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Boy: Meffiah fhall be cut off, but not for himself, and he fhall confirm the covenant with many for one week, and he fhall caufe the fa crifice to cease, and the city and temple to be deftroyed, and to the end defolations are determined.

Mofes. Here I am loft in horror and defpair. Meffiah cut off, his covenant confirmed, Ifrael with her temple and facrifice caft off, Jerufalem deftroyed, and judea laid waste and given to the Gentiles, themselves made flaves. O the the mifery of two thousand years.

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Boy. Ifaiah 9th chapter. For unto us a child is born, unto us a fon is given, and the government Shall be upon his fhoulders, and his name fhall be called, Wonderful Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there fhall be no end, and upon the throne of David and his kingdom to order and establish it with judgment and with juftice, from henceforth even for ever; the zeal of the Lord of Hofts will perform this.

Mofes. Ifrael grants her Meffiah no part of the Divinity, but every perfection of human nature, and great fhare of the Spirit, far exceeding, if poffible, Mofes, whom the Almighty fpoke with face to face. Affuming to himfelf this infinite dignity was the condempation and death of Jefus Chrift; for many accufations proved ineffectual and abortive unto our high and chief prieft. Caiphas asked him, (as he had declared himfelf) Art thou Chrift

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fpit upon him, covered his face, buffeted him, and faid deridingly, "Prophefy," and the fervants ftruck him, and to confirm to you more fully that Jefus, taking on himself the dignity of the Divinity, was his condemnation and, death. The words of our high-priest to Pilate is fufficient with the body of the people, when the governor would have fet him free. These are their words: "We have a law, and by our, law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. 120 ton gol on died sď Boy. If this have ever been the fentiments of the Jews, it explains very clearly the caufe which influenced them to put the prophets to death, for almost the whole have spoken of the divinity of Chrift; and you well know that they were unpleafing companions to Ifrael, for they put them to death.

Mofes. Ifrael has been complained of asian ftiff-necked and ftony hearted race, through out her fcriptures; but where is the nation. without this obduracy: Ifrael has her foibles, but the alfo has her virtues. What other peo ple have attended as Ifrael upon her God, from the time of our father Abraham, the term four: you thousand years, to this day fuffering from

time to time, and this laft period upon the close of clewo thousand years, the greatest contumelies, reproach, and the most grievous bûrdens, why? because we remain firm to our God, and religion of our fore fathers. Yet Hrael has finned, or why banished:

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Boy. Meffiah cut off, his covenant confirmed, city, temple, and facrifice deftroyed, Ifrael caft out, and country parcelled out to the Gentiles bos

Mofes. A bitter draught I confefs, the wound enters deep, but still I am in the dark, Ifrael cannot be guilty of fo black a crime, and not know her guilt.akumen to 2009

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Boy. Ifaiah 53 chap. Who hath believed our reports, and to whom is the arm of the Lord' revealed, for he fhall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground; he hath no form nor comelinefs; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should defire him. He is defpifed and rejected of men; a man of forrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him. He was defpifed, and we efteemed him not: furely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our forrows, yet we did efteem him ftricken, finitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our tranfgreffions, he was bruifed for our iniquities; the chaftifement of our peace was upon him, and with his ftripes we are healed. All we, like sheep, have gone aftray, we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us allo He was opprefied, and he was afflicted,

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yet, he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the flaughter, and as a sheep, before her fhearers, is dumb; fo he openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prifon and from judgment; and who fhall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living; for the tranfgreffions of My people was he ftricken, and he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he hath done no violence; neither was there any deceit in his mouth; yet it pleased the Lord to bruife him. He hath put him to grief; when thou shalt make his foul an offering for fin: he fhail fee his feed, he fhall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord fhall profper in his hands. He fhall fee of the travail of his foul, and fhall be fatisfied: by his knewledge fhall my righteous fervant justify many; for he fhall bear their iniquities; therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he fhall divide the fpoil with the ftrong; because he hath poured out his foul unto death, and he was numbered with the tranfgreffors; and he bore the fin of many, and made interceffion for the tranfgreffors.

Mofes. These are dark and hidden mysteries, fealed up in the vision of God from the begining the prophecy of our father Jacob concerning the Meffiah's (when the fceptre should be taken from Judah) appearing, and the prophecy as we took notice of Daniel's feventy weeks, reflects and marks out the epoch also confirming his covenant. Ifaiah goes farther, and treats of ingratitude, fufferings, and igno

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minious death of the Meffiah; hated, defpifed, villified, fcorned, and derided as the fcum or dregs, not worthy the name of man: executing him with the malefactors, as a moft bafe culprit. That he died for others, both Daniel and Ifaiah agree; this proves him to be more than man, they being all involved in the fin of our firft parent, and this against the Deity; which guilt could not be cancelled by a creature; for had man maintained his innocence, or even the higher order of angels, they have nothing they can claim or offer, but belongs to their Creator. This reflection involves my mind, and like a dagger pierces my heart: where have I been wandering in the fhades of night, for four-fcore years, ever learning, but never learned my pufuit limited to the narrow boundaries of Palaftine, and my Meffiah an earthly prince; O the mifery of terrestrial glory, it robs us of all that is truly glorious; how often have I confidered, Mofes, our great legiflator, and king Solomon, as types of our Meffiah, but him in a far more perfect and fublime fphere, with a long feries of years and tranfcending blifs; but fill terreftrial, and himn not: God; for the thought I fhould be condemned blafphemeous. But now a ray of celeftial light breaks through, and discovers to my deluded understanding the weakness of the human mind, left to its own reafoning in the way of fpirit; four-fcore years travelling over fea and land in fearch of truth; this from my youth, my chief concern, but alas to no effect; fcripture has ever been my chief companion,

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