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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 XXVIII. PSALM.
R. Solomon says, When in the Title of a Psalm, we read only, Of David, it intimates, The Holy Spirit came suddenly on David, without the use of the usual means to obtain His Influences. But when we read, A Psalm of David, it intimates, that he then had used means to obtain the Illapses of the Holy Spirit. Behold, here a Trayer for the Faithful, that they may not be joined in Destruction with the Followers of Antichrist; and they hope for Salvation by the Messiah, after that He has destroyed that wicked Society.
2 Our Supplications have a further V•ice in them, ⟨p. 63⟩than what just utters the matter of them. Christian, Thy Prayers, Do they speak thy Love to the Glorious GOD, thy Exaltation of His Will above thy own, thy Faith in thy SAVIOUR, thy esteem for Spiritual Blessings above Temporal, and thy Benignity towards thy Neighbour, wishing as well to him as to thy self? When there is a Voice in thy Supplications, importing such things as these, GOD will hear it, and have a great respect unto them.
2 Our Supplications have a further V•ice in them, ⟨p. 63⟩than what iust utters the matter of them. Christian, Thy Prayers, Do they speak thy Love to the Glorious GOD, thy Exaltation of His Will above thy own, thy Faith in thy SAVIOUR, thy esteem for Spiritual Blessings above Temporal, and thy Benignity towards thy Neighbour, wishing as well to him as to thy self? When there is a Voice in thy Supplications, importing such things as these, GOD will hear it, and have a great respect unto them.