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Summary Of All The Arguments For And Against Richard Brothers.
Halhed , in his Testimony , after a long prefatory address , by which are expressed an ardent desire for an immediate peace , and a curiosity to peep into futurity , acknowledges the justness of Brothers ' s asseveration , and confirms his similitude to Moses in the following manner , according to the prophet ' s own declaration . _ " As Moses ascended from the ark of bulrushes , so did Mr . Brothers
rise from a ship , having been bred to the navy . —Moses , born in Egypt , led the Israelites from Egypt through the Red Sea into Palestine . The birth-place , therefore , of the second Moses , and the countiy from whence he is to summon the modern Hebrews , must , spiritually atleast , have at one time or other been also denominated Egypt , to make the parallel between the two events move on all fours . "—
In the spirit of this parallel Brothers remarks , " Pharaoh is appointed to die , and his government to be destroyed : the priests , and all the abominable idolatries of Egypt shall perish , never to be found any more . " In addition to this , Brothers ( after remarking his separation from his ancestors during his voyages abroad ) observes , " That Moses was taken away in his infancyand remained separate from
, his brethren for ei ghty years , the first forty of which he was reared in the palace of the king of Egypt , and educated in the language and customs of the countiy like one of its native princes : yet he was revealed to the Israelites as the prophet of God , to order their hasty departure from Pharaoh ' s bondage , and afterwards to conduct them to the promised land . "
George Home ( whom I understood to be at first the celebrated Doctor of that name , but am since informed is a near relative of his in Oxford ) endeavours to shew the absurdity as well as profaneness of these arguments ; and , after ludicrously requesting him to display his serpent-rod and leprous hand—to turn our rocks into water , and provide bread for these hard times , he declares , that that het which
prop Brothers pretends to be is the Messiah , whose similitude to Moses Home thus delineates : — " Moses in his infancy was preserved when the rest of the children were destroyed ; so was our Saviour when Herod commanded all the innocents to be put to death . Moses fled from his country to escape the wrath of Pharaoh —Joseph likewise took Christ to Egypt to preserve him from the rage
of Herod . Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh ' s daughter —rand Christ , though the Son of God , would not accept of the temporal kingdom of the Jews . Moses was learned in all the accomplishments of the Egyptian schools—and Christ , when only twelve , years of age , was capable of disputing with the most experienced of the Jewish doctors . " Here Mr . Home , among other occasional '
remarks , to over-rule the prophet ' spretended similitude , quotes from Halhed ' s testimony , as a proof that Brothers is not a learned man like Moses , that his prophecies are " replete with grammatical faults , destitute of harmony of arrangement or elegance of diction . " He then proceeds to show stronger instances of similarity between the Messiah and Moses , viz . the latter contended with Egyptians , and the former cast out devils . —Moses foretold the calamities which
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Summary Of All The Arguments For And Against Richard Brothers.
Halhed , in his Testimony , after a long prefatory address , by which are expressed an ardent desire for an immediate peace , and a curiosity to peep into futurity , acknowledges the justness of Brothers ' s asseveration , and confirms his similitude to Moses in the following manner , according to the prophet ' s own declaration . _ " As Moses ascended from the ark of bulrushes , so did Mr . Brothers
rise from a ship , having been bred to the navy . —Moses , born in Egypt , led the Israelites from Egypt through the Red Sea into Palestine . The birth-place , therefore , of the second Moses , and the countiy from whence he is to summon the modern Hebrews , must , spiritually atleast , have at one time or other been also denominated Egypt , to make the parallel between the two events move on all fours . "—
In the spirit of this parallel Brothers remarks , " Pharaoh is appointed to die , and his government to be destroyed : the priests , and all the abominable idolatries of Egypt shall perish , never to be found any more . " In addition to this , Brothers ( after remarking his separation from his ancestors during his voyages abroad ) observes , " That Moses was taken away in his infancyand remained separate from
, his brethren for ei ghty years , the first forty of which he was reared in the palace of the king of Egypt , and educated in the language and customs of the countiy like one of its native princes : yet he was revealed to the Israelites as the prophet of God , to order their hasty departure from Pharaoh ' s bondage , and afterwards to conduct them to the promised land . "
George Home ( whom I understood to be at first the celebrated Doctor of that name , but am since informed is a near relative of his in Oxford ) endeavours to shew the absurdity as well as profaneness of these arguments ; and , after ludicrously requesting him to display his serpent-rod and leprous hand—to turn our rocks into water , and provide bread for these hard times , he declares , that that het which
prop Brothers pretends to be is the Messiah , whose similitude to Moses Home thus delineates : — " Moses in his infancy was preserved when the rest of the children were destroyed ; so was our Saviour when Herod commanded all the innocents to be put to death . Moses fled from his country to escape the wrath of Pharaoh —Joseph likewise took Christ to Egypt to preserve him from the rage
of Herod . Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh ' s daughter —rand Christ , though the Son of God , would not accept of the temporal kingdom of the Jews . Moses was learned in all the accomplishments of the Egyptian schools—and Christ , when only twelve , years of age , was capable of disputing with the most experienced of the Jewish doctors . " Here Mr . Home , among other occasional '
remarks , to over-rule the prophet ' spretended similitude , quotes from Halhed ' s testimony , as a proof that Brothers is not a learned man like Moses , that his prophecies are " replete with grammatical faults , destitute of harmony of arrangement or elegance of diction . " He then proceeds to show stronger instances of similarity between the Messiah and Moses , viz . the latter contended with Egyptians , and the former cast out devils . —Moses foretold the calamities which