6,7. פלא יועץ אל גבור (2) 1897 Wonderful, Counsellor, [LXX, Μεγάλης βουλῆς ἄγγε og as Mal. 3, 1, óy The dad hung] the Mighty, the Potent one, the Father of the Age to come. [Vulgg. Pater futuri feculi. Compare Heb. 2, 5.] the Lord knew face to face. The Prædiction of Isaiah, (1) I. 9; is still clearer: (1) Unto Us a Child is born, unto Us a Son is given, and the Government shall be upon his shoulders ; and his name fhall be called (2) Wonderful, Counfeller, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace: Of the increase of his Government and Peace there fhall be no end, upon the Throne of David and upon his Kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from FOR EVER: The zeal of the (3) If.11; Lord of Hofts will perform this. Again: (3) There 7, 3, 6, 9. Shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, He fhall not judge after the fight of his Eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his Ears: But with righteousness shall be judge the Poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the Earth; and he Shall fmite the Earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the Breath of his Lips fhall he flay the Wicked. henceforth even The Wolf alfo fhall dwell with the Lamb, &c. -They shall not hurt nor deftroy in all my Holy Mountain; For the Earth fhall be full of the Knowledge of the Lord, as the Waters cover the Sea. And, (4)1 42; (4) Behold mine elect, in whom my Servant, Soul delighteth: I have put my Spirit upon him : A bruised reed shall he not break: He shall bring forth judgment unto Truth: I 3.4. Matt. 12, 17. my till he have fet judgment in the Earth, and the Ifles fhall wait for his Law. The Prophet Jeremiah no lefs plainly: (5) Jer.23; (5) I will raife unto David a righteous Branch, and a King fhall reign and profper, and shall execute judgment and juftice in the Earth: And This is his Name whereby he fhall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. And Ezekiel; 5,6. * ch. 33, 16, it is: In those days Ferufalem fhall dwell fafely; And This is the name wherewith fhe fall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. (1) I will fet up one Shepherd over them, and he shall (1) Ezek. Servant David; And I will 34; 23,25. 37; 22, One 23, 24, 25. neither shall they Hof. 3, 5. feed them, even ney : and (2) Hagg. 2; 6, 7, Heb. 12, 26. (3) The Shiloh, unto whom all the Gathering of the People be, Gen. 49, 10. (4) Zech. 9; 9, 10. Matt. 21, 5. vid shall be their Prince FOR EVER. By Haggai is the fame prædicted (2) Yet once it is a little while, and I will Jhake the Heavens and the Earth, And the (3) Defire of all Nations shall come. And by Zechary: (4) Behold, thy King cometh unto thee: He is just, and having Salvation; lowly, and riding upon an Afs, and upon a Colt the Fole of an Ass: He ball fpeak Peace unto the Heathen; and his Dominion fhall be from Sea even to Sea, and from the River even to the ends of the Earth. And by Malachi (3) The LORD whom ye feek, fhall (3) Mal. Suddenly come to his Temple; even the Messenger of 3, the Covenant. But most exprefly of all, by Daniel : (4) I Jaw in the night-visions, and behold, one like (5) The Son of Man, came with the Clouds of Heaven, and came to the Antient of days, and they brought him near before him: And there was given him Dominion, and Glory, and a Kingdom; that all People, Nations, and Languages fhould ferve him: His Dominion is an Everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away; and his Kingdom, that which shall not be destroyed. And the Anointing of the Holy One, this Prophet calls (6) the Sealing up of the Vision and Prophecy, and the finishing of Trans C (4) Dan. 7. 13, 14. to (5) With reference This it is, that Chrift in the Gospel perpetually ftiles himfelf THE Son of Man; and once, The Son of Man which is in [which in the Prophecy is defcribed as coming in the Clouds of] Heaven, John 3, 13. And fays to his Difciples, that they shall fee the Son of Man coming in the Clouds of Heaven, Matt. 24,30. And to the High-Prieft, that Hereafter ting on the right-hand of Power, ye shall fee the Son of Man fitand coming in the Clouds of Heaven, Matt. 26, 64. (6) Dan. 9, 24. greffion, greffion, and the making an end of Sins, and the making reconciliation for iniquity, and the bringing in Everlasting Righteousness. (Do all these things denote nothing but "Temporal Deliverance, "without the least imagination of a Spiritual "Deliverance?") And in the words next following, (1) Dan. he is ftyled by name, Meffiah: (1) Know therefore, [y Know Alfo] and understand, that from the going forth of the Commandment to restore and to build (2) Seven Ferufalem, unto the Meffiah the Prince, shall be Septena- (2) Seven Weeks. 9, 25. ries (or weeks) of Years, (as the word is used, Gen. 29, 27.) That is to fay, Forty nine Years; the number of Years appointed until the Jubilee, Levit. 25; 8, 9, 10. Concerning the Other Numbers of Daniel in this place, I fhall have occafion to fpeak presently. (3) Gen. 49; 8, 10. 10. Concerning this Meffiah, in the fetting up of whofe Kingdom All the Promites of God terminate, 'tis clearly prædicted in the Old Teftament, that he fhould arife particularly from the Tribe of Judah, from the Family of David, and in the Town of Bethlehem. The first of thefe particulars is expreffed in those emphatical words of Jacob: (3) Fudab, thou art he whom thy Brethren fhall praife, thy Fathers children fhall bow down before thee: The Scepter fhall not depart from Judah, nor a Lawgiver from between his Feet, untill Shiloh come, [LXX, sw, un end τὰ ἀποκείμθμα αυτῷ, till the accomplifhment of the Promises which God has laid up in ftore for him, and unto Him fall the gathering of the People be. To which the Writer of the Chronicles feems to (4)1 Ch. refer, when he fays: (4) The Genealogy is not to be reckoned after the Birth-right: For Judah prevailed above his Brethren, and of him came the chief Ruler, and from Him was it prophefied ולנגיד ממנו] (5) Pf. 6o. the Ruler fhould arife.] And the Pfalmift; (5) 7. 108, 8. Judah is my Lawgiver. The 4 μου, Rev. 3, 7. The fecond is expreffed in That Promise to David; (2) Thine House, and thy Kingdom shall be efta- (2) 2 Sam. blifhed for ever before thee, [LXX, vázión you, be- 7, 16. fore Me] Thy Throne fhall be established for ever. Which words might indeed, of themselves, be understood concerning a Succeffion, of Kings in the Houfe of David. But that God had a further and a greater Meaning in them, he very clearly explains by the following Prophets. By Ifaiah: (3) There (3) IC. fhall come forth a rod out of the Stem of Feffe, and 11, 1 &c. a Branch fhall grow out of his roots; And then follows, Compare through the whole chapter, a glorious defcription 5, 5. 22, of an everlasting Kingdom of Righteousness, over 16. both Jews and Gentiles. By Jeremiah: (4) I will (4) Jer. raife unto David a righteous Branch, and a King 23, 5. fhall reign and profper, and fhall execute Fudgment and Fultice in the Earth: Name, whereby he fhall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. By Ezekiel. (1) They shall be my people, and I will be their God: (1) Ezek. And David my fervant fhall be King over them; 37; 23. and they all fhall have one Shepherd: and my 24, 25, 26. Servant David fhall be their Prince FOR EVER ́: Mareover I will make a Covenant of peace with them, it fhall be an Everlasting Covenant. And by Hofea (2) The children of Ifrael fhall abide Many (2) Hof. Days without a King and without a Prince, and 3, 4. without a Sacrifice: Afterward feel the children of Ifrael return, and feek the Lord their God, and David their King; and fhall fear the Lord and his Goodness, in the LATTER days. And this is his 5 The third particular, is expreffed in thofe words of Micah: (3) But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though (3) Micah thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out 2. Matt. of thee ball He come forth unto me, that is to be 2, 6. Ruler in Ifrael: Whofe goings forth have been from old, from Everlafting. After the Paffages now ciced out of the foregoing Prophets, what can be 18.22, 18. 26, 4. 28. 14. (2) If. 11, 10. I, 6. Matt, 12, 18. more jejune, than to understand these words of Mi- I will II. In the Books of the Old Teftament 'tis exprefly predicted, that the Kingdom of the Meffiah fhould extend, not over the Jews only, but (1) Gen. alfo over the Gentiles. The (1) Promife made to 12, 3, 18. Abraham and fo often repeated to Him, and to Ifaac and to facob, that in Their Seed Should All the Nations of the Earth be bleffed; is thus opened and explained by the Prophets. (2) There hall be a root of Feffe, which shall stand for an Ensign of the People; To it fhall the Gentiles feek, and his (3) If. 42; Reft shall be glorious. (3) Behold my Servant -in whom my Soul delighteth; he shall bring forth Judgment to the Gentiles:give thee for a Covenant of the people, for (4) If.49, a Light of the Gentiles. (4) It is a light thing, that thou shouldest be my Servant to raise up the Tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preferved of Ifrael; I will also give thee for a Light to the Gentiles, that thou mayeft be my Salvation unto the End of the Earth. (1) Alfo the Sons of the Stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, even Them will I bring to my Holy Mountain, and mine House shall be called an Houfe of Prayer for All people. The Lord God, which gathereth the Out-cafts of Ifrael, faith; Yet will I gather Others to him, besides thofe that are gathered unto him. (2) The Strangers that fojourn among you, Shall have an Inheritance with (3) Ma'. 1, you among the Tribes of Ifrael. (3) From the Rising of the Sun even unto the going down of the fame, my Name Shall be great among the Gentiles; and in Every place, Incense shall be offered unto my Name, and a pure Offering; For my Name fhall be great among the Heathen, faith the Lord of Hofts. (1) If.56; 6,7 8. Joh. 10, 16. (2) Ezek. 47, 22. 12. Concerning the Same Meffiah, of whom fo great things are fpoken, and whofe Kingdom is to be 1 |