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LECTURE XXV.

The Christian "altar" which "we have ": Heb. xiii. 10, x. 14, viii. 5, ix. 9. Judaizers and sacerdotalists excluded from it. Two 'altars,' Ps. lxxxiv. 3. David's yearning for the spiritual altar, accessible everywhere: Ezek xi. 16, Phil. iii. 3. "Without the camp," Heb. xiii. 13: leaving behind worldly formalism, and sensuous worship, and an earthly altar. The sparrow and swallow could not with safety build in the outer altar, and had no access to the inner. God's altar is to the believer the only secure resting-place for his soul, as the nest is to the parent bird the shelter where she keeps her loved young: Ps. lxxiv. 19. Two altars that of atonement, Heb. ix. 22, x. 17, 18. None must claim the exclusive priesthood of the Lord Jesus: 1 Tim. ii. 5 : intercession. The future restoration of the fallen tabernacle of David, and consequent conversion of the Gentiles, Acts xv. 17. The King-priesthood: Zech. vi. 13. Sister Psalms, xlii., xliii. The Lord's 'highways,' ver. 5 : Isa. xl. 3. "The valley of Baca," ver. 6 : Isa. xii. 3, xli. 18, with 2 Sam. xv. 30. "The early rain covereth it with blessings": 2 Chr. xx. 26. By "the sons of Korah" after Psalms by Asaph, so 2 Chr. xx. 14-19. "Doorkeeper in the house of my God," ver. 10, with 1 Chr. ix. 19, xxvi. 12-19. Contrast to Korah's pride and fall. “The tents of wickedness," with Num. xvi. 26. Pages 213–222

LECTURE XXVI.

Psalm lxxvii. (16, 17, 19) copied by Habakkuk ; iii. (8-10, 15), ii. 20, with ver. 13. Grief for the captivity of the ten tribes. "Refused to be comforted," ver. 2, with Gen. xxxvii. 35. "Thou hast redeemed the sons of Jacob and Joseph," with Zech. x. 6. Joseph, "the shepherd and stone of Israel," Gen. xlix. 24, God's way to be known "in the sanctuary" (ver. 13, 19): will find a way in the sea for His "ransomed to pass over." Ps. lxxx.: the Lord's

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Former part of title of Ps. lxxxviii. included lxxxix. Its second part, "Maschil of Heman," etc., belongs to lxxxviii. "Maschil of Ethan," etc., to lxxxix. Shir, "song of joy," refers to the joy in lxxxix.: "I will sing (a-shir-ah), etc., the perpetuity promised to David's kingdom; after the gloom of lxxxviii. The gloom of the close of lxxxix. answers to this. Messiah's gloom introduces the joy: Heb. xii. 2. Just after Josiah's fall. 'Wroth with Thine anointed made void the covenant. . . not made him to stand in the battle. .. · profaned his crown to the ground made his glory to cease... throne... youth shortened. . . shame, ver. 39-45, with 2 Chr. xxxiv. 31, xxxv. 20-24. two Psalms specimens of the mourning for Josiah, thirty-nine years old, Jehoahaz twenty-three, when removed: 2 Chr. xxxvi. 1-4. Mahalath Leannoth, "sickness of affliction": Ps. liii., Isa. i. 5. Praise-song the comfort of the sorely afflicted: Maschil, Pour out griefs before God. "Ethan," or Jeduthun, and "Heman," prefixed by way of honour. Sons of Korah real authors. Ps. xxxix., title. Ezrahite, I Chr. ii. 6. Zerah of Judah: they dwelt there; by birth Levites: Judges xvii. 7, 1 Kings iv. 31. "God of my salvation" (ver. 1) shuts out despair. Lamentation for Josiah a proverb: Zech. xii. II, Lam. iv. 20. "I am shut up. cannot come forth" (ver. 8), with Jer. xxxvi. 5. "Afflicted from my youth" (ver. 15): by Pharaoh; now again in advanced years. "Free among the dead-in the grave" (ver. 5, 6, 10, 11), severed as a leper type of Messiah "cut off," Isa. liii. 8, 12. "My soul is full (to overflowing) of troubles," ver. 3, with Matt. xxvi. 38. His desertion secures our never being deserted: ver. 8, 18, with Heb. xiii. 5. "Show wonders to the dead," ver. 10, with John v. 28. Ps. lxxxix., of the perpetuity of David's seed: Messiah. Josiah's fall: Israel's comfort in remembering Pharaoh's overthrow. “Who ... can be compared to Jehovah?" with Ex. xv. II. Rahab, again oppressing Israel by Necho (ver. 10), to be slain himself "Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound" (ver. 15) with 2 Chr. XXXV. I-17. "Our shield is of Jehovah, and our King is of the Holy One": Ps. xlvii. 9. "Thy pious ones," or "pious one" (ver. 19): Israel or David. Messiah the Antitype found,' ver. 20: Job xxxiii. 24. God's "hand

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LECTURE XXIX.

Pss. xcii.-c. Messianic. Coming kingdom: consolation against the coming Babylonian captivity. Sennacherib's overthrow an earnest: Isa. xxiv. 19-23, Rev. xi. 15, 17, xix. 6. Temple still standing: Ps. xcix. 1, 5. "Jehovah sitteth between the cherubim. .. Worship toward His footstool-He is holy" Rome's perversion: Ps. v. 7. Second commandment. xcii. 1-3: Good to praise Jehovah with the instruments of the sanctuary: doubts from the world-power's oppression cleared there: lxxiii. 17. Central thought, "Thou, Jehovah, art height for evermore," ver. 8. Same truth taught by

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Ps. cxix., after Hallel, sermon on Ps. i. I, 2. The law its theme. eight verses in each of twenty-two Hebrew letters. Ezra author: Israel the speaker, witness for God, ver. 23, 46, 161, Dan. iii. and vi.; Zerubbabel and Jeshua, Ezra i. 3, 5, 8, v. 11-17, vi. 1-15, vii. 6-28, viii. 22; Ezra and Nehemiah, Neh. ii. 3-10, 19, 20, xiii. II. "Almost consumed," ver. 87. "I have sworn ... keep Thy judgments," ver. 106, with Nehemiah ix. 38, x. 29. 'Quickening' from affliction, ver. 17, 25, 26, 32, 39, 40, 50, 51, 65,