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Mr. S. Fre$man on the Prophecies of Isaiah, ch. vii.
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Enfield , Sir , June , 1823 . IN the year 1788 , at which time I was settled with a congregation of Protestant Dissenters at Honiton , in Devonshire , as their minister , a discourse by the late Dr . Blavney , the learned translator of Jeremiah , on the
sign given to Ahaz , Isaiah vii . 14—16 , fell into my hands . I was just about that time , or had just before been , engaged in drawing up for my own use a chronology of the Old Testament history , so far as th ^ t alone
would carry me . In the prosecution of this design I had been minutely cornparing many passages of the prophets with others in the direct historical books . My mind being then
full of the subject , I was dissatisfied with several things which were advanced in the Doctor ' s discourse , and penned for my own satisfaction the Following piece , containing observations on those parts of the Doctor ' s sermon to which I felt objections . I
was , as will be seen , not pleased with the double sense of prophecy , and in relation to that had jSrefixed to my essay a quotation from Cicero , " Veritatis cultores , fraud is inimici ; " thinking that the double sense savoured too
much of the ambiguity of the old heathen oracles , and tended but too plainly to sink the dignity of the former to a level with the baseness and duplicity of the latter
. If a performance that has lain by me unnoticed for 35 years is worthy of your attention , and suitable to the purposes of your instructive miscellany , it is at your service . STEPHEN FREEMAN .
On the Prophecies of Isaiah , ch . vii . rJ ™ ?* the imwedi ^ te cpnsidefnt ° 5 the P ° P ** ecy itself , and as eL ° ? UCtO F *• U W w > t . " *** - Si ;! i - notice > ' « ** - * We ° f J iS % S at th * ^ ™<* *> give then rL- r de ^ ° ** A vmgdoms isr r ^^ Amv ^ JL fcfcove two Uundrecf vears .
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Of the latter , Pekah , son of Remaliah , was ^ now Jripg ; and , in the i 7 tb fear of his reign , Ahaz , son of Jotham , succeeded his father as kiaj ? of Judah . This latter had , for some time past been governed by kings who , in the main , did that which was right in the sight of the Lord ; but who , nevertheless , did not exert themselves to
destroy the high places on which the people used , contrary to their law , ( as being nearer in their apprehension to heaven , the habitation of their divinities , ) to offer sacrifice and burn incense to the ho $ fcs of heaven . It may be reasonably supposed that , on this
account , towards the close of the feign of Jotham , ( see 2 Kings ^ v . 37 , ) the Lord began to send against Judah , Rezin , the king of Syria , and Pekah , Remaliah's son , king of Israel . Sueh was the situation of affairs when Ahaz came to the throne of Judah .
Not alarmed at this appearance of things , nor incited by it to turn unto the Lord ^ and serve him wholly , h $ did worse than his fathers $ he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel , and made molten images for Baalim ( 2
Chron . xxviii . 2—4 ) . Then Rezin and Pekah having made all necessary preparations , came up to-Jerusalem to make war against it . They besieged it , and routed the army of Ah ^ z more than once ; but they could not overcome him so as to bring him into
subjection , or render him tributary to them ( 2 Kings xvi . 5 , 6 , & € ? 2 Chron . xxviii . 5—15 , and Isaiah vii . 1 ) . That Judah might be brought very lowv because of Ahaz the king , who transgressed sore against the Lord , other enemies werq wrought up aga inst $ his people ; t ha Edooutes and Philistines and
invaded the country ^ earned ^ way captiyes ( 2 € JUwi | 3 ^ v ^ i . 16- ^ 19 ) . In the midat of hip di ^^ g , instead at " turning to % Qw 4 ] p fathers and seeking ^ u ^ put . frqm Jl ^ m , Ahaz seikt Unto the ^ long jo £ Aapyr | a $ Q help him . And to indpfie , [ I ^ ljith-pile 3 e ^ t ^^< W ^ toM ^ Jft | f ^ k \ e hv «| bly ^ iiwsolf , l $ i ? servant a ^ d squ , < md afc&to
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Mr. S. Fre$Man On The Prophecies Of Isaiah, Ch. Vii.
Mr . S . Fre $ man on the Prophecies of Isaiah , ch . vii .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1823, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1788/page/1/
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