Numberless were the miracles wrought by Jehovah in ancient times, in behalf of his chosen people. In vain does infidelity object that the contents of the books of Moses _may_ not be true; since, had they been false, it was absolutely impossible that they could have obtained any credit. The number of the people must have amounted to three millions, and every adult person was a competent judge whether the things related to have taken place within his own memory had really happened. The Israelites would not have believed that the Red Sea was divided to give them a passage--that, during their pilgrimage of forty years in the wilderness, a miraculous cloud had guided them by day, and become at night a fire casting round its radiance--that they had been supplied with manna from heaven, falling on six successive days around their camp, and on the last of them a double quantity, to prevent its being gathered on the sabbath--that God had published his law on the mount that might not be touched, amidst thunders, and lightning, and tempest--and that he had punished its violation by terrible plagues--for them to believe these things would have been absolutely impossible, had the whole narrative been a fiction. A romance would have excited their ridicule, and the yoke which, on the ground of the invention, was to be placed about their necks, would have been rejected with the utmost indignation. It is also morally impossible that the books of Moses could have been received in the age immediately after his death, if their contents had been false; and highly improbable that, though true, they would have been considered his writings, if they had been set forth by some other person in his name, and had not appeared till he was lying in his grave. It would be easy to show that the wondrous acts recorded are traced explicitly to Divine operation. In illustration of this, the following passages may be taken: “I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.” “Thus saith the Lord, which maketh a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters;” alluding, most probably, to the passage of Israel through the Red Sea, and, afterwards, to their crossing the Jordan, both of which events were unquestionably miraculous.