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Excerpt from The Witness of the Psalms to Christ and Christianity: Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year 1876, on the Foundation of the Late Rev. John Bampton, M.A., Canon of Salisbury
A City Psalm lxxxvu. Discussed - Sion a prophetic word for the Church Prophecy of the Church's Catholicity, and of entrance into her by a new birth The City - Sion or J erusalem-the type of the Church in her objectivity in the Psalter Calvin upon the 48th Psalm ii. The Church a Kingdom in the Psalms Psalm lxxii. Delineation of the in?uence of Christianity in it The Church an organised body - David's kingdom ennobled and transformed Psalms of Israel's National History are thus not 'effete or superannuated in the Christian Church 1. The National History of Israel marked by facts which become typical and predictive, and pass with a fixed significance into the spiritual language of the Christian Church Hence the Psalms, as being Divinely pre-arranged, allow a considerable space for the History of the elder Dispensation - Psalm cxiv. - Rosen miiller and Dante 2. Transfer to Christianity of permanently valuable elements of Judaism iii. The Church a Bride in the Psalms II.
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