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The Divine Authority of the Old and New Testament Asserted Against the Unjust Aspersions and False Reasonings of a Book Entitled the Moral ... and Misrepresentations in the Second Vo - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1837. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... The Author's Arguments against the law of Moses from the Authority of St, Paul considered. Our Saviour Jesus Christ, and the Apostle Paul, strongly assert and confirm the divine original of the Law of Moses. The diminishing and degrading manner in which that Apostle seems sometimes to speak of that Law, accounted for. The Instances the Author produces to show that there was no end of the Law but what the Apostle expressly contradicts, examined. The attempt he makes to prove that there was no such Typical or Mystical Sense of the Law as St. Paul supposes in his Arguings with the Jews. No Absurdity, but a Beauty and Harmony in supposing that what is obscurely hinted at in the Law is more clearly revealed in the Gospel. This author proposes the question to be debated, 'whether the £sitive and ceremonial law of Moses, commonly called the Levitical aw, or the law concerning their priesthood, was originally a divine institution or revelation from God, to be afterwards nullified, abolished, and set aside by another revelation; or whether it was a mere piece of carnal worldly policy.' This latter part of the question is what he undertakes to maintain, and which is more extraordinary, he declares, that 'if he cannot make it appear that St. Paul, when he comes to be rightly understood, is plainly on his side, he will give up the argument.' p. 23. He manages this in a great many words with some digressions from p. 24 to p. 80; but though he seems in putting the question to confine it to the part of the law of Moses that relates to the priesthood, yet it is plain he intends it against the divine original of the whole law; and his arguments, if they prove any thing, prove that it was wholly a political institution; and that no part of it came by immediate revelati...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150948132
- ISBN 13 9781150948138
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages254
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