which the Lord said, I will give it you : and it shall be, if ye go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the Lord shall do unto us, the same will he do to you^." Let the day then, the blessed day commence amongst us, when that prophecy shall be accomplished, "The children of Israel shall come together, going, and weeping; they shall go and seek the Lord their God : they shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten11."]1
e See Numb. x. 29, 32. h Jer. 1. 4, 5.
1 This was written and published before the Author's attention was directed to the Jews. He has now added another Discourse on the same text, more illustrative, he trusts, of its true meaning. And he leaves this as a lasting reproach to himself, for having passed over them in a passage, where, had he been duly alive to their welfare, he could not have overlooked them. Dr. Lowth has fallen into the same
error.
Zech. viii. 20 — 23. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts ; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities : and the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord, and to seek the Lord of Hosts : I will go also. Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of Hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts ; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you ; for we have heard that God is with you.
WHEN the conversion of the Jews is proposed as an object proper to occupy the attention, and to call forth the exertions of the Christian world, it is often regarded as a visionary scheme, which it is in vain to hope will be realized in any other way than by miracle. The attempt also is deemed premature, because it is supposed that their conversion cannot be accomplished till the great mass of the Gentile world shall have em- braced the faith of Christ. But the Scriptures give us no more reason to expect a miraculous interposition in behalf of the one, than of the other. The conversion