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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.
WE have here a Prayer against the Enemies of the Church. The Term of, The God of Israel, invites us to think of the Jewish Nation groaning under the Oppressions of Antichristian the City in the Sixth Verse […] not Kome to be understood? ⟨p. 146⟩Compare, Numb. XXIV. 19. Good Old Arnobius has directed the Application of the Psalm to the Morals of Christianity. When the House of thy Body is besieged and beset by the Prince of this World, with Temptations, that thou mayst be taken and stain by the Sword of any Sin, 'tis now a time from the bottom of thy Soul to make these outcries.
WE have here a Prayer against the Enemies of the Church. The Term of, The God of Israel, invites us to think of the Jewish Nation groaning under the Oppressions of Antichristian the City in the Sixth Verse 〈…〉 not Kome to be understood? ⟨p. 146⟩Compare, Numb. XXIV. 19. Good Old Arnobius has directed the Application of the Psalm to the Morals of Christianity. When the House of thy Body is beseiged and beset by the Prince of this World, with Temptations, that thou mayst be taken and stain by the Sword of any Sin, 'tis now a time from the bottom of thy Soul to make these outories.
5 In R. David Kimchi, there is an admirable intimation, That the Psalmist here beholding the wickedness of Men, despairs of seeing a Good World, until the Day of Judgment. The Day of Judgment, or the time of the Messiah's Kingdom, is here Prayed for. At the Time when God shall thus visit all the Nations, He will eminently exhibit Himself as the God of Israel.