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Vulgar Opinion of the Heavens; yet 'explain he held the other Doflrme. 
The Jewifti Doftors fay, the Law fr<ak* with the Tongues of Men; that 
is, with a Vulgar Style, yet they hadiheir Cabala to conceal their Myftcries j 
Nor was this Foreign to the ChriAian Schools Secondly, The People of If 
rati when Mofes writ were of dull aod uncultivated UnderftaDding, nor fir for 
Natural Speculations cr Divine Contemplations. Thus much Manajfeh Ben 
Ifrael fays, and fq does Mofes Maimonidts. This he conceives to be the rta- 
fon why Mofes fo wrote the Hiflory of theCreatlon. Thirdly, Commenti:ors 
both Jews and Chriftians have afferted, That n any thing* in that Hiftory are 
not to beunderflood Literally but Allegorically : For this, befides V\,iio Judt- 
us 9 who makes it all Allegorical; and the Cabdifts^ whom he paiTes bv, he 
names R. Mofes E^yptivs for a folid Author ailerting it, and Jofephus ; as alfo 
AriftohulkSy quoted by Eu ft bius, who is of the fame Sentiment, as were ma- 
ny of the Chriftlan Fathers which he cites at large. Fourthly, As -co fuch as 
do nor adhere to the Literal Senfe, he admonifties them that they do. not ad- 
mit any thing unworthy of God or of our Religion. 
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