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Rh ſame kind of ſcene is evidently deſcribed, and the ſame expreſſions are uſed, ſhould not be conſidered in the ſame manner?

T citations from the Pſalms, in the New Teſtament, were made incidentally, and as occaſion was given. But can we imagine that the church of Chriſt is not thereby-farther inſtructed in the manner of applying the pſalms to her Redeemer, and to herſelf? Should the diſciples of Chriſt ſtop at the applications of the pſalms to matters evangelical, thus incidentally and occaſionally made by the inſpired writers; becauſe they are thereby directed how to proceed, with reſpect to the application of other pſalms? Surely they ſhould not.

I ſuch of the pſalms as were written by David, and treat of his affairs, that extraordinary perſon is conſidered as an illuſtrious repreſentative of Meſſiah, who is more than once foretold under the name of David, and to whom are applied in the New Teſtament, pſalms which do undoubtedly, in the letter of them, relate to David, and were compoſed on occaſion of particular circumſtances which befel him.

I few of the pſalms, comparatively, appear to be ſimply prophetical, and to belong to Meſſiah without the intervention of any other perſon. Moſt of the pſalms that are fulfilled in