Chap. I.    eſſential to the Chriſtian Religion.    299

ſed to manifeſt himſelf under the Old, and
alſo under the New Teſtament.—At the com-
meneement of the Moſaic œconomy, Jeho-
vah manifeſted himſelf to the ſon of Amram,
upon mount Horeb, in a burning buſh :
but it is very obſervable, that he who ap-
peared to Moſes is called, the angel of the
Lord. ' And the angel of the Lord, ſays the
'  ſacred hiſtorian, appeared unto him in a
' flame of fire, out of the midſt of a buſh—
'  And Moſes ſaid, I will now turn aſide and
' ſee this great ſight --And when JEHOVAH
' ſaw that he turned aſide to ſee, God called
' unto him out of the midſt of the buſh and
'  ſaid, Moſes, Moſes. And he ſaid, Here am
'  I---And he ſaid---I am the God of thy father,
' the God of Abraham, the God of Iſaac, and
' the God of jacob.' But I forbear to tranſ-
cribe the whole account of this wonderful
viſion; the reader may peruſe it at his leiſure.
It may, however, be remarked, that when
Moſes diſcovered a reluctance to obey the
Lord, by going to Pharaoh, becauſe he had
an impediment in his ſpeech he was re-
buked by him in the following manner:
'  Who hath made man's mouth? or who
' maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the ſeeing,
' or the blind? have not I the Lord?' And,
Moſes inquiring what he ſhould ſay to the
children of Iſrael, when they ſhould aſk
who it was that ſent him; God gave himſelf
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