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ame Emmsnuc*!/* Now, this child hstb already been presented unto Judab, aod was rejected of him ; vticuforc the tabernacle of David, and their be&uttfu) temple, arc (bilcd dovrn. But wnlo the tribe* of Israel, the Son of the rirgia bath not been presented : the new thing which the Lord hath created upon the eartb bath not been made known unto Ephraim, to whom it is here expressly promised as the wonderful spring of that wonderful revolution which ia to take place upon Ihcm. U in in thi« same remarkable chapter of Jeremiah, Hint Ihe lamentation of Riirhel for her children occuireth, which by Matthew is ap- plied tothe cruel murder of the innoconta in Betb* lehem and Ramah« by the cmel wrath of Herod. For you will perceive, by referring to the xith chapter of Nehcmiab^ that i& thc«e cities, though situated in the ancient territory of Judah» did tHe children of Benjamin, the youngest son of Rachel^ dwell after the captivity. And here nUo Rachel died, in the extreme anguieh of givin>c birth to Beqamin: &o that wiUi ^rcat propriety doth the EvsngcUst Apply the jms^a^c. " A voice was lieurd in Ramah, lamentation and hitter weeping , Ka- chai.4, wct'piiig for her children, rf-fu»ed to he com- forted for her children, because they were not/' But when the passage is studied in the prophecy itaelf, it hath manifestly a much larger upplicth tion. For it is immediately added by the Lord, to his weeping handmaid, *' Thus saith the Lord, Refnin diy voice froivi weeping, and thine eyes from tears ; for thy work BhaU be rewarded, saith 1160 TU£ KIHGB UP TIIC £AGT, from tbe Uie Lord ; and they shall como agi land of the cnt-m^. And there i& hope id their end, Aaitb the Lord, that tliy children &ba}l come again to iheir own border/' And then followK the Uurge and particular prophecy quoted above, oon- ccrning Ephraim, the son of Joseph^ the son o( Rachel, and the bead of the tribes. Now, when a prophecy which U applied in the NewTeslamcnt to any event»hath, in its owii place and connexion, a manifest reference to another event, there are only two ways of reconciling the diflTerence. The one is to fay» as is tbo case gt^ serally with the present unbelieviDggeneratioiD, it is ciiioted by way of aceommodationr as any wri- ter may quote an ajipnrjpriate pa^iftage of a poet, as be passetb along bi« subject. Tbtt» I utterly reject and detest, as dishonoorable to God's wor^ and the root of that mot^t baneful denial of the pro* phecy altogether, which has come over the Re- formed diurches abroad, and a little, or, to ape al