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40, 45 and bringing the clustered fruits of the promifed state, many good works from the FATHER, HE, c. x. 32, going about doing good, A&t. x. 38, had His word and report difcredited, see the gospels and I. liii. 1, as JESUS (memorable particular,) had, Num. xiv. 1, xiii. 23– rejected as Pf. cxviii. Mat. xxi. 42, Mar. viii. 31, and in danger of being stoned Joh. viii. 59, c. x. 31, as JESUS was Num. xiv. 10. Lam. ii. 16, 17, iv. 16, v. 12. HE under-went bondage under the law, Rom. vii. 2, Gal. iv. 3, as JESUS did, Ezr. ii. 2. He had on HIM, on His body the filthy raiment of our fins (a) 1 P. ii. 24, as JESUS had on his, Zec. iii. 4. HE fuffered 1 P. iv. I, If. v. 3, for them the fire of God's wrath in His virgin flesh Luk. i. 27, like to the priest's Lev. xxi. 13, even the curfe of the law Gal. iii. 13, making HIM sweat in agony as it were great drops of blood, Luk. xxii. 44, and pray fervently indeed, as JESUS in captivity did, Zec. iv. 2, Lam. ii. 3, 17, iv. 11, v. 12. Deut. xxx. 1, Jer. xxix. 17, xlii. 18. For as He came with His inspired natures to break down,

(a) That THE MESSIAH fhould bear [ SeBeL as a burden on the back] the fins of his people, as the typic MESSIAN or PRIEST the iniquity of the priesthood, according to If. liii. is confeffed by the author of the Sepher Chafidim in Num. v. 18, who fays, "MESSIAH SUBEL, the word used by ISA"IAH] bears the iniquity of ISRAEL," though he adds wickedly like a Crelleus or a Sozo, "but I will not have any one "bear my fins but myself."

down, the JERICHO-like body of fin Col. ii. 11, as JESUS did fof. vi. 16, fo HE with the GLORY united to HIM underwent a crossing humiliation, Phil. ii. 7, 8, 9, Mat. xxvii. for offences not His own, 2 Cor. v. 21, and fell even to the ground, ver. 60, as JEsus did, fof. vii. 6. Against HIM preaching peace, A. x. 36, the kings of the earth stood up and the heathen raged and the people imagined a vain thing, Pf. ii. I, Acts iv. 27, whilft HE was, Luk. xii. 73, according to the oath and in execution of the covenant seeking the falvation of them who, when under the curfe of GOD, Gal. iii. 15, believed on, and fought to THE NAME JEHOVAH with HIM Joh. i. 12, 17. iii, 23, as they did, on a like account, againft JESUS, Jof. ix. 9, x. Zec. i. 21, Ez. iv. 5. HE ftationed the SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, the true LIGHT, Joh. į. 4, 9, and the one that like the moon reflected His beaming grace in his perfon, Pf. lxxxix. 37, 'till the enmity was deftroyed, Eph. ii. 15, 16. as JESUS did the natural fun and moon, Jos. X. 13. HE miraculously expelled the former poffeffors of bodies, devils and difeafes before HIM, Mar. i. 32, & al. as Jesus did those of the cities of CaNAAN, Jof. x. and xi. HE Spoiled the principalities and powers against us making a fhew of them openly, nailing them to His cross, triumphing over them in it, Joh. xix. 18, Col. ii. 14, 15, as Jesus did fof. x. 26, and the high

priest on the wood across the altar. For HE, undefiled as He was throughout, Job. xix. 4, as JESUS the high-priest was in his body, then fet at nought by the builders, Acts iv. 11, as once the typic temple was in their eyes, Hag. ii. 3, offered unto the LORD the great and devoted facrifice, Heb. x. 14, as Pf. v. I, that we might be clean from all our tranfgreffions in ONE day before Jeнovaн, 17o. i. 7, Heb. ix. 7, 11, through His blood, and have no tongue of condemnation moved against us, Rom. viii. 1, Jof. x. 28, as Jesus did, Lev. xvi. 1, &c, Zec. iii. 9, died for us, Rom. v. 8, laying down His life with GOD THE HELPER, Job. x. 18, xix. 30, 17. iii. 16, as JESUS and ELEAZER did theirs, fof.xxiv. 29, 30; and was buried, as JESUS was, of. xxiv. 29, and by this fatisfaction (a) or ransom, Mat. xx. 28, (for such a ransom is) making restoration (b) to GOD in His

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(a) The typic priests of old therefore offered facrifice for the people under these awful and important names of [SHEBANIAH or JE] THE RETURN-MAKING ESSENCE, Neb. ix. 4, 1 C. xv. 4, and [ELIASHIB] THE INTERPOSING GOD WILL MAKE A RETURN, (which a typic fon of David was also called 1 C. iii. 4,) meaning such a return to God for our ins as was to be made to the man, Ex. xxi. 19, for the lofs of bis time, and ver. 34. of money, and by this means to turn away wrath xxxii. 12, a return to them and us from our like bondage in fin and the grave to another state of grace and glory, fuch as Moses had to Jeнovaн, ver. 31, and the man to bis inheritance in the year of jubilee, Lev. xxv. 28.

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SeLem] the H. for our peace (by which CHRIST is called in Eph. ii. 14,) fignifies, as is plain from the

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perfon of what we by fin had deftroyed) obtained the bleffing of AвRаHaм, AЯs ii. 33, iii. 26, Gal. iii. 14, as JESUS did, Jof. xxii. 6. Yet was HE raifed, Mat. xxviii, &c. in His own body, Acts ii. 27, and blossomed alone of all, as the dead rod of AARON in proof He was the perfon GOD chofen, Num. xvii. 58, Rom. i. 4, notwithstanding all reproach and suffering to be THE GREAT SHEPHERD and LEADER of the true ISRAEL, Joh. x. 11, Heb. xiii. 20, as JESUS was Num. xxvii. 17, xiv. 38, and lived alone Acts i. 3, as JESUS with CaLeB, of all the rebellious generation, as the true tabernacle of His body, which had been taken down was fet up by HIM in [SHELOH] THE ONE THE PEACE, A. xi. 16, Heb. viii. 2, as the typic one was by JESUS, Fof. xviii. I. For HE thro' the WORD, the GLORY JeHo→ vaн united to HIM, Rom. vi. 4, after the fatiffaction (leep. 84, 110,) and the SPIRIT, c. viii. II, raised the temple of His body from the bondage Kk

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ufage of the verb in Ex. xxi. 37, to pay ox for an ox that was killed. Becaufe fo did CHRIST and take us the dead in fin according to this law for His own, that we might be quickened together with HIM, Epb. ii. 5. Hence it is very obfervable in 1 C. ix. 21 that the keeper of the typic gate of the tabernacle was called [SHALIUM] THE ONE TO BE THE PEACE, as another porter of the door, called Zec Har Ian (see p. 115,) is faid to be the SON, one constructed of [Mes HeLeмIaн or JE] THE RE TRIBUTING or PEACE-MAKING ONE THE ESSENCE; pointing clearly to HIM, who kept the true door CHRIST as Man, Job.x. 3, 9, by whom we must enter in to be saved and be priests unto God, Rev. i. 5.

of the law and the grave, Job. xi. 14, Heb. i. 3,
Rom. vi. 4, as JESUS raifed through THEM the
typic temple from the ground, Hag. i. 82, ii.
Zec. vi. 11, 12. Hɛ, as man, found Satan,
“the adversary,” rebuked and bruised, Mat. iv.
11, xxviii. 26, Gen. iii. 15, 32, and Jeнo-
vaн returned to HIM, As ii. 24, plucked as a
brand out of the fire of wrath, ver. 31, as Jesus
did Zec. iii. 2. He had our iniquity pass from
HIM thus rifen, Job. i. 21, Eph. i. 7, Col.
ii. 13, Heb. i. 3, Rev. i. 5, as JESUS had,
Zec. iii. 4, and was cloathed with change of rai-
ment, the fairer garment of perfect righteousness
and purity to array us, His members with Rom.
iv. 24, Col. i. 23, 2 Cor. v. 21, Phil.iii. 9,
Tit. i. 14, Rev. ii. 18, as JESUS was, Zec.
iii. 5. He is the PROPHET teaching us, and
causes men to understand the law and SS, Mat.
v. c. xx. 34, Luk. xxiv. 45, Joh. iv. 19,
viii. 31, c. xii. 46, as Jesus did, Zec. iii. 7,
Ez. viii. vii. He is our FORE-RUNNER, Joh.
x. 4, xiv. 2, entering into the true holieft, heaven
for us with His own blood, Heb. vi. 20, ix. 12,
as JESUS was, Deut. xxxi. 7, and did as a
prieft into the type, Lev. xvi. 12, 15. Like
JESUS HE is exalted from being a substitute or
an underling for us to be a PRINCE and SAVIOR,
Acts iii. 15, v. 31, xiii. 2, Num. i. 3, 2,
Ex. xvii. 13, and is glorified, Joh. vii. 39, xii.
28, xiii. 32, Luk. xxiv. 26, and crowned with

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