the Lord, and my God fhall be my ftrength." And he faid, It is a light thing that thou fhouldft be my Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preferved of Ifrael: I will alfo give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my Salvation unto the ends of the earth. Thus faith Jehovah, the Redeemer of Ifrael and his Holy One, To Him whom man defpifeth, to Him whom the nation abhorreth, to a Servant of rulers, kings fhall fee and arise, princes alfo fhall worship, becaufe of Jehovah that is faithful, and the Holy One of Ifrael, and he fhall choose thee.

"The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I fhould know how to speak a word in feafon to him that is weary: he wakeneth, morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. I gave my back to the fmiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from fhame and fpitting. For the Lord God will help me, therefore thall I not be confounded; therefore have I fet my face as a flint, and I know that I fhalt not be confounded.----Behold, my Servant fhall deal prudently, he fhall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. As many were aftonifhed at thee (his vifage was fo marred more than any man, and his form more than the fons of men) fo fhall he sprinkle many nations.

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"He fhall grow up before the Lord as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form or comelinefs: and when we fhall fee him, there is no beauty that we should defire him. He is defpifed and rejected of men, a man of forrows, and acquainted with grief, and we hid, as it were, our faces from him. He was

despised, and we efteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our forrows; yet we did efteem him ftricken, fmitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our tranfgreffions,

tranfgreffions, he was bruifed for our iniquities. -He was opprefled and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb, to the flaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, fo he opened not his mouth. He was taken from prifon, and from judgment-wascut off out of the land of the living; for the tranfgreffion of my people was he ftricken; and he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleafed the Lord to bruise him, he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his foul an offering for fin, he fhall fee his feed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah hall profper in his hands. He thall fee of the travail of his foul, and be fatisfied.I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he hath poured out his foul unto death; and be was numbered with the tranfgreffors, and he bare the fin of many, and made interceffion for the tranfgreffors. "The Spirit. of Jehovah Elohim is upon me, becaufe Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath fent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prifon to them that are bound.-Thrus faith the Lord God, -I will fet up one Shepherd over them, and he fhall feed them, even my Servant David; he ihall be their Shepherd. I jehovah will be their God, and my Servant David a prince among them., I Jehovah have fpoken it.He fhall give them up until the time that the that travelleth hath brought forth--and he shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the majefty of the name of his God." ang 1

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11. Our Lord and his Apoftles, in a great variety of paffages in the New Teftament, illuftráte and confirm these declarations of Mofes and the Prophets, concerning the real and proper Humanity of the Meffiah, A few of thefe I fhall quote.

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"The child grew, and waxed ftrong in fpirit, and the grace of God was upon him.--Jefus encreafed in wifdom and ftature, and in favour with God and man.----Jefus being full of the Holy Ghoft returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted of the Devil.-Ye feek to kill me, a man that have told you the truth which I have heard of God.------Labour for the meat which endureth unto eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for Him hath God the Father fealed.----I feek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which fent me.---The works which the Father hath given me to finish, the fame works that I do, bear witness of me that the Father hath fent me. And the Father himself that hath fent me, hath borne witnefs of me.

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have neither heard his voice at any time, nor feen his fhape.----I honour my Father, and ye do difhonour me. I feek not mine own glory. I have not spoken of myself, but the Father which fent me, gave me a commandment what I fhould fay, and what I fhould fpeak and I know that his commandment is life everlafting. Whatsoever I (peak, therefore, even as the Father faid unto me, fo I fpeak.

"To fit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it fhall be given to them for whom it is prepared of iny Father.If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, becaufe I fay I go to my Father, for my Father is greater than I. My Father, who gave them me, is greater than all: and none is able to pluck them out of my Father's hands.----Whofoever fhall confefs me before men, him will I alfo confefs before my Father which is in Heaven: but whofoever fhall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in Heaven.Of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the Angels in Heaven, neither the Son, but Father only. my -All power is given unto me in Heaven and on earth afcend to my Father and your Father,

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.God and your God.--As fent me, fo fend I you.

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"God giveth not the Spirit by mcafure unto him-God anointed Jefus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost, and with power, who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppreffed of the Devil; for God was with him whom they flew and hanged on a tree, whom God raifed up the third day, and fhewed him openly,

and who is ordained of God to be the Judge of Quick and Dead.-Jefus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you, by miracles, and wonders, and figns, which God did by him in the midit of you; Him being delivered by the determinate counfel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and, with wicked hands, have crucified and flain, whom God hath raised up, having loofed the pains of death. There is one God, and one Mediator between God and man, the Man Chrift Jefus, who gave himself a ransom for all God hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteoufnefs, by that Man whom he hath ordained, of which he hath given affurance to all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.He was verily fore-or dained before the foundation of the world, but was manifefted in thefe laft times for you, who by Him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.

12. Now, as in these, and fuch like paffages, which occur in a great abundance throughout the Scripture, the term Jehovah, God, or Father, includes the whole Godhead, (not the Father as diftinguifhed from his Word and Spirit only, as in 1 John v. 7. and Matth. xxviii. 19, but the Word and Spirit allo) fo, in them, the purely human nature of Chrift is chiefly spoken of, and held up to our view as a compleat and proper perfon, as truly dependant upon the Deity for knowledge

and power, holiness and happiness, as the human nature of any man,And, doubtless, this is a just reprefentation

reprefentation of things: For this human nature. of our Lord, this body and foul of the holy Jefus, was properly a creature, derived from, and dependant upon God, as all other creatures are. Whatever knowledge we had, therefore, as man --whatever power, whatever purity, whatever comfort was communicated. And, it is probable, these communications were made, especially while he was yet a child, in a gradual manner, viz. as his faculties opened, and he was fufceptible of them: which accounts for his encreafing in wifdom, as in ftature, and in favour with God and man, and waxing strong in fpirit. Nay, and it is manifeft, that throughout his life, his

Manhood could be no further confcious to the

ideas of the Divinity than they were imparted, it being abfolutely impoffible that any creature fhould be conscious to the ideas of the Deity by immediate intuition, as a man is conscious to the thoughts of his own heart.

With the fame propriety, therefore, wherewith Christ could speak of himself things that referred to his body or animal nature only, and fay, I am weary with my journey, I am hungry, I thirft, he might alfo affirm things which belonged only to his foul or rational nature, as, My foul is exceeding forrowful, I rejoice in fpirit, I increafe in wifdom, I know not the Day of Judgment, I can do nothing of myself. For thefe things were as precifely and perfectly true as the other, and it was the Manhood alone, without any reference to the Godhead, that spoke in them; even as it was the Godhead alone, without any reference to the Manhood (though by its lips) which faid, Before Abraham was, I am I am Alpha and Omega, the firft and the laft.

13. Such proofs as these, of his true and proper Humanity, we might expect to meet with; and meeting with them accordingly, why fhould we be staggered or furprized? The Godhead, as we have feen, was not converted into flesh, but only dwelt in it, and manifested himself to mankind

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