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SS denotes HIM as Man conftructed and confifling of God's love, as being all LOVE to man, because GOD who is LOVE, Joh. iv. 8, 16. O how evidently did His humiliation, birth, life and paffion, &c. for us prove it! how gloriously do His affectionate care of His church, His amazingly kind and repeated invitations of finners to return to GOD by HIM fhine out this confolatory truth, that He is LOVE, matchless LOVE! a truth encouraging our faith, our hopes, our prayers, our rejoicing though in affliction, our fervice even unto death. Thus thefe diftinctions JESUS was known by demonftrate HIM the Man who is alfo GOD, and the GOD or JE "made Man," as those of the fons of NUN and JeHoseDeCH do (fee p. 103, 132.) and thereby further confirm the meaning of the name JESUS.

I urge not here the arguments to be drawn from the correfpondency of His character in other refpects with thofe of the typic perfons fo called in fupport of this meaning: it will appear more properly in the next chapter. But, exclufive of this, we fee we have an abounding of evidence to fhew the juftness and propriety of the interpretation. The neceffity of the context, the ufage of the language, the conceffions of foes as well as friends, the accounts of the types who bore it, as well as the names of others, the predictions of the prophets, the reafon af

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figned by the ANGEL, the teftimonies of St. MATTHEW, St. PAUL and St. PETER, the feveral descriptions of His perfon, the acknowledgments of multitudes, His titles, His wonderful works, the express and remarkably worded declarations of the union of the DIVINE and human natures in His perfon, as well as the diftinctions he was known by, do all confpire to put this beyond doubt, and to prove that JESUS IS THE ESSENCE THE SAVIOR.

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The teftimony this name bears in general to the world in particular to the JEWS, fhewing the MESSIAH must have appeared under this name as the fucceffor to MOSES; - that His character as recorded in the N. T. is proper and neceffary to HIM as JESUS, and fo demonftrates HIM to be the MESSIAH; that they must give up their law and prophets, or own HIM; their capital objections answered, and them proved to be felf-condemned;-their disbelief of HIM a rejection of the LORD GOD of their fathers. their guilt upon their own principles idolatry, and the SS cause of their great forrows; an invitation of them to return and call upon this NAME JeHovaн, in this glorious temple of CHRIST's body. — Its teftimony to the nations, fhewing Arians, Soci. nians and Mahometans refuted out of their own mouths; ·JESUS only as this ESSENCE THE SAVIOR a proper object of faith and hope, prayer and love; - His proceedings as THE JUDGE, the name imports HE will be, to turn upon our having received HIM as fuch or not; the deplorable fate it reprefents unbelievers in ;the prefent and future confolation and victory the immortality, inheritance and reft it implies His people fall in their own bodies enjoy;

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-fome plain and fhort directions to enable the reader of the O. T. to fee CHRIST to his profit the fubject of the whole. An exhortation to obey HIM in one body in the expectation of His glorious appearance.

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and earth are for the justness and propriety of interpreting this name JESUS, THE ESSENCE OF EXISTING ONE THE SAVIOR, their multitude is not greater than that of the confolations there are in the moft awful, most delightful and divine teftimony it bears to the world, to JEWS and GENTILES, and which, that we might more readily believe and enjoy them, GOD by this cloud of witneffes would make alfo molt convincing.

To the world, the fallen world what tidings can be more calculated to call forth our moft profound reverence, to fill our fouls with melody and joy, to provoke our warmest love? For who in the heaven can be compared unto Jeнovan? or among the fons of the mighty can be likened unto Jeнovaн? Pf. lxxxix. 6. THE [EL] INTERPOSING GOD greatly to be feared, ver. 7. Becaufe if the difparity between the fmalleft atom and the whole creation is not a ten million part fo great as that between HIM and the most powerful monarch, had he all the nations tributary to him, if all these nations are but as a drop

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of the bucket, and counted as the small duft of the balance, nay are before HIM as nothing, nay less than nothing, I. xl. 15, 16. how great, how inconceivably great must be the difiance between His divine MAJESTY and an individual, and this individual a sinner. Yet fuch (O! who is not self-abased to bend to Hrm before whom the heavens bow and rocks tremble!) fuch does this name proclaim our bleffed LORD, not a mere man, or illustrious faint, not a created angel or Spirit, but this [EL] INTERPOSING GOD, ONE of the most holy PERSONS, the [JE] Divine ESSENCE, Jeнovaн, for whom the high-way was to be prepared, the GLORY JeHovaн, that was to be feen, If. xl. 3, 5, (aftonishing humiliation!) on earth; and this not now with a peftilence before HIM or burning coals at His feet, not with the lightnings of indignation to drive afunder the nations, to burn up the ungodly and fcatter the everlafling mountains, not to rend the earth under a rebel race, that they might go down quick into hell gaping wide to meet them. No, this name difpels the tormenting fears of almighty vengeance, that may well haunt the guilty breaft on the notice of the advent of this GOD; it encourages men to lift up their heads in humble faith of His freely difpenfed grace; it diffolves them into love, pure, fervent and abiding love. For as it was given by HIM, who so repeatedly faid Fear not, so it also proclaims

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