Psalterium Americanum. The Book of Psalms, in a translation exactly conformed unto the original;…

BUT, O Eagle-Eyed Believer, when thou art Singing the Graces, the Actions, the Sufferings, and the Grandeurs of the REDEEMER, and perhaps coming into Thoughts ⟨p. xvi⟩and Frames, that have some little Resemblance to those, which the Prophetic Spirit here assigns to thy REDEEMER, in the Time of His Working out thy Salvation for thee, what an Angelical Dignity art thou advanced unto! What a Token for Good hast thou, that thy REDEEMER will one day bring thee to a Comfort with Him, in the Songs and Joys of the Heavenly World!

BUT, O Eagle-Eye'd Believer, when thou art Singing the Graces, the Actions, the Sufferings, and the Grandeurs of the REDEEMER, and perhaps coming into Thoughts ⟨p. xvi⟩and Frames, that have some little Resemblance to those, which the Prophetic Spirit here assigns to thy REDEEMER, in the Time of His Working out thy Salvation for thee, what an Angelical Dignity art thou advanc'd unto! What a Token for Good hast thou, that thy REDEEMER will one day bring thee to a Confort with Him, in the Songs and Joys of the Heavenly World!

THE Word, SELAH, Ever now and then occurs in the PSALMS. And now allow me to propose, every SELAH, as an Invitation for thee to make a pause, upon the Magnificence of thy SAVIOUR. I will not here make a long Recital, of the various, and very many Interpretations, which the Critics have left that Word in the dark withal. It shall be enough to say, That in the large, Thesaurus Philologico-Theologicus lately Published, there is a Dissertation upon that Word, which would persuade us, That SELAH is a proper Name of the Blessed GOD our SAVIOUR, and that it signifies, The Magnificent One, or, One that is exalted on high. The Word must not be too much separated from the rest of the Discourse, but it is to be looked upon as a part of it. It belongs to the Period, and is to be rendered, sometimes in the Nominative, sometimes in the Genitive Case, and sometimes in other ⟨p. xvii⟩