of him, Exod. xxiii. 20, &c. is to be understood, -I fend an angel before thee to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee unto the place which I have prepared: Beware of him, and obey his voice; provoke him not, for he will not pardon your tranfgreffions, for my name, (that is, my nature) is in him.—And what is ftill more remarkable, Jacob terms him the angel that had redeemed him from all evil; and: yet, to fhew that he did not mean any created angel, he prays to him to blefs the lads, and ftiles him the God, before whom Abraham and Ifaac did walk, the God that had fed him all his life long unto that day, Gen. xlviii. 15, 16.

CHA P.. VII..

That the infpired Writers give him thofe Names and' Titles, and afcribe to him thofe perfections which the TRUE GOD claims as peculiarly his own, and whereby he is diflinguished from all other Beings in the World..

1.

If

T can hardly have efcaped the obfervation of an attentive reader, that in almost all the paffages quoted from the Old Testament in the laft Chapter, and fhewn to be applied by the New Teftament writers to Chrift, the true GOD, the God of Ifrael, is spoken of under the name of · Jehovah. According to the Apostles and Evangelifts, therefore, the Lord Jefus is repeatedly called, and is,Jehovah; a name, which Jeremiah foretold fhould be given him, as we learn from the 33d Chapter of his Prophecy. This is the name whereby he fhall be called JEHOVAH OUR

RIGHTEOUSNESS..

2. Indeed the appellation Lord (xogos) fo con-tinually given to Chrift in the New Teftament, is the word whereby the name Jehovah is conftantly tranflated in the old: Bishop Pearfon realonss very conclufively upon this fubject: It is molt

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certain

certain that Chrift is called Lord, κύριος, in another notion than that which fignifies any kind of human dominion, becaufe, as fo, there are many Lords,--but he is in that notion Lord, which admits of no more than one. They are only Mafters according to the flesh,--He the Lord of glory, the Lord from heaven, King of kings, and Lord of all other lords.

3. Nor is it difficult to find that name (ugos Lord) amongst the books of the Law, in the most high and full fignification; for it is moft frequently ufed as the name of the Supreme God, fometimes for El, or Elohim--fometimes for Shaddai, or the Rock-and often for Adonaiand most univerfally for Jehovah, the undoubted proper name of God, and that to which the Greek tranflators, long before our Saviour's birth, had most appropriated the name of Lord, (xugias,) not only by way of explication, but distinction and particular expreffion. As when we read, Thou, whofe name alone is Jehovah, art the most high in all the earth,-and when God fays, I appeared unto Abraham, unto Ifaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty; but by my name Jehovah was I not known unto them. In both thefe places. for the name Jehovah, the Greek tranflation, which the Apoftles followed, hath no other name but xugas, Lord, and, therefore, undoubtedly by that word did they understand the proper name of God, Jehovah and had they placed it there as the expofition of any other name of God, they had made an interpretation contrary to the manifeft intention of the Spirit: for it cannot be denied but God was known to Abraham by the true importance of the title Adonai, as much as by the name of Shaddai; as much as by his dominion and Sovereignty, as by his power and allfufficiency; but by any experimental and perfonal fenfe of fulfilling his promifes, his name Jehovah was not known unto him: for though God fpake exprefsly unto Abraham, All the land thou feeft to thee will I give it, and to thy feed for ever,

yet

yet the hiftory teacheth us, and Stephen corfirmeth us, That he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not fo much as to fet his foot on, though he promifed that he would give it to him for a poffeffion. Wherefore, when God faith he was not known to Abraham by his name Jehovah, the interpretation of no other name can make good that expreffion. And, therefore, we have reafon to believe, the word which the first Greek translators, and after them the Apoftles ufed, may be appropriated to that notion which the original requires, (viz. the word Jehovah) as indeed it may, being derived from a verb of the fame fignification with the Hebrew root;* and fo denoting the Effence or Exiftence of God, and whatsoever elfe may be deduced from thence, as revealed by him to be fignified thereby."

4. "Seeing, then, this title Lord fignifieth the proper name of God, Jehovah, being the fame is certainly attributed unto Chrift, in a notion far furpaffing all other Lords, which are rather to be looked upon as fervants unto him, it will be worth our enquiry next, whether, as it is the tranflation of the name Jehovah, it belong to Chrift, or whether, though he be Lord of all other Lords, as fubjected under his authority, yet he be so inferior unto him, whose name alone is Jehovah, as that in that propriety and eminency in which it belongs unto the Supreme God, it may not be attributed unto Christ.

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הוה or היה is from יהוה It is acknowledged by all that » ,אהיה אשר אהיה and God's own interpretation proves no lefs

or

υπαρχειν.

Exod. iii. 14. And though some contend that futurition is ef fential to the name, yet all agree the root fignifieth nothing but effence or exiflence—that is, to sival, Now as from in the Hebrew,, fo in the Greek, ao Tou Kugelų Κυριος. And what the proper fignification of zuge is, no man can teach us better than Hefychius, in whom we read Κυρίως υπαρχει, τυγχανεια asw fit.”

Hence was

by the Atticks used for

5. "This

5. This doubt will eafily be fatisfied, if we can fhew the name Jehovah itfelf to be given to our Saviour; it being against all reafon to acknowledge the original name, and deny the in-terpretation in the fenfe and full importance of that original. Wherefore if Chrift be the Jehovah, as fo called by the Spirit of God, then is he fo the Lord in the fame propriety and eminency in which Jehovah is. Now whatfoever did belong to the Messias, that may and must be attributed unto Jefus, as being the true and only Christ. But the Jews themselves acknowledge that Jehovah fhall be known clearly in the days of the Meffiah, and not only fo,: but that it is the name which properly belongeth. to him. And if they cannot but confefs so much who only read the Prophecies as the Eunuch did,, without an interpreter, -how can we be ignorant of fo plain and neceffary a truth, whole eyes have feen the full completion, and read the infallible interpretation of them? If they could. fee Jehovah the Lord of hofts to be the name of the Meffiah, who was to them for a ftone of tumbling and rock of offence, how can we poffibly be ignorant of it, who are taught by St.. Paul, that in Chrift this Prophecy was fulfilledAs it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a fumblingftone and rock of offence: and whofoever believeth on him, fhall not be ashamed.

*

6. "It was no other than JEHOVAH who spake these words, I will have mercy upon the houfe of Judah, and will fave them by JEHOVAH their God;

במימרא דיי or as the Chaldee Paraphrafe has it)

by the word of JEHOVAH) and will not fave them by bow nor fword. Where not only he who is defcribed as the original and principal caufe,-that is, the Father who gave his Son, but also he who is the immediate, efficient caufe of our fal

As Midrafch. Tillim on the 21ft Pfalm,,and Echa Rabati, Lam. i, 6.

vation,

vation, and that in oppofition to all other means and inftrumental caufes, is called JEHOVAH,

who can be no other than our Jefus, because there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be faved. As in another place, (Zach. x. 12.) he fpeaketh, I will strengthen them in the Lord (Jehovah) and they fhall walk up and down in his name, faith the Lord (Jehovah) where he that strengtheneth is one, and he by whom he ftrengtheneth, is another, clearly diftinguished from him by the perfonal pronoun, and yet each of them is JEHOVAH, and JEHOVAH our God is one JEHOVAH. Whatsoever objections may be framed against us, we know Chrift is the righteous branch raifed unto David: the king that jhall reign and profper, in whofe days Judah fhall be faved, and Ifrael fhall dwell fafely; we are affured, that this is the name whereby he fhall be called JEHOVAH our righteoufnefs; JEHOVAH, the expreffion of his fupremacy, and our righteoufnefs, can be no dimunition to his Majefty. If thofe words in the Prophet, Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for lo, I come and dwell in the midst of thee, faith JEHOVAH, did not fufficiently of themfelves denote our Saviour who dwelt among us, (as they certainly do) yet the words which fol low, would evince as much: And many nations fhall be joined to the Lord in that day, and fhall be my people, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the Lord of hofts hath fent me unto thee; -for what other Lord can we con ceive dwelling in the midst of us, and fent unto us by the Lord of hosts, but Chrift ?"* Zach. ii. 10, 11-Pearson on the Creed, P. 145—148.

*As a further and demonftrative proof of Chrift being called Jehovah, compare Pfalm xcvii. 1, 5, 7 with Heb. i 6.Pfalm cii. 1, 12, 16, 19, 25. with Heb. i. 10. Pfalm lxviii. 17, 18. with Eph. iv. 8.--Ifaiah xlv. 23, 24, 25. with Rom. xiv. and 11 and efpecially Ifaiah vi. 1-3-5, with John xii. 41. Ifaiah xl. 3-5. and Mal. iii. 1. with Math. iii. 3. and Zach. xi. 13. and xii. 10. with Math. xxvii. 9, 10. and John xix. 34, 37.

7. Now,