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but no fpiritual nourishment could I receive, being tenacious to maintain the law of my forefathers, which I confidered as the law of my Blow for God; whereof it was nothing more than the early impreffion I imbibed in my infant ftate, which ripened into maturity as I grew up, and became iniftrefs both of my reafon and actions, for I always made it a rule that my actions thro' life fhould be conformable and coincide with the fentiments of my mind: but ftill there was a dark mift that for ever clouded and caufed a fecret dread, which hung on my mind; and when I reverted to the fcriptures for relief, and difpelling the gloom that hung before me, I found none, but rather added to my grief: my adhering close to the letter as I was taught, fettered my reason, so that all feemed one mafs of contrarieties; but now the fcripture unfolds, the light of reafon brightens and difpels the mist of ignorance and vain prefumption, under whofe captivity I have been long an alien, and ftranger to my God; his divine truth was no truth to me, as I reprobated and changed this truth to my condemnation; nourishing and inculcating tenets oppofite and deftructive to this truth; my foul callous, and crufted as a toad lay perdue to fpit its poifon and fefter the minds of others; but the night is paft, all thanks to my God, for unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the government fhall be upon his fhoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counfellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Of the increale of his government and pios V peace

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peace there fhall be no end, and upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom to order it and to eftablifh it with judgment and eftabit, with juftice from henceforth, even for ever the zeal of the Lord of Hofts will perform this, Here is my God manifefted in human flefh, the infinite God manifefted in man's flefh, the eternal born in time, the Creator become a creature; the infinite, to whom the univerfe is not more than a grain of fand; who creates, nourishes, fupports, and keeps the whole in a ballance, to be a fellow companion with man, ordering, directing, and training them to be fit jewels for replacing and filling the thrones that became vacant by the fall of angels. What can we express worthy of this God Man; man raifed to the infinite height of taking his feat upon the right hand of the Infinite Majefty, and placing his friends in feats of glory.

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Boy. David in the 24th Pfalm gives us the exalted glory of the afcenfion of Chrift. Life up your heads, O you gates, and be you lifted up you everlafting doors; and the king of glory fhall come in. Who is the king of glory? it is the Lord, ftrong and mighty, even the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O you gates, and be you lifted up, you everlafting doors, and the king of glory fhall come in10 Who is the king of glory? even the Lord of Hosts, he is the king of glory. Alfo in the 16th Pfalm gives our Lord's refurrection: have let God always before me, for he is on my right hand, therefore I fhall not fall; wherefore my heart was glad, and my glory rejoiced;

rejoiced; my flesh also fhall reft in hope for why thou fhall not leave my foul in hell, neither fhalt thou fuffer thy holy one to fee corruption; thou thalt fhew me the path of life: in thy prefence is the fulness of joy, and at thy right hand there is pleafure for evermore. Ou

Mofes. Daniel prophecies the death of the Meffiah after three-fcore and two weeks, Meffiah fhall be cut off. David gives us his refurrection; thou shalt not leave my foul in hell, neither fhalt thou fuffer thy holy one to fee corruption. Allo in this as in his other pfalm, his triumphal afcenfion: thou fhalt fhew me the path of life; in thy prefence is the fulness of joy, and at thy right hand there is pleafure evermore. Thefe were myfteries until now, I confefs myfelf totally ignorant.

Boy. Pfalm 110. The Lord faid unto my Lord, fit thou on my right hand, until I make thy enemies, thy foot-ftool: the Lord fhall fend the rod of thy power out of Sion; be thou ruler even in the midit among thine enemies. In the day of thy power fhall the people offer thee free-will offerings with an holy worship; the dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning: the Lord fwore and will not repent. Thou art a prieft for ever after the order of Melchifedech: the Lord upon thy right hand, fhall wound even kings in the day of his wrath: he fhall judge among the heathen, he fhall fill the places with the dead bodies, and finite afund-r the heads over divers countries; he thall drink of the brook in the way, therefore fhall he lift up his head.

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Mofes. The pfalm before us is a further teftimony and confirmation of the royal prophet o the divinity of the Meffiah; for David was a great king, he had many nations tributary to him, himself acknowledged no fuperior but his God, whofe darling he was; Meffiah, as man, he knew was to be his fon, confequently not intitled to his homage; but he knew alfo that he was his God, in quality of which he pours forth his foul in praife and adoration, which breathe throughout his pfalms: in this pfalm is declared the priestly office of the Meffiah, not according to the order of Aaron which was inftituted in the old covenant, but according to Melchifedech, to whom we read in Genefis, our father Abraham paid tithes, and received his bleffing, being the priest of Almighty God; fo that the new worship or covenant will be different, dating, and taking its effect from the death of the Meffiah, who, ac-` cording to Daniel, is to be cut off, but not for himself. Alfo the Pfalm 40, Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldst not: but a body thou haft fitted to me: Holocaufts for fin did not please thee. Then faid I, behold I come in the bead of the book it is written of me, that I should do thy will, O God. Here we are told of the infufficiency of the old covenant and mode of worship, and that the Almighty would bring and confirm the new, which, according to Daniel, was confirmed with many and established in the middle of the feventieth week by the Meffiah when he was cut off, and that the old worship fhould ceale, as we are witneffes this day. Near two

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thousand years has this prophecy been accomplished. Genefis 14th chapter. And Melchife dech, king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine: and he was priest of the Most High God. And be bleffed bim and faid, blessed be ibram of the Maft High God, poffeffor of heaven and earth: and bleffed be the Most High God, who hath delivered thine enemies into thy bands: and Abram gave Melchifedech tithes of all. This fcripture points out Melchifedech to be priest of Almighty God and his priesthood, prior to that of Aaron. Also, according to the Pfalm we just quoted, the type of the Meffiah, whose worfhip of offering is bread and wine, which will take place and fucceed the old facrifices and worship of Ifrael. As the Pfalm we a little before mentioned teftifies, that the old worship was not equivalent, the 110th Pfalm gives a farther teftimony of the Divinity of the Meffiah, in the following verfe :

In the day of thy power shall the people offer thee free will offerings with an holy worship: the dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning. So that the oblation or worship of the new covenant will be offered to the Son equally with the Father, which would be the height of blafphemy, were the Son not God. I now am no longer ignorant of the woman's feed crushing the head of the ferpent, the devil, making reparation, and reconciling man with his God, and replacing him in his first birthright, which by feduction Satan, that old ferpent, tempted and effected his fall. Here the Pfalm refers us how necessary and proper it was for him to take

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