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Twelve sermons introductory to the study of the Prophecies
Twelve sermons introductory to the study of the Prophecies Author:Richard Hurd Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON IV, The general Argument Prophecy. John xiii. 19. Now I tell you before it come, that when it is come to pafs,yemay believe, that I am He. IT... more » hath been concluded (not on the flight grounds of hypothefis, but on the exprefs authority of 'fcripture), that prophecy was given To Attest The Mission pp Jesus : to afford a reafonable evidence, that the fcheme of redemption, of which he was the great inftrumentand minifter, was, in truth, of divine appointment ; and was carried on under the immediate cognizance and disection of the Supreme Being, whofe prerogative it is to fee through all time, and toto call thofe things, which be not, as though they were [a]. Our next inquiry will be, how the prophetic fcriptures ferve to that end, and what that evidence is (I mean, taking for granted, not the truth of the prophetic fcheme itfelf, but the truth of the repre- fentation, given of it in fcripture) which is thus adminiftered to us by the light of prophecy. I. The text refers to a particular prophecy of our Lord, concerning the treachery of Judas ; of which, fays he to his difciples, I now tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pafs, ye may believe that I dm fie: that is, " I add this, to the other predictions concerning myfelf; that, when ye fee it fulfilled, as it foon will be, ye may be the more convinced of my being the perfon, I aflume to be, the Meffias foretold-" [a Rom. iv. 17. The information, here given, was perhaps intended by our Lord to ferve a particular purpofe, To prevent, we will fay, the offence, which the difciples might have taken at the circumftance of his being betrayed by one of them, if they had not, previoufly, been admonifhed of it. But the reafon of the thing (hews, that the ufet which the difciples are directed to make ...« less