fignified under the Old Teftament. The One confifted in Words; The Other in Facts. And Thefe are therefore diftinguished, by Predictions, and Types. For what the Prophets did, was in fome Cafes reputed of equal Significance and Authority, with what they fpoke; Both being allowed to proceed from the Impulfe and Direction of the fame Divine Spirit; and, upon that account, to be as full of Mystery, and to challenge the fame regard. Accordingly we shall find Both appealed to, with refpect to the matter now before Us. In handling which I fhall confider Each apart; and fhew, in this Difcourfe, what Intimation was given by Both, that Chrift muft Suffer; and in my Next, that he muft Rise again from the dead, the third day.

As to the Sufferings and Death of Chrift, the Prophecies produced in Scripture are very many, and fo copious and exprefs, as to reach every material Circumftance, relating to them. That he should be betrayed by a particular Friend, One that was fuftained by his Bounty, and retained to him; David hath foretold in the 41ft Pfalm, which Jefus applies to himfelf, John xiii. 18, 19. Ifpeak not of you all, I know whom I have Chofen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, IIe that eateth Bread with me, hath lift up his Heel against me. Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am He. And again, Matth. xxvi. 23, 24. to the Difciples Queftion, who it was that fhould betray Him; he anfwered and faid, He that diffeth his hand with me in the Difb, the fame fhall betray Me. The Son of Man goeth as it is written of Him, but Wo to that Man, by whom the Son of Man is betrayed.

St. Peter, in the First of the As, is exprefs, that fome of thofe Imprecations in the 69th and 109th Pfalms, had Judas his Tranf

Acts i. 16, 21.

greffion, and the falling from his Apoftlefhip, in To this likewife our Saviour is probably

view.

John xvii. 12.

thought to allude, when he fays, Those whom thou gavest me have I kept, and none of them is loft, but the Son of Perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. The Potters Field being bought with the thirty pieces of Silver, and His being fold for fo vile a Price, is by St. Matthew referred to an old Prophecy. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken, They took the thirty pieces of Silver, the Frice of him that was valued, whom they of the Children of Ifrael did value; or as it is in the Old Teftament, (a goodly price that he was vaZech. xi. 12, 14. lued at by them) And gave them for the Potters Field, as the Lord appointed me.

Matt. xxvii. 9, 10.

The Fears and Confufion of his Difciples are, by our Lord himfelf, declared to be an accomplishment of another Paffage in the fame Prophet, Matth. xxvi. 31. Then faith Jefus unto them, All ye shall be Zech. xiii. 7. offended because of me this night, for it is written, I will fmite the Shepherd, and the Sheep of the Flock foall be fcattered abroad.

The infamous manner of his Death, and the proAigate Companions of his Sufferings, St. Mark obferves to fall in exactly with the defcription given of it by Ifaiah, many Ages before. With him they

Compare Luke

Xxii. 37.

crucified two Thieves, the one one his right band, and the other on his left: And the Scripture was fulfilled which faith, And he was numbred with the Tranfgreffers.

David, defcribing the Barbarity of his Enemies, fays, They parted his Garments among them, and Pfal. xxii. 18, upon kis Vefture did they caft lots. But St. Fehn informs us, that thofe Words had a much more diflant Profpect; and how ftrangely the Avarice of the Soldiers, and the particular form of Jefus his Cloaths, concurred to give them their due and ultimate Completion, John xix. 23, 24. Then the Soldiers, when they bad crucified Jefus, took his Garments and made four parts, to

every

every Soldier a part, and alfo his Coat. Now the Coat was without Seam, woven from the top throughout. They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whofe it fhall be; that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which faith, They parted my Raiment among them, and upon my Vesture did they caft lots. Theje things therefore the Soldiers did.

Our Lord, in his dying Agonies, made ufe of the very Words of David in the 22d Pfalm, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? In which Pfalm that Tragical Scene is painted to the Life, and the very Taunts of his reviling Enemies are repeated. As if it were a melancholy Poem, deferibing a Death already paft, rather than a prediction of one to come, above a thousand Years after. And lastly, Juft before our Lord expired, He cried, I thirst. But this was done, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, (fays St. John, Chap. xix. 28.) For the fame David, Pfalm Ixix. 21. complains thus, They gave me Gall to eat, and when I was thirfty, they gave me Vinegar to drink. Now this was never ftrictly and literally true, except in the cafe of this Son of David, For to him they ran, and filled a Spunge, and gave him Vinegar to drink mingled with Gall.

Once more, That impertinent Malice of the Roman Soldier, who wounded his dead Body with a Spear, was another Circumftance too, correfponding with an ancient Prophecy, in thofe Words quoted

by St. John from Zechariah, They shall
look on Me whom they have pierced.

John xix. 37.

Zech. xii. 10.

The foundation of the Eunuch's Converfion was laid in a Text of Ifaiah. And Philip could not begin, at any more appofite Scripture to bring fish lil. him over to Jefus, than that, which Pro

vidence ordered, that he fhould just then be reading; He was led as a Sheep to the Slaughter, and like a Lamb dumb before his Shearers, fo opened he not his mouth. In

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bis bumiliation bis judgment was taken away; And who Ball declare his Generation, for bis Life is taken from the Earth?

Now, as in thefe laft Words, that Prophet foretold the Meeknefs and invincible Patience of the Blefied Jefus, under fo injurious a Death; So did he likewife | the great Charity and main Defign of it, and how a Perfon fo Innocent, fo Divine, came to endure fo bitter things: That This was a Difpenfation of God, for the benefit of finful Man, to lay on him the burthen of the Punishment of thofe Tranfgreffions, which must i otherwife have funk the guilty Committers, into irrecoverable Mifery and Deftruction. For if we look into the 5th and 6th Verfes of that famous 53d of Ifaiah, we shall find, that St. Peter does but take the Prophet's Words into his own Mouth, when he gives this account of Chrift, in the Second of his First Epiftle at the 24th. Who his own felf bore our Sins, in his own Body on the Tree, that we being dead to Sin fhould live to Righte oufness: By whofe Stripes ye were healed; for ye were as Sheep going aftray. So the Apoftle. Now obferve the Prophet eight hundred Years before; Surely be bath born our Griefs, and carried our Sorrows, He was wounded for our Tranfgreffions; he was bruised for our Iniquities, the Chaftifement of our Peace was upon him, and by bis Stripes we are healed. All we like Sheep have gone aftray, we have turned every one to his own way, And the Lord barb laid on him the Iniquity of us all.

Thefe, I think, may more than fuffice for Verbal Predictions of our Lord's Paffion. I fhall inftance in Two or Three of the other fort, Figures and Types, i taken notice of in the New Testament. And They are Thefe.

The First I fhall mention, is, The Pafchal Lamb; Appointed to be flain, and the Blood of it fprinkled upon the Doors of every Ifraelite, in the Night when God

flew

John i. 29.

Rev. i. 5.

Rom. v. 10.

I Cor. v. 7.

John xix. 32,

33, 36.

flew all the First-born in Egypt. And the Ufe of this was, to fecure the Inhabitants, where this Blood was fprinkled, from all the dire Effects of the destroying Angel. Now the like Benefit accrues to Chriftians, by the Blood of Jefus. St. John calls him the Lamb of God, that takes away the Sins of the World, and fays, he hath washed us in his own Blood. St. Paul, that we are reconciled to God by his Blood. And that Christ our Paffover is facrificed for us. And St. John once more takes notice, that, when the Soldiers came to take down the Malefactors from the Cross, they broke the Legs of the two Thieves crucified with Jefus. But, when they came to Him, and faw that He was dead already, they broke not bis Legs. Which he attributes to a very particular Providence, for these things were done, fays he, that the Scripture fhould be fulfilled, A Bone of him shall not be broken. It feems then, That Scripture had not been fulfilled, if any Bone of Jefus had been broken. · But that Scripture is one of the Precepts concerning the Paffover, in the Twelfth of Exodus; and was constantly obferved by the Jews, in their Celebration of it. Since therefore this Scripture required, and found its full and laft Completion in Chrift; Some Account there must be of the Concern he had in it. And this can be no other, than the mutual Relation, between the Jewish Lamb and Him; That as the Shadow, Him as the Substance; And confequently, He is the true, the univerfal Paffover; which turns away the Wrath of God, and, by the Merit of his Sacrifice, delivers them that have part in him, from the Deftruction of the Reprobate and Wicked.

Another Image of Chrift was the Sin-offering inftituted by the Jewish Law. This, (I have proved already) as upon other Occafions, so especially upon the Great Day of Atonement, was to reconcile Men to God.

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