_Brief Suggestions as to the Christian Use of each Psalm_ The following suggestions, which follow the lines of the preceding lectures, do not claim any special authority, except in cases noted, where the New Testament or the Church's actual use has appropriated a Psalm to some particular Christian application. PSALM i. _Beatus vir_ The Church's witness to the blessedness of the life of holiness, based on obedience to the revealed Word of God (the great example of which is the life of Christ Himself); with which is contrasted the eternal failure of the ungodly. PSALM ii. _Quare fremuerunt gentes?_ Acts iv. 25-28. Easter Day, morning (Prayer Book) The futile warfare of the princes of this world against Christ and His Church. The certainty {108} of Christ's victory and His universal kingdom, as seen in His Resurrection and Ascension. PSALM iii. _Domine, quid multiplicati?_ [Introit for Second Mass on Easter Day, in 1549 Prayer Book] Christ's victory in His Resurrection over all His enemies; the blessedness of His Church. PSALM iv. _Cum invocarem_ The deliverance of Christ from the contradiction of sinners. The Church's certainty of salvation in Christ, both in this life and in that which is to come, contrasted with the doubts and uncertain riches of the world. [One of the Compline Psalms, in which the Christian commends himself to sleep in Christ.] PSALM v. _Verba mea auribus_ A Psalm illustrating the life of prayer, public and private; witnessing to prayer and meditation as the source of inward strength and guidance, both in the life of Christ and in that of His people, in the face of this world's treachery and cruelty. [One of the Psalms for the Dirge (whence it derives its name, ver. 8, "Dirige"), referring to God's leading the departed soul through the attacks of evil spirits to its rest in Him.] {109} PSALM vi. _Domine, ne in furore_ Ash Wednesday, morning (Prayer Book) The prayer of the human soul suffering the temporal punishments, bodily and mental, of sin. Christ Himself endured these sufferings to the utmost, not for Himself, but for His people, and in this sense it, with the other penitential Psalms, may be called a Psalm of the Incarnation. PSALM vii. _Domine, Deus meus_ The declaration of the Innocency of Christ against the persecution and treachery of His enemies; His appeal to the Father's justice. PSALM viii. _Domine, Dominus noster_ Heb. ii. Ascension Day, morning (Prayer Book) The glory of God's Name (or revelation of Himself) in nature and in the Incarnation. The triumph and universal empire of Christ as the Son of Man, and the Second Adam. PSALM ix. _Confitebor tibi_ Thanksgiving for the triumph of God's righteousness in Christ, which is the pledge of the future destruction of all evil. PSALM x. _Ut quid, Domine?_