CASE OF THЕ JEWS, CONSIDERED With Respect to CHRISTIANITY. By the Author of DEISM Refuted. LONDON: Printed in the Year MDCCLV. 124.5.7. [3] I. THE CASE of the JEWS, &c. B Rethren, my Heart's Defire and Prayer to God for Ifrael is, that they might be saved. In a former Discourse, wrote against the Deifts, equal Enemies to you and us, who deny all instituted and revealed Religion, I have justified the Truth of yours, while I have asserted that of the Chriftian Religion. They both stand upon one Bottom. They only, of all the Revelations that ever were pretended in the World, can shew the four Marks, which do infallibly Demonstrate the Truth of any Matter of Falt, where they all do meet. And the Consequence is as plain, that if the Revelation of Moses be true, that of Christ must be true also. And you can never demonstrate the Truth of the Matters of Fact of Mofes by any Arguments or Evidences, which will not as strongly evince the Truth of the Matters of Fact of Chrift: And, on the other hand, you cannot overthrow the Matters of Fact of Christ, but you must, by the fame Means, destroy those of Moses. So that I hope you are involved under the happy Neceffity, either to renounce Mofes, or to embrace Chrift. But if you will allow (as some of you have done) that the Matters of Fact of our Lord Jesus, as recorded in the Gospels, are true; but will contend, that this does not infer the Truth of his Doctrine, because, as may be alleged, those seeming Miracles which he wrought were done by Magic; then I'befeech you, how will you rescue the Miracles of Mofes from the same Objection? The Comparison, in this Cafe, must lie betwixt the Miracles of Mofes and of Chrift. And I believe you will not deny, but that those recorded A 2 |