upon him is aggravated in a ten-fold degree. O! how shall we escape? If such things were done in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry? If such judgments have been exe- cuted on them, what must be the end of us, if ive obey not the
Gospel of Christ ? Brethren, I entreat you never to
look upon a Jew, without recalling to your minds this salutary
and important lesson
Yet be not content with deriving good from him, but put forth all your powers to do good to him. He, notwithstanding all the chastisements that are upon him, is still " beloved of God for his fathers' sakes. And, if he is beloved of God, should he not be beloved of you ? If God have designs of love towards him, should not you seek to be an instrument in God's hands to accomplish towards him those gracious purposes? Can you think of the obligations which you are under to the Jews of former days, and not labour to requite them in their posterity ? Or can you reflect on the purposes which are to be accomplished by the Jews in the present and future genera- tions, and not endeavour to fit them for the work to which they are destined ? If you have any love to the Gentile world, you should bestow all possible care on the instruction of the Jews, since it is by the Jews chiefly that the Gentiles will be brought into the fold of Christ. O ! delay no longer to make this improvement of the circumstances before your eyes ; but awake to all the calls of duty, of gratitude, and of love ]
2. What ends we ourselves should endeavour to answer in our respective spheres —
[Doubtless we should not live for ourselves, any more than they: we should all be inquiring, What can I do for God ? or, what can I do for man ? This is truly Christian ; or, rather I should say, it is god-like. God himself is represented as resembling the rain1, and being like the dewk: and O! what glorious effects does his descent upon the soul produce1! Would to God that we might live for the same ends, and produce, according to our measure, the same effects! Let every one know, that all his faculties, and all his powers, are the Lord's. Let all regard their time, their property, their influence, as talents committed to them by their God, to be improved by Him who has entrusted them to their care. If it be thought by any, that their talent is only as a single drop or two upon the barren ground, and too small to be of any use, let them remember, that a cloud is but an assemblage of drops ; and that, if we only contribute according to our power, we may hope soon to see this " wilderness of ours become as
1 Hos. vi. 3. k Hos. xiv. 5. ] Hos. xiv. 6.