N01640:1808
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.
5 A testimony He did in ‖ Jacob establish so; ‖ and He made an appointment of ‖ a law in Israel: ‖ The things the which He did command ‖ unto our Ancestors, ‖ that they unto their Children should ‖ communicate the same. ‖
6 That so the Generation still ‖ to come might know the things; ‖ the Children to be born might rise ‖ and to their Children tell. ‖
7 That they might set their hope in God, ‖ and not forget the works ‖ which God has done, but that they might ‖ keep His Commandments. ‖
7 That they might set their hope in God, ‖ and not forget the works ‖ which God has done, but that they might ‖ keep His Commandements. ‖
8 And not be as their Fathers were, ‖ a Generation bent ‖ upon Apostasy from God, ‖ and a rebellious Race: ‖ A Generation which did not ‖ direct their heart aright; ‖ nor was their spirit faithfully ‖ adhering still to God. ‖