124 Meditation! tl?!d Difcourfts Of ~he fame Nature was his Gloriou~ Appea~ ranee on Mm;t~t Sinai at the giving of the Law~ .Exod: 19. For the defcription thereof by th~ .'ffalmift, P{al. 68. 17, I 8. is applyed by :the Apofl:le ' unto the .Afcention ef Chrijt after his Refftn;ection, Ephef 4· 8, 9, 1 o, I 1. On!y as it was ~hen full of outward Terror, becaufe of the giving of thefte~y L~Zw, it was referred unto by the P(alm~ft, as full of Mercy, with refpeU: unto his Accomplifhment of the fame Law.· His giving of itwasas Death unto them concerned, becaufe of its Holinefs, and the feverity of the Curfe wherewith it was attended; his fulfilling of it was Life, by the Pardon anq Righteoufneft whic;h iffued from thence. 5'· THE Doarine ·of his Incarnation whe~eby he became the Subject of ail that Glory which w~ ' enquire after, was revealed, altho not fo clearly as by the Gofpel, after the actual accomplifhment of the thing it fel£ In h,ow many places this is done in the Old Teftament, I have elfewhere declared ; at leaft I have explained and vindicated many of them (for no man can..prefume to know them a1l 1 ) Vindic. Evange!. One inftance therefore !hall here fuffice, and this is that of the fame Prophet Ifaiah chap: 9· v. 6, 7· Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son ·is given, ar!d the government jhalt be on his Jhoulder, . and his _name jhan be called Wonderful , Counfellor , the mighty God, the everlafting Father, the Prince of Peace~ of the enr:reafe..of his government and peace there jlMll be .no end, upon tbe Throne r;f David and upon his kingdom to o~de~ it and eftablifh. i; with juagmen~ (l'I1?U
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