: iBttt^ by dj^viating from their general practice, and per-
;.iiuading the people, tliat the ii^iring tutelary god would
, . ibecocnei their he laid himself under a necessity of
tiij^(iiAn%^w^^extraordimry pro*cicknce; jand perpetually

Y iftfiisting po it as the.gre^t sanction o£ bis lawi^; a dead
weight, if he were, air impostor, that nothing but ddwn*

.^fi^t .^J|y could W« brought him to undergo^ >.
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294 REMARKS ok SEVERAt ' [Pmt

To proceed : after having laid tJris strong ftrrd ^nece^frty
•foundation, we come at length dirIlCtlt tooUr poirit
If tlic Jcivhh government were a thcocrticy^ It Avtis
administered by ain art ntrn'd'mary pro-citleucei, tiite con-
sequence of which is, that 'temporal ir^'ard^ aM- pmii^h-
moits (the cftccts of this providence) and riot futHTf,
were the sanction' of their law and religion. Thiis fax
therefore hath the roy 7iafitre of the Jcw^ft goverAtt^rit
brought us. And thi< methinks is bringing us feirly toj)
to the proof of our two minor propositions. So liaies-

• sary, as the reader now sees, was this fc//j^ discoufse of
the nature of the Jewish government. But, ta pi^evetit

' nil cavil, I go further; and shew, that the doctfinfe <>f a
Jut are state of rewards and punishments, Which cddld
, nbt, from the nature of thin<js, be thcscindtwrt of the Law,
' iras 7wt, in fact, taught in it at ail; but pitrpbi^ly dittft-
tcd by their great Prophet. This is proved froiti ^veral
circumstiuices in the hooks of Gcne.ns \mA thc 'Zwi'.
