adds, vir. 23, I will fet up ONE shepherd over them, and He shall feed them, (even) My fervant [DaviD] the BELOVED; HE shall feed them, and HE fhall be their SHEPHERD. But how this can be reconciled with their having ONE fhepherd, unless this Jeнovaн and this [DaviD] BELOVED are united and fo ONE, 1 fee not. Accordingly the word for ONE fignifies an UNITED ONE, that is ONE with HIM, and [v] in conjunction; in which view the text contradicts not other SS, but only imports that this perfon would fet up this UNITED ONE, and that in conjunction as thus ONE the [true DaViD] BELOVED fhould feed them, &c. as faid in Mat. ii. 6. Whence it follows in ver. 24, I Jeнovaн, that promifed, ver. 12, to [be the true OSHEA] SAVE them, will be their GOD [and or] in conjunction with My fervant [David] the BELOVED [NesHIA] an exalted PRINCE among them as A. v. 31. and thus they were to know that Jehovaн was affociate with them, ver. 29. Again in c. xxxvii. 23, 24, ONE KING fhall be king to them all 1 (the [ADONI 3, 5, 9, 12, 19, 21, Lord or DIRECTOR) will SAVE them - and CLEANSE them: so shall they be My people, and I will be their GOD [and or] in conjunction with the [DaviD] BELOVED MY fervant, the KING over them. And what directs the application of this text to this perfon the speaker fays My tabernacle [G. ikene]

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fhall be with them referred to Joh. i. 14, and declared we fee fulfilled by JESUS HIMSELF, Rev. xxi. 3. And in Hof. iii. 4, 5, GOD fays, what has been fulfilled, the children of ISRAEL fball abide many days without a king and without a prince and without a facrifice and without an image and without an ephod and without [TERAPHIM the fhadows of the Divine MAJESTY HEALERS: afterward fhall the children of ISRAEL return, and feek Jeнovaн their GOD (and [] v or) in conjunction with [DaviD] THE BELOVED their KING, &c. united as a nail is with what it connects, (for which [] v is also used); whofe bodily tabernacle, though to fall a facrifice, was to be ra fed up, Amos ix. 11, Act. xv. 16, and who was to stand up and feed IN the STRENGTH or POWER of Jeнovaн, IN the Majefty of the NAME of Jeнovaн, this person and thus UNITED be the PEACE, Mic. v. 5. Thus the declarations in the N. T. that JESUS IS Jeнovaн, the [JE] ESSENCE, the GOD, are made in the very flyle of the O. T. Some of which, urged, as I doubt not they were by the apofiles, among other proofs that JESUS was the CHRIST, i.e. ANOINTED of and with JeHovaн, had their effect on thousands, nay myriads of the JEWS, and on a great company of the priests, making them obedient to the faith that He was their LORD and GOD. So that we need not wonder this important article was not only fo repeatedly

repeatedly infifled on, fo ftrenuously maintained by the primitive writers, but should also be afferted even by the Talmudifts, who Paul, (in his answer to R. Fechiel's objection" that what was "faid by them was not spoken of the GoD of "the CHRISTIANS, but of another CHRIST,") fays

have acknowledged JESUS the MESSIAH, "and confeffed HIM to be both GOD and "Man," Difp. R. Fechiel, &c. in Wagenfeil's Ign. Satan. p. 16. We may rather be surprized Limborch's JEW fhould be fo ignorant of the lively oracles, and these writers, as to conceit JEsus made no declarations of His being the GOD of ISRAEL, and think that a novel opinion which is as antient as their church, or that Limborch fhould have made to him any conceffions of this fort. Becaufe either the CHRIST must be this GOD or thefe SS and their Talmuds would be falle. For thefe evince HE is this GoD, and of course what JESUS has been proved to fignify, THE ESSENCE THE SAVIOR.

The apoftles too clearly refer to it, if they do not tranflate the word thus for the benefit of the CHRISTIANS, who only understood the GREEK. For St. Paul in Phil. iii. 20, entitles HIM the SAVIOR, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, who shall change our vile body, that it may be like unto His glorious body, GR. the body of THE GLORY of HIM. And as in 1 Tim. i. 1, he ftyles HIM [ELISHA] GOD THE SAVIOR of us and our

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LORD JESUS CHRIST, fo he calls HIM in Tit. i. 4, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST THE SAVIOR of us, giving us in both places the H. name in GREEK, which He defcribes in c. ii. 14, as the GREAT GOD and our SAVIOUR JEEUS CHRIST joined, as fhewn in p. 121.

St. PETER alfo in 2 Ep. i. 2, entitles HIM our GOD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, and in c. iii. 16, our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, which could not be true, if JESUS was not [JE] THE ESSENCE, and so our [ADoNI] LORD, which He is called in this and many other paffages, evincing HIM to be, what ADONI and JE in the title of His type ADONIJaн or Jɛ mean, THE LORD or DIRECTOR

THE ESSENCE.

Lastly, the distinctions He is known by throw no little light on the propriety of this name, if confidered according to the sense of the H., to which the Greek of the N. T. has a particular respect. (a) For first, He is ftyled the son OF GOD, Jo. i. 49. The word for son, though in Dan. iii. 25, as in Pf. ii. [3(b) BeR], was doubtless here BeN, which is in H." to build up" or "conftruct," and as a noun fignifies "one constructed of another," as a fon; importing HIM the Man conftructed or confifling, as we say, of God, this DIVINE perfon; whence

(a) So Bishop Hare remarks.

(8) As the jeparated, so chofen and pure one.

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the Jews knowing this its import might well understand this title to denote HIM, though Man, yet GOD, as the primitive writers also did, as well as on account of His relation to the first person in the covenant of grace. Indeed the title is what thofe of His types fignified, [BN] the SON, I C. xv. 18, [BeNaJaн] THE SON THE ESSENCE, the name of several typic perfons, &c.

2. HE is called the SON OF MAN, which in H. is BeN ADAM, and according to the ufage of the tongue denotes Him as this God, this ANTIENT OF DAYS, conftructed or confifling of the Man, which He affumed, and is almost always used for HIM as fuch. This appears more clearly from confidering

3. HE is diftinguifhed as the SON OF David, [H. Ben DaviD]; to fignify HIM, as GOD the [ADONI] LORD, to be conftructed, not only of Man, but of a particular man, of the typic David according to the flesh in accomplishment of the promises, and also of the Man that was and is, like the type, truly [DaviD] THE BELOVED in whom we are accepted, Eph. i, 6. And hence it is we find the [EL] GOD and [DED] the BELOVED joined in the titles of the types EL-DAD, Num. xi. 26, and ELI-DAD, c. xxxiv. 21.

4. He is described as the SON OF GOD'S LOVE Col. i. 13; which according to the ufage of