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Rh ſacrifice; in another, a temple; and in a third, the prieſt of the moſt high God; and to the things which concern this peerleſs One, as he alſo now is, a miniſter of the ſanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. The variety of ſtrong expreſſions uſed in the nineteenth, and the hundred and nineteenth pſalms, to extol the enlivening, ſaving, healing, comforting efficacy of a law, which, in the letter of it, could miniſter nothing but condemnation to guilty men, do ſufficiently prove, that the Pſalmiſt underſtood the ſpirit of it, which is the goſpel itſelf, or the law as fulfilled by the Meſſiah.

T Pſalms, thus applied, have advantages which no freſh compoſitions, however finely executed, can poſſibly have; ſince, beſides their incomparable fitneſs to expreſs our ſentiments when under the influence of the truth, they are, at the ſame time, memorials of, and appeals to former mercies and deliverances; they are acknowledgments of prophecies accompliſhed; they point out the connection between the old and new diſpenſations, thereby teaching us to admire and adore the wiſdom of God diſplayed in both, and furniſhing us, while we read, or ſing them, with an inexhauſtible variety of the nobleſt matter that can engage the contemplations of man. Rh