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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.
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.
13 q. d. I wish'd 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.