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vpon the authority of it, ib. 134- Denies miracles or prophecy to be proofs of divine revelation, ib. 135. His invediives againſt the Old Teſtament, and againſt the ancient Prophets, ib. 136. He profeſſes a great veneration for our Saviour, yet inſi- nuates ſeveral unworthy reflcGtions upon his perſon and charac- ter, ib. 136, 137. Pretends that the apoſtles preached different, and even contrary Goſpels, ib. His pretence, that the New- Teſtament was corrupted by the Jeaws, examined, 5. 137. Anſwers to the firſt volume of his Moral Philaſoober, ib. 139, Sc. An account of his ſecond volume, and remarks upon it, 76. 143, Sc. His groſs mifrepreſentations of the Scripture L.iſtory, 15. 141— 143. 148. An account of his third volume, and the anſwers to it, 15. 148, 149.

MoRTrrFICATION required in the Goſpel— How to be underſtood, I. 364, 365.

MosEs— Lord Bohingbroke's invectives againſt his writings, I. 375, 376. II. 71. 138. The great antiquity, impartiality, and ex- cellent tendency of his hiffory, II. 71. He was cotemporary to many of the facts he relates, and had ſufficient aſſurance of the reſt, 15. 74, 75. There is all the proof that he was the author of the Penrateuch that can be reaſonably deſired, or which the nature of the thing admits of, i5. 78. His hiſtory cleared from the charge of inconſiſtencies and contradictions, 76. 86, SS. He uſed none of the arts or palliating methods of the antient prieſts and lawgivers, ib. 93, 94. Vaſtly ſuperior to the moſt cele- brated legiſlators of antiquity, i½. 95, 96. Did not adopt the idolatrous fuperſtitions of Egypt, ib. 96. Cleared from the 8 charge of making mean and unworthy repreſentations of the Deity, ib. I11, Gc. His account of the creation of the world, and the original formation of man, noble and rational, 75. 139, 141. The ſanctions of his law conſidered, 79. 151, S'c. Why he makes no expreſs meption of a future ſtate, 25. 158, So'c.

MVYSTERIES PAGAN Lord Bolingbroke's magnificent account of their nature and deſign, II. 47. Yet owns that we know little about them; and that the abſurdities of polytheiſm were retained in them, however mitigated, 75. Socrates would never be initiated in thoſe myſteries, i⁵. 48.

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Narungz HuMAN— Original dignity of it aſſerted by M ½*, II. 143. It is now in a corrupt ſtate, 1⁵. 204.

NaTrURE Law of— See Law.

NarvunaL RELIGION-No account of any nation that ever pro- feſſed it in its purity, abſtracting from all revelation, 63, 64. Note. Set in the cleareſt light by the Chriſtian revelation, I. 16. No where ſo clearly taught and underſftood as among Chriſtians,

Vor. II. G I. 132.