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Dr Price, prebendary of Durham Joseph Pitt, Esq. Cirencester, Gloucestershire Mr Sylvanus Padley, Swansea — 2 I. Philpotts, jun. Esq. Gloucester Mrs James Pitts, do Mr Thomas Palin, do Rev. T. Parsons, do Mrs Madan, Peterborough ner Rev. C. Mordaunt Oxford Munn, Esq. Upper Tooting, Surrey - 2 Charles Mayo, Esq. Cloak-lane R. Maskelyne, Esq. Cirencester, Gloucester shire R. Morgan, Esq. Swansea The Right Rev. the Bishop of Rochester school John Reeves, Esq. Rich. Richards, Esq. sollicitor general to the Queen - 2 Charles Rogers, Esq. Ludlow Rev. Dr Radcliffe, archdeacon of Canterbury Charles Raikes, Esq. Mincing-lane Thomas Raikes, Esq. Grosvenor-square Rev. Dr Rennell, dean of Winchester and master of the Temple Rev. Dr Ridley, prebendary of Gloucester Robert Raikes, Esq. Gloucester Rev. R. Raikes, prebendary of St David's, do Rev. Sam. Rogers do The The Hon. and Right Rev. the Bishop of Nor wich Rev. Mr Newton, vicar of Little Bedwin, Gloucester T. M. Talbot, Esq. Penrioe-castle, Glamor ganshire - 20 Rev. Mr. Underwood, prebendary of Ely deacon of Lichfield Rev. Mr Van Mildert, rector of Bow, Cheap side The Right Rev. the Bishop of Salisbury folk Rev. C. Sandiford, vicar of Awre, Gloucester shire, and chaplain to the Bishop of Bath and Wells Majesty Shone, Esq. Bedford-row fordshire R. Selfe, Esq. Cirencester, Gloucestershire Rev. Mr Simpson, Bath John Stroud, Esq. Swansea 2 Mrs Stamford, Gloucester Charles Sylvester, Esq. do - 2 The Hon. and Right Rev, the Bishop of Win chester - 2 Right Rev. the Bishop of Worcester, Har tlebury-palace The dean and chapter of Wells Theoph. Walford, Esq. Waldershare, Kent Rev. Mr Wollaston, rector of Balsham, Cam bridgeshire Rev. Mr Wood, B. D. rector of Herne, Kent Rev. Dr Willis, rector of Bloomsbury and pre bendary of Rochester Sir Wm Wynne, Doctors Commons Williams, Esq. Lombard-street Williams, Esq. do Mrs Williams, 16, Canterbury-place Rev. Mr Whitaker, rector of St Mildred, Canterbury Rev. Dr Weston, residentiary of St Paul's J. Wilkinson, Esq. 18, Guildford-street E. Wilbraham, Esq. Cirencester, Gloucester shire Rev. C. Walker, Slimbridge, Gloucestershire Mr D. Walker, Gloucester Miss Williams, Swansea Rev. Mr Todd, rector of Allhallow's, Lom bard-street Rev. Dr Turner, dean of Norwich and mas ter of Pembroke-hall, Cambridge Rev. Wm Tournay, B.D. warden of Wadhamcollege, Oxford Tritton, Esq. Lombard-street Wm B. Tarbut, Esq. Bishopsgate-heath, En glefield-green Rev. Mr Thomas, Sutton-lodge Rev. F. T. Travell, Swerford, Oxfordshire R. Timbrell, Esq. Cirencester, Gloucester shire - 2 His Grace the Archbishop of York, South Audley-street Rev. Dr Zouch, prebendary of Durham ON ON THE NATIVITY AND PERSONAL CHARACTER OF CHRIST. ISAI A H ix. 6. Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. The Evangelical Prophet in these words sees, as it were, the Son of God born of the Virgin, and the blessed Jesus laid in a manger; and, in a prophetic ecstasy, rather declares than foretells the birth of the Messiah : “ Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given.*" Then * "Singularis est Emphasis in voce, nobis; significat id, quod omnes sentiunt, nostro bono et commodo natum esse hunc Puerum Imperatorem. Vide Vitringa, in locum. “ Impudenter Judæi hæc ad Ezechiam torquent. Nam, 1o. Hic natus est ante hoc Vaticinium. Vide 2 Reg. xvi. 2; xviii. 2. 2o. Nullum h. 1. Ezechiæ vestigium, nec verbum hactenus de eo probatum. 3o. Nativitas hujus Pueri lætitiam et liberationem attulit: non sic nativitas Ezechiæ. 4o. De ejus nativitate agitur, qui lucem attulit ambulantibus in tenebris Galilæis et Judæis : id quod nemo Ezechiæ adscripserit. 5o. Sequentia nomina et epitheta nulli mortali conveniunt.” Calovius. “ Christus hic dicitur puer; quoad humanam naturam, Matt. ii. 11. Puer; ergo homo est: et filius, idque sine adjectione, et xat' t&ogar, ut a reliquis hominibus discernatur, et constet alium a Dei filio non posse hîc intelligi: nec dubium est oraculum illud hîc respici. 2 Sam. vii. 14, ipse erit mihi filius.” Calvin, &c. Which last passage is emphatically ascribed to Christ by the author of the Hebrews, c. i. 5. B follows |