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13—16); "And when they (the wise men from the f^t), were de- parted, behold, the angel of the Lord apjiearcth to Joseph inadreani, saying, Arise, and take iheyotiog OH THC: TLH TKIBE2. Ii66 ihild and bis mother, and Hee into ^ypt, and be ihou tUere until 1 bring tbee word ; for Hi-Tud will cck the young child, to destroy him. When he rose, ho took itic young child and hie mother by igbt, aad departed into Egypt: and was there .until the death of tlcrod, that it might be ful&Ucd ;ivbicb waji spoken of the I^ord by the prophet, Baying, Out of t'i^ypt liuve I called jny Son.** Ver. J 9, '20: "But when Horod was dead, be- hold, an angel of th^ Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in E^pt» sayinfj, Arise, and take the yonng child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel : for they are dead which sought the young childa life." Now when we study the passage and its context in the book of Ho^a, it bath a manifest reference to Ephraim^ and tliat to the ejieluaionof Jtidah, for the lost verse of the chapter aaith. " But Judali yet rulctb with God. and is faithful with the saints/^ Wc do right tlierefore in excluding Judnh from this and the three subsequent chapters^ anil indeed from the whole of this prophecy of Tlosea, except where it is by name expressly introduced. Now belieting as I do that there are no accommodations by the Divine Spirit in the use of the Old- Testament Prophecy, but an exact opening of what him&elf intended in whole or in part when he first inspired it, I am forced to conclude that in this pa^saF^, '*Out of Egypt have I called my Son," there is a prediction of that passage in the lite of Christ, when he was taken to l^ypl, and again brought out of it. The Son here spoken of is Christ : and therefore Israel in the prophecy is a name for Christ. Thu* the prophecy proceedeth to speak of Ephraim's backsliding from the mes^ago of 116€ THE KirfOfi OF IKS KASX, ( God to the worship of Baalim, (ver.3.) Tben it* niaketli mention of the Lor<1*8 teaching him to go an a child i& lauglit by hie parent^ and of h\$ de- tirenag him from a yoke, and feeding him with fan own band. (vcr. 3, 4.) Then, in vcr o, be ia threatened with a aorcr bondage than that of Kgypt because of the obstioatc and iron sinew of bifi neck which would not bend itaelf unto the Lord, Then, in ver 6, 7, the desolation ia de- acribed, and the following verses contain, aa we havcficen, the premie of his restoration, as in the last Terae Judah is excluded as hath been aaid. ' 11. This doctrine w