ON THE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS: BY MINISTERS OF DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS. PUBLISHED UNDER THE SANCTION OF THE British Society FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL LONDON: W. AYLOTT, 128, CHANCERY-LANE; MDCCCXLIII. PREFACE. THE design of the following course of Lectures is to excite more general attention to the condition and prospects of the Jewish people. Lamenting the apathy which characterized so many of the professing followers of the Redeemer, with respect to the circumstances of that ancient and interesting race, and convinced, that the subject of their conversion only required to be impartially and fully contemplated, in order to secure for it a deep interest in every Christian bosom, the Committee of the "British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Jews" commenced their operations in the metropolis, by engaging ministers of different denominations to deliver a series of discourses, in which it might be popularly advocated, and its claims warmly pressed home upon the consciences and feelings of the people of God. These discourses were preached in the spring of the present year, in Regent-square; the National Scotch Church, 277138 and the lively interest evinced by the large audiences which listened to them, afforded to the Committee a very gratifying proof that the effort had not been made in vain. Many who had not previously exerted themselves in behalf of the Jews, became convinced that they lay under an obligation to take up their cause, while a keener sympathy with their miseries, and a more earnest desire to relieve them, were excited in the breasts of some who had only been half awake to their duty towards that people. In compliance with wishes loudly expressed at the time, and subsequently reiterated, the Committee have been induced to publish the Lectures for the benefit of those who had not the opportunity of hearing them, in the hope of their contributing still more extensively to produce impressions and convictions favourable to the recovery of the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Donations and subscriptions to the Society are received by the Treasurer, John Dean Paul, Esq., 217, Strand; Messrs. Nisbet and Co., 21, Berners-street; Mr. Cotes, 139, Cheapside; and at the Office of the Society, No. 1, Crescent-place, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, between eleven and three o'clock. CONTENTS. LUKE XXI. 24.-" Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, UNTIL the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." ROMANS Xi. 25, 26.-" Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved." 2 SAM. VII. 22-24.-" Wherefore thou art great, O Lord God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any god beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears. And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods? For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel, to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, Lord, art become their God." |