ng contrast for Christ's servants and soldiers, with the fate that awaits the impenitent, forms no inconsistent conclusion to a Psalm, which levelopes with such amazing accuracy the agency of God in man's redemption, his ounty 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. de Twv fadμwv βλος, τὸ ἐκ πάντων ὠφέλιμον περιείληφε. προφητεύει τα μέλ έντα, ἱστορίας υπομιμνήσκει, νομοθετεῖ τῷ βίῳ, υποτίθεται τὰ ρακτέα· καὶ ἀπαξαπλῶς κοινον ταμιεῖόν ἐστιν ἀγαθῶν διδαγ άτων, 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 exiii. to exviii. 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,

p. xv.

Page 316.-None of the sacred, &c. Matt. xxii. 55. and pp. loc.; Acts ii. 56. 1 Cor. xv. 25. Heb. i. v. vii. &c. The 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

BUSES I I. 11. DARUMUT Die on the taking of a Images tat i w Water and adden In the to Trassion of the ack, and that the alg and sea breamer we nor duit of me der the Senter entrar applies it to be Hefe mesaus be in mi sound verses of the li istos, mi he is of the Isteitas” passage of the Juris Born memes I of Summer: and De Wette going s Battler, canaderos fie amicacim of this Psalm to the Me stal. # assuré auč mouous, and supposes it to be an ode a Cross-( 11 2018 Azminans Prince, probably to John Hy cans, via de tumis was in a pecular sense a royal prix Vice Bergman Comment in Psal ex. 12–20. Such inte precios defiguring such learning as these critics genen press, mai a evil lesson to the students in theology.

Par 319-The learned Venema, "Est oraculi divini po tim ad Dominum Daridis, partem ad Davidem pertinents

primum ad Dominum Daad summam dignitatem, regiam ad exemplum Melchizedeci, amplissimi et florentissimi regni, in Le sese quaquaversum dilatandi inter omnia inimica essent pedibus subjecta: avidem sermonem flectens, ipsum illum doam ipsius fore, hostesque regni ejus, ut antea um prostraturum, eoque facto per multos labores sibi viam ad summam illam potestatem in cœlo pase, declarare sistitur."-H. Venema. Commentarius ROS. vol. iv. 760.

ge 320.-He objects that. "Interpretes quidam et ilPsalmi partem posteriorem ad Messiam, hostes regni ecclesiæ suæ prostraturum referre solent, licet sibi non ›nstent, cum quod versum quintum de hostilibus regibus, ab V. T. a domino deletis, interpretentur nonnulli eorum, im quod versum septimum de passionibus et eas secuta gloria ipere soleant. Ex mea opinione de Domino illo, tanquam Davidis ejusque regni paterno, et viam ad regnum suum cœeste parante agitur, vers. 5-7." Venema, iv. 767.

"Dominus hic occurrit hostes sibi subjiciens, cum in priori pericopa ad dextram Dei sedeat, et Deus hostes ipse subjecturus dicatur.Nec nullius est, phrases in hostiles et bellicas expeditiones rectius convenire quæ ad V. T. magis quam N. T. tempora sunt accommodatæ." Venema iv. 767.

Page 323.-In the fifth chapter, &c. "Nonnullia sese mihi obtulerunt criteria, quæ mentem eo inclinarunt, ut haud diu post arcam Tsionem translatam, et promissum de regno inter posteros Davidis perpetuo, ac Messia ex !umbis ejus nascituro, antequam regnum inter populos vicinos gentiles propagasset David, eum a spiritu correptum, et in hanc contemplationem Messiæ, ad dextram dei exaltandi, ductum fuisse, et hoc carmen pepigisse."-Venema, iv. 762.

Pago 333.-Bishop Horseley's description, &c. Horseley's Psalms, i. xiv.

Page 335.-Such a notion is unfounded. See Archbishop