAH LVII. 14.

Cast ye up, cast ye up; prepare the way; take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.

CHRISTIANS have very plain, high, and holy duties to fulfil towards the people of Israel. Everything in the New Testament respecting Israel is calculated to excite the tender, compassionate, and kind feelings of Christians towards the Jews. Even with regard to worldly good, our duty to them is made clear, we are called their debtors: For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things. And, with regard to spiritual things, we are charged to be followers of him who said, Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.

It is with these feelings that I desire now to address a congregation of Jews and Christians, and to