432 A SHORT VIEW OF SCRIPTURE HISTORY. exaltation, and intercession, are all spoken of in that admirable ehapter; Is. liii. which I desire my readers to peruse in this lace : For the whole of it is expressed in language so exceed- ing plain, that it seems sufficient to convince any honest infidel or heathen ; and it did actuallyconvince that wild and atheistical nobleman the Earl of Rochester, in the last age, of the truth of the gospel, when he compared these words of the prophecy of Isaiah with the xxvi. and following chapters of the gospel of St. Matthew ; and he became a christian penitent. 16. Q. Did Jeremiah prophecy concerning Christ ? A. Yes, in a few places of his prophecy. Jer. ii. 35, 36. C0 Be- hold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous branch; and a king shall reign and prosper, and execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Jïtdah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely ; and this is the name whereby he shall be called, The Lord our righteousness." Which is repeated Jer. xxxiii. 14, 15. There are also some other prophecies relating to Christ and his gospel in Jer. xxxi. some of which are cited in the New Testament. 17. Q. Did Ezekiel foretel any thing concerning Christ ? A. Yes, under the character of David, the servant of God, who was both a shepherd and a king. Ezek. xxxiv. 23, 24. " And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David : and I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them ; and I will make with them a covenant of peace. Ezek. xxxvii. 21. " I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whi- ther they be gone ; I will gather, them on every side, and bring them into their own land ; and I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king to them all ;" Verse 24. Now Christ Jesus was this great shepherd of the people ; John x. 1-16. and the king of Israel; John i. 49. and xix. 19, 21. 18. Q. What where the prophecies of Daniel concerning Christ ? A. Daniel describes him as the " Son of man who came with the clouds of heaven ; and there was given him do- minion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people and nations should servehim ; and his dominion is an everlasting dominion Dan. vii. 13, 14. Now our blessed Saviour is continually called the Son of man in the history of the gospel ; and is said to come in the clouds of heaven ; Mat. xxiv. 30. andxxvi. 64. and uni- versal dominion is given him ;" Mat. xxviii. 18. There is also another very remarkable account of Jesus Christ, or the Messiah, given to Daniel by the angel Gabriel ;, Dan. ix. 24, &c.'that before the full end of seventy weeks, that is, seventy times seven days, which, in prophetical language are four hundred and ninety years after thecommission to Nehemiah to restore Jeruselem and the church Of the Jews ; the " Mes-
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