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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1866 Excerpt: ... Hosea iii. 4. "For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim." HAVE endeavoured in the foregoing discourses to show how remarkably the Jews were employed to bear witness to the Messiah until the time of His appearance in the world. The spectacle which we are now to contemplate may at first sight appear totally inconsistent with that which we have hitherto surveyed. We are to behold the Jews rejecting that very Messiah, whose coming they had so eagerly anticipated, and as a punishment, they themselves are rejected, for the present at least, from being the chosen people of God. A superficial observer might be tempted to imaginethat the refusal of the Jews to acknowledge the divine mission of Jesus affords a presumptive argument against it. He might at least consider it as unaccountable, that they who had been favoured with such remarkable predictions concerning the Messiah, and who had, above all other nations, been accustomed to desire His advent, should, when that advent took place, be allowed to harden themselves in unbelief. I trust, however, that it will not be a very arduous task to show that these events were foreseen in the divine counsels, and formed a part of the great scheme of Providence respecting the kingdom of Christ, and the salvation of mankind. In order to understand the circumstances which led to the rejection of Jesus by the Jewish nation, we must look back upon the state of that nation at the time of His first coming. Before the Babylonish captivity, the Jews had been remarkably prone to idolatry; but when they returned from it, they fell into errors of a different nature. They adhered, indeed, with considerab...
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