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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62326	Twelve sermons upon several occasions by Samuel Scattergood ...	Scattergood, Samuel, 1646-1696.	1700 (1700)	Wing S845; ESTC R39513	116,309	210

this matter out of Dispute and had we no other Argument but this for the proof of our Proposition we should be altogether as unreasonable in believing in Jesus Christ as the Jews are in rejecting him when they find this one material Circumstance attended and corroborated invincibly beyond all Exception with every other material and necessary Circumstance mentioned in the Old Testament relating both to the person and office of the Messias For it is not to be imagined that our Saviour was the only person that was born at that time No without question there were thousands in the world that were born at the same instant many of the same Tribe perhaps some very near the time of the same Family and in the same City for we find in the Gospel mention made of his brethren and kindred This Circumstance of the time therefore though it be absolutely necessary to prove our Proposition yet it is not sufficient of it self being applicable to other persons as well as to the Messias but will most fully demonstrate it being joyned with the two other Circumstances contain'd in my Text viz. the manner how our Saviour came into the World and the reason or end wherefore he came which I come now to consider In the doing of which I shall shew you first that our blessed Saviour came into the World exactly in the same manner in which the Prophets in the Old Testament foretold that the Messias should come secondly that he came for those very reasons and ends for which the Prophets foretold that the Messias should come and that he effected and accomplished those ends in the very same way and method that according to the Predictions of the same Prophets the Messias was to do First I say our blessed Saviour came into the World in the very same manner punctually even in every minute Circumstance in which the Prophets foretold that the Messias should come Our Apostle here in my Text takes notice only of these two that he was made of a woman and that he was made under the law but I shall handle this Point more largely not consining my self to these two Particulars only but insisting upon all the most material Circumstances that were to attend the coming of the Messias and in so doing I shall shew that they were all fulfilled to a tittle in the manner of our Saviour's appearing in the world Now the chief Circumstances relating to the manner of the Messias appearing in the world are these 1. of what Tribe he was to be 2. of what Family of that Tribe 3. in what Town he was to be born 4. in what Manner 5. in what Quality and Condition The first Circumstance to be enquired into is of what Tribe the Messias was to be and in this particular the Jews agree with us that he was to be of the Tribe of Judah according to Jacob's Prophecy The sceptre shall not depart from Judah nor a lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh come upon which account that Tribe was by God honoured with many signal and eminent Privileges beyond any other of the twelve Tribes of Israel Now that our blessed Saviour was of this Tribe is a thing so undeniable that the Apostle writing to the Jews takes it for granted that they all acknowedged it without any dispute Hebr. 7.14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah which Expression he would never have used had it not been a thing so certain and known to be so at the time when he wrote his Epistle that no man could deny it But this will appear yet more clearly from the Consideration of the second Circumstance observable in the coming of the Messias viz. of what Family he was to be and that was of the Family of David who it is most certain was of the Tribe of Judah And this was so plainly and frequently foretold by the Prophets that the Jews themselves never made any question of it but do even unto this day expect that their imaginary Messias whom they yet look for shall arise out of the Family of David This Promise God made unto David and confirmed it with his Oath Psal 89. 35. Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David His seed shall endure for ever and his throne as the sun before me It shall be established for ever as the moon and as the faithful witness in heaven So Isa 11.1 There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse and a branch shall grow out of his roots and the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him c. And ver 10. There shall be a root of Jesse which shall stand for an Ensign of the people to it shall the Gentiles seek and his rest shall be glorious By these Texts together with several others to the same purpose the Jews were fully convinced of this Truth that the Messias was to be of the Family of David insomuch that they used that Expression of the son of David to signifie the Messias unto whom in a peculiar and eminent manner it properly belonged as appears by the Acclamations of the multitudes that attended our Saviour when he rode in triumph to Jerusalem Crying Hosanna to the son of David Matth. 21.9 And in the next Chapter ver 42. when our Saviour asks the Pharisees this question What think ye of Christ whose son is he They readily answer him without any scruple The son of David though they could not so readily answer him the next question How then doth David in spirit call him Lord saying The Lord said unto my Lord sit thou on my right hand till I make thine enemies thy footstool Thus then it is plain that the Messias was to be the Son of David and it is as plain that our blessed Saviour whom we believe to be the Messias was the Son of David for S. Matthew gives an account of his Genealogy from Abraham and S. Luke proceeds farther and reckons it even from Adam himself and that both these Evangelists were faithful in the account that they have given us of it is manifest in that the Jews never offered to find any flaw or errour in it which certainly they would have done if there had been any such failure to have been found and have made the whole World acquainted with it But by the providence of God until the coming of the Messias the Genealogies of the Jews were so carefully recorded and preserved for this very reason that it might be apparent when the Messias did come that he was of the Family of David according to the Predictions of the Prophets that there could be no dispute about this Point This is the second Circumstance observable in the manner of the Messias his coming into the World he was to be the Son of David and so was our Saviour The next is the place where he was to be born And herein the Jews agree with us again that according to the