THE

1817

WORKS

OF THE

RIGHT REVEREND

WILLIAM WARBURTON, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER.

A NEW EDITION,

IN TWELVE VOLUMES.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

A DISCOURSE BY WAY OF GENERAL PREFACE

CONTAINING

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE, WRITINGS, AND CHARACTER

OF THE AUTHOR;

BY RICHARD HURD, D.D.
LORD BISHOP OF WOLA TESTER.

VOLUME THE SIXTH.

London:

Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields,

FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND.

CONTENTS

OF

VOL. VI.

THE DIVINE LEGATION.

BOOK VI.

CONTAINS AN EXAMINATION OF ALL THE TEXTS

BROUGHT FROM THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS

TO PROVE A FUTURE STATE OF REWARDS AND

PUNISHMENTS DID MAKE PART OF THE MOSAIC

DISPENSATION :-

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SECT. V. The agreement of the Proposition of no future

State in the Mosaic Dispensation, with the VIIth Article

of the Church of England evinced.- That the Old

Fathers looked for more than transitory Promises, illus-

trated in the famous case of ABRAHAM,-where it is

proved that the command to offer Isaac was merely an

information, in a representative Action instead of Words,

of the Redemption of Mankind by the great Sacrifice

of CHRIST. Shewn how this Interpretation overturns

all the infidel objections against the truth of this part of

pp. 1-46

Abraham's history -

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SECT. VI. To support the foregoing Interpretation, The

Original, Nature, and Use of TYPICAL RITES and SK-

CONDARY SENSES in Prophecies are inquired into.-In

the course of which Inquiry, the Principles of Mr.

Collins's book concerning the Grounds and Reasons of

the Christian Religion are examined and confuted,-

and likewise the Reasoning of Dr. Sykes against all

double Senses of Prophecies in his book intitled, The

Principles