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How sweetly do these words become Christ! but who, except Christ, could ever use them? One might be led to conclude, from the very many similar examples we meet with in the book of Psalms, that this precious book of God would be more generally regarded than it is, by those who are in the habit of frequently reading it, as speaking in the person of Christ. Who, for instance, that reads the fifteenth Ps 1-150 where the speaker saith, I will wash mine hands in innocency, so will I compass thine altar, O Lord; who would possibly conceive that any man should be so blind as to fancy that any, but the ever blessed Jesus, could assume such language? Reader! I know not what views you may have hitherto taken up with; of moral goodness among men; but pray God to give you in due season a real conviction of heart, that nothing short of the righteousness of Jesus can correspond to such language, and therefore none but Jesus can be supposed to say, I have done judgment and justice. How Jesus longed for the salvation of his people, every part of his ministry manifested; so that when he said, "his eyes failed for it, " it showed the love he had to his redeemed. And how his holy soul delighted in glorifying his Father's laws, and in magnifying that law, and making it honourable! Sweet and precious consideration to the minds of his people!