THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL OF SCRIPTURE: BEING ESS A O N SELECT PASSAGES O F SACRED COMPOSITION. By COURTNEY MELMOTH, SIM- INSTANCES, ALSO, OF MAJESTIC Smith's Longinus. IN TWO VOLUMES. PRINTED LONDON: FOR J. MURRAY, (No. 32) FLEET-STREET. M DCC LXXVII, ESSAY XXI. INSTITUTES of MOSES. PASS AGE. And if a man caufe a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, fo fhall it be done unto him. ESSAY Page 1 XXII. STORY of BALAAM and his A s s. PASSAGE. And the Lord opened the mouth of the afs, and the faid unto Balaam, what have I done unto thee, that thou haft fmitten me these three times? ESSAY page 9 XXIII. DEATH of MOSES. PASS AGE. And the Lord faid unto Mofes, get thee up into this mount Abarim, and fee the land which I have given unto the children of Ifrael. And when thou haft feen it, thou alfo, fhalt be gathered unto thy people. page 21 ESSAY ESSAY XXIV. And Ruth faid, intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goeft, I will go; and where thou lodgeft, I |