Covenant ofGrace. · '9 .bears the name of his fl'iri tual feed, and they . on t~e other hand bear his name ; a plain_ evidence of the1r · being One in the eye of the law, an~ ofGod's trea.t– ing . with him as their reprefentative in the fe<:ond ~o· venant.l/rae/ in the name of the fpiritual fe'ed,Rom.lX• .6.Andour Lordjefus Chrifiis called by the f.1me name, Ifa. xlix. 3'.' Thou art my fer,vant; 0 Ifrael, in whom I will be glorified ;' as feveral learned and jud}cious commentators do underfl:and it, and it is evident from the whole context, ver. 1-, 2, 4,--~9. The truth is, Chrifi is here fo called with a peculiar folemnity : for tpe original text ft<\nds .precifely thus, ' Thou art - ·my fervant ; Ifrael in whom I will glorify myfelf,' that .is, thou art Ifrael's reprefentative, in whom ·I will glorify myfelf, and make all mine attributes il- ' lufl:rious ; as I was dithon&>ured, and they datkne.d, by Ifrael the collective body of the fpiritual feed. And this leads us to a natural ·and unftrained interpretation of that pa!fage, Pfalm xxiv. 6. ' This is the genera– tion of them, that feek him, that feek thy face, 0 ja.; q}b ;' that is, in other words, that long for the ap– pearing (Pray. viii. 35, Gen, xxxii . 30.) of the Mef– fias, the Lord whom the old Tefiament church did fo feek, a pledge ·of whofe ' coming to his temple,' (Mal. iii. 1.) was "the bringing in of rhe ark into the tabernacle that Da.vid had erected for it, _on which . oq;afion that Pfa!mwas penned. Accordingly it fol– _lows immediately, ver. 7· ' Lift up your .' heads, 0 ye , gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlafl:ing doors, and the King of glory fhall come in :' and in another Pfalm .t:enned on the fame occafion, a1-ld exprefly . faid tQ have been ' delivered on that very day into the hand of AJaph.' 1 Chron. xvi. 1, 7· is that expreffion found ver. 11. ' feekhis face continually;' jufily to be in– terpreted, agreeable to the circumftances of the main thing, which David, through the Spirit, had in view that. day, namely, . the ~oming of the Meffias. - Thus, Chnfl: bears the name of the fpiritual f~ed : And they, B 3 on .~
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