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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.
Be just.] Munster would have these clauses refer, not unto the next foregoing, but unto that, cleanse me from my Sin. The plea, is, That so there may be found a Truth in the promises of Mercy and Pardon to the repenting sinner.
6 Sin aggravated from a Principle of better motions in us.
But can we see nothing of the Messiah here— That He should be thus in David's Loins after he had been thus polluted!
7 Impure as a Leper!—Far more unclean by touching Bathsheba, than one could be in touching a Dead Body.
7 Impure as a Leper!—Far more unclean by touching Bathshebah, than one could be in touching a Dead Body.