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Familiar Letters on a Variety of Seasonable and Important Subjects in Religion
Familiar Letters on a Variety of Seasonable and Important Subjects in Religion Author:Jonathan Dickinson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1829 Original Publisher: W. Collins Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can sele... more »ct from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LETTER III. An Historical Account Of The Birth, Life, Passion, Resurrection, Ascension, And FuTure Kingdom Of Our Blessed Saviour, ColLected From The Prophecies Of The Old Testament. Sir, I Rejoice to hear from you, that any endeavours of mine have contributed in the least towards your satisfaction. I am thereby the more encouraged to hope, that your remaining difficulties may easily be obviated; and particularly, that it will not prove difficult to answer your present demand: to show you " how you may certainly know that the prophecies of the Old Testament had a direct reference to Jesus Christ." You may know this by the exact accommodation of the prediction with the event. That this, therefore, may be set before you in a proper light, I will endeavour to give you (in the form of a history) a brief representation of our blessed Saviour, gathered from the Old Testament, and leave you to compare this with the narrative of him iu the New. If these agree, you thereby have a certain discovery of the divine original of these prophecies ; since none but an omniscient mind could possibly foresee these events. And you have likewise the same certainty, that Jesus Christ is the predicted Messiah, and that his mission is divine, Df since what was foretold of the Messiah in the prophecy is fulfilled in him. The time of the manifestation of this glorious person, whom I am now to describe, was during the continuance of the kingdom of Judah, while a sceptre was in the hand, and a lawgiver came from between the feet, of that tribe, Gen. xlix. 10.; while the second temple was yet sta...« less