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ing to make his kingdom sure; yet instead of John Huss and others, God hath opened the press to preach, whose voice the Pope is never able to stop with all the puissance of his triple crown. By this printing, as by gift of tongues, and as by die singular organ of the Holy Spirit, the doctrine of the gospel soundeth to all nations and countries under heaven; and what God revealed unto one man is dispersed to many, and what is known to one nation is opened to all."

And Israel, having been given the gate of the enemy, and having passed out by it, and spread themselves over the earth, and encircled every shore, they are also given every facility for declaring the glory of God to the Gentiles. Having renewed their strength in these islands, and thence spread themselves abroad, the word of God is also given to be by them conveyed; to be "preached in all the world, for a witness unto all nations: and then shall the end come."

Of the English language it has been remarked, in a recent work,—

"This language which, beyond comparison with any other, is now spreading and running through the earth, and which, by the commerce and enterprise of two independent and powerful states, is colonizing the shores of every sea; this language, now pouring itself over all the waste places of the earth, is the principal medium of Christian truth and feeling, and is rich in every means of Christian instruction, and is fraught with religious sentiment, in all kinds, adapted to the taste of the philosopher, the cottager, and the infant. Almost apart, therefore, from missionary labour,

the spread of this language insures the spread of the religion of the Bible. The doctrine is entwined with the language, and can hardly be disjoined. If the two expansive principles of colonization and commercial enterprise once diffused the language and religion of Greece completely around every sea known to ancient navigation, it is now much more probable that the same principles of diffusion will carry English institutions and English opinions into every climate."

The storm, however, is approaching, such as hath not been since man was upon the earth; but the bow is in the cloud, there is the token of favour to man. In the fulfilment of the word of God, respecting Israel, by their being given to encircle all nations, there is the assurance that, when these calamities are overpast, glory and blessing shall be the portion of the human race, in the kingdom of Messiah and his saints; who shall be given the dominion under the whole heaven —the line of the Lord's inheritance shall have then truly encompassed the globe.

Seeing that these things are so;seeing that such things the Lord hath wrought; and seeing that we look for Such things, may we not well comply with the invitation, so often given us in holy writ, to stand boldly forward, and occupy our proper position, our destiny, our duty, and our privilege. And let us never forget, that our standing is alone in Christ; and that, in common with sinners of the Gentiles.

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spected the Land, and the Seed. They also implied the resurrection of the saints; seeing that to these fathers the Land was promised, as well as to their children: although, during their former life-time, they were not given So much as even to set their foot on,"— yet, after they were dead, God still declares himself to be the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as if He still intended to fulfil the promises made unto them; which He could not do but by raising them from the dead; and thus, indeed, it is that our Saviour proves the resurrection.—(Matt. xxii. 31, 32.) The seed promised unto the fathers, respected, as we saw, a double seed; the One Seed, Christ, to whom the land was absolutely promised; and the multitudinous seed, to be blessed in Him, and made a blessing unto all the earth. This multitudinous seed was, as we saw, distinguished from a merely adopted posterity; and also from the posterity of Ishmael and of Esau. Of the sons of Jacob, Joseph was chosen, and of his sons, Ephraim, to be the father of this chosen seed, this multitude of nations. He was as truly to be the father of a fulness or multitude of nations, as Judah was to be, according to the flesh, the father of the One Seed, Christ.

God avowed, from the beginning, his purpose of making this numerous seed a blessing to the nations. They were to constitute a kind of measuring line, by which one portion after another would be taken into the Lord's inheritance. For this, they required a peculiar training, that they might be fitted for all places, and all stations; for acquiring and communicating all knowledge, to all the families of mankind; and especially, the knowledge of God, as presented in his word.This training, we saw, they were given progressively, and continuously, in the fathers; and after they became a nation, until the very eve of their departure from the land.

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And we might have more fully seen, that when they were being taken away, as well as continually afterwards, God, by the prophets, recognized the promises He had made, and declares they shall yet be fulfilled. We saw that the captivity was complete, except as to those that escaped out of the land; and that those that were taken away captive, were removed into the north country, into the same quarter as that to which history traces the Saxon

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We have adverted to the case of the other house of Israel, which were left in the laud, and which have generally borne the name of Jews; and who are supposed to have remained distinct from all other people. We saw that the best portion of this house must have become mingled among the Gentiles; and the worst of the Gentiles -the children emphatically of the curse, the Edomites and the Canaanites, have become one with them;— that they have become guilty of the sin of both, and have been enduring the curse of both;—and that they have nothing in the flesh whereof to boast, and cannot obtain possession of the land by their own covenant, but only as being viewed in the One Seed, Christ, and joined to the multitudinous seed to come of the other house of Israel, that of Ephraim.

We then went forth in search of this lost house of Israel; and, reasoning from analogy, as to the distribution of the three families of Abraham, among the three grand races of mankind, we were led to look northward, among the children of Japhet. We saw, moreover, that the word of God expressly points northward, as to the place into which Ephraim had gone, and out of which they are chiefly to be brought. In that direction are we also pointed by the great prophetic line of empires; and by the progress of Israel's punishment. And thither, also, tended, almost invariably, the feet of all those who were divinely appointed to administer the word, which was specially promised to light upon Israel; and of which he was to be the great adminis

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trator to the nations. The preaching of Christ, and his apostles; and the epistles, and Apocalypse,—all afford the clearest proof of the peculiar and intense interest felt by the great Shepherd of Israel, in the north and north west.

Having thus ascertained our course, we then proceeded north-west of the places to which Israel had been carried and we immediately met with the "high heaps," which Israel raised in the way as they went; and, upon examination, we found them to contain tombs, having every indication of being Israelitish. They are, moreover, said to be those of the ancestors of the Khazares or Comani, the ancestors of the Cossacks, of the same race with the Anglo-Saxons. We saw that the names of rivers between the Don and the Danube, give also clear indications of Israel's sojourn there; and even the country south of the Danube, Moesia, the ancient inheritance of the Getæ or Goths, with all else, seemed to tell, that here were the disciples of Moses. We saw that many a time were Israel there afflicted:—by the Persians, the Macedonians, the Romans, successively were they attacked; and, more and more, subjected to slaughter; and ultimately, by the Barbarians, were they driven in upon the Roman empire, and obliged to occupy their present important position. We then took a glance at the most ancient poem which these nations are said to possess, containing their traditional prophecies; and we saw that it bears full evidence to their being the children of the prophets, who had both foretold these calamities, and also the future blessedness of the "sons of the two brothers," in the house of their father.

We then saw that the word of prophecy, by Isaiah, clearly foretels Israel's being brought out into these maritime parts, whilst the nations, their enemies, would pass away from before them; and they be given place here, in which to renew their strength. And we saw that the great Whirlwind, described by Jeremiah, as being

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raised up from the ends of the earth, and sweeping once, and again, and a third time around Jerusalem, ultimately spends its fury in the north, and describes that dreadful confusion which took place there, at the time the Roman empire was broken up. And we saw that the dreadful incursions upon the Germans; and the subsequent breaking forth of the Gothic nations, are described correspondently in history. And we saw that the changes then produced in Europe, of all kinds, bore ample testimony to the truth, that the new nations that were then given these countries in possession, were the nations that were to come of Jacob.

We then chose a sample in which more particularly to exemplify the truth of our proposition. We showed that the Anglo-Saxons came from the east of Europe; and are even traced back into Asia, to the very quarter unto which Israel had been taken captive; and that they possessed all the marks, physical, moral, and intellectual, which were given to Israel, as qualifying them for their important position among the nations; the very position which had been promised to Israel, and for which they had been all along in training. We saw, farther, that the arrangements of their society, in their domestic, and also in their civil relations, were most minutely correspondent; and that all the peculiar excellencies of the English constitution, they have received, through a Saxon medium, from then- Israelitish forefathers. We also saw that their skill in the arts, useful and ornamental, and particularly, those connected with religious worship,—equally bore evidence to the truth that this was the very race which had been trained under Moses. Their religion itself, with all its predicted corruptions, was, we saw, equally full of the same decisive evidence. And the marvel came rather to be, that so much had been left to this people, to bear such ample and undeniable evidence to the truth of their origin. And we saw that God's dealings with them, since their

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embrace of Christianity, is exactly correspondent to the idea, that the English nation are, indeed, the chosen people of God, the lot of the Lord's inheritance.

We then took a glance at "the escaped of Israel;" with regard to whom, although not so much is promised, much might also be expected: and we saw that there was every reason to believe they occupied the place of a measuring line to the Lord's inheritance, in the first ages of Christianity; as those who have sprung from the remnant led captive, are now appointed to be, unto the ends of the earth.

We have yet to consider the abundant information which the Scriptures afford on the different subjects treated of in these Lectures; but we are already, I trust, more and more convinced that the historical and prophetical parts of the Old Testament, and, indeed, the whole of these Sacred Writings are worthy of a much more careful perusal than yet has been given to them; and especially, as comparing one part with another, as all being parts of one whole, given forth by the One Spirit. Let us never forget that first rule, that "no prophecy of the Scripture is of private interpretation." Let it not be confined to the supposed private thoughts, or feelings, or circumstances of the individual who penned it; for it is not his word:—" Holy men of old, spake not of themselves;"—they spake as moved by the Spirit of God." It is the Divine Mind, therefore, and not the mind of the private individual, which is to be sought for in Scripture. God is a God of truth; just and right is He: and He will yet fully vindicate both his word and his ways, I trust that, to this, will be seen to conduce the view which we have been taking of Israel, whom the word of God very much concerns, from the time that the promises were so surely given to the fathers, and throughout both history and prophecy, until they have issued in the promised multitude of nations, who have, even already, so far sup

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planted their enemies, and been made a joy unto all the earth.

I cannot but acknowledge the very great obligations under which I am to the new Science of Mind,—which Infidelity has been latterly trying to make its own; and which many Christians have too weakly conceded to the enemies of the truth. As far as my experience goes, all true knowledge tends to confirm the word of God; but no branch of science, with which I am acquainted, has this tendency more than Phrenology, when rightly understood. Of this, I have had many years' experience; and can truly say, that by this consideration have I been chiefly influenced in the attention I have for several years been giving to this, certainly one of the most important branches of human knowledge. The beautiful and minute adaptation of the word of God to the mind of man, the value of that mental training which God has been giving to his chosen people, the distinction of races, so constantly made in Scripture, and that great law of nature and of Providence, whereby the child is viewed in the parent, and the parent is, as it were, dealt with in the child, could not have been so well understood, without the true knowledge of man's mental constitution, afforded by Phrenology. It is a most important movement in divine Providence, that this Science is beginning to arrest the attention of those whose minds have been turned away from the word of God. I would very earnestly recommend the Christian, and the Phrenologist, to take a closer and more impartial view of each other's labours. Suspicion is, perhaps, well, in such a case, when it leads to a strict scrutiny, so that nothing may be received but what is truth; but when it turns away from the truth, its injury is incalculable. No true science has anything to fear from free and full investigation; but much from misrepresentation and neglect. And even granting that Phrenology has been abused (and this has been the case with everything, however good, which