the dead Moses to the living JESUS, its end, for a new Spirit to obey HIM; therefore we by faith eftablish the law, Rom. iii. 31. Whilft they, who though tranfgreffors and with a fleshly mind against it look for falvation under it, fhew they admit not these things, and fo make it void Say you we obferve not its ceremonies? No; but the Spirit of them, because we are come to HIM, whom they teach, are through the law dead to the law, being crucified with CHRIST Gal. ii. 19, and so set free from its dominion by HIS ONCE reconciling us to GOD, as the fon of JeHoseDeCH, Lev, xvi. 34, and thus making the preceding rites, as they were in the figurative day of atonement, unneceffary, Can. ii. 17, Heb. X. 10, 12. And as the types SAMUEL and ELIJAH facrificed, though no Levites, and DaViD and SOLOMON made alteratious; as this priest of a new order is spoken of P. cx. 4, this new covenant and law Jer. xxxi, 31, Is. xii. 4, xliii. 18, ara Jer. xvi. 14, and name If. lxv. 15, and a time when JeнovaH would not accept their formal service Pf.li. 16, I.ì. 11, Jer. xiv. 12, Am. v. 21, fo their ftate is faid to be as when ISRAEL came up out of EGYPT, IS. x. 2S, xi. 16, Jer. xxxiii. 7, Hof. ii. 15, as owned in Talm. in tra&t. Sanhedr. c. II. when

they

(a) Whence the Talmud's rule in tit. de Synedrio," any com"mandment (meaning of rites) may be tranfgreffed or alterod "by the authority of a prophet.

they had not the law according to Jer. vii. 22. To make then its obfervance now neceffary is to condemn your own profeffed faith, R. Mofes in More nebochim, who acknowledges this to be conclufive, and Mofes fon of Nehammannus on Deut. iv. faying, "In the days of the Messiaн "man fhall be restored to the state he was in <6 before the first man finned." Laftly, it is matter of fact that its obfervance is ceafed. For its rites had a respect to the temple and robes; therefore fince thefe were deftroyed not a priest can minifter, if you were sure he was a Levite; not a facrifice be offered, not a feast be kept according to the law. And whether it is right for a convict to feek juftification or pardon by the law that condemns him, and is out of his power to keep judge ye. Why then flee ye not to this Jeнovaн the [ZOAR] little fanctuary, in the countries where you are come? Ez. xi. 16.

6. Is the GENTILE objection (a) yours, that you must give up the traditions, &c. of your fathers? Truly the children are bid to ask their fathers, Jof. iv. 16. But it is equally true the LORD fays, Walk ye not in the ftatutes of your fathers, Ezr. xx. 18.

Whom then are you to ask?

(a) Chryfoft. Hom. 7. in 2 Cor. Whence the Roman law, "Let the rites of the family and country be observed ;" and the fabled oracle of Apollo," that no one should worship the gods but "after the manner of their country," Laftant, de orig, error, c. vii.

afk? the freethinkers, who refused the report of the typic JESUS, Num. xiv. 2, forfook GOD for BAALIM, Jud. ii. 10, 13, 17, Pf. lxxviii. left all His commandments, 1 K. xx. 20, 2 K. xvii. 26, Neh ix. 18, 26, Jer. iii. 10, 12, forgot and defpifed the NAME JeHovaн, c. xxiii. 37, Mal. i. 6, from the days of their fathers went away and were curfed, ver. 7, and 3, and at laft crucified their GOD and provoked HIM to destroy their temple and city, or those that have taught you these provoking doctrines and falfe dreams, Zec. x. 2 or turned Mohammedans, &c. No, The reflection in Neh. xiii. 17, fhould be yours, Did not our fathers thus, and did not our GOD bring all this evil upon them? Nor fhould it seem ftrange that you should under the true JESUS, as the people under the types, be commanded to put away the gods of, and not to be as their fathers, Jof. xxiv. 14, Zec. i. 4. The fathers then to be asked are those, who have walked according to the law and the teftimony, If. viii. 20: and these we have proved from ADaM to CHRIST had the faith of the "N. T. included in the O.", as the Eng. Ver. of 1525 fays on Acts xx, as had thofe JEWS fince CHRIST, who compofed the first church, of whom myriads, as well as of the ten tribes among the nations, (whose defcendants are now CHRISTIANS) embraced the faith, as many that of the typic JESUSES. You must then receive

HIM

HIM or reject those fathers you are only authorized to follow. For Moses gave glory to JEsus in the person of His type, Num. xxvii. 18, and fo muft you to HIM or fet up against Mos Es. As to your MisHNA (a) or oral tradition, it took its rife from the Spiritual meaning taught doubtless by MOSES; but this being veiled in the history is always to be collected from it, (fee the preface) and is the (b) gofpel, as was long ago taught in the face of your ancestors, and might be from every verfe. Therefore you must reject what contradicts this, or you difbelieve what Moses taught; and when read would teach you under the letter, to put you under the true JESUS, as the people once under His type. Seeing then your capital objections fall before CHRIST, as the reft do, and how they, who have had evil will against this true ZION, have been confounded and deluded by falfe Meffiahs that came in their own name, (c) fhall further evidence be neceffary to induce you to turn to this both FATHER and Chariot of ISRAEL, If. xxi. 9, in whom alone our fouls or bodies can be borne up to heaven? Surely if you will not hear Moses and the prophets, thus

(a) Ats xxvi. 22, Gal. i. 7, Juft. Mart. Chryfoftom, &c.

testify

1 Cor. x. 11, Heb. x. 1,

(b) Wagenfeil in his preface to Tela ignea Satana has fhewn the MISHNA contains not a word against CHRIST.

(c) See the hiftory of them by Jobannes a Lent, Herbornæ, 1697.

teftifying CHRIST you would not be perfuaded, any more than some of old, though one rofe, as this JESUS did to convince them, from the dead.

For afk you after this the cause of your forrows? Whatever falfe burdens and causes of banishment are feen Lam. ii. 14, 15, JeRusalem was ruined and JUDaH is fallen, because your tongue and goings we against Jehovaн to provoke the eyes of (this perfon) the GLORY of HIM, 1. iii. 8. For can any thing be plainer than this, that as THE ESSENCE THE SAVIOR is the person called the NAME, fee p. 183, 2 S. vi. 2, not to look in faith, nor give glory to HIM is to difregard, Ex. xxiii. 21, to despise this GLORIOUS and REVEREND NAME of JeнoVaH [ELAHIM] GOD this frong tower, Prov. xviii. 10, P. xx. I? But this contempt is the predicted cause of your long difperfion, Deut. xxviii. 58. Therefore your law teaches that your city was befieged, and you are plagued, ver. 52, 62, for refufing our LORD JESUS. Nor will you have deliverance 'till you fhall bethink yourselves, and return and confefs this NAME JE in the true temple of the glorified body of CHRIST, 2 C. vi. 24, 38, and have this NAME put upon you, as Num. vi. 27, Act. xv. 17.

For whither does this crime lead? To what GOD fo folemnly warned your nation against, and they fo frequently fell into, even idolatry. Start you at the thought! Your boaft to abhor