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Rh No ſooner have we opened the book, but the ſecond pſalm preſenteth itſelf, as an inauguration-hymn, compoſed by David, the anointed of Jehovah, when by him crowned with victory, and placed triumphant on the ſacred hill of Zion. But let us turn to Acts iv. 25. and we there find the apoſtles, with one voice, declaring the pſalm to be deſcriptive of the exaltation of Jeſus Chriſt, and of the oppoſition raiſed againſt his goſpel, both by Jew and Gentile.

I the eighth pſalm, we might imagine the writer to be ſetting forth the pre-eminence of man in general, above the reſt of the creation; but by Heb. ii. 6. we are informed, that the ſupremacy conferred on the ſecond Adam, the man Chriſt Jeſus, over all things in heaven and earth, is the ſubject there treated of.

T apoſtle Peter ſtands up, Acts ii. 25. and preaches the reſurrection of Jeſus, from the latter part of the ſixteenth pſalm; and, lo, three thouſand ſouls are converted by the ſermon.

O the eighteenth pſalm we are told, in the courſe of the ſacred hiſtory, 2 Sam. xxii. that “David ſpake before the Lord the words of that ſong, in the day, that the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul.” Yet in Rom. xv. 9. the fiftieth verſe of that pſalm is adduced as a