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to writing, and argued strenuously but civilly, resolutely but temperately; it is perhaps the only profound theological controversy without rudeness and without invective.

OROBLO denies that the Jewish law was the adumbration or figure of another law, but that it is every where said, that the law of Moses was to be eternal and unalterable, that every prophet who should work a miracle to effect an innovation in the law of Moses should be punished with death; that the prophets had predicted the coming of a deliverer, but he was to confirm not to alter the law; and this could not be Jesus, for he did not effect a deliverance.

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Ir is a wonderful instance of the immutability of the Mosaic law, that the dispersion of the Jews over all the earth has not effected a change of it; the Israelites of Rome, of England, Germany, Turkey, Persia, &c. have incessantly professed the same law, no schism has made question of the ten commandments.

THE whole profane history of Balthazar is a verification

verification of the prophecy of Isaiah, two hundred years before the drying the Euphrates, or changing its course by Cyrus; what Babylon had deemed its Palladium, led to its destruction; it was predicted by the prophet, and executed by Cyrus, delegated by divine authority; this is not an occurrence confined to sacred writ, but related by Pagan authors, with whom there could be no collusion, ignorant of the Scriptures and enemies to the Israelites.

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Ir seems difficult to ascertain the infallible sign of a miracle, for all the operations of nature are wonderful, and would be deemed miracles if they were uncommon. All creation is miraculous; it is miraculous to create atoms of determinate forms, to make them adhere in various bodies, without separating and crumbling. The rising of the sun is a miracle, but it is common, and excites no surprize; we have no other certainty of its re-appearance but experience of its anterior uniform appearance. A derangement of nature's ordinary operation would seem a miracle, and yet it is no more

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miraculous than its regular course; an object of extraordinary appearance might sportend San event or not, our senses often deceive us, even our minds are often delusive. When a phenomenon is announced, and it happens, the prediction is prophetic: extraordinary deviations from nature's course were called in aid of the prophets prediction, and the prediction was verified; the prophet predicted events 3000 years before their accomplishment, in the wide globe extensive to the remotest part; in all regions and amidst all nations, dispersed and scattered Jews are every where found; quiet, humble, and scarcely reputed among nations; this faithful people are fixed in the unshaken exercise of their religion; persécution has not exterminated them, nor deterred them from the observance of the laws for which they suffer; the tyrants who oppress them without a consciousness of it, are fulfilling the prophecy; replete with crime, they are instruments of divine vengeance, and will perish after its execution; the fidelity of repentant Jews will be requited, and their promised

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promised restoration be infallibly effected. However vain philosophy has boasted the light

of nature, experience proves it a very incompe tent instructor. The Sogdians had no revelation, and were ignorant of it; Alexander the Great found them killing their parents when they were aged and helpless; the Persians marrying their mothers; the Scythians feeding on their parents carcasses; Alexander knew the law of Moses, taught the barbarians what he had learnt, abolished their inhuman customs, taught them morality and mollified their savage temper. Modern philosophers have fancied that the light of nature is sufficient for the comprehension of metaphisical subjects, and to ascertain a standard of morals; but Plato with an intelligence as superior to other Philosophers, as the light of the sun to a flash of lightning, lamented that we did not possess greater means of knowledge than we were commonly endowed with; he deemed the light of nature insufficient to direct us, he did not comprehend what was virtue, and that we

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required supernatural information to instruct us. Praise to the Almighty Being the Scripture has furnished the knowledge we wanted, we have received it from the Divine author himself, and we should be grateful for indicating the path that leads to salvation. It is presumptuous to ask why God had a chosen people, we might with equal propriety demand why he chose angels, and why he created one being superior to another; why one is a prodigy of wisdom, and the other an ideot; why one beautiful, and another deformed; nature abounds with inequalities, we see what we cannot comprehend, and cannot perceive in what manner God regulates the universe, and governs it. The Jews were not selected, till they acknowledged and worshipped the Supreme Being, as they were the first who knew and invoked God, they were his first and chosen people.

ALL nations pretend to supernatural communications, to an occult intercourse with invisible beings, to some heavenly revelation, though every nation has not been blessed with

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