A sermon, occasioned

This 45th Chapter of (that which we may not ineptly ••st, the Gospel according to) Isaiah, seems the Close of a Sermon begun at the 40th chapter of that admirable Book, whose Gospel-strains are so abundant, that in the New-Testament some have counted perhaps about threescore Quotations from it; and good old Ambrose hence advised Austin unto a peculiar frequency in the Reading of it. Isaiah signifies the Salvation of God; now that very thing, especially in the more promissory Conclusion of his Prophecy, is very much the Subject of his Ministry.

The Princely Prophet is predicting, perhaps about 200 years before the Accomplishment thereof, the Reduction and Redemption of the captiv'd Jews from Babylon, together with the very name of the Persian Emperor Cyrus, who should be the ••••rument thereof; and thereupon he assigns the several reasons of this stupendious Dispensation. One ground thereof laid down is, that the Nations of the world, far and near, might be brought to abandon their Lying vanities, and to acknowledge the Only true GOD, with Jesus Christ whom He hath sent. At the mention of this there immediately falls in the gracious invitation to those Nations which we have now to insist upon: wherein we may observe,

The Princely Prophet is predicting, perhaps about 200 years before the Accomplishment thereof, the Reduction and Redemption of the captiv'd Jews from Babylon, together with the very name of the Persian Emperor Cyrus, who should be the ••••rument thereof; and thereupon he assigns the several reasons of this stupendions Dispensation. One ground thereof laid down is, that the Nations of the world, far and near, might be brought to abandon their Lying vanities, and to acknowledge the Only true GOD, with Jesus Christ whom He hath sent. At the mention of this there immediately falls in the gracious invitation to those Nations which we have now to insist upon: wherein we may observe,