OF THE CORRESPONDENCY BETWEEN THE MOSAIC RITUAL AND THE FACTS AND DOCTRINES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. IN NINE DISCOURSES. BY THE REV. WILLIAM GRESWELL, M. A. FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND OFFICIATING CURATE OF DISLEY IN THE COUNTY OF CHESTER. OXFORD, PRINTED BY S. COLLINGWOOD, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD AND WATERLOO-PLACE, LONDON; MDCCCXXXIV. CONTENTS. DIVISION of the subject-Antecedent probability that the PREFACE. THAT the author of the following Discourses should be found to have thrown new light on the correspondency between the positive and ritual parts of the Law of Moses, and the facts and doctrines of the Christian religion, a subject which has been so often discussed and elucidated by much abler pens than his own, was not the effect which he contemplated, as a probable result of this work. He had no view in the primary contemplation of his undertaking, beyond that of endeavouring to excite a new interest in an old and familiar subject, and to exhibit acknowledged and unquestionable truths in a popular and intelligible light, for the benefit of the simplest understanding. The religious world therefore must not expect to find much that is novel in the present volume. If it coincides with generally received opinions on the subject of which it treats, and offends no orthodox doctrine, the author will have attained his object. All ingenuous and observant readers of the New Testament, who consider that sacred volume as intended to be understood in the sense which naturally presents itself to an unsophisticated mind, in remarking the references and allusions to the old Law, therein of perpetual recurrence, will not fail to be convinced of the intimate and indisputable relation which the two covenants bear to each other. That familiarity and fre |