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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.
Yea, it looks as if here were some Eye, to what the Ancient Propheeles have also spoken concerning the Destruction of Gog.
And indeed when these Two Enemies are gone, the Righteous will dwell with the greatest Praises in the Presence of God.
1 The M•dr•sh Tislin has a strange Passage here. The Malicious Man, and the Man bent on violent things, is the Fourth Beast in the Seventh of Daniel.
10 An Allusion to the Fate of Sodom. Tis the Fate of Rome. Remember still David was a Type of our Lord JESUS CHRIST. Antichrist with his adherents, the Ant type of David's Enemies. Read such Psalms as this, O Christian, with a great Attention; and compare them with the Passages in the New Testament, which describe Antichrist unto us, and thou wilt •ee, Wondrous Things in the Law.