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A63906 A discourse concerning the Messias, in three chapters the first concerning the preparatories to his appearance in the types and prophesies of the Old Testament : the second demonstrating that it was typically and prophetically necessary that he should be born of a virgin : the third, that he is God as well as man : to which is prefixed a large preface ... : and an appendix is subjoyned concerning the divine extension ... / by John Turner ... Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50. 1685 (1685) Wing T3306; ESTC R34684 134,054 328

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no means to converse with such as remained still in a State of Idolatry Uncircumcision and Uncleanness The Servitude and the Darkness and the Plagues of Aegppt were Types and Shadows of the Slavery the folly the inconvenience of Sin the sprinkling of the bloud of the Paschal Lambs upon the Posts and Lentils of the Jewish Houses the night before their escape out of it was a Type of deliverance by the bloud of that expiatory Sacrifice which was in time to suffer upon the Cross and so was their passage through the red Sea a shadow of deliverance by bloud as on the other side the overflowing and drowning the Aegyptians in it signified that the same bloud instead of saving will but condemn all reprobate and impenitent Sinners who by open impieties have Crucified their Lord afresh have disclaimed all title and benefit in his Bloud and have willfully and wickedly neglected and refused so great Salvation Moses who was their Conductor out of Aegypt represented Christ in his Kingly Office and to this their Names agree in sound exactly well for Mosheh which is the Hebrew Name of Moses answers to the Hebrew Mashiach or the anointed and Mouses or Moses which is the Greek answers to the Greek Messias Moses was succeeded by Joshua and he that is called Joshua in Hebrew is in Greek Jesus carrying Salvation and Redemption in his Name and as Moses and Joshua did Typifie him in his Kingly Office so did Aaron and his Successors in the Priestly to which they were anointed as being the Fore-ruuners and Types of the anointed of God our Everlasting high Priest who was to do away all Sacrifice by the Sacrifice of himfelf once offered as an Eternal and Everlasting Propitiation and so were the Kings of Israel anointed too for they represented him in his Kingly Office and Prophets were anointed as well as Kings as being his Predecessors in the Prophetical To this purpose it is remarkable that the first Kings of Israel had their Names from some particular Circumstances belonging to them Saul had his from Shaal which signifies to ask because the People asked them a King but he being a proper and comly personage and therefore very unfit to presignifie a suffering Messias a Man of sorrow and acquainted with griefs of whom the Prophet Isaiah said he hath no form nor comlyness and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him he was as it seems for this reason among others rejected by God and the rage and madness with which he was possessed at the thoughts that he and his Posterity were to be supplanted by David who carried in his very Name a Type of Christ was an Emblem of that opposition which the Gospel was to meet with from the Grandees and Principalities of this World and from the restless activity of the Powers of Darkness and on the other side this fury being asswaged by the skilful touches of David upon his Harp signified the dispossessing and ejecting of Evil Spirits by our Saviour it signified also the Nature of the Gospel which was to prevail upon Men by perswasion and gentle means to overcome the World by submission and obedience and conquer all opposition by humility and meekness David is the same with Daoud or Dod which is as much in Hebrew as to say the Beloved it signifies sometimes an Vncle which is next in Kindred and Endearment to a Father and the Mandrakes of Leah are called in Hebrew Doudaim which some have rendred flores amabiles that is to say lovely or odoriferous Flowers and by this Name David represented him who was the beloved of God his beloved Son in whom he was well pleased his sufferings before the death of Saul and the dwarfish meanness and littleness of his Person were very fit Emblems of a despised and suffering Messias and of the condition of his first Followers and Disciples who through much Tribulation were to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven David whose time was full of wars and troubles and therefore he was forbid to build a Temple was succeeded by Solomon who carries peace in his Name and this may either signifie that peaceful State of the Triumphant Church which is to succeed the warfare of the Militant here on Earth or else it is that utmost perfection of the Church of God in this life if indeed in this life there be such a State actually to be expected though it be no more then what the Gospel hath a natural tendency to introduce of which the Prophets have foretold when the Swords shall be turned into Plowshares and the Spears into Pruninghooks when Nation shall not lift up Sword against Nation neither shall they learn War any more And as Solomon was a peaceful Prince so is he also represented as the wisest that ever sat upon the Throne and both these were Characters of the Messias that was expected he was the Councellor as well as the Prince of peace Isaiah 9. 6. Vnto us a Child is born unto us a Son is given and the Government shall be upon his Shoulder and his Name shall be called Wonderful Councellor the mighty God the everlastiug Father and the Prince of Peace Solomon and David were descended of Jesse because they were both of them to be Typical of Jesus and Jesse was the Son of Hobed from a word in Hebrew that signifies to serve because the Messias was to appear in the likeness of Men and to put on the form of a Servant Lastly Saul who had his Name from Shaal which signifies to ask being a beautiful and comly Person was a Type of him whom the Jews in vain expected and desired a Triumphant and a glorious Messias whom God in his Providence would not admit of as he rejected Saul from being King but David was the Type of the true Messias who was to be a persecuted and afflicted Person Again the troublesome and tedious passage through the Wilderness out of Aegypt was a Type of the difficulties troubles dangers and temptations to which our Christian warfare in this life is exposed the raining of Mannah signified those Spiritual and Heavenly assistances of the Spirit of Grace by which we are sustained and supported under them the raining of the greater proportion upon the sixth day signified the administring and dispensing of this grace according to the several necessities of good men so as there should be no difficulty no temptation against which God will not furnish every honest mind that heartily desires and beggs it at his hands with a proportionable degree of his Grace and Spirit to encounter with it The Quailes that descended in such abundance upon the ground till the Israelites loathed what they longed for before was an emblem of the vanity and unsatisfactoriness of all earthly pleasures of their short continuance and that they soon grow weary of themselves and are not unfrequently punished by their enjoyment the sight which Moses had of Canaan from the top of Pisgah was