ONE thing that Satisfies Us Christians, in the Truth of Christianity, is Your Obstinate Aversion to that Holy Religion. Our Blessed JESUS, the Author of our Faith, foretold your continuance under the Circumstances now come upon you, until the Times of the Gentiles in the Four Monarchies, just now Expiring, are Expired. And your own Inspired Prophets, who are now more Ours, than Yours, foretold your being penally given up to the Deafness, Blindness, and Hardness now upon you. But, behold, a Proclamation here sent you from Heaven, inviting you, to persist no longer in your Damnable Rebellion against the CHRIST of God! ⟨p. 4⟩Here is now put into your Hands, an Irresistible and Irrefragable Demonstration, That tho' you say, You are Jews, you are not […] this Essay, the Common Translation of any Text, is at all varied from, 'tis […] with as Good Authority as any that there is for the Common Translation; and most Commonly with the Authority of your own Jewish Writers. Be amazed, O ye Rebellious & Rejected People of our Great Lord Messiah; We Christians, have by the Wonderful Work of God, been brought unto the Faith of the Fathers; but you are fallen from that Faith, & under Strong Delusions, you are Pining away in your Iniquities. Return, O backsliding Israel! All that we Christians desire of you, or for you, (and we all desire it!) is, That you would Return to the Faith of the Old Testament. Be it known to you, That if you do not now Submit unto our Blessed JESUS, all the Glorious Oracles of the Old Testament, will come in, as Witnesses against you. In the Name of the Great God, I demand it of you, That you Seriously Consider the Things here laid before you; And be now at last Astonished, that you have all this while no more Considered 'em.
ONE thing that Satisfies Ʋs Christians, in the Truth of Christianity, is Your Obstinate Aversion to that Holy Religion. Our Blessed JESUS, the Author of our Faith, foretold your continuance under the Circumstances now come upon you, until the Times of the Gentiles in the Four Monarchies, just now Expiring, are Expired. And your own Inspired Prophets, who are now more Ours, than Yours, foretold your being poenally given up to the Deafness, Blindness, and Hardness now upon you. But, behold, a Proclamation here sent you from Heaven, inviting you, to persist no longer in your Damnable Rebellion against the CHRIST of God! ⟨p. 4⟩Here is now put into your Hands, an Irresistible and Irrefragable Demonstration, That tho' you say, You are Jews, you are not 〈…〉 this Essay, the Common Translation of any Text, is at all varied from, 'tis 〈…〉 with as Good Authority as any that there is for the Common Translation; and most Commonly with the Authority of your own Jewish Writers. Be amazed, O ye Rebellious & Rejected People of our Great Lord Messiah; We Christians, have by the Wonderful Work of God, been brought unto the Faith of the Fathers; but you are fallen from that Faith, & under Strong Delusions, you are Pining away in your Iniquities. Return, O backsliding Israel! All that we Christians desire of you, or for you, (and we all desire it!) is, That you would Return to the Faith of the Old Testament. Be it known to you, That if you do not now Submit unto our Blessed JESUS, all the Glorious Oracles of the Old Testament, will come in, as Witnesses against you. In the Name of the Great God, I demand it of you, That you Seriously Consider the Things here laid before you; And be now at last Astonish'd, that you have all this while no more Consider'd 'em.
