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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 LXXIV. PSALM.
THE Spirit of Prophecy here livelily represents the state of the Jewish Nation, in their Dispersion under the Romans. Dr. Patrick thinks, the Asaph by whom the Psalm was written, lived in the time of the Captivity, and perhaps near the Conclusion of it, when there was no Prophet left, who could inform them, How Long! Was it not Asaph, the Keeper of the Kings Forest, in the days of Nehemiah?
3 q. a. Make haste and come and visit the Ruins that have lasted a long while, and without thy powerful help will never be repaired.
12 A Geographical Curiosity! The Land of Judea was in the middle of the then inhabited Earth. And this was the Stage whereon the Price of our Eternal Salvation was effected. Compare, Ezek. V. 5. Not only Casaubon finds that Land in the midst of the Seven Climates, then known, but Villalpandus with his Compasses finds it in the very Centre of the World. Kimchi has much this way: Especially on