Thus is the passage perfectly consistent with those in the Old Testament, which affirm, (whether right or wrong is not my concern) the perfection and perpetuity of the Mosaic Law. " Remember,” are the last words of the last of the prophets, Malachi,—­“Remember the Law of Moses, my servant which I commanded unto him in Horeb, with the Statutes, and Judgments.”  Also in the Psalms:—­“The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.  The Testimony of the Lord is faithful, bringing wisdom to the simple.  The Precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart, and enlightening the eyes.”  “The works of his hands are Truth, and Judgment.  All his Precepts are sure.  They stand fast for ever and ever:  being done in Truth and Uprightness.”

CHAPTER XIII.

Examination of some doctrines in the new
testament derived FBOM the CABALLA, the
oriental philosophy, and the tenets of
Zoroaster.

I have said in the preceding chapter, that Paul was well versed in Cabbalistic Learning, and not unacquainted with the principles of the Philosophy styled “the Oriental;” and to prove and exemplify this assertion, is the subject and intention of this chapter.  None but the learned know, how much of Systematic Christianity is derived from the Cabbalism of the Jews; the Religion of the Magi of Persia; and the Philosophy of the Bramins of Indostan.  I shall attempt to lay open these Theological Arcana, and make them known to those who ought to know what they have been kept in ignorance of.

Many of my readers have, no doubt, frequently puzzled themselves over these words of Paul’s, Eph. v. 30:—­“For we are members of his (Christ’s) body, of his flesh, and of his bones.  Because of this, a man shall leave his father, and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.  This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.”  This passage exemplifies the connexion between Christ and the Church, by that which subsists between a man and his wife; and this Paul calls “a great mystery;” and it no doubt must be a very mysterious passage to all those who are unacquainted with the cabbalistic notion to which it alludes, and refers.  To illustrate the passage, and to prove that Paul raised his Cabbalism with his religion, I shall set down here the note of Dr. Whitby, the Christian Commentator, upon the text of Paul.

“The learned Dr. Allix saith, The first match between Adam and Eve, was a type of that between Christ and his Church; and in this, saith he, the Apostle follows the Jewish notions.  The Jews say, the mystery of Adam, is the mystery of the Messiah, who is the Bridegroom of the Church.  These two persons, therefore, confirm the observation of Munster, that the creation of the woman from the rib of the man,