PREFACE. THE FOLLOWING COURSE OF LECTURES was undertaken at this remarkable crisis in the political state of Europe, and at a season when "the remnant of the dispersed of Judah, and outcast Israel," have excited a very deep interest in the public mind, with the design of shewing the important place they occupy in the word of God, and the scriptural grounds there are for believing that their redemption draweth nigh: that seeing their restoration will be accompanied with great blessings to the righteous, and with dreadful judgments upon the ungodly, many may, by the Divine blessing, be stirred up to earnest prayer and active diligence in their behalf, and the hitherto negligent be led to embrace the present interval of mercy, and turn to the Lord ere "the days of vengeance" come. It has been the earnest desire of those who have united in delivering these Lectures, to avoid all fanciful or speculative interpretations of Scripture; and, as the Lord enabled them, to impress upon their hearers His striking warning, "Behold I come as a thief; blessed is he that watcheth and keep eth his garments," that, "standing with their loins girded about and their lamps burning, they may be like unto men that wait for their Lord when he shall return from the wedding," that "when he cometh and knocketh they may open to him immediately." St. Bride's, Liverpool, Jan. 1841. CONTENTS. BY THE REV. JAMES HALDANE STEWART, M.A.,” INCUMBENT OF ST. BRIDE'S, AND CHAPLAIN TO THE MOST NOBLE THE MAN'S ORIGINAL STATE;-THE DOMINION THEN GIVEN TO HIM OVER THE EARTH;-THE LOSS OF THE UNFOLDING OF THE PROMISE IN THE CALL OF ABRAHAM; AND THE BLESSINGS SECURED TO HIM, AND ΤΟ HIS SEED, AND то ALL THE BY THE REV. R. P. BUDDICOM, M.A., F.A.S., PRINCIPAL OF THE CLERICAL COLLEGE OF ST. BEES, AND LATE MINISTER GEN. xii. 1-3.-" Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee: and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee; and in thee shall |