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fpect him for doing his duty. He acted reasonably and nobly, and though I am but an obfcure individual who thus express myself, I am perfuaded that there is not a bishop in this land, or a regular minister of the church of England, who performs the duty of a labourer in the Chriftian vineyard, and a watchman (Ezek. iii. 17.) over the parish where he prefides and exercises his miniftry, but what muft view it in the light that I do. "Whatsoever ye would that men "fhould do to you, do ye even so to them: for this "is the law and the prophets," Matt. vii. 12. The bishop in his diocese, and the church minister in his parifh, are performing the duty of watchmen. It is the duty of a watchman to CRY OUT, to SOUND AN ALARM, Joel. ii. 1. as foon as he perceives cause for alarm. It is his duty, and NO MORE THAN HIS DUTY, to exhort, to caution, to warn thofe on whose behalf he exercises the duty of a watchman, to beware how they depart from the ordinances of God. The minifter of a parish would do no more than his duty in enjoining those who heard him give the warning to act the part of watchmen alfo, by warning their neighbours and friends. He would do no more than his duty by printing his exhortation, and causing it to be delivered at every house in his parish, and using all other LAWFUL MEANS to keep his parishioners from departing from the ordinances of God.

It is true, that I can produce no pofitive evidence that the bifhops and regular minifters of the church of England difapprove of your proceedings towards the

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Jews; but I can produce negative evidence that their opinions are not far diftant from my own, for can it be for a moment fuppofed that if they thought you were acting properly that they would not unite with you. Are the Members of the London Society the only Chriftians who defire the good of the Jewish nation? Surely, not; I therefore think I am right in inferring that the bishops and clergy of the established church, and the great body of Chriftians, not only churchmen, but diffenters alfo, and even the Miffionary Society themselves do not approve of your proceedings.

I prefume that it is becaufe no fuch caution hath come to your knowledge from the prefiding rabbi of the Portuguese fynagogue, that you fay, in page 7,

I have fome reason for thinking that gentleman (however mistaken in his opinions, according to $6 my views) is nevertheless a devout and pious man." You will do well to confider that it is the poor of the Jewish nation only, concerning whom any apprehenfions could be juftly entertained; it could not be expected that the rich would be under any temptation to fend their children to a Chriftian Free School. The German Jews are, I believe, far more numerous in this land than the Portuguese Jews, and the poor of the Jewish nation among us are chiefly Ger, man Jews; it was, therefore, with great propriety that the firm and dignified teftimony I have quoted fhould come from the prefiding rabbi of the German Jews in London; and coming from him, it was a fufficient caution to ALL the poor of the Jewish pation among us. He stands upon the ROCK un

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fhaken as a cedar upon Mount Lebanus. "The " righteous fhall flourish like the palm tree: he shall

grow like a cedar in Lebanon," Pf. xcii. 12. for "The trees of JEHOVAH are full of vigour, even "the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted," Pf. civ. 16.

He who is zealous for the LAW OF JEHOVAH, will be bleffed; and as a Chriftian, yea as a Chriftian of the church of England, I will blefs God that he hath fent a watchman FROM FAR to prefide over a numerous congregation of Ifrael, his people, among us, who is zealous for the LAW OF JEHOVAH HIS GOD. In thus expreffing myself, I truft I am doing no more than every true fon of the church of England will justify me in doing, for in the church of England we have the Books of Mofes and the Prophets CONSTANTLY read unto us; and in the New Teftament alfo, which is read unto us, we HEAR thefe words, "Think not that I am come to deftroy the

law, or the prophets; I am not come to deftroy, "but to fulfil. For verily I fay unto you, Till "heaven and earth pafs, one jot or one tittle fhall in "no wife pafs from the law, till all be fulfilled." Matt. v. 17, 18. And the high felicity, the reward of those who will be faithful unto death, confifts in this, that they will "fing the fong of Mofes the fer66 vant of God, and the fong of the Lamb, faying "Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God "Almighty juft and true are thy ways, thou King "of faints. Who fhall not fear thee, O Lord, and "glorify thy name? for thou only art holy for all

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"nations fhall come and worship before thee: for "thy judgments are made manifeft." Rev. xv. 3, 4.

In the church of England we rejoice that the Books of Mofes and the Prophets are read unto us, because we know, that being of the Gentile nations, we have not one shred of true religious knowledge but what we derive, by the bleffing of the Almighty, from or by means of the Jewish nation. All our hopes are built upon Divine Revelation; and the BOOKS OF MOSES, as the most ancient, muft be confidered as the foundation ftones of Divine Revelation; even the great doctrine of the refurrection hath its foundation there; according to thofe words of our Lord, recorded in the 12th chapter of the Gospel of St. Mark, in answer to the argument of the Sadducees, who denied the doctrine of the refurrection, our Lord replied, "Do ye not therefore err, because ye know 66 not the SCRIPTURES, neither the POWER OF "Gop? For when they fhall rife from the dead, "they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but

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are as the angels which are in heaven. And as "touching the dead, that they rife; have ye not read "in the BOOK OF MOSES; how in the bufh "God fpake unto him, faying, I am the God of "Abraham, and the God of Ifaac, and the God of

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Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but the "God of the living, for all live unto him: ye there"fore do greatly err," Mark xii. 24-27. Luke xx. 38. The Books of the Prophets may be faid to be built upon this ftrong foundation, even upon the Books of Mofes, and are in ftrict agreement with

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them; and as to the Books of the New Testament, if it could be proved that they are not in ftrict agreement with the Books of Mofes and the Prophets, farewell! a long farewell! to all our hopes!

We believe that they are, for our bleffed Saviour referred to them, faying, "Search the Scriptures; "for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they "are they which testify of me," John v. 39. How came we Gentiles acquainted with the Books of Mofes and the Prophets, but as believers in him who thus referred to them?

The fummary of the divine law which he hath taught us, and which we of the Church of England acknowledge to be fuch, by publickly reading it in our congregations, is the fummary of the laws of the Great Creator of heaven and earth, the God of Ifrael, given to Ifrael his people by the hand of Mofes, his servant, in the 6th chapter of the Book of Deuteronomy, "Hear, O Ifrael, JEHOVAH OUR GOD " IS ONE JEHOVAH, and thou fhalt love the "JEHOVAH thy God with all thine heart, and with "all thy foul, and with all thy might." Deut. vi. 4, 5. "And one of the fcribes came, and having heard "them reasoning together, and perceiving that he "had answered them well, asked him, which is "the first commandment of all? And Jefus an"fwered him, The first of all the commandments "is, Hear, O Ifrael; The Lord our God is one "Lord and thou fhalt love the Lord thy God with "all thy heart, and with all thy foul, and with all "thy mind, and with all thy ftrength: this is the first "commandment.

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