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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.
2 Good Men assaulted or endangered by Enemies at first will desire no more than to be defended from them. They are not for offending of them. Anon, if there be no other way, they are content that the Holy One take the Spear also.
4 Compare, Job. XVIII. 6. The LXX here uses the same Word that is there.
8 R. Obadiah thinks, here is an Allusion to 2 Sam. XVIII. 13.—Bring Ropes to the City.
13 q. d. I wished my self no better than I desired God to do for them. The Patrician Paraphrase. The Gloss of the Ancients upon it was; Non alium orabam, quam illum qui mihi personaliter junctus est, dicit CHRISTUS; Secundum quod homo, secundum quod orat. Sed oratio convertitur in sinum; idest, ad Verbum in quo erat Pater.