Jeremiah 23

Jeremiah 23:5

Branch] Is taken for the Messias. And so, chap. XXXIII. 15. and Zech. III. 8. and VI. 12. Esay IV. 2. XI. 1.

Yet that King, Esay XXXII. 12. and XXXIII. 17. seemes properly and immediately to be understood of Ezekiah; of Christ only Typicaly. And that, Esay VIII. 18. and XLIX. 1. and chap. LXI. 1. of Esay partly, but of Christ principaly. As likewise that, Esay XLIX. 1. And that, Esay VIII. 8. Of Esay literaly, of Christ figuratively, Heb.

II. 14. And againe, Esay XLII. 1. of Christ principaly, of Cyrus Typicaly. That Esay XLI. 2. of Cyrus only. Many speeches of the Prophets, concerning themselves, and others who were Types of Christ, are in the New Testament applied to Christ; being one way, and in one maner verified of them; and another way, and in another maner also, many times fulfilled in him. And so those words, 2 Sam. VII. 14. compared with 1 Chron.

XXII. 10. and Heb. I. 5. And those, Heb. II. 13. Yea, in diProphecies, some Particulars agree to the Type, and not to the Truth; as, Psal. XXII. 6. and XL. 12.

Some to the Truth, and not to the Type; as, Psal. XVI. 10. with Acts II. 29. and XIII. 36, 37. Or to the Type in one sense; to the Truth in another: so in those Psalmes wherein David is a Type of Christ, as Psal. II. and XVI. and XXII. and those in which Solomon, as, Psal. XLV. and LXXII. Christ is called the Branch, because springing up as a bud or sprout from the root of Jesse, Esay XI. 1, 10.

And so from David, Apoc. V. 5. and XXII. 16. Psal. CXXXII. 11, 17. Acts XIII. 23, 32. called the Righteous Branch, in this Text, and chap. XXXIII. 15. springing from a withered stock and stump, & sprouting at first in a mean and despicable maner, Esay XXXIII. 2, 3, 4.

Yet after branching out beautifully, retaining its verdure perpetualy, spreading and growing, flowering and flourishing to all eternity, Dan. II 44, 45.