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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 XXV. PSALM.
'TIS the first of the Alphabetical Psalms. Acrostics were of much esteem in Antiquity. But sometimes the strength of the Inspiration might interrupt the method. Or, a Letter may be dropped for causes now unknown to us. There were Examples of it (as Mr. J•ukins. observes) among the Greek Poets.
'TIS the first of the Alphabetical Psalms. Acrosticks were of much esteem in Antiquity. But sometimes the strength of the Inspiration might interrupt the method. Or, a Letter may be dropt for causes now unknown to us. There were Examples of it (as Mr. J•ukins. observes) among the Greek Poets.
8 Is it not an Allusion to the care used of Old, about the ways to the Cities of Refuge? My Jewish Expositors tell me so.
15—When the Off spring of a Godly Man, are entering upon the Earthly Inheritance, which, at his Death, he leaves unto them, Then the Soul of this Man, is lodged with the Good One (Christ,) or in the Good Place (Heaven,) or in Goodness itself; in Happiness. The Immortality of the Soul is here asserted. This Hint I had from Dr. Alting the Younger. But, Arnobius finds another and a better Earth for the Seed of the Messiah.