Obj e6l. .Anfw. The agree– ment of P.ro– 'pbedes in Sc,ripture, preve them ttue. That Goo iJ. feventie yeeres, and oftheir deliverance, you fee . how difrm& and particular it is. · But the time ofMofes is very ancient, it is out ofmemorie)and it might be fo.me fained P.:orie; thofe th~ngs were done long agoe, th~y that faw them,are all (wept away; andwho can fay, that they were done fo ? Herein lies the firength oftlleargument.Ifyou ~ou1d think it poffible,that Mofuand all the peo– ple lhould confent together, to leave a f<1lfe Mo– nument behind them,(which was impoffible) yet confider,that manyhundred y~eresa-fter the fame was confirmed by all the Prophets,who had mi~ racles to confirme the fame, and theya-ll agreed in one;and it is i~poffible that fuch awimpofturc: and falibood tbouId be-cornpa.;(.ted togerher,an&· carried downe fo firongly, for they differ nqt_a --- jot; all the Prophets repeating that which was · The holineffe de livered.byMofe.r. Confider the; fl:rength of this in thewri tings argllme·nr,for it admits ofno ambiguitie. Ifyou _;;:V~1ft~':s, wil1adde to thislthe hol'ineffe which appeares in uu~. rheirwritings,and in the rnenlas in Mofes; Icoke upon the holineife in his DoC:hine and Law: looke upon Paul, fee with what Spirit hee wrote his Epifl:les:;:.fo confider the Spirits ofthem alJ, in their writings; they did,as itwere,tranfcribere animM, t:h ~y did not forbeare to publifh their owne faults : See how 'they wer_e handled; they fuffered perfecution :·a-nd in this,what end could they have ? Mo(e1' feekes net his owne glory, · hee cloth not 'deliver the Scepter to his owne · Tribe, but inhis prophecies h€ fpea.kes worfe o ~hat
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