his birth, that it does not indeed. ABSOLUTELY DECLARE, that it fhall EVEN THEN DEPART, at ANY time, however INDEFINITE. For, it certainly might have been taken to imply, by those who lived before the time of thofe events occurring, which evinced it's departure,-that it never Should DEPART. But, this PROPHECY of ISAIAH, MARKS THE TIME, MOST SIDER TURELY OF PREJUDICED INFIDEL, CON- WEIGH THIS PROPHECY ISAIAH, according to my explanation, M m planation, which, NOT ONLY FORFTELLS, that, the kingdom fhall NOT have departed from Judah, 'till AFTER the BIRTH of JESUS, but, that BETWEEN THE TIME O F BIRTH, and HIS HIS QUITTING A STATE OF INFANCY, the kingdom SHALL depart-and if, UPON THIS EVIDENCE, HE BELIEVES NOT IN JESUS, neither, would he be perfuaded, though even he faw him rifen from the dead. To conclude. If God in his gracious providence, has been pleafed to make me the humble inftrument in his hands, of explaining explaining this most important prophecy, (so totally misunderstood by all former commentators) and thereby, of adding ftill further ftrength to the evidences of Chriftianity ;to HIM, FATHER, SON, and HOLY GHOST, be all the PRAISE, and GLORY, and HONOUR; to whom belong all MIGHT, MAJESTY, and DOMINION, all GOODNESS, WISDOM, and POWER, both now, and for evermore. End of Lecture II. POST POSTSCRIPT. WHEN the whole of the foregoing work had been prepared for the prefs, and a confiderable part of it had been printed off, I received a letter from a much valued friend; (to whom I had given a flight fketch of it's plan) whose moral and intellectual endowments, would have rendered him an ornament of a much higher ftation in the church, than it has been his lot through life to fill, defiring me to turn to the fourth volume of the Antient |