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    J ftc hnmfmty «* Ofctist taftr * u * tu » pwfer a ^ un tfrlfct £ * " *•** sword , or fttrbftfs to j fegfr ¦ CkifBwd gegtfraMy , *©* rapport * a 4 f ^ mimrm , aad this prayer is cotttiaued ^ tti « jend . irf tl * e Psalm . ** fbc $£ rarsgrap&s illustrate the prin-Gmkfi mm r ife ? sfcrfe of tibe criticism

    prfT » Jmg . -fekft . vahwies fcefotse us . § g ^ ©» the 2 ^ h Psaim the Bisho p ojteetyes tha $ , _*« taken literally , ' / it *^ ffij | R |» * to jfescrjiba ., the effect of a gffjjl& atofm , from which , however , pfe I ^ $ 6 ^ ^ " Israel were providentiajly

    jpo& cted * But , ' * adds he , " I have *^ 4 ° u bt ri the storm is mystical , g ^ scaa bmg tbe violen t conflict between ^| & $ Q ( S $ » el and it ' s opponents in the Matter -ases . ** la the remainder of

    4 kM article we shall animadvert on the ^ « tMRa £ k > its "fh&t * wef have made : we dhaV ! " jfc ^ sefot dor reade rs with an •«! £ «* $£ * ' # f' Btsfaop' Horstey ' s best ^ afi ^ WHraiiyitiog , rind with Oiie of his worst s and we shall Conclude . fcjr offering some observations op a Ifev ^ ^ assaees \ n the Book of Psalms .

    ' ** Wb&h our Lord was on the point of Jtafci ^ g lii ^ l eavp of hiaapostles , * he said utiiu Bbem , ' These are the words which J spake unto you , while J was yet with you ; that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Jaw of

    Moses , and in the prophets , and in the Psalms concerningmne /** According * o the hypothesis of the late Bishop of St . Asapn , the reading should be , * whifch Wieri 2 written in all , or nearly off the Psaf tfis . " No supposition can

    lie more arbitrary than what is here f&vmcd by * this writer ; it has neither external testimony nor intrinsic prolia&iitty for it ' s oasts ^ but contradicts botlf . Tb ^ e prelate ' s language betra ) 's the w ^ a ^ nes ^ of hi ^ hypothesis . Is it cowebaUe UiM Dr . Horsley and the adf ^ gfs oL his mystical exposition s | 3 # r 1 Ufce nol qC the" dullness of the 4 a <^ iktiss of th « natural man upo n spiritual subj « c ^ iit ? Or -is it onl y when * ' the peau ^ rcat ^ r ejc ^ ni iTi es the PsafimSi " wrds the view of finding his SfliviMr . " Hiat he will discover ** in

    ewtfry fNlge ^ of 1 > ook ° the object of l ^ s tothfcr lTroftj 53 cs to be better ac-^ i ^ eo ^^ pn pwcidmgtranslators and awSMtiP * % m **™ & <*; - ** adOi 3 ail /'» ic fffl ^ m in tftki 9 suft&EMMr l ^ aow ¦ ww ¦ ¦

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    l ^ dge and discernment ? His assertions a *« s peremptory and unqualified , ay what eVide ^ se does he es tablish theqp ? We perceive none : and we are oot yet prepared foT subscribing implicitly to the dogmata of JBishap Horstey , it is not oar practice to search for reconditei senses when the signification is direct and obvious . - No presumption can well be stronger than that the Psalms of David , Asapb ,, &c . relate ; , for * the

    most part , either to the individual history of those author ? or to the state of the . civil and religious eommdnity of which they were members . ' This cob * ^ de ration therefo re affords a general rale for interpreting them : a ^ nd with this principle theeicceptipns to it must not be confounded , ^ he exnositlaps

    offered by Dr . H . are almost completely mystical and allegorical : a , pcj when Fane / thus usurps the province of a sound and sober Judgment , the Scriptures have no longer a precise and definite meaning , bwt are made to speak a various and even discordant language , according to the Imagination of * the

    reader * WiUi no propriety does this translator lay stress on the terms in which "King David , at the close of hts life , describes himself and . his sacred songs : " — * David , the son of Jesse , said , and the man who was raised upon high , the anointed of the God of Jacob , and the ;

    sweet Psalmist of Israel , said , the spirit of Jehovah spake by me , and his word ^ Vas in jny tongue . ** " It was xHe wford , therefore , of Jehovah ' spirit which was uttered by David ' s tongue . But it should seem ihe spirit of Jehovah would not be wanting to enable a mere man to make complaint of his

    own enemies , to describe his awn sufferings jysl as he Jilt them , and his own escapes just as they happened . " Here Bishop Horsley arbitrarily takes for granted that in thia passage David asserts the general inspiration of his sacred poems ; though the claim Is manifestly ' restricted to the prophetic

    effusion of which the ' se verses' are the preamble . That the Psahps are misppplied to " the literal Da > id , " has / fipt yet Be ^ xi shewn : and it is our , firiri lie j [ jef that a myjjU ^ alexposi-fiori of ^ erotia& ^ een , vdatkxn . ' , . . .. . ^ - ' ' '• s * sdB . jaiii . 1 , 8 :

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    Mm **» . —J& > hap Hcrsiey ' a mtmskttton tf &e Book of Psalms . 41

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1817, page 41, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2460/page/41/