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Rh this Day, that I have bought all that was Elimelechs, and all that was Chilions, and Mahlons, of the Hand of Naomi: Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the Wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my Wife, to raise up the Name of the Dead upon his Inheritance: That the Name of the Dead be not cut off from among his Brethren, and from the Gate of his Place; ye are Witnesses this Day. Numb. xxxv 18. 19. ''If he smite him with an Hand Weapon of Wood, and he die, he is a Murderer; the Murderer shall surely be put to Death. The Kinsman Redeemer himself shall play the Murderer; when he meeteth him he shall slay him.''

Any Person who is not governed by the influence of Prejudice, will easily perceive by comparing this Account of a Kinsman Redeemer with Mr Boston's Account thereof, that if the Kinsman Redeemer was a Type of our Saviour, and our Lord fulfilled this Type, that he cannot be a Kinsman Redeemer to Mankind Sinners as such, and for these following Reasons. (1.) The People of Israel were not a Type of all Men, but only of the Church of Christ, which he was to plant in the Fulness of Time. (2.) The Office of Kinsman Redeemer, and the Privilege of Redemption belonged to the Seed of Abraham according to the Promise; for no Strangers who were not converted to the Jewish Religion were allowed this Privilege. (3.) The Kinsman Redeemer whoever he was, was obliged to do the