“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?” Verse [10]: “Be wise, now therefore, O ye kings; be instructed ye judges of the earth.”
[Psalm xlv, 1]—The majesty and Grace of Christ’s Kingdom.
“My heart is inditing a good matter; I speak of the things which I have made touching the king; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.”
Verse [10]—The Duty of the Church, etc.
“Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house.”
[Psalm xlvi, 1]—Confidence Which the Church, etc.
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”
[Psalm xlvii]—The Nations are Exhorted Cheerfully to Entertain the Kingdom of Christ.
[Psalm xlviii]—The Ornaments and Privileges of the Church.
In not one of these Psalms is there the slightest allusion to a church. It is the extravagant language of an exuberant mind, the outcome of an overwrought imagination upon the subject he was thinking about.