Transcribed from the 1880 Robert Banks edition ,
London:printed by
Robert Banks, Racquet Court, FleetStreet, E.C.
p.vthe
Lost Ten Tribes,
and
1882.
by
REV. JOSEPH WILD, D.D.,
pastor of union congregationalchurch,
brooklyn, n.y.
LONDON:
robert banks, racquet court, fleetstreet. e.c.
1880.
This device of the great Seal was adopted by act of theContinental Congress, on June 20th, 1782, and re-adopted by theNew Congress, September 15th, 1789. The act provided for anobverse and a reverse, as set forth in this plate;the reverse is not used. This is a plate of thefirst and original Seal, which, by use, has been worn out. The one now in use is the second; it differs from the first that,by an accident, seven arrows were left out of the eagle’stalon.
Price 2s., post free 2s. 3d.,
THE FUTURE OF ISRAEL
AND JUDAH.
With a Portrait of Dr. Wild.
Philo-Israel says:—“We recommendmost strongly that all our friends should obtain the book. Once in their hands, we know they will read it to theend.”
London:Robert Banks, Racquet Court, FleetStreet.
p.xiPREFACE.
The following Discourses are presented to the public in bookform, agreeable to the request of numerous friends. I haveselected twenty from one hundred and thirty which I have given tomy own congregation during the past three years. I havetried to have them lean one against another, to the end that theargument might be continuous and somewhat complete. Thereader will remember, however, that the vast subject of whichthey treat, cannot be fairly and completely presented in such avolume as this. Also, it should be borne in mind that thelanguage, style, and structure, are sermonic. Pulpitliterature, in these things, is peculiar and distinctivelycharacteristic.
When I first entered the ministry, I made up my mind that Iwould try and thoroughly understand the Scriptures. I soonfound that a large portion was of a prophetic nature. I setto work according to the usual method, but to my sorrow I soondiscovered that the method and rules in general use for Scriptureexegesis, among what they called orthodox authors,