of the house or church of Jeнovaн, not cause the people to understand the law ;—who should not receive the promifes fulfilled, and be crowned as KING and PRIEST with the true GLORY JeHovaн; not have many nations joined to Jeнovaн in this temple-like body of Him, the like JESUS CHRIST, and not by His oblation procure of GOD like peace, and accefs to their perfons and prayers; here like restoration to His favour and new life, and hereafter the like grand RETURN of each person from his bondage in the grave in confufion indeed, to his own human body, as ISRAEL, each to his own city, in the heavenly CaNAAN, no more to be plucked up or fevered, where this DIVINE PERSON will be seen with JESUS as THE GLORY of His affociated body, and of his myftic temple, the church, now rejoicing in the hope of this perfon, therefore so called, Rom. v. 2. 2 Cor. iii. 18, iv. 6, 27, & al. But though no one falling fhort of this could be the true MESSIAH, yet Hɛ, who fhould BE and SUFFER and DO really what this person was, and suffered and did typically, would of neceffity be fo, for the reafon affigned in the laft chapter. GOD therefore gave this fon of JeнOseDeCH the name to make him this ftandard, that all generations might hence learn by whofe prieft-hood, facrifice and bloodshedding, restoration and glorification after full fatisfaction for fin, they were to look for a return to the favour of God and to" the land of everlafting

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lafting life," namely by those of [JESUS] THE ESSENCE THE SAVIOR, the [MESSIAH Or] CHRIST. This name proclaimed him fuch, and the accounts cited confirm the character.

Should any think this perfon as a Levite prefigured the true JESUS fhould come of Levi, he must do it for want of attending to the meaning of the word. For Levi denotes aught coupled or conjoined as scales, and shewed this JESUS typically fo COUPLED with THE ANGEL or SENT PERSON Jeнovaн, as a husband with a wife, Gen. xxix. 34. though bearing the curse, c. xlix. 7. So that the true JESUS might be, as He was the [Levite] COUPLED ONE here prefigured, bearing the curse, (a) without springing from Levi's flesh, as well as what the names of the other tribes fhadowed out. hence there arifes another proof of the juftness of the interpretation of JESUS, fince his being a Levite denoted him ONE COUPLED, as the name speaks him in fome fort with this DIVINE perfon.

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Will any urge against the uniformity of the character that this JESUS is called the fon of Јено

(a) The foul and body of HIM are THE [Levites] COUPLED ONES, the intercefforial ones, miniftering [] with Jeнovaн, with whom it is faid Jer. xxxiii. 21, 22, "My covenant

" fhall not be broken," and the feed of whom, in this character as well as that of the true [DaviD] BELOVED, the fervant of Jenovaн, has the promise, (confeffed by be Jews to be made TO THE MESSIAH, Gen. xxii. 17.) of being multiplied as the hoft of beaven, and as the land of the fea.

JeнoseDeCH, not of NUN? It must be they who confider not how impoffible it was for one or two perfonal characters to reprefent all thofe, which the MESSIAH was to be found in, and that on this account there is that great variety of perfonal types in SS, as well as that diversity of defcent obfervable in perfons bearing the fame name, as in this inftance before us. And this JESUS of the prophets was the son of JeнoseDeCH to point out what could not be fignified by his being the fon of NUN. For JeHoseDeCH denotes "< THE ESSENCE THE JUST ONE," who was the fon or one conftructed of [SeRaIaH} THE DIRECTOR THE ESSENCE, the priest (not [ GeDeL] the great or high only, for the word is changed, but [RAS]) THE HEAD ONE, that was flain on the burning of the typic city, and went into captivity, when Jeнovaн carried away JUDаH, 2 K. xxv. 18, 21, and I C. vi. 15. In which view it is obvious how lively a figure he was of the [true JeHose DeCH] ESSENCE THE JUST ONE, the true high-priest, going forth out of the earthy or human nature of him, on the like flaughter of HIM in the previous character of the true [SeRaIaH] DIRECTOR THE ESSENCE in the flesh, (a) the true

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(a) He was the united one or brother of EZRA the priest, Neb. viii. 9, who is alfo faid to be the fon of SeRaιaн, Ēzr. vii. 1. fetting forth in a type the [true EzRA] HELPER, CHRIST, being as this priest, brought up from a like bondage, fhould be conftructed

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[UN RAS] HEAD PRIEST over all, when Jeнovaн made a like fad revolution of the natures of the true [JUDAH] ESSENCE-CONFESSING ONE; and this as conftructed, in this character, of HIM as THE DIRECTOR THE ESSENCE, (a) Main for His people's iniquity, in order to be THE JUST ONE. And this JESUS being the fon of JeHose DeCH was fhewing to all, that the true JESUS, THE ESSENCE THE SAVIOR, was to be in like manner raised up, and crowned with GLORY after His paffion, fhould be one conAtructed in this character of the SON of HIM, as previously THE ESSENCE THE JUST ONE in the flesh, who, though as THE JUST ONE flain, Acts iii. 14, as the like CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS was to be, Joh. ii. 1, fhould in confequence have this name [JESUS] THE ESSENCE THE SAVIOR, fhould return from bondage, build up his temple-like body, and be exalted to be KING and PRIEST, fettling them in peace; according to the order in If. xlv. 21, I am [EL] THE INTERPOSING GOD, THE [PTY JEDIK] JUST ONE and THE SAVIOR, · Look unto ME and be ye faved, &c.— Zec. ix. 9. HE is THE JUST ONE, and having SALVATION,

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as a fon of THE [true SeRalaн] LORD OF DIRECTOR THE ESSENCE in the flesh, the true HIGH-PRIEST, firft in like manner, and amidst a like fiery indignation on His body, as on the true city and temple, SLAIN for our fin.

(a) Which thews the reafon why Jerusalem was burnt in bis prieft-hood rather than under another's.

&c. This diftinction then proves not a want of uniformity in the character, but only that the true JESUS fhould confift, as of [NUN] one in fubjection, the fon of man, fo of the fon of GOD, of [JeHOSHéDeCH] THE ESSENCE THE JUST ONE; and of courfe be THE [JE] ESSENCE, which the name imports.

Indeed we read Ezr. x. 18, of the fons or One's conftructed of [JesHuA] the ONE TO SAVE, the fon of [JozaDaK] THE ONE TO JUSTIFY (but it follows [1] and or) in conjunction with the [ AHIU or brethren] united ones of him [MA ASelaH] THE MAKER THE ESSENCE, and [ELEAZER] THE INTERPOSING GOD THE HELPER, &c. had taken [NesHIM] forrowbearing ones (wives ♫ NéCHIRUT] made to be cut off, (as ftrangers from the congregation): which, as a representation (and fuch it must be for the reafon in p. 94.) of the GoD-Man (a), which had affumed or taken part of our forrowbearing natures, that as aliens from God were to be cut off, (as they were in HIM) is a proof THE [true MAASélaн] MAKER THE ESSENCE, THE [true ELIEZER] INTERPOSING God the HELPER, was in conjunction with [JesHUA] THE SAVIOR; and that His name JE is therefore found in [JESUS] THE ESSENCE THE SAVIOR, as well as in [Jeнo-seDeCH] THE ESSENCE THE JUST ONE.

(a) A fcripture-term, as proved p. 5. 94.

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