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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 LXXXVII. PSALM.
Behold, How the Israelites are one Day to be acknowledged among the Nations, and separated from among them; Tho' there shall be then many Proselytes. Compare Isa. XIX. 18.
BEhold, How the Israelites are one Day to be acknowledged among the Nations, and separated from among them; Tho' there shall be then many Proselytes. Compare Isa. XIX. 18.
4 Rahab (which in the Egyptian Tongue signifies a Pear) is, as Bochart Shows, the Name of that famous three Square part of Egypt, formed by the several Mouths of Nilus, which is called the Delta of Egypt. And so all Egypt came to have the Name.
It is a Gloss of Munsters here; Agnoscam inter Populum meum, et hos qui extremifuere bestes populi mei.