SOLD BY COWIE AND CO., IN THE POULTRY: WHERE ALSO MAY BE HAD COPIES OF THE SELECTION OF PSALMS. 1834. [Entered at Stationers' Hall.] NOTES. Ps. i. p. 1. The happiness of the godly. V. 1. The Psalter, like the sermon on the mount, openeth with a "Beatitude," for our comfort and encouragement, directing us immediately to that happiness, which all mankind, in different ways, are seeking and inquiring after. Horne. v. 3. Good men are often compared in Scripture to trees; but they are such trees, as not only bear fruit, but are ever-greens: "His leaf," saith the Psalmist, "shall not wither." But the wicked who live without God in the world, are likened to trees in the winter, which have neither fruit nor leaves; yea, to trees "withered and dead, even twice dead, and plucked up by the roots."* They are also compared (here in our Lessont) to a garden in a scorching summer, which hath no water. Divine Grace is the water of life, and the life of the soul. To this it is that we owe the root, the flower, and fruits, of all good works. Without this, the very leaf, and appearance of virtue, fadeth away, and nothing grows. Wogan. Ps. viii. p. 1. v. 2. Hosanna of the children. This verse is cited by our Lord, Matt. xxi. 16. and applied to little "children in the temple, crying, Hosanna to the Son of David!" which vexed and confounded his malignant adversaries. Horne. p. 2. An Evening Meditation. v. 3, 4. At the time of inditing this Psalm, David is evidently supposed to have had before his eyes the heavens, as they appear by night. He is struck with the awful magnificence of the wide extended firmament, adorned by the moon walking in brightness, and rendered brilliant by the vivid lustre of a multitude of shining orbs, differing from each other in magnitude and splendour. And when, from surveying the beauty of heaven, with its glorious show, he turns to take a view of the creature man, he is still more affected by the mercy, than he had before been by the majesty, of the Lord: since far less wonderful it is, that God should make such a world as this, than that He, who made such a world as this, should be "mindful of man," in his fallen estate ; and should "visit" human nature with his salvation. Ps. cxlvi. p. 2. God only worthy to be trusted. v. 3. From Him who is "the prince of |