The Divines have long defired to have thefe and fuch important Words construed from the Hebrew, and have attempted to conftrue them, as you may fee in Mr. Hutchinfon's Hebrew Writings perfect, P. 311, &c. And he hath conftrued them from the Hebrew, in a manner that cannot be altered, and fhewed in his New Account of the Confufion of Tongues; that the Hebrew can have nothing to do with the Arabick; though you pretend you will not look at it, nor own it..

You tempt us with the Bait of Selffufficiency, of faving ourselves by Morality, or, &c. or of all being faved by one of ourselves alone, who you make Mediator, as the Turks make Mahomet. Mr. Hutchinfon has in the Beginning of The Ufe of Reafon recovered by the Data in Chriftianity, fhewed what a created Saviour could not do, and though your Advertiser gives him the Epithet of Selffufficient, he is the furtheft from that

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Several Paffages of this fort were inferted by one of the Editors, through whofe Hands this Piecé paffed to the Prefs; which is obferved, becaufe Mr. Hutchinson has been charged with Vanity on this Account, as with Want of Temper for fome other Expreffions, which fome are apt to lament as a Fault in him, which they think they should not be guilty of, without reflecting that when Self is concerned we fee Things in another Light, and that we neither are

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of any Man alive, he has fhewed fufficiently there, that neither he himself, nor any other created Being, could have faved or can fave him. Nay, even that Jehovals could not in Honour or Juftice have faved him, without perfect Obedience and full Satisfaction performed for him, by a Perfon of the Effence in Man. Mr. Hutchinfon has cleared the Text of all the false Descriptions of visible Things, of all the falfe Accounts, Contradictions and Nonsense, about Actions or Things we could not fee, which fand in the Tranflations, and given us in vaft Numbers of Places, the true Meaning of the Text, inferted Truth and Senfe. Has fhewed us the

Genius of the Hebrew Language, proved every thing by Examples and Authorities, has fhewed all the Methods of exhibiting the Terms of Grace; and brought all the Syftem of Nature to prove that he conftrues right, fhewed us how by Ideas taken from Objects of Senfe and their Actions, to obtain Ideas of invifible and otherwise incomprehenfible Objects and their Actions. Has made our Senses Judges of the Veracity of our Creed, has made

nor think it reasonable we fhould be fo patient, when attacked with perfonal Scurilities ourselves, as he was by the Obfervator.

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made Philofophy. fubfervient to Chriftianity, has from the Scriptures fhewed us the Existence and diftinct Operations of Fire, Light, and Spirit, in the one Subftance of this Machine, and the Application of the Names and their Actions, for the Names and Actions of Jehovah Aleim, Given us more Knowledge than the most extravagant Man could have expected, even from the Scriptures, and Hopes, nay Certainty, that if he lives, &c. he will give us more. He has drawn us by the Cords of a Man, and nothing but *Force, nor even that, will hinder Men from following him.

Shift the Scale, and make the Defcriptions in the Text, you pretend to allow to be Scripture, to be Common Sense according to the Tranflations, or any your Party could, or would ever give them, or allow these, or at once renounce the Scrip

tures.

Mr. Hutchinfon has fhewed all the Hieroglyphicks, all the Emblems, all the Religious Actions of the antient and later Heathens, were the fame as those revealed to, and taken from the Believers, and applied to the Names, the Heavens ; and fo has made them all, and all the Opinions of the Philofophers, all the Writ

ings of the later Heathens, the Clafficks, c. Evidence for the Text and for his Writings.

When you were in Poffeffion of the Pen, you have filed every one who stood in your Way, Ignorant, Madmen, or Fools And 'tis your utmoft Inducement to all, to leave a certain Gentleman, because in your Opinion he is mad. If he were not fo, or, &c. in your Opinion, we would not follow him. You have given us your Opinion in many other Cafes, and we have ftrong Evidence; and now 'tis our Turn to prove that not only you, but all your Adherents are not only fo, but far worse. Therefore, we desire to be excused, from taking your Opinion without undeniable Evidence, for that or any other Thing you fay.

As the Obfervator has obferved no Order, but put here a Scrap and there a Scrap of the fame Subject, fo endeavoured to confound every thing, I am forced to follow him backward and forward, to bring what he fays upon each Subject together, and answer it in its proper Place.

To begin with the radical Letters, the Root, the Verb,

the Noun Sin

אלוה and the Root of אלהים gular of

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the Participle Paffive. P. 7. the Obfervator fays-The Word (Aleim) is writ above fix hundred Times in the Old Teftament, with an O- and This Author himself owns, p. 9, line 3. That the Word in the Singular Number is Eloah ; and draws Inferences. Mr. Catcott fays nothing there of the Word Singular ; but a Participle Paffive. The Words and in fome Bibles have the forged Points of the Apoftates, for, or to infert the Vau's and confound the Words; but if the Obfervator had writ the Words in Hebrew Letters, it would have appeared that they have no Letter Vau, either in the Singular or Plural; and to avoid that Confufion, was the Mystery why Mr. Catcott writ, or founded thefe Words with an a, Elah and Elahim *. And the Obfervator knows,

*The Editors have chofe fince to write the Word as it ftands in the Hebrew, making Aleph our a, Lamed our 1, the Hebrew He our e, Jod our i, and Mem our m,

Aleim; which inferts no Letters not in the Original, and which gives a diftinct Sound to each Letter, following the learned and ingenious Dr. Robinson, in his late Treatife on the Sound of the Hebrew Letters, or antient Method of pronouncing Hebrew; and if the Reader and learned Gentleman would excuse it, it might be obferved here, that the Author feems not to argue with the fame Conviction on the Sound of and confequently of as on the other Letters; for by Jud. xii. 6. it is paft Difpute that was the

Letter