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The Servants employed in the Invitation were, first, Moses and the Prophets, inclusively to John the Baptist; all to whom the Oracles of God were committed, and by whom ⟨p. 191⟩¹the eternal Counsels of his Wisdom were declared concerning the ²Messiah. All their Prophecies, as so many Lines, meet in this Centre. ³The other Servants were the Apostles, who were commanded ⁴to preach the Gospel first at Jerusalem ⁵The first order of Servants, and the second, both proposed the same Messiah, as the Object of our Faith and Love; but the Prophets under Shadows and Figures in the Promises, the Apostles clearly in the Truth and Accomplishment. The first invited while the Preparations were making; but the Evangelical Ministers are more earnest and pressing, Come, for all things are now ready. And in comparing these two Periods of Time, there is the most shining and sensible Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion: for the Marks of it are clear in the Prophecies by their exact References to the Accomplishment ⟨p. 192⟩in the Person of Christ; and they are clear in the Accomplishment by the Correspondence to the Prophecies. Who can suspend Assent that our Redemption by Jesus Christ is the Work of Divine Providence, when the design of it is so exactly delineated in the Prophecy?

The Servants employed in the Invitation were, first, Moses and the Prophets, inclusively to John the Baptist; all to whom the Oracles of God were committed, and by whom ⟨p. 191⟩¹the eternal Counsels of his Wisdom were declar'd concerning the ²