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A23831	Reflexions upon the books of the Holy Scriptures to establish the truth of the Christian religion. Volume I in two volumes.	Allix, Pierre, 1641-1717.	1688 (1688)	Wing A1227; ESTC R29574	310,757	644

he had served his own Generation by the will of God fell asleep and was gathered to his Fathers and saw corruption But he whom God raised again saw no corruption In like manner we find St. Paul alluding to that of Hosea XIII vers 14. in I Cor. XV. vers 55. O Death where is thy sting O Grave where is thy victory CHAP. XXII That the Messiah was to ascend into Heaven and send down from thence the miraculous Gifts of Prophecy Languages c. THis was a thing which might rationally enough be expected Deut. XVIII 18. for the Messiah being to resemble Moses who had not only the Gifts of the Holy Spirit himself but also in a manner communicated the same to the Heads of the Congregation of Israel it was reasonable to infer That the Messiah was to receive much more eminent Gifts and to communicate them to far greater numbers But besides this God had expresly promised it by David Psalm CX vers 1 2. where he represents the Messiah sitting at the right hand of God. The Lord said unto my Lord sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool The Lord shall send the Rod of thy strength out of Zion Rule thou in the midst of thine Enemies It is worth our noting that Daniel represents to us the same Notion where he speaks of the Kingdom of the Messiah Chap. VII vers 13 14. I saw in the night visions and behold one like the Son of Man came with the Clouds of Heaven and came to the Ancient of Days and they brought him near before him And there was given him Dominion and Glory and a Kingdom that all People Nations and Languages should serve him his Dominion is an everlasting Dominion which shall not pass away and his Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed Where doth God dwell unless in Heaven David expresses himself in term which import something too great to be applyed to the Symbolical Ark of the Covenant Psalm XXIV vers 7 8 9. Lift up your heads O ye Gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting Doors and the King of Glory shall come in Who is this King of Glory the Lord strong and mighty the Lord mighty in Battel c. He speaks further of the glorious Kingdom of the Messiah Psalm XLV vers 5 6 7. Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the Kings enemies whereby the people fall under thee Thy Throne O God is for ever and ever the Scepter of thy Kingdom is a right Scepter Thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness therefore God thy God hath anointed thee with the oyl of Gladness above thy fellows 'T is evident that David addresses himself there to the Messiah because he stiles him a God anointed above his Fellows And he pursues the same Idea Psalm LXVIII vers 18. Thou hast ascended on high thou hast led captivity captive thou hast received gifts for men yea for the rebellious also that the Lord God might dwell amongst them Nothing can be imagined more express than these words which lively represent to us the Ascension of the Messiah and the pouring forth of Prophetical Gifts to bring the Heathens to the Service of God. Isaiah speaks the same Chap. XLIV vers 3. For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground I will pour my Spirit upon thy Seed and my Blessing upon thine Off-spring The waters here spoken of according to the ordinary stile of the Prophets are nothing else but the Graces of God's Spirit Joel expresses himself very plainly in this matter Chap. II. vers 28 29 30 31 32. And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesie your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my Spirit And I will shew wonders in the Heavens and in the Earth blood and fire and pillars of smoke The Sun shall be turned into darkness and the Moon into blood before the great and terrible Day of the Lord come And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord shall be delivered for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance as the Lord hath said and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call Nothing can be conceived more particular than this Oracle concerning the effusion of the Prophetical Gifts upon the Servants of the Messiah after his Ascension For 1. he clearly hints at the several ways of Prophecy which shall be bestowed upon the Subjects of the Messiah 2. That this great Event was to be before the Destruction of Jerusalem which St. Peter foretels as a thing at the Door Acts II. vers 30 31 32. after he had shewed that the wonderful effusion of the Spirit at Pentecost was a litteral accomplishing of the Prophecy of Joel he adds Therefore being a Prophet and knowing that God had sworn with an Oath to him that of the fruit of his loins according to the flesh he would raise up Christ to sit on his Throne he seeing this before spake of the Resurrection of Christ that his Soul was not left in Hell neither his Flesh did see Corruption This Jesus has God raised up whereof we all are witnesses Ezechiel goes on with the same views with Joel Chap. XXXVI vers 26 and 27. A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my Statutes and ye shall keep my Judgments and do them And Chap. XXXIX verse 29. Neither will I hide my face any more from them for I have poured out my Spirit upon the House of Israel saith the Lord God. And Zachariah agrees with both the foregoing Prophets Chap. XII verse 10. And I will pour upon the House of David and upon the Inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of Grace and of Supplications and they shall look upon him whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his only Son and shall be in bitterness for him as one that is in bitterness for his First-born 'T is obvious to make these following Observations upon these Oracles 1. That the Messiah was to be raised above the reach of any of his Enemies 2. That he was to ascend to Heaven and to be instated there in Glory in order to his being dignified and glorified above all Nations 3. That he was from thence to send down Prophetical Graces plentifully which made his entrance into Heaven a kind of Triumph 4. That this great Event was to precede the destruction of Jerusalem to which the Prophet Joel in the fore-cited place seems to allude The Messiah was to form

may seem to be worthy of the Divine Wisdom and so I shall only observe at present that this visit was made to Elizabeth in a City of Judah which is a demonstrative proof that Jesus Christ was of the Family of David and consequently of that of Judah so that this is far from being made use of as an Objection against it as some have done It is well known that the Priests had leave to take a Wife of what Tribe they pleased But who see 's not at first sight that it was natural for a Priest dwelling in one of the Cities of Judah to marry in that Tribe amongst whom he lived besides that the Priests had of a long time affected to make Alliances with that Tribe before any other The second thing which ought to be joyned to this is the manner of Elizabeths expressing her self to the Blessed Virgin considering her as bearing the Messiah in her Womb and upon this account she called her the Mother of my Lord alluding to Psalm CX The third is That the Blessed Virgin in her Song where she speaks of her self as the Person in whom the Promise made to Abraham was accomplished Luke I. vers 54 55. which Promise concerned the Messiah she sets forth her self as Heiress to the Kings of Judah and chosen before any her Ancestors notwithstanding all their Glory He hath put down saith she the Mighty from their Seats and hath exalted them of low Degree The fourth is That Zachariah the Priest who was well acquainted with the Blessed Virgin at whose House she had been during the first three Months of her being with Child and who could not be ignorant of her lineage alwayes owned her to be of the Family of David It is evident that he look'd upon the Blessed Virgin as the Mother of the Messiah as well as Elizabeth his Wife He seems to have considered the Infant that was to be born of her as the Redeemer promised to Abraham and the Blessed Virgin as the Heiress of David and therefore saith That God had raised up an Horn of Salvation for us in the House of his Servant David There can be nothing more convincing than this Observation for first Zachariah was a Priest that is one of those to whom the care of the Genealogies of the Jews was committed 2. He appears to have been very well versed in the Prophecies which fixed the Messiah to the Family of David 3. He consider'd his Son as the Forerunner of the Messiah when he proposed that the Oracle of Malachy should be fulfilled in that Son whom God had so miraculously bestowed upon him 4. He needed only have examined the Agreements of her Marriage and he would then certainly know whether the Blessed Virgin was not of another Tribe which would have cured him of any possible illusion In short S. Luke observes very exactly that this Journey of the Virgin to her Kinswoman and all the Circumstances which prove the Blessed Virgin to have been of the Family of David were things well known throughout all the Hill-Country of Judea that it might not be pretended that this important Fact was any ways obscure But secondly this Genealogy of Jesus Christ is carried up to David and Judah and it is visible that this was a thing exactly known especially since Jesus Christ always passed for the Son of David blind men themselves calling him so A third thing to be considered is the Blessed Virgins going to Bethlehem to be there enrolled according to the Decree of Augustus Cesar There had been several numbrings of the people the first was at the appointment of God himself the second was by an order from David and in both an exact distinction was made between the Tribes themselves and the Families of each Tribe And one see 's that the same was observed in this last Register which was made by Augustus's Decree in the 4000 year of the World. Joseph and Mary went up to Bethlehem which was the Seat of David's Family nothing appears here of design or affectation they made no stay at Bethlehem and the occasion that brought them thither was absolutely strange and unlook'd for and yet it was certainly an accomplishment of that Prophecy of Micah Chap. V. verse 2. But thou Bethlehem Ephratah c. This Remark upon the Decree of Augustus is of great moment because thereby the Virgins being of the Family of David appears to be the most indisputable Truth in the World as having been owned first by the whole Family of Judah for three Months Secondly By the Genealogy which subsisted entire as the Talmudists themselves grant in the Treatise de Sponsal Chap. IV. Sect. 5. where they testifie that the Genealogy of the Royal Family was without difficulty 3. By the publick testimony of all their Kindred who met in a body before the Roman Magistrate The fourth Remark is That when Herod knew of the Birth of the Messiah at Bethlehem where by the confession of the Jews he was to be born he would have envolved Jesus Christ in the Massacre which swept away the innocent Children if the same Providence which brought him to Bethlehem to demonstrate that he was of the House of David had not withdrawn him from thence to preserve him from that Tyrant who was afraid of being cast from his Throne by one of David's Heirs The fifth is That Jesus Christ did not only often allude to the place of his Birth in calling himself the Bread come down from Heaven the word Bethlehem signifying the House of Bread but he constantly own'd himself for the Son of David Upon this it is that he grounds the Objection which he makes to the Jews How is it that David calls the Messiah his Lord And indeed this Fact was so constantly owned by all that even persons who were possessed with Devils did not dispute it as may be seen in the Evangelists The sixth is That tho' two of the Evangelists set down the Genealogy of our Saviour with some difference yet the Jews never took occasion from thence to question Jesus Christ's descent from David his Apostles always building on that Foundation which may be seen as a thing taken for granted in S. Peter's Sermon Acts II. and in the Epistles of S. Paul where we find our Saviour always stiled the Son of David according to the Flesh To these already mentioned we may add the three following Observations the first is That if the Genealogy of our Saviour had not been distinctly known the Apostles would never have troubled themselves to have set it down much less would they have plac'd it in the front of their Books as knowing that the beginnings of Books are always more examined than the ends and would certainly be so by a people who always stick very close to their Genealogies In short either the Genealogies of the Jews were at that time as confused as they are at present and so they could not have served as Characters to discover the