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    $ Hgfe w ^ tlift respect wlucii his nieinpry w ^ s held , tjhat ** he was buried i # ths

    Tbe prophet pw psoceecfc to enlarg $ ypon fcke , gloiy of He ; sekiah * $ re ^ £ i * in terms qf tn $ most animated description : " Q /? / £ pm hk Ungd&my to ovaex it and * to esfcahlfah & with m 4 &me % & md , with

    jmticvj jfrnm , fancqfwtk , eve& for eve ? : " w * i 7 * Here ^ \ % . wilj foe &hr seiye 4 > the jje ^ sQu spoken of i& de scribed sis sitting upojt * David ' s throne , inhedtUig hfe langdojn , and disp ^ n § r ing judgment with justice : lang-uage which applies in % peculiarly forcibte mm&ex to Hezekiab . It is said like *

    wise , that * of the increase o £ hi 3 governnaejrt and peace , there shall be no end ; " the meaning of which f t al ^ e to be this : that his reign will be protracted to w umi ^ uaL length * th ^ t it will fee ^ on the whoie ^ eac eabl e , and that there w 3 ib be no entl to the itir

    creasedhi&gmsmmmt till the period of his ; death , To justify this interpretation I sball enter iato no minute and laboured criticism , but content myself with quoting one or two passages of 8 ci ? iptore , in which similar

    pbrasedfogy occurs . < s Tlaere , ia one alone , and there is not a second ; yea , he hafcli neither child ^ or brother , yet there is no end of a \ h his labour ; ' * ( Eccles . i \* . 8 ;) , no end of it but with

    the termination , of his life . " Their land ; i $ full of silver and gold , neither u there any end of tlieir treasures . " ( Isa . ii . 7 . ) These tireaaur ^ s c oul d not have been abBolutely inexhaustible . There must have been , some end to

    them , however abundant . To the same purpose aee Ecclesu . iv * 16 ; Nab am ii . 9 t , iii . 3 . But apply these words , as they are usually applied , to Jesus Chriat , and in th ^ orthodox sense . Is the kingdom which he has received from the Father to have no end £ \ % the period uever tor arrive

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    Mrfeen it mi ^ t resigned nato the hands of him who gara ijt % « apastle Paul , \ vfco wa ^ bq stronger to the n 9 lure of Christ ' s kingdom , shall resolve these questions fat his own \ vords r *• Then cptij ^ tJU the end , when he shall have delivered u& the

    kmgdom to Goj > > even the Father * when be shall have put down all rule , and all authority and power *—And when all thiugs shall be subdued unto him , then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under Mm , that God may be all in

    aW I Cor , xv . 24 . 28 . Having now , as I hope , satisfactorily shewn that the terms of this celebrated prophecy were strictly fulfilled in the person , of Hezekiah , I will

    briefly state the grounds on which I venture Iq pronounce it totally inapplicable to , Jesus Christ . Grotius , and other learned com meat at or s , finding that many of the prophecies supposed to relate to the Messiah had an obvious reference to eminent individuals

    \ # &o exited long before the . time of Jesus ^ and wisliing , at the same time , to Hetaki in its full force the argument iiGL favour ojf Christianity ; deduced from the prophecies of the Q £ d Testament , had recourse to the theory of a double sense . Lowth availed himself of the

    same ingenious contrivance in the notes to bis : Translation of Isaiah ; and sanctioned by his authority and example this double dealing with the Scriptures of eternal truth . Whiston , with , characteristic ingenuousness , op- , ]* osed this theory , and contended that

    ** the prophecies ofthe Old Testament , at 3 II appertain ing to the Messiah , particularly those which are quoted as testimonies and arguments in the NevttTestament * do properly and solely belong to the Messiah , and do not at all concern any other person ; " and t €

    Dk . Benson , in his Essay concern ^ ing the Unity of Sense , ^ made it his professed object " t © shew that no text of scriptuiFo has more than one $ uigl $ 8 ^ 1 se . " In accomplishing this object , m& la ^ t-mention ed writer

    appears to me t& h $ Lve been enthuently successful y and , although I cannot always agree witji hinat in the application of his o \ ra principles , to the correctness of those principles themselves I cordially and unhesitatingly

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    be W R « ! 6 m \ ir ^ Uai ^ € 0 m ^ o ^ ix . 6 ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1824, page 226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2523/page/34/