Psalms 71:11-24

I think it would be wrong to break the thread of this most beautiful address, and therefore I have preserved it entire. In any, and in every sense, whether we behold it as the words of Christ, or of David, or of any other follower of Jesus, the doctrine is the same; Christ and his righteousness, Christ and his salvation, are the righteousness and salvation of Jehovah. My righteousness (saith Jehovah) shall be forever, and my salvation from generation to generation; Isaiah 51:8. And elsewhere Christ is said to be Jehovah's salvation, unto the end of the earth; Isaiah 49:6. And what a blessed confirmation is this to the faith of the believer! Christ and his Father are one, in will, design, worship, salvation, and glory. Oh! Reader! may the Lord grant that you and I may feel truly interested in this divine truth, and manifest whose we are, agreeably to the words of the prophet: Surely shall one say, in the Lord have I righteousness and strength, even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory. Isaiah 45:24.