OR A Dissertation ON THE CREDIBILITY AND THEOLOGY OF THE PENTATEUCH. COMPREHENDING THE SUBSTANCE OF EIGHT LECTURES READ BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY BY GEORGE STANLEY FABER, B.D. RECTOR OF LONG-NEWTON. The Second Edition, LARGELY REVISED, CORRECTED, ALTERED, AND AUGMENTED. VOL. II. —Ὁ των Ιουδαιων θεσμοθετης, ουχ ὁ τυχων ανηρ LONG. de Sub. sect. ix. LONDON: PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, NO. 62, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD. 1818. (RECAP) CONTENTS OF VOL. II. BOOK II. Respecting the connection of the Patriarchal, the Levitical, and the Christian, dispensations, viewed as the component parts of one grand and regular system, the economy of grace. SECT. I. The mutual connection of God's several dispensations, p. 3 CHAP. I. General grounds of the mutual connection of God's several dispensations, p. 3 I. Consistency requires, that the period before and the period after the Levitical dispensation should each be occupied by a revelation from God, p. 3 VOL. II. b 5010 .143 : II. The Pentateuch teaches us, that the Patriarchal dis- III. The three dispensations, being equally from God, must have some mutual connection. They are con- nected by their common relation to one object. That IV. As they are thus connected, a single purpose is uni- V. Respecting the drift of the three dispensations, and the aspect under which their common object is set be- 1. Their drift is the recovery of man from the effects 2. Their common object is set before us, as presid- ing from first to last over the ministry of reconci- VI. The two first dispensations always look forward to the last or consummating dispensation, p. 16 1. Proof, that this is the case with Patriarchism, p. 16 (1.) From the promise of the woman's Seed, p. 16 (2.) From the promise of a future Saviour to the (3.) From the prophecy of Jacob, p. 17 2. Proof, that this is also the case with the Levitical VII. In the succession of the three dispensations, nothing is repealed or altered, beyond what the progressive development of God's plan absolutely required, p. 25 1. Particulars, in which the Law borrowed from Patriarchism, p. 25 (1.) Sacrifice, p. 26 (2.) Clean and unclean animals, p. 26 (3.) The priesthood, p. 27 (4.) The sabbath, p. 30 (5.) Tenths, p. 31 (6.) Moral precepts, p. 33 (7.) Tabernacle and Cherubim, p. 33 2. Particulars, in which Christianity has borrowed (1.) The moral commandments, p. 38 CHAP. II. Respecting the visible descents of the Saviour under the three dispensations, p. 46 I. Temporary manifestations of the anthropomorphic Word or Angel of Jehovah under Patriarchism, p. 48. 1. At the time when the woman's Seed was promised, p. 52 (1.) Reasons for believing, that Jehovah the Mes- 2. At the time of the dispersion from Babel, p. 56 4. To Abraham under the title of Melchizedek, p. 58 |