No Religious Establishment at first under the Old Testament, any more than under the New........ 591 In what sense an Establishment was formed by Moses 593 Civil Government of Israel..... Religious Establishment of Israel, properly so called, PREFACE. A CONSIDERABLE time ago, a copy of the work which I here attempt to refute, was sent to me, by the Committee of the London Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews, with a request that I would answer it. The same was done, as I understood, to a few other persons. Having looked into the book in rather a slight manner, and being fully engaged at the time, I was not at all inclined to undertake the service; thinking that some other person, more at leisure, would do it in a more adequate and acceptable manner. But, being somewhat less engaged in the beginning of the present year, I again took up the work, and read it more attentively; purposing, if not too late, to make some short remarks on particular passages, and communicate them to any one who, I should learn, was preparing an answer. In attempting this, however, the whole concern appeared to me in a new light; and I per |