THE

BOOK OF PSALMS,

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Tranflated, Paraphrased, or Imitated

BY SOME OF THE MOST EMINENT

ENGLISH POETS;

AND SEVERAL OTHERS;

And adapted to CHRISTIAN WORSHIP,

IN A FOR M

The moft likely to give general Satisfaction; Particular Care having been taken throughout the whole Compilation, to feclude all exceptionable WORDS and PHRASES, and to retain fuch only as fincere and candid CHRISTIANS of various Sentiments and different Denominations may join in the Use of.

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To which is prefixed,

DISSERTATION
On SCRIPTURE IMPRECATIONS,

With the View of vindicating the SACRED WRITERS in general, and the PSALMISTS in particular, against the heavy, but happily ill-founded Charge of indulging and countenancing a malevolent Spirit.

By BENJ. WILLIAM S.

SALISBURY:

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DISSERTATION

ON

Scripture Imprecations.

HE numerous Imprecations and
Maledictions to be found in the
English Tranflation of the Old
Teftament, and more efpecially
the Pfalms, have given great

and juft Offence, and been the

Caufe of much painful Difquietude, to ferious, unlearned Chriftians of all Denominations. They have also been employed, in the Hands of Infidelity, as one of the most powerful Engines to undermine the Credit of divine Revelation in general, and the moft fuccessful Means