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lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord: And many nations shall be joyned to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of them, and thou shalt know that the Lord of Hosts hath sent me unto thee. The Prophets describe the Messiah to be the Sonne of David, and Davids Lord, The Lord said unto my Lord; The Chaldee hath it, The Lord said unto his Word, namely the Messiah or Christ, who is the eternall Word of God, by whom he made and doth conserve all things. And in other places the Paraphrasts put the Word of God, for God or Lord, and that sometimes when the second person in Trinity is not necessarily to be understood, and sometimes the word or promise, they so render, as Psal. 119. 76. According to thy word unto thy servant, where the Chaldee hath Memar. And so Psal. 130. 5. And in thy Word (or promise) I trust. But if the second person be not ever meant by the word of God, as the Paraphrast useth it, yet certainly in many places it must be so understood: and that this word was to be incarnate, was most certainly fore-told, Psalm. 102. 11, 26. Heb. 1. 10. For the very literall meaning of the Psalmist will enforce thus much, that this place was to be meant of God, not simply or absolutely, but of God incarnate. For the eternall duration of the God-head is not measurable by daies or yeares, but the incarnation of the Sonne of God, or his duration in the flesh, may be accounted by number of yeares for the time past, yet are his yeares as man to continue without end, without any decay or diminution of that nature which he assumed. And if out of any one place of the Psalmes, where he doth intreat of the deliverance of the Church, it doe appeare that the Messiah is true, and very God, by the same reason, wheresoever he speaks of the deliverance of the Church, God and the Messiah shall be the same. But it is most certaine in sundry passages, he that is God, is also the Messiah; And for that reason what is spoken of the mercy of God in the Psalme following, may be understood not of the mercy of God absolutely, or considered in the God-head only, but the