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That the principal and ultimate Design of them was, to exhibit the Sufferings of CHRIST, and the Glory that fhould follow ;-in both which his Difciples are Sharers with him..

WITH A DIGRESSION ON BAPTISM; IN WHICH IS CONSIDERED,

The Subjects of it; the Mode of it; and the Meaning of that Expreffion,

"Buried with him in Baptifm."

TO WHICH ARE ANNEX ED,

Some Obfervations on the Work of the Holy Spirit; and the Difference between the Faith of GOD'S ELECT, and the Faith of DEVILS.

FROM THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.

John xviii. 38. Pilate faith unto him, what is Truth?

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xiv. 5. Thomas faith unto him, Lord, how can we know the Way?

6, Jefus faith unto him, I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life." Ifaiah viii. 20. To the Law, and to the leftimony; if they speak not according to this Word, is is because there is no Light in them.

Genefis ii. 15. I will put Enmity between thy Seed and her Seed.

xxiii. 17. And thy Seed thall poffefs the Gate of his Enemies.

Jude 22. 23. And of fonte have Compaffion, making a Difference; and others fave with Fear, pulling them out of the Fire.

1ft of Cor. ii. 13. Not in Words which Man's Wifdom teacheth; but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing fpiritual Things with spiritual.

BOSTON Printed by MILLS and HICKS, M,DCC,LXXIII

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Mrs. Ellen. P. Minecr Hlaverhill.

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AN ATTEMPT TO ILLUSTRATE

The great SUBJECT of the

P S A L M S.

In a LETTER to a FRIEND.

SIR,

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S the defign of the spirit of prophecy in the Pfalms appears to be generally very little understood, and is at the fame time very interesting; and as I know of nothing that has been publifhed among us in America that has a plain and eafy tendency thereto, I thought it might be of ufe to take this method to communicate to the public what appears evident by comparing the Pfalms one with another, and with the other fcriptures; in which I can at the fame time comply with queft, that I would communicate my thoughts to you upon them. And here I muft acknowledge, that I have been fomewhat affifted in my enquiry into the meaning of the Pfalms, by a book entitled, The Pfalter in its original form, &c. written by Mr. GEORGE FENWICK, B. D. Rector of Hallaton in Leicestershire, printed at London, in the year 1759. And if I fhould have occafion, in the following treatife, to make use of any thing from him, or from any others who are acquainted with the original languages in which the bible was at firft wrote, I fhall introduce it with, or annex to it, these words, it is faid, without any further reference thereto.

Whatever occurrences might take place with refpect to David, or the kingdom of Ifrael, as the occafion

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