Mzſſizh ; fignifyving, that whereas the Ocdinai-ces of God, and means of Worſhip nd Silvation were confined 19 the Jews before Chrift's coming, ( Pialm: 147:19, 20: ) when the M:ſiah ſhould come, the Pale of che Church ſhould be enlarged, rhe Partition wall between Jews and Gentiles taken down, and the Gentiles ſhould Worſhip the True God, and the M:fias. And this is no more than is foretold and promiſed inother Propheſies, as we fhall ſee hereafter. The fam of this Verſe is, The Scepter ox Dominion ſha'l be ſeated in the Tribeof Judah, though he doth ts Ig 4 when ir ſhall, come thither ; bur when onee it ſhall corke, ir ſhall nor depart from thence, ti]] the Miah come ; and then Judah ſhall loie his Scepter and other Prcivi'id es, aid th: Gentiles ſhall come inro the ſtead of the Jews, and ſhall embrace that Meſſiah whom they ſhall reje&. ; So now here is an undeniable Argument to prove again rhe Jews, | that the M ſab is already come, and that the Lord Jeſus Chrift is he, becautc he was ro come during the time wherein the Scepter- was in the hands of Judah; and about that time when Jeſus Chriſt came, the Scepter was taken away from Judah and this Jews, and ; hath now been loſt for Sixteen hundred years together. The Jews ; are mightily perplexed and confounded with this Argument ; one evidence whereof 15 their various and contradi&ory Expoſitions of the place, waiileſt ſome of them affirin this $hilob ro be Ms/es, others
Saul, others, Jerobiam, others N:bu-hadn:zz2ar, which neither necd nor deſerve Confuration ; others David. Which, though fome of the acureſt ef the Jewiſh Doors affect, is as contemptible as any of the reſt, it being ridiculous re 1xy the Sccpter Ceparted from Judah under him by whom ir firſt came into thar Tribe, having bzen till David'stime in other Tribes. But the great difficulty is, how this was accompliſhed ;, for if tke event fuly agrees withthis
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