This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1751. Excerpt: ... proceeds alone from the sincere Good-wilt which the Author of this Paper bears towards all Mankind in general, and to you Sir, and your Nation in particular. It is to your and to our Father Abraham r for we Christian Gentiles pride ourselves in that Title by adaption, that we are indebted for the Promises; and it is through the Hands of the Jews, that we acknowledge to have received the sacred Writings of the Ancieyt Prophets; to them therefore, and their Writings, we join with you. in our Appeal, as to an impartial and unerring Judge in the determination of this Controversy.. But before we proceed any further, it? seems proper, in order to avoid all Disputes about Words, to declare what I mean by the Word Mefftah.. This Word lite-, rally, signifies that is anointed, vhich was a Ceremony used under the Mojaical Dispensation, in, f sanctifying or separating particular Persons to particular Ofriees, such as of Kings, Priests, or Proghets. And, - See Rom. iv. it. &c. &c. f See Ex. xxviii. 41, i. Sam. xii, ii. Sam. ii, 7. Ex. xxix. r, ZU, ., . And as there is Reason from the Scriptures.of the Hebrew Bible, to believe that Goes hath from the Foundation of the World appointed some one Person of extraordinary Note, to be as a King, Triest and Trophet to the Nation of xhtjews, and through them to all the Nations of the Earth, in whom they Jball all be blejfed: Therefore this extraordinary Person is by way of Eminence, distinguished by the Title of the MeJJiah, according to the Hebrew, or of the Christ, according to the Idiom of the Greek Tongue, which also literally signifies 7he anointed. And therefore we fmd this extraordinary Person described in the Scriptures of the Hebrew Bible, under each of these Characters; that is, as a King, as a Triest, and as a...