TO THE DOCTRINE OF

ISRAEL'S FUTURE

RESTORATION TO PALESTINE,
National Pre-eminence, etc.

WITH AN APPENDIX

ON THE TEN TRIBES AND THE FUTURE DESTINIES
OF THE WORLD AND THE CHURCII.

BY EDWARD SWAINE.

"It is mere equivocation to call Palestine the Lord's heritage and the land
promised to his people. These expressions belong to the Old Testament, in
the proper and literal sense, and can be applied to the New only in a figurative
sense. The heritage which Christ purchased with his blood is his Church,
collected from all nations, and the land which he promised is the heavenly
country."-Fleury, cited by Jortin.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

JACKSON AND WALFORD,

18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

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LONDON:

THOMAS HARRILD, PRINTER, SILVER STREET,

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PREFACE

TO THE

SECOND EDITION.

THE first Edition of this little work was published anonymously, and has been out of print for many years. Its origin was known to some extent, and esteemed friends have, at various times, suggested the issue of a new Edition. The circumstance, however, which has at length decided me, is the following. Very recently, a mutual friend of the Rev. Wm. Jay, of Bath, and the Author, wrote to me thus:" I lately procured for Mr. Jay, of Bath, at his request, a book published 21 years ago, entitled 'Objections, &c.' Mr. Jay has since written me, and wishes I could ascertain and inform him the name of the author, and he adds- But whoever was the writer, the work is masterly and

cannot be easily answered. It falls in with my own views which have never altered on that subject.'

In a second letter to the same gentleman, Mr. Jay writes, "I believe I thanked you for the discovery and present of the Letters I so wished to see. The work is well-written, and the point well argued. I should be glad to see a new Edition, and would do what I could orally to notice and recommend them in private and public."

The opinion thus deliberately expressed of one so truly venerable, and widely esteemed on the ground of his own invaluable writings, could not but greatly weigh with me. Added to this, my own convictions of the importance of the subject, from its bearing on the principles of Scripture interpretation generally, were never stronger than they are at present. With humble hope that the re-publication may, by the Divine blessing, promote the views and ends which are most consonant with Christ's kingdom, the Letters

are once more submitted to the candid notice of all who may peruse them.

The new matter is in a small compass, and consists chiefly of the portions within brackets in Letters IX. and X., with quotation from the recent work of Dr. Lee, late Regius Professor in the University of Cambridge; and the remarks at the close on the futility (as the Author presumes) of inquiries respecting the imagined concealment of the Ten Tribes.

February, 1850.

E. S.