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THE WHOLE

WORKS

OF THE

LATE REVEREND

WILLIAM ROMAINE, A. M.

RECTOR OF

ST. ANDREW BY THE WARDROBE,

AND

ST. ANN, BLACKFRIARS,

AND

LECTURER OF ST. DUNSTAN'S, IN THE WEST

LONDON.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

VOLUME VI.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR R. BAYNES, 25, IVY LANE, PATERNOSTER-ROW, AND G. offer,
2, PORTERN-ROW, TOWER HILL.

W. GRACIE, Printer, Berwick.

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3-15-28 PH.

The Divine Legation of Moses demonstrated from his having made express mention of, and insisted so much on the Doctrine of a Future State: whereby Mr. Warburton's attempt to demonstrate the Divine Legation of Moses from his Omission of a future State is proved to be absurd, and destructive of all Revelation.

A

SERMON

PREACHED BEFORE THE

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,

AT

ST. MARY'S, MARCH 4th, 1739.

The foundations of all religion lie in two things; that there is a God who rules the world, and that the souls of men are capable of subsisting after death: For he that comes unto God must believe that he is, and that he is a Rewarder of them that seek him so that if these things be not supposed as most agreeable to human reason, we cannot imagine upon what grounds mankind should embrace any way of religion at all.-Stillingfleet's Orig. Sacræ. B. 3. Ch. 1. Sect. 1.

VOL. VI.

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THE DIVINE

LEGATION OF MOSES.

MARK xii. 24, 25, 26, 27.

And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels which are in heaven. And as touching the dead, that they rise, have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

THE New Testament is full of passages in which it is asserted, that Moses hath directly treated of the state in which man was at first created;—of the laws which his Creator gave him ;-of his violation of those laws; -and of his forfeiting thereby life here, and happiness hereafter;-of the method of his being restored, and again enabled to attain that happiness;-and of his having instituted many types and figures expressive of the sufferings, death, and resurrection of that person who was to restore man to happiness. Though these truths frequently occur in the New Testament, yet many persons have been at a loss where to find them in

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