3 4. 5. Vile, and unfit with honeft men to be, They were expell'd from their fociety; (They hooted after them, as after thieves :) 6. To dwell in cliffs of vales, in rocks, and caves. 7. Inur'd to favage and to beastly ways, In defart folitude they spent their Rev. David Bacon either at Detroit or among a tribe of Indians on the river Miami; Rev. Meffrs. Jofeph Badger and Ezekie! Chapman in New Connecticut; Rev. Meffrs. Seth Willifton and Jedidiah Bufonell in the weftern counties of New-York; Mr. James W. Woodward in the Black River country; and Rev. Alexander Gillet in the northern part of Vermont. Three other miffionaries are appointed, and it is expected they will foon enter on their miffions; one to go to the northern counties of New-York weft of Lake Champlain; one to the northern counties of Vermont; and one to the vacant set- | 9. tlements adjoining Connecticut river in the States of Vermont and New-Hampshire. 8. days: Among the fhrubs and nettles would they lie ; And, like an uncouth afs, were heard to cry. Thefe abject fellows all receiv'd their birth From fools, more bafe than is the vileft earth. And now their falfe, deriding fons agree, In mirth and fongs, to fcoff and jeer at me. ro. They me abhor, and far away they move; Nor with me fit, in fympathizing love. To vent their fpite, and bring om me difgrace, They rudely caft their spittle in my face. II. Since mine authoritative cord He broke, 12. And I endure his fore afflictive stroke ; They lose restraint, and by their words afpire, To lead and rule me, as their hearts defire. Although the trying rod of God I bear, And I mine own integrity declare ; On my right hand the youth prefume to rife; And what I speak, they rashly say, " are lies." 'Tis thus they ftrive to overthrow mine hope, And leave my foul in dire despair to grope. 13. The path in which, to seek relief, I 14. As the wide breakings in of water roll Throughout the field, and overfpread the whole; From a friend of Miffions, From Rev. Dr. Trumbull, avails of his fermons, From Rev. Samuel Nott, Franklin, From Dr. Joshua Lothrop, 13. 10 6 50 ΙΟ 100 From a friend to Miffions, 10 136 50 TO THE EDITORS OF THE CONNECTICUT EVANGELICAL MAG AZINE. GENTLEMEN, IF you deem the following worthy of infertion, you may publish it in the magazine. THE HE divinity of our Lord Jefus Chrift is, justly, to be viewed as the corner ftone of the Chriftian fyftem. Take this away, and the whole building muft fall to the ground; a fatal blow is ftruck, and the church, which is profeffedly founded upon this rock, is found to be a building which overlays its foundation. The importance of this doctrine can never be too forcibly inculcated, nor its evidences fet in too clear a light. This is more efpecially neceffary, as it meets with much oppofition at the prefent day. The writer of thefe hints has no intention to enter into a particular detail of the fcriptural evidences of that truth, nor fo much as to point out the various fources from whence they are derived. This has been frequently done by abler hands, much to the fatisfaction of the friends of truth. There is one thing however, which, if it VOL. III. No. 3 L is agreeable to fcripture, will put the matter out of all difpute, viz. That Jefus Chrift, called the fon of God, the fecond perfon in the glorious Trinity; the divine perfon, conftituted to be the Meffiah, and afterwards incarnate, was, emphatically, the Jehovah of the old teftament. The following brief hints on that fubject, may, perhaps, excite fome perfon of greater abili ties, and more leifure, to a more thorough investigation. When our Lord fays, John viii. 58. "Before Abraham was I am ;" There feems to be a plain allufion to the name affumed by Jehovah, the God of Ifrael, when he called, commiffioned and fent forth Mofes, to deliver his people out of their Egyptian bon dage. Exod. iii. 14. "And God faid unto Mofes, I am that I am. And he faid, thus fhalt thou fay unto the children of Ifrael, I am hath fent me unto you." name undoubtedly implying eter nity, felf exiftence and independ ence, and excluding fucceffion of paft and future. This name Christ affumes, as the fon of God. He does not fay I was; but I am, A ever." I These visible appearances, as well as others recorded in the old teftament, were, no doubt, to be underftood, as preludes of the future incarnations of the fon of God. the fame as, 66 Jefus Chrift the | fpake unto Mofes face to face, as fame yefterday, to-day, and for- a man fpeaketh unto his friend.” In Numb. xxi. 5-10. | Chap. xxxiii. 11. Ifaiah alfo, we have an account of a remark-"fawthe Lord fitting on his throne, able murmuring of the children of high and lifted up, and his train Ifrael, againft God and against filled the temple." Ifaiah vi. 1. Mofes. To punish their rebel-Mine eyes have feen the king, lions and murmurings, God fent the Lord of Hofts." ver. 5. fiery flying ferpents among them, That this appearance of the Lord, which bit them and many of the or Jehovah of Hofts, was an appeople died. It was undoubtedly pearance of the Lord Jefus Chrift, Jehovah, the God of Ifrael, whom we are exprefsly informed, John the children of Ifrael tempted. xii. 41. "Thefe things faid EfaiCompare this account with 1 Cor.as, when he faw his glory, and x. 9. Neither let us tempt fpake of him." Chrift, as fome of them alfo tempted, and were deftroyed offerpents." Evidently alluding to the fiery flying ferpents. The glory of God the father, or the glory of the divine effence, is feen only in the fon, but is, in any other way, invifible. "No man hath feen God at any time; the only begotten fon, which is in the bofom of the father, he hath declared him." John i. 18. but Jehovah the God of Ifrael, fometimes made himself vifible Adam and Eve, after their firft tranfgreffion," heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden, in the cool of the day," Gen. iii. 8. The Lord appeared, at different times, to Abraham, particularly when circumcifion was inftituted. Gen. xvii. and when he interceded for Sodom. Chap. xviii. "The Lord appeared unto Mofes in a flame of fire, in the bush." Exod. iii. 2. Mofes, Aaron, and the elders of Ifrael, faw the God of Ifrael. "And they faw the God of If rael, and there was under his feet, as it were the paved work of a fapphire ftone. Alfo they faw God and did eat and drink." Ex. xxiv. 10, 11. "And the fight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire, on the top of the mount." 17. It is alfo worthy of remark, that names which were, peculiar, or appropriate to the God of If rael, are given, both in the old teftament and new, to the Lord Jefus Chrift, particularly the name Jehovah, which the God of Ifrael challenges as his peculiar right, and the Jews ever efteemed the most facred of any of the divine names or titles. Chrift is exprefsly called by this moft facred ap-prefsly name, Jer. xxiii. 6. "And this is the name whereby he shall be called the Lord (or Jehovah) our righteoufnefs." i. e. the righteous branch, which was to be raifed up unto David, was to be called by this name, as appears from the foregoing verfe. This may be placed in a ftill more ftriking point of light, by obferving that the word Jehovah in the Hebrew, which, when tranflated in the old teftament, is ufually rendered Lord, is conftantly by the feptua gint interpreters, who were undoubtedly acquainted with the idioms of both languages, render"And the Lorded kurios in the Greek, which is, vah. in the new teftament, invariably, mighty God, are alfo names aptranflated Lord, and is an appro-propriated to Jehovah the God of priate name of our Lord Jefus Ifrael; but these are used where Chrift, which is a strong prefump- the Lord redeemer, is undoubtedly tion that Jefus Chrift is the Jeho-the perfonage meant. To this purpofe notice the following paffages asa fpecimen, Ifaiah ix. 6. "For unto us a child is born, unto us a fon is given, and the government fhall be upon his fhoulder, and his name fhall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlafting Father, the Prince of Peace." Chap. xlv. 18, 21, 22. "The Lord that created the heavens, God himfelf that formed the earth and made it—A just God and a Saviour-Look unto me and be ye faved, all the ends of the earth for I am God and there is none else.” The names and titles of Holy One, Holy One of God, and Holy One of Ifrael, are, alfo, promifcuoufly applied to Jehovah, the God of Ifrael, and to the Lord Jefus Chrift. Thefe names and titles, the laft the moft frequent, are used nearly fifty times in the old testament, and more frequently by the prophet Ifaiah than by any other facred writer. They are the appropriate names or titles of Jehovah the God of Ifrael, but they are many times ufed where Jefus Chrift is unqueftionably meant. To this purpose fee Pfalm xvi. 10. "Thou wilt not suffer, thine Holy one, to fee corruption." Pfalm lxxxix. 19. "Thou spakeft in vifion to thine holy one." To the fame purpose fee Isaiah xli. 14. xliii. 14. xlviii. 17. xlix, 7. lv. 5. lx. 14. The fame title is also given to Christ in the new teftament, Mark i 14. Luke iv. 34. Acts ii. 17. xiii. 35. That name or title, being in thefe, and parallel places, promifcuoufly applied to the Jehovah of Ifrael, and to the redeemer, makes it, at leaft, probable, that by the Jehovah of the old teftament, we are to understand, by way of eminence, the fecond perfon in the Trinity, who was afterwards incarnate, and that, as he wrought deliverances for Ifrael, which were peculiar to them above all other people, fo he hath perfected a glorious redemption, for his fpiritual Ifrael, and therefore, both in the typical and antitypical deliverance, he makes himself known to his people by the fame names and titles. The name of God, great God, and The fame relations to the church, the fpiritual Ifrael, are also fuftained by Jehovah the God of Ifrael, and by the Lord Jefus Chrift. I fhall inftance only in the relation of a husband, or the exiftence of a marriage covenant between them. Jehovah the God of Ifrael, was the husband of his people, Ifaiah liv. 5. "For thy maker is thine husband, the Lord of hosts is his name." Jer. xxxi. 32. "Which my covenant they brake, altho' I was an husband unto them faith the Lord." Chap. liv. 1. "More are the children of the defolate, than the children of the married wife saith the Lord." Ezek. xvi. 8-20, "I entered into a covenant with thee, faith the Lord God, and thou becameft mine." i. e. in a marriage relation. taken thy fons and thy daughters, whom thou haft born unto me, and thefe haft thou facrificed, Thou haft flain my children." Hofea ii. 19. "I will betroth thee unto me forever; yea I will betroth thee unto me in righteouf 21. "Thou haft |