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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.
ILLUSTRATIONS on the LXVII. PSALM.
A Prayer for the Second Coming of the Messiah! We read, when the Ark was brought into the Tabernacle prepared for it, 2 Sam. VI. 18. David blessed the People, in the Name of the Lord. It is Dr. Patricks Conjecture, That he then pronounced the Psalm now before us; wherein he imitates the Form of Blessing which the Priests were to use on Solemn Occasions, [Numb. VI. 23, 24, 25.] He Prays that God would make them the Subjects and Samples of such Blessings, as might invite all Nations, to whom the fame thereof should come, to submit unto His Government.
2 Thy Way. Austin's Gloss is, Thy CHRIST.
6 Theodoret thinks the Increase, to be the Messiah. But is not the Messiah's Restoring of the Earth unto a Paradisaic State, here Insinuated? The Jews as is evident from R. David on