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the Spirit; § the Powers and Virtues of Chrift,

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+ Fudges vi. 34. The Spirit Jehovah was clothed Gide en. x Chron. xii. 18. The Spirit was came upon (clothed) Amafai. 2 Chron. xxvi. 20. The Spirit of the Alehim was

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↑ P. xciii. 1. Jehovah the King was has put on Majefty has put on Strength. civ. 1. Thou art clothed with Honour and Majefty. 1. lxi. 10. He has clothed me with the Garments of Salvation, he has covered me with the Robe of Righteousness. Gen. xlix. 11. washing was his Garment in Wine (Wine reprefented the Blood of Chrift, and fo is called in the next Words the Blood of Grapes) and his Clothes in the Blood of Grapes. (What Blood is and how it cleanses and whofe Blood it is that doth cleanfe, fee above under Baptifm ;) this is the Sufferings of Chrift, by which the Humanity was made pure, or washed clean; for though Christ was without Sin, all the Adamah was under the Curfe.

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Ifa.lii. 1. A wake awake, was put on thy Strength, O Zion, put on the Garments of thy Beauty or Glory. Ixi. 1. Jehovah has commiffioned me to preach the Gospel unto the meek (the fame as Mat. xi. 5. the Poor (in Spirit) receive the Gospel) to give unto them (Light instead of the Afbes which Mourners threw upon themfelves) the Garment ban of Irradiation for the Spirit of Heavinefs. So Rom. xiii. 14. Put ye on the Lord Jefus Chrift. Gal. iii 4 111, 27. Have put on Chrift. Eph. iv. 24. and Col. Ill. 10. Put on the new Man. The Idea of thefe Expreffions will be very plain and obvious if it be confidered, that thefe Garments were not their common, ordinary, but additional Vestments and Ornaments which reprefented the Perfections of the Mind, mental Beauty, Strength, Righteoufnefs, Holiness &c. and putting on the one was expreffive of being invested with the other as thefe Perfections are in Chrift originally, and in us only by Communication from him, putting on the Lord Jefus Chrift, putting on Chrift-the new Man &c. is by Faith receiving them (the Perfections) from him. What Ifa. calls 78 737 and St. Paul putting on the Lord Jefus Chrift,

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the regal Vestments; ‡ fo to Sackcloth: fo with Evil; each expressed for what, or understood by Usage; fo changing their Indumenta, what they put on; fomos Pf. civ. 2. who coverest thy felf with Light as with a Garment, (Peace or &c.) Cant. iv. 11. And the Smell of thy Garments is like the Smell of Lebanon.

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HEN Chrift had offered and raised himfelf, as the Word by used with a Sacrifice expreffes; he then had juftified himself, and was admitted into his Kingdom, entered upon his Joint Office of Interceffor and King, fo a royal High Prieft. His Part of the Cove

(who is the Sun (wow) of Righteousness,) is, Rev. xii. 1. hieroglyphically reprefented in Vifion to St. John, after it had had its Completion; a Woman (the Church under that Character, as elsewhere and what Isaiah above calls Zion and Jerufalem) clothed with the Sun, i. e. wow, Light of the Sun. Job xxix. 14. nwas I put on Righteoufnefs and it clothed me, Anfwered his expectation in proving a Comfort to him. Pf. cxxxii. 8. 16. above. Prov. xxxi. 25. Strength and Honour are her Clothing. Is not this the Clothing St. Paul Speaks of 2 Cor. v. 1. to the 5th verfe? Their Dwelling under Tabernacles was the fame as putting on the Garment 8, So what we are to be clothed upon with, is the Perfections of Chrift Jefus our Lord, Glory, Honour, and Immortality; he is the Branch of Glory. So the Tabernacle under which we are to dwell: The Garment of Glory we are to be clothed with.

12 Sam. xiv. 2. was put on mourning Apparel. Efth, iv. 1. was be put on Sackcloth with Afbes Pf. xxxv. 13. When they were Sick, my clothing was Sackcloth.

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nant in his Flesh was finished, and then he was to plead his Right, his Merit, by exhibiting the Purchase paid for his Brethren; and to rule, govern and protect them; deftroy their Enemies &c. when the grand Sacrifice of Atonement was to be made, the fame Trumpets of Silver which were appointed Numb. x. to call the People to War, and were to be used to convoke them to folemn Meetings, were as 2 Chron. xxix. 28. to be founded over their Burnt Offerings and Peace Offerings. The Contest typified was between Satan on one Side, and Man or the Surety for Man on the other Side ; whether he could overcome the Temptations of Satan, fo overcome him, and maintain his Innocency and could redeem Man, deliver him out of Satan's Hand and deftroy Satan and laftly between the Father and Man, or the Surety for Man, the Son; whether he would or could perform perfect Righteousness, and endure the Wrath of the Father, the Punishment due for the Sins of Believers. The Victory was obtained by refifting fo overcoming Satan (who yielded to him ever after,) by performing his Part in Action, and by voluntary fuffering the Wrath of the Father &c. The reft for the People was weekly; the Atonement yearly. Exod. xxiii. 11. the Reft for the Land was every feventh Year; and the general Jubilee every fiftieth Year. Upon typical Victory in both Cafes Lev. xxv. 9. in the Day of Atonement thou shalt cause the Tuba Cornea (that beautifying)

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the Horn, (the Power of the Lamb, then a Ram) the powerful one, the Leader) nyan to found (yor y to break the order, frequently of Good, fo Evil, here of the Air) throughout all the Land, and proclaim Liberty (Part. Paffive, that they were freed, which I take to be from the Root 7; doubled, the Time they had Liberty, lived, enjoyed, inhabited. This Word is joined with Myrrh, 17--10, whether Myrrh was an Emblem of it, I determine not) It shall be to your conftrued Jubilee; a Ram; the Time of founding: 'tis from the Root ba, Names and Attributes. Leading out of one Place or State into another, (proved Josh. vi. 5.) here expreffed, To their Poffef fons, to their Families: all Debts, Mortgages, Imprifonment or Servitude of the Ifraelites were cleared, and their Poffeffions, Families and Eftates free, and they were to hold a Rest, to live upon the Stores which the 49th Year had produced, and that which that Year fhould produce, during that Year without Labour and till the next Crop. What this predicted needs no Paraphrafe; 'tis explained by innumerable Texts.

The War that was typified, Pf. xviii. 24. He teaches my Hands to war. xxiv. 8. Who is the King of Glory! the Lord ftrong and mighty; the Lord mighty in Battel. cxl. 7. Thou haft covered my Head in the Day of Battel, cxliv. 1. Bleffed be the Lord my Strength that teaches my Hands to war; my Fingers to fight. If. ix. 5. Every Battel

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of the Warrior is (when the whole Battel of the Warrior was) with confufed Noife and Garments rolled in Blood; but this fhall be with burning and Fewel of Fire. Cap. lxiii. If. lix. 16. &c. Rev. xiii. 4. xix. 11, 13.

now Pf. xlvii. 5. The Aleim are gone up. with hyn, Jehovah with the Sound of the Trumpet. lxxxi. 3. Blow up the Trumpet. xcviii. 6. With Trumpets and Sound of Cornet make a chearful Noife before the Lord the King. cl. 3. Praife him with the Sound of Dw the Trumpet. If. xxvii. 13. The great Trumpet fhall be blown, and they shall come which are ready to perish and fhall worship the Lord in the holy Mount at Jerufalem, Zech. ix. 14. And the Lord God fhall blow the Trumpet.. Jud. vii. 21. ran and y cried and fled. xv. 14. The Philistines fhouted against him. Ezek xxi. 22. To lift up the Voice with fhouting. The Heathens used this; fo the Jews Pf. xxvii. 6. I will offer in his Tabernacle Sacrificing of Shouting ny¬n; xlvii. 1. All the People wfhout unto the Aleim God is gone up with yn fhouting, lxvi. 1. lxxxi. 1, iyan make a joyful Noife unto the Aleim of Jacob. lxxxix. 15. Blessed is the People who know пyn the joyful Sound. xcv. 2. xcviii. 4. Make a joyful Noife to him with Pfalms

-with Trumpets c. 1.wn to the Aleim. cl. 5. If. xliv. 23. Zep. iii. 14. Zech. ix. 9.

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Was not this Part fulfilled Mat. xxi. 9. The Multitudes cried, faying, Hofanna to the Son of David-Mar. xi. 8, 9. Cut down Branchescried, faying, Hofanna

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