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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.
THE Term which we render, To the chief Musician, may be rendered also, To, or, For the End. An Intimation, that these things are eminently calculated for that Period, which is called, The Time of the End.
THE Term which we render, To the chief Musician, may be rendred also, To, or, For the End. An Intimation, that these things are eminently calculated for that Period, which is called, The Time of the End.
2 Sons of Men; especially means the Rulers of the People. [See Psal. LVIII. 1.] The Son of Man, (when the word Adam is used,) means the Greatest of Men. [See Isai. LI. 12.] The Hebrews call the chief of any Kind, by the Name of the whole Kind. Man is called Creature. Son of Man is the Chief among the Sons of Men. Ezekiel and Daniel were acknowledged very Great Men, by this Appellation.
4 It may be read, Are ye Angry? (That I have the Kingdom?) yet do not Sin; have a care what you do. Munst•r notes here, An Admonition to tremble at ⟨p. 8⟩Enmity and Rebellion against the CHRIST of God and suppress the first rising of all thoughts that have such a tendency.