168 Daniel's Prophecy Vindicated. 4Z ExercitatioXIV. Daniels Weeks, Chap. 9. 24, 25, 26, 27. propofed unto confederation. Attempt ofa Learned manta prove the coming andfieffiring of theMeab not to be intended, examined Firji Reafin from thedifficulties of the Computation, anddifferences about it, removed. Whe. thee this place be ufid in the New Teffament. Objedlion from the time of the Beginning of this computation, anfwered. Diftribution of the LXXWeeks into VII, LXIL and one. Reafin of it. Objedíion thence anfwered. The cutting of the Meffiab, and the deftrulïfen of the City, notjoyned in one Weep Things mentioned, v. 24. peculiar to the Meffiab. TheProphecy owned by all Chriftiam'to ref/eet the Meffiah. theEvents mentioned in it, not to be accommodated unto any other. No Typer in the words, into a nakedpredilïion. The Prophecies of Daniel not principaly intending the Churches of the latter dayes. Streigbts'of time intimatedwhen theyfell out.. Coincidence of Phrafis in this and other Predillions confidered. Removal ofthe daily Offering, and caufrng the Sacrifice ,and 0f- ring to ceafe, how they differ. The Defolation foretold. Diftribution of the LXX. Weeks accommodated unto the Material Jerufalem. Objeílions removed. Diftribution of things contained in thisProphecy. Argument from the computation of time warranted. Fir/f neg- letted by Jews, then turfed; yet ufed by them vainly. Concurrent Expeilation andFame of the comingof the Mefiab upon the Expiration of Daniels Week's. Mixture oft'bingr good and penal. Abarbinels Figment rejected. Four hundred and ninetyyears the time limited. Fancy ofOrigens and Apollinaris: The true McJfah intended. Proved from the Context. The Names and Titlesgivenunto him. The work afligned to him. That work particularly explained; the expreßionsvindicated. Ti make an end of Tranfgreflion what. To feat up fins: To reconcile iniquity To bring in everlafting Righteournefi. To feat Vifton andProphet. Mefliab bow cut of TheCovenant ftrengthened. Ceafrng of the daily Sacrifice. Perplexity of the laws about theft' things. pinion of Abarbinel and Manaffe Ben Ifrael. Cyrus not intended. Not Iïerod grippa. Not MagiJtracy. Africanus, Clemens, and Eufebius noted. Mefiab came before the ceafing of the daily Sacrifice. Chronological Computation, not neceffary. THere remains yet one placemore givingclear and evident Testimony unto the Truthunder Dcmonftration,to beconfideredand vindicated. And this is the il- ln(teious Predietion and Calculation of time, granted unto Daniel by the Angel Gabriel.Chap.9.2g;25,26,27. Seventy weeks are determinedupon thypeople, and up n thy holy City,to finifb the Tranfgreflion, and to make an EndofSins, and to make Reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlafting Righteoufnefl, and 'to foal up the Vifion and Pro- phecy, and to annoint the molt Holy. Know therefore and underffand , that from the going forth of theCommandment to rettore and to build'Jerufalem, unto Mefliah the Prince, (hall be fvenWeeks, and tbreefcoré and two weeks, the Street ¡ball be built again, and the wail in troteblous times. And after tbreefeore and two weeks, fhall Mefiah be cut off; but not for himfelf: and the people of the Prince that "ball come, /hall deJtroy theCity and the San- etuar ; and the End thereof ¡hall be with aflood, andunto the end of the War, d f lacions .are determined. And hefhall confirm the Covenant with many fir one week;. and in the midde I of the week, he fhall caufe the Sacrificeand the ()Unions to scale, and fir the overffreading ofAbominations, he /ball make it defilate, even untill the confiemmation, and that determined, ¡ball be poured upon the defilate. Soour Tranflation reads the words, how agreeably unto the Original, we fhall confider and examine particularly in our progrefs. Of whit importance thisTeflimony is in our prefent Caufe and Context, as Chri- fians generally acknowledge, fo the Jews themfelves are in a great meafure fenfible; as we fhall fee in the confideration of thofe manifold evafions which they have invented to avoidthe efficacy and convidlionof it. But before we engage into its management and improvement, an attempt againfi our Apprehenfon, the whole deign, intend- ment, andfubjeet matter of the Prophecy it felt, mull be removed out ofour way. A
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