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Free-grace, maintained & improved. Or, The general offer of the Gospel, managed with considerations…
Free-grace, maintained & improved. Or, The general offer of the Gospel, managed with considerations of the great things done by special grace, in the election and redemption and vocation of those who embrace that offer. And the illustrious doctrines of divine predestination and humane impotency, rescued from the abuses, which they too frequently meet withal; and rendered (as they are) highly useful to the designs of practical piety. : In two brief discourses; published at the desire of some, who have been greatly apprehensive of growing occasions for such treatises.
Boston: printed by B. Green, 1706
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
It is very Surprising to find, in the Writings ⟨p. 16⟩of the ancient Jews themselves, a confession of this Mystery. A Book of theirs, called Pesikta, recites this, as a Dialogue between the Almighty and the Messiah.
GOD, beginning to make a Covenant with the Messiah, Spake thus to Him. They whose Sins are unknown to thee, would impose a Yoke of Iron upon thee, by which they will make thee, like to a Young Heifer, almost Blind with Labour, and they will destroy thee; Because of their Iniquity, thy Tongue shall cleave unto the Roof of thy Mouth. Art thou willing to suffer all this? The Messiah answered; It may be, these Pains and Afflictions, shall endure but for a Short time. GOD.] I am Resolved, thou shalt Suffer it for a whole Week of Years; But if thou wilt not Consent unto it, I will not Impose these Sufferings upon thee. MESSIAH.] I willingly Submit to it, on Condition that no Israelite Perish, but that they shall all be Saved; those that are born after my Time, and those that are already Dead, since Adam.
O ye Modern Jews, that cannot bear to hear of a Suffering Messiah, what can you say to this Quotation?