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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.
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.
I choose to say, The Sprinkler; Because I suspect Hyssop was not the plant used on the Occasion referred to, but Rosemary.
I chuse to say, The Sprinkler; Because I suspect Hyssop was not the plant used on the Occasion referr'd to, but Rosemary.
11 Has not the Psalmist the Condition of his Predecessor, Saul, in his Fie?