Description of the Foregoing Diagram.

Figure 1. The object of this is to illustrate what our author has said, namely, that if the Pentateuch, according to the Deists, be an Invention, a Forgery, written and put forth in comparatively the later times of Israel's history, this does away altogether with the five books of Moses, written by him, as we know, during the forty years in the wilderness, the record of Israel's deliverance from Egypt.

According to this, there was no such individual as Moses—no such event as the Exodus—no law—no memorials of God's ways with His people.

The whole, in short, is A Fable, and thus man is left in hopeless despair, without any light or revelation from God.

Figure 2 is the happy reverse of all this, showing these books to have been no forgery at all, but really written by Moses, every word of them proceeding out of the mouth of the Lord, the record of that page 44 which really happened, of the Exodus, of the Levitical ordinances in commemoration thereof, beginning, be it remembered, from the time of Israel's deliverance out of the hand of their oppressors. In the First of these cases no marks whatever are found, showing it all to be false and untenable; in the Second, the four marks are apparent, proving the whole to be true, and of God.