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[ i'i ] 
 
 THE 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 ^T^H E infinitely Wife aiid Gracious Author 
 of our Beings who hath indued us> with the 
 Faculty of communicating our thoughts to one 
 another^ hath been pleafedy at fundry Times, 
 and in divers Manners, to communicate his 
 Will to his fnfuly needy creatures. 
 
 To deny the Poffibility of GOD' s doing 
 thisy is to deny his Power. — He that planted 
 the Ear^ f:all he not hear ? — He that formed 
 the Eyey fhall he not fee ? To deny the Pro- 
 bability of ity on fitting Occafons, (of which 
 Occafions He, and He alone is the Judge,) is 
 to deny his Goodnefs. — Andy againjl Evidencey 
 to deny the Reality of /V, is to deny his Vera- 
 city. — It is to Jin againjl G O D -, and it is 
 to fn againjl Man: inafmuch as it attempt Sy 
 vainly y and impioufly attempts, to invalidate the 
 Authority of Tejlimonyy Divine and Human. 
 -— Nayy by fuch irrationaly perverfe Behaviour^ 
 
 Men 
 
[ iv ] 
 
 Man fim againJI H'lmklf: Jif7ce, hy believing 
 nothing but what falls under the Cognizance of 
 his own Senfes ; — by denying the Authority of 
 moral Evidence, he renders himjelf unfit, and^ 
 to fay the "Truths unworthy to be a Member of 
 Civil Society. — He excludes himjelf alfo, on 
 his own Principles, from the Pleafure and 
 Profit of Hiftorical Narrations, ancient and 
 modern, foreign and domeftic. 
 
 The Revelation, which the Sovereign Pro- 
 prietor, and Ruler of the Univerfe hath 
 vouchfafed to make to Mankind^ for Reafons in- 
 finitely Wife and Good^ is committed to Writ- 
 ing. 
 
 In thefe divinely-infpired Writings is con- 
 tained the DoBrine concerning the Divine 
 Essence. 
 
 Whether this DoBrine hath been colIe6led in 
 the enfuing Sheets with Fidelity Jrom the lloXf 
 Scriptures, is fnbmitted to the calm, difpaflio- 
 nate Judgment of the ferious, and candid 
 Reader. 
 
 SCRIP- 
 
# 
 
 SCRIPTURE 
 
 INTERPRETED BY 
 
 SCRIPTURE, &c. 
 
 WHEN the Fulnefs of Time 
 was come, that the Pofte- 
 rity of Abraham were to be deliver- 
 ed from the ignominious Yoke of 
 'Egyptian Slavery ; it pleafed J e- 
 HOVAH, not only to impart this moft 
 fignal Mercy unto Mofes^ (who at 
 that Time kept the Flock of JethrOj 
 his Father in Law, the Pi^kjl^ or 
 Prince of Midian^) but alfo to ap- 
 point Him to be the Leader of his 
 People out of the Houfe of Bondage. 
 
 B la 
 
[ 2 ] 
 
 In Obedience to the Divine Com- 
 mand, Mofes^ With y^ar on his Brother, 
 we^tt unto Pharaoh^ and /pake unto 
 him^ faying^ Thus faith the Lord, Let 
 my People go^ that they 7nay hold a 
 Fcaji tmto me in the Wilder7tefs^ Exod. 
 V. I. This Demand was repeatedly 
 refufed, and as often pnniflied with 
 miraculous Tokens of Divine Difplea- 
 fure ; till at length thcfe dreadful Af- 
 flidions terminated in the Death of 
 all the Firf'bom ; from the Fir/i'bor?^ 
 of Pharaoh^ that fat on the Thro7ie^ 
 unto the Firfi-born of the Captive that 
 was in the Dungeon : and of all the 
 Firfl-born of Cattle^ xii. 29. After 
 this, the Ifraelites were fent haftily 
 away. '' Yet while the Fgyptiai^s 
 *' were mourning, and making La- 
 " mentations at the Graves of tl\e 
 " Dead ; they added another foolifh 
 ^^ Device, ^nd purfged Them as Fu- 
 gitives^ 
 
[ 3 3 
 
 ^' gitives, whom they had intreated 
 ^* to be gone. " 
 
 When it had been told to the 
 King of Egypt that the People fled, 
 Pharaoh made ready his Chariot^ and 
 took his People with him ; ajid he took 
 Jix hundred chofen Chariots^ a?id all 
 the Chariots of Egypty and Captains 
 over every o?ie of them^ Exod. xiv. 
 5, 6, 7. And the Egyptians purfued 
 after the Ifraelites^ and overtook them 
 incamping by the Sea^ ver. 9. Then 
 MofeSy by the Command of Jeho- 
 VAH, fir etched out his Hand over 
 the Sea ; and "Jehovah caufed the Sea 
 to go back by a flrong Eafl Wind 
 all that Night ; and the Ifraelites 
 went into the midjl of the Sea upon 
 the dry Grotmd^ ver. 21, 22. The 
 Egyptians^ aflaying to do this, were 
 drowned^ ver. 28. the Sea covered 
 B 2 them 
 
[ 4 ] 
 
 them : theyfank as Lead in the mighty 
 Waters — But notwithftanding this 
 moft fignal Deliverance, for which 
 they jf^aJig Praifes u?tto the God of 
 their Salvation ; yet, within a while ^ 
 they for gat his Works ^ — a7id murmur- 
 ed for want of Bread, Mofes then 
 gave them this AfTurance. -^ In the 
 Evening Jehovah will give you FkfJj 
 to eaty and in the Mor?nng ye foall 
 have Bread to the full In the Even- 
 ing the flails cafne upy and in the 
 Morning the Dew lay round about the 
 Hojl. And when the Dew was gone 
 up^ behold! upon the Face of the Wild- 
 er7tefs^ there lay a fmall rou72d Thi?7gy 
 as fmall as the Hoar-Frofl on the 
 Ground. And Mofes [aid unto the7ny 
 This is the Breads which Jehovah hath 
 give7z you to eat^ Exod. xvi. 
 
 With 
 
C 5 ] 
 
 With this Bread they were fuf- 
 tained Forty Years in the Wilder- 
 nefs. It fell on the Ground fix 
 Days fuccelli^ely in every Week. On 
 the Seventh Day it did not £dl. ---^ 
 Mofes charged the People to gather 
 a double Portion of it on the fiixth 
 Day, for the Ufe of the Seventh^ 
 which was the Sabbath-'D^y. If any 
 of it was referved till the Day fo-- 
 lowing^ on any other Day of the 
 Week, except the fixth Day, it bred 
 TVorms^ and fiank. Thefe fupcrna- 
 tural Effeds, foretold by M^feSy were 
 Witneffes of the Truth of his Mif- 
 fion, and continued to be fo, not 
 for a Week^ or a Mo7ithy or a Year^ 
 but for forty Years fucceffively. 
 
 And previoufly to the Entrance of 
 
 the I/raelites into the Land of Pro- 
 
 xnife, an Omeroi this Food from Hea- 
 
 B 3 ven 
 
[ 6 ] 
 
 ve7i was commanded by Jehovah 
 to be gathered, and laid up for a 
 Memorial^ (ven 33.) unto diftant Ge- 
 nerations, of the Power of God; — 
 of the Watchfulnefs of his Provi- 
 dence over his People ; — and of the 
 Veracity of his Servant. 
 
 Another Evidence of the Divine 
 Legation of Mofes^ feleded out of 
 many, which may be alleged, is 
 drawn from the foretold Judgment, 
 which fuddenly fell on Korah, Da- 
 than^ and Abit^am^ and their AlTo- 
 ciates in the Sin of Sedition. — Con- 
 cerning the Pretences of thefe Op- 
 pofers of his Authority, Mofes refts 
 the Matter on this lliort, tremend- 
 ous IiTue :-— 7/* thefe Men^ faith he, 
 die the common Death of all Men^ 
 or if they be vifited after the Fifta- 
 tion of all Men-^ then the Lord 
 
 hath 
 
[ 7 ] 
 
 hath not fe7tt 7ne, But if the \, o r d 
 make a new "Thmg^ and the Earth 
 open her Mouthy a?id fwallow them 
 tip^ with all that appertain unto them^ 
 aitd they go down quick into the Pit ; 
 then Te fhall uftderjiajid^ that thefe 
 
 Men have provoked the Lor d ~- 
 
 As Mofes had made an End of [peak- 
 i7ig all thefe JVords^ — the Groined 
 clave afmder^ that was under thern^ 
 and the Earth opened her Mouthy 
 and fwallowed them up^ and their 
 Houfes ; and all the Men^ that ap- 
 pertai7ted tmto the7n^ went dow7i alive 
 into the Pit : y^nd the Earth clo/ed 
 upo7i the7ny and they periJJjed from 
 a7nong the Congregation. -—A7id there 
 came Fire fro7n the Lord, and con- 
 fumed the two hundred and fifty 
 Men that offered l7Ke72fe^ Numb. xvi. 
 
 B 4 Thefe 
 
[ 8 J 
 
 Thefe Inftances clearly evince that 
 the hegation of Mofes was divine,—^ 
 Is it to be imagined, that any Man 
 in his right Senfes, who meant to play 
 the Knave, would pitch on the above 
 mentioned Criterions of his Veracity, 
 by them to play the Fool, and to be- 
 come the certain, immediate Difco- 
 verer of his own Knavery ? 
 
 The tw^o following Proofs, that 
 Mofes did not come of himfelf but 
 that he was fent from Him, before 
 whom are open all Things, — pafl:, 
 prefent, and to come, have refpedt 
 to his Pofthumous Charader ; and 
 they are taken from Exodus xxxiv. 
 23,24. 2iV\di Detiterono7ny xvnu 15— 
 18,19. "Jlorice in the Tear fhall all 
 your Male Children appear before the 
 Lord God, the God of IfraeL-— 
 Aujd to 'preferve their Minds from 
 
 Anxiety 
 
[ 9 ] 
 
 Anxiety concerning h^vaftoiis, dur- 
 ing thefe folemnj ftated Feafts: the 
 God of Truth was pleafed to give 
 them this exprefs Promife by Mofes 
 his Servant. / will caji out the Na- 
 tio7is before theCy and enlarge thy 
 Borders : neither pall any Man de- 
 fire thy Landy when thou fij alt go to 
 appear before the Lord thy God^ 
 thrice in the Tear. The other Pre- 
 didtion relates to the promifed ikf^ 
 fi.ahy (Ads iii. 22523.) and is in thefe 
 Words^ — T^he Lord thy God will 
 raife up U72to thee a Prophet from the 
 jnidfi of theej of thy Brethre7ty like 
 unto ine^ uiUo Him JJoali ye hearke7t. 
 And he declares the fame Thing as 
 from Jehovah himfelf, in the V/ords 
 following : / will raife them tip a 
 Prophet fro7n a7nong their Brethren j 
 like u?:to thee ; a77d will put 772y Words 
 in his Mouth ; and He fjall fpeak 
 
 U77tO 
 
[ lO ] 
 
 unto them all that I JJjall command 
 him. — And it Jhall come to pafs^ that 
 whofoever will ?iot hearken u77to my 
 Words^ which he pall /peak in my 
 Namey I will require it of him. 
 
 To proceed : The Ifraelites re- 
 ceived from this their vidorious, re- 
 nowned Leader, this faithful Servant 
 of the moft High G o d, a Body of 
 Laws ; by due Obfervance of which, 
 they would be preferved in theWor- 
 fhip of Jehovah, the one, living 
 and true God; and ^ kept as in a 
 defenced Caftle, fhut up unto the 
 Faith, which fliould afterward be re- 
 vealed. [GaL\\\,2i^) They were to 
 he a People that were to dwell alone : 
 They were not to he reckoned among 
 the Nations^ Numb, xxiii. 9, 
 
 Again, 
 
[ " ] 
 
 Again, He that was a Leader^ a 
 Prophet^ a Legijator^ was alfo a di- 
 vinely- in fpircd Hijioria?^. '--To Him, 
 under God, we are indebted for an 
 Account of the Creation, — of the 
 Apoftafy of Man from the Will of 
 his Creator, — of his Reftoration, — 
 of the Deluge, — of the Repeopling 
 the Earth, — of the Confufion of 
 Tongues, — of the Calling of Abrafn^ 
 — and of many other important Par- 
 ticulars. 
 
 The Writings o^Mofes^ unto whom 
 God /pale Face to Face^ as a Majz 
 fpeaketh to his Frie7id^ (Exod. xxxiii. 
 II.) open with the fundamental 
 Dodrine of a First Cause, ex- 
 preffed thus; — In the Beginnings 
 El o HIM, He created the Heavens^ 
 and the Fai^th. — It is obfervable, 
 that this Mode of Speech, a Noun 
 
 Plural 
 
[ 12 ] 
 
 Plural joined to a Verb Singular, is 
 repeated above twenty times fuccef- 
 fively within a fmall Compafs. Ad- 
 mitting this to be an Idiom of the 
 Hebrew Tongue, it may be affirmed, 
 that it appears in this Place to have 
 been defigned to convey fomo - plain 
 Intimation of Plurality of Some- 
 WHATS, which, for want of a fitter 
 Word, are termed Persons, in the 
 Divine EJfe?Ke. The Probability that 
 this Idiom is not deflitute of the 
 Meaning juR: mentioned, is ftrength- 
 ened not a little, by what follows, at 
 Verfe the twenty Jixth : — E l o h i M, 
 He /aid ^ Let US make Ma7t in OUR 
 hnage^ after OUR Like^tefs. And, 
 if thefe laft- cited Words fliould be 
 interpreted in either of thele Ways, 
 namely, (i ) that the Creator is here 
 reprefented, as fummoning his ^n- 
 gelsy (who, by the Way, are not once 
 
 mentioned 
 
[ 13 1 
 
 mentioned throughout the whole Nar- 
 ration,) as Coadjutors in the Work of 
 the Formation of Man : Or, (2.) that 
 they are fpoken after the manner of 
 Sovereign Princes, who are wont to 
 fpeak of themfelves in the Plural 
 Number : It is anfwcred as followeth; 
 — As to the firft Interpretation, name- 
 ly, that the Angels are reprefented 
 as Coadjutors with the Creator in the 
 Formation of Man, let the Words 
 imnoediately following [Gen/\. 27.) 
 be attended to. — So E l o h i m, He 
 created Ma?t in his own Image : in 
 the Image of E l o h i m, created He 
 him : Male and Female created He 
 them. And to fhew that this laft 
 Verfe is to be underftood of the Cre- 
 ator alone, the following Paflages are 
 produced. — Who hath direSied the 
 Spirit of the Lord? or^ being his 
 Counfellor^ hath taught him P With 
 
 whom 
 
[ 14 ] 
 
 ^mhom took He counfel^ and who hath 
 wJiruSied hi?n^ and taught htm in 
 the Path of Judgment y and pewed td 
 him the Way of Ujiderfiajidi^tg ? — • 
 Again, T^hus faith the Lord, thy 
 Redeemer^ and He that formed thee 
 from the Wofnb : I am the Lord, 
 that maketh all things \ that flretch- 
 eth forth the Heavens alone ; thai 
 fpreadeth abroad the Earth by my- 
 felf, Ifaiah xL 13, 14. chap. xliv. 24, 
 — And as to the fecond Interpreta- 
 tion, taken from the Cuftom of So- 
 vereign Princes fpeaking of themfelves 
 in the Plural Number, this appears 
 M / to have been a Stjle unknown in the: 
 ^ Time of MofeSy and for many Ages 
 after him. — The Words of the haugh- 
 ty Pharaoh are, — fFho is the Lord^ 
 that I fhould obey his Voice f I knoijd 
 not the Lord, neither will I let If 
 rael go. And even fo low down as 
 
 the 
 
[ 'S ] 
 
 the Time of Daniel^ Nebuchadnez- 
 zar faith, — I was at Refl in my 
 Houfe^—-! faw a Dream^ which made 
 me afraid, — I 7nake a Decree^ &c. 
 And King Darius^ in his Decree, 
 fpeaketh in the fame Stlie, Daniel iv. V. 
 4, 5 J 6. Chap. vi. 2&, ' 
 
 But if the tv/o Exprellions cited 
 from the Beginning of the Mofaic 
 Writings fhould fail of convincing, 
 that they were intended to give plain 
 Intimation of PluraHty in the Divine 
 Unity, let us attend to a third, even 
 to the Words of Jehovah, (Chap, 
 iii. 2 2.) Behold! the Man is become 
 as one of \}^. — Now that it may 
 be feen more clearly, in vi^hat manner 
 the two latter Expreflions caft In- 
 creafe of Light on the former, thev 
 are prefented in one View : Elohim, 
 He created the Heavens^and the Earth. 
 
 ->Elo- 
 
[ '6 ] 
 
 —• ^ E L o H I My He /atdj Let US make 
 Ma7t i7t our Image^ after our hike- 
 nefs. — Jehovah Elohim faidy Be- 
 hold ! the Man is become as one of 
 US. — With regard to the firfl Ex- 
 prelTion, if it be refolved into a Mode 
 of Speech pecuh'ar to the Language 
 in which it was originally written ; 
 t\itfeco?id introduceth E lo h i m fpeak- 
 ing in the Plural Number. And to 
 prevent this from being refolved into 
 human Cuftom, in the lafi Place, 
 Jehovah Elohim plainly declar- 
 eth, that He, who in fome Refpedl 
 is Oney in another Refpeft is more 
 than One. This is manifeft from the: 
 Words, — the Man is become as one 
 
 ./us. 
 
 But, in order to prevent thefe Ex- 
 preffions from being given in Evi- 
 dence, that they convey plain Inti- 
 mations 
 
[ 17 ] 
 
 mations of Plurality in the Divine 
 Unity; it is urged, that the Word Elo- 
 HIM, is applied in fome Places of Holy 
 Writ to a Single Perfon, inverted with 
 Authority.— Anfwer to this is afforded 
 by the Scriptures ; which, though they 
 fometimes fpeak of a Single Perfon 
 under the Title of Elohim; yet, to 
 fhew that, when it is apphed to 
 God, it giveth Intimation of fnore 
 than One Perfon in the GodheaDj 
 the following Texts are placed toge- 
 ther. — E L o H I M, * They catifed me 
 to wander. -- Elohim, They ap- 
 peared imto me, — What Natio7t is 
 there fo Great^ whofe Elohim are 
 fo near wtto them^ as Elohim Noflri^ 
 Our Elohim, in all Things that we 
 call upon Him for f — Te canjtot 
 
 C ferve 
 
 * Kidder's Demonflrtltiori of the Mefilah, 
 Part III. Pao-e 8i, 
 
[ i8 ] 
 
 ferve J e ho v a h, for He isElohim 
 Sanfti, Holj Elohim. 
 
 By thefe Tex^s are fet forth Plu- 
 rality in Unity, and Unity in Plu- 
 rality, Gen. XX. 13, Chap. xxxv. y,- 
 Deut. \\\ 7. — Unto thefe let the two 
 following be added : -- If thou fecfi 
 the Opprejft07i. of the Poor^ and vio- 
 lent perverting of yudgme?2t and 
 'Juftice i?i a Province ; marvel not 
 at the Matter : for He that is high- 
 er than the Highef regardeth^ and 
 there are Higher than they, — Je- 
 hovah is the E L o H I M of T'riith. 
 He is El OK I m Viventes, the Living 
 E L o H I Ai, and ajt everlafling King : 
 At his Wrath the Earth pall trem- 
 ble^ and the Nations fhall not he able 
 to abide his Indignation. — Then is 
 added, in the Chaldcean Language, 
 (T^htLS Jhall ye fay U77to the7n^ The 
 
 Gods 
 
[ ^9 ] 
 
 Gads (oppofed to the living and true 
 E L o H I m) that have not made the 
 Heavens^ and the Earthy eve?t they 
 pall per ijh fropi the Earthy and from 
 tender thefe Heave7is.) Ecclcs. v. 8. 
 Jer. X. lo, II* 
 
 In the firfi of thefe Paflages, the 
 true E L o H I M is fpoken or in the 
 Plural Number, as being higher than 
 the Highefl: And in the laft, the 
 E L o H I M of Truth are oppofed in 
 the cleareft and ftrongeft manner to 
 the falfe E l o h i m of the Gentiles 
 in general, and to thofe of the Ba- 
 bylonians in particular. And when 
 another moft important PaiTage in 
 the Beginning of the Mofaic Writ- 
 ings comes under Confideration, it 
 is- believed, that from it will be de- 
 rived Certai7ity^ that the three Ex- 
 prejfw7is above- cited were deftgned to 
 c 2 convey 
 
[ 20 ] 
 
 convey plain Intimations or Plurality 
 in the Divine Unity. 
 
 How long the Spirits who revolt- 
 ed from their Duty continued in a 
 
 State of Integrity ; what Length 
 
 of Time intervened between the firft 
 Beginning of their Remiffnefs in 
 Obedience to, and final Apoftafy 
 from, and Rebellion againft the Will 
 of thtir Almighty Creator : — How 
 long the Interval between their Ban- 
 ifliment from that Part of the Uni- 
 verfe, called in Scripture their own 
 Habitations,*^ and their Intrtifion into 
 this Earth : — Thefe, and multitudes 
 of fucli Qtieftions as thefe, (into 
 Vi^hich it is no Part of our Duty to 
 be prying) can be productive of no 
 other Difcovery, than that of the 
 Weaknefs of the Inquirer. — Be the 
 Intervals what they may ; one Thing 
 
 VvC 
 
[ 21 ] 
 
 we may be aflured of, — tlie Sight of 
 Happinefs in Others, would be In- 
 creafe of Torment to thefe mab'gnant 
 Spirits. Envy would incite them to 
 combine in plotting Definition to the 
 Objeds of their Envy. An Event by 
 no other Means to be accompliilied, 
 than by alluring them out of their 
 State of Integrity, into a State of 
 Guilt. 
 
 Whether Fallacies of various Sorts 
 had not been propofed by them to 
 our firft Parents, previoufiy to the 
 moft dreadfully fuceefsfiri one, we are 
 not informed. Suppofing that Temp- 
 tations, under different Appearances, 
 had been often applied ; thefe Defeats 
 would not have difcouraged ruined 
 Creatures, bent on Mifchief, from re- 
 newing the Attack. — Thus, St Luke 
 informs us, that, when the Devil had 
 c 3 ended 
 
[ 22 ] 
 
 ended all his Temptations of the Se-- 
 cond Adam^ he left Him, it is true, 
 but it was only for a Seafon. Chap. 
 iv. 13. 
 
 With regard to the Party firjl t7i the 
 ^ranfgrejfto?^ we find, that She fe- 
 duced Adam (fuch is the Nature of 
 Bin^ the Plague of the Soul ! j to be- 
 come Partner with her in Guilt. — 
 With her alfo he did eat ; — and was 
 Undone. — - What is now become of 
 the unfpeakably-dclightful Contem- 
 plation of the Pov/er, the Wifdom, 
 the Goodnefs of tlie Creator, mani- 
 fefted in his Works? — Where is the 
 Voice of Melody, of Praifcs, and 
 Thankfgivings to the Almighty Lord, 
 in whom they lived-i moved^ and had 
 their Being P Where are now the 
 Joys of a Confciefice void of Offence ? 
 Where the refined Pleafures refulting 
 
 from 
 
[ 23 ] 
 
 from Friendfliip and Society ? — All 
 fled with Innocence! The glorious 
 Prelence of their God, once fo de- 
 lightful to their Minds, becomes their 
 Dread. They hear his Voice : They 
 run to a Thicket, as unto a Hidinp-- 
 Place from Him, whnfe Eyes are ten 
 thoufaiid times brighter tha?t the Sim. 
 This Circumftance, implying more 
 than is exprefled, like many other 
 Hints of Holy Writ^ conveys a Lef- 
 fon of important Inftrudion. — Doth 
 any one doubt of the different State of 
 Humait Nature^ that is to fay, of the 
 Parents of Human Kind^ before^ and 
 after their Tranfgreffion ? — Let him 
 diligently compare what MrJ'es relates 
 concerning the Sagacity of yldam^ by 
 the Appointment of God, adapting 
 Na^nes to all Cattle^ and to the Fowl 
 of the Air^ and to every Beafl of the 
 tield^ with his Attempt to hide him- 
 c 4 felf 
 
[ 24 ] 
 
 felf from the Prefcnce of Him that 
 made him: Let him then, if he can, 
 deny the Lofs of Wtjdofn with the 
 Lofs of hitegrky. — Can any hide 
 himfelf in fecret Places^ that I Jfjall 
 7Wt fee him P faith the Lor d, Jer. 
 xxiii. 24. 
 
 When Jehovah is reprefented, in 
 Condefcenfion to our Capacity, as 
 coming down from Heaven to judge 
 the Delinquents ; we find, to our un- 
 fpeakable and endlefs Comfort, that, 
 in the midft of Judgment, He thought 
 on Mercy. Qzx\, iii. 14, 15. Jeho- 
 vah IB^houiu faid unto the Serpent \ 
 Becaufe thou hafl done this^ thou art 
 curfed above all Cattle^ and above 
 every Beafi of the Field : Up07t thy 
 Belly jloalt thou go^ a?2d Du/i fjalt 
 thou eat all the Days of thy Life.— 
 And I will put Enmity between thee^ 
 
 a?7d 
 
[ 25 ] 
 
 and the Woman \ and hetween thy 
 Seed^ a72d her Seed : It shall bruise 
 
 THY HEAD, AND THOU SHALT BRUISE 
 
 HIS HEEL. — In this divine Sentence 
 are comprehended, (i.) The Degra- 
 dation of the Inftrument of this 
 deadly Mifchief, (6^^^ Exod. xxi. 28.) 
 from a Sarph^ — a Creature erecl, biir- 
 niflied, beautiful, to a creeping Thing, 
 that licks the Duft. (2 ) 1 he mu- 
 tual Dread, and Antipathy, between 
 the human and ferpentine Kind. 
 (3.) The Contrariety of Affeftions, 
 and Deiires between the Children of 
 God, and the Children of th- wick- 
 ed One. (4) The final Vidory, by 
 Sufferings, of the Seed q'[ the Wo- 
 MAN over the old Serpent, the De- 
 vil, and Satan. (5.) And laftly, by 
 tracing the Prophecies concernino- 
 Him, who is here called the Seed 
 of the Woman, unto the Time of 
 their Accomplifliment in Him ; it is 
 
 believed, 
 
[ 26 ] 
 
 believed, that clear Evidence v^ill 
 arife, that He is One of the Ferfons 
 plainly intimated by Mofes^ to be in 
 the Divine Efience. 
 
 The Religion of Man, after his 
 Defection from the declared Will of 
 his Creator, unto the Coming of the 
 promifed Seed, feems plainly to have 
 confi-fted in the Worlhip of Jehovah 
 by Sacrifice. The ProbabiHty, that 
 this Mode of religious Vv^or{l:iip w^as 
 of divine Inftitution, appears from 
 the following InPcances. — Firft, it is 
 faid. Gen. iii. 21. that uiUo Adam^ 
 and to his Wife^ Jehovah Elohim 
 made Coats of Skins^ and cloathed 
 them. 
 
 As the Grant of Animal Food w^as 
 not made till after the Deluge, it 
 feems clearly allowable to fuppofc, 
 that the i^kino of thofe Beafts, which , 
 
 ui^aS^ J%t77S^ by 
 
[ 27 ] 
 
 by divine Appointment, were Cloath- 
 ing to cur iirft Parents, had been of- 
 fered by them, in Obedience to the 
 Command of Jehovah^ as vicarious 
 Sacrifices. — Secondly, the two Sons 
 of Adam^ Cai?t and ^^^/, broiiglit 
 each of them an Oiiering unto Je- 
 hovah. — The former brought of the 
 Fruit of the Grou7id ; the latter of the 
 Firfllings of his Flocky and of the Fat 
 thereof, A7^d^ Jehovah had refpcEi 
 unto Ahel^ and to his Offering ; hut 
 unto Cain^ a?id to his Offerings He 
 had not refpeSi^ Gen. iv. 4, 5. — God, 
 who is no RefpeBer of Perfo?^s, but he 
 that feareth him^ and wo7'keth Righ- 
 teoufnefs^ is accepted imith him^ had 
 refped unto the Perfon and Offerincr 
 of Abel^ but unto the Perfon and Of- 
 fering of Cain^ he had not refped. 
 The Reafon of this Diftindion is giv- 
 en by St Pauly in his Epiflle to the 
 Hebrews^ Chap. xi. 4. By Faith Abel 
 
 offered 
 
[ 28 ] 
 
 offered unto God, TfMioiicL S-v(riciV, (^ 
 more excelle?tt Sacrifice than Cain : 
 a Sacrifice moxt fuUy expreffive of his 
 Faith in, and Love of G o d : He of- 
 fered it with better Heart, and bet- 
 ter Mind, more liberally, and with 
 greater Regard to the divine Appoint- 
 ment concerning Sacrifices^ than did 
 his Brother. 
 
 Thirdly, it is faid, (G'^;7. vii. 2. ) 
 that Noah was commanded to take 
 with him into the Ark, ofi every clean 
 Eea/i by Sevens, and ofi every Beafi 
 that was not clean, by Two.— This 
 Diftindion between Eeafts, clean and 
 tmclean^ feems plainly to have had its 
 Origin, not from the Will of Man, 
 but from the Will of God. 
 
 From the Line of Seth^ the Subfti- 
 tute of righteous Abel^ defcended 
 Noah^ the Preacher ofi Right eoufinejs^ 
 
 Heir 
 
[ 29 ] 
 
 Heir of the Righteoufnefs which is hy 
 Faith. The Life of this eminently- 
 pious Patriarchy (bright Example of 
 Religion and Virtue to a carelefs 
 World!) was prolonged after the De- 
 luge, beyond the Time of the Birth of 
 Abram. This renowned Convert from 
 Idolatry had his Name changed, by 
 theexprefs Command of God, into 
 Abraham \ itiaf ranch as he was to be 
 the Father of many Nations, — When 
 this Father of the Faithful^ this Friend 
 of GoDj (a Title conferred on him 
 by the eternal Fountain of Honour, 
 2 Chron. XX. 7. Ifaiah xli. 8. James 
 ii. 23.) had been exercifed, during a 
 Series of many Years, in A6ls of Faith 
 and Obedience ; and when the moft 
 tender Feelings of Nature could not 
 obdrudt him in paying ready, and 
 willing Obedience to the divine Com- 
 mand; Jehovah fpake to him, and 
 faid, (Ge7t, xxii. 1 6, 1 7, 1 8.^ By My- 
 
 M 
 
[ 30 J 
 
 felf have I fworn ; — for hecaufe thoti 
 hafi do?ie this Thiitg^ and hafl not 
 'Withheld thy Son^ thine only So?^ from 
 me : that in Blejft72g^ I will blefs thee \ 
 and in Multiplying^ I will multiply 
 thy Seed, as the Stars of Heaven^ and 
 as the Sa?td which is upoit the Sea- 
 foore : And thy Seed pall pojfefs the 
 Gate of his E?2emies : And in thy 
 Seed, ( which is C H R I S T, A^s iii, 
 
 25,26. Gal. iii. 16. j SHALL ALL THE 
 
 Nations of the Earth be blessed. 
 The latter Part of this moft gracious 
 Promife was voiichfafed, at three dif- 
 ferent Times, unto Abraham ; was re- 
 peated \xvilo Ifaac\ and likewife unto 
 Jacob ; out of whom a S t a r fhould 
 come\ — a Sceptre foould rife : out 
 of whom (Jjould He come^ that fhould 
 have the Dominion^ a?7d Jhould defiroy 
 him that remaineth of the City, Numb. 
 xxiv^. I 7—19. 
 
 Through 
 
C 31 ] 
 
 Through the Influence of the Fpi- 
 tit of Prophecy, the laft-mentioned 
 venerable^ aged Patriarchy was ina- 
 bled to point out th^ particular Trihe^ 
 out of which this Star fhould come, 
 this Sceptre fhould rife. — T'he Scep- 
 tre^ faith he, pall not depart from 
 Judah, ?tor a Lawgiver fro77t betweeji 
 his Feet^ until Shiloh come : and 
 unto Him fjall the Gathering of the 
 People be^ G^n. xlix. lo. 
 
 In Procefs of Time, the particular 
 Family of this Tribe, and the parti-^ 
 cular Perfon of this Family, was fin- 
 gled out, from whom H e that fhould 
 have the Dominion was to be defcend- 
 ed. — Davidy tht youngell: of the eight 
 Sons of yejfcy in Obedience to the 
 Command of G o d, was anointed by 
 Samuel the Prophet^ to be the King 
 of Ifrael. Unto him Je h o v a h fware 
 by Himfelf; that of the Fruit of his 
 
 Loins 
 
[ 32 ] 
 
 Loi?2s He ivould raife up One, (that 
 is, CHRIST, Aas\\.io.) to fit on 
 his Throne^ which fidould be efiablifijed 
 for ever^ Pfalm Ixxxix. 35)36,37.—- 
 Once have Ifworn by my HoUnefs^ that 
 I will not lie unto David. His Seed 
 fijall endure for ever^ and his T'hrone 
 as the Sun before 7ne, It fhall be efia- 
 hlifoed for ever as the Moon^ and as a 
 faithful Witnefs m Heaven. 
 
 In the Line o{ Solomon^ David\ Son 
 and Succeffor in the Throne, the Scep- 
 tre v/as continued, through feveral Ge- 
 nerations, unto Ahaz. In his Reign, 
 a powerful Alliance was formed a- 
 gainft the Kingdom o^ Judah^ by two 
 neighbouring Kings ; by Pekah^ King 
 of Ifrael^ and by Rezin^ King of Sy- 
 ria. — 1 hefe Confederates agreed to 
 go up agai72fi Judahy and to vex ity 
 and to 7nake a Breach therein for them- 
 felves^ a?td to fet up a King in the 
 
 midfi 
 
t 33 i 
 
 midjl of itj even the So^t of Tahealy 
 Ifaiali vii. 6. In this Day of Darknefs, 
 of Gloominefs, and of thick Darknefs 
 all Counfel, fettled on the one fure 
 Foundation, whereon all human Coun- 
 fels ought invariably to reft, (the Fear 
 of G o D ^, and filial Truft in his Pro- 
 teftion,) was gone. — Inftead of hum- 
 ble, fervent Supplications to the Lord, 
 the G o D of Ifraely for his Bleffing on 
 the neceflary Means of Defence, — the 
 Heart of Ahaz^ and the Heart of his 
 People (in the beautiful Imagery of the 
 Sacred Writings) was moved as the Trees 
 of the Wood are moved by the Wind^ 
 Ifaiah viL 2. — Such was the diftrefled 
 Condition, fuch the fluduating Coun- 
 fels of the King and his People; when 
 the illuftrious Ifaiah^ (Illuftrious by 
 D Birth^ 
 
 * " Firll Care belongs to firfl Things." . 
 
 Public Societies, as well as Individuals, are re- 
 minded, not infrequently, of the Offence offered 
 to the Majefty on High, by fraElical Contempt 
 of this felf-evident Propolition. 
 
[ 34 J 
 
 Blrth>, but much more lUuftrious by 
 Office y) wa^ commanded t^ take with 
 him Shear-jafliub, his Son^ a7id to meet 
 Ahaz. at the End of the Co?tduit of 
 the upper P ool of the Fuller s Field. — 
 The Prophet had it in. Charge^ to give 
 Affu ranee to the King, by aay mira- 
 culous Token which he fliould choofey 
 that the evil Couifel of Peliahy and of 
 Reziriy fjould not fla?id^ nor come to 
 pafs. — The dis-ipirited Ahaz refufed 
 this moft gracious Offer. — Notwith- 
 jftanding this Provocation, Jehovah 
 himrelf vouchiafed to give him a Sign. 
 Behold ! A Virgin pall conceive^ and 
 bmr a Sm^ and fhall call his^ Name 
 Im MANUEL. Butter (rather Milk) 
 oj^d Hmtey fball H e eat^ that (rather 
 till) H E pall know to refufe the Evily 
 and choofe the Good. But before ^ this 
 Child pall know to refufe the Evil^ 
 and choofe the Good^ the Land which 
 
 thou 
 * «Sfd Kennigott's Sermon on i/^.vii. 13 — 16, 
 
f 35 i 
 
 thou ahhorrejl pall be forfaken of both 
 her Ki/igSy Chap. vii. 14, 15,16. — 
 Within two or three Years after the 
 lafl: of thefe Prediftions was deHvered, 
 it was accomplifhed. Before the Pro^ 
 phet's Child (whom he was command- 
 ed to take with him, and to whom 
 he pointed) had pafled out of a State 
 of Infancy, HaJheUy the Son of Elah^ 
 made a Confpiracy agatnfl Pekah^ the 
 Son of Remaltah^ and f mote him^ aftd 
 flew him» — And the King of AJfyria 
 went up agatnfl Damafcus^ and took 
 it J and carried the People of it captive 
 to Kir ^ and flew Rezin^2 Kings xv\ 36. 
 Chap. xvi. 9. 
 
 Ifaiah^ in the Prefence of the King, 
 and of his Houfe, foretold two diflinEi 
 Events. The former related to the 
 promifed Seed, the Son of the Virgin: 
 the latter to the DeflruElion^ which, in 
 a fhort limited Time, fhould over- 
 D 2 whelm 
 
[ 36 ] 
 
 whelm the two confederate Kings. — ^ 
 The former Predidion, (when their 
 Minds were freed from the Pertur- 
 bation into which they were caft by 
 the prefent Invafion,) would convince 
 them, that it was impoffible that the 
 Houfe of David fliould be brought 
 to Defolation, and Defirudion, until 
 the Son of the Virgin, (who fhould 
 be, what his Name, Immanuel, 
 imports, God with us,) fhould 
 be Born into the World. — And in 
 this, they would be the more con- 
 firmed, wheri they faw the Accom- 
 plilhment of the latter Prediftion, in 
 the Deaths of Pekah and Rezin. 
 
 But before the Coming of the pro- 
 mifed Mejfas into the World, the 
 Houfe of David was cafl dowti, tho' 
 not deftroyed. — -The low Condition 
 to which it fl:iould be reduced, and 
 out of which it fhould be raifed, was 
 
 foretold 
 
C 37 ] 
 
 foretold by Amos^ Chap. ix. ii. In 
 that Day-i I will raife up the "Taber- 
 nacle of David that is fallen^ and 
 clofe up the Breaches thereof: and I 
 will raife up his Rui?is ; and I will 
 build it^ as i7i the Days of old. 
 
 As to the Place^ where the Mef- 
 ftas was to be Born, this Particular 
 was foretold by Micah^ Chap. v. 2, 
 — T^hou^ Bethlehem Ephratah^ though 
 thou be little among the T'houfands of 
 yudah\ yet^ out of thee fhall He come 
 forth to me^ that is to be Ruler in 
 IfraeL 
 
 The T^ime^ when the Mefftas was to 
 enter on his Office, is pointed out 
 with Precifion by Da?tiel^ Chap. ix. 24, 
 to the End. — Seventy Weeks (of pro- 
 ^phetic Days, each of fuch Days be- 
 ing accounted for a Year, (FjZekAv,(^.) 
 that is to fay, Four hundred and nine- 
 D 3 ty 
 
C 38 ] 
 
 ty Years) are determined^ faith the 
 Angel, upon thy People^ and upon thy 
 holy City^ to fnijh the Tranfgrejfton^ 
 and to mahe an End of Sinsy and to 
 make Reconciliation for Iniquity y and to 
 bring in everlafii^ig Right eoufnefs^ and 
 to feal up the Vifion^ and Prophecy .^ 
 and to anoint the mofl Holy. (Thefe 
 Four hundred and ninety Years are 
 broken into Parts, as in * Genefts v. 
 throughout.) Know therefore^ and 
 underflaiidy that from the going forth 
 of the Co7nmand?nent to reflore^ and to 
 build yerufalemj unto the Messiah, 
 the Prince, fjall be fevefi Weeh^ and 
 fhreefcore and two Weeks. — T'he Street 
 fjall be built again^ and the IVall^ even 
 in troublous Times. (Nehem. iv,and v.) 
 — And after thefe threefcore and two 
 
 Weeks 
 
 ^ Methufelah lived feven and eighty Years, and 
 an hundred Years, and begat Lamech. And Me- 
 thufelah lived after he hc^3it Lamech two and eighty 
 Years, and feven hundred Years. And all the 
 Days oi Methufelah were nine and fixty Years, and 
 nine hundred Years. 
 
[ 39 ] 
 
 Weeks [Jo all Mejfiah be cut off, hut 
 not for Hiinfelf, And the People of 
 the Pri?2ce that foall come^ fhall de- 
 Jlroy the City^ and the San&uary : And 
 the E72d thereof fhall be with a Flood \ 
 and unto the End of the War^ Def- 
 lations are determi?ied, Aftd He foall 
 €072frm the Covenant with many for 
 one Week^ (that is, during the fingle 
 remaining Week of Years,) and in the 
 midfl of the Week^ (or, in the latter 
 half of this Week,) He foalUaufe the 
 Sacrifice^ and the Oblation to ceafe : 
 und for the overfpreading of Abomi- 
 nations^ (or, as it is in the Margin, 
 and upon the Battlements fliall be the 
 Idols of the Defolator,) eve7i U7ttil the 
 Confummation : and that which is de- 
 ter7nined fhall be poured upon the 
 X)efolate. 
 
 After the Angel had mentioned the 
 
 Death of the Messiah, the Prince, 
 
 D 4 not 
 
[ 40 ] 
 
 not for Himfelf, but for us^ he fub- 
 joins the righteous Judgment of God, 
 which fliould be kept in Store for, and 
 which, in God's own Time, fhould 
 fall upon the People, v/ho v/ere guil- 
 ty of his Death. Then he proceeds 
 to relate more particularly the holy 
 Tranfadlioiis of the remaining * Seven 
 Years : and concludes with repeated 
 Affurance, that the divine Decree 
 fhould be executed : even that the 
 City, and the Sanduary fliould be 
 broug;ht to Defolation. — This was 
 foretold likewife by the Mejfiah him- 
 felf. — Behold ! faith He, your Houfe 
 is left unto you defolate. - — And again,- 
 He faith, T'he Days jhall come upon 
 thee^ that thine Enemies pall cajl a 
 Tre72ch about thee^ and C07npafs thee 
 
 rotmdy 
 
 * MrLowTH tells us, that the Learned are di- 
 vided in their Opinion, whether Christ fuffered 
 in the firfl: half, or, in the End of the latter half 
 pf the fcventieth Week. 
 
[ 4t 1 
 
 rounds and keep thee in on every Side ^ 
 And [hall lay thee even with the, 
 Ground^ and thy Children within thee : 
 a7id they pall not leave iii thee am 
 Stone upon another : hecaufe thou knew- 
 ejl not the Time of thy Fijitation^ Matt, 
 xxiii. 38. Luke xix. 43. Thus, in 
 the Perfon of the Messiah^ the Prince, 
 was fuliilled the Saying of the Pfal- 
 mijly They that hate the Righteous Jhall 
 be defolate, Pfalm xxxiv. 2i, 
 
 When Sixty nine of the Seveitty 
 Weeks had been nearly, if not quite 
 elapfed ; the Forerunner of the pro- 
 mifed Mejftah was fent to prepare the 
 Way before him. — This was foretold 
 by the Prophets I/aiah and Ma lac hi. 
 The Voice of Him that crieth i7^ the 
 Wildernefsj Prepare ye the TVay of 
 the Lord ; make fir ait i?t the Defert 
 an Highway for our God. — And be- 
 hold! I will fend my Mejfengcrj and 
 
 he 
 
C 42 ] 
 
 he Jhall prepare the Way before me^ 
 Ifaiahxl. 3. Mai. iii. i. 
 
 Thus are we brought to the ap- 
 pointed Time, when The Prophet 
 who was foretold by MofeSy (Deut, 
 xviii. 15.) made his public Appear- 
 ance : We are brought to the Time 
 when He, whofe Lips were full of 
 Grace; when He, who by Precept 
 and Example inftruded Mankind to 
 walk in the Paths of Wifdom, all whofe 
 Ways are Ways of Pleafantnefsy and 
 her Paths Peace ; even when H e, 
 who fpake as 7tever Man fpake^ con- 
 firmed (as it was written of Him,) the 
 Covenant with many\ and was cut 
 off, not for Himfelf, but for Us, 
 
 Let us now duly confider feveral 
 of the Citations which the Evange- 
 lifis^ and which Christ himfelf made 
 
 from 
 
[ 43 ] 
 
 from the firfi Part of Divine Revela- 
 tion, intitled, The Old Tejiame?2t. 
 
 Firft, When the Time drew near, 
 that the Saviour of Mankind was to 
 be Born into the World, the fame 
 mighty Angel, who had been fent 
 unto Danielj was fe^it from God 
 tmto a City of Galilee^ named Naza- 
 rethy to a Virgin efpoufed to a Ma7t^ 
 whofe Name was Jofeph^ of the Houfe 
 of David ; and the Virgi^ts Name 
 was Mary. And the Angel came in 
 U7iio her^ and f aid ^ Hail I thou that 
 art highly^{or ivt^ly) favoured^ Blefs- 
 ed art thou a^nong Wom.en. And 
 when Jhe faw him^ fie was troubled 
 at his Sayings and cajl in her Mindy 
 what ?na7mer of Salutation this fjould 
 be. And the Angel faid unto her^ 
 "Fear noty Mary ; for thou hafl foti?id 
 Favour with God. And behold I thou 
 
 fjalt 
 
 * Leigh's Critica Sacra, on the Verb ;^apToa;. 
 
[ 44 1 
 
 Jhalt conceive in thy JVomh^ and bring 
 Jorth a Son^ and Jhalt call his Name 
 Jesus, Luke i. 26, &c. T'hus was 
 fulfilled that which was fpoken of the 
 Lord by the Prophet^ fay^^^g'> A Vir- 
 gin fjall be with Child^ and Jhall 
 bring forth a Son^ and they Jhall call 
 his Name Immanuel, which being in- 
 terpreted^ isy God with us. Matt. i. 
 22, 23. — 1 he Prophecy referred to 
 is in Ifaiah vii. 14. And the Appli- 
 cation of the Name Immanuel unto 
 the Perfon of Jefus of Nazareth^^vin- 
 ceth that Jesus is, what his Name 
 Immanuel importeth, God Incarnate. 
 This is the firfl Proof of the Divi- 
 nity of Christ drawn from the Con- 
 nedion of the Oldj and New Tefta- 
 ments. 
 
 Secondly, The next hath refpe<ft 
 to the Prediction, concerning the 
 Flaccy where The Christ fhould be 
 
 Born. 
 
[ 45 ] 
 
 Born. "There came wife Men froni 
 the Eaji to Jerufalem, fayhtg^ Where 
 is He that is born King of the Jews? 
 for we have feen his Star in the Eaf^ 
 and are cojne to worfoip Him^ Matt. 
 ii. 1,2. For Solution of this impor- 
 tant Queftion, King Herod convok- 
 ed all the ChiefPrieJis^ and Scribes 
 of the People J and de7na7ided of thejn 
 where The Christ fjould be Born f 
 And they faid unto hifUy In Beth- 
 lehem ^ Judsea. For thus it is writ- 
 ten by the Prophet : — And thou ^ Beth- 
 lehem in the Land of Judah^ art not 
 the leaf among the Princes of Judah : 
 for out of thee f jail come a Governor, 
 that foall rule my People JfraeL 
 
 The Citation made by the Chief 
 Priefts, and Scribes, is taken from the 
 Writings of the Prophet M/c^/6, Chap. 
 V. 2. and affords Anfwer fufficient to 
 'the QuePdon propofed unto them by 
 
 the 
 
[ 46 ] 
 
 the King. — But let the whole Seri- 
 tence be produced : Thou^ Bethlehem 
 Ephratahy though thou be little among 
 the T^houfands of 'Judah ; yet out of 
 theeJJoall He come forth unto me^ that 
 is to he Ruler in Ifrael : whose go- 
 ings FORTH have been from of Old^ 
 from Everlafling'j or, according to 
 the Marginal Reading, .^^from the. 
 Days of Eternity. 
 
 By the former Citation it appears, 
 that the Divine EfTence, and by this 
 latter, that the Divine Attribute, Ete?'- 
 nity^ belong unto Jesus oi Nazareth^ 
 the promifed Mejfias. 
 
 Thirdly, That Part of Paleftine, 
 called Galilee of the Gentiles^ (on ac- 
 count of TyrianSy Phoenicians^ and 
 other People, refiding there for the 
 Sake of Traffic,) which was firfi in 
 fuifcriiig Captivity, was alfo frfl in 
 
 being 
 
[ 47 ] 
 
 being refreflied with the falutary Beams 
 of the Sun of Righteousness. This 
 was foretold by the EvangeUcal Pro- 
 phet, IJaiah ix. i, 2. and is appHed 
 by the EvangeUft, St Matthew^ to 
 Jesus The Christ, in the Words fol- 
 lowing: (Chap. iv. 12—16.) — Now 
 when yefus had heard that 'John was 
 cafi i7Uo Prifony he departed into Ga- 
 lilee. A7id leaving Nai^areth^ he cams, 
 and dwelt in Capernaum^ which is up- 
 on the Sea-coajly in the Borders of 
 Zabulon^ and Nephthulim. Thus was 
 ful^lled that which was fpoken by 
 Efaias the Prophet j Jayiiig^ The Land 
 of Zabulon^ a7id the La7td of Neph- 
 thalim^ by the Way of the Sea beyond 
 Jordan^y Galilee of the Gentiles^ The 
 People who fat in Da7''h7efs^faw great 
 Light ; a77d to than which fat in the 
 Region of the Shadow of Deaths Light 
 is fprung up. — The Light, and the 
 Life of Men, made his firft public 
 
 Appear- 
 
[ 48 ] 
 
 Appearance in the Borders of ZahuloH^ 
 and Nepthalim ; and thus the Prophe- 
 cy of Ifatah^ (Chap. vii. 1,2.) received 
 its AccompHfhment. But let Recourfe 
 be had to the fucceeding Verfes of this 
 Predifiion, that it may appear more 
 fully who this great Light is, which 
 was feeii by the People who walked in 
 Darknefs^ and which (hone upon them 
 that dwelt in the hand of the Shadow 
 of Death. — Of Him, that delivered 
 the People from fpiritual Slavery, from 
 the Yoke of infinitely the worft of 
 Oppreffors, Sin and Satan ; of H i m 
 it was foretold, that He fhould be 
 c<3'/^<^, Wonderful, Counsellor,The 
 Mighty God, The Everlafting Fa-- 
 THER^, or Teacher, (the Teacher of 
 
 the 
 
 * I Sam. X. 12. One of the fame Place anfivered 
 and faid^ But who is their Father ? — There dwelt 
 nn old Prophet in Bethel^ and his Sons catne, and 
 told him^ ^c. — And their Father faid unto thenjy 
 i^c. I Kinf^s xiii. ii, 12. 
 
[ 49 ] 
 
 tke Age to come ; the EverlaftingAgej 
 — the Teacher of Everlafting Righ- 
 teoufnefs,) the Prince of Peace. 
 
 Fourthly, St Johi tells us, (Chap, 
 xii. 37, ^^ J that though Jefus had 
 done fo many Miracles before them^ 
 (x\\z yews) yet believed they not 07z 
 Himy kct Aoy(^H(rciiH tQ ITpocpyf. 
 T8 TTM^Ct^Qn 'y Thus the Saying of Efaias 
 the Prophet was fulfilled^ which he 
 fpakey " LoRDj who hath believed our 
 Report ? " 1 here fore they could not 
 believe^ becaufe that Efaias f aid again j 
 '' He hath blinded their Eyes^ and har- 
 de7ied their Heart \ that they foould 
 not fee with their Eyes, nor underfla7id 
 with their Heart, and be converted, 
 and I fhould heal them^ Then the 
 Evangelift adds, — Thefe Things faid 
 Efaias, when he faw his Glory, and. 
 fpake of him. The former of thefe 
 Citations is made from Ifaiah liii. i. 
 
 E the 
 
[ -50 J 
 
 the latter from Chap. vi. lO- — Tfie 
 Glory which St ^ohn here fpeaks of, 
 is mentioned in the Beginning of this 
 f^xth Chapter. — In the Tear that 
 King Uzziah died^ I faw alfo the 
 Lord fittijtg upo?2 a Throne^ and his 
 T^rain filled the Temple, — Above (or, 
 befide ^ ) it^ Jlood the Seraphim^ — 
 And one cried unto another^ andfaidy 
 Holy^ Holy-i Holy is the Lord of 
 Hojls ; the whole Earth is ftdl of his 
 Glory. — Then, at Verfe the ninths 
 follows the Meffage, which the Pro- 
 phet was commanded to deHver, and 
 it is in thefe Words:— --*' Go^ and tell 
 this People^ Hear ye indeed^ hut un- 
 derfland not ; and fee ye indeed^ hut 
 perceive ?iot. Make the Heart of this 
 People faty and make their Ears hea- 
 vy ^ and f)ut their Eyes \ lefl they fee 
 with their Eyesy a7jd hear with their 
 Ears.^and underfand with their Hearty 
 
 and 
 * LowTH on the Place. 
 
[ 5c ] 
 
 "Und C07tvert^ arid be healed, Thefe 
 Things fatd Efaias^ when he faw the 
 Glory of the Lord of Ho/Is ; which 
 Glory is exprefsly afcribed by the 
 Eva?7gelifi unto Christ; v/ith whole 
 Glory the whole Earth v/ill be fill- 
 ed. — As truly as I live^ all the Earth 
 pall he filed with the Glory of the 
 Lord. Again ; The Earth pall be 
 filed with the Knowledge of the Glory 
 of the Lord, as the IVaters cover 
 the Sea^ Numb, xiv.21. Habb. ii. 14. 
 
 Fifthly, The next Reference from 
 the New Teftament to the Old^ in. 
 Proof of the Divinity of Christ, is 
 made by Christ Himfelf. — When 
 Jesus had inftituted the folemn, 
 perpetual Memorial of his approach- 
 ing Death, and when they had fung 
 an Hymn^ they went out i?ito the Mount 
 ef Olives. Then faith Jefus tmto them^ 
 All ye pall be offended becaufe of me 
 E 2 this 
 
[ 52 ] 
 
 this Night : For it is written^ " I will 
 fmite the Shepherd^ and the Sheep of 
 the Flock (Id all he Jcattered abroad^ " 
 Matt. xxvi. 30,31. The Bleffed, and 
 for-ever-to-be-bleffed Redeemer of 
 Mankind, " the Gocd Shepherd," — 
 " the Chi^f Shepherd," (Johnx. 11. 
 I P^/^rv. 4) cited no more of this 
 Prophecjj taken from Zech. xiii. 7. 
 than what related to the Difperlion 
 of the Sheep^ when the Shepherd v/as 
 fLiiitten. — But the Jirjl Part of the 
 Sentence, whence the Citation is made 
 by our Saviour, informeth us, that 
 H E is of the lame EfTence with the 
 Lord of Hosts. — The Whole of it 
 flandeth thus ; — - Awake^ Swordy 
 againfl my Shepherd^ aiid againfl the 
 Man that is my Fellow^ faith the Lord 
 OF Hosts. — -Smite the Shepherd^ a72d 
 the Sheep pall he fcattered\ aiid I 
 ^ill turn my Hand upon the Little 
 
 ones. 
 
 Since 
 
[ S3 ] 
 
 Since Christ teacheth his Difciples 
 to apply the Prophecy written by Zc- 
 chariah tohimfelf; the Inference is 
 unavoidable, that, H e thought it not 
 Robbery to be equal with God, the 
 Lord of HosTsj'^^the Prophecy 
 thus referred to/ by Chrijl ftyling the 
 Man^ againft whom the Sword of 
 Perfecution was to be awakened, his 
 Fellowy or Equal. 
 
 Sixthly, It is recorded by every one 
 of the Evangeliftsy that thtjews pro- 
 nounced Jefus to be guilty of Death, 
 for declaring, as he flood before the 
 Council, that He was the Christ, 
 the Son of God. But, notwithftand- 
 ing the Unanimity of the Sa7ihedrin 
 m condemning Him, as guilty of the 
 Sin oi Blajphemy ; inafmuch, as it was 
 not lawful for them to put a7ty Ma?t 
 to Deaths there was ftill wanting to- 
 ward the Completion of their Malig- 
 E 3 niry 
 
[ 54 ] 
 
 nity againft Him, the Concurrence of 
 the Governor. — St John faith, (Chap. 
 3cix. 7, 8.) that v/hen the Jews told 
 Pilate^ that they had a LaWy and 
 that by their Law^ J^f^s ought to diey 
 hecaufe He made himfelf the Son of 
 God, Pilate was the more afraid, — 
 And again, at verfe i 2, it is faid, that 
 Pilate fought to Relecfe him, — In or- 
 der therefore to remove this Obftacle, 
 they went another way to work. They 
 cried outy fayiftg^ " If thou let this 
 Man gOy thou art not Ccefars Friend : 
 Whofoevcr maketh himfelf a King^ 
 fpeaketh againjl Cc^farT This inii- 
 dious Addrefs anfvvered tlieir Purpofe. 
 It drove the Mind of the Governor 
 from one Fear to another, : from the 
 Fear of condemning a cpnfeffedly in- 
 nocent Perfon, to the Fear of bring- 
 ing Ruin upon himfelf by Releafing 
 him. — Not daring to abide vl jealous 
 Emperor's Difpleafure, he firil inward- 
 
[ 55 ] 
 
 !y condemned himfelf, and then de- 
 livered Jefus to their Will The Fear 
 of Man brought this Snare upon him. 
 -^Thus was Innocence incarnate treat- 
 ed ! As a reputed Enemy to the Ci- 
 vil Government, Christ was dehver- 
 ed unto the Will of the Chief Priefts, 
 and Scribes ; vv^ho, if it had been law- 
 ful for them to have put any Man to 
 Death, would have ftoned him as a 
 Bla/phemer ; but, as this Power was 
 taken from them, the Roman Punifh- 
 ment of Cructjixioit was inflidted on 
 Him^ who knew no Sin^ and who 
 Submitted to this moft paiiiftd^ and 
 mod ignominious Kind of Death, that 
 we might live through Him. 
 
 Seventh and laftly, When Christ, 
 our Pafsover^ had been facrificed for 
 us^ the Soldiers came^ ojtd brake the 
 Legs of the firft^ and of the other ^ 
 which was crucifed with him. But^ 
 E 4 when 
 
[ S6 ] 
 
 when they came to Jefus^ a7td faw that 
 He was dead already^ they brake not 
 his Legs. But one of the Soldiers with 
 a Spear pierced his Side^ and forth- 
 with came there out Bloody and Water. 
 —T'hefe T'hings were done^ faith the 
 Evangelift, fo that the Scripture was 
 fulfilled^ '' A Bone of Him fhall not 
 he broken. " And again , another 
 Scripture faith ^ " "They pjall look on 
 Hi^ny whom they pierced^"" John xix, 
 3 2, ^c. 
 
 The firfl: of thefe Citations is taken 
 from Exod. xii. 46. and hath refpedl 
 to the Pafchal Lamb^ a Bone of which 
 was forbidden by Jehovah to be bro- 
 ken. This Prohibition concerning the 
 Type, was fulfilled in the Antitype; 
 who is ftyled, ^' The Lame of God," 
 (John i. 36.) and repeatedly in the 
 Apocalypfey '' The Lamb. " 
 
 In 
 
[ 57 ] 
 
 In the other Citation, from the 
 Prophet Zechariahy (Chap. xii. lo. ) 
 Jehovah fpeaketh thus ; I will pour 
 upon the Houfe of David^ a7td upon 
 the Inhabitants of Jerufalenty the Spi- 
 rit of Grace J and of Supplication ; 
 and they pall look upon Me^ whom 
 they have pierced. — The Body of Je- 
 sus, faftened to the Crofs, was viewed 
 by the Chief Priefts, and by the In- 
 habitants of Jerufalem-y and one of 
 the Soldiers with a Spear pierced his 
 Side. Thus v/as verified in the Per- 
 fan of Christ, that which was fJ3oken 
 by Jehovah: '' They pall look on 
 Me^ whom they have pierced^ This 
 Apphcation of the Prophecy to Chrify 
 refts on the Authority of a divinely- 
 infpired Writer : who ah^o in the y^po- 
 calypfey fpeaking of yefus Chrifly the 
 faithful TVitnefs^ the Firfl- begotten of 
 the Deady aitd the Prince of the Kings 
 of the Earth ; faith. Behold I Hs cojn- 
 
 eth 
 
[ 58 ] 
 
 eth with Clouds^ and every Eye Jhall 
 fee Him^ a7id they alfo which pierced 
 Him \ and all Kindreds of the Earth 
 pall wail becaufe of Him^ Chap. i. 7, 
 
 The Paflages above-cited from the 
 Old Teftament, and referred to by 
 Christ and the Evangelijls^ evince, 
 (r.) That the Divine and Human 
 Natures were united in the Perfon of 
 our Bleffed Redeemer : and, (2.) That 
 it is incumbent on us not to negled: 
 the Connexion of the Two Parts of 
 the Divine Revelation ; and more efpe- 
 cially foj when we are confidering the 
 Scripture-DoSirine concerning the Di- 
 vine Essence. — Difregard to this 
 Ccnneftion feems plainly to run coun- 
 ter to the gracious Defign of Him, 
 who '^ hath caufed all Holy Scrip- 
 tures to be written for our Learning.'' 
 
 LET 
 
[ 59 ] 
 
 L E T US now proceed to other 
 Scriptural Proofs of the Divinity of 
 Christ; and let us, as we ought, 
 begin with thofe which are drawn 
 from the Words of Christ Himfelf. 
 
 I . In the Conversation which Jefus 
 held with Nicodemus^ He fpeaketh 
 thus : No Man hath afceitded tip to 
 Heaven^ but He that came down from 
 Heaven^ even the Son of Ma7ty who is 
 in Heaven : *0 "CLv h tS ^^^ctvSy — 
 The Being in Heaven, yohn iii. i^. 
 • — And, at another Time, Christ 
 fpeaketh thus of H^lmfelf, fCh.viii.5 8.) 
 Before Abrahafn wasy '£y^^ 'EIML 
 I AM. — By bringing thefe two Texts 
 together, it appears, that Christ 
 fets forth his Eternity, by making u\c 
 of the very Words of the Greek hi- 
 terpreters^ in their Tranflation of Ex- 
 odus iii. 1 4. — 'Ey6) 'ti/^^ O n N, 
 I AM THE BEING; or i AM 
 
 THAT 
 
[ 6o ] 
 
 THAT I KU. — And He faid, 
 Thus Jhall ye fpeak to the Children of 
 lfrael\ O flN the Being, or I AM 
 
 hath fent me unto you And alfo in 
 
 the Apocalypfe^ Chrift faith, / am the 
 Firji^ and the Laji (Chapters i. ij. 
 ii. 8. xxii. 13. compared with liaiah 
 xH. 4.) 
 
 (2.) In the fifth Chapter of St 
 yohns Gofpel, we have a remarkable 
 Inftance of the wild EfFecls of Zeal 
 without Knowledge. — The compaf- 
 fionate Saviour had willed Reco- 
 very to a Man, who had been af- 
 flidled with a Difeafe of eight a?id 
 thirty Years ftanding. But the Ob- 
 jed of his Companion received his 
 Cure on the Sabbath-day. — A Cir- 
 cumftance highly offeniive to the 
 Pharifees ! — And at the fame Time, 
 Jesus had fiid to the Man, ^^ Rife^ 
 take up thy Bed^ and walk ! " — Now 
 
 hecaufe 
 
[ 6i ] 
 
 hecaufe He had do7te thefe T'hingSy—'^ 
 had Healed a Man on the Sabbath- 
 day, and had bidden him to take up 
 his Bed, and v/alk ; therefore did the 
 yews perfecute Jefus^ a7td fought to 
 fay him.' — Let the Anfvver be duly 
 attended to, which was returned to 
 thefe furious Bigots by Him, who 
 was meek^ a72d lowly i7i Heart. — 
 My Father^ faith He, worketh hitherto^ 
 and I work. Thefe Words caufed 
 the Flame of diabolical Rage and Fu- 
 ry to burn hotter v/ithin them. This 
 appears from what immediately fol- 
 lows ; (verfe i6.^ Therefore the Jews 
 fought to hill hifUy hecaufe He not only 
 had broken the Sabbath.^ hut f aid alfoj 
 that God was Uari^ IS'iov, his own 
 Father^ (his Father in a peculiar 
 Senfe,) making Himfelf equal with 
 God. — The Whole of the long Reply 
 which Jesus returned to thefe, his 
 blood-thirfty Enemies, tended to con- 
 vince 
 
t 6i ] 
 
 vince them that He was the promifed 
 Mess IAS, foretold by Mofes. — Had 
 je^ faith the Bleffed Jesus, believed 
 Mofes^ ye would have believed me^ for 
 he wrote of me : but if ye believe not 
 his Writings^ how fjall ye believe my 
 Words f 
 
 (3.) In the tenth Chapter of this 
 Gofpel, Christ again affirms that He 
 and the Father are of the fame Ef- 
 fence. / and my Father^ faith He, 
 are Ei'j unum, one Subftance. — 'Then 
 the fews took up Stones agai?^ to fio?7e 
 Him. — J^f^s a72fwcred them^[vtv. 3 2.) 
 Many good Works have I Jhewed you 
 from the Father^ for which of thefe 
 Works do ye flone me f The Jews 
 
 anfwered him^ f^y^^^Z'* -^^^ ^ S^^^ 
 Work we flone thee not^ but for Blaf 
 phemy \ and becaufe that thou^ bei?tg 
 a Man^ makefl thy f elf God. The 
 Reply confirmed them in Opinion, 
 
 that 
 
t 63 ] 
 
 that He was guilty of Blafphemy^ as 
 appears from verfe 39. Therefore^ that 
 is, on Account of his having afierted 
 that the Father is in Him^ and He 
 in the Father -^ — they fought again to 
 take Him. 
 
 (4.) Jesus faith to his Difciples,-- * 
 
 Ye believe in God, believe alfo in Me. 
 
 And, in Anfwer to the Requeft made 
 
 by Philips (ver. 8,) '^ ho^D^ Jhew us 
 
 the Father:'' He faith y Have I been 
 
 fo long Time with you^ aitd yet hafl 
 
 thou not known me.^ Philip ? He that 
 
 hath feen me^ hath feen the Father : 
 
 and how fay ef thou then^ Shew us the 
 
 Father f John xiv. i, — 8,9. From 
 
 thefe Declarations, it is evident that 
 
 Christ is One in Effence with the 
 
 Father. And it feemeth not unrea- 
 
 fonable to fuppofe, that the following 
 
 Miracles were intended by Christ in 
 
 more efpccial manner, to teach the 
 
 fame 
 
[ 6+ ] 
 
 fame Doftrine by fVorks^ which He 
 taught by Words. 
 
 Thefe are, (i.) The Cure of Le- 
 profy. (2.) The Stilling a Tempeft. 
 And, (3.) Walking on the Sea. — 
 As to the firfl:, it is well known, that 
 this moft dreadfully -infedlious Dif- 
 temper was deemed, not only by the 
 "Jews^ but by other People, to be In- 
 curable. — They who were afHided 
 wdth it, were commanded by the Law 
 of Mofes to be feparated from human 
 Society. And when, thro' the Mercy 
 of God, they were cleanfed, the Priefi^ 
 after repeated careful Infpeftion, was 
 to Pronounce them clean : and they 
 were to offer for their cleanfi7ig thofe 
 T'hings-, which Mofes cotmnanded for 
 a Teftimofiy unto them^ Lev. xiii, and 
 xiv. 
 
 When 
 
[ 65. ] 
 
 When the King of Syria (2Kings v.) 
 fent a Letter by NaamaUy the Cap- 
 tain of his Army, unto the King of 
 Jfrael^ requefting, that He would cure 
 htm [Naaman] of his Leprofy : tha 
 King of Ifrael rent his Cloaths^ and 
 faidy Am I God, to kill and to make 
 alive ^ that this Man doth fend unto 
 me to recover a Man of his Leprofy f 
 
 But when Je s u s had finifhed his 
 divine Sermon, and was come down 
 from the Mount, ^ Behold! there came 
 a Leper ^ and ivorfhipped Him^ f^y^^g-i 
 Lord, if thou willefl^ thou canfl make 
 me clean. And Jesus put forth his 
 Hand and touched him^ f^y^^g-i I will : 
 F Be 
 
 * Let Judgea of Compofition fay, whether 
 thefe Narratives, as they ftand recorded in the 
 Original [Matt, viii. 4. Luke xvii. 12 — 14. Mark 
 iv. 37—39.) be not Inftances of the Sublime, not 
 to be met with in the mod admired Authors of 
 Antiquity, Greek or Roman, 
 
[ 66 ] 
 
 Be thou clean. And immediately 
 his Leprojy was cleanfed. 
 
 At another Time, to fliew that the 
 Thing which is impoffible with Men, 
 is poffible with God, He vouchfafed 
 Deliverance from this f humanly fpeak- 
 ing) incurable Diftemper, by an Adt 
 of Volition.— ^j He entered into a 
 certain Village^ there met him ten Men 
 that were Lepers^ who Jlood afar off-^ 
 and they lifted up their Voices^ and 
 faidy " Jesus, Mafier-^ have Mercy 
 on us. "- — A?7d whe?t He faw themj 
 He faid unto themy Goy Jhew your-- 
 f elves unto the Pi^iefis. And it came 
 to pafsy thaty as they wenty they were 
 cleanfed, — " He willed, and it was 
 done. He commanded, and it flood 
 faft. " 
 
 Another Manifeftation of the Di- 
 vinity of Christ by his Works, ftands 
 
 recorded 
 
t 67 ] 
 
 Recorded in tliefe Words : — Inhere 
 nrofe a great Storm of Wind^ and 
 the Waves beat into the Ship ; fo that 
 it was now full. And He was in the 
 hinder Part of the Shipj ajleep on a 
 Pillow : and they awake hiniy and fay 
 unto him\ Mafier^ carefl thou not 
 that we perifh ? — And He arofe^ and 
 rebuked the Wind\ and f aid to the 
 Sea^ Peace: Be still. And the 
 lVi?id ceafedy a?2d there was a great 
 Calm. — " He commandeth, and raif- 
 eth the ftormy Wind^ which lifteth 
 up the Waves. He maketh the Storm 
 a Calm, fo that the Waves are ftilL" 
 Pfalmcvn. 25,-29- 
 
 And, (3.) as to the Miracle of 
 Walking on the Sea ; Christ made 
 that true in the Letter^ which was 
 fpoken by the Pfalmifl in the Figure ; 
 7^ TVay is in the Sea^ and thy Paths 
 F 2 in 
 
[ 68 ] 
 
 in the great Waters : compare Mark 
 vi. 48; with Pfalm Ixxvii. 19. 
 
 Thefe Evidences, drawn from the 
 Words, and from the Works of Chrtji'^ 
 are attended with divers others, to be 
 alleged out of the Scriptures of Truth. 
 —At our Entrance into the Gofpel 
 of St John^ (to whom it was referr- 
 ed to treat more particularly of the 
 Divine and Human Natures of Chrijl^) 
 we find our Holy and Bleffed R e- 
 D E E M E R fpoken of in this manner. 
 ^--^In the Begipjiing was the TVord\ 
 and the Word was with God, ai^dthe 
 Word was God. — All Things were 
 made by Him^ a?id without Him was 
 not a7iy Thi?tg made that was made. 
 — The Word was made Flejh^ and 
 dwelt amo?2g us^ (and we beheld his 
 Glory ^ the Glory as of the only-begot- 
 ten of the Father.) full of Grace and 
 Tj^uth. 
 
 At 
 
[ 69 ] 
 
 At Vcrfes 34 and 35 of this firft 
 Chapter; the Forerunner of the Mef- 
 Jias beareth Teftimony to his Divi- 
 nity and to his Humanity, in thefe 
 Words : I faw^ and bare Record.^ that 
 this is THE Son of God. — ^ndy look- 
 iiig upon Jesus, as He walked^ he 
 faid^ Behold the Lamb of God! — 
 When Jesus had turned the Water 
 into Wine, at the Marriage in Cana 
 of Galilee^ the Evangeliji faith, that, 
 by this Begin7ting cf Miracles Jefus 
 maj'afejled forth his G/orjy : John ii. 11, 
 compared with xli.41. — And StPai^/y 
 in his Jirjl Epiftle to the Corinthians^ 
 (Chap, ii.8,) exprefsly ftyleth Christ, 
 the Lord of Glory. — TVe fpeak^ faith 
 he, the Wisdom of God i7t a Myf- 
 tery^ which 77one of the Princes of this 
 IVorld knew\ for had they hiown it^ 
 they would not have crucified the Lord 
 OF Glory. — St ya7nes hkewife gives 
 Him the fmie Title, CChap. ii. i. ) 
 F 3 where 
 
[ 70 ] 
 
 where the Words in the Original 
 ftand in this Order, — Have not the 
 Faith of our Lord (Jesus Christ) 
 of Glory ^ with refpeSi of Perfons. — 
 By comparing this Text with ABs 
 ix. 17. it may appear more evidently, 
 that the Words above-cited from St 
 "James are inferted exegetically. The 
 Arrangement of the Words in the laft 
 mentioned T^ext is in the Order fol- 
 lowing. — Tide Lord hath fent 7ney 
 (Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the 
 TVayJ that thou mtghtefl receive thy 
 Sighty &c. — Ana72ias explains, that 
 Jtsus is meant by the Lord, that 
 appeared unto Saul in the Way : And 
 St James likewife tx:plains, that He 
 is meant by the Words, the Lord of 
 Glory. — In the ASis of the Apoflles^ 
 (Chap. vii. 59.) we find, that St Ste- 
 phen^ in the Article of Death, prayed 
 in this folemn, devout manner; Lord 
 Jesu, receive iny Spirit. — And in fe- 
 
 veral 
 
[ 71 ] 
 
 veral other Places, Believers in Christ 
 are defcribed by T'hofe who call on his 
 Name. — And He is alfo frequently 
 ftyled THE Lord. A Name appro- 
 priated unto Jehovah, and which the 
 Seventy two Interpreters chofe to ren- 
 der by O Kt/ex(^. The LOR D.— 
 In the Jirji Epiftle to the Corinthians^ 
 (Chap. XV. 47. ) it is faid, xh^at the Se- 
 C07id Man is the Lord from Heaven. 
 In Pfalmxxw. throughout, JehoVxAh 
 is ftyled TJje King of Glory : And in 
 I Cor. ii.8. 2ind James \\. i. (as hath 
 been obferved) Jesus Christ is ftyled 
 The Lord of Glory, 
 
 It is an Obfervation made by King 
 Solomon^ that Before Honour is Hu- 
 mility^ Prov. XV. 33. And a Greater 
 than Solojnon faith likevvife, He that 
 hmnbleth himfelf^ fljall he exalted^hxxV.^ 
 xiv, II. This Saying received its 
 Completion in Him that fpake it. — 
 F 4 St 
 
[ 72 ] 
 
 St Paul^ exhorting his Philippians ta 
 Meeknefs and Humility, inforceth the 
 Exhortation by the Example of Jefus 
 Chrtfi\Q\\^^. ii.5— 8.) L^/ this Mwdy 
 faith he, be in Tou^ which was alfo in 
 Chriji J ejus ; who bei77g in the Form 
 of God, thought it not Robbery to be 
 equal (Hterally, to be equal Things, ) 
 with God, John v. 1 8. but made him- 
 felf of no Reputation^ and took upon 
 him the Form of a Serva7Uj aiid was 
 made in the Likenefs of Meit : and 
 being found in Fcfjion as a Man^ 
 (fubjed: to bodily Wants, of Hunger, 
 Thirf!:, Weari nefs,"! He humbled him- 
 fef and became obedient tmto Deaths 
 even the Death of the Crofs ^. — 
 
 The 
 
 * In Crucem tn 2gere aiifus cs quenquam, qui 
 fe Civem Romarium diceret ? Hadft thou the 
 Boldncfs to Crucify any one, who declared him- 
 i\:\i to be a RGniau Citizen ? 
 
 TuHii Orat. contra V err cm. 
 And 
 
[ 73 ] 
 
 The Reward of this lovvefl: Humilia- 
 tion of Christ, was Exaltation to the 
 right Hand of God^ even to the high- 
 eft Degree of Glory. — In the Epiftle 
 to the Coloffiansy Chap. ii. 3. the Apo- 
 file tells them, that in Chrifi Jefus 
 are hid all the Ireafures of Wifdom 
 a7id Knowledge. This he faid, left 
 any Man ftiould beguile them with 
 enticing JVords^ ver. 4. And Verfe 
 the 8th, he bids them to beware lejl 
 any Man fpoil them through Philofo- 
 
 phy. 
 
 And in his Oration for C. Rahirius^ he faith, 
 Carnifex vero, & Obdu6lio Capitis, & Nomen 
 ipfum Cruets^ non modo a Corpore Civinm Ro- 
 manorum^ fed etiam a Cogitatione, Oculis, & Au- 
 ribus. — But let the Executioner^ and the Covering 
 of the Head, and the very Name of the Crofs, be far 
 removed, not only from the Body, hut from the 
 'Thought, the Eyes, and Ears of Roman Citizens, 
 -— Yet this Kind of Death, which muft not, it 
 feems, even in Idea, belong to a Citizen of Rome-, 
 ^he Lord of Glory (as Man) fubmitted to, that 
 
 we might live for ever ! 
 
[ 74 ] 
 
 phj/y and vain Deceit^ after the Tra- 
 dition of Meny after the Rudiments of 
 the Worlds and not after Chrifi. — 
 And he gives immediately the Rea- 
 fon, whereon this Caution is ground- 
 ed. For in Him dwelleth all the Ful- 
 nefs of the Godhead bodily. Since 
 Christ Jesus, who, at Verfe the 15th 
 of the firfl Chapter of this Epiftle, 
 is faid to be np&)roVo;c^ %ci(Tm 
 >CTi(j'e(t)gy prior to all Creation \ and 
 again, at Verfe the 17th, to be before 
 ALL 'Things ; in who?n^ rcL TlancL^ the 
 whole Creation conftfls : Since He af- 
 fumed Human Nature, and in this 
 Nature took on Him the Office of a 
 Prophet, or Teacher of Mankind : 
 How wanting muft they be to them- 
 felves, whofupinely fuffery^^ Teach- 
 ers to feduce them from obeying the 
 Voice of Hiivij in whom are hid all 
 the Treafures of lVifdo?n and Know- 
 ledge ? — /;/ whom dwelleth all the Fid- 
 
 ne s 
 
[ 75 ] 
 
 fiefs of the Godhead hocUly P — He 
 is mighty in Strength^ a?id Wifdo?n. 
 Who teacheth like Him ? Job xxxvi. 
 
 5,-^ 2 2. 
 
 It hath been obferved already, that 
 Christ fpeaketh of Himfelf under the 
 Title of 'O "nN, THE Being; and 
 that, in his Reply to the Expoftula- 
 tion of the Jews^ who faid, T'hotc ai'^t 
 not yet ffty Tears oldy and haft thou 
 feen Abraharn f He tells them. Before 
 Abraham was, Ty^y 'EI ML I AM: 
 and that the Greek Interpreters made 
 ufeof thefe very Words in their Tran- 
 flation oi Exodus iii. 14. — It is now 
 to be obferved ag;ain, that the Title 
 of 'O '^XIN^ THE Being, is afcribed 
 by St Paul to Christ in his Epidle 
 to the Romans ^, Chap. ix. 5. in thefe 
 
 Words ; 
 
 * This Place is fo clear a Proof of the Divi- 
 nity of Christ, that Proclus^ de Fide, P. 53, faith, 
 
[ 76 ] 
 
 Words ; TFhofe are the Father s^ a77d 
 ofwhom^ as concerittiig the Flefp^ Chrift 
 cafne. 'O'CLv iiti liavlf^v^ @€og kvM- 
 yv^i©^ dg r^V cumag^ The Being 
 over ALL, GOD blejfed for ever, ...^ 
 And in the Epiftle to the Hebrews^ 
 Chap. xiii. 8. compared with Pfahn 
 cii. 27. it is faid, that Jesus Christ 
 is the fame Tejlerday^ To day^ and for 
 Ever : Plainly fhcwing, that He is 
 of the fame Eternal Effence with Him, 
 who wasy a?id is^ a?td is to come^ Rev. 
 i. 4- 
 
 In the frji Epiftle to Timothy^ Ch. 
 iii.i6. the Apoftle acknowledgeth the 
 Dodlrine of the Incarnation of Christ 
 
 to 
 
 that it convinces all Herefics concerning Christ, 
 and that it Ihuts and walls all Pafiages for Ca- 
 lumny from them that love Contumely or Rail- 
 ing at Christ So Theophyla5f. From hence 
 
 Arius is confuted and put to Shame •, St Paul 
 proclaiming Christ to be God, Blejfcd for ever, 
 
 Hammond on the Place. 
 
[ 77 ] 
 
 to be a great My fiery : Without Con- 
 troverfy^ faith he, great is the Myjlery 
 of Godlinefs ; God ^ "was manifejled 
 
 in 
 
 * Dr Mill in his Note on this Text obferves, 
 that the ufual way cf writing ©eos, God, was in 
 this manner 02, and that the tranfverfe Line in 
 the Body of the O was moft commonly a fmall 
 one. — Hence Copyilis, the more hurrying ones 
 efpccially, might eafily overlook the faid Line, 
 and alfo that over ge, and write 02, Who^ inftead 
 
 of is, God When Dr Mill firll viewed this 
 
 Word in that very ancient Copy, known by the 
 Name of the Alexandrine Manufcript, he obferved 
 that fomebody [with much larger Share of Zeal 
 thanPropriety] had made a frefn Stroke within the 
 O, and alfo had thickened that over the 02 ; this 
 he tells us induced him to caft it among thevarious 
 
 Readings But afterward, on clofer Infpedion, 
 
 he difcovered the Extremity of the faid tranfverfe 
 Line on the left Hand, which had remained un- 
 touched. Other Perfons, fmce Dr MiWs Time, 
 have viewed this Word attentively by the Help 
 of GlafTes, and have not been able to difcern the 
 Extremity of the faid Line — This may be ac- 
 counted for.— What was fcarcely perceptible by 
 Dr Milk might have become totally evanid, in 
 the Interval between his and their View of it. 
 
[ 78 ] 
 
 in the Flefljy jufiified in the Spirit^feeH 
 of Angels ; preached unto the Gentiles j 
 believed on in the World ; received up 
 into Glory. Admitting, not granting 
 OS to be the true Reading, the Mean- 
 ing is ftill the fame. — He that was 
 manifefted in the Flelli, is ftyled God^ 
 the Prince, or Author of Life ; — 
 the Lord of Glory, and Immanuel. 
 (As to'^O, nsohich^ referring to Mt/f^^- 
 tlLOV^ Myjiery^ it feems to be intirely 
 out of the Queftion.) Suppofing then, 
 for Argument's fake, OS to be the 
 true Reading, the whole Verfe will run 
 thus: He that was manifejled in the 
 Flejh^ was jufiified in the Spirit^ was 
 feen of Angels^ was believed on in the 
 World'i was received up i?no Glory. 
 
 In the Beginning of St Johns Gof- 
 pel, Christ is called The Life of 
 Men; and in the Beginning of his 
 frfi Epiftle, He is faid to be The 
 
 Life, 
 
[ 79 ] 
 
 Life-^ and that Eternal Life^ which 
 was with the Father. — And in the 
 fecond Chapter, his Words are thefe: 
 He is Antichrifi^ that denieth the Fa- 
 ther, and the Son. — TVhofoever de- 
 nieth the Son, the fame hath not the 
 Father. And he concludes the 
 Epiftle in this manner: We know that 
 the Son of God is come^ and hath giv- 
 en us an Under]} anding^ that we may 
 know Him that is triie^ and we are 
 in Him that is trtie^ even in his Son 
 Jesus Christ: And then is added 
 immediately, * Oh^ kiv o ciAri6i]/(^ 
 ©6oV> The fame ; or this is the true 
 God, and the Life Eternal — Little 
 Children^ keep yourf elves from Idols. 
 
 St 
 
 * Oy^T(^, this^ referring to the Perfon immedi- 
 ately before fpoken of — There was a Man of 
 the Pharifees, named Nicodemus^ oJt©- Ix^t,, The 
 fame came, &c. They laid Hands on him, cry- 
 ing out, OvT^^iTVj I avDfwTT©-, This is the Man, &c. 
 Jcbn iii. 2. A^s xxi. 27, 28. 
 
[ 8o J 
 
 St Peier^ in the Clofe of Iiis fecend 
 Epiftle, hath thefe Words : Grow in 
 Grace^ and in the K?iowledge of our 
 Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : To 
 Him be Glory^ both now and for ever. 
 — And St Joht^ in the Beginning of 
 the Apocalypfe^ fpeaketh thus: Ufito 
 Him that loved uSy a?id ^vaf}Jed us 
 from our Sins in his own Bloody ( A6ts 
 XX. 28.) (KoM inoiw^y r^fJiOigy^c.) He 
 hath made us alfo Kings and Priefis 
 unto God, and his Father : Unto Him 
 be Glory y and Domi?iiony for ever and 
 ever. A^nen. — And at ver. 11. Chrifl 
 faith, / a7n Alpha and Omega^ the 
 Firfl and the Laji. — Again, ver. 1 7^ \ 
 I a7n the Firfl and the Lajl. — And. 
 in the next Chapter, ver. 23. He faith, ^. 
 I ajn He that fearcheth the Reins and 
 the Heart. By comparing Chap.iii.7. . 
 with Chap. xv. 4. we fhall find, that 
 Christ afcribes to Himfelf the fame 
 Title, which they, who had gotten the 
 
 Vidory 
 
[ 8r ] 
 
 Victory over the Bcaft, afcribe to the 
 Lord God Almighty. — Thefe Tubings 
 faith He that is Holy. — Thou only art 
 Holy. — And in i\\Q fifth Chapter, ven 
 1 3. Every Creature which is in Hea- 
 veny and on the Earthy a?2d fuch as 
 are iit the Sea^ and all that are in 
 themy heard /, faying^ Blejfmg^ and 
 Honour y and Glory y and Power ^ unto 
 Him that fitteth on the Throney ajtd 
 unto the Lamb for ever and ever. — • 
 Again, "The Lamb fhall overcome them 
 that make War with himy for H e is 
 Lord of Lords, ^;^/^ King of Kings, 
 And He hath on his Vefturey and on 
 his Thigh a Name writteny King of 
 Kings, and Lord of Lords, Rev. 
 ^vii. 14. xix. 16. with i Titn. vi. 15. 
 — And in the Conclufion of this fa-- 
 €red Dramay wherein is reprefented 
 fymbolically the Conflift between the 
 Kingdom oi Eighty and the Kingdom 
 of Darknefsy even between Christ 
 G and 
 
[ 82 ] 
 
 and the old Dragon, called the De- 
 vily and Satan^ the beloved Difciple 
 breaths out the Defire of his devout 
 Soul in this fhort, pathetic Prayer, 
 Come^ O LordJesu! 
 
 A S there are feveral Paffages in the 
 Holy Scriptures which Ipeak oiChriJi^ 
 as the Son of God ; and as there are 
 feveral others, which fpeak of Him as 
 the Son of Man ; it may not be im- 
 proper^ nor unufeful, to exhibit a Spe- 
 cimen of thefe Texts, and to prefent 
 them to View, placed in feparate Co- 
 lumns. 
 
 Jesus did not com- 
 mit himfelf unto 
 them, becaufe He 
 knew all Men : and 
 needed not that any 
 fliould teftify of 
 Man : for he knew 
 what was in Man, 
 John II, 24j 25. 
 
 Of that Day and 
 Hour knoweth no 
 Man ', no, not the 
 Angels which are in 
 Heaven, neither the 
 Son, but the Father, 
 Mark xiii. 32. 
 
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 Jesus knew from 
 the Beginning who 
 they w^ere that be- 
 lieved not, and who 
 fhould betray Him, 
 chap. vi. 64. 
 
 We are fure that 
 thou knoweft all 
 
 Things. Lord, 
 
 thou knoweft all 
 Things, chap. xvi. 
 30. and xxi. i^j. 
 
 Awake, O Sword, 
 againft my Shepherd, 
 and againft the Man 
 that is my Fellow, 
 faith the Lord of 
 Hofts, Zech, xiii. 7. 
 
 Let this Mind be 
 in you, which was 
 alfo in Christ Je- 
 sus, who being in 
 the Form of God, 
 thought it not Rob- 
 bery to be equal with 
 God, Philip, ii. 5, 6. 
 
 Li the Beginning 
 was the Word, and 
 
 When they were 
 come together, they 
 aflced of him, faying. 
 Lord, wilt thou at 
 this Time reftore a- 
 gain the Kingdom to 
 Ifraelf And He faid 
 unto them. It is not 
 for you to know the 
 Times or the Sea- 
 fons, which the Fa- 
 ther hath put in his 
 own Pov/er, ABs u 
 
 6,7. 
 
 If ye loved me, ye 
 would rejoice, be- 
 caufe I faid, I go un- 
 to the Father; for 
 my Father is greater 
 than I, John xiv. 28. 
 
 I feek not mine 
 own Will, but the 
 Will of the Father 
 which hath fent me, 
 chap. V. 30, 
 
 xA.nd the Word was 
 made Flefh, and 
 
[ 84 ] 
 
 the Word was with 
 God, and the Word 
 was God, 'John i. i. 
 
 I and my Father 
 are One, chap. x. 30. 
 
 He that feeth me, 
 feeth Him that fent 
 me. — He that hath 
 feen me, hath {ttn 
 the Father, chap. xii. 
 45. xiv. 9. 
 
 In Him dwelleth 
 all the Fulnefs of the 
 Godhead bodily, 
 Colojs, ii. 9. 
 
 -■"Thomas anfwered, 
 and faid unto him, 
 My Lord, and my 
 God, "John xx. 28. 
 We are in Him 
 tliat is true, even in 
 hisSonjEsusCiiRisT. 
 This is the true God, 
 and the Life eternal, 
 i-ycbn Y. 20. 
 
 dwelt among us, 
 ehap. i. 14. 
 
 This is Life eter- 
 nal, that they might 
 know thee, the only 
 true God, and Jesus 
 Christ whom thou 
 haft fent, chap. xvii. 
 
 3- 
 
 ^^ 
 
 n^ 
 
 Go to my Bre- 
 thren, and fay unto 
 them, I afcend unto 
 my Father, and your 
 Father, and to my 
 God, and your God> 
 chap. XX. i7.r8iHH3 
 > A* oa A Jod 710IO 
 Hetlfit fanaigeth^ 
 and they who a^e 
 fanftified, are all of 
 One: for which caufe 
 He is not afhamed 
 to call them Brethren. 
 — Forafmuch as the 
 Children are Partak- 
 ers of Flefh and 
 Blood, He alfo him- 
 
[ 8s ] 
 
 . -:They ftoned Ste- 
 phen, invocating, and 
 faying. Lord Jesu, 
 receive my Spirit, 
 A&s vii, 59. 
 
 To them that are 
 fanftified, with all 
 that in every Place 
 call upon the Name 
 of Jesus Christ, our 
 Lord, both theirs 
 and ours, i Cor, i. 2. 
 
 Grow in Grace, 
 and in the Know- 
 ledge of our Lord 
 and Saviour Jesu5 
 Christ ; to Him be 
 Glory both now and 
 for ever, 2 Peter iii. 
 J8. 
 
 h3<- 
 
 imsflt 
 
 ollB :^H 
 
 felf took Part of the 
 fame.— In all Things 
 it behoved him to be 
 made like unto his 
 Brethren y Heb. ii. 1 1, 
 14, 17. 
 
 Inafmuch as ye 
 have done it unto 
 one of the leaft of 
 thefe my Brethren^ 
 ye have done it unto 
 me, Matt, xxv. 40. 
 
 Sit ye here, while 
 I go and pray yon- 
 der. He went a- 
 
 way the fecondTime, 
 and prayed. He left 
 them, and went a- 
 wayagain,and prayed 
 the third Time, fay- 
 ing the fame Words. 
 When Jesus had 
 cried with a loud 
 Voice, he faid, Fa- 
 ther, into thy Hands 
 I commend my Spi- 
 rit, Matt, xxvi. 36, 
 42 — ^^44. Lul^i xxiii, 
 46, 
 
[ 86 ] 
 
 From an attentive View of thefe 
 different Texts, arife the Obfervations 
 following. — He that knew what was 
 in Man — H e that fearcheth the Heart 
 and the Reins, did not know the Day 
 of the Deflrudion of the Jewijh Po- 
 lity, nor the Day of Judgment. — - 
 H E that faid, ** I and my Father are 
 One ; — He that thought it not Rob- 
 bery to be Equal with Gon," fpake of 
 Himfelf, as Man, in this manner, — 
 ^^ My Father is Greater than I." — -* 
 Again, " Go to my Brethren, and fay 
 unto them, I afcend unto my Father 
 and your Father, and to my God and 
 your God." Thefe y^^;///>^ Contra- 
 rieties are perfeft Confiftences. As 
 God, He knoweth what is in Man, 
 He -rf^ftt fearcheth the Heart and the 
 Reins; — As the Meffenger of the 
 Covenant, He knew not the Day of 
 Judgment with refped: to the JewiJIj 
 Nation in particular, or of Mankind 
 
t h ] 
 
 in general. It was no Part of the 
 Duty of his Miffion to make that Day 
 known unto the World. — As Man, 
 it was not known by Him. In the 
 Divine Nature, He and the Father 
 are unum, one Subftance: In his 
 Human Nature, He is not afhamed 
 to call us Brethren-, and, as faith 
 Elihu in Job, (Chap, xxxiii. 1 2.) Go d 
 is greater than Man ; fo He, My Fa- 
 ther is greater than I. As God, He 
 is prayed unto: as Man, He prays un- 
 to his Father. He prays, that Men 
 may know the Father to be the only 
 true God, (according to the Revela- 
 tion made of Him by the Holy Scri^ 
 'tures.) He prays likewife, that Men 
 may know Jesus to betheCHRis-P, 
 according to the fame Scriptures ; 
 which reveal that the Chriji is Imma- 
 nuel; that " in Him dwelleth all the 
 Fulnefs of the Godhead bodily :" aiid 
 that Hk, who was made of the Seed 
 G 4. of 
 
[ 88 J 
 
 of David^ according to the Flefli, i$ 
 declared alfo to be the Son of Gop 
 ,>vith Power. 
 
 To feleft thofe Texts which fpeak 
 
 of Christ in Terms of Infer^iority 
 
 Xo the Father^ and to lofe Sight of 
 
 pther Texts, which fpeak of Him in 
 
 Terms of Equality with Flim, would 
 
 be a Method of Studying and of In-- 
 
 terpreting the Sacred Cla/ftcSy in which 
 
 it would be impoflible that the leaft 
 
 Traces of Propriety could be difco- 
 
 vered. The Code of the divtiiely- 
 
 infpired Writings, is ari harmonious 
 
 ^Syftem of Divine Truths^ which (irs 
 
 able to make us wife unto Salvation^ 
 
 through Faith in Chrijl ye/us. 
 
 WHEN the Time was fully come, 
 that the promifed Seed of the Woman 
 fjould hruife the Serpent s Heady and 
 \:f^^t.^M'.pould hruife his Heel\ in 
 
 other 
 
[ 89 ] 
 
 Other Words of Holy TFf^it^ when 
 Christ Jhould dejlroy him that had 
 the Power of Deaths that is, the De- 
 n)il\ the two following Prophecies 
 were brought to pafs, which were 
 written of Him. The firft declares, 
 that Christ (hould be numbered with 
 the TranfgreJforSy making his Grave 
 with the JVicked. The other, that 
 He p^ould alfo make his Grave with 
 the Rich^ Ifa. liii- 9,1 2. Each of thefe 
 Predidions were accompliflied in the 
 Perfon of Jesus Christ. —He that 
 v/as crucified between two Thieves^ 
 was Interred,contrary to humanUfage, 
 after the Manner of the Rich and 
 Honourable. 
 
 A little before, our for ever to be 
 praifed, magnified, and adored Re-- 
 deemer, mad^ his Soul a7t Offeri?ig for 
 Sin ; his Head and his Feet were 
 anointed with Ointment of Spikenard, 
 
 very 
 
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 very eoftly, Matt, xxvi.7. Mark xiv.jr 
 with yolm xii. 3. — In each of thefe 
 three Pafiages, Jefus fatth^ that the 
 Ointment had been kept againji tha 
 Day of his Burial. This Ointment^ 
 which was poured on the Head of 
 the High-Prieji of our Profeffton^ was 
 precious, Hke the Ointme?2t upon tha 
 Heady that ran down upon the Beardy 
 liven Aaron s Beardy that went down 
 to the Skirts of his Garments^ Pfalm 
 cxxxiii. 2. And on account of its 
 being precious ^ the Traitor Judas 
 complained of the fuppofed Wafte of 
 k I But befide this, when He, who 
 knew no Sin, had commended his 
 Spirit into the Hands of his Father, 
 and had given up the Ghoft; Jofephy 
 a rich Man of Arimathaay went in 
 boldly tmto Pilate^ a7'A begged the 
 Body of Jefus. And be, and Nico^- 
 de7iiiiSy (who had brought a Mixture 
 of Myrrh and Aloes, about an hun- 
 dred 
 
[91 ] 
 
 dred Pounds weight,) took the Boiy^ 
 and wound it in fine Limit (which 
 yofeph had bought,) with the Spices^ 
 as the manner of the yews is to bury. 
 — The Body was laid in a new Tombj 
 wherein was Man never yet laid. —- 
 A great Stone was rolled to the Door 
 of the Sepulchre; a Seal was fet up- 
 on it ; and, at the Requeft of the 
 Chief-Priefis and PharifeeSy a Guard 
 of Soldiers was granted by the Gover- 
 !ior to watch the Sepulchre. — J^ery 
 early on the third Day^ whe?t the Lord 
 was rifen from the Dead^ there was 
 a great Earthquake : for the Angel 
 of the Lord defcended from Heave?iy 
 and came^ and rolled back the Stone 
 from the Door^ and fat upon it. His 
 Countenance was like Lightenifig^ and 
 his Raiment white as Snow. And for 
 Fear of Him^ the Keepers did Jhake^ 
 and became as dead Men. In the 
 fame Mornings fo?ne of them came in- 
 to 
 
C 92 ] 
 
 to the City^ and f jewed unto the Chief-^ 
 Priejis all the Things that were done. 
 Ajtd whe?t they were affejnbled with 
 the Riders^ a7id had taken Counfel^ 
 they gave la?ge Money unto the Sol- 
 dierSy faying^ Say ye^ his Difciples 
 (;ame by Nighty and jlole him away 
 while we Jlept : and if this come to 
 the Governor s Earsy ^ we will per- 
 fuade himy and fecure you. — So they 
 did as they were taught. And this^ 
 Saying is commonly reported among the 
 "Jews unto this Day^ Matt, xxviii. — 
 The Improbability^ and the Incon-^ 
 liftenceof this Report, which x\i^ Sol- 
 diers fuffered the Chief-Priejls and 
 the Elders to put into their Mouths, 
 are as foUoweth. — In the firft Place, 
 
 what 
 
 * nii<7C[^iy uvllv, we will make him our Friend. 
 — iiii^ailj; BAaVoy-, having made Blajius their 
 rnend. — "Afu ydf. ajS^'t'Try^ vnf^,^i etov, do I now 
 make Men my Friends, or G CiD,.^A^s xii. 20, 
 •with Galatians i. 10. 
 
[ 93 ] 
 
 what fingle Motive could pofTibly' 
 impel the Difciples to the Attempt of 
 ftealing the Body of their crucified 
 Mafter? (i.) Not the leaft glim- 
 mering of Hope, that the Attempt 
 would be fuccefsful. (2.) Not the 
 leaft Regard to the firft Principle of 
 Nature, Self- Prefervation ; even in 
 cafe this moft rafh and defperate At- 
 tempt had been accompliflied. — The 
 Vigilance of the Crucifiers would 
 have been inceflant, till Difcovery had 
 been made of the Perfons by whom 
 the Theft had been committed. The 
 certain Confequence of this Difcovery 
 muft have been Lofs of Reputation, 
 Lofs of Liberty, Lofs of Life. (3.) 
 Not the leaft Regard to the holy and 
 heavenly Precepts which they had 
 heard from their Lord and Mafter; 
 and which they had feen exemplified 
 in his Life and Converfation (4.) Not 
 the leaft Regard to y^^///r^ Happinefs, 
 
 moft 
 
[ 94 ] 
 
 xnoR. certainly to be forfeited by an. 
 Attempt, which would have fubjed- 
 ed them to the Wrath of God, here 
 and hereafter; and to Scorn, and In- 
 famy, and Death from the Hands of 
 Men. (5.) Here we have a Guard 
 of Roman Soldiers, every Man of 
 them ajleep on Duty ! Every Man of 
 them, at one and the fame Time, fo 
 buried in Sleep, that neither the Break- 
 ing off the Seal from the Stone which 
 had been laid at the Door of the Sepul- 
 chre, (which Stone was fjiiycig cr(pocJ^pce> 
 exceediiitgy large, Mark xvi. 4.) nor 
 the carrying away the Body out of 
 the Garden, could awaken any one 
 of the Party I 
 
 As to the Fram.e and Texture' of 
 the Report, it is not fo much as a 
 ctm72ingly-devifed Fable. — Here are 
 Witnelfes brought to atteft a Fa<a, 
 which was committed when every one 
 
 of 
 
[ 95 
 
 of them, by his own Confeffion, was 
 deprived of the Senfcs of Hearing and 
 Seeing! — The Bribed were tempted 
 to fpread abroad this felf-deftroying 
 Report; but the Bribers fuffered the 
 Matter to reft here, never once charg- 
 ing any one of the Difciples with it. 
 A Thing altogether incredible, had 
 they not been confcious that the 
 Charge was a Fidion. In a Word, 
 the unfhaken Conftancy unto Death 
 of every particular Witnefs of the 
 Refurredion of Jesus Christ, evin- 
 ceth, that they were incapable of the 
 Charge contrived againft them by 
 their bewildered, infatuated Enemies. 
 
 As to the Punifhment due to this 
 infamous, confepd NegleSi of Mili- 
 tary Duty, the Witnefles were pro- 
 mifed to be fcreened by their Suborn- 
 ers. 'Ectv wVaS-n tSto S^ t5 Hyef/^o- 
 1/©^, literally, If (bis be heard before the 
 
 Governor^ 
 
r 96 } 
 
 Governor^ we will perfuade htm^ and 
 fecure you. — It is not improbable, 
 that the Chief-Priefts and Elders were 
 too well acquainted with the power- 
 ful Method of Perfuafion which they 
 intended to praftife on the Governor^ 
 to doubt of its Succefs. Be this as it 
 may; the Promife that they would 
 free the Minds of the Soldiers from 
 Aftxiety^ out^pii the Certainty of their 
 having been able to make it good. — 
 If the Affair had been brought be- 
 fore the Governor ; and if, (as proba- 
 bly it would have been the Cafe,) he 
 had been perfuaded to have overlook- 
 ed it ; yet the Guard would not have 
 been exempted from painful Appre- 
 henfion, left an Account of ity by 
 fome Means or other, might have 
 been tranfmitted to Rome. If fo, the 
 Affair might have been brought to a 
 Re-hearing, and have proved equally 
 
 fatai 
 
[ ^1 ] 
 
 fa tail to the Governor, and to them- 
 felves. 
 
 King Solomon reckoneth among the 
 Things which the Lord hateth, an 
 Heart that devifeth wicked Imagi- 
 nations^ Prov. vi, 1 8. And the Royal 
 Pfalmift, his Father, foretold, that 
 "i^hen the Kings of the Earth JJjould 
 
 Jiand up^ aiid when the Rulers pould 
 take Counfel together againji the Lord, 
 and againji his Anoi?7tedy H e thai 
 
 jitteth in the Heavens would laugh^ 
 the Lord would have them in Deri- 
 
 Jiony Pfalm ii. 2,4. 
 
 After the tranfcendently, the eter- 
 nally glorious Vidory of Christ over 
 all the Power of the Enemy, by his 
 Refurre(9:ion from the Dead, on the 
 fame Day at Evening He appeared 
 unto his Difciples, and Jlood in the 
 midjl of them^ and fhewed them his 
 Haitdsy and his Side. But 7'homaSy 
 H one 
 
[ 98 ] 
 
 one of the Twelve^ was not with them 
 when Je/tis came. The other Difci- 
 pies therefore faid unto him^ JVe have 
 feen the Lord. But he faid unto 
 them^ Except I pall fee in his Hands 
 the Print of the Nailsy and put my 
 Finger i?tto the Print of the Nailsy 
 and thrufl my Hand into his Sidcy I 
 will not believe^ John xx. 1 9, 20, 24, 2 5. 
 — At the next Meeting of the Apo-^ 
 ^/^j, which is mentioned hy th^ Evan-* 
 gelijlj this very Evidence was vouch- 
 fafed. Then Thomas anfwered^ and 
 faid unto Ht77t^ ver.28. (not in the Way 
 of Exclamation, or Surprife,) He a7t- 
 fweredy and faid unto Him^ My Lord, 
 AND MY God : or," Thou art my Lord, 
 and my God." — Thus, Pfalms xci. 2. 
 cxlii 5» / will fay of the Lord, — My 
 Refuge and my Fortrefs. — I cried unto 
 thee^ Lord; I faid^ ThoUy my Re- 
 fuge^ my P^r//<?;^, Hofliea ii. 23.- — 
 I will fay to — not myPeopkj Thouy my 
 People \ a? id t key pall fay ^ My God, 
 
 And 
 
[ 99 ] 
 
 And again, Zeeli. xiii. 9. I will fay^ 
 It my People ; and they Jfjall fay^ The 
 Lord, my. God. — Thele Expreffious 
 are fupplied in this manner ; / will 
 fay of the Lord, He is my Refuge and 
 my Fortrefs. — / cried unto thee^ O 
 Lord, / faid^ T'hou art my Refuge^ 
 a7id my Portion. — I will fay to them 
 which were not my People^ T'hou art 
 my People ; and they pall fay^ Thou 
 art my God. — / will fay^ It is my 
 People ; and they fhall fay^ The Lord 
 is my God. What hindered John 
 XX. 28. from having the fame Jus- 
 tice done to it, by being fupplied in 
 the fame manner, doth not appear. 
 *' Now let Him be the Lord, and the 
 «' God of me, and of all ChriflianSy 
 *^ who was the Lord, and the God 
 "ofanApoftle!" 
 
 \ '<inKj*.jf St. 
 
 A little before the triumphant Af^ 
 
 cenfion of our merciful High Prieft 
 
 H 2 into 
 
[ 100 ] 
 
 into the Holy of Holies, not made 
 with Hands^ eternal in the Heavens, 
 He gave Commandment unto the A- 
 pojllesy whom He had chofen, to whom 
 alfo He pewed himfelf alive after his 
 Pajfion, being feen of them forty Days, 
 — that they fhould 7iot depart from 
 Jerufalem, but wait for the Promife 
 of the Father, which, faith He, ye 
 have heard of me. For Joh?i truly 
 baptized with Water, but ye pall be 
 baptized with the Holy GhosTj not 
 7nanyDaysJ)ence^ Ads i, 4,5. :o^<j 
 ;i % 
 
 During the Interval between the 
 Afcenfion of Christ, and the Defcent 
 of the Holy Ghost, the following 
 Paffage recorded by the facred Hif- 
 torian is of too great Importance to 
 be paffed unnoticed. — It is this : 
 When a Cloud had received the holy 
 Jesus out cf the Sight of his Difci- 
 pies, they retur?ted from Mou7U Olivet 
 
 U7ttO 
 
C loi ] 
 
 unto yerufale7n. And when they were 
 come in^ they went up into an upper 
 Room^ where they all conti?2ued with 
 one accord in Prayer^ and Supplication^^ 
 with the Women^ and Maky the 
 Mother of Jesus, and with his 
 Brethren. — Here we find mention 
 made, for the lajl time, of the Mo- 
 ther of our blejfed Redeemer. We find 
 her joining in Afts of Devotion with 
 the Church. — As to the remaining 
 Part of her Life ; as to the Time and 
 Place when and where {he died, the 
 Holy Scriptures being filent, it very 
 ill becomes Men to be inventive. — 
 The ftrange Story about her Aflump- 
 tion into Heaven, (in Commemora- 
 tion whereof, an annual Feftival is fo- 
 lemnly appointed:) The Legendary 
 Tale concerning the various Removals 
 of her Chamber at Nazareth^ unto 
 its final Settlement 2X.Loretto: Thefe, 
 and divers other Fidlions, are adopt- 
 H 3 cd 
 
[ 1^2 ] 
 
 ed by a Church, which takes Care 
 to appropriate high-founding Titles 
 to herfelf, and to referve Terms of 
 Reproach, and Infamy for other 
 Churches, which protest againft 
 feveral of her Dodrines and Praftices. 
 — '^ PopePW II. built amoft ftate- 
 " ly Church over the Chamber in 
 *^ which (as the Tale is told) Mary 
 *^ was fitting, when the Angel came 
 '^ in unto her and faid, Hail! Thou 
 " that art highly favoured^ which 
 *^ Chamber was had in great Repu- 
 *^ tation by ChriJlia?iSy and remained 
 " in Nazareth^ till the Holy Land 
 " was fubdued by the Turks^ and Sa- 
 " race?7S^ in the Year 1291. — Then 
 " it v/as moft mlraculoully tranrport- 
 " ed into Sclavonia : But that Place 
 '^* being unworthy of the Virgin's Pre- 
 ^^ fence, it was by the Angels carried 
 *' over into the Sea-Coaft of Italy, 
 *^ y^/ino I 294. That Place alfo be- 
 
 " ing 
 
r 103 ] 
 
 ^^ ing infefted with Thieves and Pi- 
 " rates, the Angels removed it to the 
 ^' Village of Loretto ; where her Mi- 
 " racks were quickly divulged. A 
 ^^ Place fo highly honoured^ we may 
 *^ fuppofe, muft not be fufFered to 
 ^^ continue in its former Obfcurity. 
 *^ Pope Xifius V. made the Village a 
 ^^ City. — And thus we have the Be- 
 " ginning of our famous Lady of Lo- 
 " rettor This Fidion, whereby have 
 been drawn by the Crafty from the 
 Credulous Offerings of immenfe Va- 
 lue, is adopted by a Church, which 
 alloweth her Votaries to afcribe to the 
 Mother of Je s u s the Title of Th e 
 QjJ EEN OF Heaven; and in their 
 devotional Ads to call upon her, and 
 to befeech her, by the Right of a Mo- 
 ther^ to COMMAND her Son! A Right, 
 which, for infinitely wife Reafons, fhc 
 was not allowed to exercife on Earth. 
 In a Word, this, and many other 
 H ^ horrid 
 
C ^^4 ] 
 
 horrid Inventions, are adopted by a 
 Church, which hath permitted the 
 Book of Pfalms to bear the Title of 
 Our Lady's Psalter; fo called 
 on this Account : wherever the v^ord 
 Lord occurs, this is ftruck out, and 
 the word Lady is inferted in its 
 Room* — BlafphemousForgery ! Lord, 
 how long wilt thou look upon this P — • 
 In thine own Time, and in thine own 
 Way, thou wilt caufe it again to be 
 faid, Babylon is fallen^ is fallen! 
 
 WHEN the Day of Pentecofi was 
 fully come, the promifed Advoitate of 
 the Caufe of Christ came down 
 from Heaven, and by the Miniftry of 
 the Difciples of Christ Jesus, 
 brought it home to the very Senfes 
 of the yewSy that H e whom they had 
 taken^ a7td by wicked Hands had cru- 
 cifedy and Jlain^ was rifen from the 
 I>cad ; was afctndcd into Heaven ; 
 
 anc| 
 
[ ^^5 ] 
 
 and was fitting at the right Hand of 
 God. — Thefe Truths were proved, 
 publicly and repeatedly proved, by the 
 Teftimony of Miracles. Whether the 
 Crucifiers of Him, who ca?ne to his 
 owHy and his own received hi7n 7tot^ 
 would hear, or whether they would 
 forbear j a continued Series of Evi- ~ 
 dence, which nothing but wilful Ob- 
 ftinacy could refift, was afforded them, 
 that the Mejfms^ foretold by Mofes^ 
 the Pfalmijisj and the Prophets^ was 
 come, and that Je s u s of Nazareth 
 was the promifed Mefftas. 
 
 As a natural Preparative to the go- 
 ing forth of the Sound of the Gofpel 
 i7tto all Nations^ the Gift of ' Miracles 3^^iui& 
 was inftantaneoufly imparted unto the 
 /Ipoftles, — Suddenly there ca^ne a 
 Sound from Heaven^ as of a rupAng^ 
 mighty Wind^ and it filled all. the 
 Houfe where they were fitting. A?td 
 
 there 
 
[ io6 ] 
 
 there appeared unto them cloven 
 "Tongues^ like as of Fire^ and it fat 
 upon each of them. And they were 
 all filled with the Holy Ghoji^ as the 
 Spirit gave them Utterance^ Afts ii. 
 — This Beginning of Miracles, tefti- 
 fying that Je su s is the Christ, was 
 attended with fignal Succefs. — When 
 it had been noifed abroad^ the Mul- 
 titude came together^ and were con-- 
 founded^ becauje that every Man heard 
 them [the Apoftles] fpeak in his own 
 Language, — At Verfe the fortieth of 
 this fecond Chapter, we find St Peter 
 exhorting the Audience inthefeWords, 
 
 %gy Save yourJelveSy or be ye faved 
 from this untoward Generation. — 
 And it pleafed God that, on the 
 fame Day there were added unto them 
 about Three thoufa7id Souls. — Thro' 
 divine Elefiing on the Labours of the 
 Ap()/lles^ Continuance of Succefs was. 
 
 vouch- 
 
I ^^7 ] 
 
 vouchfafed unto thefe faithful, chofea 
 Witneffes of G o d. — This appears 
 from Verfe the forty feventh of the 
 fame Chapter, where it is faid, *0 J^^ 
 
 m^' YifJLt^v TW 'BoihwicLy 'The Lord 
 added the Saved daily unto the Church. 
 — The Lord gave to the Church a 
 daily Increafe of thofe, who, as St Pe- 
 ter in his Jirjl Difcourfe exhorted 
 Men to do, faved themfehes from 
 that untoward Generation. 
 
 To the Gift of Tongues fucceed- 
 ed the Gift of Healing. A certain 
 Many lame from his Mother s JVomby 
 who never had walkedy was carriedy 
 whom they laid at the Gate of the 
 Temphy which is called Beautiful, to 
 ask Alms of them that went into the 
 Temple. — Peter faid unto him^ " In 
 the Name of Jesv s Christ of Na- 
 :^ are thy rife upy andwalk^ And he 
 
 took 
 
[ 108 ] 
 
 took him hy the right Ha?tdy and lift^ 
 ed him up^ and immediately his Feet 
 and Ancle- bones received Strength. 
 And he^ leaping up^ Jloody and walk- 
 edy and entered "with them into the 
 Temple^ walkings and leaping^ and 
 praijing God. And they k7uw that 
 it was he which fat for Alms at the 
 beautiful Gate of the Temple^ Adts iii. 
 
 The Evidence which this Miracle 
 exhibited of the Refurreflion of Jesus 
 Christ, wrought fo powerfully on 
 the Confciences of thofe who heard 
 St Peter^i and his fellow Apoftles, de- 
 ducing from it the Certainty of 
 C H R I s t's Refurreftion ; that the 
 Church received a farther Increafe of 
 the Saved^ to the AmQunt of about 
 Five thoufa?id ^, 
 
 Whea 
 
 * The Account of this large Accefs to the 
 Church is broken off by the Intervention of a 
 
 ne\Y 
 
[ 109 ] 
 
 When St Paul^ under the Guid- 
 ance of the Holy Spirit, had travelled 
 
 with 
 
 new Chapter* The prefent Method of dividing 
 and fubdividing the Sacred Text into Chapters 
 and Verfes^ is a Liberty which would not be fuf- 
 fered to be taken with the Text of any of the 
 much-admired, (is it allowable to fay ?) too-much^ 
 admired Authors of the Heathen World. Take 
 the Works of Demojlhenes^ — of Tully^ — of Livy^ 
 break in upon the Text, in the manner that the 
 Text of the Bible is broken in upon, what Out- 
 cry would be raifed immediately againft the Edi- 
 tor ! Every Advantage propofed by this Intru- 
 fion into, this mangling of the Holy Scriptures, 
 {begun by Concordance-makers, finifhed by Edi- 
 tors,) might be obtained, without the Difadvan- 
 tages, which unavoidably attend it. Let each 
 Book be carefully didributed into certain Por- 
 tions, called Chapters \ let each Chapter be fub- 
 divided, with equal Care, into Paragraphs : Let 
 eacli Chapter, and each Paragraph, be numbered 
 in the Margin, the former by Numeral Letters, 
 the latter by Figures : And let the Contents be 
 prefixed or annexed to each Book, But let not that 
 Liberty be taken with the Word of God, which 
 mud not be taken with the Word of Man. 
 
t "^ ] 
 
 with Timothy through Phrygia^ and 
 the Region of Galatta^ they were for- 
 bidden by Him to preach the Word 
 in^ Afta ; and when they affayed to go 
 into Eithyniay the Spirit fuffered 
 them not. Again, the Holy Ghost 
 l^id, Separate me Barnabas and Saul 
 for the Work whereunto I have called 
 them. 
 
 In the Beginning of the nineteenth 
 Chapter of this fecond Treatife of St 
 Luke^ (which exhibits a Series of 
 Proofs of the PerfonaUty and Divini- 
 ty of the Holy Ghost,) we read, 
 that Paul having pajfed through the 
 upper Coaflsj came to Ephefus^ and 
 when he had fou?td certain Difciples^ 
 he faid unto them^ Have ye received 
 the Holy Ghost, fince ye believed? 
 And they faid u7ito him^ dXK ^^t 
 H Uvivfjici dytov ?fiv w>i(rui^' By 
 which Words they are reprefented in 
 
 our 
 
[ ^" ] 
 
 our Verfion as making this Anfwer J 
 VFe have not fo much as heard whe-' 
 ther there be any Holy Ghofi. — They 
 were Jews^ who are fuppoied to have 
 fpoken thus. — Now their own Scrip- 
 tures, Mofes^ the Pfalms^ and the 
 Prophets^ abound with the mention 
 of Him. — " The Spirit of God 
 moved upon the Face of the Waters.'* 
 « The Lord faid, My Spirit flialt 
 not alway ftrive with Man." — ''Who 
 hath direded the Spirit of the 
 Lord, or being his Counfellor, hath 
 taught Him ?" — ^^Take not thy Ho- 
 ly S p i r i t from me." — ** They re- 
 belled, and vexed his Holy Spirit." 
 . — '^ When the Enemy fhall come in 
 as a Flood, the Spirit of the Lord 
 flmll lift up a Standard againft him." 
 Thefe, and many other Paffages of 
 Holy Writ^ particularly the /r/?, fe- 
 condy and third Chapters of Ezekiel^ 
 
 w^ould 
 
[ "2 ] 
 
 would have taught them that there is, 
 a Holy Spirit. 
 
 This Difficulty may perhaps be re- 
 moved, by Application of the uni- 
 verfally-allowed Rule of comparing 
 Scripture with Scripture. For this 
 Purpofe, let John vii. 39. and AEis 
 xix. 2. be placed together ; — ^TTCd y>^ 
 
 aiyio)) i^iv m^a-aijSp 5 literally, for the 
 Holy Ghojl not yet was — we have not 
 fo much as heard whether the Holy^ 
 Ghojl IS. Now as the former Paf-4 
 fage was rendered thus, for the Holy, 
 Ghofl 'was 720t yet given: what pre- 
 vented the latter from having the fame 
 [uftice done to it? We have not fo 
 much as heard whether the Holy Ghofl 
 IS GIVE N. — They had been baptifed 
 unto John\ Baptifm, but they had 
 not heard that the H l y G h o st was 
 
 again 
 
 *f S -i*v; -»■. 
 
[ "3 ] 
 
 again given unto, or come into, the 
 World. After the Ceflation of the 
 Gift of Prophecy^ during feveral pre- 
 ceding Centuries, they had not fo much 
 as heard, whether holy Men of God^ as 
 of old^ fpake as they were moved by the, 
 Holy Ghos t. — When they had receiv- 
 ed the Baptifm of Repentance by the 
 Hands of John^ or fome of his Difci- 
 ples *, Bufinefs might have carried 
 them into diftant Parts ; and, if they 
 were juft come to Ephefus^ when St 
 Paul met with them, they might not 
 have heard of the Defcent of the Holy 
 Ghost on th^ Day of PentecoJ}. 
 
 T O proceed : The Divinity of the 
 Holy Ghost is manifefted, (i.) by 
 the tremendous Punifhment inflided 
 on two moft unhappy Perfons, who, 
 infatuated by the inordinate Love of 
 Money, combined in the Attempt to 
 
 I put 
 
 ♦ Hammond on the Place. 
 
[ iu ] 
 
 put k to the Trial whether He was 
 Kao^toyvcd^mi ^ Difamer .of the 
 Thoughts and Intents of the Heart* 
 -^^— The Penalty of this blafphemous 
 Wickednefs was immediate Death. — 
 {2.) By the Predidion of Things to 
 come. — Tloere came Prophets from 
 yerufale7n unto Anttoch t and theft 
 Jiood up one of them^ named Agabuh 
 and ftgnified by the S p i r i t, that 
 there fhould be great Dearth through-- 
 out all the World ; which came to pafs 
 in the Days of Claudius Ccefar. And 
 again, the fame Agabus^ at Cafarea^ 
 took Paul's Girdle^ and bound his own 
 Hands and Feety andfaid^ Thus faith 
 the Holy Ghost, So pall the Jews 
 at Jerufalem bind the Man that o^wn- 
 eth this Girdky Ads xi. 27, 28. and 
 Chap. xxi. 1 1. ( 3. j By the open De- 
 feat which he gave to the Agents of 
 Satan, namely, to Simon the Sorcerer^ 
 at Samaria 'y and to Barfefus the Sor- 
 cerer^ 
 
C "5 ] 
 
 terer^ at Paphos^ Chap, viii, and xiii. 
 And, (4.) By giving Gifts unto Men ^ 
 feverally as He willed, Thefe Inftan- 
 ces teftify, that the Holy Ghojl is the 
 promifed Paraclete^ the Spirit of 
 Truth, who fearcheth the Heart; (the 
 Advocate^ Advifer^ Exhorter^ Co??!- 
 forter^J fent from the Father and the 
 Sony to lead Men into all Truth, and 
 to convince the World, (i.) of the 
 Sin of Unbelief, that the crucified 
 Jesus of Nazareth is the promifed 
 Mefftah. (2.) Of the Right eoufnefs 
 of Je s us ; and, ( 3 . ) Of the yudgrnent 
 of the Prince of this World, by De- 
 ftrudlion of his Works. ^ 
 
 St Paul ftyleth the Holy Ghost, 
 the Spirit of Holinefs^ and the Spirit 
 of Life : and He is exprefsly faid to 
 be the Spirit ofGoDy and the Spirit 
 of Christ, Rom. i. 4. Chap. viii. 
 2, 9. — la the firft Epiftle to the 
 I 2 Corin- 
 
t^crhukansy Chap, iiio,! r. itis lai^ 
 that THE Spirit /earc/jet/j all Thinly 
 yea^ * //6^ deep Things of Go t).-^ 
 For what Ma7t knoweth the Things of 
 a Man^ fave the Spirit of Man which 
 is in him f Evenfo the 'Thi?tgs of God 
 knoweth no Man^ but the SpfuiT'^ 
 'God. — The Power of changing Men 
 from Glory to Glory, is afcribed alfb 
 to the Holy Ghofly ( 2 Cor. iii. 1 7, 1 8. ) 
 Now the Lord is that Spirit, and where 
 the Spirit of the Lord />, there is Li- 
 herty* But we all with open Face 
 beholdi7tgy as in a Glafs^ the Glory of 
 the Lord, are chaitged into the faine 
 linage^ fro?n Glory to Glory ^ eve7i as 
 by the Spirit of the Lord : or, as it 
 ftands in the iMargin, as of the Lord, 
 the Spirit.- — In the Epiftle to the 
 •u:Ui.b ^i^ , i-"*' ''^^''' Fl^brewSy 
 • -^-^ has :V^'P. ^^^-^^ c' 
 
 ^ As God hath his b«9v,, his deep Counfels of 
 Wifdom and Goodncii-, ib hath Satan his BaO^;, 
 his DEEP Cotuifds of Malice and Wickednefs. — 
 Kcv, ii. 24. 
 
[ "7 ] 
 
 Hebrews^ (Chap. ix. 14.) it. is faid, 
 th'.\tCii^\sT^ through the Eternal Spirit, 
 offered himfelf without Spot to God. 
 — And the Efhejia?2s are charged 72ot 
 ti) grieve the Spirit of God , where- 
 by, faith St Pauly ye are fealecl unto 
 the Day of Rede77iption^ Chap. iv. 30. 
 Thus, Jehovah iaith, My Spirit y^^// 
 not always J} rive with Man, — And 
 Ifaiahj fpeaking of his ungrateful 
 Countrymen, faith, "They rebelled^ and 
 vexed his Holy Spirit, Gen.v\,'7^, Ifai, 
 l^m. 10. — The Fat he r is the King 
 ^Of Glory; the Son is the Lord of 
 Glory; and the Holy Ghos t is the 
 Spirit of Glory ; PfaL xxivM. iCor- 
 \\. 8, 1 Pet. iv. 14.. 
 
 ^.|^'!phe Attributes which are termed 
 Incommunicable^ are afcribed to the 
 Fat her y to the Son^ and to the Holy 
 
 Ghoft^ ^ . 
 
 bne^^.3 ETERNITY 
 
[ "8 ] 
 
 ETERNITY 
 
 to the Father. 
 
 Before the Moun- 
 tains were brought 
 forthjor ever thou 
 hadft formed the 
 Earth, and the 
 World j even from 
 Everlafting to E- 
 verlafting, Thou 
 art God, Pfalm 
 
 XC. 2. 
 
 I am Alpha and 
 Omega, the Be- 
 ginning and the 
 Ending •, faith the 
 Lord, which is 
 and which was, 
 and which is to 
 come, Rev, i. 8. 
 
 ETERNITY 
 to the Son. 
 
 Unto the Son, 
 He faith , Thy 
 Throne, O God, 
 is for ever and 
 ever. Thou art 
 the fame^ and thy 
 Years fhall not 
 fail, Heb.l^-12, 
 
 Jesus Christ, 
 the fame Yefter- 
 day. To-day, and 
 
 ETERNITY 
 
 to the Holy Ghojl. 
 
 The Law of the 
 
 Spirit of Life, 
 in Christ Jesus, 
 hath made me free 
 from the Law of 
 Sin and Death, 
 Rom. viii. 2. 
 
 — How much 
 more fhall the 
 Blood of Christ, 
 v;ho, through the 
 Eternal Spirit 
 
 iox tvtr, Hebrc-^s ^^^^^^ Himfdf 
 xiii. 8. 
 
 Before Abraham 
 was, I A M, John 
 viii, 58. 
 
 without Spot to 
 God, purge your 
 Confciences from, 
 dead Works ? -^ 
 Ueh. ix. 14. 
 
O M N I- 
 PRESENCE 
 
 to the Father. 
 
 Behold ! the Hear 
 ven of Heavens 
 cannot contain 
 
 Thee, i Kings vin, 
 
 27. 
 
 Do not I fill 
 Heaven & Earth? 
 faith the Lord, 
 .7/r. xxiii. 24. 
 
 [ "9 ] 
 
 OMNI- 
 PRESENCE 
 to the Son. 
 
 ., No Man hath 
 afcendedintoHea- 
 v,en, but he that 
 came down from 
 Heaven, even the 
 Son of Man, who 
 is in Heaven, 7^//?'. 
 iii. 13. 
 
 The Second Man 
 
 is the Lord from 
 
 I 
 
 Heaven , i Cor. 
 XV. 47. 
 
 
 OMNI- 
 PRESENCE 
 
 to the Holy Ghojt, 
 
 Whither fliall J- 
 go from thy Spi- 
 rit ? or whither 
 fliall I flee from 
 thy Prefence ? 
 
 Pfdm cxxxix. 7. 
 
 The Spirit 
 fearcheth all ' 
 Things, I Cor, 
 ii. iQ. 
 
 — The Holy 
 Ghost fent down 
 from Heaven, 
 
 I Pet, I. 12. 
 
 M^T ^ 
 
 .Xj ^Y^iVt 
 
[ 
 
 I20 
 
 ] 
 
 OMNI- 
 SCIENCE 
 
 to the Father. 
 
 He that is per- 
 fe6b in Knowledge 
 is with Thee, Job 
 xxxxvi, 4. 
 
 H E revealeth 
 the deep and fecret 
 Things. Heknow- 
 eth what is in 
 Darknefs, and the 
 Light dwelleth 
 with H'lxn^, Dafh' 
 
 The Lord is a 
 G o D of Know- 
 lcdge,and by Him 
 Adions are weigh- 
 ed, 1 6'<^;;;. ii.3. 
 
 OMNI- 
 SCIENCE 
 to the Son. 
 
 Now are we fure 
 that thou knoweft 
 all Things. •— He 
 [Peter] faid unto 
 Him, Lord, thou 
 knoweft all 
 Things, Jcbn xvi. 
 30. xxi. 17. 
 
 He needed not 
 that any fhould 
 teftify of Man,for 
 'Hfi^'jinew what 
 was in Man, John 
 ills. 
 
 I am He which 
 fearcheth' the 
 Reins and Hearts, 
 Rev.u.i^ X^ ^ 
 
 OMNI- 
 SCIENCE 
 to the Holy Ghoft, 
 
 Why hath Satan 
 filled thy Heart 
 to lie unto (or to 
 deceive) the Holy 
 Ghost? Thou 
 haft not lied unto 
 Men, but unto 
 God, JHs v. 3,4. 
 To one i^ given 
 by the Spirit the 
 WordofWifdom, 
 to another the 
 Word of Know- 
 ledge by the fame 
 Spirit, -r-— — 
 All thefe worketh 
 that One and the 
 felf-fame Spirit, 
 dividing to every 
 Man feverally, as 
 He willeth, i Cor. 
 xii. 8,-11, 
 
[ '121 -] 
 
 . Thefe three . diftindl, undivided 
 Z : PerfoiiSj^in one Eternal Eflence, whofe 
 
 ^'^'^'''' Divinity, and .whofe Attributes are 
 fet forth feparately in fome Places of 
 the Holy Scriptures^ in others are 
 mentioned together. Thus at the" 
 Baptifm of Jesus, whofe Shoes the 
 Baptiji declares him/elf not to he wor- 
 thy to hear^ the Heavens were opened^ 
 and the Spirit defcended like a Dove^ 
 and lighted upon Him : and lo ! a 
 
 dfu 1 ^^^^^ from Heaven J f^yi^g-i T'his is 
 my beloved Son^ in whom I a7n well 
 pleafed^ Matt. iii. 16,17. — Here is 
 the Father fpeaking,— the Son fpoken 
 of,-- -and the Holy Ghoil defcending. 
 Thefe zf^r^^', by the exprefs Injunc- 
 
 .-!:;; :tion of Christ, are the Object oi the 
 
 arfj bf Faith and Worfliip of all thofe, vj\\o 
 are admitted into the Privileges of 
 
 V ; the Gofpel by Baptifm. 
 
 2£ tXV-" JESUS came and fpake unto 
 ihem^ [the Eleven Difciplesj faying^ 
 
 All 
 
[ 122 ] 
 
 All Power is given unto me in Hea^ 
 veny and in Earth. Go ye therefore^ 
 and teach all Nations^ baptizing them 
 in the Name of the Father ^ and of 
 the Son^ and of the Holy Ghofl^ Matt. 
 xxviiL 18,19. It is well known, that 
 by the Name of the Lord, is meant 
 the LORD Himfelf. — Thus, Ihe 
 Name of the Lord is a flrong Towerk 
 ' — The Name of the Lord comethfrom 
 far. — The Name of the God of Ja*- 
 cob defe?2d thee : With many others* 
 Inftrudion preceded Baptifm. And 
 they who had been prepared to re- 
 ceive this folemn Rite, made pubHc 
 Declaration of their Belief in the 
 Name of the Father, and of the 
 Son, and of the Holy Ghos t. — 
 Unto thefe three Divine Perfons St 
 Paul prays, in the Goncluiion of his 
 fecond Epiflle to x}^^ Corinthians. He 
 prays to the Son, that his Grace^-- to 
 the Father, that his L^'z;^>-- to the 
 
 Holy 
 
[ ^n ] 
 
 Holy Ghost, that his Fellowpip^ 
 or Communication, may be with them 
 all.- — He prays unto them m the third 
 Perfon, as Jehovah is prayed unto 
 in the twentieth Pfalm, and in many 
 other Places of Holy Writ. T'he Lord , 
 hear thee i7^ the Day of Trouble ; the 
 Name of the G oi> of Jacob defend 
 thee. 
 
 >- Lastly, It is faid, i John v. 7,8. 
 that there are Three that hear Record 
 in Heaven— the Father^ the TVord^and 
 the Holy Ghofl^ and thefe Three are One. 
 And there are Three that hear TVit- 
 nefs in Earthy— the Spirit^ the Wat er^ 
 and the Bloody a?jd thefe Three agree 
 in One. — The three Witneffes in 
 Heaven^ ( They " whofe Dwelling- 
 place is in Heaven, " i Kings viii. 30, 
 39,43,49.) are One in Subftancet-^- 
 and the three Witneffes on Earth are 
 
 IN ONE, that is, AGREE IN ONE 
 
 Teftimony.— The Father^ xh^Son, and 
 
 the 
 
[ 124 ] 
 
 the Holy Ghojiy'" bear Record that 
 Je s u s is the Christ; and the Spi- 
 rit the Water and the Bloody— agree 
 in the fame Teftimony. The Spirit^ 
 who is fent down from Heaven, (IP^/^ 
 i. 12.) He bears Witnefs by divers mi- 
 raculous Works, that Je s u s is the 
 Christ; and the Water and the 
 Blood teftify, that Jesus bare our 
 Sins in ^/^.owjsi Boay ^ Qn:the Treei 
 
 ■ * R \Jal^!i€^Doarine of ccnrnnTfkMt};^ 
 the Time when St Joim wrote this Epiille, that 
 Christ did not afTume Human Nature in Reality^ 
 but in Appearance. — Againft this Herefy, it is 
 iaid, Chap. iv. 3. and in other Places of this Epi- 
 fUe, to the fame Purpofe, Every Spirit that-cdn- 
 fejfetb not that Jesus Christ is come in. th/e 
 rlefh, is not of God. This Herefy was in parp 
 adopted by Mohammed,. the Impoftor, and m^ 
 ferted by him into his Kcran^ as foUoweth : -^ 
 " Yet they flew Him not, neither crucified Him, 
 " but He was reprefented by one in His Likenefe: 
 " — They did not really kill Him ; but God 
 " took him up unto himfelf. " See Sale's Edit ^ 
 of the Koran, A, D. 1764. Vol. I. p. 124. 
 
[ ^25 ] 
 
 that?, febt in Appearance, but in Re- 
 alit^'j^^'C Hrist died on the 
 C R o s s ; whereon while He was 
 hanging, a Soldier with his Spear 
 pierced his Side^ and forthwith came 
 thereout Blood and Water. 
 
 "'^^ In Vindication of this Paflage from 
 the Charge of Interpolation, which 
 hath been brought againft it ; the fol- 
 lowing Particulars are fubmitted to 
 Confideration. (i.) A general Charge 
 is no more admifTible in this, than in 
 any other Cafe whatfoever. (2.) It 
 is more natural to fuppofe, that the 
 Words in queftion were omitted i\ixo 
 Inadvertence^ than that they were 
 inferted through Fraud. (3.) The 
 Words which were omitted very early 
 in many Copies, had not been omit^ 
 ted in all ; as appears from primitive 
 Writers in the Latin Church. Ter- 
 
 tullian 
 
[ 126 ] 
 
 tullian * refers to them, and Cypriafi 
 exprefsly quotes them. — African Bi- 
 fhopsjin the Year Four hundred eighty 
 four^ {hewed to King Hunneric a 
 Copy, in which the Reading was 
 retained. And the learned French 
 Editor, R. Stephan^ found Greek Ma- 
 nufcripts in the French King's Library 5 
 moft highly to be valued for their 
 Appearance of Antiquity, which have 
 the Reading in difpute* And, (4.) 
 It is not reafonable to fuppofe that 
 Cyprian would have had fo little Re- 
 gard to his Character, either as a 
 Divine or a Scholar, to have produced 
 a Text in Proof of the Doftrine of 
 the Trinity^ from a Copy of the La- 
 tin Teftament, which, if it had been 
 interpolated, it would have been no 
 difficult Task to have proved it to 
 have been io ; or, that he would have 
 quoted a Paflage from a Greek Copy, 
 
 which 
 
 * Mill's Annotation on i John v. 7. 
 
[ 127 ] 
 
 which he had not good Reafon to 
 think was a faithful Tranfcript* 
 
 But let the Arguments in fupport 
 of the Authenticity of the Text^ as 
 it (lands in the printed Copies, be 
 admitted, not granted, to be invalid* 
 — ^Let a Charge, unfupported by par- 
 ticular Proof, be allowed in this Cafe, 
 which is denied in any other Cafe 
 whatfoever. — Let the Probability be 
 greater, that the T^ext was interpolat- 
 ed without DeteBio?2j or if deteded, 
 without immediate Complaint made 
 of the Interpolation, rather than that 
 it was omitted through Inadvertence^ 
 incident to the moft careful Copyifts, 
 in Times of greateft TranquilUty j 
 and much more fo in Times of Per- 
 fecution and Diftrefs.- — Let it pafs, 
 that Cyprian could have been fo rafh 
 and inconfiderate, and indeed io un- 
 faithful to his own Reputation, as to 
 
 have 
 
[ 128 ] 
 
 liave produced a Voucher of no Va- 
 lue. — ^Let it be infinuated, that the 
 Copy which the j4frtcan Bifhops 
 jfhewed to King Hu7tneric had been 
 interpolated;— thefe large Conceffions 
 being admitted, not granted, — the 
 Paffage will ftand thus : For there 
 are Three that bear Record m Hea-- 
 <i)e7t^ the Father, the Word, and the 
 Holy Ghost; ajtd thefe Three agree 
 in One. — Now let it be confidered 
 with becoming Attention, who thefe 
 three Heavenly Witneffes are. — The 
 Words of C H R I s T, as it hath been 
 obferved already, are thefe ; I a n d 
 THE Father are ONE. And 
 St Paul teacheth us, that they have 
 07te and the f elf-fame Spirit, John 
 X. 30. compared with Rom. viii. 9. — 
 And with regard to the Agreement 
 of thefe Three in Tefttmony^ let two 
 PaffagesinSty/?/5;^'s Gofpel be brought 
 together, namely, Chap. viii. 1 8. and 
 
 XV, 
 
[ 1^9 ] 
 
 XV. lb. I am One that bear Wttnefi 
 of myfelf\ and the Father that feni 
 me^ beareth Wititefs of 7?te. — When 
 the Comforter is come^ He fhall tef- 
 tify of me, — By the two firft Texts^ 
 John X. 30* Ro77t. viii. 9. it appears, 
 that the Father^- the Wordy- and the 
 Spirit^"" are One in Subftance ; and 
 by the two latter, John viii. 18. and 
 Chap, XV. 1 6. it is declared that they 
 are One in Teftimony. — The fame 
 Doftrine is taught by them, and al- 
 moft in the fame V/ords with the 
 Paflage which is charged with For- 
 gery. — Hence the two following Ob- 
 fervations naturally prefent themfelves 
 to View: (i.) God, who could have 
 preferved the Minds of every parti- 
 cular Tranfcriber of The Bible from 
 committing the leaft Miflake, willed, 
 that the Dodrine concernino; the 
 Divine Essence fliould not de- 
 pend on any one fmgle Text of his 
 
 K Holy 
 
C ^50 ] 
 
 Holy Word. And, (2.) though the 
 Paffage before us, when deprived of 
 the Words thefe Ihree are One^ can- 
 not be brought in direB Proof againft 
 the Oppofers of the Dodrine of the 
 Trinity^ yet, by comparing Spiritual 
 Things with Spiritual, it may be fair- 
 ly afierted, that this prifnary Article 
 of Rehgion is included in the faid 
 Pafiao-e. — Bleffed be the Father of 
 Lights for every good Gift in general, 
 aiid for the Gift of his written Word 
 in' particulari 
 
 ^-^1 rlh^llf^, that the t)(MY^of 
 
 \1ie !7/7>;//y is incomprehenfible, and, 
 
 "^011 this Account, not to be believed. 
 
 The Anfv/cr is : It ought to be coit- 
 
 frdcred moft ferioufly, (i.) Whether 
 
 by this Way of arguing, you do not 
 
 't^clude vourfelf from the Belief of 
 
 Hvhat is revealed concerning the Di- 
 
 ^"'vilie' Attributes.— Tiy your Strength 
 
^[.UI ] 
 
 in the Explication of the Dodlrine of 
 
 the Eter?2ity^ the Om?tifciencej the 
 
 Qmniprejhtce of Jehovah. Canji thou 
 
 by Jearchi?2g Ji?td out God? CanJl 
 
 thou find out the Almighty to Per- 
 
 feEiton f It is high as Heaven^ what 
 
 canJl thou do f deeper than Helly 
 
 what canJl thou know ? Tlje Meafure 
 
 thereof is longer than the Earthy and 
 
 broader than the Sea, — Such Knew- 
 
 ledge is too wonderful^ and excellent 
 
 for us J we cannot attain unto it, — 
 
 God, who alone knoweth whence TVif- 
 
 dom comethy and where is the Place of 
 
 JJnderJlandi72g , fpeaketh thus unto 
 
 Many and faithy Behold I the Fear 
 
 $f:the Lord, that is Wifdo7n\ a7id 
 
 to depart from Evily is Underfiand- 
 
 ji«^.--T>(2. ) To disbeheve a Dodtrine, 
 
 becaufe you do not underftand it, is 
 
 i^o cut yourfelf off from the Bdief 
 
 of every Thing v^hich relates to the 
 
 fpiritual World . — Concerning the 
 
 ^1 K 2 Efience, 
 
[ 132 ] 
 
 Effence, the Mode of Exiffence, tfie 
 Mode of Adion, oi 2i fpiriuial Sub-^ 
 jlance^ ( called from his Office— an 
 Angela or Mejfenger^) the Philofo- 
 pher knows as much as the Child, 
 and the Child knows as much as the 
 Philofopher. Ht^.w 
 
 Many are the ifinigmas which ferve 
 to huhible the Mind of Man, im- 
 merfcd in Senfc, and infeebled by 
 Paffions — And, ( 3. ) Our Ignorance-- 
 is manifeft, not only as to fpiritual^ 
 but alfo as to material Objefts. •t;^^^ 
 *^ We have no very adequate Notions 
 of the Manner of Unity, even as to 
 material Beings. For each material^ 
 Being, however One in fome relpedt, 
 in another, is an Infinity of Beings, 
 as it is infinitely divifible! How 
 much more muft we be at a Lofs to 
 
 afcertain 
 
C '33 I 
 
 afcertain the Manner of the Divine 
 Unity ^ ? " 
 
 With regard to our own Species, 
 every Individual is Z5oi/ r^i/UL^ecy 
 a threefold Animal. St Pau/j to- 
 ward the Conclufion of his //ry? Epif- 
 tie to the €Wtnt%ia?^s^ prays for them 
 in this manner: Ai^roV ^^ ©eog -? 
 
 ^Yiy K^ TO ^£fJLU^ ctfMifJLTfJcdg or Tn Uci- 
 ^H(r(ct tQ KveJi^ Y\imv IwZ Xe^'^S t^- 
 
 pYl^eif) ' Now the God of Peace Ja?2c 
 tify you wholly ; and may the IVhck. 
 (the whole Portion, or Inheritance ) 
 of you— the ^viKiT^ the Sou Lj ojid 
 the Body, — <^^ preferred blamelefs 
 unto the Coming of our Lord Jesus 
 Chris t. Each of thefe three Parts 
 of Man, in fome refped is One, and 
 uis:^"i- K 3 ii^ 
 
 * SEi:D's Seventh Sermon at Lady Mover's 
 Lcaure, P. 43^. 
 
[ 134 ] 
 
 ih anotfier relpect is nYbit than uHe. 
 Firft, as to the moft excellent Part 
 of him, the Spirit: this, in com- 
 mon with other fpiritual Subftances, 
 confifts of three diftind Properties, 
 namely, of IJnderJlanding^ Will^ and 
 Memory, — Secondly, as to the animal 
 Soul, it is poffefled of the different 
 Pafiions of Love^ Joy:^ Fear^ and Ha- 
 tred, — And with regafd to the lowed; 
 Part of Man, the Body; this, to ufQ 
 the Words of the Apoftle, is not one 
 Member^ hut mairy, — If they were 
 all one Member^ where were the Bodyf 
 But now are they ina7iy Me^nbers^ yet 
 
 but 072e Body^ i Cor, xii, 14,19,20. 
 
 ij to Ji>nj 
 
 Again, that mofl: glorious and mofl: 
 nfefulof all material Beings, thcSunj 
 which, in the beautiful Language of 
 the fweet Pfalmijl of Ifrael^ is ' as a 
 Bridegroom coming out of his Cham- 
 ber^ and rejoiceth as a flro?7g Man to 
 
 run 
 
[ »35 ] 
 
 nin-a Race^ is Subftance, Light, and 
 Heat. Deprived of either of the Jail 
 named Properties, it is no longer the 
 Sun. Suppofe the Light to be def- 
 titute of Heat, or the Heat to be d^f- 
 titute of Light, it is no longer thie 
 Solar Light, or the Solar Hear, — Ja 
 other Words, it is the Nature of that 
 immenfe Luminary to be Subftance, 
 Light, and Heat. 
 
 *: Though the many Relemblances 
 |they are the Words of Dr Wallh,) 
 given by the Fathers and Schoolmen, 
 or by later Writers, are not pretend- 
 ed to be adequately the lame with 
 that of the f acred T^rmityy fas nei- 
 ther will any Thing that v^e can take 
 from finite Being, ) yet are tliey fu.f- 
 ficient to fhew, that there is no In- 
 confiftence in it; which is all that is 
 here incumbent on us to prove. Sup- 
 . pofe we then a cubical Body : in this 
 ;,^ .. K 4 arc 
 
[ ^36 ] 
 
 are three DimtiTdom/ Le/^gtb, Breadth 
 and Heightb^J truly diftinft from each 
 other; and yet but one Cube. The 
 Length is not the Breadth or Heighth, 
 and the Heighth is not the Length, 
 or Breadth : but they are three Di- 
 inenGons truly diftinft from each other, 
 yet are all three but one Cube, — 
 There is no Inconfiftence, therefore, 
 that what in one regard are three, 
 (three Dimeniions,) m^y, in another 
 regard, be fo united, as to be but one, 
 (one Cube. ) And, if it may be fo in 
 Corporeals, much more in Spiritu- 
 als^." 
 
 And in hh Second Letter y^^i^^'^X^^ 
 are thefe : — ^' Though we cannot fay 
 (in the Abflracl,) that Length is a 
 Cube, (and fo of the Reft,) yet (in 
 
 ♦ The BQ^rine of the RkpJTrinHy explained^ 
 in a Letter to a Friend. By John Wallis, D.D. 
 (afterward ProfelTor of Mathemics and Geome- 
 try in Oxford) Letter the Firft. 
 
C U7 ] 
 
 the Concrete) this long Thing, (or, 
 this which is long, ) is a Cube ; and 
 fo this which is broad, or this which 
 is high, is a Cube. Juft fo, we do 
 not fay, (in the Abftrad,) that Pa- 
 ternity is God : but (in the Concrete) 
 that the Father is Gop, fand fo of 
 the other Perfons.) The PerfonaHty 
 is not faid to be Gop, but the Per- 
 Ion is. 
 
 ^. The Volume of Nature teacheth, 
 ^that thofe material Beings, which, in 
 rpne regard, are One, in another re- 
 gard, are more than One: and the 
 Volume of Grace teacheth the fame 
 ■^ Thing concerning the Divine E s- 
 ^\^ENCE, The Mode of this Diftinc- 
 tion, and of this Unity in the God- 
 head, is infinitely above the Capacity 
 of finite Creatures to comprehend. — 
 How fhould it be otherways ?— - To 
 declare y<iurfelf able to build a Pa- 
 lace 
 
C 138 ] 
 
 lace without Hands, without Mate- 
 rials, without Skill, is full of the 
 groffeft Abfurdity : But to declare 
 yourfelf able to comprehend H i m, 
 that is infinite in all Perfedions, is to 
 add Impiety to Abfurdity ; it is to be 
 Wife above all the Laws of Creation ; 
 it is to fin againft Nature, even againft 
 the God of Nature. .nuOiiuKj oj 
 
 THE Sum of what hath been 
 collecled from the facred Writings 
 concerning the Doftrine of the Tr i- 
 N I T Y is as followeth. — At our En- 
 trance into the Scriptures of Truths we 
 find plain Intimation of a PluraHty 
 of SoMEWHATS, (which, for want of 
 a fitter Word, are termed Perfons.) in 
 the Godhead. This Intimation is 
 conveyed by the three following Ex- 
 preffions: — ^^Elohim, He created 
 the Heavens and the Earth ; " — 
 '^Elohim,.He faid, Let us make 
 
 ,-)di7 : ^^^^ 
 
I 139 ] 
 
 MliMn^'cfiif Image, after our Like- 
 nefs. ** — ^' Jehovah E l o h i m faid, 
 Behold ! the Man is become as o n e 
 of US." — -When Man had tranfgrefs- 
 ed the exprefs Command of his God ; 
 when, through the Wiles of the De- 
 vil, he had fallen from the original 
 Purity of his Nature, it pleafed God 
 to pronounce this Sentence fpoken to 
 the Tempter, — / will put Enmity 
 hetween Thee and the Wo77tan^ a7td 
 between thy Seed a7td her Seed\ It 
 
 SHALL BRUISE THY HEAD, AND 
 THOU SHALT E R U I S E H I S H E E L. 
 
 The Meaning of tins moft gracious 
 Declaration, had Increafe of Light 
 gradually caft on it, in the fucceed- 
 ing Ages of the World, until, like 
 the Light of the Morning, it fhone 
 unto perfect Day. — When this pro- 
 mifed Seed of the Woman, tlie Son 
 of THE V I R G I N, ( the Time and 
 the Place ' of whofe Nativity, whofe 
 """^ Tribe, 
 
[ I40 ] 
 
 Tribe, and whofe Family, with other^ 
 Particulars, are diRindly foretold,) 
 made his public Appearance as the 
 promifed Mejftas, H e fpeaks of him- 
 felf, and H e is fpoken of by others, 
 in Terms which evince that He is 
 one of the Perfons plainly intimated 
 by Mofes to be in Jehovah, the one 
 living, and true God, 
 
 A little before this divine Reflorer 
 of fallen Man fuffered himfelf to be 
 taken, and by wicked Hands to be^ 
 crucified and flain. He comforted 
 the Hearts of his forrowful Dtfciples.^ 
 with the Promife, that He would 
 not leave them as Or/?/6^;^^,--deftitute 
 of Advice, Support, and Comfort. — 
 He told them, that He would fend 
 unto them another Paraclete, fJd" 
 vifer^ Exhorter^ Advocate^ Comforter^) 
 who would plead his Caufe ;— would 
 lead them into ail Truths and would 
 
 give 
 
[ Ht ] 
 
 give them a Mouth,and WIfdom,which 
 all their Adverfaries fliould not be able 
 to gainfay, nor refift. 
 
 On the Day of Pentecoji^ the pro- 
 mifed Comforter came down from 
 Heaven,— imparted unto the Apofiles 
 the Gift of Tongues,— the Gift of 
 Healingj— w^ith divers other fuperna- 
 tural Gifts* and indued them with 
 Courage and Conftancy unto Death, 
 to bear Witnefs, that the crucified 
 Je s u s of Nazareth was rifen from 
 the Dead; and that He is the Mes- 
 siAs, the Seed of the Woman, the 
 Son OF THE Virgin, foretold by Mofesy 
 the Pfalmifisy and the Prophets. — 
 The Perfonality, and the Divinity of 
 this Advocate of the Chriftian Caufe, 
 are evinced by the Tenor of the whole 
 fecond Treatife of St L,uke^ and by the 
 other divinely-infpired Writers of the 
 New Teftament. — The Attempt to 
 
 deceive 
 
%4!% ]l 
 
 deceive the H o l y Ghost was pU- 
 niiliccl with immediate Death. — To 
 fin againft Him, by imputing hisWorks 
 to the Power oi Beelzebub^is pronoun- 
 ced by Christ to be Sin unpar- 
 donable, -^xij io ^oibH 
 
 Jbiis ^"iii^sK ^ MiH o1 fiodh 
 
 ^y^^Paid teacheth, that He is th^ 
 
 Spirit of the Father, and x}^^ Spirit 
 of Christ; that VLe fearcheth alt 
 7'hi77gSy even the deep Things cf God j 
 and that as the Spirit of Man know- 
 eth the Things of a Man^fo the Spirit 
 OF God kjwweth the Things of God. 
 - — H E is the Spirit of Life,— the 
 Spirit of Holiness,— the Spirit ojf 
 , G lory. ~^- The incommunicable At- 
 tributes of Eternity^ Omnifcience^ and 
 Om?2iprefencey are afcribed to Him.— - 
 ^At the Baptifm of Chrifi^ the Father 
 fpeaketh, the Son is fpoken of, and 
 .the Holy Ghost defcendeth. — He, 
 i with the Father^ and the Son. is the 
 Ik Objed 
 
[ U3 ] 
 
 Objed of the Faith, and of the Wor- 
 (hip of Chrijiians. — The Form of 
 Baptifm prefcribed by Chriji himfelf, 
 runs equally in the Name of the Son, 
 and of the Holy Ghost, with the 
 Name of the Father. — And the Pe- 
 tition to H I M for his Communion and 
 FellowJIjip^ is joined with the Petition 
 to the Son for his Grace^ and with 
 the Petition to the Father for his 
 "Love. — When the Time was fully 
 come, that the Redeemer^ and the Sane- 
 Itifier of Mankind came into the World 
 for the divine Purpofe of purchafing 
 '^nd (ecuring Man's Salvation, it was 
 then clearly revealed, that the Ex- 
 preiFiOns in the Beginning of the Pe7i^ 
 '^taleuch^ are hot to be refolved into 
 'Modei of Speech peculiar to the 
 ^'Mnguage in which they were writ- 
 ten; nor into' human Cuftom ; nor 
 into any other Caufe, than that of 
 
 ^the With of H 1 M, who hath caufed 
 
 1: -jU all 
 
t H4- ] 
 
 iali Holy Scriptures to be written fdr 
 our Learning. 
 
 The divine Prefcience hath guard- 
 ed thofe feveral Expreffions, which 
 fet forth the Son and the Holy 
 G H o s T in Terms of Inferiority to 
 Him from whom they voluntarily 
 came, by divers others, which fpeak 
 of them in Terms of Equality with 
 Him. 
 
 The Three diftinft^ divine Perfons^ 
 in the One eternal, undivided Elfence^ 
 are fet forth to us under the Names 
 of Father, Son, and Spirit; by 
 which we are taughtj that they are 
 the fa7ne in Nature^ confequently, in 
 Will, and Power, and in all Perfec- 
 tions. — How this Trinity is in Unity^ 
 and this Unity is in Trinity, is one 
 of the fecret Things which belong unt6 
 
 the 
 
f '45 ] , 
 
 the Lord : that the Divine Eflence 
 is Tri-une, is one of thofe 7hi?tgs 
 which are revealed \ and as fuchy be- 
 longs to usy and to our Children for 
 ever. 
 
 T O conclude : The pious Cafe 
 which the Church of England hath 
 taken to preferve the Dodrine of the 
 Trinity inviolate, is vifible in this. 
 — She requireth of all thofe, who are 
 admitted to be Difpenfers of the 
 Word and Sacraments within her Pale, 
 that in pubHc folemn manner, they 
 give moral Security concerning their 
 Belief of this Dodlrine, (the Bulwark 
 againft Deifm, and whereon depends 
 the Dodrine of Satisfad:ion to the 
 Divine Juftice for the Debt of Sin) 
 in the Words following. — " There 
 ""^is but One living and true God, 
 '^ Everlafting, without Body, Parts, 
 L " or 
 
[ 146 ] 
 
 " or Paffion : of infinite Pov/er, Wif- 
 *^ dom, and Goodnefs : The Maker 
 *' and Preferver of all Things, both 
 " Vifible and Invifible. And in Unity 
 *' of this Godhead there be Three 
 " Perfons of one Subftance, Power, 
 *' and Eternity; the Father, the 
 ^' Son, and the Holy Ghost. " 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
[ 147 3 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 AS the Sevejt Letters of Dr 
 Wallis concerning the Blefled 
 Tr I N I T y, and alfo T^he Critical Hif- 
 tory of the Athanafian Creed, by Dr 
 Waterland^ are fuppofed to be out 
 of Print ; it is thought, that the fol- 
 lowing Extrads from thefe Treatifes 
 may not be unacceptable, nor unfer- 
 viceable to thofe who are not poflefs- 
 ed of them. 
 
 LETTER the Third. 
 
 '^ WE call it commonly the Atha- 
 najian Creed * ; not that we are cer- 
 tain 
 
 * None of the Learned at this Day make any 
 queftion, but that the Creed was originally a 
 Latin Compoliire The Style, and Phralcology 
 
 L 2 of 
 
[ ,48 ] 
 
 tain It was penned (jult in this rormj 
 by Athaiiafius himlclf; for of this 
 1 find that Learned Men are doubt- 
 ful : But that it was penned either 
 by hirnfelf, or by fome other about 
 that Time, according to the Mind 
 and Doctrine of Athanafius. Inhke 
 manner, as what we call the Apojlles 
 Creeds we take to be penned very 
 anciently, according to what Doc- 
 trines 
 
 of the Creed, its early Reception among \\\^La- 
 tins^ while unknown to the Greeks :—T\\q. Anti- 
 quity and Number of the Latin Manufcripts, 
 and their Agreement (for the mod part) with 
 each other ; compared with the Latenefs, the 
 Scarcenefs, and the Difagreement of the Greek 
 Copies; all concur to demonftrate, that this Creed 
 Avas originally a Latbi Compofure, rather than a 
 C/e^ek one. 
 
 " I have before intimated, that this Creed 
 was originally Latin^ and therefore the Greek 
 Copies can be no miOre than Verfions. " Wa- 
 terlandV Critical Ui^iory^ P. 48, and 6(^, 
 
[ M9 ] 
 
 trines the Apofilcs had taught them, 
 though not perhaps in thofe very 
 Words. 
 
 Thofe damnatofj Claufcs fas they 
 are called,) rightly underllood, are 
 not fo formidable as fome would 
 pretend, as if, becaufe of them, the 
 whole Creed ought to be laid afide. 
 For, in brief, it is but thus : The 
 Preface and the Epilogue tell us, 
 that '^ Whofo would be faved,.it is 
 '^ neceflary, or (he ought) to hold 
 " the Catholic Faith;' ^'VVhich Faith, 
 ^^ except he keep whole and undeh!- 
 ^^ ed, (or fafe and inviolate,} he ih:iil 
 /^ perifh evcrlaftingly ; " or, which 
 *' except he believe faithfully, lie can- 
 ^^ not be fayed." Vv-hich is no more 
 fevere than that of our Saviour, Mark 
 XV i. 16. He that believeth /lot^ JJjall 
 be damned, 
 
 L 3 Fie 
 
[ MO ] 
 
 He then inferts a large Declaration 
 of the Catholic Faith, efpecialjy as to 
 two main Points, that of the Trinity, 
 and that of the Incarnation. And 
 if all that he there declares be true, 
 (as I think it is,) we have then no 
 Reafoa to quarrel with it on that 
 Account. But he doth not fay, that a 
 Man cannot be faved, who doth not 
 know nor undcrftand every Particu- 
 lar thereof. — Of the firft, he fays 
 but this ; ^' Fie that would be faved, 
 ought thus to think, or let him thus 
 think of the Trmity y namely, that 
 the Unity in Trinity, and the Trinity 
 in Unity, ought to be worfhipped. " 
 — Of the Second, vAizt he fays is 
 this ; '' Furthermore, it is neceffary 
 to everlafting Salvation, that he be- 
 lieve rightly the Incarnation of the 
 Lord Jesus Christ." Which is 
 no more fevere than that of our Sa- 
 viour : 
 
[ '5x ] 
 
 viour : He that believeth 7:ot the Son, 
 pall not fee Life ; but the Wrath of 
 God abideth on him^ becaufe he hath 
 not believed on the Name of the only- 
 begotten Son of G o Dj whom God 
 hath fent into theWorld^that theWorld 
 through him might be faved^ Jolm iii. 
 17)1^5—36. — Befide tlicie, there are 
 no damnatory Claufes in the Whole r 
 all the reft are but declaratory : And 
 if what he declares be true, we have 
 no Reafon to find Fault with fuch 
 Declaration. 
 
 hi\.o^\tHypoflattcd Union-, how 
 God and Man can be united in one 
 Perfon ; — we have no Reafon to con- 
 clude the Thing impoflible, becaufe 
 we know not how it is done : Becaufe 
 there be many other Things in Na- 
 ture, which we are fure to be, of which 
 we are ahnoft at as great a Lofs, as 
 
 to 
 
[ ^52 ] 
 
 to the manner how they be, as in the 
 prefent Cafe* And fhall we fay of 
 the deep Things of Go d^ ^^ The Thing 
 is impoffible, becaufe we cannot find 
 it out f " — By what Handle can a 
 Spirit that is intangible, take hold of 
 a tangible, material Body, and give 
 Motion to it? Efpecially if wq ijippl4 
 admit of Lucretius\ Notion ; ^ tr:.. 
 
 'TangerCy vel tangi^ nift Corpus^ nulla poteft Res, 
 
 (which he repeats almoll as often as 
 Hofner doth his tov J^' >s?7D^«^of/S|^(^,) 
 who doth thence repute it impollible 
 for an immaterial Being to move a 
 Body. But we, who believe the Soul 
 to be a Spirit, know it to be pof- 
 fible. .^^ 
 
 Another Objedlion is tjii§ : 
 
 VfKM All) ,t^-il 'U. M.G r 
 
 I Since the Three Perfons cannot be 
 divided, how is it poilible that one 
 
 of 
 
[ '53 ] 
 
 of them can aflume Humanity, and 
 not the other ? And why the Second 
 Perfon, and not the Firft, or Third ? 
 As to the Queftion, Why f I fay, it 
 is fo, becaufe fo it pleafcd God: 
 and He giveth ?tot Account of any 
 of his Matters^ Jobxxxiii. 13. — He 
 is not accountable to us why He fo 
 willed. — As to the Queftion, How 
 is it pofTible ? I fee no Difficulty at 
 all in that. The Perfons are diftin- 
 guifhed, though not divided. And 
 accordingly, fome Things are faid to 
 be the Effeds of his Juftice, others 
 of his Mercy. So the Power, and 
 Will of God, (both which are indi- 
 vidual from himfelf. ) But, when 
 we fay, God is Omnipotent, we do 
 not fay He is Omnivolent. He wills 
 indeed all Things that are, elfe they 
 could not be: But He doth not will 
 all Things pofilble. — If w^e therefore 
 
 do 
 
[ 154 ] 
 
 do but allow as great Diftinaion be- 
 tween the Perfons, as between the 
 Attributes, (and certainly it is not 
 lefs, but fomewhat more,) there is no 
 Incongruity in afcribing the Incar- 
 nation to one of the Perfons, and 
 not to the Reft. * 
 
 As to the damnatory Part, we have 
 fhewed, that it is no more fevere than 
 other PaiTages in Scripture, and to be 
 underiiood with the fame Mitigations 
 as they are. And confequently, the 
 whole Creed, as hitherto, may juftly 
 be received. " Thus far Dr Wallis. 
 
 WITH regard to the Words«- 
 " T'his is tha Catholic Faithj which^ 
 except a Man believe faithfully^ he 
 cannot be faved. " — Dr JVaterland\ 
 Comment is as foUoweth. '^ This is 
 to be underftood, Hke all other fuch 
 Xi general 
 
[ '55 ] 
 
 general Propofitions, with proper Re- 
 ferves, and qualifying Conftrudions. 
 As for Inftance ; if, after laying down 
 a Syftem of Chriftian Morality, it be 
 faid, " This is the Chriftian Prac- 
 tice, which, except a Man faithfully 
 obferve and follow, he cannot be fav- 
 ed : " it would be no more than rip-ht 
 and juft thus to fay : But no one 
 could be fuppofed hereby to exclude 
 any fuch merciful Abatements or Al- 
 lowances, as fhall be made for Mens 
 particular Circumftances, Weaknefles, 
 Frailties, Ignorance, Inability, or the 
 like : or for their fincere Intentions, 
 and honeft Defires of knowing, and 
 doing the whole Will of God, ac- 
 companied with a general Repent- 
 ance of their Sins, and a firm Re- 
 liance upon God's Mercy through 
 the fole Merits of Christ Jesus. 
 There can be no Doubt, however, but 
 
 S(\^ 
 
[ '56 ] 
 
 that Men are accountable for theii 
 Faith, as well as for their Praftice : 
 And efpecially, if they take upon 
 them to inftruft and diredt others^ 
 trufting to their own Strength and 
 Parts, againft the united Judgment 
 and Verdict of whole Churches, an- 
 cient and modern. " 
 
 THE END, 
 
 R R A T A. 
 
 Page 11. Line 7. de 
 
 P 14. 1, 16. ana P. 1 5'V. 6. in^^^^f StUe, read Style, 
 
 P. 26. I, 21. inftead ct th)\Sktpi^chofe Bea/]s which, read tho/e Beajft 
 
 •whop Skins, &c. ^^ 
 
 P. S3- '• 6. after /^/2«^feiTK£olon 5 ibid, dele /», and 1. 7. inftead of 
 
 Comma zhzxr^fiiied to^ pJae<e it after by Chrift. 
 P. 55. l^i^^ead of Sfventb^^lajiiy, read Sc-uir.thly arJlaJily, 
 P. 96^/irio. inftead of outrun, xtTibs^utran, 
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