Psalterium Americanum. The Book of Psalms, in a translation exactly conformed unto the original;…

DE. Patrick thinks the Psalm was •enn• in the Time of Hezekiah; who wrote a Circular Letter unto the Tribes, especially Ephraim ••d M• nasseh, who were escaped out of the Hand of the Assyrian; that they would come to the House of GOD at Jerusalem. After this the Land was invade• an• sorely dis••r•ssed by Sennacherib; which was doubtless a grievous Discouragement unto them, who had •o•ned in the Reformation. This might move Asaph, most earnestly to beseech of GOD, that He would stir up Himself, before Ephraim and Manasseh, as well as Bond amin, (in which Tribe stood part of Jerusalem and the Temple•) and let them see by a Remarkable Deliverance, that their Zeal was acceptable to Him. These Three Tribes, may be also linked, because they were the Tribes, which together followed the Ark, and brought up the Rear in the Camp of Israel. The Greek expressly calls this, A Psalm concerning the Ass• rian. It is remarkable Hezekiah distressed by the Ass• rian, apples himself to GOD in the very Language […] the Psalm now before us. 2 Rin. XIX. 15, 16. Isa XXXVII. 16, 17. But in the midst of all, Behold t Jewish Nation under the oppression of the Roman Enpire (called the Wild-Boar, because it was one of t