Ps. i. I — 4. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful : but his delight is in the laiu of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted hy the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season : his leaf also shall not wither ; and whatsoever he doeth shall pro- sper. 2Vie ungodly are not so.
THE Psalms were chiefly, though not exclusively, written by David : some were written, one at least, many hundred years before him ; and several many hundred years after him. It is supposed that Ezra reduced them to the order in which they stand. We are sure that, in the Apostle's days, the Second Psalm occupied the same place that it does now; because it is quoted by him as " the Second Psalm." They are quoted continually in the New Testament as inspired of God : and so fully do they speak of Christ, that an account of his life and death, his work and offices, might be compiled from them al- most as clearly as from the Gospels themselves. The psalm before us seems properly placed, as a kind of preface to the whole ; inasmuch as it con- tains a summary description of the righteous and the wicked, both in their character and end. We will consider,
I. The description of the godly —
We are not to expect in a composition of this kind VOL. IV. B a fujl