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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 LXXXVI. PSALM.
THE Prophetic Spirit here makes a Prayer for the Jewish Nation, oppressed by the King of Pride, who is described in the XI Chapter of Daniel. 'Tis engaged, that when the Mercies asked and hoped for, are granted, what is done shall be celebrated before all the Nations. The Signs which are to usher in their Deliverance, are in the last Verse Petitioned for.
16 R. David Kimchi thinks, the Handmaid here more peculiarly referred unto, may be Ruth the Moabitess. —Behold then, in this Language of the Messiah, 2 powerful Memorial, for the Vocation of the Gentiles. But attend unto a wondrous matter. The Messiah, as here, so elsewhere, and ever, is introduced as speaking of His Mother alone; without the least intimation of His Father. An occult intimation, That He was to have a proper Mother, but no proper Father in this World, and by Consequence He was to be the Son of a Pure Virgin. Compare, Psal. XXII. 9, 10. and XXXV. 14. and LXIX. 8. and LXXI. 6. and CXVI. 16. and CXXXI. 2. and CXXXIX. 13. and Isai. XLIX. 1.
16 R. David Kimchi thinks, the Handmaid here more peculiarly referr'd unto, may be Ruth the Moabitess. —Behold then, in this Language of the Messiah, 2 powerful Memorial, for the Vocation of the Gentiles. But attend unto a wondrous matter. The Messiah, as here, so elsewhere, and ever, is introduced as speaking of His Mother alone; without the least intimation of His Father. An occult intimation, That He was to have a proper Mother, but no proper Father in this World, and by Consequence He was to be the Son of a Pure Virgin. Compare,