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coming of the Messiah But (g) Grot. de Verit. lib. v. S. 14. inter Sarrav Epist Rabbi Nehumias who lived fifty years before Christ declared that the coming of the Messiah according to Daniels Prophecy could not be deferred beyond the space of fifty years longer as Grotius has observed from the Talmud Divers (c) Bishop Pearson on the Creed Art iv of the Jews place the Passion of Christ sixty nine years before our common Account of the Year in which he truly suffered others pretend another different Account without the least Reason for either pretence but this shews how desperate a Cause they are engaged in which forceth them upon such Artifices for we have the express Testimony of Tacitus that he suffered under Pontius Pilate They Interpret Isai vii 14. where it is Prophesied that the Messiah was to be Born of a Virgin contrary to the Sense of their Fore-Fathers and therefore reject the Antient Translation of that Verse by the Septuagint as (d) Just Mart. Dialog Justin Martyr urged against the Jews of his time In Origen's time they expounded Isai liii of the Nation of the Jews not of any particular Person though as (e) Origen contr Cels lib. 1. Origen Argued in a Disputation with them the Tenor of the whole Chapter is a plain confutation of this way of expounding it and especially these words of the 8th Verse for the Transgression of my People was he stricken By the Person stricken cannot be understood the People for whose Transgression he is said to have been stricken (h) Grot. ib. lib. v. S. 19. Bishop Pearson ib. But they have found out another Evasion by pretending that there are to be two Messiahs one the Son of Joseph who is to be a suffering Messiah and the other the Son of David who is to enjoy all manner of Temporal Prosperity and Power So plain is it that the Prophecies which the Jews themselves of old understood of Christ are fulfilled in our Saviour and so unavoidably do they contradict all their own Antient Interpretations of Scripture when they will not allow them to be fulfilled in him For that they are fulfilled it is evident and they can assign no other Person in whom they have been fulfilled II. It was fore-told by the Prophets that the Law should cease upon the coming of the Messiah It is evident from the Prophets that in some years after Christ Jerusalem was to be no longer the seat of the Jewish Power and Government nor the place of Worship And their Prophecies suppose the Cessation of the Jewish Law upon a Two-fold Account 1. From the Destruction of the Temple 2. From the Dispersion of the People of the Jews and the Destruction of their City 1. From the Destruction of the Temple The Prophet Daniel fore-told that after the Messiah was cut off the Sanctuary should be destroyed and the Sacrifice and the Oblation should Cease and that there should be Desolation even until the Consummation Dan. ix 26 27. Since the Sanctuary is laid waste and desolate and by this Prophecy is never to be Rebuilt the Temple being the Place of all their Worship and Solemnities that failing their whole Worship must fail with it And whenever the Jews have attempted to Rebuild their Temple they have been hindred from doing it and particularly as I have several times already observed in the time of Julian the Apostate by Miraculous and dreadful Judgments related by Ammianus Marcellinus an Heathen Historian who lived at that time and by a (x) Wagenseil Annot. ad excerpta Gemarae ●ap 1. p. 236. Jewish Writer And when they have been permitted to Build them Synagogues and Places of Worship in all other Parts of the World that Place alone has been denied them in which by their Law they were indispensably bound to Worship All the Males were obliged to resort to Jerusalem to Worship thrice every year and the Place of their Worship was more strictly enjoyned than the time For if any Man were upon a Journey or Unclean a second Passover was appointed for him but it could be observed at no other Place but Jerusalem upon any occasion whatsoever Num. ix 10. Deutr. xvi 5. And therefore during the Captivity at Babylon they did not Celebrate these Feasts of the Passover of Pentecost and of Tabernacles how could they Sing the Lord's Song in a strange Land Psal Cxxxvii 4. And the Destruction of the City and Temple by the Romans at the time of the Passover was a sign that they were no longer God's Peculiar People nor under the Protection of those Promises which by the Law were made to them and had ever been fulfilled till the time of the Promise was expired St. (i) Chrys adv Judeos lib. 1. Tom. 6. Sav. Edit Chrysostom blames the Jews of his time for observing the Law in the Countries whither they were disperst which he proves to be contrary to God's Commandment and to the Practice of their Ancestors And the Modern Jews confess that their Worship is impracticable in their present Condition they acknowledge that they ought to offer Sacrifice no where else but at the Temple of Jerusalem the Observation of the Passover among them now is without Sacrificing the Paschal Lamb and they observe t●e day of Attonement without the Sacrifice of Expiation 2. The Destruction of the City of Jerusalem and the final Dispersion of the People of the whole Nation of the Jews proves that their Law is at an end Jacob plainly foretold both the coming of the Messiah and the end of the Power and Authority of the Nation of the Jews upon His coming The Sceptre shall not depart from Judah nor a Law giver from between His feet until Shiloh come and unto Him shall the gathering of the People be Gen. xlix 10. This Prophecy was by the antient Jews always understood of the Messiah as is evident by the Targums and it appears to be fulfill'd in our Saviour both because the Jewish Government in His time was drawing towards its final Period and because the People of all Nations have been gathered to Him and have been made Proselytes to his Religion The Sceptre and the Law-giver that is the Power of their Arms and the Authority of their Laws was not so to depart as to become extinct till the Messiah came which implies that soon after his coming they were both to cease as we see they have long since actually done The Accomplishment of Jacob's Prophecy was gradual Herod was of another Nation but a Proselyte and upon that account he might be stil'd a Jew as (x) Exer●●itat 1. ●um 5. Is Casaubon has prov'd against Baronius And when he was made King of the Jews this was as a Warning to awaken them to expect the full Accomplishment of this Prophecy which was brought to pass in the final Destruction of their Government The Jewish Government all along under all Changes was still denominated from Judah tho'
he saw that he was condemned repented himself and brought again the thirty pieces of Silver to the Chief Priests and Elders saying I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood And they said What is that to us see thou to that And he cast down the pieces of Silver in the Temple and went and hanged himself Matt. xxvii 3 4. How could the Chief Priests themselves have contrived a better way to vindicate our Saviour's Innocence if they had never so much endeavour'd it than for one of his own Disciples after he had betrayed him instead of witnessing against him which it was natural to suppose he would have done to be so far from that as to come before them all and fling down the Money in the Temple which they had given him as the hire of his Treachery and declare publickly that he had betrayed the Innocent Blood and then to give a further proof of all this out of meer anguish and horror of Mind to go immediately from them and hang himself If our Saviour had done any thing whereby he could deserve to be put to Death Judas must needs have known it and when he had once betray'd him it cannot be supposed he would forbear to discover any thing he knew of him But when on the contrary he was so far from accusing him that as soon as he saw him condemned at the Accusation of other false Witnesses he could not bear the Agonies of his own mind but went and made away with himself this is as evident a proof of Christ's Innocence as any of the other Apostles themselves could ever give and Judas is so far an Apostle still as to proclaim his Master's Innocence in the face of the Sanedrim and then to Seal that Testimony with his Blood It has been thought by some that Judas as wicked as he was had never any design to cause his Master to be put to Death or to be any way instrumental towards it but he supposed that Christ would be secure enough against the Chief Priests in his own Innocence and Holiness or that they would not dare to hurt him for fear of the People which had been a restraint upon them in their former attempts or that he could easily make his escape from them as he had formerly done and therefore his Covetousness tempted him to believe that though he should betray his Master yet he would come to no harm by it However it is certain that Judas himself cleared our Saviour's snnocence by betraying him more than any other man could have done who had not been his Dlsciple and his making that confession and then his dying upon that account and in that manner may afford us that evidence which we must have wanted to certify us in the Truth of the Christian Religion if Christ had not been betray'd or had been betrayed by any but one of his own Disciples When he was condemned and crucify'd one of the Thieves who was crucified with him made an open Profession of him when there could be no Temptation of flattery nor leisure or patience for a man in that condition to speak in that manner but by the special Providence and Grace of God and to give an early instance of the great efficacy of his Cross and of the Mercy which it reacheth forth to all repenting Sinners our Saviour assures him that that very day he should be with him in Paradise A strange discourse upon the Cross To speak of Kingdoms and promise Paradise under so much infamy and torment That one should have the Faith to ask and the other the Power to promise so great things in that condition Who could have had the courage to promise so much upon the Cross but he who was able to perform it And as no ill could ever be proved against him but all circumstances concurred to confirm his Innocence as Herod dismissed him and Pilate often declared him to have committed nothing worthy of Death so the Devils themselves during his Life here upon Earth confessed him to be the Son of God and after his Death (b) Porphyr apud Euscb Demonstr Evang. lib. 3. c. 6. by their Oracles acknowledged him to have been an holy person whose Soul was translated into Heaven And this person thus Innocent and Holy both in his Life and Doctrine was prophesied of many Ages before his Birth and all the Prophecies concerning the Messias were exactly and in a wonderful manner fulfilled in him These Prophecies concern either his Birth or his Life or his Death or his Resurrection and Ascension 1. The Prophecies concerning the Birth of the Messias were fulfilled in our Saviour For his Birth was prophesied of in all the circumstances of the Time and the Place of it and the Person of whom he was born 1. As for the Time by Jacob's Prophecy Gen. xlix 10. The Messias was to come about the time of the Dissolution of the Jewish Government The Scepter was not to depart from Judah that is the Power and Authority of the Jewish Government was not to cease until Shilo came which the ancient (c) See Bp. Pearson on the Creed Jewish Interpreters expounded of the coming of their Messias To (d) Lightfoot's Prospect of the Temple c. 21. which purpose it is held by the Jews that the great Sanhedrim sat in the Tribe of Judah tho' but part of the Court in which they sat was of that Tribe and the rest in the Tribe of Benjamin And the Jews among all their objections never objected against the time in which our Saviour came into the World but many of them have confessed that the Messias was born at that time but say that because of their sins he has (e) Munster de Messiâ concealed himself ever since And the latter Jews have by a great many stories endeavoured to make it believed that there is a Kingdom still of their Nation in some unknown part of the world tho' if this were true it could prove nothing to their purpose the prophecy being concerning their Power and Authority in the promised Land It is certain that soon after our Saviour's coming Jerusalem was destroyed and the Jews dispersed and upon severe Penalties forbidden to come to their desolate and ruined City or so much as to look upon Zion the City of their Solemnities unless it were once every year to lament their calamity and they have ever since been a wandring and despicable People And several times when they have at tempted to re-build their Temple they have not been suffered to do it particularly when they had the favour and encouragement of Julian the Apostate who out of malice to the Christian Name and Doctrine was forward to promote the work they were hindred by an Earthquake and a miraculous eruption of Fire bursting out from under the foundation which burnt down what they had erected and destroyed those that were employed in it and this we have attested not only from Christian writers