our bleffed Saviour, and not to any other prophet, either before or after him: all the prophets of the Old Teftament faw vifions, and dreamed dreams; all the prophets of the New were in the fame ftate. St. Peter had a vifion, St. John faw vifions, St. Paul had vifions and dreams: but Chrift himself neither faw vifion, nor dreamed a dream, but had intimate and immediate communication with the Father; he was in the Father's bofom; he, and no man elfe, had feen the Father, was one with the Father, and had the fulness of the Godhead in him. Let any man now seriously confider this; Mofes and Chrift are the only two, in all the facred hiftory, who had this comnunication with God; the likeness to Mofes is faid directly to lie in this, of feeing God face to face. Can the promise then of raifing a prophet like unto Mofes be poffibly applied to any other person than Christ Jesus? The other part of the parallel needs not to be infifted on; that Chrift was a lawgiver, will be eafily admitted on all hands. But the execution of the threat annexed to this prophecy is too remarkable to be paffed over in filence; it has been literally fulfilled upon the whole nation; every man, who confiders the state of the Jews from the rejection of Chrift to this day, muft own, that this part of the prophecy, at least, has been punctually verified.

This prophecy, and many others, feem, as I obferved, intended for the Jews principally, to prepare them betimes for the reception of a new Lawgiver, and to intimate to them, that the Mofaic covenant was not to be perpetual.

Thus have I gone through the several periods of prophecy under the Old Teftament, and endeavoured

to fhew the main defign and use of it, opening a way to a fair and impartial confideration of the particular prophecies relating to each period. I conceived it feasonable, at a time when the argument from prophecy was expofed to open ridicule, to fuggeft fome proper obfervations on the fubject, for the affiftance of ferious minds difpofed to confider; to throw in one mite, as an offering to the love of Chrift and his Gospel, in which I hope to live and to die.

FOUR

DISSERTATIONS.

I. The Authority of the Second Epiftle of St. Peter.

II. The Senfe of the Ancients before Chrift upon the Circumftances and Confequences of the Fall. With an APPENDIX.

III. The Bleffing of Judah, Gen. xlix.

IV. Chrift's Entry into Jerufalem.