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their banners, Pf. xx. 1, 5, to be praised as holy, xcix. 3; that by which they are to glorify HIM, lxviii. 4, and which was to be great in this true ISRAEL, lxxvi. I. - which was to be polluted, Jer. xiv. 16, and have a heavy burden, If. xxx. 27. yet to be fanctified, Ezek. xxxvi. 23. as the HOLY ONE of JACOB, and the GOD of ISRAEL, If. xxix. 23. and exalted, Zec. xiii. 9; to be called on and made known to all people of the earth, 1 K. viii. 41. and to be dreadful or reverenced among the nations, Mal. i. 6.- for the fake of which GOD fays, I will defer MINE anger, If. xlviii. 9. and DAVID prayed his iniquity to be pardoned, Pf. xxv. II. and himself to be quickened, led and guided, xxxi. 3. cxliii. 12. and faved, liv. 1. as one who trufted in it, and lifted up his hands in it, Pf. lii. 9. lxiii. 4, whilft he complains of foolifh people blafpheming HIM, Ixxiv. 18. and defiling His dwelling-place, Ixxiv. 7. nay, wishing it to perish: the NAME in which the typic priests ministered, Deut. xviii. 5. 22. and blessed the people, xxi. 5, &c. in which CHRIST the BLESSED ONE was to come, Pf. cxiii. 26. (as fulfilled, Mat. xxi. 9. xxiii. 39. Mar. xi. 9. Luk. xiii. 35.) at the time all nations fhould compass HIM about, and HE was to be refused, but made the head of the corner — in a word, the NAME, of which our LORD fpake, when teaching His difciples, who were Jews, to

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pray, He made this their, and our firft petition to Our FATHER which is in heaven, hallowed be thy NAME, not omitting, but enforcing the honour due unto this NAME in HIM, which HE prayed GOD to glorify, Joh. xii. 28. For though it refers to the perfon in CHRIST fo called, yet does it also refer to this title of HIM, to JESUS, because to [JE,] THE ESSENCE in JESUS. And thus what we have deduced from the meaning of JeнOSHUA to be confeffedly the meaning of JESUS, this ANGEL, the Evangelift and thefe Apostles teftify the truth of; namely, that it fignifies THE ESSENCE THE SAVIOR; and that in this light we are, with all the joy of faith, to view HIM.

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CHA P. VIII.

This meaning confirmed also from the accounts of our LORD in the New Teftament, viewed as connected with the Old Teftament, or spoken in HEBREW from His known divine titles and works. The propriety of the latter under it.

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HIS interpretation of the name is agreeable to the accounts of our SAVIOR in the New Teftament. For the ANGEL fays of the Baptift, Luk. i. 15, Many of the children of ISRAEL fhall he turn to the LORD their GOD; and he fhall come before [enopion in the face of] HIM, in the fpirit and power of ELIAS (HEB. EL-IE] GOD THE ESSENCE, of EL, the title of this person, and JE the former part of JESUS) to make ready a people prepared for the LORD, [HEB. JeHoVaH or ADONI, (a) the Old Teftament title of JESUS.] The JEWS then, enquiring after what had happened to ZACHARIAS, and hearing it from him fix months before CHRIST's birth, must have looked for the appearance of this [JE,] LORD, and that HE should be known

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(a) If it is objected that ADONI, Lord or Mafter is applied to men, I answer, it is to men who were types of this perfon.

as He is, in JESUS. After this, in the falutation of the Virgin, the ANGEL having faid, [Hail] Rejoice, thou highly favoured one, has these words (fpoken of the two JeHOSHUAS) the LORD [HEB. JeHoVaH] is WITH thee. A phrase which has been fhewn to reprefent the incarna tion of JeHovaн; and when addressed to her, who must have known the other vision as well as the predictions of the coming of this LORD, could not be understood to mean any thing less than that Hɛ, as predicted, was now affociate with her flesh, and thus making her the bleffed among women. But in JESUS JE is used for JeHovaн; therefore this is faying JE [the ESSENCE] was fo. Besides on her being thoroughly troubled about HIS faying, &c. (a proof the underftood the words had no common import) HE fays, Fear not, for thou haft found favour with GOD, thou (Virgin, referring to Gen. iii. 15. If. vii. 14.) fhalt conceive, and bring forth a son, and (proclaiming HIM another JeHOSHUA) fhalt call the name of HIM (this SON,) JESUS, [JEHOSHUA, THE ESSENCE THE SAVIOR,] and then adds a fimilar reason, For this one ball be (not only as JOHN, great (comparatively) in the fight of the LORD, but abfolutely) the MAJESTY OF GREAT ONE ([HEB. RUB the ANGEL or SENT PERSON Jeнovaн, I. xix. 20. the SAVIOR in c. lxiii. 1, 8, fo named), and (referring to Dan. iii. 25,) HE fhall be called the

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SON [HEB. BeN, i. e. one conflru&ed] of THE HIGHEST (the title of this perfon. Pf. lxxviii. 17, 35. I Cor. x. 4. Dan. vii. 27.) and the LORD GOD will give unto HIM (as promifed Pf. lxxxix. 19, 27, 36, cxxxii. 11.) the throne of His father DAVID, and HE fhall reign or be the KING (which this JE JEHOVаH claims to be, Pf. xlvii. 23. xciii. 1. XCV. 3. xcvi. 1. of courfe the ANGEL of the covenant, as the 70 fay, but as the HEB. defcribes this child born, this SON given, If. ix. 6, THE

WONDERFUL ONE, THE COUNSELLOR, THE

MIGHTY [EL] GOD, &c.) over the house of JACOB for ever, and of His kingdom there fhall be no end, according to Pf. lxxxix. 36. Ixxii. 7, 15, 17, and Ezek. xxxiv. 23. xxxvii. 25, and Dan. vii. 14, 18, 27. On her questioning how it fhould be? He fays, THE HOLY GHOST fhall come on thee, and THE POWER [oz] of the HIGHEST, (1 Sam. xv. 29. which JE is, Ex. xv. 2. I. xii. 2.) fhall overfhadow thee (P xci. 1.); therefore also that HOLY ONE, (the known title of HIM and the fanctuary, in which HE dwelt) which shall be born of thee, shall be called THE SON OF GOD, ver. 35. From which words, recalling to mind the prophecies, if we ask what she understood HIM to be? We have not a plainer confeffion from ELISABETH of His being her LORD, [ADONI, which JE is ftyled), ver. 43, than we have from the

Virgin,

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