JESUS, THE MESSIAH;
OR, THE
OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES
FULFILLED
IN THE
NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES.

By A LADY.

The Profits will be devoted to Charitable Purposes.

LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY R. B. SEELEY AND W. BURNSIDE;
AND SOLD BY
L. B. SEELEY AND SONS, FLEET-STREET.

MDCCCXXVIII.

MILLS, JOWETT, AND MILLS, PRINTERS,
BOLT-COURT, FLEET-STREET.

DEDICATION.

TO THE
RIGHT REV. CHARLES RICHARD,
LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER.

My Lord,

I have been induced to solicit the honourof dedicating this little work to your Lordshipfrom the conviction that its contents are not onlyconsonant with the Doctrines and Articles ofthat Church of which your Lordship is so brightan ornament, but that they are in unison withthe truths of Divine Revelation, that perfectstandard by which all Theology and Moralitymust be judged. My object in presenting it to[iv]the Public is a wish to render the Scriptures morefamiliar to the young: and while I feel gratefulfor the honour of your Lordship's sanction, allowme to express my sincere thanks for the favouryou have conferred on one who is, with thegreatest respect,

My Lord,
Your Lordship's very obliged Servant,
The Authoress.

August 18th, 1828.

PREFACE.

Custom demands a preface; and though thepublic is generally uninterested in the reasonswhich influence an author to appear before itstribunal, yet an introductory notice is usuallyexpected.

This little work was the employment of manya retired moment. In turning over the pages ofthe sacred volume, the writer was struck with theexact fulfilment in the person of the Messiah, asnarrated in the New Testament, of the numerouspredictions recorded of him in the Old. Thesewere collected for her personal gratification;and as they accumulated, it occurred, that whathad been some little source of pleasure to herown mind, might, by the blessing of God, proveuseful to some young persons, who from circumstances,[vi]are debarred access to, or are not inclinedto read, works of a more extensive kind.

While the writer has no disposition to despisethat criticism which, if impartially administered,is the best safeguard of the press, neither wouldshe timidly shrink from investigation; aware thatno partiality of friends can long buoy up an unworthyproduction.

This is not intended as the language of indifference,but arises from a consciousness of thepurity of motive, and the desire to do good,which have actuated her; compared with which,all other considerations are momentary andunsatisfying.

CONTENTS.