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A87095	The first general epistle of St. John the Apostle, unfolded & applied. The second part, in thirty and seven lectures on the second chapter, from the third to the last verse. Delivered in St. Dionys. Back-Church, by Nath: Hardy minister of the gospel, and preacher to that parish.; First general epistle of St. John the Apostle. Part 2.	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1659 (1659)	Wing H723; Thomason E981_1; ESTC R207731	535,986	795

and the very name Immanuel by which hee is to bee called intimateth as much it being a name too high for any person except the Messiah What in this Prophecy Isaiah spake plainly in the fifty third chap. hee utters allusively where speaking of the Messiah for that that Chapter is to be understood of him is so evident that hee who runs may read it hee saith He shall grow up as a tender plant in a dry ground that is say some not improbably of a Virgin without the help of a man Now that Jesus was born of Mary whilest yet a Virgin the Evangelical History plainly affirmeth nor need it seem impossible either to Jew or Pagan As for the Jew why may hee not beleeve that the same Divine power which caused Old Sarah to conceive and bring forth when shee was as good as dead which made Aarons rod to bud blossome and bring forth Almonds yea which formed the first man Adam without the help of woman could enable a Virgin to conceive and bring forth without the help of man As for the Pagans they affirm that Venus was engendred of the froth of the Sea animated by the warmth of the Sun that Pallas came from Joves brain and Bacchus from his thigh that some of their Heroes were begotten by their Gods upon mortal creatures Hercules on Alemena by Jupiter Pan on P●nelope by Mercury Romulus on Rhea a Virgin by Mars and why is it not credible that Jesus should bee born of the Virgin Mary by the overshadowing of the Holy Ghost And thus I have given you a brief account of the parallel between the Prophecy of the Messiah and the History of Jesus as to his birth 2 The Prophet Isaiah speaking concerning the Messiah tells us that the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him the Spirit of Wisdome and Understanding the Spirit of Counsel and Might and the Spirit of Knowledge and of the fear of the Lord that this Spirit did rest on Jesus appeareth both by the Oracles hee spake and the Works especially by the Miracles hee wrought It was the testimony the people gave of him that never man spake like him by which it appeareth that the Spirit of Wisdome and Knowledge did rest on him never did any so clearly reveal the Will of God to the people as hee The Glorious Promises were never so unveiled as by him and by him the Precepts of the Law were most exactly interpreted That the Spirit of Might did rest on him eminently appeared in his wondrous Miracles which were not done in a corner but openly before the people who cryed out wee never saw it on this fashion That Miraculous works were expected by the Jews from the Messiah when hee should come appeareth by the Question when Christ commeth will hee do more Miracles than those which this man hath done and accordingly when John sent to Jesus Art thou hee that should come or do wee look for another hee returneth this Answer Go and show John again those things which you do hear and see The blinde receive their sight the lame walk the lepers are cleansed the deaf hear and the dead are raised up all which could not have been done by him if hee had not been annointed with the Holy Ghost and with Power 3 Concerning the Messiah we finde a Three-fold Office to which he was annoynted to wit of King Priest and Prophet Moses fore-tells him to be a Prophet where he saith A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren David mentioneth him under the Offices of a King and a Priest Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Sion and thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedeck This was that which was peculiar to the Messiah for though David was a King and a Prophet Samuel was a Prophet and a Priest and Melchisedeck was a King and a Priest yet only the Messiah was a King Priest and Prophet accordingly it is that we finde Jesus as a Prophet teaching the Mysteries of the Kingdom as a Priest praying yea dying for the people and acknowledged by the Magi to be King of the Jews Once more it is fore-told in the Psalms and the Prophets concerning the Messiah that hee should bee a man of sorrows despised and rejected of men yea that he should bee cut off from the land of the living that hee should be taken from Prison and Judgement that having drunk of the brook in the way hee should lift up his head that hee should not see corruption and sit at the right hand of God And now that all these things which were written concerning the Son of Man were accomplisht the Evangelical Histories doe abundantly testifie it were easie to trace out an exact Parallel not only as to substance but circumstances concerning the humiliation and exaltation of Christ As for that pretence of the Jewes opposing our Saviours Resurrection that his Disciples stole him away it is so frivolous and absurd that no rational man can beleeve it yea that Dilemma of St. Austine abundantly confuteth it If the Souldiers were not asleep when the Disciples stole his body why did they permit them to doe it if they were asleep how could they affirm it to be done By all these considerations put together it cannot but appear an undeniable truth that Jesus is the Christ and however it may bee alleadged that some Prophecies which concern the glory and power of the Messiahs Kingdome seem not yet to bee accomplished the Answer is justly returned that it is not an outward and visible but an invisible and spiritual glory and power which is in those Prophecies intended and that is continually fulfilled in the preaching of the Gospel and withall they may very rationally be extended to his Second coming when he shall appear in glory to Judge the World and when every knee shall bow to him and every tongue shall confesse what now perhaps it denieth that Jesus is the Lord the Christ to the glory of God the Father and so I have given a dispatch to the truth implicitly asserted passe we on more briefly to the 2 Heresie explicitly charged on the false teachers namely denying that Jesus is the Christ If wee render the words exactly according to the Greek text it is Hee that denieth that Jesus is not the Christ but yet the not is justly left out in our translation because according to our way of speaking Hee that denyeth that Jesus is not the Christ is he who affirmeth Jesus is the Christ which is the truth whereas in the Greek Language Gemina negatio fortiùs negat A double negation denieth more vehemently Parallel to this is that speech of our Saviour to Peter The Cock shall not crow this day before thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me where in each clause the Greek useth two Negatives for the greater emphasis Wee cannot better expresse the force