N01640:2087
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.
Christian, Behold thy Crucified SAVIOUR going down into the Prison of the Grave!
CHristian, Behold thy Crucified SAVIOUR going down into the Prison of the Grave!
Dr. Patrick thinks it probable, that when Jeconiab or Zedekiah, was carried Captive into Babylon, with many other principal People, this our Heman was among them; and probably was cast into a Dark Prison there, and miserably treated.
3 It notably expresses a Prognostic and an Harbinger of Death, commonly observed in the Experience of Godly Men. A little before their Death, when their Life draws nigh to the Grave, usually their Soul is more full of Troubles, then ever in their Life before, by reason of Troublesome Things befalling them, in their Persons and Families.
5 Christian Singer, Behold thy SAVIOUR here, First, Free among the Dead. Understand it not of that Libertas Mrtuorum, which was the Consolation of the Pagans about the actually and perfectly Dead. But understand it as the Extremity and Epitome of the Miseries undergone by our SAVIOUR. Vitringa observes, The Torm notes, A Separation from all Mankind, which most eminently befell our Lord, when He was hanged on the Cross between Heaven and Earth, and all Commerce with Man was denied unto Him, and He was treated as the Execration of the whole World,