A Comparison of Mahometism and Christianity in Their History, Their Evidence and Their Effects; Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford, 1784 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 Excerpt: ...who, by a gradual evolution of his designs, conferred order and consistency on the whole. When they were parched with thirst, then did omnipotence cause even the flinty rock to flow for their refreshment; when hungry and faint with the toils of the day, then did heaven supply them with its own manna, and sent quails into their camp to satisfy their extreme necessities. By the same power the walls of a fortified city fell to the ground: hand the sun and moon stood still in their habitation at the voice of the leader of Israel. Armies renowned for battle, and commanded by skilful and powerful leaders, were driven asunder (to use the expressive language of scripture) like the foam upon the waters, and cut off as the tops of the-ears of wm'. Surely we may say, God was with this people. He led on their victorious bands; conducted them over Jordan, and at last settled them in the land promised to their forefathers. Here he established his throne, and erected his temple. Here he delivered the great statutes of his kingdom, the laws of righteousness, and the ordinances of distinction. Here too, by the mouth of all his holy prophets, he gradually disclosed the several particulars of the grand and mysterious scheme of man's redemption; and here he at length accomplished them in that great event, which included the result of all. Hab. iii. 11. 'Hos. x. 7. Job xxiv. 24 The important purpose, for which the Jews in general had been thus miraculously separated from the rest of mankind, was evidently to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah, by preserving and transmitting the worship, the promises, and the predictions of the Almighty to future generations. The particular separation of one tribe from the great body of the Jewish nation was plainly an act of the same...