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

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⟩Cases; but most commonly in the Vocative, Christian, In the PSALMS every where think on thy SAVIOUR. And if a SELAN stop thee, think, before thou go on, O my SAVIOUR, How Magnificent art thou! — Indeed, such is the Fellowship ever between our SAVIOUR and His People, that the condition of the One in the PSALMS will not forbid, but invite us to consider the condition of the Other. And therefore, what is now propounded, about a Contemplation of our SAVIOUR, to be a principal stroke of our Devotions in Singing of the PSALMS, will not supersede the Entertainments which are to be joined with it.

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 Criticks 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 perswade 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 look'd upon as a part of it. It belongs to the Period, and is to be rendred, sometimes in the Nominative, sometimes in the Genitive Case, and sometimes in other ⟨p. xvii⟩Cases; but most commonly in the Vocative, Christian, In the PSALMS every where think on thy SAVIOUR. And if a SELAN stop thee, think, before thou go on, O my SAVIOUR, How Magnificent art thou! — Indeed, such is the Fellowship ever between our SAVIOUR and His People, that the condition of the One in the PSALMS will not forbid, but invite us to confider the condition of the Other. And therefore, what is now propounded, about a Contemplation of our SAVIOUR, to be a principal stroke of our Devotions in Singing of the PSALMS, will not supersede the Entertainments which are to be joined with it.