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therto ftated, meer Chicanery; a begging the Question, and Contradiction in Terms; but then we look on the Miracles as full Evidence of the Divine Commiffion of the inspired Writers, and thereby of the Truth of their Doctrines; as well as fenfible Proofs of the Superiority of their and our God above all the Powers of Nature, which were all severally controlled in the Contest betwixt Mofes and Pharaoh, concerning who was Jehovah; and, if we can rely on what God fays, are fufficient Evidence to all the World that he is Jehovah. We make a Jeft indeed of what is called Natural Religion, eternal Relations of (created finite) Things, eternal Morality, and fuch like unmeaning, but mischiefmaking Words; but then we acknowledge Chriftian Morality, Obedience to God, Gratitude to Him, and Love to Man, as Duties neceffarily arifing VOL. I. from

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from Christianity; from confidering ourselves as created, redeemed, and fanctified by Jehovah Aleim, the high Contractors of the Covenant of Grace. We dare not think we can fave ourselves, refçue our Souls or Bodies out of the Hand of Corruption; but think ourselves under an infinite Obligation to Him who does it for us; and are taught to look on others, as well as ourselves, as his Purchase; and fo that we are at his Command, and muft obey him; and muft love, and do what Good we can to others for his Sake, it being our higheft Intereft fo to do. The believing the more firmly the above Articles of Chriftianity, and the expofing the Deviations from them, is all the Mischief Mr Hutchinson's Writings have done. We have Scripture to fupport these Doctrines; the Word of God for our Authority; and fuch Evidence

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Evidence to prove the Authentickness of the Writing, as is not to be parallelled, nor is pretended to, in any other Cafe. He that can believe that Two Million of People could be impofed upon, as the Ifraelites must have been by Mofes, had he not really performed those stupendous, numberlefs, and continued Miracles recorded; or that they would have received his Law, had not they believed them, or that can doubt the Authority of his Divine Commiffion after fuch Evidence; fuch a one must be extremely ignorant, inattentive, or extremely hardened. The Christian then goes upon the fureft and most certain Grounds, no Man having any Right to dispute the Authority of Mofes, till he can fhew the Books we call his were forged; nor to say they were forged, till he can fhew by whom, and when; and if they were really wrote by him, it is impof

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impoffible the Contents could be forged; and if what Mofes fays is true, all the rest of the Bible (fpeaking in general) is true likewife, it being for Sum and Substance the very fame. Unfortunately for the Chriftian World the Conftruction of these important Writings has been left to a Set of Men, of all others upon the Face of the whole Earth, the most unfit, the leaft qualified for fuch a Tafk, because the most prejudiced, blinded, befotted, ftupideft Creatures, and the moft inveterate Enemies of God and our Religion (for whom and which Mofes and the Prophets are the two Witnesses) of any upon the Earth; Men curfed beyond any others, because wickeder; whom Mofes and the Prophets, Chrift and the Apoftles, perpetually warn us againft, and we have the Experience of near eighteen hundred Years to convince us, that we may

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fooner expect Truth from the Devil himfelf, than from thefe Apoftates, who carry the Offence further than he has done; he believes and trembles. What a ftrange Account have they given us of the Tranfactions recorded in Scripture? The Garden of Eden, which was an Exemplar of the Heavens, the Powers that rule in this Syftem, and fo of the Heavens, of Jehovah, and of the Things of God, they have made a Place for two Children to take their Diversion in ; and the Trial of Man, which was, whether Faith or Senfe fhould govern him, they have made robbing an Apple-Tree. The Cherubim, which is the Record of the Covenant of Grace, an Exhibition to Sight of the Parties in that Covenant, of the Manner of it's Execution, and the Benefits accruing from thence to us, they have made a Scare-crow of: The

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