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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.
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.
BEHOLD, A Prayer-Book which never had a Parallel. And tho' the very Words of this Book, may often supply us with the best ⟨p. v⟩Forms in the World for our Prayers, whe• we may have need of such; (which made Luther say, He that Prays a PSALM, shall be made thoroughly warm:) yet the principal use hereof would be, from hence to learn, for what Things, and with what Frames, we are to make our Prayers, and with a Fuel from hence, to keep that Holy Fire in its operation, The Spirit of Grace and of Supplications.
WHEN the Pardon of Sin is to be implored, the PSALMS will furnish us, with the most Pathetical Expressions imaginable for that Grand Concern.