was prophesied of the Messiah : Zech. ix. 9, ' Behold thy Idng cometh unto thee ; he is just, and having salvation ; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass ; ' and fulfilled by Christ, Mat. xxi. 4, 5, ' All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold the king coraeth unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt, the foal of an ass.' That he should be betrayed by one of his familiars, his own disciple: Ps. Iv. 12, 13, ' It was not an enemy that reproacbed me ; then I could have borne it : neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me : but it was thou, a man, mine equal, my guide, and my acquaintance.' So Ps. xli. 9, ' Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lift up his head against me ; ' which was fulfilled, Mat. xxvi, 23, ' He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, he shall betray me ; ' and accordingly Judas came to attack him, Mat, xxvi. 47. That he should be sold for thirty pieces of silver : Zech. xi. 12, ' So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.' Fulfilled, Mat. xxvi. 15. That with these thirty pieces of silver there should be bought afterwards a field of potsherds : Zech. xi. 13, * And the Lord said unto me. Cast it unto the potter : and I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord.' Fulfilled, Mat. xxvii. 7, 'And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.' That being apprehended, he should be most barbarously entreated by the Jews, and be beaten and buffeted, and his face defiled ' with spitting, according to that of Isaiah the prophet : Isa. 1. 6, * I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off" the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.' Fulfilled, Mat. xxvi. 67, ' Then did they spit in his face, and buffet him, and others smote him with the palms of their hands.' That they would wound, rend, and tear his body with scourges before they put him to death : Isa. liii. 5, ' He was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities ; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.' Fulfilled, Mat. xxvii. 26, ' When he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.' And they did at length put him to death according to the prophecy : ' The Messiah was to be cut off, but not for himself;' Dan. ix. 26. That the death that he should die was the death of the cross, unto which he was nailed hand and foot according to that of David : Ps. xxii. 16, ' They pierced my hands and my feet ; ' and that of Zech. xii. 10, ' They shall look upon me whom they have pierced.' Fulfilled, Luke xxiii. 33, ' And when they were come to Mount Calvary, there they crucified him.' That he was crucified between two malefactors, one on the right hand and the other on the left, according to that of Isa. liii. 12, ' He was numbered with the transgressors ; ' Luke xxii. 37, ' For I say unto you, that this which is written must yet be accomplished in me ; And he was reckoned among transgressors, for the things concerning me have an end.' He was to pray for his enemies and persecutors, according to that of Isa. liii. 12, 'He made intercession for the transgressors ; ' and this was fulfilled in that prayer, Luke xxiii. 24, ' Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.' So Ps. Ixix. 21, ' In my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.' Fulfilled as before.
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That they should divide his apparel, and cast lots for his upper garment: Ps. xxii. 18, ' They part my garment among tliem, and cast lots upon my vesture.' Fulfilled, Mat. xxvii. 35, ' And tliey crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots.' Well, then, all tliese particulars foretold of the Messiah were exactly fulfilled in our Saviour, and so conduce to settle our hearts in believing his person and office. Well, then, might he say now, ' It is finished.'
2. That the substance of the types were accomplished in him, as that of the brazen serpent, the paschal lamb, the daily and yearly sacrifices, the offering of Isaac ; all which prefigured that Christ should die for the sins of the world. As Abraham offered his only son Isaac to God as a proof and demonstration of his faith and obedience : ' Now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me,' Gen. xxii. 12 ; so God gave his Sou as a proof and demonstration of his love : 1 John iv. 10, ' Herein' is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.' Isaac carried the wood to the sacrifice of himself, so did Christ his cross. The lifting up of the brazen serpent in the wilderness, that whosoever looked upon it should be healed : Num. xxi. 9, ' And Moses made a serpent, and put it upon a pole ; and it came to pass that if any serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived ; ' this figured Christ lifted up upon the cross, that all those bitten by the old serpent might by looking be cured : John iii. 14, 15, ' And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.' The paschal lamb was slain just at the time when Christ died, and his flesh eaten, not a bone broken, John xix. 33 ; his blood sprinkled on the door-posts ; all which were accomplished in Christ, who is ' the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world,' John i. 29. The daily sacrifice was offered morning and evening, to show our daily use of Christ, who was ' a lamb without spot and blemish,' 1 Peter i. 19. The annivei-sary sacrifice of the two goats on the day of expiation. Num. xvi., when tliere was a live goat to be sent into the wilderness, and the other was slain, and Aaron was to put both his hands upon the head of the scape-goat, confessing the sins of the people, and that scape-goat was to carry all their sins into the land of forgetfulness ; all which signified the expiation of all our sins by Christ dying for our offences, and rising again for our justifica- tion. For the scape-goat was sent into the wilderness far from the sanctuary, to show that all our sins are put far away out of God's sight ; the other goat is said to be kept for the Lord, that it might be slain, and be offered to him for sacrifice upon the altar. Well, now, these and all othei- types were finished, that is, obtained their end and accomplishment.