Besides,  we  are  expressly  told  that  Moses  wrote  the  journeys  of
the  children  of  Israel  by  God's  command.  Num.  xxxiii.  2.
*'  And  Moses  wrote  their  goings  out  according  to  their  journeys,
by  the  commandment  of  the  Lord ;"  and  is  it  reasonably  to  be
supposed  that  he  would  write  those  for  the  use  of  the  children  of
Israel  in  after  generations,  and  not  write  the  great  and  mighty  acts
of  the  Lord  towards  that  people  in  Egypt  and  at  the  Red  sea,  at
mount  Sinai,  and  in  the  wilderness,  which  were  a  thousand  times
more  worthy  of  a  record,  and  of  being  delivered  down  to  posteri-
ty, than  a  mere  journal  of  the  people's  progress  in  the  wilderness,
without  those  mighty  acts  ?  It  is  every  way  incredible  that  Moses,
of  whom  we  so  often  read  expressly  that  he  wrote  God's  com-
mands, threatenings,  promises,  and  revelations,  and  the  early  his-
tories of  mankind,  that  he  should  not  write  those  great  acts  of  the
Lord,  and  leave  a  record  of  them  with  the  congregation  of  Isra-
el ;  especially  when  it  is  evident  in  fact  that  Moses  was  exceeding
careful  that  they  might  not  forget  those  great  acts  of  the  Lord  in
future  generations.      Deut.   iv.   9,  10,    11.   "  Only  take  heed  to


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