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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.
WAS not the Psalm composed on the Victory over Goliath of Gath? A lively Emblem of the Conquest which our SAVIOUR has had over the Devil! Christian Singer, Behold, and Adore the Second Adam.
WAS not the Psalm composed on the Victory over Goliah of Gath? A lively Emblem of the Conquest which our SAVIOUR has had over the Devil! Christian Singer, Behold, and Adore the Second Adam.
1 Above the Heavens!—Done in the Ascension of our SAVIOUR.
2. Founded. In Matth. XXI. 16. it is, Perfected. Chrysostom has a Note upon it. Where GOD has laid a Foundation for any thing, it shall come to Perfection.
3 Why is the Sun omitted? Perhaps the Psalm was composed in the Night. Or shall we rather say, The MAN here Crowned is the SUN! Aben-Ezra says, one cannot behold the Sun, as one may the Moon and the Stars.