Christmas Conversations Between a Lady and a Cottage Neighbour on the Forty-Fifth Psalm - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ... of such comfort as they offer to us. Mrs. C. Assuredly every true Christian must desire that all his fellow-creatures should participate with himself in the blessings he enjoys so largely.-This, you will find, is very much the tenor of the observations I am now, with your leave, going to read to you, on the dispersion and present state of the Jews. Mrs. P. Who are they by, madam, may I ask? Mrs. C. Benson, an eminent preacher of the Gospel, still living, and chiefly known to the world by a course of lectures on the Evidences of Christianity, which he preached before the University of Cambridge. It was in one of those that he made these observations. He had been speaking of the predictions of our Lord Himself respecting Jerusalem, recorded by St. Luke, "When He was come near, He beheld the city and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! But now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round about, and keep thee in on every side; and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another, because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. In those days there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people, and they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden under foot of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." (St. Luke xix. 41--44, and 21, 23, 24.) On this Benson remarks, that "the accomplishment of this prophecy of our Saviour, in the full and final destruction of Jerusalem and her inhabitants, and in...