14 Behold, their prince, who fell long fince By falfehood he, through God's decree, He travails ftill with only ill, And falfehood does conceive; 15 He made a pit, and digged it, And he is fall'n therein: 16 Thus mifchief fhall, returning, fall On all the men of fin. 17 But I will praife, in loftieft lays, His righteoufnefs, and faithfulness, Diffufing all around the ball, PSALM VIII. THIS Pfalm, fimilar in fpirit and fubject to the id with its parallels, as explained, Matth. xi. 25. and xxi. 16. 1 Cor. i. 27. Heb. ii. 6, 7. and 1 Cor. IV. 27. clearly afcertains and demonftrates the Lord Jefus Chrit alfo to be the fubject of Pfalms cxin. and cxlviii. with others referred to the readerAs to the meaning or fpirit of these univerfal expreffions, All fheep and oxen,' &c. being made fubject to Chrift, confult Ifa. lx. with its parallels, as interpreted in New-Teftament language, without figure or parallel, according to the words of the Lord, All that the Father hath given me, 'fhall come unto me' and 'All power in heaven and earth is given unto me.And, fpeaking to the Facher, John xvii. 4. Thou haft given him (the Son) power over all flesh, that he might give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.' N. B. As fome inconfiderate perfons have not been wanting, who have thought proper to controvert the view here given of this Pfalm, and most abfurdly to apply it to Adam; I fhall here quote the words of the prophet, above referred to, at length- The abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee; the forces of the Gentiles fhall come unto thee. The multitude of camels fhall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba fhall come they 'fhall bring gold and incenfe, and they fhall fhew * forth the praife of the Lord. All the flocks of Kedar fhall be gathered together unto thee; the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they fhall come up with acceptance on mine altar, • and I will glorify the houfe of my glory;' Ifa. lx. 5, 6, 7. To the fame purpose in other places, The lion and the lamb fhall lie down together; and the • child fhall play on the hole of the afp,' &c.—Meaning, that people of all tongues, kindreds, nations, and languages, barbarians, Scythians, bond and free,' reprefented by thefe figures, fhall, by the everlasting gofpel, be fubdued and converted to the kingdom of the Meffiah; who, in point of authority, commiffion, and power, is the Lord and Heir of all things, reigning at the Father's right hand, till his enemies be made his footstool; but all things are not yet actually subdued by their Lord, nor fhall they all in fact be put under him, until the time of the restoration of all things, when the laft enemy, death, fhall be deftroyed, and death and hell fhall be caft into the lake which burneth with fire and brinftone; when the kingdom fhall be delivered up to the Father, and God shall be, all in all. Meffiah, blefs'd for evermore, Afcribe to him the glory due; Let heav'n, and earth, and feas, and all, Lord, our Lord, how gloriously 2 From mouths of babes and fucklings, lo, Ye rulers, ftand reproved here, peace, 4 I'm loft in wonder and furprize, My heart within me melts, and cries, So fades the fun, and waxes wan, C For dim. For thou, Jehovah, filleft him Jehovah, thou haft rais'd him high, With all thine honours crown'd his head. 7 Thy fubjects all fhall come, and greet, The oxen, from the flow'ry field, Thus, all who breathe the breath of life, Thro' (Thro' nature's univerfal form, 9 From th' angel to the creeping worm), In name of our eternal God, To juftify the interpretation of this Pfalm, as fpoken in the perfon of the Meffiah, according to the paraphrafe, the reader will do well to confider the text; and fo let him judge, if it would not be abfurd to interpret it otherwife. But, if that does not fatisfy him, let him confult the parallels, particularly Pfalms xxxv. and lvii. Exalted to his Father's throne, For Antichrift, in ev'ry shape, Must be confign'd to hell. I'LL praife thee, Lord, with my whole heart, And all the world shall know; I'll raife thy fame with all mine art, And make my fong to fong to glow. Thy |