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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, quum tamen Judæi essent, certissimum est. Nempe non "nisi 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 "divinæ sub generalibus istis verbis occultatæ aut "comprehensæ, de qua Christo certo constabat, quàm 86 necessaria consequentia, sive verborum vi ac virtute "manifestâ, qualis nunc & in verbis Navi Testamenti,

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

And the third is our learned Bishop BULL:"Primo quæritur an in V. Testamento nullum omnino "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.

sensu accipiatur, concedi FORSITAN possit, esse in "eo nonnulla futuræ vitæ non obscura indicia; "præsertim in Libro Psalmorum, Daniele, & Ezekiele:

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quanquam vel in his libris clarum ac disertum "æternæ vitæ promissum VIX AC NE VIX quidem "reperias. Sed hæc QUALIACUNQUE erant, non " 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 IM

POSSIBILE EST.-Sub his autem verbis [legis ipsius] "Dei intentione comprehensam fuisse vitam æternam, ex interpretatione ipsius Christi ejusque Apostolo66 rum manifestum est. Verùm hæc non sufficiunt ut "dicamus vitam æternam in Foedere Mosaico pro"missam fuisse. Nam primò promissa, præsertin "Fœderi annexa, debent esse clara ac diserta, & ejusmodi, ut ab utraque parte stipulante intelligi possint. Promissa autem hæc TYPICA & generalia, non additâ 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. 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 une des plus communes de la Religion Chre❝tienne, et qui est ATTESTEE PAR TOUS LES PERES,

que les promesses de l'ancien Testament n'etoient t que temporelles et terrestres, et que les Juifs "nadoroient 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.

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P. 290. [A]

O 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 different 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 Billingsgate. Most of them were professedly written against me; but all, in reality, bear hardest on the good old Patriarch.

However,

However, though I am, as I said, to be reckoned, along with these, amongst Job's Persecutors; yet I have this to say for myself, that the vexation I gave him was soon over. If I scribbled ten pages on his back, my Adversaries and his have made long furrows and scribbled ten thousand. Now, though amongst all these Job found no favour, yet by ill-hap my System did: But to whom I am most obliged, whether to those who attacked it, or to those who espoused it, is not easy to say: for, by a singular event, the Assailants have left me in possession of all its supports, and the Defenders have taken them all away*: the_better, I presume, to fit it to their own use. Learned Naturalists tell us of a certain Animal in the watery waste, which, for I know not what conceit, they call Bernard the Hermit; and which, in courtesy, they rank with the testaceous tribe, though Nature (so bountiful to the rest of its kind) hath given This no habitation of its own, but sent it naked and unhoused into the world. In recompence, she has enabled it to figure amongst the best of its tribe: for, by a noble endowment of instinct, it is taught to make its way into the best accommodated, and best ornamented shells of its brethren; which it either finds empty, or soon makes so, to fit them up for its own ease and convenience.

P. 298. [C] But if the reader would see the absurdity of supposing the book of Job to be written thus early, and at the same time, to teach the resurrection and a future state, exposed at large, he may read the third chapter of The free and candid Examination of the BISHOP of London's Principles.

P. 300. [D] Calmet makes the following observation, in his comment on the 1st verse of chap. xxxviii. L'Ecrivain de cet Ouvrage a observé de ne point employer ce nom de Jehovah dans les discours directs, qu'il fait tenir à Job et à ses Amis: mais dans les recits, qui sont au commencement, et à la fin du Livre,

• See Mr. G's discourses on the book of Job,

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