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all-sufficient warning, to every man under such a Law, and such a King; and the formal declaration of future rewards and punishments, would be equally superfluous and unnecessary; as every subject to that Law, must perceive and argue, (as we find they did,) if I climb up into Heaven, Thou art there, if I go down to Hell, Thou art there also 1. 1 Eternal themselves, they could no where withdraw from their Eternal King. Is not this, a full answer to the objection, that the sanctions of future rewards and punishments are omitted in the Law of Moses? The Mosaic Law was evidently framed for a twofold purpose. It was intended to regulate and control the conduct of eternal beings, in a temporary state of trial, not only in their moral, religious, and spiritual, but also in their legal,

1 Psalm cxxxix. 8.

political, and temporal circumstances. And, therefore, future rewards and punishments were postponed to those which were immediate; but, they were by no means omitted, where a SECOND life was clearly revealed. That Law, until abrogated, was preeminently the Law of Life, containing not only the promise of the life that now is, but of that also which is to come; thus, the sanctions of life and death in that Law, bore a twofold force and signification. The Law of Moses, until it was annulled, stood alone in its pre-eminence, amongst the laws of all Nations on this earth, past or present. It was the only Law, that ever could intimately blend, Secular Government and Religion, with their separate ratifications; the only Law of Civil Society on earth, that ever could truly pretend to the sanctions of future rewards and punishments; because it was not only given, but also

visibly administered, through successive Ages, by the Eternal and Almighty God. It is self-evident that no government, but a THEOCRACY could execute these twofold or continued sanctions.

As much difference of opinion still exists on this momentous subject, and as the writer has no where seen a collection of authorities, that Everlasting Life is offered (only by Christ) in the Old Testament to Mankind', this little Book is submitted to the consideration and judgment of the reader. It contains, at the least, the train of evidence, which again and again examined, has thoroughly persuaded the writer's mind of this great truth; and it is trusted, that it will neither be uninteresting to religious men in general, nor unfruitful to those who seek information and conviction on this Article

1 Article VII.

of the Church of England and of the Catholic Christian faith.

The attention of the reader is particularly requested to the Notes, as containing much additional matter; amounting, as the writer believes, (on the whole) to decisive proof of the doctrine maintained in the Sermons.

July 15th, 1835.

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