CO N T E N T S

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VOL. y.

THE DIVINE LE GATION.

BO () K V.

A

THE NATURE OF THE JEWISH THEOCRACY EXPLAINED:

AND THE DOCTRINE OF FUTURE STATE PROVED NOT TO BE IN, NOR TO MAKE PART OF, THE MOSAIC DISPENSATION

p. 1.

SECT. I. Little light to be got from the systems of Chris.

tian writers,—or the objections 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

pp. 1–19

SECT. II. Proves the Jewish Government to be a Theo

cracy. This form shewn to be 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 prevailing notion of tutelary

Deities. ---An objection of Mr. Collins to the truth of

Revelation examined and confuted.—The easy intro-

duction of the Theocracy, it is shewn, occasioned 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, pp. 19--82

SECT. III. Treats of the duration of the Theocracy.--

Shewn to have continued till the coming of Christ.

The arguments of Spencer and Le Clere to the contrary

examined.-The Prophecy of Shiloh explained: the

Bishop of London's Discourse upon it examined and

confuted

pp. 83–117

SECT. IV. The Consequences of a Theocracy considered,

Shewn that it must be administered by an extraordinary

Providence, eqnally 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 represen-

tation to be true

pp. 117-159

SECT. V. Shews, that as temporal Rewards and Punish-

ments were the proper s:

nction of the Jewish Law, so,

there were no other; Nioses entirely omitting the Doc-

trine of a future State.- That this omission was not

accidental, but designed; and of a thing well known by

him to be of high importance to Society --Proved froin

several circumstances in the book of Genesis,-and from

the Law of punishing the crimes of Parents on their

Posterity,
Posterity, which was to supply the want of the Doctrine

of a future state.—The nature and equity of this Law

explained, and defended against Unbelievers. It is then

shewn that as Moses taught not the Doctrine of a future

State of Rewards and Punishments, so neither had the

ancient Jews any krowle Ige of it.--Proved from the

books of the Old Testament

Pp. 158-186

SECT. VI. Proves the same point from the books of the

New Testament.-What notion the early Jews had con-

cerning the Soul, explained

pp. 186–201

APPENDIX

PP. 202-245

NOTES ON THE Firth Book

pp. 246-288

BOOK VI.

CONTAINS AN EXAMINATION OF ALL TILE TEXTS

BROUGHT FROM THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS

TO PROVE A FUTURE STATE OF REWARDS AND

PUNISHMESTS DID MIAKE PART OF THE MOSAIC

DISPENSATION

P. 289

SECT. I. States the Qucstion,--shews the Adversaries of

this l'ork to have much mistaken it. And that the true
state of the question alone is a sufficient answer to all
objections

p. 289-207

SECT. II. Enters on an examination of the Texts brought

froin the Old Testament ; first from the book of J03-

which is proved to be an allegoric l'oem, written on the

return froin the Caprivity, and representing the Circum-

$tances of the People of that time. The famous words,

I know that my Redeemer lirell, &c. shearn to signify, in

their literal sense, the lzopes of a teroporal deliverance only,

PP. 207-284

SECT.

SECT. III. Contains an examination of the rest of the

Texts urged from the Old Testament PP. 384-415

SECT. IV. Contains an examination of the Texts pro