Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1805-04-24
FOR THE VIRGINIA ARGUS.
A FRIENDLY ADDRESS TO THE
JEW S.


manent. and to rs yet on invisible world
Permit me in the language ofhenevolence
90 solicit Your attention TO objects infiniie
ly more important than the diatems o
transito'y existencies, and the accumuia
lion OF delusive riches, which increase dis
Satisfaction and anxiety, but never conduct
to the haven of serene mind, and cob
tented spirit.
Nominal Jews and Christians for many
ages have been Substituting time IN
place or eternity, and external objects 10
place of spiritual substances, and have iett
the stage OF time disappointed, and u is
To ba feared, have not bettered themselves
by their passage into the world OF sp'riis'
Permit me then TO expostuIa'e with you
as people whose happiness IS the ooJect OF
my concern. have no prospect oil pre-
fefricnt or honor from you. l am not So
Ici,ous 10 procure enmity against myself,
or wan,oHiy 10 provoke your resentment.
Believe then lhat these lines How from the
heat oil friend. who highly estecms num-
bers of the Jewish nation.
wish to be understood, that this ad
dress is not to such Jews, as would not
part with tribe Of time objects for ali the
glorious prospects which in proper order
lie on the other side of the lines OF time |;
tu, il is addressed to sucl1 Jews as make
conscience &c walking according to their
own views Of the Old Testament. Jews,
citizens, fellow travellers,,o that country,
which finally receives all nations, and re-
turns none 10 our terrestrial habitation-
you have travelled far from the bounda.
ries of the an,ient promised lapd and In
deed am afraid you have travelled over
the limits OF time prescribed for the fulfil
ment of prediction which concerns all
:. nations and sll worlds, whether visible or
invisible. As well as you, believe in the
divine mission of Moses, and the prophets
-,,---and IN The divine prediction concerning
~ the SI.ssias announced 10 make his APP
a pesrance on this globe. and who after hay
+: ing furnished himself with body, should
retire 10 the spiritual world and create a
. new heaven, in which he would forever
dwell, AID reign with the faithful Of all ma.
+, lions. Isaiah, chap. 65, YER. IL.
Blk Jews, dear friends, predictions
should be understood, or We cannot con
clude whether or not they are accomplish
ed, on YET pending. To do justice to the
matter under consideration,
UnderstanN, the persons TO whom the
promise is made, they are not beings COM
posed OF terrestrial elements, but immor-
tai, aud anp-rishing, rational creatures.
l, would be great error TO mistake a
houss in which a person lives, TO be an es.
sentIai part Of the inhabitant, who posses
ses he tenement. As great is the dsvia.
ton from the truth, TO think that a man:
body which is com gosed OF terrestrial sub
4 stances is the real, essential man which in
habits thai body.
The soul which is the true, real and cs
septial man, by general and immutabIt
laws appointed by the creator gradually
from the initial formation of .he embrio
assumes, puts on, aud at the years of ma
turiIys completely furnishes itself with
body in which il may transact it's part, am
at The close Of the scene, 6nally put Of
these terresira elements, and proceed for
ward 10 an inmutable stage of life
In ail,his above related process,the per
sonality OF the human race is not destroy
ed mo, nor debilitatcd in any degree. 4
man is rational being much more com
pIete after putting off his house Of clay
than he was when residing in the same
He puts on mis- earthly body, gradually
through the process Of twenty years, o
the .eby, but Immediately upon the dissolu
ton of this transitory body, the soul is fur
nished with complete tabernacle of spi
ritual substances, which in duration, shall
= be coeval with eternity. This then being
che case, PROMISE of the Divine Being
made either To Jews or Gentiles, must be
made TO the immortal man, the true, rea
and essential being, and not to the bod,
or house composed Of elements, in which
he resides for few transitory years.
The MISUNDERSTANDING Of the term sou
and the fsllacies resulting therefrom, have
crippled the intelleets ofconni1ess myriad
of the human race. In Europe, Asia, A.
frica aud America, the term soul import,
something that goes ont of the person OF
qnits the man at death. Oh, ignorance
unmeasursbe, and infinitely fatal. Ifthey
understood the business properly. ade.
qua,efy end disiinGfly, they would know
At the period terned death, that the whole
essential man has evacuated the body or
feft his former habi.aton "a proceed for