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thus: To revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. I have seen his ways and will heal him. God, even our own God, I speak to Jew and Gentile, is full of compassion, and will not contend for ever: when he sees the end of affiiction answered, and that men are brought to a state of mind in which he can wisely and justly, as well as lovingly and graciously appear for them, then his mercy delights to have free course in doing good to them. As the Lord, in his tender mercy, appeared for Israel again and again, in days that are passed; in Egypt, in the wilderness, under their judges and their kings, in Babylon, under the Maccabees, and in the birth of his Son Jesus, and the raising up of the apostles from among them, so he will appear again, far more gloriously, and the former deliverances shall be no more related for the greater deliverances yet to Then shall it be said, as Jeremiah twice predicts: The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them; and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers. Jer. xvi. 15-24; viii. It is not a new work we want for Israel, but a revival of former dealings with them; let us then all plead for Israel, for whose revival both Jew and Gentile are deeply concerned, in the beautiful words of our Prayer-book, "O Lord, arise, help us, and deliver us for thy name's sake. O God, we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us, the noble works that thou didst in their days, and in the old time before them." O when the great Physician comes how assuredly and how joyfully will he fulfil his gracious promises, I will heal their backslidings. I will love them freely. When that Light of the world returns, we shall understand the rich and gracious prediction, Unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings.

Comfort and PEACE, too, are promised: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace, to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the Lord; and I will heal him. No one can have read the Old Testament promises to Israel, without seeing how much the Holy Ghost dwells on their being comforted. THRICE is the command given in one place, Comfort ye, comfort ye my people; speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. TWICE is the promise repeated in another, As one whom his mother comforteth so will I comfort ye, and ye shall be comforted. This shews indeed, first, the great depth of their previous mourning and humiliation; but it shews also the fulness and permanence of the comfort that shall be given them. How amazing will be the contrast to their present sorrow, when all the rich and great consolations which are in Christ Jesus are imparted. With this, perfect peace will be given. How often do the scriptures dwell on this peace as the result of our Redeemer's return and reign over Israel. His title is the Prince of Peace. They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. In his days shall the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth. All these blessings, my Jewish and Christian brethren, are in reserve for us on putting away our stumbling-blocks. Through Jesus we are one. He is our peace who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us. O let us together exalt and glorify His name alone.

I cannot forbear another twofold fruit of the removal of these stumbling-blocks: GLADNESS AND GLORY. To these the prophet calls our attention in the latter chapter (Isaiah lxv. 18, 19): Behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy; and I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my peovle, and

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the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her; and he bids all that love her, and all that mourn for her, to rejoice and be glad with her. Ixvi. 10. The Lord too promises, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream. Isaiah Ixvi. 12. Indeed, when we remember Jerusalem is called by our Lord Jesus in the New Testament, the city of the great King; and in the Old Testament, the throne of God's glory; and it is said of times yet to come, the name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord is there; when we remember that both Old and New Testaments declare, the Son of the Highest shall have given unto him the throne of his father David and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end; with such a Monarch, with such a throne, and city, and kingdom, what words can at all describe, what imagination can even reach the exceeding, the full, and the eternal glory yet to be given to Israel!

O when that quickly coming day arrives, while darkness covers the whole earth, and the shades of the great tribulation thicken on every side; and the first streaks of the Returning Sun of Righteousness paint the distant horizon, as his glory rises more and more upon us, with what shouts of joy will God himself say to Zion, while his glorified hosts re-echo the glad sound, Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people; but the Lord shall rise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

O brethren, Jews and Christians, let us quickly remove all our mutual stumbling-blocks, that this day of full blessedness and glory may at length, in all its healing, shine forth over all the earth.

APPENDIX I.

REV. C. SIMEON'S ADDRESS TO THE UNDERGRADUATES OF CAMBRIDGE, AT THEIR MEETING, OCTOBER 31, 1836. [page 52.]

THE following address from the Rev. Charles Simeon to the students composing the Undergraduates' Missionary Association (of which the Rev. W. Carus, Fellow and Senior Dean of Trinity College, is President), was, at his express desire, taken down by me, from his dictation, on Monday morning, the 31st of October, 1836, (while lying on his bed without hope of recovery,*) with a view to its being read at the meeting of the association in the evening of the same day. So calm and collected, so vigorous, I may say, was his mind throughout, that on reading over to him the draft of which this is a transcript, no correction whatever was found necessary, and it was read by me to the meeting word for word as it was dictated to me, in a low whisper, from his own lips. It was written with the knowledge that the subject of the conversion of the Jews would be brought before the Society in the course of the evening,

MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS,

G. SPENCE.

I have long wished to address you on this occasion, and since I had no hope of doing it by word of mouth, I have wished to do it through the medium of Mr. Spence, but the weakness that has

* He died on Sunday, the 13th of November, at a quarter before two o'clock.

† One of Mr. Simeon's curates.

come upon me, incapacitates me from doing it as I could desire. You will, however excuse my infirmities.

The thing which I wish to bring before you is this :-Ought we, or ought we not, to resemble Almighty God in the things most near and dear to God himself?

It has been the one object of my life to do so, and it is my dying prayer for you that you may do so also.

Now, I ask, what is at this very moment, God's view of his ancient people, and his feelings towards them? "I have delivered the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies." Jer. xii. 7.

Are such God's feelings towards them even now? And ought not ours to resemble them? Have we no cause for shame, and sorrow, and contrition, that we have resembled him so little in past times? And has not every one of us cause for shame, and sorrow, and contrition, for his sad want of resemblance to God at this very hour? Yea, for his very contrariety to God in this respect? Yes, have we not reason to blush and be confounded before God, when not even a desire for this resemblance has existed in our minds?

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Respecting them at this moment also, God says, (Rom. xi. 28,) They are beloved for the fathers' sakes;" and have we no sense of shame that there is no correspondence of mind between God and us in that respect?

But God says concerning them, "I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went. And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land." Ezek. xxxvi. 22, 24.

Now, I ask, let the Jews be ever so insignificant, that we do nothing for their sakes, ought not the glory of God's holy name to be as dear to us as it is to him? Are there no obligations lying upon us on this ground? Have we no cause for shame, and sorrow, and contrition, that these considerations have weighed so little in our minds? Surely, if we felt as we ought, the glory of God, as connected with this subject, should be dear to us, dearer

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