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Rh the left, and as applied both to the and to man, See Psalms, xvi. 11; xvii. 7; xviii. 35; xx. 6; xxi. 8; xxvi. 10; xliv. 3; xlv. 4, 9; xlviii. 10; lx. 5; lxiii. 8; lxxiii. 23; lxxiv. 11; lxxvii. 10; lxxviii. 54; lxxx. 15, 17; lxxxix. 13, 25, 42; xci. 7; xcviii. 1; cviii. 6; cix. 6, 31; cx. 1, 5; xcviii. 15, 16; cxxi. 5; cxxxvii. 5; cxxxviii. 7; cxxxix. 10; cxlii. 4; cxliv. 8. and then tell me whether you think it probable, or even conceivable, that god Himself, in His own, should mark this distinction, unless it had involved in it a deeper and more edifying meaning, than what relates merely to the hands of the body. Read also what is written of the left-handed Ehud, a Benjamite, ['Judges iii. 15.]; and of the seven hundred chosen men left-handed, ['Judges xx. 17.]; and again tell me, whether you think it either probable, or conceivable, that this circumstance of being left-handed would have been deserving of record by Himself, unless it had been designed to mark another left-handedness, perfectly distinct from that of the corporeal frame. It is written also in the book of the prophet Jonah, that “in the great city of Nineveh there were more than six score thousand persons, who could not discern between their right hand and their left hand,” [chap. iv. 11.]. And is not this a further convincing proof of the truth of what hath been above observed concerning the right hand and