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new Name is from 38 Father, and Multitude, but they leave out the Ref: If the Text did not direct, one should be liable to take it from 28 an Epithet of God, moft powerful, and of the Multitude; but it feems to be from 28 and 2 and the Father of the Light, the Son, or the Purifier of a Multitude. As this was made the Name of this Man, and Promises made to him as fuch, so there were other Promifes made to another under this Name. Rom. ix. 7. Neither becaufe they are the Seed of Abraham, are they all Children. Mat. iii. 9. God is able of thefe Stones to raise up Children unto Abraham, So of another given Name,

.ישר אל or יש שר אל .28 .Gen. xxxii

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under this Name to Ifrael. Pfal. cv. 9. Which he cut off with Abraham, and his Oath unto Ifaac, and confirmed the fame unto Jacob for a Law, and to Ifrael a Purifier of Ages. Rom. ix. 6. For they are not all Ifrael, which are of Ifrael. Ifa. xxix. 22. Jacob fhall not now be ashamed, neither fhall his Face now wax pale. But when he feeth his Children, the Work of my Hands in the midft of him, they shall fanctify my Name, and fanctify the holy one of Jacob, and shall fear the Alcim of Ifrael. Rom. xi, 26. And fo all Ifrael

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fhall be faved. And fo of David, who himself was, as the Word is conftrued, Beloved, and was chofen to be the Parent of Chrift the well-beloved Son of that terreftrial, and of his cœleftial Father. derives the Word from

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And I think that Verb is from 7 and is to attribute Power. David fays, 2 Sam. xxiii. 5. Tet bath he appointed to me the everlafting Purifier.

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'Tis faid Pfal. lxxxix. 4. I have cut off the Purifier for my chofen one: I have fworn to the Beloved my Servant. Thy Seed will I eftablish for ever, and build up thy Throne to all Generations, Selah. So Cant. v. 10. My Beloved is ny white and DN ruddy. Ezek. xxxiv. 23. And I will fet up one Shepherd over them, and he fhall feed them, even my Servant the Beloved And I Jehovah will be their Aleim, and my Servant the Beloved Chief among them. So Ezek. xxxvii. 24. And the Beloved my Servant shall be King over them-And my Servant the Beloved fhall be their Prince for ever. Hof. iii. 5. And feek Jehovah their Aleim, and the Beloved their King. Zach. xii. 8. In that Day Jehovah fhall defend the Inhabitants of Jerufalem, and he that is feeble among them at that Day shall be as 0 4

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the Beloved; and the House of the Beloved as Alcim, as the Agent Jehovah to the Faces of them-And 1 will pour upon the Houfe of the Beloved, and upon the Inhabitants of Jerufalem, the Spirit of Grace and of Supplications, and they fball look upon me whom they have pierced, &c. Ibid. xiii. 1. In that Day there fhall be a Fountain opened to the House of the Beloved, and to the Inhabitants of Jerufalem, for Sin, and for Uncleanness. As many things are thus faid under the Signification of the Word David the Beloved, and many Pfalms are dedicated to Chrift under that Word; fo other Pfalms are dedicated to him under the Signification of DN who, as appears, 2 Chron. xxix. 30. was a Seer at that Time; as others have fuppofed, to the Prieft mentioned, 1Chron. vi. 39. as the Pf.lxxxi, lxxxii, &c. that is to the Gatherer, and under that are many clear Prophecies referring to Chrift. This obliges me to fay fomething of Sion, and Jerufalem. It does not appear that the Name of my was changed, but that it retained its Heathen Name, fignifies Title or Dryness has no other Claim to be a Type of the Church but that David, the Type of the Beloved, had his Palace and dwelt there. And that it appears he took it and Jerusa

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lem in the feventh of his Reign, 2 Sam. v. and made a Tabernacle, and brought the Ark thither, in which were the Types of the Perfons above, and their Actions, upon which the Glory emblematically appeared, from whence he gave Orders, &c. as above. Cap. vi. where it stood till the Temple was finished, 2 King. viii. 1. (above forty Years.) So Pfal. lxxviii. 67. Moreover, he refused the Tabernacle of Jofeph, and chofe not the Tribe of Ephraim. But chofe the Tribe of Judah, the Mount Sion which he loved, &c. Ibid. lxxvi. 2. In Judah is the Aleim known, his Name is great in Ifracl, in Salem alfo is his Tabernacle, and his Dwelling-place in Sion. Ibid. ii. 6. I have fet my King upon Sion, the Hill of my holy one. Ib. Ixxxvii. 2. Jehovah loveth the Gates of Sion, more than all the Dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of thee, O City of the Aleim. And as above-And of Zion it fhall be faid a great Perfon, and a great Perfon was born in her, &c. Ibid. cxxxii. 13. For, Jehovah hath chofen Zion, he bath defired it for his Habitation. This is my Reft for ever, here will I dwell. Ibid. cii. 13. Thou shalt arife, and have Mercy upon Sion, for the Time to favour her, yea the fet-time is come.-16. When Jehovah

Jehovah fhall build up Sion, he shall appear in his Glory. Ifa. xviii. 7. In that Time fball the Prefent be brought-to the Place of the Name of Jehovah of the Hofts, the Mount Sion, Mat. xxi. 5. Tell ye the Daughter of Sion, behold, thy King cometh unto thee. Apoc. xiv. 1. And lo, a Lamb stood on the Mount Sion.

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Chen Jerufalem, which, I think, was named by David, by the Spirit of Prophecy, in which the Temple stood, they fay, on the Side of Mount Sion. Tis a compound Name, fome make it from the Prophecy, Gen. xxii. 14.87 that cannot be, because the & is radical; fome from to dart, and from that to teach, to give Laws, a Place cannot do that. But I take it to be from 2 to drive out and poffets, fo the Heir the Poffeffor, the Poffeflion, and M." Retribution, Perfection, Peace, and Peace-Offering; Garment, Cloathing, a Cloak," What this was in the City, as a Type of the Church, fo in the Church, and every Member, and what each and all of thofe Attributes are, or to whom they immediately belong, needs no proving. Jer. xxv. 29. In the City which is called after my Name, 1 Pet. iv. 17. The Houfe of God. Ifa, lxii, 7. Till be establish, and till he make the

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