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Tfie Hebrew Decalogue, 



The eighth commandment 

 requires, not to steal. 



The ninth commandment 

 requires not to bear false wit- 

 ness against our neighbour; 



The tenth commandment 

 requires not to covet thy 

 neighbour's wife, nor his 

 servant, nor his maid, nor 

 his house, nor his ox, nor 

 his ass, nor anv thing that 

 is his. 



The Law was given to 

 Moses out of the midst of 

 the Fire, of the Cloud, and 

 of the Thick Darkness, by 

 God. 



Moses inculcates the Jews 

 diligently to instruct their 

 children in the words of the 

 Law; to bind them as a sign 

 upon the hands, and that 

 they be as frontlets between 

 the eyes. 



Our commandments are 

 ten. 



The above plain and cursory view puts the affinity of the 

 Gealic Precept and the Hebrew Decalogue in so clear a 

 light, that we can discover no material difference, or rather, 

 indeed, none at all ; and therefore must conclude them to 

 be one and the same : which is the greatest proof that pos- 

 sibly can be given for the authenticity of the Precept, or for 

 the antiquity of the Gealic language. The word Gealic, de- 

 rived from Geal or Gial — Reason, Light, or Understanding; 

 and Ec or Ic — He has ; i. e. Rationality, is presumed to be 

 the proper name of the primitive language, and not the 

 word Hebrew, from Eber, a man's name. Eber, indeed, 

 and his successors for a long time after him', may have prer 

 served the language in its antient purity; and, to distinguish 

 it from the corrupted dialects of their cotemporaries, may 

 have also given it the name of their predecessor, Eber, who 



B b I fir?: 



The Gealic Precept. 



The eighth number shows 

 that the Light is Charity or 

 universal Love. 



The ninth number shows 

 that the Light is Innocent 

 as the Lamb, Pure and with- 

 out guile. 



The tenth number com- 

 mands to withdraw or de- 

 part; but not to prostitute 

 those attributes of our Great 

 Author in their own sym- 

 bols to the hurt of our neigh- 

 bour by coveting his goods 

 or estate, &c. 



The production of the 

 Light was out of the Thick 

 Darkness, through the ope- 

 ration of the Spirit, by God. 



The Precept is comprised 

 in Gealic numbers, that we 

 should be initiated in both 

 the one and the other at one 

 and the same time, and thus 

 in all our transactions be as 

 a lamp before us. 



Our numbers are ten. 



