world. " There is no other way unto the Father but by Him :" but " those who come to God in his Son's name, he will in no wise cast out."
Next, let us exert ourselves to impart this salva- tion to those from whom we have received it. I appeal to all : if we are so indebted to the Jewish people of former ages, should we not endeavour, in some respect, to requite them by shewing kindness to their descendants? and if we are constrained to say that " salvation is of the Jews," should we not, now that the Jews themselves are ignorant of that salva- tion, endeavour to impart to them the light which we enjoy, and constrain them, in their turn, to say, "Salvation is of the Christians?" For, surely, if it be of them in its commencement, it is, and ought to be, of us in its progress and consummation. And I would ask, is it not a scandal to the whole Christian world, that they should have so long and so shame- fully neglected those to whose ancestors they are so greatly indebted ? It was never God's design that we should " hide our candle under a bushel," and conceal it from the very persons who have put it into our hands. On the contrary, St. Paul expressly says, that as we have been benefited by their unbelief, so we should strive to benefit them by our faith : " As we in times past have not believed God, but have now obtained mercy through their unbelief ; so have these also now not believed, that through our mercy they also may obtain mercy." Whilst, therefore, we withhold from them the instruction which God has qualified us to impart, we defeat the very designs of God himself, and may well have required at our hands the blood of all who perish through our neglect.
If we would know in what way we ought to exert ourselves for them, we need only inquire how they exerted themselves for us. Behold the Prophets and Apostles, in the different ages in which they lived : which of them all, with the exception of the Prophet Jonah, did not engage in his work with zeal, and execute it with fidelity ? Of all the Apostles, there was but one who did not actually seal the truth with