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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 CXXXVII. PSALM.
WE have here the sorrowful State of the Jews, under the first Babylonian Captivity; and then under the Roman Dominion, which the Prophet calls, Daughter of Babylon, because the Romans have done to them as the Babylonians did. Several Prophets have agreed with our Psalmist, in calling the Romans by the Name of Edom. In the Jewish Treatise Git••, ⟨p. 377⟩R. Jebudah finds the Destruction of both Temples, •der the Two Terms of Babylon and Edom. Ar•obius pathetically makes the Babylonians here, a Picture of the Devils insulting over fallen Man.
WE have here the sorrowful State of the Jews, under the first Babylonian Captivity; and then under the Roman Domimon, which the Prophet calls, Daughter of Babylon, because the Romans have done to them as the Babylonians did. Several Prophets have agreed with our Psalmist, in calling the Romans by the Name of Edom. In the Jewish Treatise Git••, ⟨p. 377⟩R. Jebudah finds the Destruction of both Temples, •der the Two Terms of Babylon and Edom. Ar•obius pathetically makes the Babylonians here, a Picture of the Devils insulting over fallen Man.
1 When they were transported into Babylon, they ad the sides of Euphrates and several of its Rivers, assigned for their Habitation. [