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another, much lefs all Men, as Pfal. xlix. 8. One Man cannot redeem another; he cannot give to the Alcim their Price. Nay, though the Humanity makes himself, Pfal. xxii. 23. a Brother; this is diftinguished, Deut. xxxii. 15.

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who made him; and highly esteemed the Rock of his Salvation. 16. They facrificed to the Givers of Food who have not made a Covenant; Aleim they have not known them. A Heathen mentioned to the Ifraelites, 2 Chron. xxxii. 15.Because no no Nation, nor Kingdom can deliver his People out of mine Hand. Neh.. ix. 17. For thoum, art ready to pardon, gracious and merciful.

The Interlocutory Difcourfe between

Job the perfecuted, and his Friends, is a Controverfy whether each Believer was to bear the Punishment due for his own Sin, or for Sins he did not confefs, here or hereafter, or one Perfon fhould bear it for all; hence is oftner used in this Book, than in all the reft; hence hisSpeech, Job. xlii. 7, 8, 9. And it was fo, that after Jehovah had spoken these Words unto Job, Jehovah faid to Eliphaz the Temanite, My Wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two Friends: For ye have not spoken of me the Thing

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that is right, as my Servant Job bath. Therefore take unto you feven Bullocks and feven Rams, and go to my Servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a BurntOffering, and my Servant Job fhall pray for you, for him will I accept. Job. iv. 17. Shall was one perplexed be more just than

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? Ib. x. 2. I will fay unto me condemn me not. Ib. xi. 6. The Secrets of Wisdom, for they are double (involved or complex) as to what is in them, (for Matter) and know that will blot thee out thy Sin. Canft thou find out m thoroughly, (Heb. to the Bottom.) lb. xv. 8. Haft thou heard in the Council of? Ib. xvi. 19. Behold now in the Names my Inftitution, and my Witness on high, to my Interpreter, my Companion, to mine Eye poureth out Tears, and to the Mighty One with and a Son of Man for his Friend. Ib. xix. 23. Oh that my Words were marked down, ob that they were engraven in a Memo rial; that they were hewn out in Stone, with an Iron Pen and Lead for ever that I know my Redeemer, the Liv ing One.

The Type who was to exhibit his com ing and Actions, was Lev. xxv. 25. the chief or nearest Male Relation; he was

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Numb. xxxv. 12. to flay the Perfon, who had wilfully flain his Relation, xxxv. 25. Josb. xx. 6. Yп, the Congregation were to be Judges; and if he were single, and his Relation had left a Wife and no Iffue, I think he was to raise up Seed to his Kinfman; or if he left no Male but Female Iffue, Ruth iii. 9, 12, &c. he was to raise up Seed by her, and have the Estate; and if the Estate was mortgaged, he was to pay off the Mortgage. He who was to execute this Office, had Life in his own Right and in his Gift, Gen. xlviii. 16. The Agent who redeemed me from all Evil. Pf. xix. 15. lxxviii. 35. Ifa. xli. 14. xliii, 14. lxiii. 16. Michah iv. 10. He was fehovah, Ifa. lix. 20. fhall come to Sion. Hof. xiii. 14. I will ranfom them from the Grave, from Death I will redeem them. I will be thy Plagues, O Death, I will be thy Deftruetion, O Grave. He was to avenge the Blood, the Death of his Ṣubjects, then Brethren upon Satan, who had murdered them by tempting them to Sin, subjected them to Death, and to the Forfeiture of. their Inheritance, and to raise them from Death, pay off the Mortgage, and redeem their Inheritance. The Type was by the Ufage of the Word, either polluted, till

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The revenged Blood by Blood, or by fhedding of their Blood. And it appears, Deut. xxi. 6, &c. that not only 8, but the City or Nation was polluted by Blood, where innocent Blood had been fhed; till he and they were purified, by his fhedding the Blood of the Murderer, or if the Murderer could not be discovered, till they had purified themselves.

And in the new Era, by (Nold. p. 695." with, together with, p. 697. in"). by, Duft, Flefh, Dp he shall rise up. This Duft upon Jehovah was predicted to rise up by the fame Word p, Deut. xviii. 15. and many other Places, cited Data, Part 1. p. 96. And Jehovah alfo, Pfal. xii. 6. For the Oppreffion of the Poor, for the Sighing of the Needy, now will I Parife fays Jehovah; and fave him from him that hath enfnared him. And after (Lat.) Pellem meam contriverint hanc; after those who had tempted Man, or those who decreed Death for Sin, had torn off that Skin, which kept the Blood and Fluids in his Body, and in every Part, fo had diffolved his Body *. And a Nold. p. 539. Materials, of. Though *This Part of this glorious Text is fet right in Remarks upon Warburton's Remarks, as it is there proved that NI P fignifies, a Skin fuch as mine shall enclose him.

Though this Subject deferves a Volume, I muft only give a few Hints. The Aleim, Gen. ii. 7. formed the Substance of Man by Duft, from 8 the Species of Duft fo called, in Form Flesh, Blood, c. fo iii. 19. For Duft thou art, and unto Duft thou shalt return. v. 2. Called

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Denominations of Flesh, Blood, &c. As the Substance is in common, Men are fo related in a Parallel to the Manner in the Text, call the Flesh not only of near, but of distant Relations, nay of all others, my, thy, our Flesh, as Gen. xxix. 14. My Bone and my Flesh. xxxvii. 27. He is our Brother and our Flefb. Jud. ix. 2. I am your Bone and your Flesh. 2 Sam. v. 1. 1Chron. xi. I. We thy Bone and thy Flefh. 2 Sam. xix. 12. Te are my Bones and my Flesh. 13. Art thou not my Bone and my Flesh? Ila. lviii. 7. Hide not thyself from thy own Flesh. Hence 'tis faid, Acts xvii. 26. And hath made of one Blood all Nations of Men. By Derivation, Gen. ii. 23. Eve was Bone of Adam's Bone, and by the Covenant of Marriage, Flesh of his Flefh. Hence the Flesh of the Wife is faid, exclufive of others, to be the Flesh of the Husband, to be one Flesh, & è cont. v. 24. And they shall be one Flesh, cited by Chrift

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