racters of Divinity discoverable in the Jewish Re- Chap. 4. Wherein we further examine the Cha- racters of Divinity discoverable in the Jewish Re- velation, by the Confideration of the Prophecies con- Chap. 5. That fuppofing we find the Jewish Re- velation qualified with Characters of Divinity, we may very well, from that very Obfervation, affure our selves it never was effentially corrupted, p. 229. Chap. 6. Wherein we take into Confideration those Means which Divine Wisdom has made use of to pre- Serve the Jewish Revelation pure and unchange- Chap. 7. Wherein we shall answer the Objections Spinosa raises against the Books of Moses, p. 246. Chap. 8. Wherein we further answer Spinofa's Objections against the Books of Mofes, p. 252. Chap. 11. The first Monument of the Jewish Revelation: That the Jews ever preserved among themselves the Law of Mofes, which contained the main Substance and Essentials of their Religion, p. 305. Chap. 12. The second Monument of the Jewish Revelation: That the Pentateuch was certainly in Chap. 13. Where we shall examine whether Ezra lid not alter the Form of the Scriptures, р. 316. Chap. 17. That fuppofing that the Miracles which Moses relates be true, they are of themselves a fuffi- cient Argument for the Truth of the Jewish Reli- Chap. 18. Where we shall examine the Validity Chap. 19. Where we further answer the Difficul- ties of the Incredulous, and make it appear, that the strongest of their Objections supply us with an in- vincible Argument for the Truth of the Jewish Re- Chap. 20. Where we further answer the Objecti- SECTION IV. Wherein we shall prove that the Jewish Re- velation tends to convince us of the Divi- first, p. 410. Chap. 3. That God designed to call the Gentiles, fending of the Messias, by reason of the Sins of the Chap. 5. That the Calling of the Gentiles is a true Character of the Messias, and that Jesus Christ is very plainly and exactly denoted to us in the anti- Chap. 8. Where we shall enquire into those Ora- cles of Daniel, which foretel the time of the Coming Chap. 9. Where we shall prove by the 53d Chap- ter of Ifaiah, that Jesus Christ is the true Mesi- Chap. 10. Where we further examine the Sense of those Prophecies which concern the Meffias, and especially those which denote the Place and Manner of [1] A TREATISE OF THЕ TRUTH OF Christian Religion. T SECT. I. CHAP. Ι. The Design of this Section. Hough the Incredulous of these Times, endeavour to revive Scepticism, thereby to thake the Foundations of Religion, yet it may be said, that nothing shews more their B Error Error and Weakness than this Universal Doubting, whose mistaken force they fo fondly have recourse to. 'Twould be in vain to imagin, that Nature designing to impose upon our Infirmities, imprinted in our Minds certain false notions, upon which we might argue as upon true principles. For this Metaphisical doubt would soon be destroyed by the irresistible perception of almost an infinite number of particular Truths. An abstracted and remote Speculation cannot be stronger than the Knowledge we have already of the existence of our Soul, which thinks, doubts, reasons and knows that she performs all these Operations, and after a Thousand Chimerical Suppofitions, we shall be forced at length to renounce these general Doubts, that we may receive the evidence of these particular Princiries wiz. Tout the whole is bigger than its parts; thatm equds, you take away equals, what remmans wil as emad. These first Principles of Commns Sont being to evident, as by their bare prowaisi se creme a ffrong assent; and in this refret vaarding the Sun, that cannot borrow wear strand the Universal Light it imparts to ewww thing cine "T's true indeed, should we stay our Minds upat these general Speculations and this Universal sod not fuffer them to defcend to more secar Confiderations, we might be Scepticks her & fow Moments, but at the same time we Motd be very extravagant, since it is a kind of e's to doat so much upon one Object, as to thereby rendred incapable of thinking of any elfe. Give the Mind but liberty to confiWAT well the Doubts of a Sceptick, and to compare them with that certainty it is sensible of, as to fome |