again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me fee this great fire any more, that I die not." And the Lord faid unto me, They have well Spoken, I will raise them a propbet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in bis mouth, and be shall speak unto them all that I shall command him, and it shall come to pass, that whofever will not hearken to my words, which be shall speak in My Name, I will requir it of him. Deut. 18th chapter. Boy. Pray what do you infer from this prophecy. Mofes. A positive injunction, enjoined by the great legiflator, and express order of the Almighty God, therefore of equal weight and authority with the other commandments. Boy. It will be the most eligible method for to difcufs each article before we proceed to another; we will return to our first. The Di. vinity, the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Mofes. Here O Ifrael, the Lord your God is one God; I cannot therefore admit the plural; but mult, as Ifrael ever have done, confefs the fingular number in God. The Spirit of God distinctly expreffed, favours chriftianity, but a fingle verse must favour some other meaning, and give the precedency to the commandment. Boy. This revelation of the most tranfcending mystery, the knowledge of which will remove the partition wall or rock of offence, that separates Ifrael from chriftianity, must not he paffed over; you will therefore give your explanation planation on this matter of infinite importance, the Spirit of God moved upon the deep. Moses. The mystery of the Divinity is infinite, therefore cannot be brought within the superficial knowledge of the creature; it would therefore be proper to discuss some other article, which may explain by degrees, and remove seeming irreconcileable texts. Boy. The divinity is the ground and basis of the two covenants; until this fundamental and prime article is reconciled, the two covenants never will be brought to agreement. Moses. My defire is truth; but, touching this tremenduous mystery, my nature recoils, and shrinks into my base nothingness; my foul as an outcast is filled with horror; I dread the thought. Boy. It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God; this is scripture, and it is to avoid this dreadful catastrophe that we meet this day, and it is with confidence I embrace this conference purely, as I have no other will but to be directed by the divine mercy, and that his truth may appear; I will therefore proceed with the 1st chapter of Genesis. The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the deep; and God faid, let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Moses. Almighty God speaks in this chapter, both in the fingular and plural number; it will be proper to proceed in order, to affift ourselves with proper lights, by proceeding next to the article of the Messiah. Boy Boy. The 3d. chapter of Genefis. The Almighty promises redemption to man after his fall, by the Meffiah: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Moses. Satan with his association, after their fall, perceiving the creation of man was to replace and fill their vacant seats, plotted their fall, and bring them upon a level with themselves; to obtain their purpose, Satan affumes, or enters into a ferpent, by which stratagem decoyed Eve to a breach of her duty, and abuse of free will. Adam falling into the same act of disobedience, entailed an everlasting curse on their pofterity; for the offence was not against the creature, which would have been in their power to have made restitution: but it was in open violation to the immediate commandment of the Creator, which rendered it needful to have a Messiah to reconcile them; and this reconcilement is promised to the whole stock of Adam that will accept this grace, and join Ifrael under the banner of their king. Boy. We will confine ourselves without variation in the search of your Messiah; you grant his appearing necessary for the reconcilement of man to his Creator; you also grant the promise is to the whole stock of Adam. Moses. All what you affert, I agree to, but with this fingular privilege to Israel, that he will be flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bone, and that he will be born of the stock of David, and inherit his throne; and that Ifrael will pofsess every blessing under him according to the prophecies. Boy : Poy. We have agreed above, that the Meffiah is promised in the 3d chapter of Genelis, to reconcite the creature man to his God; we have alfo in our last conference agreed from what are there fet down; from the 15th, 17th, 22d chapters of Genefis, that Almighty God made a covenant with Abraham, and promised the Meffish should be of his feed, by whom all nations of the earth should be bleffed. We will now fee the fame promife renewed to Ifaac in the 26th chapter of the fame book; and the Lord appeared unto him, and faid, Go not down into Egypt, dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of; fojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee and thy feed I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I fware unto Abrabam thy father; and I will make thy feed to multiply as the stars of Heaven, and I will give unto thy feed all these countries; aud in thy feed shall all the nations of! the earth be blessed. Again the bleffing is repeated and promited to Jacob in the 28th chap ter, as we took notice in our last conference. I am the Lord God of Abrabam thy father, and the God of Jaac: the land whereon thou lieft, to thee will I give it, and to thy feed; and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and shall spread abroad to the West, and to the East, and to the North, and to the South; and in thee, and in thy feed shall all the families of the earth be bleffed. In the 49th chapter; Ifrael's bleffing to Judah prophetically points out that the Meffiah should be of that tribe; and marks out his coming. Judah thou art he whom thy brethren shall " praife; د praife, thine hand shall be in the neck of thy enemies; thy father's children shall bow down: before thee: Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my fon thou art gone up; he stooped down; he couched as a lion, and as an oldlion; who shall rouse him up? The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a law-giver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be, binding his fold unto the vine, and his affes colt unto the choice vine. He washed his garments in wine, and his cloaths in the blood of grapes: his eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk." The last prophecy I thall fet down is what yourself feels the weight of by your commission, enjoined by your lawgiver from the immediate command of Almighty God, Deut. 18th chap. And the Lord God faid unto me, " I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him: and it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him." It is to be observed, Almighty God established his covenant with Abraham 600 years before the law or legislation of Moses; neither do we obferve any mention of it until it was enjoined... in the wilderness. Genefis 17th chap. And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the.. Lord appeared to Abram, and faid unto him, "I am the Almighty God, walk before me, j and be thou perfect, and I will make My covenant |