ledge God's right to " do what he will with his own™ ;" and abase ourselves before him, as " less than the least of all his mercies11."]
2. Let us be thankful that, however unworthy we are, there is a Saviour whose worthiness we may plead before him —
[Though God will not do any thing for our sake, yet he will for his dear Son's sake. There is nothing that he will refuse us, if we go to him in the name of Jesus Christ0. Nor will our un worthiness be any bar to our acceptance with him. On the contrary, the more we humble and abase ourselves, the more ready will he be to accept and bless us.]
m Matt. xx. 15. n Gen. xxxii. 10.
0 John xiv. 13, 14. See a pattern for prayer ; Dan. ix. 17 — 10.
Ezek. xxxvii. 1 — 6. The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which ivas full of bones, and caused me to pass by them round about : and, behold, there were very many in the open valley ; and, lo, they were very dry. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live ? And I answered, 0 Lord God, thou knowest. Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones ; Behold, I ivill cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and ivill bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live ; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
WHILST the Jews at large, and the generality of Christians also, believe that the dispersed of Israel will one day be restored to their own land, there is an assured expectation, both amongst the one and the other, that the Messiah will in due time reign over the face of the whole earth. But, whilst this blessed event is expected by all, there lurks in the minds of the generality a persuasion, that in the present state of the Jews their conversion to Christ is impracticable ; and that, whenever it shall be