THE

DIVINE LEGATION

OF

MOSES DEMONSTRATED.

BY

THE RIGHT REVEREND

WILLIAM WARBURTON, D. D.,

LORD BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE, WRITINGS, AND CHARACTER OF THE AUTHOR.

BY RICHARD HURD, D. D.,

LORD BISHOP of worcester.

A NEW EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG AND SON, 73, CHEAPSIDE;
R. GRIFFIN AND CO., GLASGOW; T. T. AND H. TEGG, DUBLIN:
ALSO, J. AND S. A. TEGG, SYDNEY AND HOBART TOWN.

MDCCCXXXVII.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME SECOND.

BOOK IV.

SECT. III.-The high antiquity of Egypt proved from scripture:-And from the
ancient Greek historians, supported and confirmed by scripture. In the course of
this inquiry the rise and progress of the art of medicine is treated of and explained,

SECT. IV.—The high antiquity of Egypt proved from their hieroglyphics. Their

nature, original, and various kinds, explained. Proved to be the original of the art

of oneirocritic, or interpretation of dreams, and likewise of brute worship. In this

inquiry is contained the history of the various modes of information by speech and

writing: and of the various modes of ancient idolatry, in the order they arose from

one another,

SECT. V. Sir Isaac Newton's chronology of the Egyptian empire confuted, and
shown to contradict all sacred and profane antiquity, and even the nature of things.
In the course of this dissertation, the causes of that infinite confusion in the ancient
Greek history and mythology are inquired into and explained,

SECT. VI.-Proves that Moses was skilled in all the learning of Egypt, and the Is-

raelites violently inclined to all their superstitions. That the ritual law was insti-

tated partly in opposition to those superstitions, and partly in compliance to the

people's prejudices.-That neither that ritual nor Moses's learning is any objection

to the divinity of his mission-but a high confirmation of it. In which Herman

Witsius's arguments to the contrary are examined and confuted; and the famous

prophecy in the twentieth chapter of Ezekiel explained and vindicated against the

absurd interpretation of the rabbins and Dr Shuckford,

NOTES on the Fourth Book,

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BOOK V.

THE NATURE OF THE JEWISH THEOCRACY EXPLAINED: AND THE DOCTRINE OF A FU-

TURE STATE PROVED NOT TO BE IN, NOR TO MAKE PART OF, THE MOSAIC DISPENSA-

TION.

SECT. I-Little light to be got from the systems of Christian writers,—or the ob-

lections of deists, or from the rabbins, or from the cabalists, concerning the

true nature of the Jewish republic. The Hebrew people separated from the rest of

mankind not as favourites, but to preserve the knowledge of the true God amidst an

idolatrous world-Vindicated from the calumnious falsehoods of the poet Voltaire,. 235

SECT. II.-Proves the Jewish government to be a theocracy.-This form shown to
he necessary: there being no other, by which opinions could be justly punished by
civil laws; and without such laws against idolatry, the Mosaic religion could not be
supported.-The equity of punishing opinions under a theocracy, explained. Bayle
censured.-Foster confuted.-The theocracy easily introduced, as founded on a pre-
vailing notion of tutelary deities.-An objection of Mr Collins to the truth of reve-
lation examined and confuted.-The easy introduction of the theocracy, it is shown,
ccasioned as easy a defection from the laws of it.-The inquiry into the reason of
this leads to an explanation of the nature of the Jewish idolatry.-Lord Bolingbroke's
accusation of the law of Moses examined and exposed,

SECT. III.—Treats of the duration of the theocracy.—Shown to have continued till
the coming of Christ.-The arguments of Spencer and Le Clerc to the contrary
examined. The prophecy of Shiloh explained: the bishop of London's discourse
upon it examined and confuted,

SECT. IV. The consequences of a theocracy considered.-Shown that it must be

administered by an extraordinary providence, equally dispensing temporal rewards

and punishments, both to the community and to particulars.-That scripture gives

this representation of God's government.-And that there are many favourable cir-

cumstances in the character of the Jewish people, to induce an impartial examiner

to believe that representation to be true,

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