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ferocity might proceed from this part of their 

 education ? 



Befides, there are in the Old Teftament many 

 advices never intended for our ufe. We find in 

 it paflages of very difficult explication, examples 

 dangerous, and laws impradli cable. In Leviticus, 

 for example, the ufe of fwine's fleQi is prohibited. 

 It is reprefented as a crime worthy of death, to 

 violate the Sabbath-day, by working upon it; 

 that of killing an ox * without the camp is for- 

 bidden under a like punifhment, &c. St. Faiil, 

 in his Epiftle to the Galatians, fays pofitively, that 

 the Law of Mofes is a Law of fervitude ; he com- 

 pares it to the Have Hagar^ whom Abraham repu- 

 diated. Whatever refped may be due to the 

 Writings of Solomon, and to the Laws of Mo/es^ 

 we are not their difciples,butthedifciplesof Him, 

 who faid, " fuffer little children to come to Me; 

 " forbid them not;" who bleffed them, and faid 

 that in order to enter into the kingdom of Hea- 

 ven, we muft become like them. 



Our children, fubverted by the vices of a faulty 

 education, become falfe reafoners, knavifli, hypo- 



* In what part of the Mofaic Inllitution, could our Author 

 poffibly find this penal ftatute ? It is, furely, unnecefTary to give 

 infidelity a groundlefs triumph. H. H. 



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