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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.
R. David Kimchi takes the Psalm to be made by the Prophetic Spirit, with an Eve to the last and long Dispersion, under which the Jewish Nation is now Languishing. But will the Holy One give that People, as long Time under His Blessing, as they have had under His Anger? One of the Ancients has a Pious Fancy here. The Name of Moses is, One drawn from under the Waters. And so, says he, This is a Psalm especially cut out for all Baptized Persons.
1 Munster thinks, here might be an Eye to the Tabernacle in the Wilderness. GOD Himself was this, and more than this, and before this was Built, unto His People.
4 When I read Arnobius here observing, That a Watch is the Fourth part of a Night, it presently led me to think, how Four Thousand Years passed, and then arose the Sun of Righteousness unto the World; by whom is to be accomplished that Resurrection of the Dead which is here waited and groaned for: When He who turned Man to Destruction, shall say, Return ye Children of Men.