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upon EZEKIEL. 305
their fetting up feparate Way's of Worfk'p, and Chapter
efpoufing feparate Interefts : Compare I/a. xi. XXX VII'
1$. It has been already obferved, that the Pro- L/^V*NJ
phefies which foretel of the General Reftoration
of the Jews, join Judah and IJ'rael together, as
equal Sharers in that Blefling.
Ibid. oAnd one Kjng fljall be Kjng to them all.'}
The Meffias, who is that one Shepherd and
Prince that (hall rule over them all, as one Nation
: See Chapter xxxiv. 23,24. compared
with Luke i. $2, 33. The MeJJias is dcfcribed as
King of the Jews in moft of the Prophefies of
the Old Teftament, beginning with that of
Gen, xlix. 10. concerning Shiloh. From T)avzd'silme
he is commonly fpoken of as the Perfon
in- whom the promifes relating to the Perpetuity
of David^s Kingdom were to be accomplifhed.
This was a Truth unanimoufly owned
by the Jews ; See, Job. i. 49. to which our
Saviour bore Teftimony before Tontiut Tilate,
when the Queftion being put to him, oArt thou
a Kjng ? he made Anfwer, 'Thou fayeft [the
Truth] for I am a Kjng : Thus thole Words
fhould be tranflated,for St. Taut alluding to them,
calls them a good Confe/Jion, 1 Tim.vu 13. The
Tame Truth Tontitis Tilate himfelf afferted in
that Infcription which he providentially ordered
to be written upon the Crofs : See Job, xix.
19-22. fo that the chief Priefts impioufly renounced
their own avowed Principles, when
they told THate, That they had no Kjng hit C