THE MESSIAH: AS WONDERFUL-COUNSELLER-THE MIGHTY GOD-THE EVERLASTING FATHER- THE PRINCE OF PEACE. Five Sermons on Isaiah, ix. 6. BY THE HON. AND REV. B. W. NOEL, MA. Reprinted by Permission. LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, 169, FLEET STREET. MDCCCXLVIII. **This little work consists of Five Sermons preached at St. John's Chapel, Bedford Row, in the summer of 1847; purchased of the Proprietors of the “Pulpit,” and republished in the present form (by permission of Mr. Noel) with the earnest hope that its circulation may tend to correct error, and prove subservient to the honor and glory of God. FLEET STREET, December 1847. MESSIAH, THE WONDERFUL. 66 FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN, UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN AND THE GOVERNMENT SHALL BE THE first word intimates to us that the predicted fact in this verse is the cause of the predicted facts which are recorded in the preceding verses. It is because the "Child is born," spoken of here, that Galilee has seen a great light, that the redeemed nation has been multiplied, their joy become like the joy of many harvests, that the redeemed nation is delivered from oppression, and that war finally ceases on the earth. All these are found connected with this verse as effects with cause; after they are described, it is added, B |