THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT REVEREND WILLIAM WARBURTON, D.D. LORD BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER. A NEW EDITION, IN TWELVE VOLUMES. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A DISCOURSE BY WAY OF GENERAL PREFACE; CONTAINING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE, WRITINGS, AND CHARACTER Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND. SECT. V. The agreement of the Proposition of no future State in the Mosaic Dispensation, with the VIIth Article of the Church of England evinced. That the Old Fathers looked for more than transitory Promises, illus- trated in the famous case of ABRAHAM,-where it is proved that the command to offer. Isaac was merely an information, in a representative Action instead of Words, of the Redemption of Mankind by the great Sacrifice of CHRIST.Shewn how this Interpretation overturns all the infidel objections against the truth of this part of SECT. VI. To support the foregoing Interpretation, The Original, Nature, and Use of TYPICAL RITES and SK- CONDARY SENSES in Prophecies are inquired into.-In the course of which Inquiry, the Principles of Mr. Collins's book concerning the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion are examined and confuted,— and likewise the Reasoning of Dr. Sykes against all THE DIVINE LEGATION OF MOSES DEMONSTRATED. BOOK VI. CONTINUED, BUT SECT. V. UT though it appear that a future state of Rewards and Punishments made no part of the Mosaic Dispensation, yet the LAW had certainly a SPIRITUAL meaning, to be understood when the fulness of time should come: And hence it received the nature, and afforded the efficacy, of PROPHECY. In the interim, the MYSTERY OF THE GOSPEL was occasionally revealed by GOD to his chosen Servants, the Fathers and Leaders of the Jewish Nation; and the dawning of it was gradually opened by the Prophets, to the People. And which is exactly agreeable to what our excellent Church in its SEVENTH ARTICLE of Religion teacheth concerning this matter. ARTICLE VII. The Old Testament is not contrary to the New: for both in the Old and New Testament, everlasting Life is offered to Mankind by Christ, who is the only Mediator between God and Man. Wherefore they are not to be heard, which feign that the Dlo Fathers did look only for transitory Promises. VOL. VI. B -The |