And first, for the _Pentateuch_, it is not argument enough that they were written by Moses, because they are called the five Books of _Moses_; no more than these titles, the Book of _Joshua_, the Book of _Judges_, the Book of _Ruth_, and the Books of the _Kings_, are arguments sufficient to prove, that they were written by _Joshua_, by the _Judges_, by _Ruth_, and by the _Kings_. For in titles of books, the subject is marked, as often as the writer. The history of Livy, denotes the writer; but the history of Scanderberg, is denominated from the subject. We read in the last chapter of _Deuteronomy_, verse 6th, concerning the sepulchre of Moses, _that no man knoweth of his sepulchre to this day_, that is, to to the day wherein those words were written. It is therefore manifest, that those words were written after his interment. For it were a strange interpretation, to say Moses spake of his own sepulchre, though by prophecy, that it was not found to that day, wherein he was yet living. But it may perhaps be alleged, that the last chapter only, not the whole Pentateuch, was written by some other man, but the rest not. Let us therefore consider that which we find in the book of Genesis, (xii. 6.) _And Abraham passed through the land to the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh, and the_ Canaanite _was then in the land_; which must needs be the words of one that wrote when the Canaanite was not in the land; and consequently, not of Moses, who died before he came into it. Likewise _Numbers_, xxi. 14, the writer citeth another more ancient book, entitled, _The Book of the Wars of the Lord_, wherein were registered the acts of Moses, at the Red Sea, and at the brook of Arnon. It is therefore sufficiently evident, that the five Books of Moses were written after his time, though how long after it be not so manifest. But though Moses did not compile those books entirely, and in the form we have them; yet he wrote all that which he is there said to have written: as for example, the Volume of the Law, which is contained, as it seemeth, in the xith. of _Deuteronomy_, and the following chapters to the xxviith. which was also commanded to be written on stones, in their entry into the land of Canaan. And this also did Moses himself write, (_Deut._ xxxi. 9, 10) and delivered to the priests and elders of Israel, to be read every seventh year to all Israel, at their assembling in the Feast of Tabernacles. And this is that law which God commanded, that their kings, when they should have established that form of government, should take a copy of from the priests and Levites: and which Moses commanded the priests and Levites to lay in the side of the ark, (_Deut._ xxxi. 26); and the same which having been lost, was long time after found again by Hilkiah, and sent to king Josias (_2 Kings_ xxii. 8) who causing it to be read to the people, (_2 Kings_ xxiii. 1, 2, 3) renewed the covenant between God and them. [Sidenote: The book of Joshua written after his time.]