N01640:1944
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.
ILLUSTRATIONS on the LXXXI. PSALM.
THE First Day of the Seventh Month was above others, A Day of blowing Trumpets. [Num. XXIX. 1.] And it being the first New Moon in the Year, the Trumpets were blown longer this Day than any other. Maimonides thinks it was to awaken their Preparation for the Solemn Day of Expiation, which was Ten Days after. It was the Day when Moses •••te• being twice forty Days in the Mount) began to, ••e order for building the Tabernacle.
THE First Day of the Seventh Month was above others, A Day of blowing Trumpets. [Num. XXIX. 1.] And it being the first New Moon in the Year, the Trumpets were blown longer this Day than any other. Maimonides thinks it was to awaken their Preparation for the Solemn Day of Expiation, which was Ten Days after. It was the Day when Moses •••te• being twice forty Dayes in the Mount) began to, ••e order for building the Tabernacle.