by Day[38], which sort of Vision is call’d Machazeh, or, Mareeh, or else by Night in a Dream, and this was call’d Hhalom, a Dream, or Hezyon Hallaiyelah, a Nocturnal Vision.  But what is either or both these to the Intuition of the Divine Presence?  There is as much Difference, as there is between a great Courtier and a Favourite, who when he pleases, enjoys the Presence of his Prince, and one who is now and then sent by him on an Errand.  And yet to such a degree of Enthusiasm have some gone, as our Author here in particular, and several more of the same strain in those former Ages, and the Quietists and other Mysticks and Enthusiasts in our times, that nothing will down with him less than the Intuition of the Divine-Being, and they despise Meditation[39], as a mean thing, and too much below one that aspires to Perfection.  And this, it seems, is attainable by Application and continued Exercise; whereby they have at once set all Mankind in a Capacity of out-doing infinitely the ancient Prophets, who if they had known any thing of this way, certainly would not have been so sparing of it in their Writings, especially when their Business was to labour for the Benefit and Instruction of Mankind.  But there is not one word in all their Writings which favours this Opinion, from whence we may safely conclude, that they had no such Notion; and yet it must not be in the least doubted, but that they were throughly acquainted with the Will of God, and knew more of his secret Counsel than any other Men in the World whatsoever.

Sec. 9.  It must needs be acknowledg’d by us Christians, as well as by the Jews, that Moses was, without Controversie, the the greatest Prophet that ever appear’d upon Earth before our Saviour’s time, and had the most frequent and greatest Revelations of the Divine Will.  For tho’ it was a singular Favour which God vouchsafed the other Prophets, in communicating to them some of the Secrets of his Purposes; yet Moses was the Man whom God chose to be the Instrument of the Deliverance of his People Israel, by such convincing Signs and Wonders, as were undeniable Evidences of the Divine Power by which they were wrought, and who was not only to be God’s Messenger to his People in some few Particulars, but the immediate Receiver of that Law, and all the Oeconomy, both Ecclesiastical and Civil, by which God’s People were to be governed without any Addition or Diminution, so many hundred Years, till the Coming of the promised Messias.  God himself bears Witness to this, Numb. xii. 6. If there be a Prophet among you, I the Lord will make my self known unto him in a Vision, and will speak unto him in a Dream.  My Servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine House.  With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark Speeches, and the Similitude of the Lord shall he behold.  Now Moses had not been faithful in God’s House, if he had not reveal’d