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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, and who can tell, but the PSALMS put into the hands of the Jews, with so Entertaining a Commentary thereupon, may be a powerful and persuasive Engine in the Arm•• of the LORD, for the Enlightening and Overcoming of them, to Look on Him whom they have Pierced! Were One to single out […] present for a JEW, it should be a Psalter with such a Commentary! Which no doubt he will consider the more Attentively because he will find his own Rabbi's continually brought in as Vouchers for it. However It is an agreeable circumstance, to encourage our Hopes, that the Redemption of Israel ⟨p. xxxi⟩and the Time to favour Zion, the set time, is coming on, in that the condition of the Jewish Nation as represented in the PSALMS, is now like to be more considered by the Holy Singers of them, than in the former Ages. When the Holy Singers then begin to Sing and to Praise, who knows, what Ambushments our GOD may set against the Powers of ANTICHRIST, and of MAHOMET; causing them to destroy one another, and making way for, The Glorious Things which are spoken of thee, O Thou City of GOD!
YEA, and who can tell, but the PSALMS put into the hands of the Jews, with so Entertaining a Commentary thereupon, may be a powerful and perswasive Engine in the Arm•• of the LORD, for the Enlightening and Overcoming of them, to Look on Him whom they have Pierced! Were One to single out 〈…〉 present for a JEW, it should be a Psalter with such a Commentary! Which no doubt he will consider the more Attentively because he will find his own Rabbi's continually brought in as Vouchers for it. However It is an agreeable circumstance, to encourage our Hopes, that the Redemption of Israe• ⟨p. xxxi⟩and the Time to favour Zion, the set time, is coming on, in that the condition of the Jewish Nation as represented in the PSALMS, is now like to be more confidered by the Holy Singers of them, than in the former Ages. When the Holy Singers then begin to Sing and to Praise, who knows, what Ambushments our GOD may set against the Powers of ANTICHRIST, and of MAHOMET; causing them to destroy one another, and making way for, The Glorious Things which are spoken of thee, O Thou City of GOD!