gyptians, as diftinguished from Ifraelites; the Hiftory of Jews as diftinguished from Egyptians (Jofephus). The fetting up of any altar befides that at Jerufalem, was confidered by God as fetting up an altar against his altar, and it expofed perfons to his curfe; but this oracle affures us, that the perfons vowing and building the altar are certainly bleffed: "The Lord of hosts shall bless them, faying, BLESSED be Egypt my people," &c. If there were profelytes to the Jewish religion, from among THE DWELLERS IN EGYPT, at Jerufalem on the day of Pentecost, who were converted to the Christian Faith, as a kind of firft fruits: How much more copious fhould be the harvest, which produced a regular difpenfation of Gospel ordinances. A JULIAN himself attefts the fulfilment of this prediction, Epift. li. "By the gods, I am not a little ashamed, that any of Alexandria should dare to confefs himfelf a Galilean. There was a time when the ancestors of the Hebrews ferved the Egyptians: But ye, Alexandrians, Egypt being fubdued, patiently endure flavery to the defpifers of the dogmas of your ancestors, which is against all right." Upon the whole, VITRINGA concludes that this teftimony is an evidence not only of the accomplishment of this prophecy, but alfo of that in Pfal. lxxxvii. 4. "I will make mention of Rahab (or Egypt) and Babylon to them that know me."" En, cateris miffis, verba notabilia Juliani, in Epiftola ad Alexandrinos, quibus hanc mutationem exprobrat: Equidem pudore, per Deos, haud mediocri teneor, Alexandrini, quod illus apud vos GALILEUM (Chriftianum) fe fateri audeat Hebræorum quondam verorum Parentes Ægyptiis ferviebant: at vos, Alexandrini, modo Ægypto fubacta, (hanc enim conditor vefter fibi fubjecit :) Tos xaτολιγωρηκαίσι τῶν πατρίων δογμάτων διυλείαν ἐθελώσιον, ἀντικρυς τῶν παλαιῶν θεσμῶν ὑφίςασθε. patriorum dogmatum contemptori bus fervire fponte contra antiqua jura fuftinetis. des facta Oraculo (Pfal. lxxxvii. 4.) ejufdem fenfus cujus hæc eft prophetia: Commemorabo RAHABUM (Egyptum) et BABELEM inter eos qui me cognofcunt." VITRINGA, Comment. in Ifaiam, p. 782. Now, it is well known that the Primitive Chriftians literally swORE unto the Lord of Hofts, as appears from the monuments of antiquity formerly adduced.

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OVENANTING was lefs general in Ireland than in by

the dreadful maffacre in that kingdom; and, probably, because the followers of Archbp USHER adhered to what was called the ROYAL CAUSE. There were a great number. of Scots, however, who had settled in the northern parts of Ireland; these clave to their brethren, and fupported, with distinguished courage, every part of Reformation principles. The labours of a Blair and a Livingstone were eminently fuccefsful in that kingdom; and the fruit they afterwards produced appeared in the ready acceptance, and renovation of the Solemn League. And many Irish Proteftants followed their example: As appears from the declaration of the Prefbytery of Bangor in the year 1649, That they and others had renewed this covenant. In the feveral congregations of Irish Protestants, a reprefentation was read against the proceedings of the Sectarian Party that beheaded King Charles I. and these Proteftants avow the Solemn League as their cwn covenant. Not only fo, but as late as 1662, fiftynine minifters of the Synod of Bellimenoch, who were inoft zealous covenanters, refused to conform to Epifcopacy, confidering it as abjured by the Solemn League; which gives us the ftrongest proof that covenanters were not fo inconfiderable in the kingdom of Ireland as fome have imagined.

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TO THE READER.

'HOUGH the Author revifed the proof fheets, when at home, with every de gree of diligence poffible, yet feveral ERRATA have crept into the work. It is hop❜d the candid reader will forgive fmaller mistakes, and correct the following thus:-P. 336. Note, third line from the foot, for HEARTS read JIEART.—P. 521. fix lines from the foot, the following part of the quotation has been omitted:." And I will eftablish my covenant between me and thee, and thy feed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and thy feed after thee."-P. 548. Note, fecond line from the foot, after the marks of quotation add, See Dr WHITBY on Matth. v. 21.-P. 636. line ninth from the top, for COMES read CAME, -The fpelling in ancient deeds, fuch as the League of Smalkald, is preferved as in the monuments in which they are to be found,

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