fect, the literal meaning of which was intended to be applied to the Messias.

"4. The exceptions taken to some texts, cited from the Old in the New Testament, are frivolous, and ought to cast no discredit on the Gospel wherein they are found.

5. The allegoric or other methods of citing and explaining Scripture, which the Jews were accustomed to, though different from the manner of arguing which the later ages have confined themselves to, might justly be followed, as it is sometimes by the writers of the New Testament, according to the allowed maxims of disputation, in reasoning with Jews; or, in other words, the apostles deserve no censure for using arguments ad homi

nem.

6. The sense fixed by Christ and his apostles on the prophecies of the Old Testament, supposing many of those prophecies capable of suiting other persons and times than those of the Messias, is certainly preferred to any other sense they may possibly be taken in."-Chand. Int. p. 16.

These positions are, I think, satisfactorily established by the learned and candid author, and you will find the whole of his proofs well deserving of attention. I have read few books on the prophecies with equal satisfaction. Edward. What prophecies does he adduce as certainly and exclusively relating to the Messias?

Mr. B. He selects the following as immediately and solely in the obvious and literal sense, according to scholasItic rules, referring to him.

"1. Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts."—Mal. iii. 1. p. 52.

"2. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the

39 What is the fifth one?-40 And what is the sixth one?-41 What does Mr. B. say of these propositions?-42 What is the first prophecy he adduces as certainly and exclusively relating to Messias?—43 What is the second one?

Lord: and he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to (or with) the children, and the heart of the children to (or with) the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse."-Mal. iv. 5, 6, p. 64.

"3. For thus saith the Lord of hosts, yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former; and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.-Hag. ii. 6-9, p. 71.

"4. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, thy King cometh unto thee; the righteous one, and that Saviour, lowly and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.' Zech. ix. 9, p. 84.

"5. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and supplications; and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born.-Zech. xii. 10, p. 88.

6. "And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. Forasmuch as thou sawest, that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold.-Dan. ii. 44, 45, p. 95.

7. I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations and lan

44 What is the third?-45 And the fourth?-46 The fifth?-47 The sixth?-48 What is the seventh one?

guages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom shall not be destroyed.-Dan. vii. 13, 14, p. 106.

"9. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, to seal up sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. Know, therefore, and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to build Jerusalem again unto Messiah the prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the streets shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, and they shall not be his (people); and the people of the prince that shall come, shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and at the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week; and in one part of that week he shall cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease; and upon the battlement shall be the idols of the desolator until the consummation, viz. of God's wrath, and that determined, shall be poured upon the desolator. Dan. ix. 24-27, p. 109.

"9. But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been of old, from everlasting,Mic. v. 2, p. 124.

"10. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it (or he) shall speak and not lie. Though he tarry, wait for him.—Hab. ii. 3, 4, p. 132.

11. In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the 'days of old: that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen which are called by my name, saith the Lord that doth this.-Amos, ix. 11, 12, p. 139.

49 What is the eighth one?-50 What is the ninth?-51 What is the tenth of these propositions?-52 What is the eleventh?

"12. Behold, my servant shall prosper; he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. As many were astonished at thee; (his visage was so marred, more than any other man, and his form more than the sons of men ;) so shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which was not told them shall they see, and that which they had not heard shall they consider. Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall grow up as a tender plant before him, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: as a hiding of faces from us, he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows, when we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. All we, like sheep, have gone astray; we have turned back every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed (or rather the debt was demanded) and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. He was taken off by authority, and by judgment, and who shall declare his generation (or lineage?) when he shall be cut off from the land of the living, and for the transgression of my people stricken. And he (the people) made his grave with the wicked; but it shall be with the rich after his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased God to bruise him: he hath put him to grief: if he shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, that shall prolong their days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hands. Because of the travail of his soul he shall see his desire, and be satisfied: by

53 And what is the twelfth of them?

his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many, whose iniquities he shall bear. Therefore will I divide him a portion of the great, and he shall divide the spoil of the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors, and bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."-Isaiah, lii. 13, &c. p. 147.

Now if Jesus of Nazareth be not the Messiah, every one of these prophecies has proved false; if he be, every one has been accomplished. Their integrity, their interpretation, their application to the Messias, and him alone, are certain, as Bishop Chandler shows at large. They limit the time and place of his birth, and of his death; they show the circumstances which were to precede his coming, those which would attend his life, and those which follow his death; and by all the testimony we can collect upon the subject, in every particular have these prophecies been fulfilled; for our Lord did appear in the second Temple, was preceded by John the Baptist in the spirit and power of Elias, and did enter Jerusalem in the manner predicted. He was born at Bethlehem; he was pierced and cut off at Jerusalem, at the time appointed; Jerusalem was made desolate, and the kingdom of Jesus was established, has continued to this day, and continually advances in every part of the globe.

Edward. The collected force of this is indeed very great; for the evidence is unexceptionable, the prophecies being in the hands of enemies, and their fulfilment matter of fact known unto all, as we before ascertained.

Mr. B. And of these facts these very prophecies form a most irresistible confirmation; for from the beginning the facts were alleged as fulfilments of the prophecies, and yet neither the one nor the other could be denied. But if these are acknowledged, who will deny the application of the other prophecies to our Lord? Who can doubt that of him alone David wrote, when he said,

54 If Jesus of Nazareth be not the Messiah, what may be said of these prophecies?-55 In what particulars were these prophecies literally applicable to him?-56 What does Edward say of the collected force of the argument, as it now stands?-57 What does Mr. B. say of the above facts as connected with the prophecies named?-58 What is the passage quoted from David respecting our Lord?