He takes his people's sins upon him, and they receive the right to become the sons of God: the One Spirit of God wherewith he was baptised without measure, dwells in them according to the measure of the grace that is given them. I will only add further, that this union, besides being implied on so many places, is expressly set forth in one most glorious Psalm -- the Nuptial Song of Christ and the Church -- which has for its peculiar theme the home bringing of Christ's elect, that they may be joined to him in a union that shall survive the everlasting hills. Heartless hymns are insults to heaven. Now, that there is formed between Christ and the church, between Christ and every soul that will consent to receive him, a connection, of which the most intimate of all natural relations is the analogue and type, we have already found to be not only taught in the Psalms, but to be implied in the very structure of many of them. But lest it should be misunderstood in a mere earthly sense, there is added for the sons of Korah-the authors of the psalm; as "for" l, (1) Inditing.—A most unhappy rendering of a word, which, though only used here, must, from the meaning of its derivative (a “pot,” or “cauldron”), have something to do with a liquid, and means either to “boil over” or to “bubble up.” The LXX. 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But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.” (Click Title To View) Psalm 01-10 Psalm 11-20 Psalm 21-30 Psalm 31-40 Psalm 41-50 Psalm 51-60 In "Christ set forth in all types, figures, and obscure places of the Scripture, by RICHARD COORE, 1683," there is an Exposition of this Psalm. By the Rev. To the tune of "Lilies." The subject matter of this Psalm is by the consent both of Jewish and Christian, ancient and modern, interpreters agreed to be the Messias, and his marriage with the church of God; of which it treats either. It is not always that the best of men are in such a key, and when they are they should not restrain the gush of their hallowed feelings. To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, a Song of loves. Psalm XLV applied to Messiah's First Advent, and Psalm XLV applied to Messiah's Second Advent, in pages 242-341, of The Anointed Saviour set forth as the Principal Object of Saving Faith. That the matter be good; and concerning the best of all subjects, touching the King. (1) The supreme beauty of the King (Psalms 45:1; Psalms 45:2); (2) the coming of the King in glory Psalms 45:3-5; Revelation 19:11-21. Proud member active, expert, is not proved by any of the passages brought in support of it. It is reported of Origen, saith Erasmus, that he was ever earnest, but most of all when he discoursed of Christ. "A song." Touching the king. The wedding was obviously that of a king (see Psalms 45:1, 11, and 14 and note the mention of a throne, a scepter, and majesty). DAVID PITCAIRN. Green transposes the clauses in this verse; making the words, I speak of the things, &c. the last clause; because, says he, the address follows in the very next words. I am full of my subject. I speak of the things which I have made touching the king] Or, I will speak in my works, that is, in this psalm, concerning the king, viz. By ANDREW WILLET. The psalmist singeth of the beauty of Christ above that of the children of men, Psalms 45:1,2; of his terribleness and conquest over his enemies, Psalms 45:3-5; of his everlasting throne, and unction above his fellows, Psalms 45:6-9. Psalm 45:14-15. Psalms 45:1 is an announcement of intention, a preface to the song; Psalms 45:3 adores the matchless beauty of Messiah; and from Psalms 45:3-9 , he is addressed in admiring ascriptions of praise. For the director of music. There is no mark of peculiarity in their composition. Scripture: Psalms 45:1-17. It tells us that he says things (with his *tongue) as easily as other people write things (with a pen). 2. My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer. boileth, or bubbleth up, like water in a pot over the fire. Ew. His *tongue is his pen! We are not to offer to the Lord that which costs us nothing. Victorinus Bythner. See App-65.loves. And, indeed, as the mariner sees further new stars the further he sails, he loseth sight of the old ones and discovers new; so the growing Christian, the further he sails in religion he discovers new wants, new Scriptures affect him, new trials afflict him, new business he finds with God, and forgetting those things that are behind, he reacheth after those things that are before, and so finds every day new business with the Lord his God; and he that's busy trifles not; the more business the less distractions. The word רחשׁ, rachash, here rendered is enditing, properly means boiling, or bubbling up, and is here used metaphorically, for meditating deeply, with fervour and vehemency, in allusion either to water boiled over a fire, or else springing forth from a fountain. It is a sad thing when the heart is cold with a good matter, and worse when it is warm with a bad matter, but incomparably well when a warm heart and a good matter meet together. ‘My heart overflows with a goodly matter; I speak the things which I have made touching the king. We have here no single cold expression; the writer is not one who frigidly studies the elegancies and proprieties of poetry, his stanzas are the natural outburst of his soul, comparable to the boiling jets of the geysers of Hecla. My tongue is the pen, &c. as if he had said, "I will recite what I have composed with so much fluency, as shall equal the style of the most skilful and diligent writer." This psalm is touching the King Jesus, his kingdom and government. Some would have it that instruments whereon were many engravings of lilies, which are six leaved flowers, are here meant. You are the most excellent of men and your lips have been anointed with grace, since God has blessed you forever. The city Shushan had its name from lilies there plentifully growing; as Rhodes from roses, Florence from flowers, &c. Maschil] It is not said, as elsewhere, of David; and yet some will have him to have been the penman, others Solomon, epitomizing his Book of Canticles; with which indeed it is of the self-same argument, viz. He professeth to be under divine teaching. From "Holy David and his old English Translators cleared," 1706. The Psalter, which sets forth so much truth respecting the person and work of Christ -- truth more precious than gold and sweeter than the honeycomb -- is not silent respecting the bond subsisting between him and his people, THE MYSTICAL UNION BETWEEN CHRIST AND THE CHURCH. 1. Only on the view that the marriage is that of King Messiah, the antitype of warlike David and of peaceful Solomon, to Israel and His Church, can the admission of an Epithalamium into the Canon be accounted for. Title. 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