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ments may be true concerning the nation generally, which, if applied specially to these selected individuals, would not be true: and, that many statements may be true concerning these individuals specially, which, if extended to the nation, would not be true. This will admit of a familiar illustration. We say concerning the British nation, that it is an educated nation; and this is true: but if this be applied specially to certain individual Englishmen, who do not know the letters of the alphabet, it becomes false. Again, we say concerning certain Englishmen, that they are ignorant; and this is true: but if this saying be extended generally to the nation, it becomes false. Now, substitute Judah for England, and separation for education, and you have these propositions. The Jews are a separate people; true: but apply this to those individual Jews who have been converted to Christianity, and it becomes false. Again, some Jews have received Jesus as the Messiah, believed the Gospel, mixed with Gentile Christians, and lost their separate character; true: but extend this to the nation generally, and it becomes false.*

*Other individual Jews, besides those converted to the Gospel, may have mingled with the surrounding population, without invalidating this statement: so that, granting those instances which Dr. Buchanan mentions to have been of

This distinction meets, and, I think, fully answers, the objection already alluded to, grounded upon the language of the apostles respecting the unity of the church in Christ.

One of the peculiarities of the mystery, which St. Paul was specially commissioned to proclaim to the world, was, "that the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs, and of the same body (ovoowμa) and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel.” Accordingly, his language to Gentile converts is, "Ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God. And are built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone. In whom all the building, (obviously including the Jewish saints,) fitly framed together, groweth unto an holy temple (one building) in the Lord. In whom ye (Gentiles) also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit."

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Nothing can be more explicit than this language. The elect church is ONE, of whatever national materials composed. Abraham and Polycarp, Moses and Athanasius, Jeremiah and Luther, are builded into one temple, united in

the kingdom of Judah, still our general position holds good. See Christian Researches.

Eph. ii. 19-22, and iii. 1-6.

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one body, partakers of one promise in Christ, and sanctified by one Spirit. The mainspring of the godly character of Moses was that he preferred the reproach of Christ to worldly wealth and honour. The mainspring of every Christian's character is the same. And St. Paul, addressing the Gentile Christians of Galatia, says, As many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male no female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs, according to the (one) promise."* It is obvious, however, that this oneness of the election of God,

* This oneness of the elect church, the Lamb's wife, (Compare Canticles vi. 9. My love, my undefiled is but one, with Rev. xxi. 9,) supplies a formidable, I think, indeed, an unanswerable objection to the opinion advanced by some writers, that the faithful, under the Old Testament dispensation, and the faithful under the Gospel, are to be distinguished in the millennial kingdom: the latter, as the spiritual and glorified; the former, as the spiritual, not yet glorified: the latter, as the New Jerusalem, which comes down from heaven; the former, as the subordinate kings and princes of the world. All the faithful compose one body. As many of the gentiles as are of faith, are blessed with faithful Abraham.* This unbroken aggregate is the bride of the Lamb, the New Jerusalem; and the subordinate dominion of the regenerated earth is reserved, not for risen Jewish saints, but for the restored Jewish nation. *See Note C in the Appendix.

composed of individuals gathered out of all nations, presents no difficulty in the way of the national separation for which we argue.

Thus we have cleared our way another step. The remnant of individuals selected from the Jews in each age, and truly converted to the faith of Jesus of Nazareth, have certainly not continued a separate people; neither are they, nor can they be, a separate church. They have been incorporated with the church of Christ, which knows nothing of distinctions. But with the Jews, considered nationally, it is far otherwise. The wall of separation between them and other nations is in no sense or degree broken down; and our belief is, that as the language of our text never yet has ceased, so also it never will cease to be applicable to them in the letter of it.

In alleging this perpetual and manifest separation, it is now obvious that we speak exclusively of THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH CONSIDERED AS

A NATION.

III. Having said so much in explanation of what we mean, when we speak of the Jews being a separate people during the times of the Gentiles, let us now put the argument for their uninterrupted separation into this form.

As a matter of observation, we begin by saying they are at this moment a separate people, scattered in all nations, yet mingling with none. This is a plain fact, which even ignorance herself, with all her hardihood, can scarcely deny. But how is this fact to be accounted for? A modern writer on physiology, who labours to prove that man is matter, and nothing else; that the soul is organized brain, and nothing else; in his chapter on the causes of the varieties of the human species, finding the Jews, amongst other classes, forced upon his attention, thus cursorily disposes of this important question:-"The Jews exhibit one of the most striking instances of national formation, unaltered by the most various changes. They have been scattered for ages over the face of the whole earth; but their peculiar religious opinions and practices have kept the race uncommonly pure.* Now, it must be

* Laurence on Physiology, &c. page 468, Edit. 3.

It may be urged, that the writer's object was simply to enumerate, among the varieties of organization, that one exhibited by the Jews; and not at all to discuss the question of why they continue a separate people. To what purpose, then, is their separation spoken of at all? Still more; why is any reason assigned for it? The truth is, the separate state of the Jewish people, in opinion and practice, is too closely connected with the evidences for the inspiration of the Scriptures, to be a matter of real, however it may be of affected, indifference to any of our modern Sadducees.

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