"their iniquities whereby they have finned, and whereby they have tranfgreffed against me." In Ezek. xi. 16, 17, &c. "Therefore say, Thus "faith the Lord GOD, although I have caft them "far off among the nations, and although I have "scattered them among the countries, yet will I "be to them as a little fanctuary in the countries "where they shall come. Therefore fay, Thus "faith the Lord GOD, I will even gather you "from the people, and affemble you out of the *countries where ye have been scattered, and I "will give you the land of Ifrael. And they "shall come thither, and they fhall take away all "the deteftable things thereof, and all the abomi"nations thereof from thence. And I will give "them one heart, and I will put a new spirit "within you, and I will take the ftony heart out "of their flesh, and I will give them an heart of "flesh, that they may walk in my ftatutes, and "keep mine ordinances, and do them," &c. Ibid. xxxvi. 22. "Therefore fay unto the houfe of Ifrael, Thus faith the Lord GOD, I do not (this) for your fakes, O houfe of Ifrael, but " for mine holy name's fake, which

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ye have "faned among the nations, whither ye went," &c. And verfe 24, &c. "For I will take you from

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you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you," &c. &c. Verfe 33. "Thus faith the Lord GOD, In the day

that I fhall have cleanfed you from ALL your

iniquities, I will caufe you to dwell in the "cities," &c. Ibid. xxxvii. 21, 22, &c. "And

fay unto them, Thus faith the Lord God, Be"hold, I will take the children of Ifrael from among the nations whither they be gone, and "will gather them on every side, and bring them "into their own land. And I will make them "one nation in the land upon the mountains of "Ifrael, and one king fhall be king to them all : "and they fhall be no more two nations, neither

fhall they be divided into two kingdoms any ❝ more at all: neither shall they defile themselves r any more with their idols, nor with their de"teftable things, NOR WITH ANY OF THEIR "TRANSGRESSIONS; but I will fave them out "of all their dwelling-places, where they have "finned, and will cleanse them: fo fhall they be "my people, and I will be their God. And

David my fervant (shall be) king over them: "and they all fhall have one shepherd: they fhall alfo walk in my judgments, and observe my ftatutes, and do them," &c. " Moreover, I " will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall "be an EVERLASTING COVENANT with them: and "I will place them, and multiply them, and will "fet my fanctuary in the midst of them for evermore."

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Thefe prophecies, befides a number of others, clearly prove, that in this prefent captivity, we are to be cleanfed from ALL our iniquities, &c. And what is of still greater confequence, we are affured, that we shall never return to them any more, because the heart of stone will be taken from us, and a new heart and a new fpririt given unto us, that we may continue to walk in God's ftatutes and judgments FOR EVER.

Before I conclude this letter, I must take notice of what you say, page 46. By Mr. Levi's ❝ own confeffion, there was a Meffiah cut off "about that time, and who could this be but "Jefus?" But, dear Sir, you must surely have paid no attention either to Scripture, or profane history, when you wrote this. For from the fifteenth of Tiberias Cæfar, to the destruction of the temple by Titus, was upwards of forty years. Now, if the anointed was to be cut off after the fixty-nine weeks, and in the one half of the seventieth week, the facrifice, and the oblation was to be made to cease, and in the other, the defolation was to take place, as is manifest from the words of the prophecy, it is clear, according to history, that Jefus could not be the perfon; because, as I have observed, that from the time of his fuffering, to the deftruction of the temple, which was to be accomplished in the feventieth week, was forty years.

I am, Sir,

Your's, &c.

D. LEVI.

LETTERS

DR. COOPER,

IN ANSWER TO HIS

One Great Argument for the Truth of Chrif

tianity, from a fingle Prophecy.

BY DAVID LEVI,

AUTHOR OF LINGUA SACRA, THE CEREMONIES OF THE
JEWS, &c.

LETTER I.

REV. SIR,

Received your volume, intitled, "The One "Great Argument for the Truth of Christi"anity," &c. from Mr. Johnson, my publisher; for which, I thus publickly return you my most fincere thanks. And this, I think myself under the greater obligation to do, because, as I understand, your fole motive was the hope that it would lead me to embrace what you think to be the truth. This being the cafe, you may be affured, I read it with the greatest attention. But, judge of my surprise, when I found, that, a prophecy, which you call "One Great Argument for "the Truth of Christianity," and which as you observe, page 7, "When it is rightly explained, "fuch is its clearness,-fuch its force,-and fuch "its perfpicuity and precifion,-that the whole dispute between Jews and Christians, might be brought to an iffue, upon this very point,―nay, "even the whole argument for Christianity, "might be refted upon the wonderful completion

of this prediction, as delivered by the prophet "Ifaiah, and referred to by the Evangelift St. « Matthew," did not contain one folid reason, to prove its right to the title of "One Great Argu

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