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Psalterium Americanum. The Book of Psalms, in a translation exactly conformed unto the original;…
Psalterium Americanum. The Book of Psalms, in a translation exactly conformed unto the original; but all in blank verse. : Fitted unto the tunes commonly used in our churches. Which pure offering is accompanied with illustrations, digging for hidden treasures in it; and rules to employ it upon the glorious and various intentions of it. : Whereunto are added, some other portions of the sacred Scripture, to enrich the cantional.
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland for B. Eliot, 1718
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.
WHY may not the Psalm refer to the History in, 2 Chron. XX. The Coming of the Kings against Jehoshaphat, with an intention to fall upon Jerusalem? The more Prophetic Seers, here behold the Ruin of the Turks, when they come to assault the Israelites, after they return into their Country; And suppose it explained in the XXXVIII, and XXXIX of Ezekiel.
WHY may not the Psalm refer to the History in, 2 Chron. XX. The Coming of the Kings against Jehosaphat, with an intention to fall upon Jerusalem? The more Prophetic Seers, here behold the Ruin of the Turks, when they come to assault the Israelites, after they return into their Country; And suppose it explain'd in the XXXVIII, and XXXIX of Ezekiel.
2 Pliny describing some of the most eminent Cities in the World, yet prefers Jerusalem; calling it, Longo clarissimans Urb•um Orientis.
7 Such was their Consternation, that it surprised them, not only as Anguish does a Woman in Travail; but also as Mariners, when a Fleet of Ships richly laden from Tarshish, is broken in pieces. Whether Jehoshaphat improved his Deliverance with due Thankfulness or no, yet quickly after this, he had a Fleet exactly in this Condition. [2 Chron. XX. 37.]
7 Such was their Consternation, that it surpriz'd them, not only as Anguish does a Woman in Travail; but also as Mariners, when a Fleet of Ships richly laden from Tarshish, is broken in pieces. Whether Jehoshaphat improved his Deliverance with due Thankfulness or no, yet quickly after this, he had a Fleet exactly in this Condition. [