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The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith, or, One cast for eternity…
The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith, or, One cast for eternity with the only way to throw it well : as also the gracious persons incomparable portion / by George Swinnock ...The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith, or, One cast for eternity with the only way to throw it vvell : as also the gracious persons incomparable portion / by George Swinnock ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1662
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Chapter 1: The Preface, Division of the Psalm, and coherence of the Text.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1Its Title is, A Psalm of Asaph, or a Psalm for Asaph, saith Ainsworth. The original bearing both, causeth some difference among Expositors, whether Asaph were the Penman of it, or only the Musician to whom it was directed to be set and sung with the voice or instrument. That Asaph was a Prophet or Seer is plain, 2 Chron. 29.30. As also that he was a Singer, 1 Chron. 15.19. Mollerus thinketh Asaph the compiler of it. Calvin judgeth David. The matter is not much, for ⟨p. 3⟩whosoever of the two were the pen, the Spirit of God, which is called the finger of God, guided it, and wrote the Psalm.
1Its Title is, A Psalm of Asaph, or a Psalm for Asaph, saith Ainsworth. The original bearing both, causeth som difference among Expositors, whether Asaph were the Penman of it, or only the Musician to whom it was directed to be set and sung with the voyce or instrument. That Asaph was a Prophet or Seer is plain, 2 Chron. 29.30. As also that he was a Singer, 1 Chron. 15.19. Mollerus thinketh Asaph the compiler of it. Calvin judgeth David. The matter is not much, for ⟨p. 3⟩whosoever of the two were the pen, the Spirit of God, which is called the finger of God, guided it, and wrote the Psalm.
- 1Le Asaph, i.e. Asaphi vel Asapho, cum le inservit tum Genitivo tum Dative. A Lap. Existimant non nulli Psalmum hunc & caeteros qui sequuntur à Davide compositum. De ea re quanquam non dispute, tamen genus orationis in his Psalmis tale est ut appareat alium esse carminum horum Authorem quam Davidem. Moller. in Tit. Psal. 73. De Psalmi authore non auxie disputo, mihi verisimile est, quia canendi provincia mandata fuerit ipsi Asaphi, nomen ejus pony, praeterito Davidis nomine, sicuti res per se notae saepe taceri solent. Calvin in loc.