538 APPENDIX. that is, upon the name of Christ : for this is the very scope of the place, and this the next verse proves. " How shall they call on him hr whom they have not believed ? And how shall they believe on him whom they have not heard ? And how shall they bear without a preacher?" All which plainly refers to our bles- sed Saviour. Observation II. The primitive fathers of the christian church, even the earliest writers, such as Justin Martyr, Ire- næus, Clemens Alexandrinus, &c. copy after the sacred writers of the New Testament ; and wheresoever they find the great God, the Creator of all, Jehovah, the Lord God of Israel, re- 'presented, as becoming a Saviour to men, and especially where be is described as becoming visible, either in the ancient dispen- sations, or under the, New Testament, or in the day of judg- ment, they make no scruple at all to apply these texts to our Lord Jesus Christ. Instances of this kind are very numerous in the writings even of the three first centuries. Justin Mar-. tyr affords us several citations to this purpose ; andwhile I have been reading him as well as Irenæus, I have wondered how it couldbe denied, that either of them professed Christ to be true Mod. Justin interprets the following scriptures with -re- ference to Christ. Gen. xviii. L " And the Lord appeared to Abraham in the plains of Mamre." Gen. xix. 27. "And Abraham stood before the Lord." Gen. xxviii. 13. `0 And behold the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord Godof Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac." Gen. xxxi. 13. " I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar." Ex. iii. 4, 8. " God called to him out of the midst of the bush, he said, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God ofJa- eob." Ex. vi. 30. " I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of Gon ALMIGHTY, but by my name JEHOVAH was I riot known to them. Ps. xxiv. 8, 1'0. " The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle : The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory." In this Psalm God is described as residing in the ark, and ascending to Zion, to dwell there in a visible manner in the bright cloud. The same may be said concerning Ps. xlvii. 5. " God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of-a trumpet." All are interpreted concerning Christ by Justin Martyr. Irenæus explains many of the same texts in the same-man- ner, and several others, viz. Gen. iii. 9. " The Lord came to Adam in the evening and called him, andsaid, Where art thou ? Because in the latter dais this very same Word of God comes to call man." Ps. 1. 1. " The mighty God, even the Lord bath spoken," whom Tremens calls, the God of gods. What God is this ? Even he of whom he said, " God shall come'
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