THE

WORKS

OF THE

RIGHT REVEREND

WILLIAM WARBURTON, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER.

VOL. V.

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFË, WRITINGS, AND CHARACTER
OF THE AUTHOR;

BY RICHARD HURD, D.D.
LORD BISHOP OF WORCESTER.

VOLUME THE FIFTH.

London :

Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields,

FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND.

1811.

CONTENTS

ΟΥ

VOL. V.

THE DIVINE LEGATION.

BOOK V.

THE NATURE OF THE JEWISH THEOCRACY EXPLAINED?
AND THE DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE STATE PROVED
NOT TO BE IN, NOR TO MAKE PART OF, THE MOSAIC
DISPENSATION

SECT. I. Little light to be got from the systems of Chris-
tian writers, or the objections of Deists, or from the
Rabbins, or from the Cabalists, concerning the true
nature of the Jewish Republic.-The Hebrew People
separated from the rest of mankind not as favourites, but
to preserve the knowledge of the true God amidst an
idolatrous world,-Vindicated from the calumnious false-
hoods of the Poet Voltaire -

pp. 1-19

SECT. II. Proves the Jewish Government to be a Theo-
cracy. This form shewn to be necessary: There being
no other, by which opinions could be justly punished by
civil Laws: And without such Laws against idolatry, the

Mosaic