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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.
§. 2. THEODORET informs us, The People in his time, were so well acquainted with our PSALMS, that both in City and Country it was the usual Employment of all Christians, To Sing them: And even they who had little Acquaintance, with any other Book of the Sacred Scriptures, yet so had the PSALMS by heart, as to recreate themselves with Singing them in the Streets, and in the Fields, as well as in their Houses. And Verily, These marvellous Poems, have not by their Age lost any thing of their Spirit, or their Goodness. The Christians in our days, may as well feed and live upon them, and Eat the Bread of Angels.
§. 2. THEODORET informs us, The People in his time, were so well acquainted with our PSALMS, that both in City and Country it was the usual Employment of all Christians, To Sing them: And even they who had little Acquantance, with any other Book of the Sacred Scriptures, yet so had the PSALMS by heart, as to recreate themselves with Singing them in the Streets, and in the Fields, as well as in their Houses. And Verily, These marvellous Poems, have not by their Age lost any thing of their Spirit, or their Goodness. The Christians in our days, may as well feed and live upon them, and Eat the Bread of Angels.
THE Truth is, It was no ill Advice of Jerome unto his Friend, That he would make the Psalter his Vade mecum, his constant Companion and Counsellor on all occasions. Christian, Thou wilt find it so marvellously to answer all the occasions of Christianity, that thou wilt commend the prudence of the Ancient Constantinopolitan, who being driven out of the City, took no part of his Treasures but This, which unto him was, Pro et prae Divitjis, preferable to all perishable Riches.
THE Truth is, It was no ill Advice of Jerom unto his Friend, That he would make the Psalter his Vade mecum, his constant Companion and Counsellor on all occasions. Christian, Thou wilt find it so marvellously to answer all the occasions of Christianity, that thou wilt commend the prudence of the Ancient Constantinopolitan, who being driven out of the City, took no part of his Treasures but This, which unto him was, Pro et prae Divitjis, preferrible to all perishable Riches.