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DISSERTATION

ON THE

CONVERSION AND RESTORATION

OF THE

JEWS.

WHEREIN IT IS SHEWN, THAT THE TIME WHEN THESE IMPORTANT
EVENTS ARE DESTINED TO HAPPEN, 19, IN ALL

PROBABILITY, VERY NEAR.

ISAIAH xliii. 21.

« This people have I formed for myself, they shall shew forth my praise."

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Printed by J. MORREN, for the AUTHOR, and fold by
the principal Book fellers in Great Britain.

1804.

THE

PREFACE.

THE events that have lately taken place in Europe, and thofe which are likely to refult from the war in which we are at prefent engaged, are fo great, important, and interefting, that one cannot help being anxious to know whether God is leading us in the courfe of his Providence, and faying as the prophet did to the angel, Dan. xii. 6. “ How

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long fhall it be to the end of these won"ders?" or, as it is in Ifa. xxi. II. "Watch

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man, what of the night? Watchman, what "of the night?" or, How much of this long night of trouble is paft, and how much is there yet to come?or, When will it be morning? To folve this important question, to hew, if poffible, what part of the prophecies correfponds with the prefent times; which

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of the vials we are at prefent under, and from thence to form a rational conjecture concerning the time when the great events mentioned in the prophecies are destined to happen, was, in part, my defign in writing the following difcourfe; in which, though I have not had all the fuccefs I could wish, yet I have fucceeded fo far. I have made it exceeding probable, that the principal step of Antichrift's fall will be either in the year 12 or 28 of the prefent century; and that his final overthrow will be at leaft an hundred years fooner than the time that Lowman and Bishop Newton have fet for it. I could have faid a great deal more in proof of this point, and have actually done it in a feparate treatise, On the Rife and Fall of the Papacy, which I intended to have published along with this, On the Converfion of the Jews; but am unable, through want of health and bodily infirmity, to bear the fatigue of doing it at prefent.

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DISSERTATION

ON THE

CONVERSION AND RESTORATION

OF

THE JEWS.

A DISCOURSE ON ROMANS xi. 11.

Say then, Have they ftumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but through their fall falvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealoufy.

THE defign of the Apostle in this and the two

preceding chapters, is to vindicate the juftice, wifdom, and goodness of the Almighty, in one of the most remarkable difpenfations of his providence that has ever happened fince the beginning of time; I mean, the calling of the Gentiles, and the rejection of the Jews. And, in profecution of this defign, he first shows us, that the divine conduct, in this difpenfation, was perfectly agreeable to the natural notions that men have of equity and juftice: That the bleffings of the gofpel, like all the other benefits which God has bestowed upon men, are the effects

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