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new. They find him now sitting on his father Da- vid’s throne and kingdom as the king of Zion, king of saints. “Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill Zion.” This was done in the covenant of grace, in the counsel of the Trinity from all eternity, as now still in prophetic language, until the fulness of the time should come; for, says he, “I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my son; this day I have begotten thee.”———Ps. ii: 6, 7. This is now the true David, the man according to God’s own heart—the former David was a type and personification of Christ, and in his typical character altogether characteristic of the true David, so that when God said, “I have found David, a man accord— ing to mine own heart,” he alluded in reality to his own Son Jesus Christ. This is the David promised in all the prophecies throughout, for the former David served his day and generation and fell asleep, and as a figure passed away, and therefore could not reign in Zion any longer, but the true David whom he represented abideth for ever. “For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck; and I will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall serve themselves no more of him: but they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their King whom I shall raise up unto them.” Jer. XXX28, 9. The allusion in that passage must surely be applied to the Lord Jesus Christ, the man according to God’s own heart, and not to the typical David: and to the condition of his gospel kingdom and reign, and to the character of

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