Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

“Resolved, That we consider the doctrine of the
restoration of the natural Jews, as a nation, either
before or after the second advent of Christ, as heirs
and inheritors of the land of Canaan, as subversive
of the whole gospel system, by raising up what
Christ has broken down -- namely, the middle wall
of partition between the Jew and Gentile. It
contradicts those declarations of the New
Testament which assert ‘there is no difference
between the Jew and the Greek;’ that ‘the promise
that he shall be heir of the world was not to
Abraham and his seed through the law, but through
the righteousness of faith;’ and that ‘there is neither
Jew nor Gentile, bond nor free, male nor female,’
but that, ‘if we are Christ’s, then are we Abraham’s
seed, and heirs according to the promise.’ For this
Judaizing doctrine claims there is a difference
between the Jew and the Greek; that the children of
the flesh are accounted for the seed; that there still
is the distinction of Jew and Gentile; that we do
henceforth know men after the flesh, etc. We feel
bound, therefore, as we value the fundamental
principles of the gospel, to enter our most solemn
protest against all such teachings; and in our public
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