CHAP. V.

Pagan Accounts of the Period after the Deluge, p. 185.

1. Traditions refpecting Noah and his three Sons; 1. Sa-

turn, p. 191. 2. Targitaus, p. 196. 3. Mannus, p. 200.

4. Satyavarman, p. 202. 11. The Tower of Babel; 1.

The Sibyl mentioned by Jofephus, p. 205. 2. Abydenus

from Eufebius, p. 206. 3. Alexander Polyhiftor from

Syncellus, p. 296. 4. Apollodorus, p. 207. 5. Homer,

p. 213. 6. Hefiod, p. 216. 7. Nimrod, p. 218. 8. Hin-

doo Account, p. 219. 111. Sodom and Gomorrha, p. 220.

Iv. Abraham; 1. Mentioned by Berofus, Hecateus, and

Nicolaus Damafcenus, p. 224. 2. Eupolemus, p. 225.

3. Artapanus, p. 226. 4. Melo, p. 227. 5. The Koran,
p. 228. v. Ifaac, p. 228. vi. Jacob, p. 229. v11. Joseph,
p. 230. VIII. Mofes, p. 234. IX. The palage through
the Red Sea, p. 237. Conclufion.

SECT. II.

Its internal Credibility.

CHAP. I.

Four Rules laid down for the Purpose of ascertaining the

Truth of any Religion, and applied to Paganism, p. 249.

CHAP. II.

Application of the first Rule to Judaism, p. 256. 1. Mofes

was not deceived, when he afferted his Divine Commiffion,

either 1. By Enthusiasm, p. 257. or 2. By fancying cer

tain Natural Phenomena to be Miracles, p. 263.

CHAP. III.

Application of the fecond Rule; 11. Mofes did not wish to

deceive others, p. 267.

CHAP.

CHAP. IV.

Application of the third Rule; 111. The Documents, which

contain the Law, are authentic, and were written about

the Time when the Facts there related happened, p. 293.

1. If they were not written by Mofes, but by fome other

person, they must either have been built upon some His-

tory univerfally received as authentic, p. 298. or 2. Upon

fome Tradition univerfally confidered as fabulous, p. 299.

or 3. They must have been entirely the Invention of an

Impoftor, p. 302. How far a corruption of the text, so

as to alter the Narrative of Facts, is probable, p. 311..

CHAP. V.

Application of the fourth Rule; IV. The Mofaical Dispen-

fation is worthy of God on account of its moral Purity,

p. 321. 1. Objection made, from the Command to ex-

tirpate the Canaanites, and answered, p. 323. 2. Objection

made against the Ceremonial Part of the Law as trifling,

and anfwered, p. 329.

HORÆ MOSAICÆ.

BOOK I.

THE CREDIBILITY

OF

THE MOSAICAL RECORDS.

I.

THEIR EXTERNAL CREDIBILITY,

OR THEIR

COINCIDENCE WITH PROFANE ANTIQUITY.

II.

THEIR INTERNAL CREDIBILITY.

There are as manifeft proofs of the undoubted truth and certainty of the hiftory recorded by Mofes, as any can be given concerning any thing, which we yield the firmeft affent unto.

STILLING. ORIG. SACRE, B. II. C. 2.

VOL. I.

B

i

BOOK F

A VIEW OF THE CREDIBILITY OF THE

MOSAICAL DISPENSATION.

ITS

SECT. I.

EXTERNAL CREDIBILITY, ARISING

FROM THE COINCIDENCE OF THE MO

SAICAL HISTORY WITH PROFANE TRA-
DITIONS.

СНАР. I.

STATEMENT OF THE SUBJECT-A VIEW OF
THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF MOSES AND

PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS.

RESEARCHES into antiquity have this Statement

of the fub

peculiar recommendation, that while they jet. interest the fancy, they alfo gratify our curiofity, and enlarge the boundaries of our knowledge. To many other pursuits the mind may perhaps devote itself from a conviction of their neceffity, but it is obliged