DEDICATED WITH DEEPEST RESPECT TO THE

RIGHT REVEREND

CHARLES H. TERROT, D.D.,

BISHOP OF EDINBURGH, AND PRIMUS OF THE

Scottish Episcopal Church,

BY HIS MOST OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

IF as great pains had been taken to invest with literary elegance the arguments presented in this little work, as have been bestowed in determining the soundness of the arguments themselves, the Author might have entertained many more readers than he is likely to secure. He invites the lovers of truth to the perusal of his pages, and is warranted in expecting that the minds of sincere Christians will duly appreciate whatever can be introduced with that supreme and indubitable sanction, "THUS SAITH JEHOVAH." He cannot but feel that he may be the means of communicating, to many of God's dear people, some measure of the satisfaction and comfort which his own heart has derived, from the opinion here maintained respecting the particular day on which "God rested from all His works which he created and made," viz., that on this same day the Almighty finished

the great work of redemption, and brought in everlasting righteousness through "Him who rose again for our justification." Nor can he discourage hope from following the footsteps of desire respecting his beloved kindred, "who are Israelites," that they, without ceasing to look forward to the coming Messiah, may be induced by what is here stated, to look back on the Messiah already come, and to mourn penitently for those sins which made him at the first "a man of sorrows." May the Spirit of truth bless this humble effort in vindication of the truth, and excite many who have heretofore misapprehended, or too lightly esteemed, the Old Testament scriptures, to meditate more intelligently and prayerfully on those sacred pages to which our blessed Saviour referred, when he said to his kinsmen according to the flesh, "Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me."

A BELIEVING ISRAELITE.