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have
been composed shortly before the captivity of Judah.
[Footnote 1: According to Bishop Horne, the allusion is to the
destruction of Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea.--Ed.]

PS. LXXXII. vv. 6-7.
The reference which our Lord made to these mysterious verses, gives
them an especial interest. The first apostasy, the fall of the angels, is,
perhaps, intimated.

PS. LXXXVII.
I would fain understand this Psalm; but first I must collate it word by
word with the original Hebrew. It seems clearly Messianic.
PS. LXXXVIII.
vv. 10--12.
'Dost than shew wonders among the dead, or shall the dead rise up
again and praise thee?' &c.

Compare Ezekiel xxxvii.

PS. CIV.
I think the Bible version might with advantage be substituted for this,
which in some parts is scarcely intelligible.
v. 6.
'the waters stand in the hills.'
No; 'stood above the mountains'. The reference is to the Deluge.

PS. CV.
v. 3.
'Let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.'
If even to seek the Lord be joy, what will it be to find him? Seek me, O
Lord, that I may be found by thee!

PS. CX.
v. 2.
'The Lord shall send the rod of thy power out of Sion'; (saying) 'Rule',
&c.
v. 3. Understand:
'Thy people shall offer themselves willingly in the day of conflict in
holy clothing, in their best array, in their best arms and accoutrements.
As the dew from the womb of the morning, in number and brightness
like dew-drops; so shall be thy youth, or the youth of thee, the young

volunteer warriors.'
v. 5.
'He shall shake,'
concuss, 'concutiet reges die iræ suæ,'
v. 6. For
'smite in sunder, or wound, the heads;'
some word answering to the Latin 'conquassare'.
v. 7. For 'therefore,' translate 'then shall he lift up his head again;' that is,
as a man languid and sinking from thirst and fatigue after refreshment.
N.B. I see no poetic discrepancy between vv. 1 and 5.

PS. CXVIII.
To be interpreted of Christ's church.

PS. CXXVI.
v. 5.
'As the rivers in the south.'
Does this allude to the periodical rains? [1]
As a transparency on some night of public rejoicing, seen by common
day, with the lamps from within removed--even such would the Psalms
be to me uninterpreted by the Gospel. O honored Mr. Hurwitz! Could I
but make you feel what grandeur, what magnificence, what an
everlasting significance and import Christianity gives to every fact of

your national history--to every page of your sacred records!
[Footnote 1: See Horne in loc. note.--Ed.]

ARTICLES OF RELIGION.
XX.
It is mournful to think how many recent writers have criminated our
Church in consequence of their own ignorance and inadvertence in not
knowing, or not noticing, the contra-distinction here meant between
power and authority. Rites and ceremonies the Church may ordain 'jure
proprio': on matters of faith her judgment is to be received with
reverence, and not gainsaid but after repeated inquiries, and on weighty
grounds.
XXXVII.
It is lawful for Christian men, at the commandment of the magistrate, to
wear weapons, and to serve in the wars.
This is a very good instance of an unseemly matter neatly wrapped up.
The good men recoiled from the plain words:
'It is lawful for Christian men at the command of a king to slaughter as
many Christians as they can!'
Well! I could most sincerely subscribe to all these articles.
September, 1831.

NOTES ON HOOKER. [1]
'LIFE OF HOOKER' BY WALTON.
p. 67.

Mr. Travers excepted against Mr. Hooker, for that in one of his
sermons he declared, 'That the assurance of what we believe by the
word of God, is not to us so certain as that which we perceive by sense.'
And Mr. Hooker confesseth he said so, and endeavours to justify it by
the reasons following.
There is, I confess, a shade of doubt on my mind as to this position of
Hooker's. Yet I do not deny that it expresses a truth. The question in my
mind is, only, whether it adequately expresses the whole truth. The
ground of my doubt lies in my inability to compare two things that
differ in kind. It is impossible that any conviction of the reason, even
where no act of the will advenes as a co-efficient, should possess the
vividness of an immediate object of the senses; for the vividness is
given by sensation. Equally impossible is it that any truth of the
super-sensuous reason should possess the evidence of the pure sense.
Even the mathematician does not find the same evidence in the results
of transcendental algebra as in the demonstrations of simple geometry.
But has he less assurance? In answer to Hooker's argument I say,--that
God refers to our