cattle." If they were arranged twenty men abreast, they must have formed a line above fifteen miles in length. In the Diagram they are represented as advancing in three columns, extending five miles each, see No. 1. Supposing each column to occupy a frontage of sixty feet, then the passage marked No. 2, required to be one hundred and eighty feet wide. This passage was effected by an east wind and the rod of Moses. The red sea lying north and south, the east wind would, of course, blow right across its waters. On the evening of the twentieth, the troops of Pharaoh, appeared and took up the position assigned to them, No. 3, on the Diagram, in the rear of Israel. Every thing being in readiness, soon after midnight, Moses elevated his rod; the sea was divided; and while the people were crossing the "waters were a wall unto them on the right hand, and on the left hand," No. 4. The dark shadow of the Israelitish cloud, No. 5, falling upon the Egyptian Camp, prevented Pharaoh from observing that Moses had changed his position. At daybreak, however, he discovered that Israel had fled and instantly pursued them; but by this time, Moses and his people were landing upon the opposite shore, a distance of, at least, seven miles. Moses again elevated his rod and the wind subsided, and the waters that had formed "a wall on the right hand and

on the left," to Israel, fell in upon Pharaoh and his host, and swept them into one common vortex of distruction! Now, if any of you be in possession of a scheme, that can account for all these extraordinary circumstances, without a miraculous interposition then give it to the world and we venture to affirm, that it will be regarded as one of the brightest discoveries of the present age!

Did Moses receive his law from God? It is positively affirmed that he did. Mount Sinai was wrapt in fire and trembled, as if convulsed by an earthquake: the sound of a trumpet, "waxing louder and louder," was distinctly heard calling the attention of the people to mark the solemnity of the occasion : while the "Lord spake all these words" unto Moses. These facts were attested by half a million of witnesses: for the people heard and saw all these things. The objection then must lie to the law itself. I am sure I need not repeat the ten commandments, to those to whom I address myself; but I may ask you to compare them with the maxims, which are now offered to you by free-thinkers.

Lord Herbert, declared that "men are not hastily, or on small grounds to be condemned, who are led to sin by bodily constitution: that the indulgence of lust and of anger is no more to be blamed

than the thirst occasioned by the dropsy, or the drowsiness produced by lethargy."

Mr. Hobbs asserted, that the civil or municipal law, "is the only foundation of right and wrong; that where there is no civil law, every man's judgment is the only standard of right and wrong; that the Sovereign is not bound by any obligation of truth or justice; that every man has a right to all things, and may lawfully get them if he can!"

Lord Bolingbroke, resolved all morality into self-love as its principle, and taught, "ambition, the lust of power, sensuality, and avarice, may be lawfully gratified, if they can be safely gratified: that man lives only in the present world; that the chief end of man is to gratify the appetites and inclinations of the flesh; and that polygamy is part of the law of nature."

Mr. Hume, maintained that "self denial, self mortification, and humility, are useless and mischievous; that adultery must be practised, if men would obtain all the advantages of life; and that, if generally practised, it would in time cease to be scandalous." Voltaire, Helvitious, and Rousseau, avowed similar sentiments. Those sentiments subverted the government of France, beheaded her King, paralysed her commerce, and moistened her soil with the blood

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of her best citizens! I will not insult the Hebrew Lawgiver, by comparing his ten commandments with the moral (rather immoral) maxims of the sceptic!

Did the people receive the law of Moses as being of Divine authority? We answer, they did! It is no easy matter to forge a Magna Charta, and to invent laws; men are never so quick-sighted as in matters which concern their estates and freeholds.

Now the laws of Moses are incorporated into the very republic of the Jews, and their subsistence and government depends upon them, their religion and laws are so interwoven one with another, that one cannot be broken off from the other. Their right to their temporal possessions in the land of Canaan depends on their owning the sovereignty of God who gave them to them; and on the truth of the history recorded by Moses concerning the promises made to the patriarchs. So that on that account it was impossible those laws should be counterfeit on which the welfare of a nation depended, and according to which they were governed ever since they were a nation. So that I shall now take it to be sufficiently proved, that the writings under the name of Moses were undoubtedly his; for none, who acknowledge the laws to have been his, can have the face to deny the history, there being so necessary a connection between