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-1- . 'fsjwtt'?- .ii ''ivi 0 it' t V I r ; I r - I. ' to hlsComm 'faW&J&&'ti ---ihe like,,QyelHons.;orthat :thc Argument. JVlew which ouf.firft - . ' n i n.,i..!J Aw."r;' iffhf . - P.fPnfB and thpir I m'rirpn arfpr. minrnf" iJi!r lrom ancient rropnecy ujuiuu I'b'i y-- - - , ? - - b vwv ' and trivaFtu thofe "who "kno w no better; Ufe of it ' J ' Known unto GW. are ' all bis. Works from the j Beginning ; and whatever Degree of Light he thought fit to' communicate to our.-firft 1 a rents or to' their . Children in After-times, there is no doti'bt but that He had a perfeft 'Knowledges all Times of all the Methods by : 'whiclf he. intended to refcue and reltore Man kind ; "and therefore all the Notices given by L-him xo Manlind'of: his "intended' Salvation, muft cofrefpond to the great. Event, whenever thc-FulInefsof-l'ime-iMLin61 s NoRcafoti can be given why God fhould at Times, or at jny Time clearly, open the Se crets Of his .Providence to Men j it depends merely upon his good Pleafure to do it.in what.. Time and in whatManner he thinks proper. . But there is a- neceffary Reafon' to be given -vhy all:fuch,Notices-as God thinks fit to ?ive . fliould anfwer exaclly in due Time to the ; .jOAoinWiAn Af. the fffeat-Defieri-: It; is abfurd . tindGrftand ifhas been" verified by the Com ine of Chn u 1 conceive" it may be made' ai clear as the Sun at Noon-day, that all the Ex pectation raifed by this Prophecy,-has-been completely' anfwercd by the - Redemption wrought by Jefus Cbrijl. And what have you to defire more than to fee a Prophecy ful k filled ' exadlly ? If you infift that the Prophecy " fliould have been more exprefs, you muft de mand of God vvhy he gave you no more Light; but jou "ought at leaft"to"fufpend;thisDemand till you.have a Reafon to (hew for it. i Lknow-thaLthislrrophecy. lsurged-farthcr, and that.Chriftian Writers argue from the Ex-j preffions of it to (Hew that is thin par ticularly foretold : He properly is jthe Seed of a Woman m was ; hi Suffermgs "were ; well -prefiguredi by, the brutfing of the Heel, his complete V idlorjr Head. When Unbelievers hear fuch Reafon ings, :they think themfelves intitled to laugh.; . J ' i : : f 1 t t 9- :. : t -thefoTeTomplainrthTntientProp 'for beingobfcurc ; for it is challenging allow that the Expffions do not imply necef. or not tel3int' ' us more of his Secrets. But if -fanlf ve pretend that God has at length, manifefted , is no Appearance. that our .firft Paents under to us by the Revelation of the Gofpel the Mc- flood them in this Senfe or that God intend thod of his Salvation, it is neceffary for us to -ed they mould To underftand them: But fmcc -fheW that all the-Nbtices of .thisSalvation-gi- ven to theold World do correfpond to tte .Xhriji, and by the Evciit appropriated to him Thihes which we have heard, and. feen with only I would fain knovv how it comes to be our EvCs The Argument from .Prophecy ' conceived to be fo ridiculous a thing in us to hfcfeistomoTm i r iu:.- tnnr t1 the Nsticei : convcved lo much K.nowIece as he intended to DC lormcu 111. uiu munnv. . . . . . . ' r n n 1 f , n i f Chrift. Pie never promifed or engaged his culiarly.adapte j to the vent which- he from Word in anv'thcr Particular rejadng jh xomfcsD ' made good by fending his Son to oCr Redemp-; they fhould .fee,, they might -the more eafily tion. Let us try thefe Methods-Upon-the Pro- acknowlegc to be the Work of h.s Hand, by . nhpr iwfnrp - iK. It vou demana . ina " hv Vms Hromilc to convey. intended:bvVend:ne his own Son in the Flefii, arid by. no ther Means whatever, Vbu ue--"mand what Icannot-fliev, nor do I know vvvho can;"Bat if .you enquire yhether this " Xtf'.ft . ' . V YT.rl - V A "! nn - rt ing tije v v 1 1 u o m o I u u " 1 f wjjwu vw,iv.w thistp be the Cafe,, not only in this In ft a nee, bii 0tm6iQf Prophecies of the Old Tef tament, it is hos without "Reafon we conclude, ' : '. that K. ": XT Jr
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