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bondage; then rising triumphant, exalted, and crowned with typic glory, bleffing their followers with reft, and giving them an entrance through the deftruction of the enmity and facrifice on the tree into the typic kingdom. This name too we fee was known to be a compound, and has been proved from the occasion of it, from the nature of the language, and from JEWISH and CHRISTIAN writers to fignify THE ESSENCE THE SAVIOR in the flesh and both law and prophets describe Him as fuch, and confirm this interpretation. But the title we find could only be borne by them as figures, and confequently fhould lead all the Jews now, as it has ten thoufands of their fathers, and as it does the CHRISTIAN to look beyond the veil of the letter, for this HOPE of ISRAEL, Ads xxviii. 20, thus pointed out, as Just. Martyr observes, by name near two thousand years before (a) ; for the like glorified fufferer for others fins, for the like JESUS of the New Testament, or covenant in Jer. xxxi. xxxii. xxxiii. for the true MESSIAH or CHRIST, in and with whom this SENT PERSON, the FEARFUL and GLORIOUS NAME JeHovaн was and is; for this GOD of their fathers and of MOSES in the flesh, who faid, I come to thee in a cloud, Ex. xix. 9. that they hear and believe thee for ever;-for the true may but like prophet, and suffering priest, leader or

(a) Cont. Trypbo, p. 340.

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king and judge, effecting the grand redemption. Whence HaBaKKUK, feeing this by faith as already past, as well as pledged in figure, fays, c. iii. 13. THOU wenteft forth for salvation or JESUS [y] WITH THY MESSIAH or CHRIST, according to Aquila the JEW in the fixth edition of his tranflation, THOU cameft out or forth to fave thy people by JESUS THY CHRIST: a verfion which, though rather a paraphrase, befpeaks whom the JEWS in his days looked for in the MESSIAH, and under what name they expected HIM. And the completion of the former things according to the predictions were not only earnests of this falvation, but an affecting proof of the truth of thofe SS, which foretold those new things before they sprung forth, I. xlii. 9, and of there being such ground to hope for their accomplishment, as to afford matter of praise in the prospect, ver. 10. And indeed if it could never be without defign that the two perfons, to have the lead in these memorable redemptions, fhould both bear this name JeнOSHUA, or (as better printed to prefent this truth to every reader) JESUS, and one have it joined to his known title of office, MESSIAH or CHRIST, Lev. vi. 22, and fo put together have the very name JESUS CHRIST-if this design was, as it has been proved and confessed to be, to make each a figure, as a ftar to guide enquirers after the true JESUS; then how culpable fuch

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are as look not for fuch a JESUS, and reject these lights, I need not fay. They evidently cross His defign in those SS, which thus teftify of HIM, and counteract MOSES in writing of HIM; they reject the GoD of ABRAHAM, THE FEAR of ISAAC, THE MIGHTY GOD of JACOB, and Man, THE I AM of MOSES, THE ANGEL in the cloud who led the people, THE FEARFUL and GLORIOUS NAME Jeнovaн, (which we have feen Jeн the firft part of the title called) regardless of the plagues denounced in Deut. xxviii. against fuch ;-they hinder the edification of His myftic temple, and will be found among the fighters against HIM, Zec. xii. 3, to receive a doom, like that of the CANAANITES cut off by JESUS the Son of NUN. What the JEWS then, and we to avoid this guilt and condemnation are to think of CHRIST under this name, may, I hope, be presented with advantage to the serious mind, as drawn from these matters of fact and these certain marks of the true JESUS.

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The meaning of the GREEK name JESUS, and the character fignified by it hence deduced to be THE ESSENCE or EXISTING ONE THE SAVIOR -THE ANGEL's account of the reafon of its being given examined, and shewn to confirm it This proved alfo from St. MATTHEW's account of the design of it from the tef timonies of St. PAUL, St. PETER and St. JOHN.

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F it is fo culpable in the JEw not to expect THE MESSIAH to be what was promifed to their fathers, Acts xxvi. 6, not to seek Jeнovaн, I. xxxi. I, who was to rife (c. xxxii. 16.) that they might say, O Jeнovaн be gracious unto us, we have waited for THEE, be THOU our SALVATION, ver. 2. it is not lefs agreeable to the truth and harmony vifible in all GOD's works, that this PERSON fhould be manifest to work this salvation under the name which He had fo repeatedly affumed, which His types bore and led His people to look for HIM to be distinguished by. Accordingly as the typic salvations that came to pass, each preceded by predietions of them, were effected under two perfons bearing this name of JESUS, fo this great fal

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vation, Heb. ii. of which GOD fpake by all His prophets, is fet forth as effected by another extraordinary perfon, who amidft their like fervitude under the Romans, (figurative of our greater captivity in the chains of our fins,) in the predicted fulness of time, tribe, place and condition prefented HIMSELF, as the JEWS and heathens have owned, amongst other evidences, on that of the correspondency of HIS characters with thofe of the typic perfons, because under the fame name. Indeed HE is fo called with the additions of the fon of DAVID, Mat. xx. 30, &al. JESUS of NAZARETH, JESUS CHRIST of NAZARETH; KING of the JEWS, Mat. xxiii. 11. JESUS of GALILEE, c. xxi. II. to difference HIM (a) from the fons of NUN and JeHOSEDECH: for which purpose we have alfo these phrases, This JESUS hath God raised up, Acts ii. 32. That fame JESUS, whom ye have crucified,

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(a) To mark HIM out alfo as the true CHRIST in contradiftinction to the typic Chrifts we have these phrases, Art THOU the CHRIST, the fon of THE BLESSED? (DIVINITY in Him, HEB. as BaR UK, BaRaCHIAH] THE BLESSED ESSENCE [BARACHI-EL] THE BLESSED INTERPOSING GOD are the names of the types of this GoD-man,) Job. i. 25, If thou be not that CHRIST, iv. 21. Is not this that CHRIST? ver. 42. This is indeed THE CHRIST THE SAVIOR of the world, c. vi. 69. This is the prophet, c. vii. 40. This is the CHRIST, ver. 41. We are fure THOU art that CHRIST, the fon of THE LIVING GOD (in Him, Pf. xlii. 3, 9. HEB. HIEL THE [BeTHELITE] ONE OF THE HOUSE OF GOD, by which name one of the types, who bore the curfe rather than not raife up the accurfed city or nature is called I K. vi. 34.) Do the rulers know indeed that this is the VERY CHRIST. vii. 26,

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