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The divine authority of the Old and New Testament asserted
The divine authority of the Old and New Testament asserted Author:John Leland Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. IV. Law of Mofes is in it felf rea- fonabk and excellent. This doth not render the Atteftation given it by Miracles need- lefs ; but Jlrengthens and enf... more »orces it. "The Covenant of Peculiarity not a, vain Pretence and national Delufion. 'The Argument brought. againfI it from the Authority of St. Paiil, and the- Nature of the Abrahamic Covenant; confidered. The God oflfrael not reprefent- ed in Scripture as a national, local, tutelar Deity. The Author's Jlrange Way of accounting for fome o/ Mofes'j Miracles. The .Extravagance of his Suppofitions fieivn. The Objections again/I his being the Author of the Pentateuch, confidered and obviated. The Plan Mofes laid downjor the Conquefi of Canaan, not incon/iftent with the Nature of the Promife made to Abraham. Other Ex ceptions of this Writer, confidered. THE principal Defign of my former Book was to vindicate the Mofaical and Chri- ftian Revelation againft the' Objections this Writer had brought againft them. And before I enter'd on a particular Difcuffion of his Objections againft the Law of Mofes, I premifed fome general Confiderations concerning the Nature and Defign of that Law. It v/as fhewn, that its. moral Precepts were pure and excellent ; that"its ritual Injunctions were appointed for wife Ren fons ; - that the whole Mofaick Constitution Was de- figned for excellent" Ends ; for 'preserving the Knowledge and Worfhip of the only true God in Opposition to all Idolatry, and for engaging thofe, to whom it was given, to the Practice of Righte- oufnefs: That it was a Conftitution that anfwerM many wife Purpofes of Divine Providence, and was made fubfervient to the general Good of Mankind. This was in Oppofaion to the odious ' Reprefentation this Writer has made of the Law of Mofes, as if it was the worft Conftitution in the ...« less