...forms a part of the prophecies of Jeremiah — " Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will raise unto David a righteous branch ; and a king shall...and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice (or righteousness) in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely ;...

...unhappily obscured. The passage I shall first produce is that famous prediction of Jeremiah, " I will raise unto David a righteous branch ; and a king shall reign and prosper, and execute judgment and justice on the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell...

...frequently used in the sense of government and to govern during that dispensation. "Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David...shall execute judgment and justice in the earth." Jer. xxiii. 5. "And many nations shall come and say, Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,...

...followed by a plain denial of it. Thus the verse preceding Mr. Jones's last quotation, " Behold the days come, " saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David...shall execute judgment and justice " in the earth." Here we find that this Branch, " the Lord our righteousness," was raised and commissioned by Jehovah,...

...6 ; where, in the same figurative language as in our text, it is thus written : " Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David...and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice on the earth : in his days Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely : and this is his name...

...and a branch shall grow <3ut of his roots." And likewise it is said, Jer. xxjii. " Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David...a king shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgement and justice in the earth." And many other such prophecies are to be found in the writings...

...glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely." Jer. xxiii.5. "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David...righteous branch, and a King shall reign and prosper." And so in many other places wherein Christ is prophecied of, under the appellation of the branch, he seems...

...will raise up unto David a righteous branch : JSECT. it. Christ's Volitions necessarily holy, fyc. 139 and a king shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. Jn his days shall Judah be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. And this is the name whereby He shall...

...this clause was pre-determined, is manifest, from the subsequent clause, which says, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous branch, AND A KINO SHALL served in heaven, where he sitteth on the right hand of God. We are plainly informed, that...

...THE BRANCH of Jehovah be beautiful," &c. ; which, when compared with Jeremiah, xxiii. 5, — " / will raise unto David a RIGHTEOUS BRANCH, and a king shall reign and prosper," Sac. — " In his (Jays Jitdah shall be saved," 8tc., — can leave no doubt on the mind of any candid...