Another Sign preceding the End of the World, is, _The Conversion of the Jews_; and this is a wonderful Sign indeed. St. _Paul_ seems expresly to affirm it, _Rom. xi. 25, 26._ But it is differently understood, either of their Conversion only, or of their Restoration to their own Country, Liberties and Dominion. The Prophets bear hard upon this Sense sometimes, as you may see in _Isaiah_, _Ezekiel_, _Hosea_, _Amos_. And to the same purpose the antient Promise of _Moses_ is interpreted, _Deut. xxx._ Yet this seems to be a thing very unconceivable: Unless we suppose the ten Tribes to be still in some hidden Corner of the World, from whence they may be conducted again to their own Country, as once out of _Ægypt_, by a miraculous Providence, and establish’d there: Which, being known, will give the Alarm to all the other _Jews_, in the World, and make an universal Confluence to their old Home. Then our Saviour, by an extraordinary Appearance to them, as once to St. _Paul_, _John xix. 37._ and by Prophets, _Apoc. i. 7._ _Mat. xxiii. 39._ rais’d up amongst them for that purpose, may convince them that he is the true _Messiah_, and convert them to the Christian Faith; which will be no more strange, than was the first Conversion of the _Gentile_ World. But if we be content with a Conversion of the _Jews_, without their Restoration; and of those two Tribes only, which are now dispersed throughout the Christian World, and other known Parts of the Earth: That these should be converted to the Christian Faith, and incorporated into the Christian Commonwealth, losing their National Character and Distinction: If this, I say, will satisfy the Prophecies, it is not a Thing very difficult to be conceived. For when the World is reduc’d to a better and purer State of Christianity, and that Idolatry, in a great measure remov’d, which gave the greatest Scandal to the _Jews_, they will begin to have better Thoughts of our Religion, and be dispos’d to a more ingenuous and unprejudic’d Examination of their Prophecies concerning the _Messiah_: God raising up Men amongst them of divine and enlarged Spirits, Lovers of Truth more than of any particular Sect or Opinion; with Light to discern it, and Courage to profess it. Lastly, It will be a cogent Argument upon them, to see the Age of the World so far spent, and no Appearance yet, of their long expected _Messiah_. So far spent, I say, that there is no Room left, upon any Computation whatsoever, for the Oeconomy of a _Messiah_ yet to come. This will make them reflect more carefully and impartially upon him whom the Christians propose, _Jesus of Nazareth_, whom their Fathers Crucified at _Jerusalem_: Upon the Miracles he wrought in his Life, and after his Death; and upon the wonderful Propagation of his Doctrine throughout the World, after his Ascension. And lastly, upon the Desolation of _Jerusalem_, upon their own scattered and forlorn Condition, foretold by