LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. RIGHT Rev. the Bishop of St Asaph, 12, Charles-street, Mortimer-street Rev. Mr Andrews, Rector of St James's, Piccadilly Rev. Mr Adams, Pátney Right Rev. the Bishop of Bath and Wells, 35, Rev. Mr Backhouse, Rector of Deal, Kent Rev. Dr Bell, prebendary of Westminster Rev. Mr Buck, Rector of Lavenham, Suffolk Bowman, Esq. Lombard-street George Brown, Esq. Nicolas-lane Messrs Bodley and Etty, Lombard-street Rev. Mr Brand, Rector of St. Mary-at-hill Rev. Thomas Boys, Ampney-crucis, Gloucestershire Rev. James Buckoll, Sydington, near Ciren cester Rev. Dr Bingham, archdeacon of London His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lambeth-palace Hon. and Right Rev. the Bishop of Carlisle Right Rev. the Bishop of Chichester, 19, Wigmore-street Right Rev. the Bishop of Cloyne Right Rev. the Bishop of Cork, 23, Upper Right Rev. the Bishop of Clogher Rev. Mr Clark, Hexham, Northumberland Rev. Robert Trotman Coates, rector of Steeple-Langford, Sarum Rev. Dr Conybeare, rector of St Botolph, Bishopsgate John Coggan, Esq. Laleham, Middlesex Rev. Dr Cooke, President of C. C. C. Oxford Rev. Dr Chester, rector of Winterbourn, Wilts George Clark, Esq. Lombard-street Chatteris, Esq. Lombard-street Rev. Mr Curteis, rector of Sevenoaks, Kent Mrs Wm Croome, Cirencester, Gloucestersh. Robert Croome, Esq. do Rev. R. Cumberland, Driffield, Cirencester —2 Mrs John Collins, Swansea Rev. Samuel Commeline, rector of Hempstead, Gloucester Rev. George Cox Rev. John Collins, Osmich, near Swansea Hon. Hon. and Right Rev. the Earl of Normanton, Joseph Green, Esq. 18, Guildford-street Archbishop of Dublin Hon. and Right Rev. the Bishop of Dur Rev. Dr Foster, fellow of Eton-college Ruv. James Fawcett, B. D. Norrisian professor, Cambridge. Mrs Fendall, 30, Portland-street, Oxford-st. Wi Fendall, Esq. Matson, Gloucestershire.... Mr Fraser, Jamaica The dean and chapter of Gloucester . Mrs Green, do Captain Honeywood, Sibton, Kent Rev. Mr Handley, Chipping-norton, Oxfordsh. Hammett, Esq. and Co. Lombard-street Rev. Mr Hatch, rector of St Matthew, Friday-street Miss Harrison, Clapham, Surrey Mr Hale, 7, George-yard, Lombard-street Rev. Dr Jones, archdeacon of Hereford Rev. Mr.James, Penmaen, Swansea. J. Jelf, Esq. Gloucester Mr John Jenkins, Swansea Right Rev. the Bishop of Kilmore, Ireland Rev. Mr Gardner, F. A. S. Sansaw, near Kensington, Esq. Lombard-street Miss Knowlys, at Mr Mayo's, Cloak-lane. John John Knowlys, Esq. Mincing-lane Right Rev. the Bishop of Landaff Hon. and Right Rev. the Bishop of Litchfield, Hill-street, Berkeley-square Right Rev. the Bishop of London, St James's square Right Rev. the Bishop of Lincoln Miss Lawrence, 26, Lower Brook-street W. Lawrence, Esq. Cirencester, Gloucestersh. Mrs Madan, Peterborough Wm Merle, Esq. Bartholomew-close Dr Moss, prebendary of St Paul's, Amen Cor ner Rev. C. Mordaunt Rev. Rd Michell, B. D. Wadham-college, Oxford George Munro, Esq. Nicolas-lane Mr Morris, Lombard-street Rev. Mr Mackenzie, rector of Smarden, Kent R. Maskelyne, Esq. Cirencester, Gloucester shire R. Morgan, Esq. Swansea The Hon. and Right Rev. the Bishop of Norwich Rev. Mr Newton, vicar of Little Bedwin, Gloucester Mrs Newton, ditto The Right Rev. the Bishop of Salisbury Admiral Sotheby James Sadler, Esq. Rev. S. Sadler, vicar of Sandhurst, do Rev. P. Sandiford, rector of Fulmostone. Norfolk Rev. C. Sandiford, vicar of Awre, Gloucestershire, and chaplain to the Bishop of Bath and Wells G. Sharp, Esq. 1, Garden-court, Temple Rev. Dr De Salis, chaplain in ordinary to his Henry Soames, Esq. Wadham-college Shone, Esq. Bedford-row Rev. Martin Stafford Smith, Bath Colonel Symonds, M. P. Pengatley, Herefordshire R. Selfe, Esq. Cirencester, Gloucestershire Rev. Mr Simpson, Bath John Stroud, Esq. Swansea 2 Mrs Stamford, Gloucester Charles Sylvester, Esq. do 2 T. M. Talbot, Esq. Penrice-castle, Glamorganshire 20 Rev. Mr. Underwood, prebendary of Ely Rev. Dr Vyse, rector of Lambeth and archdeacon of Lichfield Rev. Mr Van Mildert, rector of Bow, Cheapside The Hon. and Right Rev. the Bishop of Winchester - 2 Right Rev. the Bishop of Worcester, Hartlebury-palace The dean and chapter of Wells Theoph. Walford, Esq. Waldershare, Kent Rev. Mr Wollaston, rector of Balsham, Cambridgeshire Rev. Mr Wood, B. D. rector of Herne, Kent Rev. Dr Willis, rector of Bloomsbury and prebendary of Rochester Sir Wm Wynne, Doctors Commons Mrs Williams, 16, Canterbury-place Rev. Mr Whitaker, rector of St Mildred, Rev. Dr Weston, residentiary of St Paul's Rev. C. Walker, Slimbridge, Gloucestershire His Grace the Archbishop of York, South Audley-street Rev. Dr Zouch, prebendary of Durham ON ON THE NATIVITY AND PERSONAL CHARACTER OF CHRIST. ISAIAH 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. Ezechia 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 xar' sox, 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. |