judgment, mercy, and faith, are trampled down under foot, by denial of the pre-millennial Advent of the Lord, in person, in glory, and power. These matters equally concern the glory of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; and these three agree in One. I do most earnestly entreat my honourable friends of the house of Israel, who have been "cast out of their pleasant houses," driven away from their "Beloved City,"* and hated on account of their color, to receive my testimony; or rather, (perhaps I had better say,) "search the Scriptures," daily, to see if these things are according to truth in godliness. "Remember ye the law of Moses my servant," ("saith the Lord of hosts," "which I commanded unto him in Horeb, for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments." They glorify our Blessed Saviour in their typical import, although but shadows of good things to come, for while of itself, the law (even of commandments) can make nothing perfect, because by itself it is not the ministration of life, it is evident that perfect holiness results from its being magnified and made honourable, in the day of Christ's glory, when He shall write it upon fleshly tables, even hearts made tender by the influence of His dying love; and by irresistible Power, effects His foreordination of Israel, "I will be their God, and they shall be my people." It appears that "the statutes and judgments" (the ordinances and ceremonies) of the Lord, are sacred in His sight, to the end of time; and that the celebration of His praise in their revival at the latter day, is dependant upon Israel's conversion to Truth as it is in JESUS, when *New Echota, the tribes of the Lord are translated into the image of God, even holiness, as set forth in His law, which He engraved first upon tables of stone; and this national conversion follows the second appearing of the Maker of the law, which is Christ the Lord. Under the present dispensation of the Gospel and its ordinances, the first ordinances are considered as done away in Christ, because His Divine Person, which is symbolized by the outward, or as Paul calls it, "a worldly sanctuary," is not present with His church; but is received into the heavens, "until the times of restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began." For Moses truly spoke of this Great Person, when he said to the Lord, "shew me, I beseech thee, Thy Glory;" and Moses, before his death, was inspired to bear “testimony of Jesus, which is the soul of prophecy,” by the vision which he saw of the glory and majesty of the Lord, in the Day of God. "The Lord came from Sinai; "And rose up from Seir unto them.-See Isaiah 63. "And He came with ten thousand of His saints. "For them.-Yea, He loved the people; "All His saints are in Thy hand, "And they sat down at Thy feet; 66 Every one shall receive of Thy words." The rest of the prophecy is an exhibition of the blessedness that comes upon the church, which is called by Christ, (in His prophecy of the reign of Anti-Christ) "the elect," for whose sakes the days should be shortened; and this blessedness is reserved unto the day of Christ, even His personal triumph upon this earth, which is His footstool, and upon His holy mountain which is Jerusalem, the place of the soles of His feet, and the place of His throne; for He will make it glorious. In this inspired prophecy of Moses, when He assembled the tribes of the children of Israel, to bless them before his death, the exaltation of Levi (and Simeon with him) is acknowledged, as connected with the Glory of Christ in His priestly office; and "they shall teach Jacob His judgments; and Israel His law; they shall put incense before the Lord, and whole burnt offering upon His altar;" see Ezekiel 43, 19-27, and c. 44, 15-31; the twentyfourth verse of the 45th chapter is very expressive of the case, "Let thy Urim and Thummim be with thy Holy One;" for it is the Lord who declares, that "in controversy they shall stand in judgment, because they shall teach His Divine law, and His statutes in all His assemblies; and they shall hallow His sabbaths." Taking this view of the law in a Day, which is emphatically styled, "the Day of Christ," we shall strictly adhere to the glory of His Gospel, comprising, as it does, "Grace, mercy, and peace from GOD," as the God of both Jews and Gentiles, and realizing the covenant with Abraham, "that in his seed should all the families of the earth be blessed." When Christ comes in the clouds of heaven, He will be glorified in His saints, as the author and finisher of their faith in GOD. Abel, Seth, and Noah, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Israel and Rachel, Moses, Aaron and Miriam, will confess Him in their worship of the One GOD Most Holy; and the Author of their eternal salvation, as Paul or Peter, Mary Magdalen and Phebe, or we who now hope in His mercy, and acknowledge that in His Name, is our only confidence, in His blood our trust, and in His righteousness our glory, who look for Him to return, and love His second appearing. I mention Abel as the first martyr, Seth as the appointed seed, and Noah the perfect man in his generations, who brought the church through the flood, by building an ark to the saving of His house, as God commanded him. Abel confessed his faith in the blood that taketh away sins: Seth gave the pattern of homage to the Son of God; and Noah builded an altar unto Him, on which he offered every clean beast for a burnt offering. These highly favored men became heirs of the righteousness which is by faith; and their interest in Christ is perfected at His coming to be glorified in them, in Enoch, in Samuel, in Job, Ruth, Hannah, yea, all godly persons, who believed in His glory. The faith of the gospel, is from faith to faith; and we confess that great stress should be laid upon the doctrine of our Lord's resurrection from the dead; but our faith has her rest in His blood, which came not to Him again, in the resurrection of His body; and our faith in His dying for us, becomes victorious by faith in His resurrection from the dead. Faith then proceeds with His glory. Death and hell cannot clip her wings; for "Christ is risen" as He said: "He is ascended" as He said: "He will come again," as He said: "He will magnify the law," as He said, &c. &c. &c. I am convinced more and more of the necessity that we should attend to the sayings of Christ upon the subject of His second coming into this world; and as most of His parables were in tended to teach concerning that event, I believe if we look for it in those parables, we shall be rightly led in our apprehension of His meaning in them. "My words are spirit and life," said our blessed Lord; but unbelief perverts them, therefore His words are lost upon the way side, the stony ground or the sensual hearers thereof, whose souls are dead in trespasses and sins. Such persons had no delight in the miracles which He wrought before their eyes; nor did they take any pleasure in hearing His heavenly doctrine of the kingdom of God; and it is the same with multitudes at this day, who are settled on their lees, and fit neither for the land or dunghill, that is, neither to live well or die safe. These cumberers of the gospel ground are very apt to imagine that they are in favor with God. Their denial of His personal relation to the outward congregations of Israel and Judah in the glory of His reign, as King of saints, they esteem as evidential of sound faith; and they heartily despise the little ones who believe in JESUS, as He is revealed in the holy, and sure word of prophecy, proclaimed by angels; and by the Holy Ghost in, and upon apostles of gospel grace, revealed and proclaimed a visible and personal King upon David's throne, the Mount Zion. I hope there are no such characters among my red brethren, as I have briefly described: still there is danger, and I would desire them to beware of falling into that gin of the Prince of darkness, which he has set of old time for the children of Israel, even fondness for traditions of men, which results in casting off, and despising the word of the Holy One of Israel, the Lord of hosts. I do beseech the Christian Indians to bear in mind this inspired truth, |