N01640:802
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.
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.
15 q. d. The Scum of the People who were so vile, that I did not so much as know there were such Wretches in the World. The LXX reads it, The Scourges, Ainsworth supposes it refers to the Scourge of the Tongue. [Job VI. 21.] Hammond supposes it means People worthy of the Scourge.
16 Hebr. Mockers for a Cake. Sycophants who flatter at the Table for a belly full of Meat. Compare 2 Sam. XI. 8. — there followed a mess of Meat from the King, R. Obadiah thinks that these Mockers employed their Squibs particularly on that unhappy Mess of Meat,