N01640:1595
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 LXIX. PSALM.
WE have here a Prayer of the Messiah in His Humiliation. It foretells the Desolation of the Jewish Nation: But a Glorious Establishment.
4 Theodoret well considers our SAVIOUR, as paying a Debt, which was none of his own Contracting.
5 Munster notes; That some take it so; Thou knowest I have not been so foolish, as my Persecutors assert I have.—But there is no need of taking it so.
11 Was it not then become a Proverb, for the utmost Hatred or Contempt of any Man; I value him no more than I do David?