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CONTENTS

TO THE

FOURTH VOLUME.

BOOK IV.

SECT. VI.

that Mofes was skilled in all the

Plearning of Egypt, and the Ifraelites violently in-

clined to all their superstitions. - That the ritual Law

was instituted partly in opposition to those superstitions,

and partly in compliance to the People's prejudices.-

That neither that Ritual nor Mofes's learning is any

objection to the divinity of his Miffion-But a high

confirmation of it. In which Herman Witfius ar-

guments to the contrary are examined and confuted;

and the famous Prophecy in the xx chap. of Ezekiel

explained and vindicated against the absurd interpreta-

tion of the Rabbins and Dr. Shuckford, p. 1-131.

BOOK V.

The nature of the Jewish Theocracy explained;

And the Doctrine of a future State proved not to be

in, nor to make part of the Mosaic Difpenfation.

SECT. I.

Little light to be got from the systems of Chriftian

writers, or the objections of Deists, or from the

Rabbins, or from the Cabalists, concerning the true

VOL. IV.

A

nature of the Jewish Republic. The Hebrew Pea-

ple separated from the rest of mankind not as favourites,

but to preserve the knowledge of the true God amidst an

idolatrous world, - Vindicated from the calumnious

falfhoods of the Poet Voltaire, p. 13-153.

SECT. II.

Proves the Jewish Government to be a Theocracy.

-This form shewn to be necessary: There being no

other, by which opinions could be justly punished by civil

Laws: And without fuch Laws against idolatry, the

Mofaic Religion could not be supported. - The equity of

punishing opinions under a Theocracy, explained.

Bayle censured. Foster confuted. The Theocracy

easily introduced, as founded on a prevailing notion of

tutelary Deities. An objection of Mr. Collins tothe

truth of Revelation examined and confuted. The easy

introduction of the Theocracy, it is shewn, occafioned

as easy a defection from the Laws of it. The inquiry

into the reason of this leads to an explanation of the

nature of the Jewish idolatry. -Lord Bolingbroke's ac-

cusation of the Law of Mofes examined and exposed,

P. 153-224.

SECT. III.

Treats of the Duration of the Theocracy.-Shewn

to have continued till the coming of CHRIST. The

arguments of Spencer and Le Clerc to the contrary ex-

amined. The Prophecy of Shiloh explained: the Bishop

of London's discourse upon it examined and confuted, p.

224-266.

SECT. IV.

The Consequences of a Theocracy confidered.-

Shewn that it must be administered by an extraordinary

Pro-