When the Heads of the Families had abused the typical Offices of Prophet, Priest, and King; the Levitical Law, Gal. iii. 19. was added because of their Tranfgreffions, till the Seed came, to whom the Promises were made, and was void then: And when the Rule of Jehovah the Second Perfon by the Oracle, or Prophets, was rejected, when the Judges had acted irregularly, and the People defired a King like the Nations, Saul, &c. were chofen; when the Kings had abused their Power and when the Intent of the Law was perverted; the Kings and Prophets made by divine Appointment ceased: And when even the Priesthood, if it were reftored after the Captivity, was bought and fold, and fo the Fulness of Time was come; Chrift who was the eldest of the fettled Line, as Abraham, &c. were, was to be real Prophet, Priest, and King to all the World.

The Perfon of the Effence, who was to be incarnate, was in fome Degree King of Believers, after the Publication of Redemption, fo of the Jewish State: And the First-Born, or Perfons anointed by Prophets, were Vice-Roys, Emblems; and not only Believers, but those among the Heathens, kept up the traditional Ceremonies, which were emblematical of what he was to be and to do at his Incarnation or Refurrection, when he had put on his glorified Body, and was to exercife the Office of King; to deliver them from their Enemies, judge them in Mercy, &c. and of what the Subjects in his Kingdom were to do, by paying the emble

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matical Acknowledgments to his Substitutes So of thofe of the Heathens to the Substitutes of their supposed King, the Light.

The regular Succeffion of Priefts ceased fome time before Chrift came, and the Prophets and Succeffion of Kings ceafed nearly together long before his Birth; fo though he was really born King of the Jews, he was not publickly known till a Miracle made them fearch the Scriptures and the Registers; fo if that Interruption had not happened, he must have been born a King's eldeft Son, or a King in Poffeffion, which would have been inconfiftent with the Part he was to act and fuffer.

As King was an Epithet of the Second Perfon in the Prophecies, in all those in the Pfalms, and most of those in the Prophets, before and after his Incarnation; fo it was of the Light, as I have fhewed in the second Part of M. P. p. 104. and in M-fine P. p. 58. and in the Names and Attributes of the Trinity of the Gentiles. p. 154. 227. as Amos. v. 26. re have born the Tabernacles, Coverings, (what they were fee above) of your King, and of your Saturn Remphan, cited Acts vii. 43.

And notwithstanding the Heaps of villainous Evafions of the late apoftate Jews, all the Jews who fell into worshipping the Names, and all the Heathens worshipped the Light, under the Name and Idea of King, afcribed Dominion to it, or (as they thought) him; fo in Reprefentation by giving him a Chariot and Horses; by placing a Figure of him upon the Chariot, with

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other royal Enfigns; and worshipping before it upon this Foundation. All the ancient Eastern Nations who understood Tradition literally, each made their King make a Covenant with them to do what they could not perform, (except as a Type affifted by him he reprefented) which though Chrift could, the Light could not perform, so anointed him, crowned him, and fubmitted to his abfolute Rule, giving him typical worship, &c. The believing Jews worfhipped Chrift, before he came, under the Name King and Anointed, in their Services, in the Pfalms; but this put them upon demanding a King; this gave their Speeches Approbation; as they knew that their divinely appointed Kings were each a Representative of Chrift in his chief Office. So the Jews paid Adoration to Jehovah the King, as he was in and above the Cherubim, and also as he was in the outer Tabernacle or Temple, which was the Emblem of his Body, Pfal. v. 7. cxxxviii. 2.-To the Temple of thy Holiness. 2 Chron. xxx. 27.

The regal Effence was also distinguished from the Emblems, and the Presence in them, Pfal. Ixxxvi. 9. All Nations fhall worship to thy Face, Adoni. Prov. xxiv. 1. My Son, fear thou the Lord and the King. Zach. xiv. 16.-To worship the King, Jehovah of hofts. So they paid the fame Adoration to the mortal King, as they did to Jehovah. 2. Sam. xviii. 28. xxiv. 20. 1 Par. xxix. 20—— And now worshipped Jehovah and in the King. 2 Par. xxiv. 17. So to David, &c. under

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the Word, fell down upon their Faces, &e: So when by the Confufion of Tongues the Tradition was corrupted, and univerfal Empire aimed at. Judith iii. 8. Yet he did caft down their Frontiers and cut down their Groves, for he had decreed to deftroy all the Gods of the Land, that all Nations should worship Nebuchodonofer only, and that all Tongues and Tribes fhould call upon him as God, b. So even as low as Herod, who pretended to be a King, whether Jew or Heathen, or what Thoughts he had of Chrift matters not, he owns this was an univerfal Cuftom, Matth. ii. 2. When the Magi faid they were come to worship the King of the Jews, he fays, ver. 8. And when ye have found him bring me Word again, that I may worship him alfo.

Nay even the Roman Soldiers in Mockery, Mark xv. 17. Clothed him with Purple, and crowned him, and 19. bowing their Knees did worship him. The Heathens dreffed and crowned their Sacrifices, not only human but Brutes; and these Actions however done, proved typically what he was really to be; and this and other royal Honours paid to the Sacrifice fhew, that they meant fomething farther than the Creature; and the Jews, when they faw Chrift upon the Cross, by their Demand fhewed that they knew that the King of the Jews and his Kingdom were not to end in Sacrifice; fo, If thou be the Chrift fave thy felf and us.

As the Kings of the Jews were to be like those of other Nations in moft Cafes, only were to obferve

obferve the Laws that were appointed. There were feveral emblematical Actions ufed among the Heathens mentioned in Scripture, and the Apocrypha, which were predicted to be done to and compleated in Chrift, Gen. xl. 20. Mat. xiv. 6. Keeping their Birth-day, as at his Birth; Anointing, or Inauguration. 1 Sam. x. 1. Kif fing him; Crying, 1 Reg. i. et al. God fave the King; founding the Trumpet, playing with Mufick, clapping their Hands, fhouting, &c. finging Songs, feafting, placing him on the Throne, crowning him; giving him the Sceptre, the Seal, which I think was in a Ring and other Royal Emblems; making Offerings to him, as 1 Sam. x. 27. et al. called nin Prefents; obeying him, ferve him, i Sam, xviii. 6. Judith iii. 7. playing, finging, dancing before him upon Victory; faluting him, 1 King, i. 31. Neh. ii. 3. Dan. ü. 4. O King live for ever. Swearing, Gen. xlii 15, 16. by the Life of Pharaoh. Embalming their Bodies, burning Odours, &c. kiffing them, an Emblem of divine Worship, Gen. xli. 40. On thy Mouth

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The King's Signet or Seal, which, I think, was in a Ring or in a Stone in the Ring, and worn upon his Finger, given to another, or impreffed upon Wax, conferred the Power of Pardon, of taking Life, &c. and referred to the irradiating Power in Christ of working Miracles, of Judg ment, of Life and Death, Gen. xxxviii, 18. Exod. xxviii. II, 21,36. xxxix. 6, 14, 30. Jer. xxii. 24. Dan. xvi. 17. Hago ii. 23. So Seal, 1 King. xxi. 8. Predictive, Pfal. lxxii. 1. Give the King—11. All Kings shall fall down before him, all Nations fhall ferve him.

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