But the Lord was not yet contented, but causes more of His Grace to break forth in the times of the Prophets; more concerning Christ: He tells them of the very Time Christ should be born, Daniel the 9. Of the Place where He should be born, At Bethlehem. The Person that should bear Him:1 A Virgin shall conceive. Gives them divers Characters whereby they should know Him when He came: And I will send my Messenger before Him, The voice of one crying in the wilderness: He will ride upon an Asses colt; Behold thy King, 2comes riding upon an Asses colt: He shall be sold for Thirty pieces of silver (says the Prophet Zechariah) He shall die, not for His own sins but ours; The chastisement of our peace shall ⟨p. 76⟩be upon Him. And, as if all this were not enough; The Lord speaks out the Covenant of Grace expressly in Jer. 31.31. The days come, say the Lord, that I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, verse the 33. This shall be the Covenant that I will make with them, after those days saith the Lord; I will put my Law into their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people: And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother; saying, Know the Lord: They shall all know me, from the least of them, unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. What a mighty Advance had Grace made now! Is there any more yet? Yes! our Saviour Himself comes, and then Grace Advances higher, by much higher; then Grace enlarges her Quarters, extending it self unto all the world, go teach all Nations: Go teach all Nations (says our Saviour.) That house of Israel would serve such a candle as Moses was:3 But when the Sun arises, no less then the whole world for him to display his beams upon. He had set up a school of Grace in that corner of the world, in Jenny: But when the Lord Jesus Himself comes, a Free-School is set up, the School of Free Grace for all the children of men to come unto: Go teach all Nations.
But the Lord was not yet contented, but causes more of His Grace to break forth in the times of the Prophets; more concerning Christ: He tells them of the very Time Christ should be born, Daniel the 9. Of the Place where He should be born, At Bethlehem. The Person that should bear Him:1 A Virgin shal conceive. Gives them divers Characters whereby they should know Him when He came: And I will send my Messenger before Him, The voice of one crying in the wilderness: He will ride upon an Asses colt; Behold thy King, 2comes riding upon an Asses colt: He shall be sold for Thirty pieces of silver (saies the Prophet Zachary) He shall die, not for His own sins but ours; The chastisement of our peace shall ⟨p. 76⟩be upon Him. And, as if all this were not enough; The Lord speaks out the Covenant of Grace expresly in Jer. 31.31. The daies come, saie the Lord, that I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, verse the 33. This shall be the Covenant that I will make with them, after those daies saith the Lord; I will put my Law into their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people: And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother; saying, Know the Lord: They shall all know me, from the least of them, unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. What a mighty Advance had Grace made now! Is there any more yet? Yes! our Savior Himself comes, and then Grace Advances higher, by much higher; then Grace enlarges her Quarters, extending it self unto all the world, go teach all Nations: Go teach all Nations (saies our Savior.) That house of Israel would serve such a candle as Moses was:3 But when the Sun arises, no less then the whol world for him to display his beams upon. He had set up a school of Grace in that corner of the world, in Jenny: But when the Lord Jesus Himself comes, a Free-School is set up, the School of Free Grace for all the children of men to come unto: Go teach all Nations.
- 1Mic. 5.2 Isa. 7.14 Mal. 3.1
- 2Isa. 40.3 Zac. 9.9. & 11.12 Isa. 53.5
- 3Mat. 28.19.
