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the task of extending the Redeemer's kingdom is given to Jehovah, as if to mark the agency of another person of the Godhead, to display the mysterious influence of the blessed Spirit, and to prove that man's redemption is but the development of the character of the ever blessed Trinity. By this consideration is the union of the Father and the Son rendered consistent with the economy of grace, and the difficulty of Jehovah's agency in the establishment of Messiah's reign reconciled with his sovereignty, a difficulty which Vitringa has mentioned, but has not removed.

The last verse has been supposed to allude either to Christ's character as a conqueror, or to his humiliation and subsequent triumph. I have been induced to take a different view. I cannot but consider as harsh, the metaphors which the advocates of the former opinion would introduce, and the passages of Scripture adduced in support of the latter, seem to me to derive their meaning from the context in which they are found, and not to bear upon the point.-I would consider the passage before us, as a parallel to that of Isaiah, in which he declares, that "in the day of the great slaughter, there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill,

rivers and streams of water;" I would interpret it of the effusion of divine grace, so often figured in Scripture under the image of that fluid so necessary for the support of human life, and I would translate the passage before us in the following manner, with but a small deviation from our version, “he shall make," or give "to drink of the stream on the way, and thus shall he raise up the head." The Hebrew scholar will perceive that the change in the original is but of one conjugation to another, and affects only the vowel points, an unessential part of the language; he may, perhaps, agree with me, that the original word which we have translated "brook," is best explained as a current of water, which makes its way among interposing hills, and whose course is perceptible, but by the verdure of its banks, and the riches of its overhanging foliage, and therefore, forming no unsuitable image of the operations of the Spirit, whose influence is often compared to "rain upon the mown hay, or showers that water the earth," who maketh his fruits to

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spring up as among the grass, like willows by the water courses;" and that this interpretation which has been hinted by an obscure, but learned critic, giving meaning to a passage confessedly difficult, and presenting a most cheer

ing contrast for Christ's servants and soldiers, with the fate that awaits the impenitent, forms no inconsistent conclusion to a Psalm, which developes with such amazing accuracy the agency of God in man's redemption, his bounty in promising, his faithfulness in executing, the destruction which awaits the impenitent, and the blessings which are prepared for the righteous.

May these awful truths be brought home with power to our hearts, may we receive Messiah as our King, believe in him as our Prophet, and trust in his atonement as our Priest, and when the day of his visitation comes, may we be enabled to say, "Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him, and he will save us this is our Lord, we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation."-Amen.

NOTES TO SERMONS XVI. AND XVII.

Page 311.-Whether in regard, &c. ǹ de Twv Padμõv βίβλος, τὸ ἐκ πάντων ὠφέλιμον περιείληφε. προφητεύει τα μέλ λόντα, ἱστοριας ὑπομιμνήσκει, νομοθετεῖ τῷ βίῳ, υποτίθεται τὰ πρακτέα· καὶ ἀπαξαπλῶς κοινον ταμιεῖόν ἐστιν ἀγαθῶν διδαγ μάτων, τό ἑκάστῳ πρόσφορον κατὰ τὴν ἐπιμελείαν ἐξευρίσκουσα. -Basil. Hom. in Ps. 1.

Page 312.-A late most learned commentator, &c. Dr. Adam Clarke.

Page 313.-Consecrated to the public service, &c. There is reason to believe that, from a very early period, the Psalms of David were employed in public worship by the Jews. The Hallel, or Passover Hymn, which our blessed Lord is said to have sung with his disciples, consisted of the Psalms from cxiii. to cxviii. inclusive; and they have been constantly used in the worship of the Christian Church.

Page 314.-Bishop Horseley. Horseley's Psalms. i. xiv.
In that drama, &c. Vide Horseley's Psalms,

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Page 316.-None of the sacred, &c. Matt. xxii. 55. and The loc.; Acts ii. 56. 1 Cor. xv. 25. Heb. i. v. vii. &c. observations which occur in the note, page 152-157, to the present learned Bishop of Chester's "Dissertation on the Traditional Knowledge of a Promised Redeemer," are so satisfactory, that I shall satisfy myself with referring to them. They prove the general concurrence of our Lord's contemporaries as to the interpretation of the Psalm; the straits to

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