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light, been fet forth from the beginning, as the hope of the world that he it was, whofe day the faithful in every age defired to fee. He it was, who preferved the firft formed father of the world, that was created alone, and brought him out of his fall, Wifd. x. 1. He it is, who shall reign till all enemies are put under his feet; till death and hell are caft into the lake of fire, Rev. xx. 14.

AN

APPENDIX

TO THE

SECOND DISSERTATION:

BEING A

FARTHER INQUIRY INTO THE MOSAIC ACCOUNT OF THE FALL.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE following additional Dissertation was drawn up fome years fince, and was intended as an examination of the objections made to the history of the fall by the Author of the Literal Scheme of Prophecy. That Author has been dead fome years, and I have now nothing to fay to him; and have therefore confidered the objections not as his, but as common to all, who call in question, or are offended with the hiftory of the fall, as it ftands recorded by Mofes.

APPENDIX

ΤΟ

DISSERTATION II.

THE main difficulty confifts in determining what

we are to understand by the Serpent, who is represented by Mofes as the tempter and deceiver of our firft parents. In order to this, we must confider diftinctly what is afcribed to this ferpent.

This ferpent, we are told, was more fubtil than any beaft of the field, which the Lord God had made, Gen. iii. 1. The comparison here being made between this ferpent and the beast of the field intimates to us, that this serpent was really a beast of the field; for between the beaft of the field and beings of an higher order no comparison properly lies in respect to their fubtilty and understanding.

Again: the curfe denounced against this ferpent is adapted to the ftate and condition of a natural ferpent, and is literally applicable to no other kind of being: Because thou haft done this, thou art curfed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly fhalt thou go, and duft fhalt thou eat all the days of thy life: and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy feed and her feed;

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