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is born to possess the THRONE of DAVID; and: all the promised land, which the Jews lost by their rebellion, HE is born to regain the whole.. For now shall I fight every battle for him: then how can they scorn the meanness of his birth ?: Because thy father lost his land, as the Hebrews. have lost their possession; so they that scorn the. one may scorn the other; and they that reject the one, must reject the other. Here let the different opinions of the Hebrews be penned."

The answer of the Hebrews at Birmingham is already mentioned in this book. The answer from Sheffield is, that they do not believe in JESUS CHRIST, no more can they believe in Joanna Southcott; and they must have more satisfactory, proofs, before they can believe. The answer

from Liverpool, from the person to whom the book was sent, is, "That he would not so much insult the understandings of his brethren, as to call them together on such ridiculous and nonsensical business: their faith is firmly fixed, and not to be shaken; being firmly convinced, that he who believes in the true and living God of Israel alone is in the true path."

"I shall answer him: and let him not do violence to his understanding, to say, he is in the right path, by believing in the ONE GOD, if he do not keep all the commandments that the Lord God commanded him to keep; which I tell thee he is not doing, and therefore he hath betrayed his own understanding, to judge himself in the right path and all the Prophets he must look upon as a farrago of nonsense, if he do not see the HOLY ONE of Israel, one spoken of higher than the sons of men, to be exalted by the ONE GOD. For he hath betrayed his own understanding throughout the Prophets: and let him appeal to his own conscience, if he hath kept the com

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mandments of God, to be in the right path. If he have not, he must see the dangers before him. And now let him call his understanding and his boasted wisdom together, how he would appear before that ONE GOD, without the sentence of condemnation being passed against him, in breaking the commandments which were given to MoSo let not such men boast of their wisdom; for should I call them to the Prophets, in whom they trusted, they would find themselves all stand guilty and condemned to this day; then how shall they be gathered together as a people, ever to possess the promised land? This is my answer to this proud boasting man, who neither understands what he reads, nor what he believes, to judge himself in the right path, and place the wisdom and judgment of others to himself, as though he could answer for the whole. Now let the judgment of others appear.”

From a conversation which a friend had with a Hebrew gentleman; he said, they had been expecting the Messiah a long time; and that some of them were looking for some great event to take place before the end of the ensuing autumn. Being asked if he would not be disappointed in the Messiah's coming from the Gentiles; he said, certainly not; he conceived that HE must arise from the Gentiles; or else how could we be united. One of the heads of the Hebrews in London said, he would pass no judg ment till the CHILD was born. Some others who were told of it, were eager to hear, and seemed rejoiced, and said they wished it might be true.

"So there are different minds amongst the Hebrews, as well as amongst the Christians; and different answers they will receive. I will not blame any man for waiting with prudence, until

he knoweth whether the report be true or not; as many false prophets are gone out in the world, and many deceivers have been in every age; therefore it is right for a man to be clear in judging, before he justifieth or condemneth. But know my inquiry at the end of the last book, whether they would believe and be convinced, if thou hadst a CHILD, according to the prophecies given to thee; for I shall make it so clear, and establish it by honourable witnesses, to prove that no deceit is practised, and that no deceit can be practised, in the way I shall direct, when thou feelest the life within. And now, I tell thee, the time is come to fulfil Jacob's dying words."

Genesis, xlix. 10. "The Sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a law-giver from between his feet, until SHILOH Come and unto him shall the gathering of the people be."

"But know, the sceptre was departed, as their crown, when I came; but the sceptre and the law-giver from being between his feet, until SHILOH Come, meaneth the PROMISE that stands on record for the HEBREWS in the end; and these promises will never be done away, till the gathering of the people; and those who now stand out in unbelief, the crown and sceptre will depart from them; for now is the time it is held out to them, to be a nation and a people, and to have the THRONE OF DAVID established. But if they do not come in now as a people, then those are the Jews who are Jews inwardly; not by name as Jews outwardly, but by faith. For now is the time that the promise shall be fulfilled; and no other crown and sceptre will ever be held out to them more, if they refuse the SHILOH who is now coming and now is the time that it will depart from them, if they stand out in unbelief. And therefore men of learning must see, from the

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Prophets, how the promise stands in the end, for the Jews; and from the epistles of Faul, that GOD had not cast away his people, to cut them off for ever but blindness in part was to them, until the fulness of the GENTILES should come in; and then their DELIVERER should come out of ZION: ZION meaneth, where the Lord visiteth. Now let them observe, when I came there was no gathering of the people then; therefore I could not be the SHILOH there mentioned; and I said then, that my kingdom was not of this world, though I came to establish my kingdom in the end: and know I said that they should see ME "Blessed is

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HE that cometh in the name of the Lord." So that the promise stands for the end, unto them that now shall be looking for the coming of SHILOH, and believe that HE cometh in the name of the Lord. So that the sceptre is not departed from them yet, to be without help and without hope, in the end. But now they may see how it will depart from them for ever, that now stand out in unbelief; because the people that now come in by FAITH, will be reckoned as the SEED of ABRAHAM, unto whom the promised land shall be given; for I will make them the people that were not the people, unto whom the PROMISE was made, by an OUTWARD NAME being given, if they now stand out through unbelief, to reject their call, when I have made it clear. But I now tell thee, all will not; neither will all believe; therefore the sceptre will depart from some; and therefore it is written, other nations will be joined to them, when I establish them in their own land. So here let the HEBREWS judge for themselves, what they have to hope and fear; and let them know, that a DELIVERER, in the likeness of the power given to MOSES, and a PROPHET like unto

him, hath never been raised up to them yet, for I did not come to be that Prophet, but to raise him in the end. Here I shall leave thee as to the Jews, till thou hast heard further concerning them.

"And now I shall answer thee further of the professors of my Gospel, who are as ignorant of the fulfilment thereof, as the Jews are of their Prophets; for the prophecies, which they say alluded to ME, when I became flesh and dwelt with men, were never fulfilled in my days; and yet I came to prepare the way that I might fulfil them in the end, by the SoN, that I said should be revealed in the last days. But know what I said of my Bible, that it was forgotten by all the sons of men; for were I to call Jews and Gentiles, who deny a visitation like this, to fulfil the scriptures, and demand of them, how they can be fulfilled any other way, to make my Gospel and the Prophets true; they could not answer one word of a thousand. When I call them to every promise that stands on record, can men point out a way to have them fulfilled, by their wisdom; and if they are not fulfilled, then my Gospel is null and void for I said I came to fulfil them; and I laid a straight path in the end, how I should fulfil them, in the end, when revealed."

After I had concluded my book, and sent it to the press, on Saturday, the following news was brought to me the next day, Easter Sunday evening.

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"The allied powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon was the only obstacle to "the re-establishment of the peace of Europe, "the Emperor Napoleon, faithful to his oath, "declares that he renounces for himself and his heirs, the thrones of France and Italy, and that there is no personal sacrifice, even that of life,

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