Speculum theologiæ in Christo, or, A view of some divine truths which are either…

First, It is manifested in him, in that all the Promises and Predictions of a Messiah to come, are accomplished and completed in him. Two things will clearly evidence this:

First, It is manifested in him, in that all the Promises and Predictions of a Messiah to come, are accomplished and compleated in him. Two things will clearly evidence this:

The one is this: It is plain that the promised-Messiah is already come: The Sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a Law-giver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be, saith Jacob, Gen. 49.10. Shiloh is the Name of the Messiah, the ancient Rabbins confess it: Messiah, saith one of them, shall not come till there be a clean riddance of Judges and Magistrates in Israel. The Jews had Kings in their own Land, Heads or Princes of the Captivity in Babylon; and after their return from thence, they had Governors and Judges: but now Government and Judiciary Power ⟨p. 135⟩hath been for 1600 years departed from them. The Messiah therefore is already come. Again, within the compass of the Seventy weeks mentioned in Dan. 9, many things were to come to pass; The re-edifying the City and Temple of Jerusalem, the coming and cutting off the Messiah, the confirmation of the Covenant, the cessation of the Sacrifices; and after all these, the universal destruction was to ensue. However these weeks be computed, yet it evidently appears, that first the Messiah was to come and be cut off, ver. 26; and afterwards the Oblation and Sacrifice was to cease, v. 27: this being the true order of things in the Text, the Messiah must needs come whilst the Sacrifices were standing. If the Sacrifices under this second Temple have for these 1600 years ceased, as they have, then the Messiah must needs be come many Centuries since.¹