32. And I, if I be LIFTED up from the Earth, will draw all Men unto me. 33. (This he said, fignifying what DEATH he fhould DIE.) Chap. xv. 13. Greater Love hath no Man than this, that a Man LAY DOWN his LIFE for his Friends. **** ***** *** The Hiftory of CHRIST's Paffion and Death; wherein the Prophecies relating thereto, were in the most minute Circumftances accomplished, as will appear by the References annexed. Matt. xxvi. 30. Mark xiv. 27. [M.] A xxii. 1.. Luke xxii. 39. Pfal. MY GOD, my God, why me? Why art thou fo far from helping me, and from the Words of my roaring? haft thou forfaken time, but thou hearelt not; and in the Night-feafon, and am not filent. 2. O my God, I cry in the Day 3. But thou art holy, O thou that inhabiteft the Praises of Ifrael. 4. Our Fathers trufted in thee: they trufted, and thou didst deliver them. delivered: they trufted in thee, and 5. They cried unto thee, and were were not contounded. 6. But I am a Worm, and ne Man; a REPROACH of Men, and DESPISED of the People. 7. All they that fee me, laugh me to fcon: they fhoot out the LIP, they fhake the Head, faying, he would deliver him: let him DE8. He trusted on the Lord, that LIVER him, fecing he DELIGHTED in him. 9. But thou art he that took me out of the Womb; thou didst make me hope, when I was upon my Mother's Beast. 10. I was caft upon thee from the Womb thou art my God from my Mother's Belly. 11. Be not far from me, for Trouble is near, for there is none to help. 12. Many Bulls have compiled me: ftrong Bulls of Bahan have befet me round. 13. They GAPED upon me with their Mouths, as a ravening and a roaring Lion. 14. I am roURED out like WATER, and all my BONES are out of JOINT: my HEART is like WAX, it is melted in the midit of my Bowels. 15. My STRENGTH is dried up like a Potfherd and my TONGUE cleaveth to my Jaws; and thou hait brought me into the DUST of DEATH. 16. For Dogs have compaffed me, the ASSEMBLY of the WICK ED have inciofed me: they FIERC ED MY HANDS and my FEET. 17. I may tell all my BONES: they look and ftare upon me. 18. They PART my GARMENTS among them, and CAST LOTS upon my Vesture. [Mr.] A cometh JESUS O Lord, O my Strength, hate theẻ 19. But be not thou far from me, 20. Deliver my Soul from the Sword: my Dailing from the Power of the Dog. 21. Save me from the Lion's Mouth for thou hast heard me from the Horns of the Unicorns. 22. I will declare thy Name unto my Brethren; in the midit of the Congregation will I praife thee. 23 Ye that fear the Lord, praise him; all ye the Seed of Faceb, glorify him; and fear him all ye the Seed of Ifrael. with them into a Place cal- to help me. vy, 24. For he hath not despised, nor ABHORRED the AFFLICTION of the AFFLICTED; neither hath he hid his Face from him, but when he CRIED unto him, he HEARD 25. My PRAISE. fhall be of thee in the great Congregation: I will pay my Vows before them that fear him. 26. The MEEK shall eat and be fatisfied they fhall praife the Lord that LIVE for ever. 27. All the ENDS of the WORLD fhall remember, and TURN unto the Lord and ALL the Kindreds fore thee. of the NATIONS fhall worship be 28. For the KINGDOM is the vy, and [Mr.] to be fore that SEEK him; your Heart shall AMAZED. And [M] then faith he unto them, My SOUL is exceeding SORROWFUL, even unto DEATH; tarry ye here, and WATCH with me. [L.] And he was withdrawn from them, [M] and he went a little farther, [L.] about a Stone's caft, and KNEELED down, [Mr.] and FELL on the GROUND [M] on his FACE, [Mr.] and PRAYED that if it were poffible the Hour might pafs from him, [M] faying, O my Father, if it be poffible, let this CUP PASS from me : [Mr.] ABBA, FATHER, all Things are POSSIBLE unto thee, take away this Cup from me: neverthelefs, not what I WILL, but what thou WILT. And he cometh unto the Difciples, and findeth them ASLEEP, and faith unto Peter, [Mr.] Simon, fleepest thou? couldft not thou WATCH One Hour ? [M] What, could ye not WATCH with me one Hour? WATCH and PRAY, that ye enter not into TEMPTATION. [Mr.] The SPIRIT truly is ready, but the FLESH is weak. And again, [M] the fecond time, [Mr.] he went away and prayed, and fpake the fame Words, [M]O my FATHER, if this Cup may not PASS AWAY from me, except I drink it, thy WILL be DONE. [Mr.] And when he returned, [M.] he came and Lord's: and he is the GOVERNOR among the NATIONS. Earth, fhall eat and worthip: all 29. All they that be fat upon they that go down to the DUST, fhall bow before him, and none can keep ALIVE his own SOUL. 30. A Seed fhall ferve him, it fhall be accounted to the Lord for a Generation. a declare his RIGHTEOUSNESS unto People that SHALL be BORN, that he hath done this. 31. They fhall come, and fhall Ifai. lii 1. Who hath believed our Report? and to whom is the Arm of the Lord revealed? 2. 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 Comeliness: and when we fhall fee him, there is no Beauty that we should defire him. 3. He is defpifed and rejected of Men, a MAN of SORROWS, and acquainted with GRIEF: and we hid as it were our Faces from him; he was DESPISED, and we esteemed him not. 4. Surely he hath BORN our GRIEFS, and CARRIED our SORROWS: yet we did efteem him STRICKEN, SMITTEN of God, and AFFLICTED. 5. But he was WOUNDED for our TRANSGRESSIONS he was BRUIS ED for our INIQUITIES: the Chaftifement of our PEACE was upon him, and with his Stripes we are healed. and found them asleep again: BETRAY me. XXXX)XXX****** CHRIST, by the Treacke- 8. He was taken from PRISON, and from JUDGMENT: and who thall declare his Generation? For he was CUT OFF out of the Land of the LIVING: for the Transgreffion of my People was he STRICKEN. 9. And he made his Grave with the WICKED, and with the RICH in his Death, because he had done no Violence, neither was any Deceit in his MOUTH 10. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruife him, he hath put him to Grief; when thou fhalt make his SOUL an Offering for SIN. be fhall fee his Seed, he shall prolong his Days, and the Pleature of the Lord fhall profper in his Hand. 11. He fhall fee of the TRAVAIL of his Sout, and thall be SATISFIED: By his Knowledge hall my righteous Servant JUSTIFY many: for he fhall bear their INIQUITIES. 12. Therefore will I divide him a PORTION with the Great, and he fhall divide the SPOIL with the Strong: becaufe he hath poured out his SouL unto Death: and he was numbred with the Tranfgreffos, and he bare the SIN of many, and made INTERCESSION for the Tranfgreffors. Ifai. Ixiii. 1. Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed Garments from Boz ah? This that is glorious in his Apparel, travelling that fpeak in Righteoufnefs, mighin the Greatnefs of his Strength? ty, to SAVE. 2. Wherefore art thou red in thine Apparel, and thy Garmen like him that treadeth in the WineFat? 3. I have troden the Wine-prefs alone, and of the People there was none with me: 5. And I looked, and there was none to help: and I wondered that there was, none to uphold: Therefore mine own Arm brought SALVATION. 7. I will mention the loving Kindneffes of the Lord, and the Praifes of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us, and the great Goodnels towards the House ed, and taken in the Garden. [Mr.]AND immediately, while he yet fpake, [Z.] behold, he that was called Fndas, one of the Twelve, [7] having received a BAND of MEN, and OFFICERS from the CHIEF PRIESTS and Pharifees, cometh thither, [Mr.] and with him a great Multitude, [7] with Lanterns, and Torches, [Mr.] with SWORDS, and Staves, [7] and Weapons, [Mr.] from the CHIEF PRIESTS, and the Scribes, and the ELDERS. And he that BETRAYED him, had given them a Token, faying, Whom foever I fhall KISS, that fame is he; take him, and lead him away fafely: And he [L.] went before them. [7] Jefus therefore KNOWING all THINGS that fhould COME upon HIM, went forth, and faid unto them, Whom feek ye? They answered him, Jefus of Nazareth. Jefus faith unto them, I AM HE. And Fudas alfo which BETRAYED him, flood with them. As foon then as he had faid unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the Ground. Then asked he them again, Whom feek ye? And they faid, Jefus of Nazareth. Fefus anfwered, I have told you that 1 am he. If therefore ye feek Houle of Ifrael, which he hath beltowed on them, according to the Multitude of his loving Kindneffes. 8. For he faid. Surely they are my People, Children that will not lye: So he was their SAVIOUR. 9 In all their Afflictions he was afflicted, and the Angel of hi Pre fence faved them: In his Love and in his PITY he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the Days of oid. of thy supplications the CommandDan. ix. 23. At the Beginning ment came forth, and I am come to fhew thee; for thou art greatly the Matter, and confider the Vition. FELOVED: Therefore understand 24. SEVENTY WEEKS are deter mined upon thy People, and upon the holy City to finish the Tranfgreffion, and to make an END of SINS, and to make RECONCILIATION for INIQUITY, and to bring in everlafting Righteoufnels, and to feal up the Vition and PROPHECY, and to ANOINT the most HOLY ftand, that from the GOING FORTH of the Commandment to restore and to build Jerufalem, unto the MESSIAH the PRINCE, shall be 25. Know therefore and under feven Weeks; and threefcore and two Weeks the Street fhall be built again, and the Wall, even in troublous Times. 26. And after threefcore and two Weeks fhall MESSIAH be CUT OFF, but NOT for Himfelf: And the People of the Prince that fhall come, fhail DESTROY the CITY, and the SANCTUARY, and the End thereof fhall be with a Flood, and unto the END of the War DESOLATIONS are determined. Zech. xii. 10. And I will pour upon the Houfe o David, and upon the Inhabitants of rufalem, the SPIRIT of GRACE, and of SUPPLICATION, and they fhall LOOK upon me whom they have PIERCED, and they hall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his ONLY SON, and fhall be in Bitter nefs for him, as one that is in Bit ternefs for his Firit-born. |