282 On the .LVativif]. acl:ly . pointed at by the prophets. n1any . : hundred years before it happened, that the Jews could tell the place, and the very· lieatJ1e.ns had fo1ne knowledge of the time~ for ·the world was big with expectation, that the prophecies fhould then be fullfilcd ( 'vhich foretold the birth of a great perfi)n .. LafHy, I_t is he whofe very infancy not qn– ly fiartled a king, and made hrn1 fear his ~ throne, but alfo a~righted . the powets of darknefs, and Glenced the Heathen oracles, Ille puer Hebrteus, &c. whofe childhood puzzled the knowledge_ of the aged, and confounded the doel:ors·of the law; wha. ruled the courfe of nature, and n1ade the . the firong winds obey him, and could walk on the billo\vs of the feas as on a pavem.ent; who fed nYultitudes by his·v.rord,. and healed all n1anner of difc:afes without · <~ medicine; who could con1mand then1 to leap that were cripple, and n1ake then1 fee· the heavens and t~e day who had been born blind j and who could can devils out of their po!fefiions, and refiore the frantick to their wits; 'who could break the gates of death and open th~. doors of the grave, -. and call back the fpirits ·to the buried car– cafes~ It is-he who, by the 1ninifiry of twelve fi!hern1en,. /
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