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 influence 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.