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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.
One thinks, That the Psalmists not making any Remonstrances to Achish for the Ill Usages he had met withal, might be the Reason why he is here compared unto Jonath Elem, or the Silent Dove.
1 Saul, forgetting his own Mortality, was insatiably set for the Destruction of our Psalmist.
8 Many Elegancies are in this Verse, besides the Hebrew Paranomasies, which cannot be Englished.
But among the reft, Observe the Hebrew has, Tear, in the Singular Number. A sweet Intimation, that the Faithful have not so much as one single T•ar. ⟨p. 139⟩that shall be lost. Of Old, they had Viols, which they called Lacrymatorics, wherein they preserved the Tears dropped at Funerals.