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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 CXXXV. PSALM.
Tis an Hymis of Praise, to be Sung by restored Isiael; Rehearsing the Ancient Miracles done for their Fathers, and insulting the false Gods of Antichrist. The Ideas of the Psalm are followed in the XL Chapter of Isaiah.
TIs an Hymis of Praise, to be Sung by restored Isiael; Rehearsing the Ancient Miracles done for their Fathers, and insulting the false Gods of Antichrist. The Ideas of the Psalm are followed in the XL Chapter of Isaiah.
1 The Apollo of the Ancients was our Joshua, Joshua's Conquest of Og, and the Anakims in Canaan, was Apollo's Defeat of Typhon, or Python, and the other Giants. Cadmus the Gibeonite with other Phanicians, carrying a Colony into C•aecia, celebrated the ⟨p. 372⟩Victories of Josi••a in such Hymns as they had learned from their New Masters in the Land of Ca••a•. Might not such strains as are in the Psalm now before us, be among those Hymns? And the Eelu Jou Jou used in them, be no other than our Hallelujah?