Servitude, after the same Manner (in a Figure) that _Moses_ delivered his _Israelites_ out of _Egypt_. Nay, your Apostle _Paul_[394] seems to assert it, saying, _Brethren, I would not, that ye should be ignorant, how that all our Fathers were under the Cloud, and all passed through the Sea, and were all baptized unto Moses in the Cloud and in the Sea. Now these things were our Examples or Types._ In which Words _Paul_ apparently alludes to, and confirms the Opinion of our Ancestors, which he had imbibed before his Conversion; and intimates that _Jesus_, whom he took for the _Messiah_, was working a Redemption of his Church after the Manner of the Deliverance of the _Israelites_ out of _Egypt_. And so did your Fathers understand these Words of _Paul_, and accordingly many of them labour'd to shew the Similitude between the _Israelitish_ and _Christian_ Redemption, in order to the Conversion of the _Jews_. But they, it seems, labour'd in vain, shewing no tolerable nor visible Likeness of this sort between _Jesus_ and _Moses_; and therefore our Nation to this Day continues in Disbelief of _Jesus_'s Messiahship. However, we have not so pertinaciously rejected _Jesus_'s Messiahship, as not to give you Leave to resume the old Argument of it, from his Likeness to _Moses_ in all things. If your _Priests_ can now show a Likeness between them; if they can at this Day prove that _Jesus_ wrought the like Miracles and Wonders (tho' in a figurative and allegorical Sense) for the Redemption of his Church from _Roman_ Servitude, as _Moses_ did for the Deliverance of _Israelites_ out of _Egypt_, we will grant him to be the _Messiah_, and will believe in him. But as we despair of such a Proof, so we reasonably persist in our Disbelief of his Messiahship. Your _Divines_ indeed, because of the foresaid Prophecy in _Deuteronomy_, do talk of a Likeness between _Moses_ and _Jesus_; but it is not at all agreeable to the Sentiments of _your_ Fathers, or the Expectations of _our_ Ancestors concerning the _Messiah_'s Similitude to _Moses_. They tell us, that _Jesus_ and _Moses_ were alike, because both wrought Miracles; but this will not do, till they prove a Likeness between their Miracles, as to Number, Nature, Use and Circumstance. The Miracles that the _Messiah_ is to work, and which are to prove his Messiahship, must be of a similar Nature, and to the like Purpose that _Moses_'s were in _Egypt_, as _our_ Ancestors asserted, and _your_ Fathers granted: But since no such Similitude is shown to be between them, we disown _Jesus_'s Messiahship, and appeal to the Reason and Understanding of all indifferent Judges in the Controversy, whether we are not in the right on't for so doing."