is such, as to be germinant, gaining instead of losing
strength by the lapse of time, p. 388

1. The apparent and uninspired prescience of an able

statesman can only reach to a particular point: for

he can do nothing more than argue from known

causes to their probable effects, p. 389

II. But the prophecies of Moses extend far beyond any

such point: nor can their accomplishment be ac-

counted for on the supposition, that he merely in-

ferred certain effects from certain causes after the

manner of an able politician, p. 390

1. A discussion of the prophecy, that Israel should

be characterised among the nations by dwelling

alone or by remaining unmixed, p. 391

2. A discussion of the prophecy, that the Israelites

should be deported from their own country into

other lands, that they should there become a

proverb and a by-word, that their plagues should

be of long continuance, and that they should be

universally recognised as divine judgments, p. 399

(1.) No human sagacity could have foretold such

improbable events, p. 401

(2.) Therefore Moses must have received the

knowledge of them from inspiration, p. 405

3. A discussion of the prophecy, that the Israelites,

on their national return to the God of their fathers,

shall be restored to their own land, p. 405

4. A discussion of the standing prophecy, involved

in those sanctions of the Law which presume the

constant operation of an extraordinary Providence.

p. 410

5. A discussion of the standing prophecy similarly

involved in various positive institutes of Moses,

p. 413

III. The inspiration of Moses may be proved, not only
from his own accomplished and accomplishing pre-

dictions, but likewise from those of every subsequent
prophet who recognized his divine commission,
p. 415

CHAP. VII.

The divine inspiration of the Pentateuch proved from its

inculcating the unity of the Godhead, p. 418

Argument from the Mosaical inculcation of the divine

unity, p. 418

I. In considering the force of this argument, we must

place ourselves in the times when Moses wrote,

p. 418

II. The whole world was then idolatrous, save the Israel-

ites alone. Such is the naked fact: how is it to be

accounted for? p. 419

1. The condition of the Israelites, p. 419

2. The condition of the Gentiles, p. 421

3. The one God, as declared in Revelation, was

never discovered by unassisted reason, p. 425

CHAP. VIII.

Concluding remarks, p. 426.

HORE MOSAICE.

BOOK I.

THE

CREDIBILITY OF THE PENTATEUCH

AS A

PORTION OF AUTHENTIC HISTORY.

There are as manifest proofs of the undoubted truth and certainty of the history recorded by Moses, as any can be given concerning any thing, which we yield the firmest assent STILLING. ORIG. SACRE. book ii. chap. 2.

unto.

VOL. I.

A

SECT. I.

THE EXTERNAL CREDIBILITY OF THE PEN

TATEUCH.

CHAP. I.

A GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE SUBJECT.

RESEARCHES into antiquity have this peculiar recommendation, that, while they enlarge the boundaries of useful knowledge, they also interest the fancy and gratify the curiosity. To many other pursuits the mind may perhaps devote itself from a conviction of their necessity; but it is obliged at the same time to own its reluctance and aversion. It will readily indeed acknowledge their importance but it will view them in the light of a task, rather than that of a pleasure; and will submit to the requisite labour, more from an expectation of future benefit, than from any prospect of immediate gratification. But the fatigue, attendant upon