BY THE SAME AUTHOR. I. A Volume of SERMONS. Second Edition. 1 vol. 8vo. price 12s. boards. II. An ORDINATION SERMON, preached in the Cathedral of Raphoe, and published by desire of the Lord Bishop of the Diocese. III. THREE SERMONS, preached before the Judges of Assize in the County of Surrey, and published by desire of the High Sheriff. 8vo. 3s. sewed. IV. ENGLAND'S PROTEST is ENGLAND'S SHIELD. 8vo. 1s. 6d. sewed. V. REPLY to the Rev. JOSEPH SIDDEN, Roman Catholic Priest, Sutton Park, Surrey. 8vo. 1s. 6d. sewed. "To expound these predictions of the ancient prophets, of any thing but SIBLIOT LONDON J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY. MDCCCXXX. 633 PREFACE. THE following Lectures were delivered in London three years ago. My leading object in their composition was to make intelligible to large mixed congregations, a subject which I considered of great importance, and which I believed to be very rarely made the theme of popular discourse from the pulpit. That subject is the purpose of God concerning the Jewish nation, as it is revealed in the Holy Scriptures. In examining this, my chief auxiliary has been the decision which history has already pronounced upon the right interpretation of prophetic lan |