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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.
1 Munster thinks, here might be an Eye to the Tabernacle in the Wilderness. GOD Himself was this, and more than this, and before this was Built, unto His People.
4 When I read Arnobius here observing, That a Watch is the Fourth part of a Night, it presently led me to think, how Four Thousand Years passed, and then arose the Sun of Righteousness unto the World; by whom is to be accomplished that Resurrection of the Dead which is here waited and groaned for: When He who turned Man to Destruction, shall say, Return ye Children of Men.
8 Chemnitius, by, our Secret, here, would have Original Sin to be understood; whereof tho' the Fruits are evident and notorious, the Root is yet Secret.
9 The Ancients read it, Like a Spider. And such was their Gloss upon, Ut Aranearum Tela, sic bumana Vita convellitur.