leading our brother unto the fold. A pupil in the Hebrew language, he became his master's teacher; and exhibited to him, "Him of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets did write,” and after much anxious labour, he had stood beside him at the baptismal font. He could recal the day when with hat on his head, and arms extended, and with the veil upon his heart, the Jewish Reader of the synagogue delivered portions of the law to his equally blinded people: he could retrace the exceedingly difficult and painful steps of his early Christian course-for no common trials were his-and he could, with all these reminiscences vividly on his mind, look upon the Bishop of Jerusalem, and bless the Lord, with joy unspeakable, for the stupendous results of his early believing labours. The service was followed by a crowning scene: our dinner table was again spread with most liberal hand, and the supper guests were all Israelites, male and female, believers in the Lord Jesus Messiah, assembled to make merry and be glad and merry and glad they were! It was a delicious privilege to stand behind their chairs, to replenish their plates, and fill their glasses, and meet their sparkling smiles of acknowledgment. Some among them could not even speak our language; but right well could they read our looks. Never did I witness a spectacle of such mirthful gladness-not the laughter of fools, the crackling of thorns under a pot-but the fulfilment of the prophetic word-" When the Lord turned back the Captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream : then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: Then said they among the Gentiles, The Lord hath done great things for them; yea, the Lord HATH done great things for us, whereof we are glad." Was then the Captivity turned? I am certain it was. It is childish to say that a Jew on acknowledging Jesus as his Messiah, is no longer a Jew; that on ceasing to be disobedient, unthankful, unholy, he loses his part in the promises of God. That the sprinkling of clean water on him, the giving of a new heart and a new spirit, which are distinctly described by Ezekiel (chap. xxxvi.) as preceding and ushering in the day of their national triumph, and enduring peace in their own land, robs them of that triumph, shuts them out from that land. No: this gathering of the first ripe grapes, this binding of the early sheaves, and storing them in their natural garner, with honor, and praise, and distinction, is the earnest, the pledge, the unequivocal declaration that the Lord God of Abraham is remembering his covenant, remembering his people, remembering the land. We may, by unbelief, lose much joy, and rob God of his glory so far as we are concerned: but cannot force Him to break his covenant, or to alter the thing that is gone out of his mouth. The vision that was for an appointed time, tarried, but is come: the books that were sealed till the time of the end, are gradually unfolding their pages before us. Those who will doubt, must doubt, till God opens their eyes: but we who have been enabled to believe while as yet nothing was seen, now look on with unspeakable joy; and instead of saying "This is Zion whom no man seeketh after," we exclaim, "Kings are become thy nursing fathers, and their Queens thy nursing mothers: Arise shine! for the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee." Oh that the full meaning of that glorious chapter, the sixtieth of Isaiah, may burst upon every doubtful mind, that seeing as we see the stretching out of the Lord's hand to ingather his beloved people, they may, with us, obey the command, to "give him no rest till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the whole earth!" C. E. ANSWER OF THE ABBOT OF BANGOR TO AUGUSTINE THE MONK, REQUIRING SUBJECTION TO THE CHURCH OF ROME. BE it known and without doubt unto you, that we all are and every one of us obedient and subjects to the church of God, and to the Pope of Rome, and to every godly Christian, to love every one in his degree in perfect charity, and to help every one of them by word and deed to be the children of God; and other obedience than this I do not know due to him whom you name to be Pope, (aab) nor to be the father of fathers (Daad o Baad): to be claimed and to be demanded, and this obedience we are ready to give and to pay to him and to every Christian continually. Besides we are under the government of the Bishop of Kaerleon upon Uske, who is to oversee under God over us, to cause us to keep the way spiritually. Aylett Sammes' Britannia Antiqua Illustrata. INITIA HEBRAICA. (Continued from page 426.) As much inconvenience is occasioned by endeavouring to print in Hebrew type with the necessary correctness and accuracy, during the short time allotted to the conducting a monthly periodical through the press, the English pronunciation and translations, only will be given in this concluding paper. It is to be hoped that any who may have been induced from these pages, to commence the delightful study of the sacred tongue, will ere this have provided themselves with a bible, or at least with a Psalter.* (45.) I shall endeavour to preserve a uniformity of rendering the Hebrew into English letters, as follows, N will be entirely omitted. The sound of its vowel point alone being expressed will be represented by the Greek x • omitted when quiescent by k by qק * I would strongly recommend a Psalter with the English interleaved, Edited by the Rev. J. C. Reichardt; this may be purchased at Mr. Wertheim's, Paternoster Row, bound by the Jewish Operatives at Bethnal Green. The type is remarkably clear and good, I would also recommend Wolff's Manual of Hebrew Grammar. Cornish and Co., 126 Newgate Street. |