AN

EXPLANATION

OF THE

PSALMS,

AS READ IN THE

LITURGY OF THE CHURCH.

BY THE

REV. JAMES SLADE, M.A.

VICAR OF BOLTON, AND PREBENDARY OF CHESTER.

S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL.

1832.

277.

GILBERT and RIVINGTON, Printers, St. John's Square.

PREFACE.

THIS work was originally intended and undertaken for the benefit of Sunday Schools, but it may be found especially useful in families; for it is probable that the subject and bearing of many of the Songs of Zion, as well as many expressions in them, are in general but imperfectly understood: and it is needful that we should "sing with the spirit, and sing with the understanding also." 1 Cor. xiv. 15. If, therefore, on each Sunday, the Psalms for the day be read with this explanation, before going to church, it may be a means, under God's blessing, of exciting a better attention to them, and of enabling some to derive a greater advantage from this important part of our admirable Liturgy. To those families, moreover, in which the reading of a portion of Scripture is happily combined with domestic worship, this manual may afford a seasonable help and service.