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THE

EVIDENCE

FOR

CHRISTIANITY

Contained in the Hebrew Words

ALEIM and BERIT,

Stated and Defended,

Against the repeated Rabbinical Attempts
to invalidate and deftroy it.

BEING

An ANSWER to Dr, SHARP's Two
Differtations concerning the Etymology and
Scripture Meaning of thefe Words.

To which is prefixed,

A fhort Account of the Oppofition and State of the
Controverfy from Mr. HUTCHINSON'S firft
Publication in the Year 1724, to the prefent Time.

O Beatos Nos quorum caufa JURAT DEUS!
Q Miferrimos fi nec DEO JURANTI credimus!

Tertullian. de Pænitent,

By JAMES MOODY,
Rector of Dunton in Bucks.

LONDON:

Printed for E. WITHERS at the Seven Stars, near
St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-ftreet MDCCLII.

BO

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THE

PRE F A C E.

T is a little furprizing, that among the reverend and learned gentlemen who have obliged the world with their objections to Mr. Hutchinson's writings, none should have given themselves the trouble of reading the author himself, and confidering his whole plan, but have only carped at a few Hebrew words explained in a fermon of the late Mr. Catcot.

Such a conduct in any of his followers with regard to these gentlemen,—I say, had any of Mr. H's admirers attacked any piece of theirs, which pretended only to open, and juft hint at some discoveries, which were largely treated of elsewhere, and to which they referred for the proofs and evidence of what they advanced, without examining and taking into confideration the proofs referred A 2

to;