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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.
15 The Intention of introducing the Circumstances of the Winter here, is well touched in the Patrician Paraphrase. GOD shows us, by the Fruitful Seasons He sends, after all things seem to be killed by the hard Winter, that He doth not intend by our Affliction to destroy us; and that He can easily bring all our Brethren hither, who remain s•ill in Captivity. For when He would have any Alteration made in the Earth, it is done as speedily as we can speak.
15 The Intention of introducing the Circumstances of the Winter here, is well touched in the Patrician Paraphrase. GOD shews us, by the Fruitful Seasons He sends, after all things seem to be kill'd by the hard Winter, that He doth not intend by our Affliction to destroy us; and that He can easily bring all our Brethren hither, who remain s•ill in Captivity. For when He would have any Alter•tion made in the Earth, it is done as speedily as we can speak.
16 Our Husbandmen burn heaps of Rubbish on their New-ploughed Ground. Probably the Israelitish Husbandmen did so too. They scattered Ashes on their Fields; or perhaps cast Ashes on their Dunghills, where being diluted by the Rains, the Salt very deeply impregnated them, and the diffusion of such a Salt was a notable way to produce a Fruitful Soil. Virgil speaks divers times of this Practice in his Georgics.
16 Our Husbandmen burn heaps of Rubbish on their New-ploug'd Ground. Probably the Israelitish Husbandmen did so too. They scattered Ashes on their Fields; or perhaps cast Ashes on their Dunghills, where being diluted by the Rains, the Salt very deeply impregnared them, and the diffusion of such a Salt was a notable way to produce a Fruitful Soyl. Virgil speaks divers times of this Practice in his Georgicks.