state must needs be abolished, before another could be introduced: consequently by bringing life and immortality to light, must needs be meant, the introduction of a new system.

..I will only observe, that the excellent Mr. Locke. was not aware of the nature of the argument in question; and so, on its mistaken authority, hath seemed to suppose that the Law did indeed offer immortality to its followers: This hath run him into great perplexities throughout his explanation of St. Paul's epistles.

Thus we have at length proved our THIRD PROPOSITION, That the Doctrine of a future state of Rewards and Punishments is not to be found in, nor did make part of, the Mosaic Dispensation; and, as we presume, to the satisfaction of every capable and impartial reader.

But to give these arguments credit with those who determine only by AUTHORITY, I shall, in the last place, support them with the opinions of three Protestant Writers; but these Three worth a million. The first is the illustrious GROTIUS" Moses in "Religionis Judaica Institutione, si diserta Legis "-respicimus, nihil promisit supra hujus vitæ bona, "terram uberem, penum copiosum, victoriam de "hostibus, longam & valentem senectutem, posteros "cum bona spe superstites. Nam, SI QUID EST "ULTRA, in-umbris obtegitur, aut sapienti ac DIFFI"CILI ratiocinatione colligendum est."

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The second is the excellent EPISCOPIUS." In tota Lege Mosaica nullum vitæ æternæ præmium, ac ne "æterni quidem præmii INDICIUM VEL VESTIGIUM "extat quicquid nunc Judæi multum de futuro "seculo, de resurrectione mortuorum, de vita æterna

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loquantur, & ex Legis verbis ea extorquere potius

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quam ostendere conentur, NE LEGEM MOSIS,

IMPERFECTAM ESSE COGANTUR AGNOSCERE Cum

"Sadducæis; quos olim (&, uti observo ex scriptis “Rabbinorum, hodieque) vitam futuri sæculi Lege "Mosis nec promitti nec contineri adfirmasse, quuin tamen Judæi essent, certissimum est. Nempe nonnisi per Cabalam sive Traditionem, quam illi in universum rejiciebant, opinionem sive fidem illam irrepsisse asserebant. Et sane opinionum, quæ inter Judæos erat, circa vitam futuri sæculi discrepantia, "arguit promissiones Lege factas tales esse, ut ex iis "certi quid de vita futuri sæculi non possit colligi.. "Quod & Servator noster non obscure innuit, cum "resurrectionem mortuorum colligit Mat. XXII. non ex promisso aliquo Legi addito, sed ex generali tantum illo promisso Dei, quo se Deum Abrahami, Isaaci, & Jacobi futurum spoponderat: quæ tamen "illa collectio magis nititur cognitione intentionis "divine sub generalibus istis verbis occultatæ aut 26 comprehensæ, de qua Christo certo constabat, quàm "necessaria consequentia, sive verborum vi ac virtute "manifestâ, qualis nunc & in verbis Novi Testamenti,

ubi vita æterna & resurrectio mortuorum proram & puppim faciunt totius Religionis Christianæ, & "tam clarè ac discrtè promittuntur ut ne hiscere quidem contra quis possit *."

And the third is our learned Bishop BULL :— "Primo quæritur an in V. Testamento nullum omnina "extet vitæ æternæ promissum? de eo enim à non"nullis dubitatur. Resp. Huic quæstioni optimè "mihi videtur respondere Augustinus, distinguens nomen Veteris Testamenti: nam eo intelligi ait aut pactum illud, quod in Monte Sinai factum est, "aut omnia, quæ in Mose, Hagiographis, ac Prophetis

* Inst. Theol. lib. iii. sect. 1. c. 2.

"continentur.

Si Vetus Testamentum posteriori

" continentur.

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sensu accipiatur, concedi FORSITAN possit, esse in tr co nonnulla futuræ vitæ non obscura indicia ; præsertim in Libro Psalmorum, Danicle, & Ezekiele: quanquam vel in his libris clarum ac disertum æternæ vitæ promissum VIX AC NE VIX quidem "reperias. Sed hæc QUALIACUNQUE erant, nou erant nisi præludia & anticipationes gratiæ Evangelicæ, AD LEGEM NON PERTINEBANT.-Lex "enim promissa habuit terrena, & terrena TANTUM, "-Si quis contra sentiat, ejus est locum dare, ubi æternæ vitæ promissio extat; QUOD CERTE IMPOSSIBILE EST.-Sub his autem verbis [legis ipsius] "Dei intentione comprehensam fuisse vitam æternam, *ex interpretatione ipsius Christi ejusque Apostolo

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rum manifestum est. Verùm hæc non sufficiunt ut "dicamus vitam æternam in Foedere Mosaico pro"missam fuisse. Nam primò promissa, præsertim "Fœderi annexa, debent esse clara ac diserta, & ejusmodi, ut ab utraque parte stipulante intelligi "possint. Promissa autem hæc TYPICA & generalia, non addità aliunde interpretatione, PENE IMPOSSIBILE ERAT, UT QUIS ISTO SENSU INTELLIGERET

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Thus these three capital supports of the Protestant Church. But let the man be of what Church he will, so he have a superiority of understanding and be not defective in integrity, you shall always hear him speak the same Language. Language. The great ARNAULD, that shining ornament of the Gallican Church, urges this important truth with still more frankness-"C'est "LE COMBLE DE L'IGNORANCE (says this accom"plished Divine) de mettre en doute cette vérité, qui

*Harmonia Apostolica, Dissertat. posterior, cap. x. sect. 8. P. 474. inter Opera omnia, ed. 1721,

est

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que temporelles et terrestres, et que les Juifs "n'adoroient Dieu que pour les biens charnels.” And what more hath been said or done by the Author of the DIVINE LEGATION? Indeed, a great deal, more. He hath shewn, "That the absence or omission of a future state of rewards and punishments in the Mosaic Religion is a certain proof that its original was from God." Forgive him this wrong, my reverend Brethren!

• Apologie de Port-Royal. And see note [LL] at the end.

This Book is continued in the succeeding Volume.

NOTES

APPERTAINING TO THE

FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, AND FOURTH

SECTIONS

OF

BOOK VI.

P. 290. [A]

T give an example only in Bishop BULL, whose

words in a Latin tract, for a future state's not being in the Mosaic Dispensation, I have quoted in the fourth section of this Sixth Book; yet in an English posthumous sermon, he seems to speak in a very dif ferent manner.-I should not have illustrated this censure by the example of so respectable a Person, but for the indiscretion of my Answerers, who, to support their own ill logic, have exposed his morals.

P. 298. [B] Job's Life, by means of the Devil and his false Friends, was an exercise of his Patience; and his History, by means of Criticism and his Commentators, has since been an exercise of ours. I am far from thinking myself unconcerned in this mischief; for by a foolish attempt to support his Name and Character, I have been the occasion of bringing down whole bands of hostile Critics upon him, who, like the Sabeans and Chaldeans of old, soon reduced him back to his Dunghill. Some came armed in Latin, some in English, and some in the language of Billings gate. Most of them were professedly written against me; but all, in reality, bear hardest on the good old Patriarch.

However,