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the cheek. when I was thirfty, they gave me vinegar to drink. They pierced my hands and my feet. They parted my garments among them, and caft lots on my vesture. -And one shall fay, What are these wounds in thy hands? Then he shall anfwer, Thofe with which I was wounded in the houfe of my friends. - My God, my God, look upon me; why haft thou forfaken me?-All they that go by laugh me to fcorn: they fhoot out their lips, and shake their heads, faying, He trufted in God to deliver him; let him deliver him, if he will have him.—I will fhew wonders in the heavens, and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The fun fhall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come. And it shall come to pafs, that whoever shall call on the name of the Lord fhall be faved. -Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish the tranfgreffion, and to make an end of fins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to feal up the

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a Pfal. xxii. 16, 18. f Pfal. xxii. 1. 7, 8.

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• Zech. xiii. 6.
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vifion and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerufalem, unto the Meffiah the Prince, fhall be feven weeks, and threefcore and two weeks: the ftreets shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threefcore and two weeks fhall Meffiah be cut off, but not for himself".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, he was bruifed for our iniquities: the chaftifement of our peace was upon him, and with his ftripes 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 ini quity of us all. It pleafed 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

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i Isaiah liii. 4, &c. There are fimilar expreffions in the 40th Pfalm: My fins have taken fuch hold of me, that I

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house 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 *.- A bone of him fhall not be broken1. In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerufalem for fin, and for uncleannessTM. — He made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death". Why do the heathen fo furiously rage together? The kings of the earth stand 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".

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Thou shalt not leave my foul in hell; neither fhalt thou fuffer thine holy One to see corrup tion P. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall

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 Indeed the whole 40th Pfalm is applied by many learned expofitors to Christ.

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k Zech. xii. 10.

m Zech. xiii. 1.

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1 Ex. xii. 46.

* Ifaiah liii. 9.

P Pfal. xvi. 10.

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live in his fight. I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he fhall ftand at the latter day upon the earth'.-I will ranfom 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 3. — The Lord faid unto my Lord, fit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool. The Lord fhall fend the rod of thy power out of Zion: be thou ruler even in the midft 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 priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedec *.

9 Hof. vi. 2. In this paffage, and in others, the Prophets fpeak 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 feep in Jefus, fhall God bring with him.

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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 bothquoted 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. I fhall

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 correspondent 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 Jew, or an unbeliever—the fole point in question being this, whether fuch things, as were prophetically delivered, appear to have been fulfilled-a point, on which common sense, and common honesty will equally decide, on every fuppofition." Sermon V. p. 154.

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