And now God saith, My Servant Brand is dead. Perhaps some may be ready presently to say, Will you compare him with Moses? It is said. 1There arose not a Prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face. You may observe, several Persons are commended in Scripture as Non-such Persons for some peculiar Excellency, wherein they excelled others, though some in other things excelled them, e. g. 2Hezekiah trusted in the Lord God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the Kings of Judah, nor any that were before him, &c. For trusting in God without calling in Heathenish Succours, none like him. So of Josiah, 3Like unto him was there no King before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses, ⟨p. 111⟩neither after him arose there any like him. For his diligent care to root out Idolatry, and establish the true Religion, none like him. And of John Christ saith, 4Among them that are born of Women, there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist. Other Prophets prophesied of Christ to come, John Baptist could point to him, and say, 5Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the Sin of the World. He could show him to be already come. And the blessed Apostle saith of the Galatians. 6My temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected, but received me as an Angel of God, even as Christ Jesus, q. d. If Christ Jesus himself had come amongst you, you could not have been more kind to him then you were to me. In a word, I will grant Moses excelled all the Prophets, not only in the Sublimeness of his Prophecy, ⟨p. 112⟩but in the Excellency and Multitude of his Miracles. In one Age he wrought Seventy six Miracles, when all that were wrought from the Beginning of the World to the Destruction of the first Temple were but seventy four, as some of the Jewish Masters count them. Moses had an Hundred seventy three Colloquies with God, which we read not of all Prophets besides.
And now God saith, My Servant Brand is dead. Perhaps some may be ready presently to say, Will you compare him with Moses? It is said. 1There arose not a Prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face. You may observe, several Persons are commended in Scripture as Non-such Persons for some peculiar Excellency, wherein they excelled others, though some in other things excelled them, e. g. 2Hezekiah trusted in the Lord God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the Kings of Judah, nor any that were before him, &c. For trusting in God without calling in Heathenish Succours, none like him. So of Josiah, 3Like unto him was there no King before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses, ⟨p. 111⟩neither after him arose there any like him. For his diligent care to root out Idolatry, and establish the true Religion, none like him. And of John Christ saith, 4Among them that are born of Women, there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist. Other Prophets prophesied of Christ to come, John Baptist could point to him, and say, 5Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the Sin of the World. He could shew him to be already come. And the blessed Apostle saith of the Galatians. 6My temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected, but received me as an Angel of God, even as Christ Jesus, q. d. If Christ Jesus himself had come amongst you, you could not have been more kind to him then you were to me. In a word, I will grant Moses excell'd all the Prophets, not only in the Sublimeness of his Prophesie, ⟨p. 112⟩but in the Excellency and Multitude of his Miracles. In one Age he wrought Seventy six Miracles, when all that were wrought from the Beginning of the World to the Destruction of the first Temple were but seventy four, as some of the Jewish Masters count them. Moses had an Hundred seventy three Colloquies with God, which we read not of all Prophets besides.
- 1Deut. 34.10.
- 22 Kings 18.5,6.
- 32 Kings 23.25.
- 4Mat. 11.11.
- 5Joh. 1.29
- 6Gal. 4.14.
