16, 10.

mifed that he would give it to HI M and to his Seed after him; but Abraham himself (5) fojourned only (5) Heb. in the land Promife, as in a strange country, dwelling 11,9. in tabernacles with Ifaac and Jacob, the Heirs with him of the fame Promife; who all (9) confessed that (6) Hev. they were Strangers and Pilgrims on the Earth; and 11, 13. Jacob particularly complained that (7) the days of (7) Gen: the years of his Pilgrimage had been Few and Evil; 47, 9. And in bleffing Ifaac and Ishmael, God promifed to (8) make Ishmael fruitful, and to multiply him (8) Gen. exceedingly, fo that he fhould beget twelve Princes, 17, 20. and God would make him a great Nation, and (9) 21, 18. multiply his Seed exceedingly, that it should not be (9) Gen. numbred for multitude; and and yet in the very fame fentence, expreffly by way of oppofition, and of high and eminent diftinction, declares that, notwithstanding all this, yet (10) his COVENANT, his (10) Geri; EVERLASTING Covenant, he would eftablish 17; 19,21. with Ifaac: When all This (I fay) is confidered, the inference of the Apoftle to the Hebrews cannot but appear unanfwerably juft, that these Patriarchs (1) looked for a City fomewhat more than (1) Heb: Temporal, even a City which hath Foundations, whofe 11, 10. Builder and Maker is God; and that (2) they who (2) Heb. faid Such things, declared plainly that they fought a 11, 14, 16: "Country, a better country, that is, an heavenly; and that for This reafon God was not ashamed to be called THEIR God, because he had prepared for them a City. And if this Inference was neceffarily True concerning the Patriarchs, who (3) confeffed (3) Heb: that they were Strangers and Pilgrims on the Earth; 11, 13. much more, concerning thofe who (4) were tortu- (4) Heb. red, not accepting deliverance, muft it needs be true, 11, 35. that the only poffible reafon of this their Choice, was, that they might obtain a better Refurrection.

Other Notices in the Old Teftament, that the Worshippers of the True God in every Age of the World, fhould at the End have their Lot in the

(5) Gen. 5, 24. (6) Heb.

11, 5. Wifd.4, 10. Ecclus 44, 16. 49, 14. (7) 2 Kings 2, 11. Ecclus 48, 9. 1 Macc. 2, 58. (1) Job 19, 25. (2) The introduction thefe words is very folemn: Oh, that my Words were now

ever.

to

graven with an iron

pen, and Lead, in the rock for
And how they were
antiently understood, appears
from that Addition to the End

of the book of fob in the
LXX, γέγραπται δὲ, αυτὸν
πάλιν ἀνατήσεις, μεθ' ὧν ὁ
xúpi ansnow. So Job died,
being old, and full of Days:
But 'tis written that he shall
"rife again, with Those whom
the Lord raises up.
(3) If. 26. 19

(4) If.66;

Kingdom promised to the Saints of lation of Enoch, (6) that he should the Moft High: are, the (5) Tranfnot fee death; and the (7) taking up of Elijah into Heaven. Allufions to it at leaft, if perhaps not direct Affertions, are the Words of (1) fob (2) I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the Earth: And though after my Skin, worms destroy this Body, yet in my Flefh fhall I fee God. And thole of Ifaiah: (3). Thy dead men fhall live; together with my dead body shall they arife: Awake and fing, ye that dwell in duft; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the Earth fhall caft out the Dead. And, (4) Your Bones fhall flourish like an herb. And that Paffage in Hofea: (5) I will ranfom them from the Power of the grave; I will redeem them from Death. O Death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy Deftruction. And That in Ezekiel: (6 Behold, together, Bone to his Bone; And the Sinews and the Flesh came up upon them, and the Skin covered them above; and the Breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet? Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your Graves, and bring you into the land of Ifrael. Again: The (†) If. 57; words of Isaiah; (7) The Righteous perifbeth, and is taken away from the evil to come; He shall enter into PEACE: What more natural fignification have they, than that which the Book of Wisdom expreffes, ch. 3; I, 33 The Souls of the righteous are in the hand of

14. (5) Hof.

13, 14.

(6) Ezek.

37; 7, 8,

10, 12.

1, 2.

the Bones came

Gad

God;

They are in Peace? And What, but the
Future State, can the (1) Conclufion of Ifaiah's (1) If. 65,
Prophecy reasonably be referred to? Behold, I create 17.66;
new Heavens and a new Earth:

and

And

As the new 22, 23, 24.

בני 73

צדוק

ness.

(4) Ezek.

Heavens and the new Earth which I will make, shall
remain before me, faith the Lord; fo fhall your feed
name remain.
your
all flesh Shall
come to worship before me, faith the Lord. And they
Shall go forth and look upon the Carcafes of the men
that have tranfgreffed against me: For their Worm
Shall not die, neither fail their fire be quenched, and
they fhall be an abhorring unto all Flesh. In like
manner; Whom does God fpeak of by Ezekiel, (2) Ezek.
when he says, (2) The fons of (3) Zadock, that 44; 15.16.
kept the charge of my Sanctuary, WHEN the child- Ty The
ren of Ifrael went aftray from me; [which (4) went Sons of
not aftray, when the children of Ifrael went aftray,] Righteous-
they shall enter into my Sanctuary? And to
what do the following words of the fame Prophet 48, 11.
moft naturally refer? (1) Every
thing fhall live, whither the River
cometh: And by the River,
проп the Bank thereof, on this fide
and on that fide, fhall grow all Trees
for Meat; whofe Leaf shall not fade,
neither fhall the Fruit thereof be con-
fumed: It shall bring forth new
fruit according to his Months, be-
cause their waters they iffued out of the Sanctuary;
And the Fruit thereof shall be for Meat, and the
Leaf thereof for Medicine. Still more strong, is that
Allufion in Daniel: (2) I beheld till the Thrones were
caft down, [till the Thrones were placed,] and the
Antient of days did fit: A fiery stream iffued
and came forth from before him: Thousand thousands
miniftred unto him, and ten Thousand times ten thou-
fand stood before him: the Fudgment was fet, and the
Books were opened. But the following words of the

(1) Ezek. 47; 9, 12. compared with Rev. 22; 1, 2, He shewed me a pure River of water of Life:

•And of either fide of the River, was there

the Tree of Life, which bare

twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her Fruit every Month, and the Leaves of the Tree were for the Healing of the Nations.

(2) Dan.

7; 9, 10.

fame

But

fame Prophet, are direct and exprefs; (3) Many
them that fleep in the duft of the Earth fhall awake, fome
to everlasting Life, [every one (4) that shall be found
written in the Book,]and fome to Shame and Everlasting
Contempt. And they that be wife, fhall fhine as the
brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to
righteousness, as the Stars for ever and ever.
go thou thy way, till the end be: For thou shalt reft,
and fbalt stand in thy Lot at the end of the days.
any one, who confiders thefe Texts, with any Truth
or Reafon affirm, that All the Promifes fuppofed to
be made to the Jews before Chrift's time, were meant
of fome Temporal" Deliverance only, "without
"the leaft Imagination of a Spiritual Deliverance?"

Can

9. There are in the Old Testament many Intimations, and fome direct Predictions, that all the Great Promifes of God, made to his True Worfhippers, fhall receive their final Accomplishment by means of a Particular Perfon, anointed of God for That purpofe; who, after the reduction of all Adverfaries, fhall fet up the Everlafting Kingdom. The Seed of Abraham, in which All the Nations of the Earth were to be Bleffed; (and in like manner the Seed of the Woman, which was to bruife the Serpents Head ;) might originally with equal propriety, and in as reafonable and natural a fenfe of the words, be understood to fignify (what St Paul afterward (1) afferts it did fignify,) in the fingular fenfe, a Particular Perfon; as, in the plural fenfe, a Number of perfons. The (2) Shiloh which was to come, and to whom the Gathering of the people was to be; (the Promife laid up in Store, à consív u, as the LXX render it ;) by its oppofition in the Text to the Terms Scepter and Lawgiver, moft naturally fignifies a Single perfon who was to reign; and, by the gradation in the

(1) Gal. 3. 16. He faith not, And to Seeds, as of any; but as of One, And to thy Seed. That is to fay: In the Promife to Abraham, the Scripture ufes the ambiguous word, Seed, not in the Plural fenfe, but in the Singular fenfe. (2) Gen. 49, 10.

words

words of the text, Somewhat of Superior Dignity to
that of a Sceptre and a Lawgiver. The words of Bala-
am: (2) I fall fee him, but not now; I fhall behold (2) Num.
him, but not nigh: There shall come a Star out of Ja- 24; 17,19.
cob, and a Sceptre fhall rife out of Ifrael: Out of
Jacob fhall come he that shall have Dominion:

are

words fo put in his Mouth, as.moft properly and obvi
only to defcribe a much Greater Perfon than perhaps
He thought of, a much Greater Perfon than one who
fhould fmite the Corners of Moab, and deftroy all the
children of Seth. Again: That the words of Mofes;
(3) The Lord thy God will raife up unto thee a Prophet (3) Deut,
from the midst of thee, like unto Me, unto Him fball 18, 15.
ye hearken; were not meant barely of Joshua, or of
"a Succeffion of Prophets," but of One who fhould
have as eminent a legislative Authority as Mofes; may
reafonably be gathered from the occafion of their be-
ing spoken, not merely by Mofes, upon a general Re-
liance and Truft that God would provide him a Suc-
ceffor, but by God himself, upon the peoples (4) de- (4) Deut.
firing in Horeb, Saying, Let me not hear again the 18,16,17,
Voice of the Lord my God, neither let me fee this great 18, 19.
Fire any more, that I die not: Then the Lord faid,
They have well Spoken: I will raise them up a Pro-
phet from among their brethren, like unto Thee, and will
put my words in his Mouth, and he shall speak unto
them all that I shall command him: And it shall
come to pass, that whosoever wil not hearken unto
my words which he shall speak in my name, I will re-
quire it of him. And that the words were Antiently,
long before the Application of them by the Writers
of the new Teftament, thus underflood, and not
concerning Foua or a Succeffion of Prophets; ap-
pears from thole additional words, at the conclufion
of the Book of Deuteronomy: (5) Fobna the Son (5) Deut,
of Nun was full of the Spirit of Wisdom; for Mofes 3+; 9, 10.
had laid his hands upon him. But there arofe
not a Prophet fince in Ifrael, like unto Mofes, whom

the