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of a mass of superstitious traditions, by which you are at present 

 held in the greatest intellectual bondage: that you would here- 

 stored to the enjoyment of those privileges in the favour and com- 

 munion of God, which you have so long utterly lost. That you 

 would be, in the hands of the Lord Jehovah, the happy instru- 

 ments of bringing multitudes of the unbelieving Gentiles to the 

 standard of the Messiah, Jesus Christ: and above all, that you 

 would, by a cordial, (fori never mean a merely nominal) reception 

 of the truths of Christianity, have a certainty of that eternal salva- 

 tion which we are taught to expect only through the name, merits, 

 and sufferings of Jesus Christ. 



" We view the present situation of your people, when spiritually 

 considered, as peculiarly awful and dangerous; whilst we also be- 

 lieve, that by a real conversion to Christianity, you would be deli- 

 vered therefrom, and brought into one which comprehends the 

 highest and happiest privileges; both as it concerns your well- 

 being and well-doing in this world; and your everlasting blessed- 

 ness in that which is to come. 



" Those who so anxiously labour and pray for your conversion 

 to Christianity, are united and constituted on the broad and liberal 

 basis of the Church Universal: they carry their ideas and designs far 

 beyond that of proselyting to any particular sect or denomination 

 of Christians. Many classes of Christians, differing indeed in a 

 few matters avowedly of lesser importance, but all agreed in own- 

 ing and worshipping Jesus Christ as the true Messiah, are united 

 in endeavouring to accomplish the great end of bringing the Jews, 

 by argument and persuasion, to do the same; looking to God 

 alone to bless their aim and desiun. 



