OCR Text |
Show 264 CONCLUSION. CONCLUSION, Whence came the idea among the untutored savages, that Yohewah was once the covenant God of their nation; and the rest of the world were out of covenant God was the God with him,—the accursed people? of Israel, and of no other nation during their common‘1 entered into covenant with thee, and thou wealth. becamest mine.”’ Whence their ideas that their ancestors once had the book of God; and then were happy ; but that they lost it; and then became miserable; but that they willhave this book again at some time ? 7 / ‘ 2 Who taught them to keep and venerate a sacred ark, containing their most sacred things ; to be borne against their enemies by no one but the ark; andthe | a holy of holies in it, into which no com- -mon people may enter, or look ? that Who taught him a succession of high priests? office by purifications, into ed this priest must be induct ate appropri and anointing? that he must appear in an their fahabiliment, the form of which descended from | thers of remote antiquity / a yearly ng maki t’s Whence their custom of this pries temt of their atonement, in or near the holy apartmen Lev. xxiii. 27, and vi. 30. le? s, W hich well accord W hence their three annual feast Exed. xxi. 14 great feasts in Israel? to the three in which a bone Say yeacs came their peculiar feast,aud all that 1s pre; of the sacrifice may not be broken heel before the ed burn or pared must be eaten ; Iuxod. r vegetables. ning sun? and eaten with bitte xii. 8, 10, 46. esoeappearing three Whence a custo m of their mal the temple ! Exod. xxill. times annually before God at ae . xvi. 16. . oe = aecke of the Bedes teach wild savages ger of blood; ‘old, belovaven places of refuge from the J oshua chap. XXzd, white towns?” feeling the same look into reverence this for it, among these savage tribes, that the hollow of the thigh of no animal may beeaten? Gen. xxxil. 32. Let the mfidel inform how these savages (so long ex- Thust of Yohewah; strict rites 2 T hat as the friends? Exod. xxv. 10, and on. 1 Sam. vi. 19. 2Sam. xi. 1]. Whence came the deep and extensive impression Lev. ii. 14; and xxii. 10, 11. xxiii. 19. Who taught the untutored savages to have a temple Exod, xxii. 29; and by sanctified keeper might zed world) came See purified enemy Whence their notion that their fathers once had the spirit of God to work miracles, and to foretel future Whence the general Indian tradition of offerevents? ing their first ripe fruits. one cluded from all intercourse with the religious or civili- by the right of circumcision? and some of them an idea of a Jubilee ? Whence their idea of an old divine speech ; that they imitate their virtuous ancestors, enforced by ** flourishing upon a land flowing with milk and honey ?”? Whence their notion of the ancient flood ? and of the longevity of the ancients ? also of the confusion of the language of man at building a high place? evidently meaning the scene at Babel. How came these wild human herds of the desert by various Hebrew words and phrases ; and such phrases as accord with no other language on earth? See the ta- (ble furnished, page 90. Who taught them to sing, Halleluyah, Yohewah, Yah, Shiu Yohewah; and to make the sacred use they do _of the syllables, which compose the names of God? singing them in their religious dances. and in their cus- toms ; thus ascribing all the praise to Yohewah? [ask not, who taught them the spirit or holiness of such reljgious forms? Fosgprobably they have little cr no in3 telligent meaning. But whence hav e they : broug/ oe these traditional forms ? J ght down How came their reckonin s of time so well to : with that of ancient Israel ? accord : Whence their tradition of twelve aS feast similar to the ancient feast aking twelve poles, forming men, in preparin of tiberiegiee” their booths: and their altar of fwelve stones. on which no tool may here ofiering their twelve 23 sacrifices” pass; aud some and tribes |