first and principal law is the decalogue, was also entered into with the ancient patriarchs. Neither, as has been often hinted, do all the ceremonies owe their original to Sinai or Horeb. From the whole I conclude, that it cannot be proved from the alledged passages, that the Old Testament took its first commencement from the departure out of Egypt, or from mount Sinai; and that it is more probable and more agreeable to the analogy of scripture, to adhere to the received opinion. But how great the difference is between the economy of the Old and New Testament, and what prerogatives the last has above the first, we shall explain, but not in a careless manner, in its proper time and place.

END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.