OR SELECT PSALMS, ARRANGED IN THE ORDER OF THE EVENTS TO WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES, BY THOMAS BULFINCH. "I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also; BOSTON: CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY. NEW YORK: CHARLES S. FRANCIS AND COMPANY. 1853. From the Library of Rev. H W FOOTH Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE: PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. PREFACE. THE perusal of the Sacred Scriptures for intellectual gratification cannot be inconsistent with the higher and nobler use of them for religious improvement. While admitting their supreme importance in the latter point of view, the man of taste and feeling finds also in them attraction and delight, and the antiquarian and philosopher treasures of information respecting the early history of our race. It is the purpose of this little work to present one of the choicest portions of the sacred volume in a form more attractive than it usually wears, by removing the embarrassment arising from the confused arrangement of its parts, and the obscurities of its language, - chargeable, not on the prophets and sages who indited its several compositions, but upon the imperfect instruments by which it has been handed down to us. |