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We have here no Inquifitions or other rigorous Means to force you againft your Confciences, to embrace the Chriftian Faith; neither have the Chriftians, here in their Churches, any fuperftitious Idolatry, or falfe Worthip; therefore fuch Advantages as these are, you ought well to weigh,

But above all, I recommend to you, my Brethren, the ferious Confideration of your future and eternal Happiness, toward which you cannot expect any Benefits from your Meffia; for you make no mention of your being delivered from thofe Sins, for which there was no Atonement, or Expiation by Sacrifices under the Law; but when Jefus came, the Isa. 59.20,2 1ẻ fecond Covenant ran thus, That those fhould be faved, who turn from their Iniquities.

There are many more Circumstances from the Talmud and Tradition, contradicting the facred Scripture, as well as themselves, but if I fhould mention them all, it would, perhaps, tire the Patience of the Reader; therefore I have endeavoured, as much as in my Capacity

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lay, to fet before you the chief Motives and Circumstances the Chriftians have in the Maintenance of their Faith. If you give but the leaft Credit to the Scriptures, that they are infpired, then certainly the Chriftians have a good Foundation for their Religion; and then it follows, and is evident, that my bleffed Saviour Jefus Chrift came, not only to be a Light to the Gentiles or Heathens, but also to be the Glory of Ifrael.

All my Wishes, Prayers, and Defires, continually are, not only for your spiritual, but likewife your temporal Glory, efpecially that I might rejoyce, in the Days of your Converfion, that we might be united into one Flock, under one Shepherd Jefus Chrift. A

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him, turn from you his Wrath, and Indignation, by taking off that deluding Cloud from your Eyes, that you may plainly fee your Errors, and pernicious Delutions; that all of you, by embracing of the true Chriftian Faith, may be delivered from your damnable Sins, by the Crofs and Paffion of my bleffed Saviour Jesus Chrift, towards which, I add my hearty

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Prayers, as offered up in the holy Communion of the Catholick Church, as it is the Duty of all pious Chriftians to of fer up theirs, for God to enlighten your Minds, and deliver you from thofe pernicious Prejudices you labour under, and that the divine Majefty would make fuch an Impreffion on your Hearts, as may cause your effectual Converfion to the Christian Faith; that through the Mediation of mine and your true Meffia, who poured forth his Blood like, Water for on the Crofs, and pray'd to forgive you; Father forgive them, for they know not what they do; and for the compleating of your Converfion, I farther offer up my Prayers.

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Almighty God, and merciful Father, ⚫ who defireft not the Death of a Sinner, < but rather that he should live and be converted; most heartily, I befeech thee, to have Mercy upon my poor Diftreffed Brethren, the Jews; and that thou would'st be pleased to take from them the Cloud of Ignorance, all Hardness of Heart, and Contempt of thy holy Word, and to gather them again to be thy Flock, that they may be faved among the Remnant of the true Ifraelites;

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that they may be made one Fold, under one Shepherd. Father, I befeech thee, to bring into the righteous and holy Path, all hardned Sinners, and ⚫ alfo thofe that have erred and are deceived; and this I pray, for thy dear and beloved Son's fake, Jefus Chrift our Meffia, who liveth and reigneth 5 with thee, and the holy Ghost, one God, Sin one Subftance, World without End Amen

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