Then must they not reap clean. Would they make bread ?-Then must they set apart dough enough for the consecrated loaf. Did they find a bird's nest ?—Then must they let the old bird fly away. Did they hunt? Then they must shed the blood of their game, and cover it with dust. Did they plant a fruit tree? For three years was the fruit to be uncircumcised. Did they shave their beards?-They were not to cut the corners. Did they weave a garment? Then must it be only with threads prescribed. Did they build a house? -They must put rails and battlements on the roof. Did they buy an estate? - At the year of Jubilee, back it must go to its owner. All these (and how many more of the same kind might be named!) are enactments which it must have required ex traordinary influence in the Lawgiver to enjoin, and extraordinary reverence for his powers to perpetuate. Still, after all, unbelievers may start difficulties, this I dispute not; difficulties, too, which we may not always be able to answer, though I think we may be always able to neutralize them; it may be a part of our trial, that such difficulties should exist and be encountered, for there can be no reason why temptations should not be provided for the natural pride of our understanding, as well as for the natural lusts of our flesh; to many, indeed, they would be the more formidable of the two, perhaps to the angels who kept not their first estate they proved so ;* with such facts, however, before me, as these which I have submitted to my readers, I can come to no conclusion * See Hooker, Eccles. Pol. b. 1. iv. but one-that when we read the writings of Moses, we read no cunningly devised fables, but solemn and safe records of great and marvellous events, which court examination and sustain it-records of that apparent veracity and faithfulness, that I can understand our Lord to have spoken almost without a figure, when he said, that he who believed not Moses, neither would he be persuaded though one rose from the dead. THE END. London: Printed by C. Roworth, LATELY PUBLISHED, 66 BY THE AUTHOR OF THE VERACITY OF THE PENTATEUCH." Post 8vo. 5s. 6d. The VERACITY of the GOSPELS and ACTS, argued from the Undesigned Coincidences to be found in them, when compared, first, with one another, secondly, with Josephus. "This is a new application of the principles on which Paley formed his Hora Paulinæ; and the execution is in a high degree meritorious. The ingenuity of many of Mr. Blunt's sections might stand a comparison with anything in his predecessor's masterpiece; and the clearness and liveliness of his language are such that we cannot too earnestly recommend the work to those Parents who feel the want of books calculated to interest, as well as instruct, young readers."—Quarterly Review. BY MR. MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. I. DEATH-BED SCENES and PASTORAL CONVERSATIONS. Fourth Edition. In three Pocket Volumes, price 12s. The above Work has recently been included in the List of Publications recommended by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. II. THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS. In three Volumes, small 8vo. illustrated with original Maps and numerous Woodcuts. Second Edition, 5s. each. (Forming Nos. V. VI. and IX. of the FAMILY LIBRARY.) III. PRACTICAL LECTURES on the Historical Books of the OLD TESTAMENT. By the Rev. H. LINDSAY, M.A. Perpetual Curate of Wimbledon, Surrey. 2 vols. fc. 8vo. 10s. IV. An EXPLANATION of the TWO SACRAMENTS, and the occasional RITES and CEREMONIES of the CHURCH of ENGLAND, in a Series of Dialogues between a Mother and her Daughters; intended for the use of Young Persons. By a LADY. Small 8vo. 5s. 6d. |