And hence it is, that tho’ religion has its deepest ground in the nature of man, tho’ God be _essentially_, present in the souls of all men, yet from the fall of _Adam_ to the end of the world, it will be an immutable truth, that _strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth_ unto divine knowledge; and none but the simple of heart, _the poor in spirit_, or the real followers of Christ can find it. * But it is time to have done. I shall only trouble your Lordship with the few following remarks.――Dr. _Warburton_ says, “He has proved that the doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments is not to be _found in_, nor did make a _part_ of the Mosaic dispensation.”¹ The Mosaic dispensation means nothing else, but a _temporary_ ritual, and a _temporary_ theocracy of worldly blessings and curses to support it. These are its fixed bounds within which it is confined.――Therefore, to prove that a state _beyond_ this world, was not to be _found in_, nor did make a _part_ of a state, that is confined to this world, is as easily and as vainly done, as to prove that the _garden of Eden_ is not to be _found in_, nor makes a _part_ of a map that is confined to _England_. And to infer _that_ the _Israelites_ therefore had no notion of an immortality, because it was not a _part_ of their ritual, is no better than to infer, that the people of _England_ can have no notion of the garden of _Eden_, because nothing of it is to be seen in the map of this island.――But tho’ not in the _ritual_, yet _Moses_ in other parts of his books written for the instruction of those to whom he gave the ritual, has given them the fullest notice and highest proof of that _godlike_ and _immortal_ nature they received at their creation, shewing them to be the children of the _patriarchal covenant_, heirs of all the promises of eternal redemption made to their fathers from the beginning of the world. Nay, the most heavenly doctrines and precepts given by the apostles to the redeemed of Christ, as _heirs of immortality_, are to be found in the books of _Moses_. ¹ D. L. Vol. II. page 474.