THE PSALMS.

THE PSALMS. Composed upon particular occasions, yet designed for general use; delivered out as services for Israel | ites, under the Law, yet no less adapted to the circumstances of Christians under the Gospel; com municating truths which philosophy could never in vestigate, in a style which poetry could never equal; | while history is made the vehicle of prophesy, and | creation lends all its charms to paint the glories of | redemption. Calculated alike to profit and to please, they inform the understanding, elevate the affections, and entertain the imagination. Indited under the | influence of Him to whom all hearts are known and | all events are known, they suit mankind in all situa |tions—grateful as the manna which descended from heaven, and conformed itself to every palate. The |fairest productions of human wit, after a few peru sals, like gathered flowers, wither in our hands, and lose their fragrancy; but those unfading plants of Paradise become, as we are accustomed to them, still more and more beautiful; their bloom appears to be daily heightened, fresh odours are emitted, and new sweets extracted from them. He who has once tasted their excellences will desire to taste them again, and he who tastes them often, will relish them best.—Bishop Horne.