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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.
But R. Solomon supposing the Psalm to be Written in the Time of the Chaldean Captivity, the Temple then in Ruins, might have the Fowls lodging there. What we render, A Swallow, does as Bochart proves, property intend the Ring-Dove, or the Turtle.
5 q. d. Happy the Man who relying on the Divine Protection, [Exod. XXXIV, 24.] goes up Three Times a Year, to the Solemnities at Jerusalem. Or, when he is debarred of that Liberty, as I now am, is one of those devout Persons, whose Hearts are more in the ⟨p. 224⟩High-ways that lead thither, than at their own home; who travelling through the troublesome Valley of Bacah, where there is no water, pass it as cheerfully, as if it abounded with Springs; depending on God the Fountain of all they want, for Showers to refresh them in their Journey. The Patrician Paraphrase.
5 q. d. Happy the Man who relying on the Divine Protection, [Exod. XXXIV, 24.] goes up Three Times a Year, to the Solemnities at Jerusalem. Or, when he is debarr'd of that Liberty, as I now am, is one of those devout Persons, whose Hearts are more in the ⟨p. 224⟩High-ways that lead thither, than at their own home; who travelling through the troublesome Valley of Bacah, where there is no water, pass it as chearfully, as if it abounded with Springs; depending on God the Fountain of all they want, for Showers to refresh them in their Journey. The Patrician Paraphrase.
6 It may also be rendered, The Teacher is filled with Blessings.