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A Conference with a Theist (Volume 1); Containing an Answer to All the Most Usual Objections of the Infidels Against the Christian Religion, in Five Parts - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1723. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Child altogether as remarkable: And shall call his tfa. Immanuel, of God with us. Such a Name as this, imJ»sed by God himself, is very wonderful and must needs import the Person it referred to, to be of a greater Character, than that obscure Son 6s Isaiah. Nay. what Person in all sacred History can Be sound, to whom this Name can, with any tolerable Propriety, agree, besides our blessed Saviour j who was truly God with us, a Person of the Trinity, assuming human Nartire / You cannot fay that this was the Name of Isaiah's Son, for he is (aid to be called, upon his Birth, Maher-JbalaLhajli-baz Isa. viii.j. Therefore the.Name ImmamA must refer to some other Person, who I lay must be our Lord Jesus; because no other Person can be assigned be'sidesj whbinthis Name can, with any Congruity, be ascribed toi And farther, ift this Passage it is laid, The LordJballgiiejott a Sign or a Miracle. And what a miehty Miracle is it, that a young married Woman should have a Chijd? It was in deed a remarkable Prediction, That the first Child should be a Male, and that JjfdeA should be in an unexpected Way delivered', by that Time this Child should.be a Year; or two, old. But then, I fay; it does not at all seem prtH per, that this Prediction should be brought in, after ftrch an unwonted Manner; with a Behold! is if such a Thing hevfer happened before; whereas the ytOs had roa ny Deliverances as great, and some more remarkable than this Preservation from that Invasion. The Miracle, or Sign, is said to be of Gcd's own giving, The Lord shall give you a Sign; and therefore it must be expected, that something more is couched under the Word, than the bare Prediction of this temporary Deliverance. These Considerations weighed so much with the ancient Jew and Christians, that they loo...
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