Lord knew face to face, and all the figns and the wonders which the Lord fent him to do!"? Moses was not only a lawgiver, a prophet, and a worker of miracles, but a king and a prieft. He is called king", and he had indeed, though not the pomp and the crown and the fceptre, yet the authority of a king, and was the fupreme magiftrate; and the office of priest he often exercised. In all thefe offices the resemblance between Mofes and Christ was ftriking and exact.

Mofes fed the people miraculously in the wilderness - Chrift with bread and with doctrine; and the manna which defcended from heaven, and the loaves which' Chrift multiplied, were proper images of the spiritual food which the Saviour of the world bestowed upon his disciples.

Mofes foretold the calamities that would befal his nation for their difobedience— Chrift predicted the fame events, fixed the precife time, and enlarged upon the previous and fubfequent circumstances.

d Deut. xxxiii. 5.

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Mofes

Mofes chofe and appointed 70 Elders to prefide over the people-Chrift chofe the fame number of Difciples. Mofes fent 12 men to fpy out the land which was to be conquered Chrift fent his 12 Apostles into the world, to fubdue it by a more glorious and miraculous conqueft. Mofes interceded for tranfgreffors, and caused an atonement to be made for them, and fropped the wrath of God by lifting up the brazen ferpent in the wilderness-Chrift was himself lifted and was the atonement for the whole

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world.

Mofes inftituted the Paffover, when a lamb was facrificed, none of whofe bones were to be broken, and whofe blood protected the people from deftruction-Chrift was himfelf that Pafchal Lamb. Mofes had a very wicked and perverfe generation committed to his care; and, to enable him to rule them, miraculous powers were given to him, and he used his utmost endeavours to make the people obedient to God, and to fave them from ruin; but in vain: in the space of 40 years they all fell in the wilderness except two-Christ also was given to a generation not lefs wicked and perverfe; his inftructions

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and his miracles were loft upon them; and in about the fame space of time after they had rejected him, they were deftroyed.

Mofes was very meek, above all the men that were upon the face of the earth - Chrift was meek and lowly; mildnefs, patience, and refignation were confpicuous in all his actions; he submitted with the most perfect compofure of mind to every indignity; when he was reviled, he answered not again, but refigned himself to him who judgeth rightly.

The people could not enter into the land of promise till Mofes was dead by the death of Chrift "the kingdom of heaven was opened to believers."

In the death of Mofes and of Chrift there is also a resemblance of fome of the circumftances. Mofes died in one fenfe for the iniquities of his people: it was their rebellion, which was the occafion of it, which drew down the difpleasure of God upon them and upon him: "The Lord," faid Mofes to them, was angry with me for your fakes, faying, Thou shalt not go in thither, but thou fhalt die." Mofes there

fore went up in the fight of the people to the top of f Mount Nebo, and there he died, when he was in perfect vigour," when his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated."— Chrift fuffered for the fins of men, and was led up in the prefence of the people to Mount Calvary, where he died in the flower of his age, and when he was in his full natural strength. Neither Mofes nor Chrift, as far as we may collect from facred History, were ever fick or felt any bodily decay or infirmity, which would have rendered them unfit for the toils they underwent. Their fufferings were of another kind.

As Mofes a little before his death promised the people that God would raife them up a Prophet like unto him-fo Christ, taking leave of his afflicted Difciples, told them, I will not leave you comfortlefs; I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter."

Mofes exprefsly declares, "that it shall come to pass, that whofoever will not hearken unto my words which the Prophet shall speak in my name, I will require it of him." The Jews rejected Chrift, and God rejected them. In the whole courfe of the history of the Jews

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there is no inftance recorded, where, in the case of disobedience to the warnings or advice of any Prophet, fuch terrible calamities enfued, as those which followed the rejection of the Meffiah. The overthrow of the Jewish empire, the deftruction of fo many Jews at the fiege of Jerufalem, the difperfion of the furviving people, and the hiftory of the Jews down to the present day calamities beyond measure and beyond example-fulfilled the Prophecy of Mofes,

Is this fimilitude and correfpondence in fo many particulars the effect of mere chance? Let us fearch all the records of univerfal hiftory, and fee if we can find a perfon who was fo like to Mofes as was Christ, and so like to Chrift as was Mofes, If we cannot find fuch a one, then have we found him of whom Mofes in the Law and the Prophets did write, "Jefus of Nazareth, the Son of God f."

The great defign of this Prophecy seems to have been to intimate to the Jews, that at some future time fome new lawgiver would arise,

f I am indebted for most of the preceding circumftances of resemblance to the learned and judicious Dr. Jortin. See his Remarks on Ecclefiaftical Hiftory, vol. i. p. 200,

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