Moreover, Mr. Chubb's manner of expreffion will bear no limitation to the time of Mofes's ministration; but, I think, must be referred to the ftate of the Jews in general, and till the time of the Meffiah's being raised up among them.

I might farther obferve, upon the implication, or inference our Lord made from the fpeech to Mofes, that it was very just and natural, and easy for the Jews to have made; fince in Jehovah's being the God of Abraham, &c. it did appear that the patriarchs had a perfonal concern in the fulfilment of the promise made to them, viz. that in their feed all the nations of the earth'fhould be bleffed: and as they had a concern perfonally in the promifes made to the patriarchs; fo it would follow, that there must be a future ftate; or that the patriarchs had not finished their existence. On this promise the Jews valued themselves, as the defcendants of Abraham. Ifaiah bids the righteous comfort themselves under the public calamities, by looking back to what God did to Abraham and to Sarab, If. li. 2. David fpeaks of the Jew nation, as the people of the God of Abraham, Pf. xlvii. 9. Micah comforts them by this finishing of his prophecy, thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast fworn to our fathers from the days of old. So that the implication had much propriety, as well as truth in it; and was an appeal to the national fenfe: for they were, at this time, expecting a fulfilment of the promise made to Abraham.

If these remarks upon Mr. Tho. Chubb's Poftbumous-works fhall be found to be rational, fair, and juft; no more, I apprehend, will be needful to fhew the incompetency of his judgment, the fallacy of his reafonings, and the dangerous tendency of his farewel: as it is not my province to fit in judgment upon his moral character, farther

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than his writings have led me, fo I have not prefumed to pass any fentence, To his own master be ftandeth, or falleth. And altho' his farewel has been cenfured by me, it would give me no fmall pleasure to find, that fuch was the integrity of his heart, notwithstanding the errors of his judgment, that he fhares, or participates the everlafting bleffedness of the upright.

FINI S.