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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 LXXXV. PSALM.
THE Prophetic Spirit here Prays for the Israelites under the marks of the Divine Anger in their Dispersion, and comforts them with a Meditation on the Promises which GOD hath made by all the Prophets, to be one Day Reconciled unto them, and bring them again unto their own Land, and bless them under the Reign of the Messiah, abundantly and wonderfully.
8 Idolatry is emphatically Folly. It is Remarkable, The Jews have not relapsed into that Folly, since their Captivity in Babylon.
9 The Coming of the Messiah is thus looked for. Yea, the Words in the Original are, His JESUS is nigh them that fear Him. Glory.] Munster's Gloss is Excellent, Praesentia Divinae Majestatis incarnatae.
11 Some of the Jewish Rabbi's (as R. Hadarson, and R. Joden,) have here made a marvellous Remark. It is not said here, Truth shall be engendered, but, It shall spring Forth. To signify that the Messiah whose Name is, The Truth, shall not be begotten as other Men are. And accordingly R. Haccadosch proves out of the Scriptures, That the Mother of the Messiah must be a Virgin. He also proves, That as the Name of Him who first brought the Jews into the Land of Promise, was JESUS, the same should be the Name of the Messiah, who comes to repeat such a Deliverance for them.