Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
served for some great and especial purpose , which , in the fulness of time will be exemplified and completed . It had been predicted by the prophet Jeremiah— " I will make a full end of the nations whither I have driven thee . " This prophecy has been remarkably accomplished ; for the providence of God has been no less signally displayed in the destruction
of their enemies , than in their own preservation ; for , from the beginning , who have been the great enemies and oppressors of the Jewish nation ? who removed them from their land ? and who compelled them into captivity and slavery ? The Egyptians afflicted them much , and detained them in cruel bondage several The Assyrians carried
years . away captive the ten tribes of Israel ; and the Chaldeans afterwards removed the two remaining tribes to Babylon . The Syro-Macedonians cruelly persecuted them ; and the Romans utterly dissolved the Jewish state , and dispersed the people , so that they have never been able to recover their city and country again .
And where are now these great and famous monarchies , which , in their turns , subdued and oppressed the people of God ? Are they not vanished as a dream ? Is not their power gone ? Are not their very names lost in the earth ? The Egyptians , and Assyrians , and Babylonians were overthrown , and entirely subjugated by the Persians ; and it is remarkable
that the Persians , under Cyrus , were the restorers of the Jews , as well as the destroyers of their enemies . The Syro-Macedonians were swallowed up by the Romans ; and the Roman empire , powerful as it was , comprehending the greatest part of the then known world , was broken in pieces by the incursions of the northern nations ; and where the
are now Romans ? Numerous as they were , they are totally lost and gone ; but the Jews are subsisting as a distinct people at this day . And what a wonder of providence it is , that the vanquished Jews should survive the whole of their successive conquerors , and that they should be spread over the whole world , when their oppressors are become like clods of the valley .
And more than this , the Jews entertain a certain assurance of being restored to their beloved country ; for the Lord , by their own prophet , said— " Behold , I will take the children of Israel from among the nations whither they be gone , and I will gather them on every side , and bring them into their own land . " The accomplishment of this gracious promise will not be difficult , when the appointed time shall come ; for they possess no fixed possessions any where to detain them .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
served for some great and especial purpose , which , in the fulness of time will be exemplified and completed . It had been predicted by the prophet Jeremiah— " I will make a full end of the nations whither I have driven thee . " This prophecy has been remarkably accomplished ; for the providence of God has been no less signally displayed in the destruction
of their enemies , than in their own preservation ; for , from the beginning , who have been the great enemies and oppressors of the Jewish nation ? who removed them from their land ? and who compelled them into captivity and slavery ? The Egyptians afflicted them much , and detained them in cruel bondage several The Assyrians carried
years . away captive the ten tribes of Israel ; and the Chaldeans afterwards removed the two remaining tribes to Babylon . The Syro-Macedonians cruelly persecuted them ; and the Romans utterly dissolved the Jewish state , and dispersed the people , so that they have never been able to recover their city and country again .
And where are now these great and famous monarchies , which , in their turns , subdued and oppressed the people of God ? Are they not vanished as a dream ? Is not their power gone ? Are not their very names lost in the earth ? The Egyptians , and Assyrians , and Babylonians were overthrown , and entirely subjugated by the Persians ; and it is remarkable
that the Persians , under Cyrus , were the restorers of the Jews , as well as the destroyers of their enemies . The Syro-Macedonians were swallowed up by the Romans ; and the Roman empire , powerful as it was , comprehending the greatest part of the then known world , was broken in pieces by the incursions of the northern nations ; and where the
are now Romans ? Numerous as they were , they are totally lost and gone ; but the Jews are subsisting as a distinct people at this day . And what a wonder of providence it is , that the vanquished Jews should survive the whole of their successive conquerors , and that they should be spread over the whole world , when their oppressors are become like clods of the valley .
And more than this , the Jews entertain a certain assurance of being restored to their beloved country ; for the Lord , by their own prophet , said— " Behold , I will take the children of Israel from among the nations whither they be gone , and I will gather them on every side , and bring them into their own land . " The accomplishment of this gracious promise will not be difficult , when the appointed time shall come ; for they possess no fixed possessions any where to detain them .