whole of his argument, but would refer for this to his own Note. In feveral points however he seems to agree with me in the letter, and sometimes in the interpretation of the Original Text. I will just add his tranflation of the verfe, from whence his emendations may be more apparent. « Tecum mag"nificè egi in die virtutis tuæ, in monte fancto 66 meo; ex utero ante Luciferum genui te.' Whoever would rightly interpret this Pfalm fhould duly and carefully attend to the nature of the Compofition, to the change of Perfons or Speakers introduced in it, and the direct application of it to the Lord of Glory, or to Christ. I conceive, that Jehovah, who is in In particular he confiders the word as a verb of the first person, and adds a Jod at the end. Also he reads with Symachus in my mountain, or in the mountains of holiness, meaning Sina and Horeb, instead of " in the splendors ́or beauties. The difficulty in the last line of he feems to cut off, rather than reconcile, by fuppofing, and attempting to account for it as an interpolation. troduced troduced as folemnly declaring the priestly office of the Meffiah in the fourth verfe, hath alfo intimated his Covenant with him, and his extraordinary qualifications for the Mediatorial authority in the third. As this expofition appears to be important, it is hoped it will be fairly and candidly examined. I am not aware of any objections to it, but what may be easily reconciled with that inattention to grammatical accuracy, which is obfervable in the Oriental writings; and there are other paffages in the Old Testament, which are applicable to the Meffiah only, as well as this. Origen recounts several of this fort, such as Gen. xlix. 10. Pfalm xlv. Ifa. lii. and liii. Micah v. 2. to which may be added Daniel's Prophecy of the LXX weeks in the three laft verfes of ch. ix. and feveral paffages in the xxiid. and Ixixth Pfalms. Having had occasion to enlarge the third Difcourfe, where this fub ject ject is treated on, very much with Notes, for this as well as other obvious reasons, I have taken the liberty to divide it into two parts. I might have illuftrated feveral other prophecies more fully, and perhaps completed the whole Work in a better manner, if I had had more time allowed me. But my Work was brought forward by an unexpected emergency a twelvemonth fooner than was originally defigned. On this account I trust the Reader will not be too rigidly exact in criticifing it, nor expect more copious illuftrations or more minute remarks, than the ftraitnefs of the time, together with my other engagements, would admit. I hope the real interests of Christianity may in fome small degree be promoted by these Discourses; and if we reflect on the tempers and difpofitions of multitudes around us, on the lukewarmness and indifference of some, the intemperate zeal and forward forward vanity of others, the innovating and licentious spirit of a third clafs, perhaps the Minifters of the Gofpel were never more loudly called upon than at present, to be explicit and zealous in the true cause of Christ, to endeavour to promote it upon Christian principles and motives, and to maintain that his Gospel is the power of God unto Salvation to every one that believeth". © Rom. i. 16. EXTRACT FROM THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE LATE REV. JOHN BAMPTON, CANON OF SALISBURY, "I give and bequeath my Lands and "Eftates to the Chancellor, Mafters, and "Scholars of the University of Oxford for "ever, to have and to hold all and fingular "the faid Lands or Estates upon trust, and to "the intents and purposes hereinafter men❝tioned; that is to say, I will and appoint " that the Vice-Chancellor of the University " of Oxford for the time being shall take and b "" receive |