able to add, as Moses did in my text, that it is " in your heart" also!
And now permit me to address a few words to you, my Jewish Brethren —
It is to your own Scriptures that I wish in the first instance to direct your attention: for you yourselves know that they testify of your Messiah, and are in- tended to direct you to him. It is greatly to be lamented, that they are not studied amongst you as they ought to be ; and that your Rabbis for the most part pay more deference to the voluminous commentaries with which your Scriptures are ob- scured, than to the Scriptures themselves. But let it not be so with you. Begin to search the Scriptures for yourselves : search them as for hid treasures ; and pray to God to give you his Holy Spirit, to instruct you, and to guide you into all truth. When you take the blessed book of God into your hands, lift up your heart to God, and say with David, " Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law!" Then compare your Scriptures with ours, the Old Testament with the New ; and mark how exactly they correspond with each other, even as the vessel with the mould, or the wax with the seal. Then I fear not but that you will soon acknowledge Him of whom the Law and the Prophets do speak, even Jesus of Nazareth, to be the true Messiah, the Saviour of the world. Yes; he whom you have hitherto rejected will become precious to your souls; and you will, in a far higher sense than you have ever yet been, be- come the children of Abraham, and the sons of God.
To the Christian part of this auditory I will also beg leave to address a few words —
You have seen that with care and labour I have endeavoured to establish the true import of my text from the writings of Moses himself. But, if I had been speaking to you only, I might have spared that trouble, having the text already explained to my hand by God himself. St. Paul tells us, that the command- ment which was nigh to the Jews, was the Gospel
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