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THE

DIVINE LEGATION OF MOSES

DEMONSTRATED.

BY THE RIGHT REVEREND

WILLIAM WARBURTON, D.D.,

LORD BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

A DISCOURSE BY WAY OF GENERAL PREFACE:

CONTAINING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE, WRITINGS, AND CHARACTER OF
THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.

BOOK V. CONTINUED.

SECTION

V. SHEWS, that as temporal rewards and punishments were the proper sanction of

the Jewish Law, so, there were no other; Moses entirely omitting the Doctrine

of a future state-That this omission was not accidental, but designed; and of

a thing well known by him to be of high importance to Society-Proved from

several circumstances in the book of Genesis,-and from the Law of punishing

the crimes of Parents on their Posterity, which was to supply the want of the

Doctrine of a future State-The nature and equity of this Law explained, and

defended against Unbelievers-It is then shewn that as Moses taught not the

Doctrine of a future State of Rewards and Punishments, so neither had the

ancient Jews any knowledge of it-Proved from the books of the Old Testa-

ment

VI.-Proves the same point from the books of the New Testament-What notion

the early Jews had concerning the Soul, explained

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CONTAINS AN EXAMINATION OF ALL THE TEXTS BROUGHT FROM THE OLD

AND NEW TESTAMENTS TO PROVE A FUTURE STATE OF REWARDS AND

PUNISHMENTS DID MAKE PART OF THE MOSAIC DISPENSATION

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SECTION

1. States the Question,-shews the Adversaries of this Work to have much mis-

taken it—And that the true state of the question alone is a sufficient answer

to all objections

II.-Enters on an examination of the Texts brought from the Old Testament ;-

first from the book of JOB-which is proved to be an allegoric Poem, written

on the return from the Captivity, and representing the Circumstances of the

People of that time-The famous words, "I know that my Redeemer liveth,"

&c. shewn to signify, in their literal sense, the hopes of a temporal deliverance

only.....

III.-Contains an examination of the rest of the Texts urged from the Old Testa-

ment ...

IV.-Contains an examination of the Texts produced from the New Testament, in

which the nature of the Apostolic Reasonings against the Errors of Jewish

Converts is explained and illustrated.....

V.-The agreement of the Proposition of no future State in the Mosaic Dispensa-

tion, with the VIIth Article of the Church of England evinced-That the

Old Fathers looked for more than transitory Promises, illustrated in the

famous case of Abraham,-where it is proved that the command to offer Isaac

was merely an information, in a representative Action instead of Words, of

the Redemption of Mankind by the great Sacrifice of Christ-Shewn how this

Interpretation overturns all the infidel objections against the truth of this part

of Abraham's history......