BOOK I.-The Genesis of the Psalms. (Ps. 1:-41:)- Christ the basis of blessing for His people (Israel).

BOOK II.-The Exodus. (Ps. 42:-72:)-Their ruin, and redemption in grace in the latter days.

BOOK III.-The Leviticus. (Ps. 73:-89:)-The holiness of God in His dealings with them.

BOOK IV.-The Numbers. (Ps. 90:-106:)-The Perfect Man replacing the failed first man, and the earth committed to His charge. –

BOOK V.-The Deuteronomy. (Ps. 107:-150:)-The moral conclusion as to the divine ways.

BOOK I.

Section 1. (Ps. 1:-8:)-Christ rejected by man, exalted by God; this characterizing and limiting His people's sufferings,

Section 2. (Ps. 9:-15:)-Antichrist and the enemies of the people set aside.

Section 3. (Ps. 16:-41:)-Christ amongst the people:in His life and sacrificial work; the basis of all blessing.

SECTION 1.

The counsels of God as to the exaltation of Christ, rejected of man, to the throne of David and of the world; and the connection of this with the deliverance of the remnant of Israel in the latter days, suffering and persecuted during the time of His patience; but whose sufferings give them needful exercise of soul, preparing them for final blessing.

(1) Ps. i, 2:-The blessing of those obedient in heart to the law, and believing in Christ, in contrast with the portion of the wicked who reject Him and perish by judgment when He comes. ' These two things,-the spirit of obedience and of faith,-are the prerequisites for blessing, not only for Israel, but for all. See as to Israel, Deuteronomy 30:1-3 ; and 18:18, 19.

(2) Ps. 3:-7:-Exercises of the remnant during the time of Messiah's rejection and patience, in the land, amid the mass of the ungodly; exercises which deepen continually in character, until they are completely searched out in the presence of God, and brought to reliance on divine mercy alone.

(3) Ps. 8:-Deliverance of the persecuted people, by the exaltation of the Lord as Son of Man to all authority, set over all God's works in the world to come, and making Jehovah's name excellent in all the earth.

PSALM I.

The blessing of the remnant, separated from the evil around, and in heart obedient to the law; in view of coming judgment, which will completely and forever separate.

Happy the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the seat of scoffers;

2. But in Jehovah's law is his delight; and in His law doth he meditate day and night.

3. He is even like a tree planted by the water-channels, which giveth its fruit in its season:his leaf also withereth not; and whatsoever he doeth he carrieth through.

4. The wicked are not so; but they are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

5. Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

6. For Jehovah knoweth the way of the righteous ; and the way of the wicked shall perish.