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not participators with reformed Ten-Tribed Israel, of the national blessings promised to Abraham and his seed for ever, because they rejected Jesus Christ the Saviour and are still refusing to believe in Him. We think that the time is not far distant when the Jews too shall look on Him whom they have pierced, and be saved nationally by the national recognition of Jesus as the Messiah, and the New Testament as the record of the promised New Covenant : when they will be reunited to the stock of Abraham, and participate in the blessings pertaining thereto.

12. Strong in Power.

Micah iv. 7. I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off A STRONG NATION.

Isa. xli. 10, II. Be not dismayed, for I am thy God, I will STRENGTHEN thee. . . . Behold all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded, they shall be as nothing: and they that strive with thee shall perish.

Isa. lx. 22. A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one A STRONG NATION: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.

Numb. xxiv. 8. God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath, as it were, the STRENGTH OF AN UNICORN; he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones and pierce them through with his arrows. He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a GREAT LION who shall stir him up? Micah v. 8. And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people, as a LION among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.

Deut. xxxiii. 17. His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the HORNS OF UNICORNS: with them he shall push the people together to the ENDS of the EARTH.

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CHAPTER XI.

Scriptural Marks of Identification of Israel.

13. A Nation.

Jer. xxxi. 35, 36. If those ordinances (viz., the sun, moon, stars, and sea) depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a NATION before me for

ever.

Isa. xv. I. I said, Behold me, behold me, unto A NATION that was not called by my name.

Matt. xxi. 43. Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to A NATION bringing forth the fruits thereof.

Isa. li. 4. Hearken unto me, my people, and give ear unto me, O MY NATION.

2 Sam. vii. 23. And what one NATION in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to Himself. . . .

God has declared that until the sun, moon, stars, and sea depart, "Israel shall not cease from being a NATION before Him for ever." They have not yet departed; therefore Israel must be NOW ONE of the nations of the earth. The question therefore naturally arises, What Nation is Israel? The champions of Anglo-Israelism have logically maintained that as BRITAIN ALONE, of all the nations of the earth, possesses all the blessings and promises, as far as they have been fulfilled, which were made by God in favour of His people Israel; and that as God is true, faithful, and covenantkeeping, these promises and blessings cannot be diverted to any Gentile nation, therefore it follows that the British must be Israel. And in accepting this truth, we also appropriate the unfulfilled promises of the future glory of Israel. We find that all the prophecies relating to the first advent of Christ, the destruction of Jerusalem, Babylon, Nineveh, Egypt, Moab, Judah, &c., have been fulfilled literally, and refer to "Keith's Evidence of Prophecy"

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for proof; as also the punishments inflicted on Israel. We conclude, therefore, that the promises of blessings to Israel should also be taken in a literal sense; and we assert that this in no way interferes with the spiritual interpretations as applicable to the Church of Christ. If our readers will refer to the uninspired chapter headings of some of our Bibles, say the Oxford University editions, they cannot help observing the inconsistency of, on the one hand, spiritualising the blessings promised to Israel, and attributing them to the Church of Christ; while, on the other hand, those prophecies of God's judgments and chastisements are applied in their literal signification to Israel.

It is true that the New Testament deals almost exclusively with the spiritual truths of the Church, unfolding the meaning of the literal truths of the Old Testament prophecies, excepting, of course, where the meaning obviously refers to the Israelites, the destruction of Jerusalem, &c. Many of our pastors consequently ignore the scriptures that refer to Ten-Tribed Israel, or apply them exclusively to the Church, composed of believers of every nation on the face of the earth: but the existence and hope of the Jews compel them to admit their restoration to Palestine and participation in the glories of the millennium in a literal sense. But as the house of Judah and the house of Israel were to unite and go together to Palestine at the Restoration (as foretold in Jer. iii. 18; 1. 4, 5; Ezek. xxxvii. 16, 17; Hos. i. 11), it follows (if the views of the pastors be correct), that all believers, of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation (Rev. v. 9, 10), must go with the Jews when they return to Palestine, and be united there under one head; while to the same era of the world's history is referred the consummation of the expectation of the conversion of the world, when "every knee shall bow at the name of Jesus." Such a union is manifestly absurd and impracticable; therefore the pastors above referred to must acknowledge the existence of TenTribed Israel as A NATION.

14. The Chief Nation.

Numb. xxiv. 7, 8. He (says Balaam) shall pour the water out of his bucket, and his (i.e. Israel's) seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted. God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones and pierce them through with his

arrows.

Deut. xxviii. 1, 2, 10, 13. If thou shalt hearken diligently unto

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ABOVE ONLY AND NOT BENEATH.

the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all His commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high ABOVE ALL NATIONS of the earth, and all these blessings shall come on thee. ro. And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of thee. 13. And the Lord shall make thee THE HEAD AND NOT THE TAIL; AND THOU SHALT BE ABOVE ONLY, AND THOU SHALT NOT BE BENEATH.

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Lord Palmerston said, "There is no other European state which possesses a commerce so extensive as that of England; I conclude, therefore, that it is to the interest of the English to invite other states to accord to commerce the greatest possible freedom." Remarkable words these, and truer at the present day than at the time they were spoken ("Nineteenth Century," Aug. 1882, p. 284).

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Deut. xxvi. 19. The Lord hath avouched thee this day. to make thee HIGH ABOVE ALL NATIONS which he hath made in praise, and in name, and in honour.

The following extract is from the Standard newspaper of London, May 24, 1883, and is to the following effect, being the correspondent's report of “Events in France," May 23 :

"PARIS, Wednesday Night.

"The approaching recurrence of the Queen's Birthday furnishes the Figaro with an opportunity to enlarge upon the magnificent results our country has obtained. In the presence of the sixtyfourth birthday of the Queen, the Figaro finds it impossible to avoid drawing painful comparisons and feeling legitimate regrets. It continues: Extending over three hundred millions of menfrom the Thames to the Ganges from Ireland to Australia; from Egypt to Borneo-this Neptune's trident is the sceptre of the world. Queen Victoria, nevertheless, unceasingly enlarges the limits of her vast empire, in the face of nations who behold with grief their frontiers drawn in and their prestige dimmed."

Isa. lx. 12. For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish, yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

2 Sam. vii. 23. And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to Himself, and to make Him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

"If ever there was a land in which work is to be done, and perhaps much to suffer, it is here. I shall not say too much if I say that we have to subjugate and subdue, to conquer and rule, an

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95 IMPERIAL RACE; we have to do with a will which reigns throughout the world as the will of old Rome reigned once; we have to bend or to break that will which nations and kingdoms have found invincible and inflexible. Were heresy-i.e. Protestantism-conquered in England, it would be conquered throughout the world. All its lines meet here, and therefore in England the Church of God-i.e. Popery-must be gathered in its strength "-Cardinal Manning, the Tablet, August 6th, 1859.

Ps. cxlvii.

He hath not dealt so with any nation.

Jer. xxxi. 7. Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the CHIEF OF THE NATIONS.

The Right Rev. Dr. Ryle, Bishop of Liverpool, lately said: England is to-day "the first of nations, no nation on earth having such power, and such wealth, such dominions and such greatness, such revenues, and such commerce; having colonies in every climate, ships on every sea, and influence with every government under the sun. England is the heart of the world; the slightest movement in this island is a pulsation felt in the remotest corner of the globe." These words of Bishop Ryle's are those of an opponent of Our Identity, and yet, as he must know, if he reflects, they are all God's promises to His people Israel in such passages as Isa. xli. 9-15; Jer. xxxi. 7; Deut. viii. 18; Dan. vii. 22-27; Numbers xxiv. 7; Isa. xlix. 8; lxi. 9-11 (in the order named). Such being the case, why does not Bishop Ryle recognise the British as the chosen people of God, the Ten-Tribed remnant of Israel; in very truth, to use his own expression, "the first, or chief, of nations"? (Banner, vol. vii. p. 474, No. 357).

Deut. vii. 6. For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto Himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

The following appeared in the Globe of March 3, 1884, and speaks for itself :-"Sir Lepel Griffin concludes The Harvest of Democracy' by telling us that there are Englishmen who seem to believe that the golden age has passed for their country, and that she is falling into decrepitude. This is not the view of those who have breathed the free air of the younger and greater Britain in Canada, Australia, or India. The British Empire is still in its infancy. Grafted, it is true, on an ancient monarchy, it only dates from the occupation of Virginia by Raleigh 300 years ago. It has grown to be the greatest empire the world has ever seen, with a territory of 9,000,000 square miles, and 300,000,000 subjects of the Queen, and now only waits the statesman whose genius shall gather it into one mighty federation, animated by loyalty and dignified by freedom. When that day shall come, we may hope

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