five type of the finlefs Jefus on the Cross) fays-Ye fhall not break a bone thereof. The fame Almighty Being fays, in the Prophecies of Zechariah, They fhall look upon me whom they have pierced.

This remarkable coincidence we find between the Prophets and Evangelifts refpecting the Death of Chrift. That he was God Incarnate the last quoted Prophecy incontestibly proves.-Were I to ask an Unitarian (that is, a person who denies the Divinity of Jefus) were I to ask him, "" whom did one of the foldiers pierce in the fide with a spear?"-I prefume he could not but anfwer" Jefus Chrift." But God Almighty (fpeaking in his own person) says,

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They fhall look upon ME whom they have pierced." *—Therefore Chrift is God.

Yet although he was thus "highly exalted, and had a Name that is above every name ; -though he was in the Form of God, and thought it not robbery to be equal with God, he made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a fervant, and was made in the likenefs of men; and

being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Crofs."What a mystery to man is this! God manifefted in the Flesh!-He was made Flesh and dwelt among us."-What returns of Gratitude do we owe for fo great, fo wonderful an instance of Divine Mercy, Love, and Condescension! -what are we, that God fhould be thus mindful of us,-that he fhould defcend from heaven to vifit and redeem us?.

I will tell you what we are-SINNERS,-offending creatures, on whom had paffed the fentence of eternal death; but who (through the Love of Chrift that paffeth knowledge) are now restored to newness of life, and bleffed with the offers of eternal Redemption.

I cannot omit mentioning another Type, that was fulfilled in a moft remarkable manner in Jefus Chrift.The Evangelist informs us that one of the twelve (called Judas Iscariot) went to the chief priests, and faid unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of filver," The Evangelift afterwards adds,

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"Then Judas which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of filver to the chief priests and elders, faying, I have finned, in that I have betrayed the innocent blood.And he caft down the pieces of filver in the Temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. And the chief priests took the filver pieces, and faid, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. And they took counsel, and bought with them the Potter's field to bury strangers in. Wherefore that field was called the Field of Blood unto this day."

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Compare the account of this fingular tranfaction here given by the Evangelist, with that of another recorded by the prophet Zechariah :

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And I faid unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of filver. And the Lord faid unto me, Caft it unto the Potter: a goodly price that I was prized at of them. And I took

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the thirty pieces of filver, and caft them unto the Potter in the House of the Lord."*

This agreement of Circumftances is very remarkable, not only with respect to the Number of Pieces, and the purpose to which they were applied; but also with refpect to the Place where each circumftance happened. The apoftate Difciple "caft down the thirty pieces of filver in the Temple." The Prophet did the fame. I took, fays he, the thirty pieces of filver, aud caft them unto the Potter in the House of the Lord."

Thus have I proved from various Types and Prophecies circumftantially accomplished, that Jefus Chrift was the very Meffiah foretold to be cut off, but not for himself, to make Reconciliation for Iniquity, and to bring in everlasting Righteoufnefs." If, to this "cloud of Witneffes," we add the beautiful and pathetic defcription of his Sufferings given by Ifaiah, (which alone converted the Eunuch, and, among other In

fidels of our own Country, ferved to convince the penitential Earl of Rochefter of the Truth of Chriftianity :)-if we add this, I fay, to thofe Testimonies which I have already adduced, not the moft prejudiced Jew, one would think, could avoid confeffing that this is indeed the Chrift, the Meffiah, of whom Mofes and the Prophets did write,

The Prophet, you will obferve, after complaining of the Incredulity of the Jews, on account of the lowly appearance of Jefus, speaks of his Sufferings and Death as Events that were past, though feven hundred years were to complete their revolutions before those Events fhould happen. Full of divine Energy and Inspiration, he breaks out into this tender, this melting language:" He is despised and rejected of men, a man of forrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our forrows: yet we did efteem him ftricken, fmitten of God and afflicted. But he was wounded for

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