A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…

Here it may be some persons may be ready to object, and say, That it may be, some subtle, cunning men contrived this history, and these prophecies, so that they should all point to Jesus Christ on purpose to confirm it, that he is the Messiah. To such it may be replied, How could such a thing be contrived by cunning men▪ ⟨p. 129⟩to point to Jesus Christ, long before he ever was born? How could they know that ever any such person would be born? And how could their craft and subtlety help them to foresee and point at an event that was to come to pass many ages afterwards? for no fact can be more evident, than that the Jews had those writings long before Christ was born; as they have them still in great veneration, where-ever they are, in all their dispersions through the world; and they would never have received such a contrivance from Christians, to point to and confirm Jesus to be the Messiah, whom they always denied to be the Messiah; and much less would they have been made to believe that they always had had those •ooks in their hands, when they were first made and imposed upon them.

Here it may be some persons may be ready to object, and say, That it may be, some subtle, cunning men contrived this history, and these prophecies, so that they should all point to Jesus Christ on purpose to confirm it, that he is the Messiah. To such it may be replied, How could such a thing be contrived by cunning men▪ ⟨p. 129⟩to point to Jesus Christ, long before he ever was born? How could they know that ever any such person would be born? And how could their craft and subtilty help them to foresee and point at an event that was to come to pass many ages afterwards? for no fact can be more evident, than that the Jews had those writings long before Christ was born; as they have them still in great veneration, wherer-ever they are, in all their dispersions through the world; and they would never have received such a contrivance from Christians, to point to and confirm Jesus to be the Messiah, whom they always denied to be the Messiah; and much less would they have been made to believe that they always had had those •ooks in their hands, when they were first made and imposed upon them.