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The day-dawning and the day-star arising to the dispersed of Judah & Israel wherein is briefly handled their call and Christs second coming, whose day is neer at hand / by Tho. Collier.
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Collier, Thomas.
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present unto you is That that Jesus which was crucified by your forefathers at Jerusalem without the gate was and is the true Messiah and this is that principle of truth you have to this day rejected and my earnest desire is that you would read these lines with patience and weigh well the truth herein presented with much tenderness and love unto you and in this I shall present you with many new Testament-Scriptures useful being compared with the old be willing to read and compare them together before you judge And Oh that you would be moâe in searching after the knowledge of the truth of Gods grace held forth in the new Testament and if the Lord work upon your hearts I should commend principally unto you the Epistle to the Hebrews which especially concerns you and may through the blessing of the Lord be of much use unto you I desire to mind you of one thing by the way before I come to the confirmation of the truth asserted viz. that the true and promised Messiah was according to the Scripture to have his day and time of humiliation as hath been already proved and then his glory Isa 9. 6. first a childe a son and then a King and the government must be upon his shoulders c. Chap. 53. throughout till the last ver he is presented in his suffering estate and in the last vers in his reign Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great and he shall divide the spoile with the strong To this agrees that of Christ Luk. 24. 25 26. Oh fools and slow of heart to believe that which the prophets have written ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory 1 Pet. 1. 10 11 12. the suffering part as in relation to himself in his own person he hath passed through and is entered into glory Act. 1. 9 1â Though while the Church is under suffering yet as he is considered one with his Church the time of his humiliation is not over till all the members are glorified with him Now that this is the true Messiah that suffered at Jerusalem will appear if you consider 1. That in him was fulfilled all the legall types that did represent him in his sufferings he it was that is the true Pascal Lamb or rather the Lamb represented in the Passeover Exod. 12. The Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world Joh. 1. 29. 36. the true passeover that was sacrificed for us 1 Cor. 5. 7. that whosoever believeth in him all their iniquities shall be passed over John 3 16. And he was the substance of all those sacrifices and offerings in the law of Moses those sin-offerings burnt offerings heave-offerings and wave-offerings they all lead to him were fulfilled in him those sacrifices served to the purifying of the flesh suitable to the covenant that then you wer under but they never purified the conscience from dead works to serve the living God in spirit and in truth no otherwise then as it had relation to Christ the true sacrifice Christ being become an high Priest of good things to come Heb. 9. 13 14. For if the blood of Bulls and Goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh How much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God Purge your consciences from dead works to serve the living God As the high Priest then entered once a yeer into the most holy place offering sacrifice for himself and the people Exod. 30. 10. Levit. 16 2. with Heb. 9 7. So is Jesus Christ become a high Priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands that is to say not of this building neither by the blood of Goats and Calves but by his own blood he entered once into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption Heb. 9. 11 12. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands which are figures of the true but into heaven it self now to appear in the presence of God for us c. Heb. 9. 24 25 26. so that what was figured out in the sacrifices priesthood temple and tabernacle Christ is the substance of all fully and compleatly answers them and fulfills them and ends them all so that he is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes Rom. 10. 4. By all which it appears that he is the true and promised Messiah because that in him is fully answered all the figures and shadows of the old Testament It will farther appear that this is the true Messiah if you consider how fully in him is answered all the prophesies and promises of him in the old Testament in relation to his humiliation and in him shall be fulfilled all the promises of his glory but every thing in its order that God hath set it 1. For his humiliation see what the Prophet David personating Christ as it might be very well for sometimes Christ is called David Ezek. 39. 24 25. and the promise made with David and his seed hath a speciall relation to Christ Psal 89. from the 19. to the 39. vers see Psal 22. the prophet personating Christ in his sufferings you may clearly see Christ answering those things or all those things fully answered in him in way of complaint ver 6. I a worm and no man this was the condition of Christ vers 7. All they that see me laugh me to scorn so it was fulfilled in Jesus Mat 27. 29 30 31. and when they had plated a crown of thornes in reproach they put it on his head and a reed in his right hand and they bowed the knee before him and mocked him and said Haile King of the Jews c. Again Psal 22. 8. he trusted in the Lord that he would deliver him let him deliver him seeing he delighted in him See this made good Mat. 27. 43. when he was upon the Cross in the height of his sufferings for the sins of others then his enemies tauntingly fulfilled the Scripture and said He trusted in God let him deliver him now if he will have him c. So again Psal 22. 16. For dogs have compassed me the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me they have peirced my hands and my feet and this was fulfilled in him as is clearly imployed in John 20. 24 25. and Thomas one of the Twelve said c. Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails c. I will not believe Again Psal 22. 17. they part my garments among them and cast lots upon or for my vesture and this was fulfilled in Christ See Mat. 27. 35. Joh. 19. 23 24. Again in Isaiah Chap 7. 14. the Lord by the prophet Ahaz refusing to ask a signe gives him a signe Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and shall call his name Emmanuel this