" Rom. xii. 20, 21. " Matt. vi. 14.
P Isai. xliii. 2. *> Rev. vii. 14, 15.
THE king's accession.
Ps. Ixxi. 7 — ?. I (i^n as a wonder unto many: hut thou art tny strong refuge. Let my mouth be Jilled with thy praise and ivith thy honour all the day. Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not, when my strength faileth.
THIS day being called The Jubilee, it will be pro- per to inform you whence that name is given to it. By the Mosaic law, every seventh year was a sab- batical year, or year of rest. At the end of the seventh sabbatical year, that is the 49th, there was a year of univ^ersal rest, not to the land only, but to persons of every description: debtors were re- leased, captives liberated, and inheritances restored. This was, as might be expected, a season of peculiar joy. The connexion between that day, and this which we now celebrate, is only in the time, the grounds of joy being altogether different. We are called to celebrate the fiftieth year of our Monarch's reign. On this account, I have chosen a subject which I consider as more appropriate to the occa- sion. The psalm before us was written (we appre- hend) after Absalom's rebellion. In discoursing on that portion of it which we have read to you, it will be proper,
I. To consider it in reference to David —
Absalom being dead, and the rebellion suppressed.