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yeh(9376)(8368) <See definition 03068>,] torath yehowah, the grand
title of the Pentateuch. Could we conceive Moses to have been
the author of this system, we must consider him more than
mortal:--no wisdom of man has ever yet invented such a Code of
Laws. His merit, however, has been disputed, and his laws
severely criticised, by persons whose interest it was to prove
religion a cheat, because they had none themselves. To some,
whose mental taste and feeling are strangely perverted,
everything in heathenism wears not only the most fascinating
aspect, but appears to lay claim to and possess every
excellence; and hence they have called up Confucius, Menu,
Zoraster, and Mohammed himself, to dispute the palm with Moses!
On this subject in general, it may be just necessary to add,
that the utmost that can be said of all laws, merely human, is,
that they restrain vices, through the terror of punishment.
God's law not only restrains vice, but it infuses virtue. It
alone brings man to the footstool of his Maker; and keeps him
dependent on the strong for strength, on the wise for wisdom,
and on the merciful for grace. It abounds with promises of
support, and salvation for the present life, which no false
system dared ever to propose: every where, Moses, in the most
confident manner, pledges his God for the fulfilment of all the
exceeding great and precious promises, with which his laws are
so plentifully interspersed; and while they were obedient they
could say, "Not one word hath failed us, of all the good things
which the Lord our God spake concerning us." Who that
dispassionately reads the Pentateuch, that considers it in
itself and in its reference to that glorious Gospel which it was
intended to introduce, can for a moment deny it the palm of
infinite superiority over all the systems ever framed or
imagined by man? Well might the Israelitish people triumphantly
exclaim, "There is none like the God of Jeshurun!" and with what
striking propriety does the glorious legislator add, "Happy art
thou, O Israel! who is like unto thee? O people, saved of the
Lord!" Finally, the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, which are
amassed in these five books, have enriched the whole civilized
earth, and, indeed, greatly promoted that very civilization.
They have been a kind of text-book to almost every writer on
geology, geography, chronology, astronomy, natural history,
ethics, jurisprudence, political economy, theology, poetry, and
criticism, from the time of Moses to the present day--books to
which the choicest writers and philosophers in Pagan antiquity,
have been deeply indebted; and which were the text-books to all
the prophets--books from which the flimsy writers against Divine
Revelation have derived their natural religion, and all their
moral excellence--books written in all the energy, and purity,
of the incomparable language in which they are composed; and
lastly, books, which for importance of matter, variety of
information, dignity of sentiment, accuracy of facts,
impartiality, simplicity, and sublimity of narration, tending to
improve and ennoble the intellect and ameliorate the physical
and moral condition of man, have never been equalled, and can
only be paralleled by the Gospel of the Son of God! Fountain of
endless mercy, justice, truth, and beneficence! How much are
thy gifts and bounties neglected by those who do not read this
law; and by those who having read it, are not morally improved
by it, and made wise unto salvation!
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