The covenant of nature made with Adam described and cleared from sundry great mistakes. And thereby proving, I. That the kind of death that was threatned in that covenant, in Gen. 2.17. ought not to be understood of any other kind of death but of a double spiritual death, 1. By depriving Adam of Gods concreated image: and 2. By corruption of nature that followed thereupon. II. Proving that the said covenant was totally extinguished and made utterly null, as soon as Adam had but tasted of the forbidden fruit, and received the said threatned punishment. III. Expounding Gal. 3.10. and proving that the curse therein threatned must not be understood of the curse of the said covenant of nature, but of that curse that is threatned in the covenant of grace to the fallen posterity of Adam, for their not doing of Moses law by faith in Christ, which was given to them for the covenant of grace and reconciliation only. ... VIII. Expounding Rom. 8.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 8. in ch. 25. By William Pynchon.

2. Messias shall suffer.

Or as it is in his former Edition, Messias shall be k••ll'd: But Mr. A••ns. in Lev. 1. 5, 8. and others read it, he shall be cut off: or he shall be executed as a noto∣rious Malefactor on the Crosse; Or as the Sev••nty render it, he shall be destroyed, and so the Hebrew is rendred in Jos. 11. 21. The Hebrew word is of a large sig∣nification, and will bear all these expressions in our Language: but the main skil is to make a right sence of them all according to the meaning of the Con∣text: But indeed that is already done to our hands by the four Evangelists, in * 1.1 the History of Christs sufferings at his death; They all do declare that the Scribes and Pharises, the seed of the old Serpent did cut off, or execute, kill and destroy the Messias, as a worse Malefactor then the Murtherer Barabas, Acts 3. 14. Mat. 27. 20. and just so did the men of Anathoth plot the death of Jeremy, they said, let us cut him off from the land of the Living, that his name may be no more remembred, Jer. 11. 19. The Hebrew word is the very same that is in Daniel; and the Evangelist Esay did by an interogation of admiration, foretell how the wicked Scribes and Pharises would cut off the Messias, saying in Esay 53. 8. But who shall declare his generation, Namely, the extream wickednesse of his gene∣ration wherein he lived; For though he did no sin, neither was there any guile found in his mouth, 1 Pet. 2. 22. yet (by their restlesse accusations of him to Pilate) they cut him off out of the land of the Living. But this Hebrew word in Esay * 1.2 53. 8. though we translate it cut off, yet it is not the same with that in Daniel, but yet it is the same in true sence, for both places mean, that the M••ssias should be cut off as a wicked Malefactor, by an ignominious death, by that generation wherein he lived: and all this came to passe just as it was at the first declared ••n Gen. 3. 15. Namely, that the Devils seed should pierce him in the foot-soals as a most wicked Malefactor on the Crosse; And for this cutting off, see more in my former printed Reply in p. 352. And Histories do Report, that the Priests and

Scribes of this generation, were exceedingly addicted to converse familiarly with the Devil: and their Antient Doctors did foresee by the Scriptures the exceed∣ing wickednesse of this generation, and therefore Rab. Nehoray saith, That m••ns Countenances shall at that time be past shame; and Rab. Nehemiah saith, That wickednesse shall be multiplyed without measure, and that there shall be nothing but untowardnesse; and hereby insomuch, that as Rab. Notranai saith, they shall say, that the Miracles which the Messias shall work, are done by Magick and unclean Spirits: and so they said indeed, Mat. 9. 34. Mat. 12. 24. Luke 11. 15. And for this of the Rabbins, see more in the Truenesse of Religion, p. 502. 539.

2. In reference to these predictions of Daniel and Isaiah, Christ did often in∣form his Disciples, that he must suffer many things of the Elders and be killed, Mat. 16. 21. Mat. 17. 12. Mar, 8. 31. Nar. 9. 12. Luke. 9. 22. Luke. 17. 25. Luke 18. 31, 32, 33, 34. Luke 22. 15. Luke 24. 46.

3. Peter said unto a publick Concourse af the Jewes: Ye have killed the Prince of Life, Acts 3. 15. and saith he in v. 18. Those things which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his holy Prophets that Christ should suffer, he hath just so fulfilled. Here the word suffer, is put for his ignominious death upon the Crosse as the worst of Malefactors; and Paul affirmed, that ••e preached no oth••r things then those which the P••ophets and Moses said should come to passe, That Christ should suffer, Acts 17. 3. Here also both the word suffer, and the word Christ is borrowed from this place of Dan. 9. 26. Mr. Broughton saith in his Exposition of the Article of Desce••t, p. 33. that Paul hath 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, from Dan. 9. 26. most exactly translated in his Article of Difference, having the exact pro∣priety on his side: And saith he in Lords Family, H. 2. Wheresoever the Name Christ is in all the New Testament, it calleth the Reader to return unto Daniel, especially those two places of John 1. 41. John 4. 25. (where M••ssias the He∣brew word is in Greek letters, and that in the mouth of simple Folk, as Andrew the fisher, and the Samaritan woman: shewing, that the Samaritans then as well as the Jews, knew that M••ssias or Christ should come into the Wo••ld.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The Angel told▪ Daniel, that at the just end of Seventy-sevens of years, the Messias should suffer a most ig∣nominious death by that w••cked generation were∣in he lived without all sin.
• * 1.2

  Jer 11. 19. Esay 53. 8. Acts 3. 18. Acts 17. 3.