be satisfied; by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquity.'

Now you that do not believe in him, though he was an offering for your sin, how can you be justified? or how can you believe in Moses or any of the prophets that testified of him, that do not believe in him? and therefore, saith the Lord, 'I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he hath poured out his soul unto death; he was numbered with the transgressors; he bore the sins of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.' Now you that do not believe that he bore your sins, though he was numbered with the transgressors; and you that do not believe that it is he that you crucified, who is the Son of the virgin, that must make intercession for you, you neither believe in the prophets nor in the Messiah, nor ever can come to God, but by him that makes intercession for you, and bears your

sins.

Doth not Isaiah complain in chapter lii. how his name was blasphemed every day?' and did not you blaspheme against his son when he came? 'but my people shall know my name in that day, that I am he that speaketh; behold it is I.' Now here was a day to come, and happy were those of you that did behold the day when it came; yea, the day of the Messiah, and do behold it now. And how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that publisheth peace, that bringeth glad tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, that saith to Sion, thy God reigneth.'

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In Isa. lv. Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters; come he that hath no money, come, buy and eat; yea, come buy wine and milk without money and without price, &c. Incline your ears, and come to me; hear, and your souls shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David: behold I have given him, a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people: behold thou shalt call a nation thou knowest not; nations that know not thee, shall run to thee, because of the Lord thy God.'

Now mark, ye Jews; this everlasting covenant which God would make; you had the first covenant that spoke of this witness which God gives, and this leader, and this commander to the people, that should call a nation, and nations should run unto him; is not this the Messiah and Immanuel, that was born of a virgin, according to Isaiah and Daniel's prophecy; whom you hid your faces from, were ashamed of, and spit upon. And in Isa. lxii. 'The Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory, and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.'

And is not this brightness, and salvation, and this righteousness, and glory, that the Gentiles and all kings shall see, and this new name which

the Lord shall name; is not this the Messiah, the Prince? And thou shalt be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.' And in chapter lxv. Isaiah saith, the Lord saith, I was sought of them that asked not for me, I was found of them that sought me not.' And were not these the Gentiles which the Messiah was promised to, who have received him? many have received him; so the Lord saith; behold me, behold me, to a nation that was not called by my name:' but concerning you Jews, he saith, I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walked in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts, a people that provoked me to anger continually to my face,' &c.

So you may read your rebellion, how you provoked him, from Moses throughout all the prophets, until you came to the Messiah, whom you spit at: and see how other nations have received the Messiah, and run after him; and so when you call, the Lord shall not answer, because that you reject his Son. And doth not Jeremy say, 'as a cage was full of birds, so were your houses full of deceit; and therefore repent and turn.' And in Jeremy xxxi. ‘behold the day has come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah; not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which my covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them, saith the Lord.' Here you (may see you forsook your husband) that broke the covenant. But here is a new covenant, which is not according to the old and now this new covenant you have not received, and will not receive: for as he said, 'I will give him for a covenant, that is the Messiah, he that was born of a virgin.

But this is the covenant

that I will make with the house of Israel after those days.'

Now here are the days of the old covenant; here are the days of the new, 'saith the Lord, I will put my laws in their hearts, and write them in your inward parts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people; and they shall not teach every man their neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, know the Lord, for they shall all know me, from the least of them, to the greatest of them, saith the Lord.'

And it is said in Isa. liv. All thy children shall be taught of the Lord, and great shall be the peace of thy children; in righteousness shalt thou be established,' &c. So consider, you will never own the new covenant, until you own the Messiah is come. In Jeremy xxxii. 'I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me:' so now this is the new covenant which you must all receive, if you come to be God's people, and he your God; and to have the one heart and the one way, it must be in this everlasting covenant.

And you that crucify the Messiah, did not God raise him up the third day, that he might live in his sight? so if ever you live to God, it is through him; for in Hosea vi. After two days he will revive us; in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.' And was not this a prophecy of the work of the Messiah, whom you crucified. For the Lord desired mercy of you and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings, but you, like men, have transgressed the covenant, and dealt treacherously against me, saith the Lord.' Micah saith, in the 4th chapter, that in the last days the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and people shall flow unto it, and many nations shall come and say, come and let us go up to the mountain of the house of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths,' &c. Now, ye Jews, consider this; is not this the new covenant, where many nations now come to be taught of God? and God doth teach them his ways to walk in; and he shall judge among the people, and judge many strong nations, &c. And is not this in the days of the Messiah, which many witness.

And Micah v. but thou Bethlehem Ephratath, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall come forth to me, that is to be a ruler in Israel, whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting; and he shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God; for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth.' &c. And now ye Jews, was it not here prophesied that the Messiah should come out of Bethlehem of Judah, to be a ruler; and this is the Son that the virgin bore, the Immanuel: and when she, Mary the virgin, had brought forth, who was advised by the angel what to call her Son, to wit, Jesus; all Jerusalem was on an uproar; look back you Jews: and did not Herod your king, who was troubled also, gather all the chief priests and scribes of the people, and demanded of them where the Messiah should be born? and they said to him, 'in Bethlehem Judah;' so saith the prophet. Mic. v. For thou Bethlehem in the land of Judah, though thou be the least among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall come forth to me, that is to be a ruler in Israel, whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting: and he shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God; for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth.' &c. And now ye Jews was it not here written, that the Messiah should come out of Bethlehem of Judah, to be a ruler? and this is the Son that the virgin bore, the Immanuel. And did not Herod in his envy seek the destruction of this Messiah? and therefore not killing him, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, ch. xxxi. when he had killed the children from

such an age: thus saith the Lord, a voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they were not.' And the Messiah was carried down into Egypt, when Herod sought his life, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of him; out of Egypt have I called my Son.' Hos. xi. So here you may see it is clear, how the Messiah was born in Bethlehem; now number you according to the prophecy: a virgin had a child and called his name Immanuel; whether was he not born in Bethlehem, according to Daniel's number, and the prophets' prophecy of him?

And in Psal. ii.why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing; the kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against his anointed.'

Is not this the Messiah? and was not this fulfilled amongst you when he came? and to this day do not ye rage against him? but further he saith in the same psalm, thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee, therefore kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little, blessed are all they that trust in him,' in this Son. And again he saith, in Psal. xvi. I have set the Lord always before me, because he is at my right hand, and I shall not be moved; and therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope, for thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.'

Now is not this the Messiah, the Immanuel, born of the virgin, that sign that God gave to you, who wrought signs and miracles among you, though you despised him, and wondered at, and crucified, and buried, who rose the third day, and did not see corruption; but God raised him up, who is at his right hand: and did not your priests give the soldiers large money, that watched his sepulchre where he was laid, to say, that the disciples stole him away by night? and did not you crucify him between two thieves? and was not he named among transgressors? read Isaiah before: and when ye crucified him, did not • He ye Jews say, trusted in the Lord, that he would deliver him, seeing he loveth him.' Psalm xxii. And in Wisd. ii. did not you fulfil the sayings there: 'He maketh his boast that God is his Father, let us see if his words be true, let us prove what will happen in the end of him; for if the just man be the Son of God, he will help him and deliver him from the hand of his enemy; let us condemn him with a shameful death.' And this you did when ye crucified the Messiah: as it is said in Psalm xxxi. ' into thy hand I commit my spirit,' &c. And in Psalm xxxiv. He keepeth all his bones not one of them is broken: so this was fulfilled upon the Messiah, not a bone of him was broken; though ye broke the thieves' legs, yet had not power to break his bones: therefore it is said in Psalm xl. sacrifice and offerings thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened; burnt-offer

ings and sin-offerings hast thou not required: [mark, ye Jews,] then said I, lo, I come, in the volume of the book, it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea thy law is within my heart.' Is not this the Messiah, the Immanuel, whom ye crucified? in the volume of the law and prophets it was written of him; you must never expect to see any other. And so in Isa. xxxvi. 'I have trodden the wine-press alone.' So if you Jews did mind, Hosea vi. 'the Lord desired mercy and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.' And when this sign was brought forth among you, that this virgin had a child, Immanuel; then did the Lord confirm his covenant with an oath, which he made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, concerning the Messiah,' Psalm cv. And Psalm cx. the Lord said to my Lord, sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool, &c. The Lord hath sworn and will not repent; thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek' and is not this the Messiah, the Immanuel, which came among you, according to Daniel's number? and in Psalm cxviii. the stone which the builders refused is become the head-stone of the corner; this is the Lord's doing, it is marvellous in our eyes.'

And is not this the Immanuel, which was born of a virgin, the Messiah, which came to you according to Daniel's prophecy above sixteen hundred years ago, whom you Jews, that were the pretended builders of people up to heaven, refused and rejected? and therefore, were not your cities, your houses and religion all thrown down by the storm of Titus, and you blown over all nations? and in Psalm cxxxii. for thy servant David's sake, turn not away the face of thine anointed: the Lord hath sworn in truth to David, he will not turn from it, of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne, there will I make the horn of David to bud; I have ordained a light for mine anointed.'

Now you Jews, doth not this speak of the Messiah? and was not he to come of the seed of David and Abraham, as God had promised and sworn? and see in Daniel, if he did not come according to the angel Gabriel's number. And in Isa. viii. He shall be for a sanctuary, for a stone of stumbling, for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin, for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and many among them shall stumble and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and taken; bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.' Is not this spoken of the Messiah? and were not you the people that stumbled and fell? was not he a rock of offence for both the houses of Israel? He was no sanctuary to you that stuck in your outward sanctuary. And did not many thousands among you Jews wait for the Messiah, and receive him at that time when he came? and many of his disciples which believed on him, and received him, among whom the law and testimony was bound up and sealed among them; and you stumbled at him, this stone: is not VOL. V.-10