27¢ ARM, HAND, Axts vine Promifes; and therefore the Right Hand and Arm,, by which JEHOVAH fwears and engages himfelf for the SatisfaEtion of his People (for that is the Intent of the Oath), is and mutt be as great as JEHOVAH., or (which is quite the lame) is JEHOVAH himfelf. If Chrifi then be the Arm, Hand, and Right Hand, of JEHOVAH, we fee the Confequence, that he is, refpefting his divine Nature, equal to JEHOVAH, and a Perfon in JEHOVAH. Not only the Power and GOD-head of Chrili are re- vealed under the Denomination of JEHOVAH'S Hand; but alfò the Mediation of Cbri between Jehovah and his People. When Mofes* defired to fee the Glory of Jehovah, he was anfwered, that he fhould not fee the Face of GOD, becaufe no Man could fee it and live ; plainly intimating the Impofíïbility of a finful Creature's Approach to the Divine Majelty, without a Mediator. In order, there- fore, to blefs this faithful Servant with the Vifion ofgood Things to come; the Hand of JEHOVAH, orfome fenfible Form of the fecond Perfon (fimilar in kind to the Ap- pearances made toAbraham and Jacob), mediated, while the Glory of GOD paffed by ; and, when that Glory was pate, gave him to fee finally orfaintly, either what Man could bear to fee of the holy Splendor, or what remained to be revealed of Jehovah the Saviour in the latter Days. Chrift was to Mofes a Cover from the jealous Holinefs . of the divine Nature. Ifaiah had the fame Knowledge of Chrift, and was equally covered with Mofes, in the Shadow of JEHOVAH'S Hand. t And the Pfalmift ex- horted the Church to Jhoutfor Joy, becaufe JEHOVAHde- fended [Heb. coverea] them. As the Hand is often ufed in the Scripturesfor an 'Emblem of Power, fo the Impofition of Hands was an Emblem or Symbol of the Delegation of Power. Thus, upon Chrift, was the Hand, or Power, ofJEHOVAH to be * Exod. xxxiii. 18, &c. t Ifaiah li. 16. So Yerom; Ma= Domixi CHRISTUS of, Corn. in Ifaiah Ixvi. 14. i Pfalm v. II. eftablifhed
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