The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester

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

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
civil 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 Bolingbroke's accusation

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

SECT. III. Treats of the duration 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

government. 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