following chapter. "And one fhall fay unto him, What are thefe wounds in thy hands? then he fhall anfwer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends, Awake, O fword, against my fhepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, faith the Lord of Hofts: Smite the fhepherd, and the sheep fhall be fcattered; and I will turn my hand upon the little ones. And it hall come to pass that in all the land, faith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off, and die; but the third fhall be left therein. And I will bring the third part thro' the fire, and I will refine them as filver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried; they fhall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will fay, It is my people; and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

Mofes. Who has Ifrael pierced but Jesus Chrift, who can the Lord of Hofts call his Fellow or Equal, but Meffiah? whofe hands did Ifrael wound, Jefus Chrift, and alfo his feet, nailing him to the Crofs? O misery, misery,

my heart fickens, and as a cold hand preffing into a clod of death, my mind feels loft in the dark region of woe. My forrows redouble your force, overpower and place me where no comfort can be admitted, but be expofed imprecated and feel malicious infults, ceaseless, from thofe fiends, whofe infernal gall against my God, I have fo deeply drank. O dark horror of black defpair, wreak vengeance on my guilty head. O my foul, can you look even by diftant thought on your God, that you have pierced, and, if it were poffible, not only robbed

robbed him of human life, but his Godhead. i fhudder and find dark defpair cloud my reafon, offering the baneful cup, which, fhould I take, it would be a fresh infult to that God at whofe dread tribunal I now ftand arraigned. The cup I mean is death. O my God, my Lord, that from my remembrance I have been infulting with one continued infult, by a rooted hatred, impreffed and imbibed from my parents, and which was handed from the perpretrators of the bloody act, in perpetual fucceffion, through our generations, to us now living; grant the fcourge may not fpare the wretch, who, tho' not the immediate perpetrator of the horrid deed, yet gave place and nourished, not only in his own, but in thousands of hearts, the gall of hatred and blafphemy against our God and Father. But do not permit me to offer any any farther infult, more particularly the heinous crime of the Traitor Judas, in deftroying the life you created, after the crime he ftands charged long before by the prophecy of Jeremiah, as we took notice, and then farther forewarned and set forth by Zachariah in the 11th chapter, which takes in the treafon of Judas and reprobation of the Jews (518 years before Chrift). Open the doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. Howl, fir-tree, for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty is fpoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan, for the foreft of the vintage is come down. There is a voice of the howling of the fhepherds; for their glory is fpoiled a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan

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Jordan is fpoiled." Thus faith the Lord thy God, "Feed the flock of the flaughter, who fe poffeffors flay them and hold themfelves not guilty and they that fell them fay, Bleffed be the Lord, for I am rich, and their own fhepherds pity them not. For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, faith the Lord, but I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king; and they fhall fmite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them. And I will feed the flock of flaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two ftaves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands, and I fed the flock. Three fhepherds alfo I cut off in one month, and my foul loathed them, and their foul also abhorred me. Then, faid I, I will not feed you; that that dieth, let it die and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off, and let the reft eat, every one the flesh of another. And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant, which I had made with all the people. And it was broken in that day; and fo the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the Lord. And I faid unto

them, if you think good, give me my price, and if not forbear; fo they weighed for my price thirty pieces of filver. pieces of filver. And the Lord faid unto me, Caft it unto the potter; a goodly price that I was prized at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of filver, and caft them to the potter in the houfe of the Lord. Then I cut afunder my other staff, even Bands, that I might

I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Ifrael. And the Lord faid unto me, fake unto thee yet the inftruments of a foolish fhepherd. For, lo, I will raife up a fhepherd in the land, which fhall not vifit thofe that is cut off, neither fhall feek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that ftandeth ftill; but he fhall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their laws in pieces. Woe to the idol fhepherd that leaveth the flock! the fword fhall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye; his arm fhall be clean dried up, and his right eye fhall be utterly darkened.

O my God, from the day Ifrael rejected you, The has drank the waters of affliction, from the day of her captivity, under Titus, her arm remains dried up. She is no more a nation, but a vagabond obnoxious, an alien, (as Cain after imbruing his hands in his brother's blood) whoever fees her may kill her; she has no remedy in herself, having neither civil or military force, nor power, either to compel others, or defend herself. Her arm is truly withered and dried up. Ifrael's eye is alfo darkened, the veil is over her eyes, until now, fhe knows not, that fhe is guilty of a crime fo far more heinous than Cain's, as you, my Lord, in dignity, are more worthy than Abel. Cain confeffed his guilt with the juftice and equity of the law of retaliation. Genefis 4th chpater, I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it fhall come to pafs, that every one that findeth me fhall flay me. But Ifrael has not only dipped her hand in the blood of her brother, which Z 2 would

would have been upon an equality with Cain's murder, she has put to death, after using every degradation, infults, the moft atrocious calumnies, buffets, fpitting in his face, fcourgings, mockings, and whatever her malice could invent, the Lord of life, the Chrift of God, her Lord and her God. But as if her Lord was not fufficiently degraded, they contrived the moft ignominious and painful death, and placed him. naked betwixt two thieves. Their difcourse of him was, attributing his miracles and the wonders that he daily laid before them to Satan, who, fay they, affifts this feducer, to raise seditions and draw the multitude from their duty to the law of our fathers, and allegiance to Cæfar; by which means, if we let him go on, we shall be of no respect, and the Romans will destroy our nation. This vindictive fpirit, revengeful in the extreme, blafpheming that very God that was fo long, and through all the prophecies pointed out circumftantially to them, accepting the robber Barabbas in preference, demanding not his death alone, but that his blood fhould be on herself and children, as the prophet Ifaias forewarned her, faying, Go to this people, and fay to them, with the ear you fhall hear, and fhall not understand; and seeing you fhall fee, and fhall not perceive. For the heart of this people is grown grofs, and with their ears have they heard heavily, and their eyes they have fhut, left, perhaps, they should fee with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and fhould be converted, and I fhould heal them. O my God,