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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 There had been dreadful Divisions and Commotions among the People, [See, 2 Sam. II. 9, 10, 17. and III. 1.
3 A Fulfilment of Deut. XXVIII. 28, 34. They were like unto Men bereft of the use of Reason, by some intoxicating Potion; who thereupon madly destroy one another.
4 David became their King; to whom they were all to repair, like Soldiers to their displayed Ensign, Because of Truth.] Munsters Gloss is; Ut promissionibus tuis satisfaceres. But this is not all.
4 David became their King; to whom they were all to repair, like Souldiers to their displayed Ensign, Because of Truth.] Munsters Gloss is; Ut promissionibus tuis satisfaceres. But this is not all.