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in the fight of the people to the top of Mount Nebo, and there he died, when he "when his eye was pot dim, nor his natural force abated.". Chrift fuffered for the fins of men, and was led up in the presence of the people to Mount Calvary, where he died in the flower of his age, and when he was in his full natural ftrength. Neither Mofes nor Chrift, as far as we may collect from facred History, were ever fick or felt any bodily decay or infirmity, which would have rendered them unfit for the toils they underwent. Their fufferings were of another kind.

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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 comfortlefs; I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter."

Mofes exprefsly declares, "that it shall 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 Christ, and God rejected them. In the whole courfe of the hiftory of the Jews there

there is no inftance recorded, where, in the cafe of disobedience to the warnings or advice of any Prophet, fuch terrible calamities enfued, as those which followed the rejection of the Meffiah. The overthrow of the Jewish empire, the destruction of fo many Jews at the fiege of Jerufalem, the difperfion of the furviving people, and the hiftory of the Jews down to the present day-calamities beyond measure and beyond example-fulfilled the Prophecy of Mofes.

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

I am indebted for most of the preceding circumftances of refemblance to the learned and judicious Dr. Jortin. See his Remarks on Ecclefiaftical Hiftory, vol. i. P. 200, &c.

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"like unto Mofes ;" and confequently it must appear, that his Law was not to be of perpetual obligation, but was intended to be superfeded by one that was to be of the greatest confequence to mankind; as the Almighty announced its future promulgation, even at the time when he gave his exprefs commands to his chosen people. The Law of Moses 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 conti nuation 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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IF we confider Mofes as a patriot, an historian, a philosopher, and a founder 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 mankind. Of all lawgivers he was the moft virtuous and the most fublime. In times of the moft remote antiquity, when the groffeft corruption of manners and the most irrational and cruel fuperftition prevailed in all the furrounding nations, this great Legiflator arofe to confirm his countrymen in the worship of the true God, and give them

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a rule of conduct, in which religious, moral, and civil duties were so 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. A great part of the inhabitants of the globe revere them, and have adopted them in many points into their own civil and religious inftitutions.

But it is not poffible to account for the fu perior wisdom, the perfect confiftency, and the fingular fate of the laws of Mofes, without the acknowledgement that he received them, by an especial revelation for an especial purpofe, from God himself. The uninterrupted attachment indeed of the Jews, and the general veneration in which Moses and his laws have ever been held, have arisen from the perfuafion, that this great Legislator was divinely inspired a perfuafion founded upon the fublime nature of his laws, the miracles he wrought to establish in his countrymen the belief of their divine origin, the folemn and tremendous fanctions which he prophetically annexed in confirmation of their divine autho

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