Is. lvi, 3:  “Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice:  for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

“Blessed is the man that doeth this, that keepeth the Sabbath, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

“Neither let the strangers that have joined themselves to me, say, God will separate me from His people.  For thus saith the Lord:  Whoever will keep my Sabbath, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; even unto them will I give in mine house a place and a name better than that of sons and of daughters:  I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.”

Is. lix, 9:  “Therefore for our iniquities is justice far from us:  we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.  We grope for the wall like the blind; we stumble at noon day as in the night:  we are in desolate places as dead men.

“We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves; we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.”

Is. lxvi, 18:  “But I know their works and their thoughts; it shall come that I will gather all nations and tongues, and they shall see my glory.

“And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Africa, to Lydia, to Italy, to Greece, and to the people that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory.  And they shall bring your brethren.”

Jer. vii. Reprobation of the Temple:  “Go ye unto Shiloth, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people.  And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the Lord, I will do unto this house, wherein my name is called upon, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to your priests, as I have done to Shiloth.” (For I have rejected it, and made myself a temple elsewhere.)

“And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the seed of Ephraim.” (Rejected for ever.) “Therefore pray not for this people.”

Jer. vii, 22:  “What avails it you to add sacrifice to sacrifice?  For I spake not unto your fathers, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.  But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey and be faithful to my commandments, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people.” (It was only after they had sacrificed to the golden calf that I gave myself sacrifices to turn into good an evil custom.)

Jer. vii, 4:  “Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, are these.”

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The Jews witnesses for God.  Is. xliii, 9; xliv, 8.

Prophecies fulfilled.—­I Kings xiii, 2.—­I Kings xxiii, 16.—­Joshua vi, 26.—­I Kings xvi, 34.—­Deut. xxiii.

Malachi i, II.  The sacrifice of the Jews rejected, and the sacrifice of the heathen, (even out of Jerusalem,) and in all places.