Agreeable to these our old Opinions of the Scripture, and to our Expectations of a _Messiah_, did the Fathers of your Church endeavour to prove _Jesus_'s Messiahship, by an allegorical Explication and Application of the Law and the Prophets to him: But in as much as they labour'd in vain, proving little or nothing, this Way, to the Satisfaction of our old _Jews_; and in as much as your Priesthood have altogether given over this Way of Proof; we persist in our Disbelief of _Jesus_'s Messiahship, and expect another for the foresaid grand Purposes. Give me Leave here to make an Objection, founded on the concurrent and consentient Opinions of _your_ Fathers and _our_ Ancestors, against the Messiahship of _Jesus_, which if your Priests can answer, agreeably to their united Opinions, they will not only make a Convert of me, but open a Door for the Conversion of our whole Nation. "It is agreed between us Jews, and you Christians (excepting two or three modern Commentators) that the Words of _Deuteronomy_, xviii. 18. _I will raise them up a Prophet from among their Brethren like unto thee_, are a Prophecy of the Messiah. From which Prophecy our Ancestors[392] look'd upon _Moses_ as a Type of the Messiah, _in all Things_, and expected that the _Messiah_ at his coming would by way of Antitype, imitate and resemble _Moses_ in all the History of his Life, just as Face answereth to Face in a Glass, or as a Substance agrees to its Shadow. And I am well assured that the Fathers of your Church accordingly held and believed, what they endeavoured to prove, that there was an exact Similitude between _Jesus_ in the Christian Church, and _Moses_ in the Jewish. Now if your Priesthood can perfect that Proof, and show me, either in a literal or allegorical Sense, an exact Resemblance, Correspondence, and Likeness between them, I must of Necessity turn Christian. It may be perhaps a Work of too large an Extent for them to shew this Agreement between _Jesus_ and _Moses_ in all and every Particular; I will be content therefore, if they can shew me a Similitude between them in a small Part of _Moses_'s Life; as for Instance, in the History of _Moses_'s delivering the _Israelites_ out of _Egypt_. It was most expressly the Opinion of our Ancestors, that the Messiah would deliver his People from Bondage, and, if I forget not, from _Roman_ Bondage, after the Manner, and by the like Wonders, that _Moses_ delivered his People from _Egyptian_. _Jerom_,[393] a Father of your Church has recorded _this_ as the universal Opinion of our Ancestors, and therefore you have the less Reason to question it. And agreeably to this Opinion of our Ancestors, the Fathers of your Church asserted, that _Christ_ was such a _Messiah_, and did deliver his Church from _Roman_