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thinking iftaft whether any passible good dould arise to the Jews , or any other people , merely from a change of place ? The French legislator , every impartial reader must allows seems to strike at the root of the evil . He professes , first , to make the soil fit for bringing forth good fruit , before he ingrafts the
scion ; and if there be any description of people , like top many of the visible and nominal Jews , so deeply sunk in barbarism , vice , and superstition , that they cannot be ameliorated in Eu- * rope , can it be expected that removing them into Asia will alter
idea and morals . Those who believe in , irresistible grace , in- * stantaneous conversion , and unconditional salvation , may indeed amuse themselves with the possibility of a nation being born in a day ; but I trust we have not so learned Christ , viz .
his doctrine . If the designs of the French government upon the Jews be deemed merely political , it is strange they should undertake to correct their vices ^ rather than manage and sooth them ? It is not long since the Swiss government were induced by the French to prevent any Jews , who are the graziers in one part in Switzerland , from accommodating each other with paper , because it tended to enhance the price of the cattle , rtfow they are no longer to be usurers in France . On th-e other
Jiand , some of the French prelates have flattered their master with the title of a Second Cyrus ^ the champion set against the new Babylon , as th § Persian monarch was raised up against the ancient city of that name . Their political writers also , drinking of the same spirit , have called England a leopard , in allusion to the Beasts in Daniel and the Revelation ; and
Jjier vast possessions in India they have denominated her " feet of clay , ' * in allusion to the great image in Daniel , which was to be broken in pieces by the stone cut out of the mountain without hands or human aid ? Is this merely political ? I shall add no more , but only ask , whether in respect to the re- * storation of the Jews , it be not time for us to ^ { iwake , " and
enquire who and what are the Jews spoken of in the predictions , and whether the New Testament in particular does not exhibit the genuine Jew as the worshipper of the One God , in opposition to the nations or Gentiles who worshipped * Gods and
Lords many ? ' * Whether the circumcision which distinguishes the true Jew is not that of the heart only , in which all inordi- * nate desires are cut off by the sword of the spirit ; while he is positively not a Jew , or a true worshipper of God , who is only p . Jew putwardly ? And whether , as God is no respecter of persons ^ but in everv nation he that feareth him , and worketh
righteousness , is accepted of him , so may not the Jews , or true worshippers , who are to be restored to their religious rights ^ bp gathered Qr wade up out of all nations , kindreds , tongues *
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34 S Pblitwal Hestora tion * of the Jews .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1806, page 348, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1726/page/12/
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