A discourse of the true nature of the Gospel demonstrating that it is no…

The other place of Scripture, Isa. 42. 4. cited by my Learned Brother, is ⟨p. 63⟩no more effectual to prove his Assertion than any of the former: The whole Verse is thus, Isa. 42. 4. He shall not fail, nor be discouraged, till he have set Judgment in the Earth: and the Isles shall wait for his Law. That by his Law is meant a Declaration of Free Grace, is apparent from the genuine Sense of the Hebrew word, which in our English Bibles is translated, [they shall wait for his Law] the Hebrew word [Greek or Hebrew], signifies they shall hope, with earnest Desires expect it: And thus Piscator, who had an unquestionable Skill in that Language, renders it. We may then by a necessary Consequence conclude, that by Law here is meant, a publication of Free Grace by Christ, since the poor Sinners of the Gentiles could not desire or hope for any other. But without any Criticisms on the Hebrew Language, the foregoing Verse of the Prophet Isaiah, instructs us to a right understanding of the following, Isa. 42. 3. A bruised Reed shall he not break; and the smoking Flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth Judgment unto Truth. Now if Christ had brought in a new Law, with Precepts superadded to the old One, this would have been to break the bruised Soul with repeated Strokes in greater strength and fierceness.

The other place of Scripture, Isa. 42. 4. cited by my Learned Brother, is ⟨p. 63⟩no more effectual to prove his Assertion than any of the former: The whole Verse is thus, Isa. 42. 4. He shall not fail, nor be discouraged, till he have set Judgment in the Earth: and the Isles shall wait for his Law. That by his Law is meant a Declaration of Free Grace, is apparent from the genuine Sense of the Hebrew word, which in our English Bibles is translated, [they shall wait for his Law] the Hebrew word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, signifies they shall hope, with earnest Desires expect it: And thus Piscator, who had an unquestionable Skill in that Language, renders it. We may then by a necessary Consequence conclude, that by Law here is meant, a publication of Free Grace by Christ, since the poor Sinners of the Gentiles could not desire or hope for any other. But without any Criticisms on the Hebrew Language, the foregoing Verse of the Prophet Isaiah, instructs us to a right understanding of the following,