302 P R O P H E T . P R O P H E T . OUR bleffed Redeemer is particularly alluded to in the Holy Scriptures as a Prophet. By the Word Prophet is to be underftood, not only a Person enabled to foretell Events, but alto a Teacher or Expounder of the Law under the Old Teftament, and a. Preacher or Promulgator of the Gofpe! under the New._ In both, the IeJlimony of 7e/us is the Spirit of Prophecy. In him, as their central Point, they together unite ; and on him, as the chief Corner-ftone, have the Foundation and Building of Apoftles and Prophets refted hithertc, and muft reft, even to Eternity. It appears, that when divine Revelation, or the Gift of Prophecy, * in its ftrift Senfe of Preeditïion, ceafed ; which Prophecy under the Law is well defined to confitl in five Par- ticulars; Doctrine or Inttruftion; Thanksgiving; 4dmonition; Pre- ditiion; and Expofitian. All thefe are the Fruit of the Lips, which the original Word metaphorically implies. t. Doctrine was thefirff Species ofProphecy. Hence the yews had their Schools of the Pro- phets, and the Sons of the Prophets ; that is, Perfons initruttedin thofe Schools in the Dattrines of the Yewifh Religion. In this Senfe, mitt probably, Eldad and Medadprophefied, or expounded the Iottitutions given from GOD, and the Relation they bore to the Mefah; in which Senfe Mofes might well with, that all the Lord's People were Prophets. Numb. xi. 27, 29. Of this Kind, theCompanyofProphets, whom Saul prophefied with, are fuppofed to be, who were lkilful in the Knowledgeof the Law. 2. Thankfgivingwas another Kind of Prophecy ; fo it is faid of the Sons of Afaph, &c. (i Chron. xxv. r. 2, 3.) that theypropheyied, according to the King's.Order, withHarps, to
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