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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 XII. PSALM.
'TIS Remarkable, Daniel describes the Antichristian Party, with expressions taken from this Psalm. An Arabian Copy, from Sheminith, [or, The Eighth] in the Title has this hint, De fine mundi, qui continget in Die O•tavo. Et prophetia de adventu Christi. So the Syriac, De adventu Christi. Quaere, How far the Seven times in the Sixth Verse, may refer to the Seventh Age, or Sabbatism
6 — The Promises of God, not like yours, O False Men; Deceitful.
8 The Patrician Paraphrase is; This will make the Wicked not know which way to turn themselves, but be ready to burst with vexation, when they see those Men, whom they vilified, not only preserved, •ut exalted by thy favour to dignity.
8 The Patrician Paraphrase is; This will make the Wicked not know which way to turn themseves, but be ready to burst with vexation, when they see those Men, whom they vilified, not only preserved, ut exalted by thy favour to dinity.