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(fee p..) with whom were the [URIM and THUMMIM] Lights and perfections, Deut. xxxiii. 8, and in whom Je was, Pf. lxviii. 17, and who is ftyled Jenovaн the Redeemer, Is. xlix. 7. Hof. xi. 9.

5. The HUSBAND (2 Cor. xi. 2. Rev. xxi. 2,) or BRIDEGROOM of His church is another character of HIS, which is notoriously that of Jeнovaн, called JE, Jer. xxxi. 32, Is. liv. 5. If. lxii. 5.

6. THE JUDGE [H. (a) SHаPHAT] is another of his titles, not merely as a man, but as the SON of man, Joh. v. 27, who came down from, and though on earth was and is in heaven, c. iii. 13, i. e. as the GOD-man. For the Jews know from Gen. xviii. 25, Jud. xi. 17, Pf. vii. 11, cx. 6, 1 S. 2. 10, f. iii. 13, the JUDGE was to be Jeнovaн and [EL] GOD; or, as in Alts i. 7, 30, 31, GOD by that Man whom he has ordained, and from their fabbath, Pfalms xcvi. 13, xcvii. 2, xcviii. 9. 2, c. xix. 6, 8. Therefore calling HIM fo was proclaiming HIM this [EL] GOD, this JeHoVaH [JE] the ESSENCE prefigured by His types [JeHosHаPHаT (b)] THE ES

SENCE

(a) The name of the typic ruler and bead, Num. xiii. 6, 25, of him of whom the typic [ELISHA] GOD THE SAVIOR was constructed in the character of fon, 1 K. xix. 16, thro (ELI-JAH or JE) the GOD THE ESSENCE anointing or making him a CHRIST in figure; of a defcendent of [DAVID] THE BELOVED I C. iii. 22-4 of a typic chief, c. v. 12, and c 27, 29.

(b) The name of the typic king, 1 K. xv. 2, 4, recorder,

SENCE THE JUDGE, and [SHEPHаTIAH] [or JE] (c) THE JUDGE THE ESSENCE, [ELISHAPHAT] THE INTERPOSING GOD THE JUDGE, 2. C. xxvi, 61. Which indeed the defcriptions of His coming fhew HIM, Rev. c. xi. 12, c. xv. 5, 7, xix. 11, xxii. 12, 13.

7. This is clear from His title of KING, Luk. xix. 38, Joh. xviii. 37, xix. 19. KING of ISRAEL, KING of kings in Rev. xix. 19. For this perfon repeatedly claims it, and predicts He would be king, and His types have accordingly the names [MaLCHIJаH] THE KING THE ESSENCE I C. vi. 30, & al. [MeLCHI-EL] THE KING THE INTERPOSING GOD, Gen. xlvi. 17, [ELIMELECH] THE INTERPOSING GOD THE KING, Rut. i. 2. & al.

8. HE is called THE LIFE, Joh. i. 4, c. xi. 25, The (o ZON) LIVING ONE, Rev. i. 18, the title of this [EL] GOD in [HI-EL] the LIVING GOD I K. xvi. 34.

9. THE LIGHT, the TRUE LIGHT (H. AUR, SHEMOSH) Joh. i. 8, 9, the titles of this JE, Pf. xxvii. 1, which they looked for HIM under, Mal.

2 1. viii. 16;-3. officer over the household and provider for the king and his boufe, 1 K. iv. 17 ;-4 of the valley or deep-laid or lowly nature, Joel iii. 4.

(c) The name 1. of the typic fon of Dav1D, 2 S. iii. 4—2, and 2. prince, Jer. xxxvii. 1,- of one whofe children came up from the figurative captivity, Ezr. ii. 4, 8, 8, 4 of the bead of the typic boufe, 1 C. iii. 8. 12 ; — 5 of the helper of [DaviD] the BELOVED.

Mal. iv. I; and given to His types [URJAH or JE] THE LIGHT THE ESSENCE and [URIEL] THE LIGHT THE INTERPOSING GOD, and to [SAMSON] THE LIGHT.

10. HE is ftyled THE NAME, Joh. xii. 28, xvii. 6. & al. (H. SHeM), THE NAME OF THE LORD, Act. ii. 21. & al. (H. SHeм JeнOVан) which the Jews knew to be the Old Teftament titles of this perfon placed and dwelling in the temple, the figure of CHRIST's body, (See p. 34,) in and with whom He was to come truly as the prophet did typically; for a disregard to whom in this bodily temple the Jews were to be dispersed and plagued, Deut. xxviii. 59, 64, and whom they never are to fee till they fhall fay, bleed is HE that cometh in or with the NAME (SHEM Jeноvaн) Mat. xxiii. 39, as the multitude cried, Luk. xix. 38. Which, as it fhews us why we fo often meet with these phrafes, the NAME of JESUS, Acts iv. 13, and the Son of GOD I I. v. 13, and why fuch a ftrefs is laid on believing and praying in this NAME, Joh. i. 12, iii. 18, c. xx. 31, 1 I. iii. 23, &c. proves alfo [JE] THE ESSENCE was in JESUS, as do his types [SAMUEL] THE NAME OF HIM THE INTERPOSING GOD, [SH MIDA] THE NAME TO BE KNOWN, Joh. xvii. [SHeм] THE NAME.

11. HE is ftyled THE POWER OF STRENGTH [H. oz.] of the LORD of GOD, 1 Cor. i. 24, a title

a title answering to that in Pf. xxvii. 1 and to thofe of His types [Uzziaн or JE] THE

STRENGTH or STRONG ONE THE INTERPO

SING ONE THE ESSENCE [UZZIEL] THE STRONG ONE THE INTERPOSING GOD [AmaZIAH] THE MIGHTY ONE THE ESSENCE.

12. THE ROCK I Cor. x, 4, notoriously the title of this EL, JE JeHovaw, Deut. xxxii. 4, 15, 31, 2 S. xxii. 2, 32, Pf xix. 14, the REDEEMER in c. lxii. 2,- lxxviii. 35. If. xxvi. 4. Hab. i. 12, and of His types, (fee p. 12.)

13. THE SHEPHERD, Job. x. II. which this perfon in Jehovaн promifes to be in Ezek. xxxiv. 11, 22, 23, as well as in I. xl. F. and whofe type was called [REVEL] THE SHEPHERD OF HIM THE INTERPOSING GOD, Ex. ii. 19.

14. THE TRUTH [H. AMEN], the title of this person in Deut. xxxiv. 2, as it is of JEsus Rev. iii. 14, and was fignified by [AMON] THE TRUE ONE, 2 K. ii. 21, 18.

15. THE WISDOM of GOD, I Cor. i. 24. [H. HecHeм] Prov. viii, 12, &c.

16. HE is called THE WORD in Joh. i. 1, [H. DeBER], who was known to be this JeHoVaH, and came and spake by or [en] in the prophets, Heb. i. I. (as He was, as Philo owns to be the priest, (p. 119.) as [AMER] THE SPEAKER. Whence the priests, His types,

were

were called AMeR, Neh. xi. 13, Ezr. ii. 10, and AMARIAH or JE] THE SPEAKER THE All which titles prove the juftness

ESSENCE.

of the interpretation.

But His works are a ftill louder witness. These our LORD appeals to for fo potent a demonflration of this GOD's dwelling in HIM as might produce conviction, where His word and the Baptift's were queftioned, Joh. v. 36, c, x. 38. If I [the man] do not the works of My FATHER (the Divinity), believe Mɛ not. But if I do, though ye believe not ME, believe the works, that ye may know and believe that THE FATHER is IN ME, and I in HIM, c. x. 38. And well might it be put upon this iffue. For these were fuch matters of fact as might command belief that they were the works of ONE who was GOD. Because they were according to the predictions publickly wrought, as the works. of this [JE] ESSENCE and [EL] God, Pf. lxxvii. 12, 15. in the creation, and by the types, MOSES, &c. before thousands and ten thousands, in the face of the fun; that it might truly be faid in that day of the MESSIAH, Sing unto Jeнovaн, (ver. 3 JE) for HE bath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth, If. xii. 6, Pf. xcviii. 2, 3, cxi. 6. Mat. xxi. 15. And the Jews and GENTILES could not, and did not then deny them, Acts ii. 22. but Joh. xi. 47, in full council urged the B b

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