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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.
HA• not the Prophetic Spirit here provided a Prayer for Pardon, unto abdicated Israel? And Protestation of their Expectation, to be redeemed by the Messiah, who is the True GOD?
Patrick thinks the Psalm to be composed by David, under the Sauline Persecution; [When reduced unto •at condition, Psalm XVIII. 4. and LXIX. 2, 14, 16.] He Beseeches the Holy One, to Pardon his own Sins, and the Sins of the People, which made them deserve the ill Government of Saul, which now brought so ••ch Corruption, and Confusion upon them.
Patrick thinks the Psalm to be composed by David, under the Sauline Persecution; [When reduc'd unto •at condition, Psalm XVIII. 4. and LXIX. 2, 14, 16.] He Beseeches the Holy One, to Pardon his own Sins, and the Sins of the People, which made them deserve the ill Government of Saul, which now brought so ••ch Corruption, and Confusion upon them.
4 Divers of the Jewish Rabbi's observe an Emphasis on the Particle Thee. God has made His Angels His ••nisters to dispense his Favours: But the Remission of Sins He reserves to Himself alone.