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Mr. Wolf, you have gotten my soul, so that I now perceive that the book is sealed to the Jews, they do not understand it, until they believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of the living God; and I shall thank the Lord when I shall travel with you, and then profess publicly that Jesus is the Messiah.' I read with him Acts xvii. he was struck by the following words, "For in him we live, and move, and have our being." Every word (said Abraham Ben David) goes through my heart. I read with him 2 Cor. vi. • Every word goes through my heart,' said Abraham again. He made after this, some rabbinical but innocent observations, as for instance, God appeared to Abraham in the plains of Mamre, as a reward to Mamre, who › was turned Jew, He remarked farther, that there was a difference in the behaviour of Abraham from that of Lot, when the angels appeared to him. (Genesis xviii. xix. 2.) Abraham not knowing at first that those three men were angels, but believing them rather to be idolaters, who worshipped the dust of their feet, desired, first of all, that water should be fetched to wash their feet, in order that the tree under which they were to rest, might not be profaned by idolatrous dust; but Lot, on the contrary, who himself had been an idolater, did not mind it, and asked them to turn into his house, and then to wash their feet. I disapproved of that observation with tenderness. And I then prayed with him to our heavenly Father, to the Lord of Hosts, in the name of his only-begotten Son. Abraham repeated every word with a devout voice. I then went with him to the rich Jew, Joseph Ben Sachariah Smaria, who showed me the remarks he has made upon the New Testament, which he will give me in a letter, which I may send them to England. Another Spanish Jew. was present, who desired a New Testament; his name is Jacob.

The great rabbi Mendel sent to me again to-day for six Hebrew Bibles. As on account of the war, no money for the Polish Jews arrives from Kassia, the Polish Jews are

in great distress. I give them, therefore, Bibles and New Testaments gratis. I sold to-day ten Italian New Testaments to the Greek convent of St. Demetrio, for two piastres, two barras; and one copy of the Hebrew Prophets, to a Spanish Jew, for one piastre. I distributed also ten Italian tracts, all I had, among the Roman Catholic peasants, who will most probably show them to the Catholic priests of the Italian convent, who may be either moved by the grace of God to read them and be converted, or they may, after their usual custom, burn them. I learn that the Superior of that convent, Pater Cozza by name, is liberally-minded, but, however, they have, notwithstanding all the liberality of their Superior, pronounced excommunication against me.

Rabbi Solomon Ben Menahem Shfiro has lent me a work of rabbi Mose Ben Menahem, who came five hundred years ago to Jerusalem, and found no Jew here except one single dyer. That great man composed a most beautiful elegy upon the destruction of Jerusalem, which is to be found as an Appendix to his Commentary on the Pentateuch.

April 30. The Popish Missionaries in the Italian convent of Terra Santa, have at length broken the silence they kept for a while, after they perceived that so many of their Catholic flock have received the word of God with gladness. The Rev. Pater Cozza, Superior of that convent, mounted the pulpit of the church last Sunday, and proclaimed the following order in the presence of eight hundred Catholics :

'As that man who lately arrived at Jerusalem for the destruction of the Catholic religion, has distributed several books, I command you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, to deliver to me all the books which he has distributed, and to tell me the names of those who have brought them; and whosoever shall dare to act contrary to this order, shall be excommunicated in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.' The liberal

Catholic Anton Tolamas, assured me that the Rev. Cozza has already had a quantity of Psalters and New Testaments delivered to him. The Jews the day before, proclaimed their excommunication against the New Testament only, but the Catholics against both the New and the Old. I have left the convent of the Armenians, and have taken a room in the house of a kind Mussulman, Hassan Alemi by name, that I may converse with the Jews more freely. Hassan Alemi offered to read the Koran with me, he assuring me that it was created in the beginning of the creation. I have given Hebrew Bibles and Testaments, and Tremellius's Catechism, to twenty-seven rabbies.

To-day I fancied that the Rev. Lewis Way, Mr. Bayford, you, and Mr. Simeon, entered my room; I was so overpowered by the thought, that I exclaimed with a loud voice, Angels of the Lord!' and when I perceived it was only a fancy of my imagination, I shed abundance of tears. The Caraite Jews receive tracts with gladness and gratitude, and thus they did the Old Testaments.

...The Lord has tried me again. Pater Paolo Tiutiungi, the Armenian priest, has set out for England. The Armenian merchant Macarditch, a most amiable gentleman, with whom I travelled through the deserts from Cairo to Gaza, and in whose company I spent the evenings in the Armenian convent, has set out for Cairo. I feel much the loss of those two friends. I accompanied them to the road of Arimathea, (Ramla), where we sat down on the grass, near the ruins of a house, and eat some sweet cakes, and drank a little wine, and the Armenian priests sang a hymn to the praise of our Saviour. I recommended my friends to edify each other on their way through the desert with prayer and hymns, and I returned to Jerusalem with a heavy heart. When I returned home, a Jewish boy requested a Hebrew Bible. I gave it gratis, and also Tremellius's Catechism, and spake with him of Christ.

I went this evening again to rabbi Joseph Ben Wolf, with the intention of reading the Sohar with him, and

thus have an opportunity of conversing with him about the glad tidings contained in the Gospel. I observed that several leaves had been torn out of the Hebrew Bible which I had presented him with. I asked the reason of it; Rabbi Joseph told me, that an enthusiastic Jew had done that mischief, on account of the crosses which are to be found in the Bible. I was so much displeased and hurt about it, that I left the room, and spent the night in the house of rabbi Solomon Ben Menahem Shfiro, who observed, that there are several mistakes in the Bible; for instance, Isaiah ix. 6, is 7 instead of 70, and Rabbi Solomon thinks that the Samaritan text should not have been cited in the notes, and the sign of the cross, notwithstanding the innocency of the intention, ought not to have been chosen; and he thinks farther, that the characters are too small, and is often used instead of 1.

May 1.—I called again on rabbi Joseph Ben Sachariah Smaria, and asked them who was the author of Psalm cx. The answer was, David. I asked them, Whom does David call Lord? They confessed that they were not able to answer that question. Rabbi Joseph, however, has returned me the New Testament. I then went to rabbi Mendel, the high priest; several other rabbies and students were assembled. Rabbi Mendel expressed his desire of seeing me turn again to Judaism, and he added, that he had some hopes on the following account:-First, That I never play cards, detested by Jews. Secondly, That I never went into the theatre. Thirdly, That I am a friend of orphans and widows, and of Jews in general, and have taken upon me the charge of their letters which the Jews wrote to Poland. I answered, that the faith which I profess, my faith in Jesus Christ, enables me so to act, and that I do all this for the glory of the Lord. We argued again for some hours. When I returned to my room, Isaac Ben Solomon, Abraham Ben Jeremiah, and Abraham Ben David called on me. We sang together a very edifying Chaldee hymn, with which they were much pleased.

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The English translation of the Hymn is as follows:

Lord God of the world and worlds, thou art King of the kings of kings.

It is beautiful to relate before thee the works of thy power and wonders.

Choir. Lord God, &c.

I offer up praises in the morning and in the evening time unto thee, O God of holiness, Creator of all the souls, of holy cities and children of men, of the animals of the field, and the fowls of heaven.

Choir. Lord God, &c.

Great are thy works and thy power in the height; he raiseth them that are bowed down; and if a man should live two thousand years, he could not explain thy power; O Lord, most precious and great, redeem thy sheep from the mouth of lions, and redeem thy people from the captivity; that people whom thou hast chosen.

Choir. Lord God, &c.

Return to thy temple, with all thy holiness, where all the spirits and souls rejoice, and sing and shout in Jerusalem, the beautiful city.

Choir. Lord God of the world and worlds, thou art King of the kings of kings.

May 2.-Moses Ben David Shleifer, the brother of the converted Abraham Ben David Shleifer, although but ten years of age, understands exceedingly well the Hebrew and Chaldean tongues; he called on me to-day with his brother Abraham Ben David. I preached to them both, for above an hour, the preciousness of the Gospel; they were very attentive.

Rabbi Mendel, Rabbi Isaac, from Safet, and another Jew, Haim Takur, from Safet, and Mrs. Batsheba, argued with me several hours, and showed me a book containing beautiful sentences of moral precepts. I read in it, and approved of it, but showed them at the same time, the ex