LORD of David, the IMMANUEL of Isaiah, and the SAVIOUR of men.

Now, if in contradiction to all this mighty mass of evidence, the Jews can ever contend that the Messiah is yet to come, they must be left to the enjoyment of their visionary notions. All those circumstances and things, which were to take place at the coming of the true Messiah, have been literally accomplished, without the possibility of ever returning to afford a pretence for a Messiah to come; they have been carried on the wings of time, to the house of eternity, where they are registered as awful proofs, that the Hebrews, ever since the time of Christ, have rejected the incontrovertible evidence of their own prophets, that THE MESSIAH IS COME.

THE DOCTRINE OF NUMBERS.

It may be proper to inform the reader that the Hebrew letters signify also numbers; and I have found that much knowledge may be obtained from the Hebrew Bible, if this be attended to. Whatever the divine wisdom might think proper to convey in this singularly comprehensive language-table, which was well understood by the ancient Hebrews,

is, no doubt, left for our investigation. It appears from Scripture that these ancient people were well acquainted with the natures and properties of the animal, mineral, and vegetable kingdoms, which we are told they learnt from their most sacred writings. Adam, Tubal Cain, Noah, Moses, and the prophets, were scientific and learned men, and the greatest masters of natural philosophy that ever appeared on earth. But as subjects of this nature are foreign to this work, I shall confine myself to those things which are connected therewith.

It has frequently appeared to me, when reading the original scriptures, that something more was comprehended in the Hebrew names than we had hitherto understood: and it is evident that there is still something undiscovered, as to this particular, of which we have been ignorant on account of that inattention to the elements of the Hebrew language, which has been too prevalent, among the Jews as well as among the learned, and which future time may develope. I shall here introduce a singular coincidence as to the numbers contained in the Hebrew names of men at the establishment of every dispensation, by which the intelligent reader may see that something more is comprehended in the original language, than has been generally believed for the last 1800 years.

THE FIRST DISPENSATION.

From ADAM to CAIN, ABEL, and SETH, when the

FIRST dispensation was established, the Numbers

of the four names are,

ON, Adam,

45

TP, Cain,

160

San, Abel,

37

שת

л, Seth,

700

942

THE SECOND DISPENSATION.

From NOAH to SHEM, HAM, and JAPHET, when the SECOND dispensation was established, the numbers of the four names are,

It is also a singular circumstance, that the two antediluvians, Adam and Noah, who received the first two dispensations, are said to have lived to a similar age. Adam, who received the first dispensation, is recorded to have lived to the 10th century after his creation, and Noah, who received the second dispensation, is said to have lived to the 10th ĉentury after he was born.

THE THIRD DISPENSATION.

From Abraham, the father and founder of the Hebrew nauon, to the third dispensation given to Moses, the numbers of the names are,

From the 80th year of Moses, when he led the Israelites out of Egypt, to Christ, who gave the last and final dispensation, and prophetic numbers ceased:

From Moses to Eli, including 12 years' government of the Elders, who succeeded Joshua.—

It is also worthy of notice that if the numbers of the names of the descendants of Abraham viz. Isaac, Jacob, Levi, Koath, Amram, 1292, be divided by the number of lineal descendants of Jacob. viz. Levi, Koath, Amram, the beginning of the fourth generation, they will give the number of years they were to be sojourners, viz. 430 years. Agreeably to the 13th. verse, of the xvth. chapter of Gen. know of a surety thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them and they shall afflict them, four hundred years: but which was in reality four hundred and thirty years.

The prophets, were also instructed by the doctrine of numbers concerning the states of the church and people, which numbers had a recondite meaning. For all names and terms in the Hebrew language, comprehend the state, and express the quality, as well as point out the subject or thing mentioned. This will appear to the intelligent reader from the following passages, where the number FORTY is introduced, which, while it shows the time, or number of the things spoken of, has a plain reference in the body of the narrative to the subject in question. In a state of trial, temptation, suffering, and uncertainty; which shows the beauty, originality, comprehensiveness, and singularity of the original Hebrew.