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again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me fee this great fire any more, that I die not." And the Lord faid unto me, They have well Spoken, I will raife them a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth, and be fall fpeak unto them all that I shall command him, and it fhall come to pass, that whoever will not hearken to my words, which he shall speak in My Name, I will requir it of him. Deut. 18th chapter.

Boy. Pray what do you infer from this prophecy.

Mofes. A pofitive injunction, enjoined by the great legiflator, and exprefs order of the Almighty God; therefore of equal weight and authority with the other commandments.

Boy. It will be the moft eligible method for to difcufs each article before we proceed to another; we will return to our firft. The Divinity, the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Mofes. Here O Ifrael, the Lord your God is one God; I cannot therefore admit the plural; but mult, as Ifrael ever have done, confefs the fingular number in God. The Spirit of God diftinctly expreffed, favours christianity, but a fingle verfe muft favour fome other meaning, and give the precedency to the commandment.

Boy. This revelation of the moft tranfcending mystery, the knowledge of which will remove the partition wall or rock of offence, that feparates Ifrael from chriftianity, muft not he pailed over; you will therefore give your ex

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planation on this matter of infinite importance, the Spirit of God moved upon the deep.

Mofes. The mystery of the Divinity is infinite, therefore cannot be brought within the fuperficial knowledge of the creature; it would therefore be proper to difcufs fome other article, which may explain by degrees, and remove feeming irreconcileable texts.

Boy. The divinity is the ground and basis of the two covenants; until this fundamental and prime article is reconciled, the two covenants never will be brought to agreement.

Mofes. My defire is truth; but, touching this tremenduous myftery, my nature recoils, and fhrinks into my bafe nothingness; my foul as an outcaft is filled with horror; I dread the thought.

Boy. It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God; this is fcripture, and it is to avoid this dreadful catastrophe that we meet this day, and it is with confidence I embrace this conference purely, as I have no other will but to be directed by the divine mercy, and that his truth may appear; I will therefore proceed with the ift chapter of Genefis. The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the deep; and God faid, let us make man in our image, after our likeness.

Mofes. Almighty God fpeaks in this chapter, both in the fingular and plural number; it will be proper to proceed in order, to affilt ourselves with proper lights, by proceeding next to the article of the Meffiah.

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Boy. The 3d. chapter of Genefis. The Almighty promises redemption to man after his fall, by the Meffiah: it fhall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Mofes. Satan with his affociation, after their fall, perceiving the creation of man was to replace and fill their vacant feats, plotted their fall, and bring them upon a level with themfelves; to obtain their purpose, Satan affumes, or enters into a ferpent, by which stratagem decoyed Eve to a breach of her duty, and abuse of free will. Adam falling into the fame act of difobedience, entailed an everlasting curfe on their pofterity; for the offence was not against the creature, which would have been in their power to have made reftitution: but it was in open violation to the immediate commandment of the Creator, which rendered it needful to have a Meffiah to reconcile them; and this reconcilement is promised to the whole stock of Adam that will accept this grace, and join Ifrael under the banner of their king.

Boy. We will confine ourselves without variation in the fearch of your Meffiah; you grant his appearing neceffary for the reconcilement of man to his Creator; you also grant the promife is to the whole ftock of Adam.

Mofes. All what you affert, I agree to, but with this fingular privilege to Ifrael, that he will be flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bone, and that he will be born of the ftock of David, and inherit his throne; and that Ifrael will polfefs every bleffing under him according to the prophecies.

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Boy. We have agreed above, that the Meffiah is promised in the 3d chapter of Genefis, to reconcile the creature man to his God; we have alfo in our laft conference agreed from what are there fet down; from the 15th, 17th, 22d chapters of Genefis, that Almighty God made a covenant with Abraham, and promifed the Meffiah fhould be of his feed, by whom all nations. of the earth fhould be bleffed. We will now fee the fame promife renewed to Ifaac in the 26th chapter of the fame book; and the Lord appeared unto him, and faid, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I fall tell thee of; fjourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee and thy feed I will give all thefe countries, and I will perform the aath which I fware unto Abraham thy father; and I will make thy feed to multiply as the fiars of Heaven, and I will give unto thy feed all thefe countries; aud in thy feed fhall ail the nations of the earth be lefed. Again the bleffing is repeated and promifed to Jacob in the 28th chapter, as we took notice in our laft conference. I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou lieft, to thee will give it, and to thy feed; and thy feed fhall be as the duft of the earth, and fhall spread abroad to the Weft, and to the East, and to the North, and to the South; and in thee, and in thy feed fhall all the families of the earth be bleffed. In the 49th chapter, Ifrael's bleffing to Judah prophetically points out that the Meffiah fhould be of that tribe; and marks out his coming.

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praife; thine hand fhall be in the neck of thy enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee: Judah is a lion's whelp from the prey, my fon thou art gone up; he stooped down; he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who fhall roufe him up? The fcepter fhall not depart from Judah, nor a law-giver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him fhall the gathering of the people be, binding his fold unto the vine, and his affes colt unto the choice vine. He washed his garments in wine, and his cloaths in the blood of grapes his eyes fhall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk." The last prophecy I fhall fet down is what yourself feels the weight of by your commiffion, enjoined by your lawgiver from the immediate command of Almighty God, Deut. 18th chap. And the Lord God faid unto me, "I will raife them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth, and he fhall fpeak unto them all that I fhall command him and it fhall come to pafs, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he fhall fpeak in my name, I will require it of him." It is to be obferved, Almighty God eftablished his covenant with Abraham 600 years before the law or legiflation of Mofes; neither do we obferve any mention of it until it was enjoined in the wilderne fs. Genefis 17th chap. And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, "I am the Almighty God, walk before me, and be thou perfect, and I will make My co

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