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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 CXXII. PSALM.
I Find, the Ancients Expounding the Psalm, concerning the State of Things in the New Jerusalem, after the First Resurrection.
And so Dr. Allix observes, The Psalm is the Gladness of Restored Israel, It supposes the Twelve Tribes gathered, Jerusalem rebuilt, the Twelve Seats of the Apostles laid, and the Reign of the Messiah established.
Some see this occasion for the Psalm. David having settled the Ark at Jerusalem, and being at this Time on some Cocasion in the Country, heard the good People there speak one to another, as some of them did unto him, of going to Worship God, at some of the Three Solemn Festivals: This devotion of theirs, as it rejoiced his heart, so probably it moved him to compose the Psalm, for their use at such Times as these.
Some see this occasion for the Psalm. David having setled the Ark at Jerusalem, and being at this Time on some Cocasion in the Country, heard the good People there speak one to another, as some of them did unto him, of going to Worship God, at some of the Three Solemn Festivals: This devotion of theirs, as it rejoyced his heart, so probably it moved him to compose the Psalm, for their use at such Times as these.