The reader of the following pages will readily perceive that their chief aim is to trace the varied ways in which the Spirit of God has presented the adorable Person of the Saviour, under the different divine names employed by the pen of inspiration in the Psalms.
This theme, so fruitful of blessing, has been, however, little more than indicated; but in doing so it has become necessary to touch upon the prophetic place which the Psalms have, and their special application to the Jews and Israel, as the owned and responsible people of God on earth in the coming day.
Though this divine thought of restoring the so-loved, but now rejected, nation is familiar to many Christians, yet it will amply repay deep and prayerful study. Israel is the scene in which what God is, in the government of the world, is displayed; and the Psalms set forth the exercises wrought by His Spirit in the hearts of His saints as under that government, and as finally the glorious manifestation of it.
The forms which, according to the wisdom of God, His glory takes in connection with Israel and the government of the world, are thus brought before the soul of the believing Remnant, as subjects of faith and hope, and consequently of communion with God.
These revelations of the Divine Mind the writer has desired grace to note, together with the glimpses of heavenly and eternal hopes which faith enjoyed, as taught by the Spirit, beyond and above the privileges which formed Israel’s revealed and proper portion.
May the Lord use what is of Himself for the help and blessing of the assembly which is His Body, and may praise return to Him from hearts filled to overflowing with the joy of an ever deepening and fuller communion with Himself.