THZ

WORKS

OF THE

RIGHT REVEREND

WILLIAM WARBURTON, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER.

A NEW EDITION,
IN TWELVE VOLUME S.

TO WHICH IS PRETIXED

A DISCOURSE BY HAY OF GENERAL PREFACE;

CONTAINING

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE, WRITINGS, AND CHARACTER

OF THE AUTHOR;

BY RICHARD IURD, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF WORCESTER.

VOLUME THE FIFTH.

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ENGLISH OXFORD LIBRARY

THE NATURE OF THE JEWISH THEOCRACY EXPLAINED:

AND THE DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE' STATE PROVED

NOT TO BE IN, NOR TO MAKE PART OF, THE MOSAIC

DISPENSATION

SECT. I. Little light to be got from the systems of Chris-

tian writers,—or the objections of Deists,-or from the

Rabbins,-or from the Cabalists, concerning the true

nature of the Jewish Republic.-The Hebrew People

separated from the rest of mankind not as favourites, but

to preserve the knowledge of the true God amidst an

idolatrous world, -Vindicated from the calumnious false-

hoods of the Poet Voltaire -

- pp.1-19

SECT. II. Proves the Jewish Government to be a Theo-

cracy. This form shewn to be necessary : There being
no other, by which opinions could be justly punished by
çivil Laws: And without such Laws against idolatry, the

Mosaic Religion could not be supported. The equity

of punishing opinions under a Theocracy, explained.

Bayle censured.--Foster confuted.—The Theocracy easily

introduced, as founded on a prevailing notion of tutelary

Deities. ---An objection of Mr. Collins to the truth of

Revelation examined and confuted.-The easy intro-

duction of the Theocracy, it is shewn, occasioned as

easy a defection from the Laws of it. The inquiry into

the reason of this leads to an explanation of the nature

of the Jewish idolatry.-Lord Boling broke's accusation

of the Law of Moses examined and exposed, pp. 19--82

SECT. III. Treats of the durution of the Theocracy.

Shewn to have continued till the coming of CHRIST.-

The arguments of Spencer and Le Clerc to the contrary

examined.— The Prophecy of Shiloh explained: the

Bishop of London's Discourse upon it examined and

confuted

pp. 83–117

SECT. IV. The Consequences of a Theocracy considered.

Shewn that it must be administered by an extraordinary

Providence, equally dispensing temporal Rewards and

Punishments, both to the Community and to Particulars. ,

-That Scripture gives this representation of God's

governinent. And that there are many favourable cir-

cumstances in the character of the Jewish People, to

induce an impartial Examiner to believe that represen-

tation to be true.

PP. 117-158

SECT. V. Shews, that as temporal Rewards and Punish-

ments were the proper sanction of the Jewish Law, so,

there were no other; Moses entirely omitting the Doc- -

trine of a future State.-- That this omission was not

accidental, but designed; and of a thing well known by

him to be of high importance to Society.--Proved from

several circumstances in the book of Genesis, and from

the Law of punishing the crimes of Parents on their

Posterity,