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TENTH CONFERENCE,

Scene changes. Mofes, Boy, and Notaries.

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ESSIAH confirmed his covenant with many for one week, caufed the facrifice and oblation to ceafe, and Himself cut off, and from that period defolation. Two parts of this prophecy are confirmed and remain confirmed at this day. Ifrael has been without temple or facrifice, and themfelves drove out and abandoned by their God, fcattered throughout all nations, hated and defpifed, and their country defolate. Where their temple ftood is placed the abomination of defolation, the worship of the Impoftor Mahomet. This part of the prophecy ftands open to the whole world, and this from the very time marked and pointed out to us by our fcriptures that the Meffiah fhould come, from which point of time you date your chriftianity. But, alas!' where shall Israel fearch for the fulfilling of the other two parts of this prophecy? where is the Meffiah that is cut off, or, where are the men that He confirmed His covenant with?

Boy. Jefus Chrift is the Meffiah foretold by all the prophets who at the appointed time came into the world and manifefted Himself to Ifrael and the world. He entered on His Divine Miffion at the age of thirty, and confirmed His covenant, according to the prophecy, with many, and in the middle of the week he was cut off, which was the three years He was on

His Miffion, when you cut him off from the earth, hanging the Lord of Life on a tree. You have rejected him and he has rejected you. You accufed him of blafphemy againft God and your temple and being an impoftor, and he has Thewed himself to be that God you accufed him of blafpheming, and fulfilled the prophecy in all its parts: abrogated, annulled, repealed, and tranflated His old covenant into the fecond, and new covenant, which He promised from the beginning, and throughout His fcriptures, had your temple destroyed, and on the ground on which your temple ftood was erected a heathen, and at this day, a Mahometan temple, or place of worship. He appointed and confirmed twelve bishops, known by the name of the apostles; one of the twelve He appointed His Vicar, whom he invefted with ample power as head and chief, which has come down by a regular fucceffion from St. Peter, who was the firft appointed and feated his chair in Rome to the prefent time. He appointed feventy others alfo. After His Refurrection, he appeared at different times for forty days, when he afcended to heaven in the fight of one hundred and twenty. He appeared once to five hundred brethren, and, no doubt, many others. A few days after His Afcenfion, Peter's first fermon added three thoufand difciples; and a few days after, they increafed to five thoufand, and in a fhort period the new covenant was extended to all parts of the earth. Their found hath gone forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.

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Mofes. The Almighty gave Ifrael a law, and by that law Jefus Chrift was condemned to die. Deuteronomy 18th chapter. But the prophet which shall prefume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that fhall Speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet fhall die.

Boy. But if thou fay in thy heart, how fhall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken? When a prophet fpeaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath fpoken it prefumptuously, thou fhalt not be afraid of him. What we have recited is the latter part of the prophecy, which is the rock of offence to the house of Ifrael, on which they have fplit, and plunged themselves in the abyfs of deftruction; we will begin with the first part and fo proceed to this ftumbling ftone and rock of

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The Lord spake unto Mofes in these words: I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and I will put My words into his mouth, and be fball Speak unto them all that I fhall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whofoever will not hearken unto my words, which be fhall Speak in My name, I will require it of him. This prophecy, agreed by all, relates to the Meffiah, who was to be a fecond legiflator, or law-giver, to confirm and establish a new covenant.

Mofes. What you advance is juft; for if the first remained, why a fecond?

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Boy. The time of his coming is agreed to be according to the fcripture, when Jefus Chrift appeared.

Mofes. Univerfal agreement of the whole world, both Jews and Gentiles.

Boy. He was prophecied to be of the stock of David. and confequently of the tribe of Judah.

Mofes. The fcriptures declare it.

Boy. You grant thefe privileges to Jefus Chrift.

Mofes. Ifrael never difputed these privileges, they were proved by the univerfal tax of Auguftus, when every perfon was obliged to repair to the place of their nativity to answer perfonally, when his parents repaired to the city (as ftock) of David, for the tribes of Ifrael kept, from the beginning, each tribe and each family a regular regifter, to preferve privileges and inconfufion.

Boy. We have, in the reign of the emperor Vefpafian, an Inquiry for the for the kindred of David, after the taking of Jerusalem; also by the emperor Domitian, when the nephews of Jude, apoftle, was brought before him, who were near relations of Jefus Christ, and being examined by the emperor, declared themselves defcendants of David, and that the kingdom of Chrift was celeftial and not terreftrial; for the emperors were, as Herod, afraid of the power of Chrift, taking the prophecies in the terreftrial fenfe, as Ifrael has ever done.de Mofes Ifrael ever has, and at this day expect their Meffiah to appear, the high and mighty M 3 Lord

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Mofes. Agreed thus far; but Ifrael never will accept Jefus, whom you call. Chrift, for the Meffiah, his character and perfon being the reverse to the perfon and character of their Meffiah, who will manifeft himself the glory and aftonishment of all nations: from all parts will the nations bring gifts to Jerufalem; our temple and worship rettored, where peace and harmony will dwell, every man enjoying himself under his Vine and Fig-tree, with every bleffing, without fear of war, and Ifrael be a glory throughout the earth. Kings and princes will honour them, and every one will think himself happy if he is permitted to take hold of the fkirt of a Jew. This is the expectation of Ifrael, not as your Chrift, who fprung from obfcurity, without being known who he was; he was raised among the dregs of the vulgar and reprobate, who he herded with, breaking and encouraging his affociates to be guilty of the breach of laws and every crime with impu nity. Twelve of the most hardy ruffians he took into his most familiar friendship, and in culcated and taught them magic; for he exceeded all that ever went before him, or fince, in the black art. Peter waa his chief, to whom he communicated his fecrets; the others drenched deep in this deadly poifon. Seventy others were made drunk, and to this day many are intoxicated

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