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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40515	Select sermons preached upon Sundry occasions by John Frost ... ; now newly published together with two positions for explication and confirmation of these questions, I. Tota Christi justitia credentibus imputatur, 2, Fides justificat sub ratione instrumenti.	Frost, John, 1626?-1656.	1657 (1657)	Wing F2246; ESTC R31718	315,416	365

should be by the coming of the Messiah In the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease Dan. 9. 27. as wholly needless after the coming of the Messiah whom they typified and prefigured God never intended the Jewish worship should continue alwaies as being a heavy yoke and after the coming in of the Gentiles especially as to the place of it impossible as Eusebius demonstrates in the third chapter of his first book De demonstratione Evangelica Moses himself spoke of another Prophet Deut. 18. 15 18. who should deliver from the bondage of sin to the heavenly Canaan as Moses had done from Egypt's as a Law giver to the Gentiles when the Jewish rites should be wholly abolished and prophesying and vision failed amongst the Jews when this great Prophet was come into the world IV. The heathen Oracles are silenced and their idolatrie destroyed which was to be at the coming of the Messiah according to the prophesie of Zechariah And it shall come to pass in that day saith the Lord of hosts that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land and they shall no more be remembred and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land Zech. 13. 7. and of Isaiah And the idols he shall utterly abolish Isa 2. 18. and at verse 20. In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver and his idols of gold which they made each one for himself to worship to the moles and to the bats And so it happened at the coming of our Messiah when Augustus consulting the Oracle about his successour received this answer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. An Hebrew childe hath bid me leave these shrines which Oracle Augustus having received erected an Altar in the Capitol with this inscription Ara primogeniti Hottinger p. 35. Dei Plutarch in his book 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de defectu oraculorum concerning the defect of the Oracles confesseth the thing though he knew not the cause Delphis Oracula cessant Juvenal observed in the time of Domitian and the rest decayed soon after Secondly That our Jesus is the promised Messiah appears I. From the evident fulfilling of all the prophesies of the old 2. Partic. Testament concerning the Messiah in Jesus Christ the Messiah He was to be born of a virgin Isa 7. 14. Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son so was our Jesus Matth. 1. 23. And that too in the citie of Bethlehem Mich. 2. 2. But thou Beth-lehem Ephratah though thou be little among the thousands of Judah yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel and so was Christ Matth. 2. 11. brought up too in Galilee Matth. 2. 22. and he rode in triumph into Jerusalem Matth. 21. as it was prophesied of the Messiah Zech. 9. 9. Rejoyce greatly O daughter of Zion shout O daughter of Jerusalem Behold thy King cometh unto thee c. There is not a passage in the death of Christ but was in answer to some prophesies of the old Testament his side pierced as foretold by Zechariah They shall look upon me whom they have pierced Zech. 12. 10. his drinking of vinegar in Psal 69. 21. In my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink his crucifying amongst thieves Isa 53. 12. He was numbred among the transgressours his death and burial Isa 53. 9. He made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death yet so as not to see corruption Psal 16. 10. Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell nor suffer thy holy one to see coruption but to be raised again as in Acts 2. 25 26. By the harmony of which events to the prophesies the Gentiles were convinced to leave their Idolatrie and to embrace the Doctrine and Gospel of Jesus Christ witness whole nations whose conversion from a setled inveterate Idolatrie in a short time without worldly power and force no enticements of pleasure or profit no carnal means in the face of fire and faggot brought over to the acknowledgement of a crucified Messiah must needs speak God in it and must certainly be imputed to the care of God in fulfilling those prophesies which he that runs may read concerning the calling and coming in of the Gentiles at the coming of the Messiah see Isaiah 2. 2 3. Jer. 16. 19. Malachi 1. 11. Genes 49. 10. all which evidently speak the truth of our Messiah II. From those many miracles by which Christ confirmed his Doctrine which if you observe are the very same which the Prophet Isaiah foretels should be wrought by the true Messiah Isaiah 35. 5 6. In reference to the fulfilling which prophesies Christ bad John's disciples tell him as an argument that Christ was he which should come that the blinds received their sight c. Matth. 11. 5. It was a rational conclusion which they made John 6. 14. when they had seen the miracle of the multiplied loaves This is of a truth that Prophet that should come into the world 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a teacher 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And far be that blasphemie from the thoughts of any of our hearts that these were done by Magick or the power of the devil why did not his enemies accuse him of it especially when it was one condition in the judges of the Sanhedrim that they should be skill'd in Hornbeck pag. 234. magick that they might detect and Judge others for it For certainly then others who envied Christ the glorie that he got by these miracles would out of envy and emulation have learnt the same art which yet no history makes mention of that ever I saw or heard of Nor were they done by the power of the devil for the manner of Christs miracles were casting out of devils and Beelzebul could not cast out Beelzebul and surely Christ would have affected privacie and solitude if he had intended to have imposed upon the credulitie of the ignorant who yet chose the most conspicuous places and the greatest multitude to work his miracles amongst having oft thousand eyes witnesses of them The Jews themselves can give no other account to a Pagan why they credit Grot. de veritat Relig. pag. 222. c. the miracles of the old Testament then the testimony of those that saw them the rapture of Elias onely upon the bare testimony of Elisha 1 King 2. 1. If they will not give credit to the Apostles testimonies though no reason why an historical faith should not be given them yet let them credit Josephus which the Jews say ●●s phus Antiq. lib. 18. c. 4. cannot be found in their copies and no wonder Nam Judaei non habent Josephum filius Malachiae qui graves scripsit libros Antiquitatum de quo nos loquimur sed Josephum filium Gorionis qui aliquid simile scripsit Hebraicè saies Bellarmine And these things speak the Bellarm. de script