The Scriptures of God, have called our Lord JESUS CHRIST, Expressly, The True God, and, The Great God, and, God over all: And the Churches of God, must accordingly acknowledge Him. This is indeed a Great Mystery; but with every Godly man, it is a Mystery beyond all Controversy, That our Lord Jesus Christ is, [1 Tim. 3.16.] God manifest in Flesh. Yes, The New Testament speaks at this rate, will a Jew say; But give me the Old Testament; where will you find any such passage in the Old Testament. Well, To the Old Testament thou hast Appealed; Thither thou shalt Go! If the Messiah were not God, why did Job say, In my Flesh I shall see God? I can find you a Jewish Rabbi, who gathers from hence, That the Word of God, shall one Day take Flesh in a Woman. Or, if this be not plain enough, I am sure, tis plain in Psal. 45.6, 7. Thy Throne, O God, is for ever and ever: God, thy God hath anointed thee. 'Tis plain, in ⟨p. 58⟩Isa. 9.6. To us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, His Name shall be called, God, the Mighty. We are very certain, That the Name JEHOVAH, is peculiar to God alone; yet even this peculiar Name, is given to the Messiah, (who is therefore called, He which was, and is, and is to come:) You have it, in Zech. 12.10. JEHOVAH says, They shall Look on me, whom they have pierced; It may be there is nothing more worthy of Note in all the Jewish Talmuds, than that Note on this Text, Peace be on him, who says, That these things are to be said of Messiah. Several of the Rabbi's own, That the Messiah is meant, when tis said, JEHOVAH shall build up Jerusalem. Thus, when we read in Jer. 33.16. This is the Name, whereby He shall be called, JEHOVAH our Righteousness: And in Jer. 33.16. He that shall call it, is, JEHOVAH our Righteousness: The Ancient Jews themselves Expound it of the Messiah: They ask, What shall the Messiah be called? They Reply, The Eternal JEHOVAH. The Objection which the Modern Jews make against this most comfortable Article of our Creed, is, That the Messiah is Man, and therefore cannot be God. But let them Answer one Question; Is not the Second person in God able to Unite a Man unto Himself? They dare not say, but God is able to do such a Thing. And there is a Sentence in the ⟨p. 59⟩Bible, which Expressly affirms, That there should be a Man in the World, who should be God, as well as Man. You have it, in Zech. 13.7.
The Scriptures of God, have called our Lord JESUS CHRIST, Expressly, The True God, and, The Great God, and, God over all: And the Churches of God, must accordingly acknowledge Him. This is indeed a Great Mystery; but with every Godly man, it is a Mystery beyond all Controversy, That our Lord Jesus Christ is, [1 Tim. 3.16.] God manifest in Flesh. Yes, The New Testament speaks at this rate, will a Jew say; But give me the Old Testament; where will you find any such passage in the Old Testament. Well, To the Old Testament thou hast Appealed; Thither thou shalt Go! If the Messiah were not God, why did Job say, In my Flesh I shall see God? I can find you a Jewish Rabbi, who gathers from hence, That the Word of God, shall one Day take Flesh in a Woman. Or, if this be not plain enough, I am sure, tis plain in Psal. 45.6, 7. Thy Throne, O God, is for ever and ever: God, thy God hath anointed thee. 'Tis plain, in ⟨p. 58⟩Isa. 9.6. To us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, His Name shall be called, God, the Mighty. We are very certain, That the Name JEHOVAH, is peculiar to God alone; yet even this peculiar Name, is given to the Messiah, (who is therefore called, He which was, and is, and is to come:) You have it, in Zech. 12.10. JEHOVAH sayes, They shall Look on me, whom they have pierced; It may be there is nothing more worthy of Note in all the Jewish Talmuds, than that Note on this Text, Peace be on him, who sayes, That these things are to be said of Messiah. Several of the Rabbi's own, That the Messiah is meant, when tis said, JEHOVAH shall build up Jerusalem. Thus, when we read in Jer. 33.16. This is the Name, whereby He shall be called, JEHOVAH our Righteousness: And in Jer. 33.16. He that shall call it, is, JEHOVAH our Righteousness: The Ancient Jews themselves Expound it of the Messiah: They ask, What shall the Messiah be called? They Reply, The Eternal JEHOVAH. The Objection which the Modern Jews make against this most comfortable Article of our Creed, is, That the Messiah is Man, and therefore cannot be God. But let them Answer one Question; Is not the Second person in God able to Unite a Man unto Himself? They dare not say, but God is able to do such a Thing. And there is a Sentence in the ⟨p. 59⟩
