Christ amongst the people; in His life and sacrificial work, the basis of all their blessing.

(1) Psalms 16:-24:-A Messianic group of nine psalms in three smaller ones of three psalms each, making the divine number very prominent in them.

1. 16:-18:-Christ seen as man, perfect in the path of faith and obedience; identifying Himself with the people, and identified with them by God.

2. 19:-21:-The godly by faith owning and identifying themselves with Him; the nineteenth psalm giving the previous and prefatory testimonies of creation and the law.

3. 22:-24:-The actual atoning work, and in its results in grace, present and final.

(2) Psalms 25:-39:- A group of fifteen remnant-psalms, the human (5) multiplied by the divine (3) number. These actually divide into three series of five psalms each. The grace now apprehended gives necessarily a new character to the experience here. The first series,-

1. 25:-xxix, gives the ground of the soul's confidence in God;

2. 30:-xxxiv, the joyful certainty therefore that, whatever the circumstances, God is for His saints; while-

3. 35:-39:shows the government of God over the righteous and the wicked, what is wrath for the latter becoming a holy discipline for the former.

(3) Psalms 40:and 41:-Two final psalms, give the perfection of holy obedience in Christ seen in the suffering of the cross, with the effect of unbelief or faith in Him.

Series I.-First Three.