Spanish; Zechiel maintained that Jesus had been condemned under King Alexander Janous, and not under Herod the Tetrarch, for it was so written in the Talmud; your Gospels, said he, were not written till towards the beginning of your second century, and are not authentic; we could not crucify him you speak of; for, in the time of Herod the Tetrarch, we had not a power of life and death, nor could we have crucified him, for that was not the manner of punishment in use among us; he who perished in the time of Janous was condemned to be stoned to death; the Queen enraged at the defeat of her champion, commanded Zechiel to be silent; she would not endure arguments that evinced such superiority of knowledge, and so effectually subverted the erroneous notions she had imbibed. In the rampart of faith, an excellent book, found in Africa, written by a Jew of the name of Isaac, is demonstrated two contradictory genealogies of Christ: the falsehood of the quotations of the passages of the prophets, which are not to be found in the

Jewish books; he denies the divinity of Christ, which is no where expressly asserted in the Gospels, and deems it the highest blasphemy to deny the unity of God, he proves that Christ was not an only child but had brothers and sisters; that the narratives of the Gospel are incongruous, though attempted to be reconciled and harmonized; the fiction of the history of Lazarus, and the falsifications of the ancient canonical writings. It is probable, that the works of this Rabbi convinced Dr. Priestly of the Unity, and laid the foundation of the sect of Unitarians. This sublime notion generalises, and the various sects that profess it promises its universal adoption.

OROBIO, a very learned Jew in 1685, says, it is no where in Scripture asserted or intimated that the Judaical law is the adumbra. tion or figure of another law; on the contrary, it is every where said, that the law of Moses. is to be eternal, and that every prophet who should work miracles to change any part of the law, should be punished with death. The

prophets

prophets predicted to the Jews, in their calamities, that they should one day be delivered, but that the deliverer would be the supporter, not the destoyer of the Mosaic Law. That a proof of the verity of the Jewish religion is its immutability, that the Jews of Rome, England, Holland, Germany, Poland, Turkey, India, Persia, China, and every other country, have always since the taking of Jerusalem by Titus held the same doctrine; no contradictory sects, no schism distract them, all agree and are uniform; there is no variation in the observance of the commandments delivered. from mount Sinai.

It is not malice, or perverseness, or stubbornness, that makes them reject Jesus, but fidelity to the religion they believe right; nor is it from sordid views, for they rescind many worldly advantages, they suffer many privations. and mortifications, the unparalleld cruelties of Babylonians, Assyrians, and Romans, have not been enough to abate their zeal; no injury can detach them from the worship of their God.

Ir is said, that the Messiah comes to cleanse

Israel from all sins,

that he will not leave a

if it be allowed that sin

single stain in Israel;

is still committed, it cannot be allowed that the Messiah has yet come.

THE Jews cannot intermarry with people of a different religion, they cannot eat of their viands, and therefore they dont incorporate with them; but this separation renders them hated by other nations; they attribute to an unsocial, unfriendly disposition, what is ascribable to the injunctions of their laws; they reject honors that would interfere with their religion, and offices, and occupations incompatible with it; unwilling to emerge from the state to which their religion binds them, regardless of honors, of which other nations, are solicitous, their forbearance has been mistaken for exclusion, and encreased their enemies contempt; their commencement was under a theocracy, and they would forfeit their, existence rather than relinquish the divine government.

THOUGH

THOUGH they are the primitive lord's of the earth, though they have been dispossessed of their territory, their titles abolished, their property despoiled, and their dignity sullied, and they have no mode of subsistence but commerce, their genius which is the sole resource left them, abundantly evinces how superior would be its operation in a better sphere of action. The contempt and abhorrence borne them is an incitement to the wrongs that are done them, the edicts against them are implications of impunity to their oppressors, and are disgraceful records of the injustice and intolerancy of the country where they were exercised; they have no protection but in their caution, they traffic with timidity and wariness, their fears rouse their acuteness, and their acuteness and suspicions augment the hatred; they are enjoined by their law to love their neighbours, but they have every neighbours enmity to encounter, which neither mildness can mollify, nor subtilty elude; it must be a faith supported by supernatural firmness

that