A Defence of Christianity from the prophecies of the Old Testament : wherein are considered all the objections against this kind of proof, advanced in a late Discourse of the grounds and reasons of the Christian religion . C H A P. II. S E c T. I. That there are prophecies, that literallyandjingljy Jpeak of the Coming of theM E s s I A s. Vn 44-. T is charged, upon the wri*ters of the New Teftament,that they manifeftly put newinterpretations upon thebooks of the Old Teftamentand thofe not agreeable tothe obvious and literal meaning, and con-trary to the fcnfe, of the Jewifh nation*And this the
A Defence of Christianity from the prophecies of the Old Testament : wherein are considered all the objections against this kind of proof, advanced in a late Discourse of the grounds and reasons of the Christian religion . C H A P. II. S E c T. I. That there are prophecies, that literallyandjingljy Jpeak of the Coming of theM E s s I A s. Vn 44-. T is charged, upon the wri*ters of the New Teftament,that they manifeftly put newinterpretations upon thebooks of the Old Teftamentand thofe not agreeable tothe obvious and literal meaning, and con-trary to the fcnfe, of the Jewifh nation*And this the Objcdor would have it believ-ed, he is fo certain of, that, as he faith,having particularly confidered, all the pro-phecies, cited by theApoJiles, he pronouncesthem, all to be fttlfilled in Chrift^ only in afecondary and allegorical fenfe. And yet never was there a charge fo ground-lefs, fo frivolous in every particular, as this:Never was a confideration of the Prophe-cies, more fuperficial and impcrfed thanHis, That all the texts quoted in the NewTeftament, regard not the MciTias, as the fole A T>efenceof Cnv^iSTiKViItX. 59 folc objcd of the prophecy, is allowed 5 Scd. II. though, as we Ihall Ihew, thofe of the ty- ^-^^^^/^^J pical kind, arc nevcrthclefs dircd proofs. But iliat 7wne of them, were intended of the Me Til as, nor underf
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