fmitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our tranfgreffions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like fheep have gone aftray; we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It pleased the Lord to bruife him, he hath put him to grief. Thou shalt make his foul an offering for fin. He hath poured out his foul unto death; and he was numbered with tranfgreffors, and he shall bear the fins of many, and make interceffion for tranfgreffors—And I will pour out upon the houfe of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerufalem, the Spirit of grace, and of fupplications: and they shall look upon him, whom they have pierced, and they fhall mourn for him, as one mourneth for an only fon P.-A bone of him fhall not be broken .—In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerufa

Ifaiah liii. 4, &c. There are fimilar expreffions in the 40th Pfalm: My fins have taken fuch hold of me, that Į am not able to look up; is a paffage explained by 1 Pet. ii. 24. Who his own felf bare our fins in his own body on the tree. Indeed the whole 40th Pfalm is applied by many learned expofitors to Christ.

P Zech. xii. 10.

• Ex. xii. 46.

lem for fin, and for uncleannefs.He made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death'.-Why do the heathen so furiously rage together? The kings of the carth ftand up; the rulers take counsel against the Lord, and against his anointed. He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn. The Lord fhall have them in derifion'.Thou shalt not leave my foul in hell; neither fhalt thou fuffer thine holy One to fee corruption ".-After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raife us up, and we shall live in his fight.-I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he fhall ftand at the latter day upon the earth .-I will ransom them from the power of the grave: I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plague: O grave, I will be thy deftruction -The Lord faid unto my Lord, fit

thou on my right hand, till I make thine ene

* Hof. vi. 2. In this paffage, and in others, the Prophets speak in the plural: but it was a common idea to confider Chrift as rifing, accompanied with all the faithful. Thus St. Paul: If we believe that Jefus died and rofe again; even fo them which fleep in Jefus, fall God bring with him.

y Job xix. 25.

Hof. xiii. 14.

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mies thy footstool. The Lord fhall fend the rod of thy power out of Zion: be thou ruler even in the midst of thine enemies. In the day of thy power fhall the people offer thee free-will offerings with a holy worship. The Lord fware, and will not repent: Thou art a prieft for ever, after the order of Melchizedec *.

I fhall conclude this whole collection of Prophecies, with an excellent paffage from . Bishop Hurd's Sermons on Prophecy.

"The argument from Prophecy lies merely in the evidence produced, that certain paffages were delivered in the Old Testament; and have been fulfilled by certain correfpondent events related in the New. The argument doth in no degree depend on faith; but is calculated to produce it. It is equally ftrong, or equally weak, to a Chriftian, or a

a Pfal. cx. 1, &c. The whole Pfalm from whence this paffage is taken, is commonly contrafted with the twentyfecond, which contains a full Prophecy of the humiliation of Chrift; as this does of his exaltation. They are both quoted in this light frequently by our Saviour, and his Apoftles. The feventy-fecond and eighty-ninth Pfalms seem to relate to the establishment of the Meffiah's kingdom. They are full of expreffions, which cannot poffibly relate to David; or to any other subject.

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Jew, or an unbeliever—the fole point in queftion being this, whether fuch things, as were prophetically delivered, appear to have been fulfilled-a point, on which common fenfe, and common honefty will equally decide, on every fuppofition ".".

CLASS II.

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

THE most careless reader of the Prophetical parts of the Old and New Testament can fcarcely fail to notice, that there are several ftrong intimations, and many direct and clear predictions concerning a Power, a Perfon, or a fucceffion of Perfons, that were to arise in the world, and either deceitfully arrogate to themselves the place and office of Chrift, or exercise a direct enmity and oppofition to Him and his Religion.-Such is the "ANTICHRIST," or "the many ANTICHRISTS," spoken of in the New Teftament *.

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• It may perhaps be necessary to apprize the unlearned Reader, that the term Antichrift ('Avrixgisos) is an epithet generally meaning any power or persons acting in any respect in oppofition to Christ or his doctrines. Its particular meaning is to be collected from those paffages of Scripture,