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Rh the legal ſacrifices, and to do away ſin, by the ſacrifice of himſelf.

T tender and pathetic complaint, in the forty-firſt pſalm, “Mine own familiar friend, in whom I truſted, which did eat of my bread, hath lift up his heel againſt me,” undoubtedly might be, and probably was, originally uttered by David, upon the revolt of his old friend and counſellor, Ahithophel, to the party of his rebellious ſon, Abſalom. But we are certain, from John xiii. 18. that this ſcripture was fulfilled, when Chriſt was betrayed by his apoſtate diſciple— “I ſpeak not of you all; I know whom I have choſen; but that the ſcriptures may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me, hath lift up his heel againſt me.”

T forty-fourth pſalm we muſt ſuppoſe to have been written on occaſion of a perſecution, under which the church, at that time, laboured; but a verſe of it is cited, Rom. viii. 36. as expreſſive of what Chriſtians were to ſuffer, on their bleſſed Maſter’s account; “As it is written, For thy ſake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as ſheep appointed to be ſlain.”

A quotation from the forty-fifth pſalm, in Heb. i. 8. certifies us, that part of it is