APPENDIX. 537 and his reward is with him ; Rev. xxii. 12. and who in the next verse calls himself thealpha and omega, Sic. Isa. xlv. 21, 22, &c. " There is no God else besides me, a just God and a Saviour : Look unto me and be ye saved all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there is none else." Here Gott is evidently represented as a Saviour of the Gentiles: " Unto me shall every knee how, and every tongue shall swear : Surely, shall one say, in the Lord have I righteousness and strength, in the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justi., fled and shall glory." Now, that thisbelongs to Christ eminently appears, 1. because this prophecy of Christ as Jehovah our righteousness, is repeated twice by the prophet Jeremiah, chap. xxiii. 6r and xxxiii. 16. And the doctrine of Christ as our righteousness is frequently taught us in the New Testament; particularly 1 Cor. i. 30, 31. Christ is made Unto us righteous- ness ; and, 2. it may be remarked that the same inference is made, viz. that according as if is written, he that glorieth let hint glory in the Lord ; and, 3. this same prophecy of the exal- tation of Christ that every knee should bow to him, is expressly explained ; Rom. xiv. 9, 10, 11. and Philip. ii. 9. and is ap- plied toChrist in both places. If it should be objected here, that Christ is represented in .both those epistles as exalted to this honour by the Father, upon the account of his sufferings, and thèrefore it cannot lrlong to godhead, whose honour is originally and eternally due to the very nature of God : It isgranted that the human nature is thus exalted by the Father, as a reward of his death ; in Phil. ii. and Rom. xiv. it is also grouted, that Christ died, and rose and revived, that he might be Lord of the dead and the living. But since the same words are used in both places, and this prophecy of Isaiah is expressly cited ; Rom. xiv. 11. and Applied to Christ, it may primarily signify the eternal glory of the godhead, as united to the man Jesus, or God manifest in the flesh ; and in a secondary sense, it may imply all the share of'these honours that the human nature of Christ which suffered and died, is ca- pable of receiving, by its personal union with the divine, which honour can belong to no other creature, because no other being is thus united to God, or one with God. Joel ii. 28, 32. " I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, &c. and whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord. Jehovah, shall be delivered ; for in mount Zion and in Jerusa- lem shall be deliverance, and in the remnant wliotn` the Lord shall call ; which probably means the Gentile church. Now this text is expressly interpreted concerning Christ ; Rom. x. 12, 13. There is nodifference between the dewand the Greek ; far the same Lordover all is rich unto all that call upon him; for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved,
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