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ting, For the Lord God will help me, therefore fhall I not be confounded; therefore have I fet my Face like a Flint, and I know that I shall not be afbamed, he is near that justifyeth me. And again, They parted my Garments among them, and caft Lots Pfal. 21. upon my Vesture; they pierced my Hands and my Feet. I laid me down and slept, and rofe again Pfal. 3. 6. for the Lord raifed me. And again, They fhoot Pf.21.8,9. out the Lip, and shake the Head, faying, Let the Lord deliver him. All which you may plainly fee was fufill'd in Chrift by the Jews; for while he was crucifying, they diftorted their Lips, and wagging their Heads, fay'd, He that Matt. 27. raifed the Dead, let him fave himself.

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XLIX. When the prophetick Spirit perfonates a Prophet in foretelling things to come, he fpeaks thus: Out of Sion shall go forth a Law, If.11.3,&€ and the Word of the Lord from Jerufalem, and he fhall judge among the Nations, and shall rebuke many People, and they shall beat their Swords into Plough-fhares, and their Spears into pruning Hooks; Nation fhall not lift up Sword against Nation, neither shall they learn War any more. And that this Scripture was thus fulfilled, you have good Grounds to believe; for there went out of Jerufalem into the World, Men in number but twelve, and thofe too, Men of no Learning, and of as little Eloquence, but they went forth in the Power of God, and publish'd to every Nation, that they were fent to inftruct 'em in the Word of God, and fent by Christ. And this has had fo good an Effect, that we, who heretofore were continually devouring each other, will not now fo much as lift up

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our Hand against our Enemies, nor tell an un-
truth to escape those that are hunting after our
Blood, but cheerfully confefs Chrift, and as
cheerfully go to Execution for fo doing, tho
we might eafily come off by the help of that
Mental Reservation in your Poet, My Tongue
has worn, but my Mind has not.
Mind has not. But now if
the Soldiers you lift, and who Article with you
to be true, can prefer their plighted Troth be-
fore all the Endearments of Life, Parents
Country, and ev'ry Relation; if they can stake
their All upon their Allegiance to you, who
can reward 'em with nothing incorruptible;
how ridiculous wou'd it be in Chriftians, we
whofe Souls are set upon nothing but the Joys
of Immortality, not to charge thro' every Af-
fliction, for the Prize we fo paffionately defire,
and which we are sure to be crown'd with by
Him who is able to give.

L. Hear alfo in what manner the prophetick Spirit delivers himself, by the Mouth of Him who was both Prophet and King, concerning the Preachers of the Gofpel, and the Publishers of Chrift's Coming into the World: Pf. 18.3, Day unto Day uttereth Speech, and Night unto Night fheweth Knowledge: There is no Speech nor Language where their Voice is not heard their Sound is gone out through all the Earth, and their Words to the end of the World; in them bath he fet a Tabernacle for the Sun, which is as a Bridegroom coming out of his Chamber, and rejoyceth as a Giant to run his Courfe.

LI. Shou'd I add more of David's Prophecies to these I have already produc'd, I am of

Opinion

Opinion it might be both pertinent and useful; for from hence you might take a Survey of that kind of Life which the prophetick Spirit exhorts Men to, and you might fee Herod the King of the Jews, and the Jews themselves, and Pilate your Procurator of Judea, and his Soldiers, all confpiring against Christ, and how it was foretold, that in spite of all this Oppofition, every Nation fhou'd come at length to believe in Him: And here likewise you may fee how God calls him His Son, and promifes to fubdue all His Enemies unto Him, and how the Devils fhou'd labour with all their Might, to hide from the Power of God the Parent, and Lord of all things, and from the Power of his Chrift; and lastly, how God fhou'd invite all Men to repent before the Coming of the Day of Judgment. The Words of Prophecy are these: Bleffed is the Man that walk-Pfalms the eth not in the Counsel of the Ungodly, nor ftan-cond entire. first and fedeth in the Way of Sinners, nor fitteth in the Seat of the Scornful, But his Delight is in the Law of the Lord, and in his Law doth be meditate Day and Night, And he shall be like a Tree planted by the Rivers of Water, that bringeth forth his Fruit in his Seafon, his Leaf shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth, shall profper; The ungodly are not so, but are like the Chaff which the Wind driveth away, Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the Judgment, nor Sinners in the Congregation of the Righteous; For the Lord knoweth the way of the Righteous, but the way of the Ungodly fhall perish. Why do the Heathen rage, and the People imagine a vain thing &

thing? The Kings of the Earth stood up, and
the Rulers took Counsel together against the Lord
and against His Chrift; Let us break their Bonds
afunder, and caft away their Cords from us. He
that fitteth in the Heavens fhall laugh, the Lord
fball have them in Derifion. Then fhall be Speak
unto them in his Wrath, and vex them in his
fore Displeasure; Yet have, I set my King upon
my holy Hill of Sion. I will declare the Decree
the Lord hath faid unto me,
Thou art my Son,
this Day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I
fhall give thee the Heathen for thine Inheritance,
and the uttermost parts of the Earth for thy Pof-
feffion; Thou shalt break them with a Rod of Iron,
thon fhalt dash them in pieces like a Potter's Veffel.
Be wife now therefore, O ye Kings, be inftructed,
ye Judges of the Earth. Serve the Lord with
Fear, and rejoyce with Trembling; Obey his Do-
trine, left the Lord be angry, and ye perish from
the right way, when his Wrath shall be kindled on
a fuddain; bleffed are all they that put their trust

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in him.

LII. And again, in another Prophecy, which the prophetick Spirit deliver'd by the fame David concerning Chrift's Kingdom, which was to commence juft after his Crucifixion, he Pfal. 99. v. fpeaks in this wife: Sing unto the Lord all the whole Earth, and be telling of his Salvation from Day to Day, For the Lord is great, and cannot worthily be praised, he is more to be feared then all Gods, for all the Gods of the Heathen are but the Idols of Devils; but it is the Lord that made the Heavens, Glory and Worship are before him, Power and Honour are in his Sanctuary: Afcribe

unto the Lord, the Father everlasting, Worfhip and Power, bring Prefents, and come into his Courts. Let the whole Earth ftand in awe of him, and be made fo faft in his Worship, that it cannot be moved; Let them rejoyce among the Nations, for the Lord reigneth fram the Tree.

LIII. But because the prophetick Spiritspeaks of Futurities as things past, and least this shou'd prove any Offence in the Reader's way, I shall clear it a little more particularly. Ifay, then, that what the Spirit knows must certainly come to pass, he declares as already fulfill'd; and that we are thus to understand his Words, will be very evident, if you reflect a little upon the Paffages I have quoted; for i David about 1100 Years before the Crucifixion of Chrift in our Flesh, gave out the Prophecies aforefaid, and not One, either of his Predeceffors or Succeffors, were ever crucify'd, or brought fuch glad Tidings to the Gentile World. But our Jefus Chrift, after his Crucifixion and Death, rofe again and afcended into Heaven, and enter'd upon his Kingdom, and what he proclaim'd to all Nations by his Apostles, spreads an univerfal Joy upon the Hearts of fuch, as

Vid. Dial. cum Tryp. p. 298. And in Allufion to the Crofs are thofe Words in the Book of Wisdom: Bleffed is the Wood wherely Righteousness cometh. Wifd. cap. 14. v. 7.

Δαβίδ ἔτεσι χιλίοις και πεντακοσίοις.] Here again Dr. Grabe has wip'd off a fad Blemish, which the aforefaid John Daille wou'd fix upon Juftin in point of Chronology, and has plainly prov'd it to be an Error in the Scribe; fee the Notes upon this Pallage.

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