534 iPPBNutx. dwelt in a peculiar manner, and in and by whom God was to re- veal himself to men in the latter times *. As it was by degrees that the apostles preaohed up the peculiar presence and union of God with the man Jesus Christ, and afterward carne to call Christ God more freely, and applied divine characters and descriptions to him, cited out of the Old Testament ; so it was by degrees that the Jews and Gen- tiles received the doctrine of a peculiar union of godhead to the man Jesus, learned the idea of such a complex person as God with us, as God manifest in the flesh, and that he who was of the seed of David after the flesh was also God over all blessed for ever. APPENDIX TO THE FIRST DISCOURSE, Some Observations on the Texts of the Old Testament applied to Christ by the Christian Fathers, and by the Jews as well as by the sacred Writers. OBSERVATION I. WHERESOEVER the writers of tite New Testament find the Almighty God, the Creator and Lord of all, the only trueGod, Jehovah, the God of Israel, represented in the Old Testament as appearing to men in a visible manner; or where- soever they find him described as bringing salvation to the Jews, but especially to the Gentiles, they seem to make no scruple to cite any of those texts upon a proper océasion, and apply theta to our Lord Jesus Christ. Now it is worth our enquirywhe- ther these citations will not prove Christ to be God incarnate, to be this Jehovah, this God appearing amongst then, and as the Saviour of mankind bringing the Gentiles into his church. Let tls take notice of a fewinstances. fisalm lxviii. 7, 8, fr God went forth before his people, It may not be improper in this place to repeat the paraphrase of one of the targumists, viz. Jonathan Ben Uzziel on Gen. iv. I. where ave said, I have gotten á non feprrs the .Ford, rm." rizi 1U'N that is, a man the Lord : By which words ourmother Bye, ip the opinion of many commentators, expressed an apprehension that she had brought forth him who was the Mao-God, the pre- .. noised seed, who should break the serpent's head. The words of the targum are, f' And Adam knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, [ have obtained a man the angel of the Lord. See tir. Owen on the Hebrews, Vol. 1. page 89. So that it was supposed fro«l the beginning of the world that the Mes- siah was to be a man and an angel, whò plight he called 4ód or the Lord, because of Rod's peculiar indwelling in him,
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