As Mofes a little before his death promised the people that God would raise them up a Prophet like unto him-fo Christ, taking leave of his afflicted Difciples, told them, "I will not leave you comfortless; I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter."

Mofes exprefsly declares, "that it fhall come to pass, that whofoever will not hearken unto my words which the Prophet shall speak in my name, I will require it of him." The Jews rejected Chrift, and God rejected them. In the whole courfe of the hiftory of the Jews there is no inftance recorded, where, in the cafe of difobedience to the warnings or advice of any Prophet, fuch terrible calamities enfued, as thofe which followed the rejection of the Meffiah. The overthrow of the Jewish empire, the deftruction of so many Jews at the fiege of Jerufalem, the difperfion of the furviving people, and the hiftory of the Jews.

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down to the prefent day;-calamities beyond measure and beyond examplefulfilled the Prophecy of Mofes.

Is this fimilitude and correfpondence in fo many particulars the effect of mere chance? Let us fearch all the records of univerfal history, and fee if we can find a person who was fo like to Mofes as was Christ, and fo like to Chrift as was Mofes. If we cannot find fuch an one, then have we found him of whom Mofes in the Law and the Prophets did write,

Jefus of Nazareth, the Son of God."

The great defign of this Prophecy feems to have been to intimate to the Jews, that at fome future time fome new lawgiver would arife, "like unto Mofes;" and confequently it must appear, that his Law was not to be of perpetual obligation, but was intended to be fuperfeded by one that was to be of the greatest confequence to mankind;

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as the Almighty announced its future promulgation, even at the time when he gave his express commands to his chosen people. The Law of Mofes was confined to the children of Ifrael; the Law of Chrift was univerfal, defigned to illuminate every part of the earth, and to fulfil the promise originally made to Adam, and repeated to Abraham. The promise of another Lawgiver and Prophet was a continuation of the great chain of Prophecy, intended to keep in the view of the contemporaries of Mofes and the fucceeding generations, the affurance of the coming of the Meffiah.

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CHAPTER THE FOURTH.

The Fulfilment of the conditional Promifes and Threats pronounced by Mofes to the Ifraelites,

Y.'W. IF we confider Mofes as a patriot, an hiftorian, a philofopher, and a founder 1491. of a state, independently of his character as "a Prophet and a Teacher fent from God," it will be acknowledged that he ftands unrivalled in the annals of man-kind. Of all lawgivers he was the most virtuous and the most fublime. In times of the most remote antiquity, when the groffeft corruption of manners and the most irrational and cruel fuperftition prevailed in all the furrounding nations, this great Legiflator arose to confirm

his countrymen in the worship of the true God, and give them a rule of conduct, in which religious, moral, and civil duties were fo intimately blended, as to preclude any attempt to feparate them, and to which their defcendants have continued to adhere for above 3200 years. His laws are tranfmitted perfect to the prefent age, whilst nothing remains of the productions of other legiflators but a few fragments and the names of their authors. great part of the inhabitants of the globe revere them, and have adopted them in many points into their own civil and religious institutions.

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But it is not poffible to account for the fuperior wifdom, the perfect confiftency, and the fingular fate of the laws of Mofes, without the acknowledgment that he received them, by an especial revelation for an especial purpose, from God himself. The uninterrupted attachment