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liad been ouilty, and the dreadful punisbments and oppres- 

 sions they liad justly incurred, proceeds to commemorate the 

 deliverers whom God had raised up on their repentance, and 

 mentions himself as one, "who delivered them out of the 

 hand of their enemies, on every side, and yc dwelled safe." 

 If we look back to the history of the jurisdiction of Samuel, 

 we shall find a full and decisive paraj)hrase on this modest and 

 equitable panegyric, (7. 13.) "So the Philistines were subdued, 

 and they came no more into the coast of Israel, and the hand 

 of the Lord was against the Philistines, all the days of Samuel. 

 And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel 

 were restored to Israel from Ekron even unto Gath ; and the 

 coasts thereof, did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Phi- 

 listines. And there was peace between Israel and the A mo- 

 rites," In this, we have every possible character of a deliverer 

 and a Judge, distinctly enumerated, and we must equally ac- 

 knowledge the title of Samuel to that honourable distinction, 

 with that of David ; for the deliverance atchieved by David is 

 circumstantially detailed almost in the identical terms here 

 used. (28. 8. l.Chron. 18. 1.) 1 trust the arguments Vignoles 

 has urged for placing the jurisdiction of Samson after the 

 domination of the Philistines, will not now be insisted on. 

 Besides, the very same course of argument would prove, 

 that Saul was to consummate the deliverance of Israel, com- 

 menced by Samson, for (Saml. 9. l6.) the Lord addresses 

 Samuel, " I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, 



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