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Mr. Pitcairn quite subscribes to the double sense view of the interpretation of the Psalms, as

"expressive in their primary and literal meaning, of certain events in the history and experience, either of the individuals who were inspired to indite them, or of the Israelites, in their national capacity, as the chosen people of God; and that, in their spiritual and typical meaning, they reveal deeper mysteries and greater truths, which are applicable only to the Lord Jesus Christ, and to His true Church."

He accordingly declares his purpose to be,

66 First, To advert to those events and circumstances in the personal history of David to which the psalm has a reference; and, Secondly, To show how much more fully its wonderful contents find their accomplishment in that wonderful Personage, who was at once David's Son and David's Lord. In other words, we cannot do justice to the subject which claims our consideration, unless we view it both Historically and Prophetically.

Our expositor then proceeds, in six interesting chapters, to view David the Son of Jesse as Jehovah's Anointed, and dwells upon the vain confederacy of kings and peoples of the earth against the Lord's anointed King of Zion; the foundation of His kingdom upon the hill of Zion; the declaration that He is the Son of God; the promise to David of the inheritance of the earth; the promise of victory over every enemy; and the exhortation to kings and judges of the earth to submit to His authority.

All this was promised to David, and in his measure of an earthly kingdom, power and glory and dominion were given, and then David passed away, and the full, eternal, and more glorious interpretation of the Psalm, belongs to Him who was

at once David's Son and David's Lord.

Mr. Pitcairn deals with this, the prophetical view, in twenty chapters, in which he fully develops the perfect adaptation of every portion of the Psalm,-its declarations, its threatenings, its promises, its admonitions, and its song of triumph,-to the whole train of circumstances attendant on the first and second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ; and winds up with a conclusion, upon which, and other portions of the work, we must reserve our remarks until our next number.

"Zion's King" is no light volume which attracts and pleases the fancy, but it is a rich and instructive exposition of a Psalm full of glowing prosal dominion of Christ, and as such' phecy as to the kingdom and univerdeserves, and will well repay, more than one perusal.

VOICES OF THE DAY. By the REV. JOHN CUMMING, D.D., Fcap. 8vo, pp. 452. J. F. Shaw.

Another Work from the prolific and untiring pen of Dr. Cumming. The Scottish Doctor neither allows himself or his readers any rest, but pours upon the ever-growing number of his admirers, the rich and sweet treasures of a heart, mind, and voice, -all attuned to the service of our common Redeemer. In many an author it would be a dangerous experiment thus largely to verify the Royal Preacher's memorable warning, that "of making many books there is no end;" but in the case of Dr. Cumming, his friends abundantly contradict the remaining portion of the sentence, "that much" reading "is a weariness to the flesh." Doubtless the doctor's discretion will preserve him from sharing the too common danger of over-supplying the wants or ability of his readers,

"The night is far spent, the day is at hand;' this is the motto text with which Dr. Cumming opens his utterance of the "Voices of the Day."

"Amid much that is painful to the heart, and perplexing to the mind, it is

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delightful to know that the night to which such perplexities and pains are confined is far spent, and that the day that dissipates them all is close at hand. Scripture and the signs of the times so teach us."

In proof of this the author proceeds at page 8,—

"We may expect that just because the night is far spent, and the day is at hand, the conflict will become hotter,the evil for a season intenser, and trials multiplied thousandfold. Who can look back to the last five years and not see that we have scarcely passed a year without a special chastisement or judgment of God. In one year was the failure of the crops; in another year the failure of our commercial prosperity; in another the pestilence, that swept away eighteen thousand of this city alone; and in this year the irruption of a moral pestilence,-I use this expression not to offend those Roman Catholics who of course repudiate the charge, but because a time is come for us to tell them more emphatically than ever, what the Bible enunciates about their system!—and because the judgments denounced on it are about to descend-judgments from which I conjure them to escape as Lot from Sodom, lest they receive of its plagues. All these things indicate that the day is at hand. Ancient prophecies are nearly all fulfilled. The Apocalyptic vials are nearly all poured out. The seventh is pouring out, and its effects are felt in every land, and acknowledged by almost every interpreter of prophecy. The seventh trumpet has sounded, and its echoes are reverberating over all the earth. The seals have all been broken, and the mysterious contents are made known. The eve of the last conflict has come. Well drilled forces are mustering to the battle.

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own country is stirred at this moment to its depths, as if there were in its very conscience-in the national conscience

an instinctive premonition of what is speedily coming on the earth, and a moral sensibility, which makes me think more highly of this great country than I ever thought in my life. It has a perception clear and fixed, that the dismantler of the holy, the enslaver of the free, the shutter of

God's Word, is come amongst us to make his last, and I know it will not be his successful, stand for the night, in opposition to the breaking-day-for darkness, in opposition to light-for slavery, in opposition to freedom-for anti-Christ, in opposition to Christ. The night is far

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spent, the day is at hand.' phetic epochs, as well as Apocalyptic symbols, are all passing rapidly into fulfilment. The six thousand years of the world, to which the Jew attaches so much importance, are nearly closed,the year 1864 begins the seventh millenary of the world's history, which the Jew anticipates as the world's grand rest --the earth's holy and happy Sabbath. Perhaps some of us may live to see it. Perhaps some of us may never see death;

For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we that are alive at his coming shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air.""

May these "Voices of the Day," have the effect of leading some amongst us who may be taking dark and anxious views of the possible cloudy termination of a night of perplexity, to accept the bright and joyful anticipations of that morning dawn, which is to give to the Church of Christ, the long expected and watched - for glories of its Sun of Righteousness.

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SULTS. By WILLIAM DODSWORTH,
M.A. (Continued from
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In our former notice of this pamphlet, we pointed out that it ought to be considered in a twofold aspect,-in its reference to Tractarianism first, in which point of view we then considered it, and fully admitted that it was weighty and powerful; and secondly, its reference to Evangelical Christianity. On the pamphlet, considered in this view, we feel ourselves called upon, as we then stated, to make some additional remarks, - remarks which are demanded by our regard to Scriptural Truth.

Mr. Dodsworth's pamphlet is not addressed to those who hold Evangelical doctrines. Its primary object is not to assail them. Nevertheless, incidentally and by the way, he frequently aims at them a shaft or two,

in a manner that serves to illustrate that enmity against the Gospel which we may reasonably expect to find in any one who joins the great apostacy. For it is between that apostacy and the simple Gospel that the contest

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"Let us see where the conflict really

lies not between Rome, and Anglicanism which has nothing to say for itself; but between Rome, and those who will pronounce the chief bishop of Christ's Church to be antichrist; between Rome, and those who would involve thousands of saints in a system of IDOLATRY! between Rome and Evangelicalism, which, professing to rest on the Bible, repudiates the Church which gave it the Bible-and so at last between Rome and Infidelity, where I am persuaded the real conflict will be

found to be."

But

We quote this passage because, while it truly states the parties between whom the conflict lies, it also shews us clearly the animus of the man. The conflict is indeed "between Rome and Evangelicalism." what can be more false and wicked than to say the Church of Rome is "the Church which gave it the Bible," when it is notorious, that our having the Bible is in spite of the Church of Rome,- which kept the Bible from us as long as it could, and still wrests it from us wherever and whenever it can! and then to say, "and so at last between Rome and Infidelity"!! as if Evangelicalism (to use his own word) had any alliance or connexion with Infidelity! when it is notorious that Romanism and Infi

delity are very near akin; that they

work into one another's hands; that they can, and do, cordially unite in opposition to the Gospel (like the Pharisees and Sadducees of old); that a very large portion of the Romish clergy are mere infidels at heart; and, at this present moment, the Pope is upheld at Rome by the bayonets of

infidel France!!

One other passage we must quote, in order to shew the animus of the writer in regard to our Evangelical brethren. Having come to the conclusion that, as the result of those principles which he has long main tained, he must leave the Church of England and join that of Rome,-one might have supposed that he would be content to leave that Church, which he abandons as Protestant and here

tical, in the quiet and undisturbed possession of those who are Protestants indeed. But no. After long labouring, as it would seem, to quiet

his own uneasy conscience by pretending, or by endeavouring to persuade himself, that his opponents were as inconsistent as himself, he cannot even now confess his own past inconsistency and dishonesty, without an attempt to fix a similar charge upon them.

"The practical results which I mean to point out are those which affect the allegiance of Anglicans to the Established 'Church, and their continuance in it. The difficulties then involved in these results are such as will not be felt to be difficulties by the low-church school. Men of that party have indeed difficulties enough of their own-difficulties which one may suppose have risen to a climax, since after having expended the severest censures upon men who were driven to 'a non-natural sense' in their exposition of the articles,' they are compelled to adopt the very same 'figure of speech in their interpretation of the ritual of the Established Church.

"The recent decision in the Gorham case, however distressing to high-churchmen, can certainly be no triumph to those of the opposite school for it decides that the doctrine of 'baptismal regeneration,' considered by them as 'soul-destroying,' may be taught in the Church of England, as equally true, and of equal authority, with their own doctheir own principles, are put in a selftrine. In fact, both parties, if true to destructive position by this decision."

We should be glad to join issue with Mr. D. upon this passage, by entering into the question at much greater length than our limits will admit at present. But we will only ask, Does Mr. D. pretend to say, that the difficulties of Evangelical Churchmen are worthy to be named by the side of those which are, and must be, felt by Anglicans? What do they amount to? That, in the whole Prayer-book, there are perhaps some six or seven expressions, which many of them think might be altered or omitted with advantage; and that chiefly, because the Romanizing party in the Church have, for a long course of years, been labouring to fix upon

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them a Romish sense. We are not, of course, speaking for individuals, here and there, whose objections and difficulties have been cherished and multiplied to a far greater extent, and whom we must leave to answer for themselves. We speak in general terms of the Evangelical body,-very many of whom do not even go so far as we have stated,-do not wish for any alteration. And we say of them as a body, that all they desire is, that the principle so plainly enunciated in the Articles should be kept in constant remembrance in the administration of the sacraments: "in such only as worthily receive the same they have a wholesome effect or operation: but they that receive them unworthily purchase to themselves damnation, as Saint Paul saith." (Art. xxv.)

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Let this be kept in constant remembrance, both by ministers and people. Then observe (though too commonly it is most strangely overlooked) that our Church nowhere asserts "that every infant baptized by a lawful minister. is made by God, in such baptism, a member of Christ ;' "that all infants, so baptized, are born again of water and of the Holy Ghost. The language of our Church in her formularies is particular and individual. No man, be he bishop or what else, has any warrant to make that general or universal, which our Church makes only particular; and restrains, distinctly and emphatically, to those "that receive baptism rightly." (Art. xxvii.) The Services are constructed for those who receive the sacrament rightly. How could we construct a christian formulary for those who do not? Let then each individual examine himself whether he be in the faith, (2 Cor. xiii. 5)—or, in other words, whether he have worthily received that sacrament, or unworthily. If such self-examination be neither inculcated nor practised, the more scriptural and excellent our formularies are, the more will they be by multitudes profaned, and made a solemn mockery. It is nowhere asserted by our Church that "all infants are worthy recipients." To assert that all are so, is an unwarranted assumption, and sets aside the princi

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To say, then, that we adopt "a nonnatural sense, or any such ". 'figure of speech," is a mere slander. We only insist on the application of the principle asserted in our Articles, to limit the application of the words to those to whom alone they can by any possibility belong: that is to say, "to them that rightly, worthily, and with faith receive" the Sacrament of Baptism,-or, in other words, to them who fulfil the promises of faith and repentance which are made in their name. With regard to those who never fulfil those promises, we can only say, "they that receive the sacraments unworthily purchase to themselves damnation."

We might proceed: but this may suffice.

With regard to "the ritual of the Established Church,”—taken as a whole, the Tractarians, and not we, are the persons who interpret it in "a non-natural sense," in their constant endeavours to give it a Romish meaning, when in fact it is truly Protestant.

Again: "The recent decision in the Gorham case" does not decide, that the soul-destroying doctrine of baptismal regeneration may be taught in the Church of England. All that it decides is, that those who deny baptismal regeneration cannot be expelled from their livings, or position in the Church, as unfaithful to its doctrines. All other questions, that decision labours to leave (as far as direct assertion is concerned) just where it found them: but it proves that the doctrine of baptismal regeneration, which was asserted in the Articles of 1536 and 1543, is not the doctrine of the Church of England now; nor ever has been since the Articles of 1552 and 1562 were published and authorized. And what is this but proving, that the Evangelical doctrine on that subject, is the real doctrine of our Church? and that the Evangelical clergy are its only true and faithful ministers?

Moreover, if the Church had never pronounced a decision on the point,that is to say, if our twenty-fifth and twenty-seventh Articles were ex

punged, (which state the doctrine we maintain plainly enough,)—our position would be little affected by it. We do not, like the Tractarians, rely upon the authority of the Church; but of God's own word. So that, if the Church had pronounced nothing on this point, we should just fall back

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upon the Scriptures. We should say (as we do say), "To the law and to the testimony:" and we should set forth from that word,-as we are bound to set forth,-the truth of the Living God, and the guilt and condemnation of those who dare to darken or deny it.

Entelligence.

Ir the meetings of our various religious societies have not been so numerously attended as usual, it has not been from any diminution of interest or support, but must, we suppose, in some measure be ascribed to the novel attractions of the Great Exhibition. It is a matter for great thankfulness, that nearly all of the principal societies have had to report an increase of their funds, besides gratifying their supporters with satisfactory statements of their progress.

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

One of the principal points for notice in the anniversary of this noble Society, is the sermon by the able and excellent Bishop of Ossory, from Col. i. 18, "That in all things He might have the pre-eminence.' We presume not to detract from the unquestionable ability, and true christian fervour, which marked a sermon of unusual length and power; we could not, however, avoid feeling a little disappointment at the absence of much of that peculiar information and encouragement so naturally looked for in a missionary anniversary sermon.

Another point of interest occurred at the meeting, in which an unusual departure from the beaten track was made, by affording us a noble speech from Dr. Duff, of the Free Church of Scotland's missions. It is enough to say, that Dr. Duff gave the most unqualified satisfaction, by his generous testimony to the character and operations of the Society's missionaries, especially in the calumniated work of Tinnevelly..

The grand total of the income for the past year was reported at £112,252. 18s. 7d., being an increase

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We cannot conceal the strange feeling that takes possession of our mind, when we read the following brief mention of the opening of this anniversary meeting: "The Rev. C. Browne, one of the Secretaries of the Society, opened the proceedings by reading the fifty-fifth chapter of Isaiah." What a strange thing it is, that in a Society which meets to record its successful circulation of that word of God which teaches us in all things, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, to make known our requests unto God, there should still exist any barrier against the utterance either of a form, or the extempore offering, of prayer for the Divine blessing. The Society has made an admirable choice of a new President, in the person of the justly loved and honoured nobleman, Lord Ashley, in the room of the late venerable Lord Bexley. May his Lordship long be spared, to give the Society the benefit of his wise christian counsel and extensive influence. Dr. Duff was here again one of the chief attractions of the meeting, and gave it a most interesting state

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