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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.
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.
6 Compare, 1 Sam. XIX. 10, 11. Take for once a Mystical Interpretation, and from the Hint learn to make more such on proper Occasions. Men are guilty of great Crimes, in their Younger Years. They reform those Crimes and live many Years unblemished. But if the work of Repentance in them, have not been a sincere and thorough work, they Return in the Evening to their old Crimes. God leaves them to some strange Infatuation; and in their Old Age, or in the Evening of their Lives, they fall into their Old Crimes again, with such Circumstances as exceedingly expose them.
6 Compare, 1 Sam. XIX. 10, 11. Take for once a Mystical Interpretation, and from the Hint learn to make more such on proper Occasions. Men are guilty of great Crimes, in their Younger Years. They reform those Crimes and live many Years unblemish'd. But if the work of Repentance in them, have not been a sincere and thorough work, they Return in the Evening to their old Crimes. God leaves them to some strange Infatuation; and in their Old Age, or in the Evening of their Lives, they fall into their Old Crimes again, with such Circumstances as exceedingly expose them.