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Show the fake of many noble Morals couch ed under the outward Ceremonies. 5• In compliance with the G enius of thole early ond unimproveli .<\ges of the vV orld, and of that People, f1>r whofe grofs A ppr~hcqfions a Religion r.erfoeHy _ ipternal and fpiritual was not proper. 6. T p keep them feparate from the N at ions around them, as it has always ~een the outward Ccrei'" menials of Religiop that have made the Ddl:inctions; and for many other Reafons too tedious to mention h. 9· The Hiftory of that People partly rel~ted an~ partly f<;>retqld, ~ uring ~ Period of aboye 3000 Years, in which the various Viciffitudt;$, they underwent, are ,{\lewn tQ be owing 19 tile particular lntcrpofition of Providence, an\1 a..;e all along the immediate Confequence of their Obedience or D ifobedience ' : F rom which toe grcatcfl: and moft important Moral, that can be imagin~d, may be drawn, viz. " That Rightc;:" oufi1efs ex~lts a N ation; and 1\l~t ~in is the " Rcprooch, and the R u.in qf a People." h Gm . .. xii. 1-4. xii i. .14-1 8. x.v. r - 1.9. :xvii. 1~9· x.~.n. 15- 19. ~xv1 . 5· E~od. iii. 6, 8, 15. VJ . 3· Xl\1. ~.'. ' 2.2 XJV. 19. 22. XVi. 32-36. xix. :.tf· 5, 6 ... xxm. :zr3 ' z4, .3z. xxiv. 16, 17. xxix. 45, ~6. XXXIl . 8 .... 1\zmzb .. XI\'. '4' I 5. Dttt/. i. 8. 3 0 . l l. Z)1 ~3 · lJI. 2Z. IV. (~, 7· vi i. 2. Xi . 23 . xii. 1- 4. See alfo o~ the State of rh~.J£ws feveral of the Pfalms, Stephm s Speech, !las vu. Epift. to the Ro!n· at the Beginning, and Heb. ' See E,ct! . .7ofo. Jitdg. 1 Sam. z Sam. 1 King! 2 Ki11gJ, I Chrrm. z Chr~u. Ez.ra, Nebem. Ejlher' ~ and the Prophets. ' to. A " 1 0 . A Succeffion of infpired Men raifed up among them, to c all them, from time to time, to their Duty, and denmmce again!l: them the Judgments, which were to be the Confequence of Dilobedience k. I 1· PrediCtions given by the fame Prophets of the Revolutions of moft of the great States and Empires of the World 1• 12. Difperfion of the ljratlittS according to the Threatnings of Heaven denounctd by the Prophets for Difobed ience to their God and King rr·. 13. The coming of the Meffiah, and his K ingdo~ , more and more clearly held forth by PrediCtiOns, from the firfl: obfcure one, " T hat the " Seed of the Woman fhould bruife the Head " of the Serpent," given immedi ately after the F all, down through a Period of four thoufanJ Years, . to tho_fe plain ones given by Zacharias the Pnefl, Srmeon, Anna, and by John the Bapti/1, his immediate F ore-runner"; and thus k Sam. lfaiah, Jerem. and the rell: of the Pro~ phets, 1 I b. and Re-iJ. na J erem. xxxix. n Gm. iii. I 5· xii. 3· xviii. 1 8. xxi. 1 z. xxii. 1 K. xxvi. 5· .~xviii. 14. xlix. 10. Numb. xxiv. g, 1 7 . Deut. x~u1. I 5. z Sam. xxii. Job xix. 2 5· l'fal ii. Vl~~- ,XV1 .... 8-II. xviii. xxii. 1, 6-3 1. xi. 6, 7· xlv. lx1.1. lxvm ... ~ 8. lxix. 9· 21. lxxii. 17. lxxx. q. X~l, ex. cxvm: .. z; . lfa. i~. z. vii. 14. ix. z. 6, 7· Xl. 1-5. XXV111; 16. XXXII. I. ~~XV. 5· xl. 3· xJii. '-:-4· 6-8 . . ~hx. ) · I. 4-1o. I.m. z-t z. lv. r- ). lx1. }, -4· lxm. 19. ]erem. xxlii. 5, 6. xxxi. zz. ~xxu. I ~.-z6. ~zek. xxxiv. 23, z .... x xxviii. Z.J. Dwz. ll. 44· Vll . 13. lX. z6. Hof. xi. 1. Micah v . z. HaftK. ~!: 7· Zack. iii. 8. vi. t z. ix. 9· xii. 10. xiii. 7· Mal. 111. 1-4.1V. 5· and the Beginning< of the Gofpels. E the |