N01640:1754
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.
2 Dr. Patrick will have our Asaph here, to be him in, 2 Chron. XXIX. 30. — and thinks the strange Destruction of Sennacherib's Army, referred unto. Here Hezekiah then resolves, as soon as they could have their Assemblies again, he would perfect the Reformation he had begun before.
2 Dr. Patrick will have our Asaph here, to be him in, 2 Chron. XXIX. 30. — and thinks the strange Destruction of Senacherib's Army, referr'd unto. Here Hezekiah then resolves, as soon as they could have their Assemblies again, he would perfect the Reformation he had begun before.
7 Some have had their witty Descants on the North, not being mentioned here. But is not the Word, which has been rendered, The South, rather to be read, The Wilderness? Which lay to the North as well as the South. Some have thus Descanted on it. The Orientals were generally given to Afarology. They took Promotion to come from the Stars; especially, The Sun. The Psalmist says, No; Promotion comes not from the Planet Rising and Setting, or exalted in the Mid-Heaven. From the North none expected it. Yea, and elsewhere we read, On the North was Mount ⟨p. 195⟩Zion, the City of the Great King. Here was the special Presence of the Great King from whom all Promotion.
7 Some have had their witty Descants on the North, not being mentioned here. But is not the Word, which has been rendred, The South, rather to be read, The Wilderness? Which lay to the North as well as the South. Some have thus Descanted on it. The Orientals were generally given to Afarology. They took Promotion to come from the Stars; especially, The Sun. The Psalmist says, No; Promotion comes not from the Planett Rising and Setting, or exalted in the Mid-Heaven. From the North none expected it. Yea, and elsewhere we read, On the North was Mount